After Alice chose her blade, she was sent alone to the T room to test her skills.
The woman stated that she had never used a sword in her life since it wasn't a necessary practice to beco a detective. However, Dante clarified to her that they were simply testing her limits and learning how to use a sword would co later.
"Let's start with so targets…" Dante muttered to Paige, who pressed the buttons on the command center.
When the room had a dozen ballistic dummies, Paige pressed another button to have them frantically move around the room.
One of the dummies ca directly at Alice, making the woman take a step back that looked quite graceful, and waved her arm to the side, slicing off the dummy's arm clean.
"Th-that looks sharp…" Zac comnted, noticing that Alice's slash didn't have that much force in it, almost as if she was just waving around the blade without using any strength.
As the woman kept slicing and dicing without any form in particular, the last remaining dummy was sent head-on toward her at high speeds.
However, instead of avoiding and slashing it, she solidified her stance and stabbed the dummy from the front before it could reach her, producing a massive, dark blast that ca out of her sword and obliterated the dummy.
"What was that…?" Alice asked, huffing tiredly.
The rest of the spectators had their jaws wide open, except for gan and Dante, who seed more pleasantly surprised at Alice's power.
"That was pure, concentrated umbra," Dante replied with a cheeky smile.
The warlock explained that once Alice had gotten used to controlling her umbra, she could start learning a few abilities for paladins.
Different from Zac and gan, who were a dark warrior and a rogue, paladins were able to cast spells by chanting their nas.
Since paladins were sowhat of a mix between a warrior and a priest, they had a lot of flexibility in battle, as they could be on the vanguard or the rear of the group.
"Of course, your spells as a dark paladin are different from a holy one…" Dante elaborated.
While the warlock explained, Camille arrived at the lab, excited to see Alice's powers. However, she was a little disappointed when she found her inside the room with all the destroyed dummies.
"Aww, I missed it…" Camille said.
After Dante gave the handler a quick summary of the nature of Alice's power, she smiled with a satisfied expression. Still, the warlock thought she would need a bit of help in her training.
"Camille, are there any sword-masters in this world? I know these types of blades aren't really used by soldiers in this world…" Dante asked.
"Hmm, I'm sure there has to be soone out there who still practices dieval sword techniques… But would that be the best choice?" Camille pondered.
"Well, I don't really know—I'm not a swordsman. We just need soone who can train Miss Alice," the warlock replied.
Camille said that she would take care of it, as she already had an idea in her mind, so Dante decided to leave the matter of the sword-master to her.
"You said she would also be able to cast spells, right?" Zac asked.
"Right."
"Umm, and how is she going to learn them?" The redhead continued.
Dante had taught Zac and gan how to use so of their abilities, but the warlock stated that he didn't know all of them, so they would eventually have to figure them out themselves.
On the other hand, paladins shared a lot of the spells they used with priests, and while Dante wasn't an actual priest, he had the soul of one inside of him, so he knew from the basics to the most advanced spells.
'Ah, I had forgotten about that! —If I rember correctly, Beatrice used to be a combat priestess or sothing like that…' Zac thought.
"When Miss Alice gets better with her weapon, I'll teach her a few spells that she will be able to use," Dante said, and the group believed it was a great idea, so there were no objections.
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Later that night, after Zac took a bath, he went to his room to get so rest. However, he was a bit restless and decided to look at his phone.
While scrolling through social dia sites, he saw a few ads with Lilith on them, advertising the new line of perfu.
'Sheesh, they've been working hard…' He thought, blushing a little at Lilith's sexy pictures.
Suddenly, out of sheer curiosity, Zac looked up information about the demon of greed, wondering if it had anything to do with the malevolent art that Dante used against Astaroth.
The redhead had spoken about it with Dante before, wondering how he managed to learn those spells that were seemingly reserved for the demon kings.
However, Dante's answer was pretty vague, as he said that he had to fight so demons and make contracts with others, but he never specified more than that.
"Hmm? Mammon the Hoarder King?" Zac read on his phone, thinking that it was a terrible na.
"Personification of greed who rules over a vast land filled with treasures from countless worlds…" Zac continued reading, widening his eyes with perplexion.
He thought that if he had read that information a year ago, he would have simply taken it as a mythological tale.
However, knowing that there were indeed other worlds made the seemingly random information about the demon more accurate for him.
When looking at the pictures and drawings, he noticed that they all depicted the demon in completely different ways, so Zac couldn't get a clear picture of his features.
"Hmm, what about Satan…?" Zac muttered to himself, looking up information about the king of wrath.
The redhead felt a bit awkward while reading the demons' stories, as he was taking them at face value when, in the past, he would have thought they were cool fantasy tales.
He knew that Dante had supposedly killed Satan, but nothing on the internet said anything about the demon being dead.
'Well, I don't know what I was expecting…' he thought, locking his screen and falling into slumber.
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