Chapter 181 Strong! Dante Is Too Strong!
"Don't worry, I have a very simple task for you. Eat this fruit and let's see what happens," Dante prompted the Golden Ape as he took out the Thunderstorm fruit, a merger of wind and lightning.
The Golden Ape was stunned and looked between Dante and the lightning fruit repeatedly, as if making sure it wasn't mistaking the situation.
Wasn't this one of the fruits that it was fighting for just now? It had already reconciled with the idea that it wouldn't get any fruits this session after Dante came and bulldozed through their group. In fact, it was even up in the air whether it would keep its life, much less get a fruit to munch.
Now, after being beaten up and losing a leg, it was being given one for free? There was such a good deal in the world?
The Golden Ape became troubled.
Should it... allow Dante to cut off the other leg? Then maybe it would be able to get another fruit?
When Dante heard its thoughts through the Celestial Tether, he was rendered speechless. In the end, he could only prompt the Golden Ape to hurry up and eat the fruit so he could get on with his planned business.
Remembering that it was in the midst of a life and death situation, the Golden Ape cowered and immediately swallowed the fruit obediently. Right away, it roared with power as a torrent of Zero Energy was dragged into its body, and a light shone over its fur.
Lightning appeared in its eyes, and its fur began to stand on end. Power swelled through its body, and it felt like it was going to reach the heavens in one step!
It actually grew one size bigger, and a hint of a cloud-like halo formed behind its back, making it look like a Divine Ape God descending into the mortal world to pronounce judgment.
Its eyes fell on Dante, and a hint of arrogance and disdain appeared in them. Now that its power had swelled with the addition of a new superpower, and a powerful one at that, it no longer felt like it necessarily had to be scared of Dante.
In fact, there was a good chance he couldn't even touch it! What was the use of unlimited speed if you didn't dare to connect with your foe because you would get shocked to death?
Thinking like this, the Golden Ape was about to make a move to subdue Dante and turn him into its human slave to vent its anger and humiliation during this period of time. However, before it could move, Dante smiled at it, a smile that made it halt.
Sweat formed on its brow as it remembered his power and hesitated. Was it really worth it to provoke this humanoid behemoth who could move like he was a ghost?
Dante didn't give the Golden Ape much time to speculate anymore. He simply waved a hand toward the right and cast his 2nd Rank Celestial Rift, his main offensive space spell.
Unlike the house-sized portal that appeared when he was at the second rank, the size of the portal was now as big as a small shopping center and displayed a starry sky on the other side as usual.
However, what was fearsome was the fact that these stars seemed attracted by some pulling force on this side and rushed over to the portal, eventually bursting out of the portal like laser beams from a giant ship's cannon, causing devastation in its wake.
The land was torn asunder, and the previously sturdy and seemingly invincible trees were ripped apart as if a nuclear bomb had exploded beside them in terms of the shockwave effect alone.
Unfortunately for the trees, these astral stars also contained the heat effect of the blast due to their nature and momentum, so everything was burned up as well.
The area now looked like the destruction that Cell wrought when he showed the world his power at the TV station. To the left of Dante, which had been typical forest, was now a huge gully that extended for miles away.
Anything that had been there or even briefly passed through that area during this period of time had simply been unilaterally obliterated without a chance to even argue their case.
The Golden Ape looked at the destruction with bulging eyes, its demeanor that was reminiscent of a Divine Ape gone, replaced with sheer stupefaction as its jaw almost fell to the ground. Its entire skin had gone pale, and it looked like all the blood had been drained from its body.
"What do you think? You were about to do something, right? Why don't you continue?" Dante prompted while folding his arms confidently.
Dante's voice snapped the Golden Ape out of its stupor, and it shook its head rapidly. Any faster, and it might snap its own neck and send its face towards the back.
The Golden Ape was like an unruly son who had seen its father reach for the belt. All rebelliousness in its heart was replaced by honesty, kindness, and the willingness to do the right thing.
Dante didn't bother to play and told the ape to display its new power. It stood to the side and released storm clouds from its body that could both enclose a foe and then strike them or just directly strike them head-on.
It also showed other variations of its ability, but Dante was more thoughtful about something else. So virtual beasts like the Golden Ape could actually obtain powers? However, he could not, despite being a quantum being.
No, that wasn't right. The ape was a full quantum being that could not be brought out unless he linked it to his Quantum Entanglement superpower and gained protection from the corrosive effect of entering the real world.
Dante, meanwhile, was half and half, which allowed him to exist in both places without repercussion and use some things from both as long as they could be directly linked to his body and not rejected by his Quantum Entanglement superpower.
So theoretically, it was possible for Dante to acquire superpowers from these fruits too, but he would have to give up his 'real' side and become full quantum. But then obviously, that would be thoroughly dumb as his friends and family were all 'real' and would never be able to interact with him directly again, forced to use virtual avatars.
Besides, with his current ability, he could definitely get more than a few fruits from the real Zero Gate if not dominate the entire place. The reason he was still unsure was that, at the end of the day, this was a simulation in which he could not lose his life.
In reality, anything could happen. Dante still had the appropriate caution and awareness he should possess.
Suddenly, Dante's face changed as a terrifying thought surged into his mind. Since he was unable to get superpowers from quantum fruits due to his 'real' side, would he be unable to get superpowers from the real world due to his 'quantum' side?
Of course, logic stated that this could not be possible as the real fruits - in terms of completeness, quality, and universal law - could not be compared to these meager virtual ones, but Dante could not be entirely sure.
Dante decided to verify this when the time came, which was the only way to do so actually. As he glanced at the Golden Ape which was satisfied with its power and its arrogance began to return, he decided to end the experiments here and continue with the next stage.
Dante called forth to the void, and his superpower answered.
His real body descended from the pod it was in, right onto his avatar, and overlaid itself over it seamlessly.
The moment he did so, Dante paled as he felt like his body was weak all over. He fell to his knees and noticed that his crotch area was burning like he had beaten off one too many times, and along with that, his sex drive was completely shot, like he had busted out everything he possibly could.
Thinking like this, Dante couldn't help but be furious. That evil succubus didn't even wait a day before she attacked, how could she be so unscrupulous?! Not to mention that barely a day had gone by and she had already drained him to this extent!
If he had actually dared to leave his body with her for 30 days, what would he come out to see? A desiccated husk with naught but a single weak flame of life left in his body?!
Dante shuddered at that. It seemed like leaving his body with the school might be better than leaving it with Beatrice. At least, he knew that the school only wanted to study him and not drain him to near death.
Well, now that he was completely down here, Dante rubbed his shoulders and began stretching, loosening his muscles and getting into position. Meanwhile, the Golden Ape that was lost in its reverie suddenly realized that something was different.
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