BXBX NOVEL Chapter 48 - The First Challenger
Of course, this was not taking Rebecca into account.
With the mutated Flame Naga martial spirit, she completely dominated the younger generation while she was still at the clan and after entering the Hidden Dragon Academy in the capital the gap between her and the rest of the clan only got further and further.
The fact is that if Curtis didn\'t return to the Slater clan with the backing of the Blood Moon Palace. Just Rebecca alone would have been enough to stomp on the competition from both the Slater Clan and the Pierce Clan.
After clearing his head of his random thoughts, Dante slowly but confidently approached the gathering of challengers but before he could approach, a young man jumped out to stop him
"Dante!" cried out the young man
"you\'ve let your ego get to your head, with such a low cultivation level, how dare you claim to be the strongest when you are barely even in the fifth layer."
"You clearly need to be humbled. If you can\'t even beat me in a fight you have no right challenging anybody else!"
At first Dante was taken aback and amused at this strange young man jumping out in front of him. But as he heated what he was saying the smile on his face faded.
"Oh, and who gave you the confidence to think that you\'ll be the one to defeat me ?" Asked Dante Puzzled at this man\'s unfounded belief
"As someone in the seventh layer, I don\'t need any encouragement to beat somebody in the fifth layer " responded the young man
"Oh… well we can see if you still keep this confidence after we fight then"
As Dante spoke he retrieved his trusty Moonlight sword from his space pouch
"Buzz!"
Being released from the space pouch the Moonlight Sword let out a harmonious buzz of joy while it glimmered in a silver light.
As the sword was placed in Dante\'s hands the aura around him changed instantly becoming as cold as a winter moon while his indifferent gaze landed upon his challenger.
Just the cold and emotionless gaze caused his challenger to break into a nervous sweat.
He had just realised that the information he was giving was dangerously inaccurate, Dante wasn\'t some lucky naive kid as described but instead, he seemed more like an emotionless monster!
But it was already too late for him as since h had already started the fight it was too late to back off now and although the aura Dante was giving off was rather intimidating, he was only in the 5th layer how strong could he really be?
Retrieving the sword from around his waist he coated it in the signature fire element of the Kinsman clan.
"Phantom ghost steps!"
Using the most common movement technique amongst the Kinsman Clan the young man moved at terrifying speed appearing in front of Dante.
Without hesitation, he brought down a powerful slash at Dante\'s face.
Seeing this Dante let out a swift slash to meet the sword
"Bang!"
A shockwave exploded out from the violent clash of swords.
The young man was slightly shocked at the strength in just the swing of one arm of Dante\'s attack.
Despite using two hands he felt himself being slowly overpowered in their brief clash.
At this moment the Young man knew he had to go all out if he had any chance of winning.
"Burst!!"
As he cried out his sword started glowing in a deep red colour. Sensing the change in the sword right in front of him, Dante tried to escape but he was still too slow
"Boom!"
A deafening explosion rang out while a cloud of smoke shot out into the sky
"Luckily I caught him off guard with that" rejoiced the young man as he looked at the cloud of smoke.
But to the young man\'s dismay as the smoke cleared in the crater stood Dante completely unscathed!
While the crowd was still in shock at how easily Dante shrugged of his attack Dante was thinking bout two passives
Heart of flames 3/3 - Your heart burns with an inextinguishable elemental fire Granting you :
100%immunity to flames at your level.
50% damage reduction to flames at a higher level which decreases by 5% for every level Higher than you the attacker is.
Flames at the same level or lower levels heal for 25% of damage dealt
Mana touched 3/3
As a Silver Dragon, you are the most in touch with all sorts of natural mana and spells when compared to other true dragons. Due to your close contact with mana you have developed a resistance towards mana and all the various attributes and elements associated with it grants you 70% immunity to all magic damage at any level.
Only now could Dante really comprehend the ridiculousness of these passives together.
Just the Mana touched passive alone that made him only take 30% of the damage from energy attacks was enough to make his opponents feel like giving up.
But combined with the resistance to the fire element granted to him by his Heart of Flames passive made him a nightmare for any fire element based cultivators to fight.
Unfortunately for most of the Kinsman clan, this was the primary element they used since the bloodline martial spirit of the Kinsman Clan was, the Flame serpent, a fire elemental martial Spirit so they would progress much easier in fire elemental techniques than other ones.
But this just made life much easier for Dante and much harder for the rest of the clan.