No one knew what exactly had happened there, but next, they could see a black and a white light intertwining at the peak of the Sacred Mountain.
The two colors blended and collided together, unexpectedly radiating out dazzling, multicolored light.
Unlike Aiden and the others, who could still keep a normal state of mind, the townspeople had already fallen into severe panic.
They could not see those lights, but the earlier battle and the abnormal changes in the Sacred Mountain made them believe that the legendary divine punishment had descended.
In an instant, screams rose and fell across the town. The residents fled out of town one after another. Seeing this, the group exchanged looks and immediately set off running toward the Sacred Mountain.
Earlier, Bayonetta and the others had intended to let Trish, who had come out of the Gates of Hell, lead the way. But now that was clearly no longer suitable. There was no time to walk slowly. Their only goal was to climb to the summit as fast as possible.
For ordinary people, climbing a thousand-meter-high peak might take several hours, not to mention that the mountaintop was covered in snow and ice, which would probably double the time. But for Aiden and his group, running at full speed, it would take at most a few minutes.
Dante was the first to reach the summit. As a demon hunter, he was more proactive than anyone else, and he didn't need to look after anyone.
Unlike Aiden, who not only couldn't be too far from the black and white witches, but also had to look after Trish, who was the weakest in strength among them all.
When Dante arrived at the already-collapsed church on the summit, he saw a shocking scene.
Inside the ruined church lay corpses of angels and demons everywhere.
It seemed that when the two lights collided, the demons that came out of the Gates of Hell and the angels guarding this place had fought each other.
"Looks like we missed a good show!"
Right after, Aiden and the others followed, appearing behind Dante. Seeing the scene before them, they were all somewhat surprised.
But Jeanne still muttered a line, witches were also a race that liked to watch lively spectacles.
"Miss Trish, where's the entrance to the Gates of Hell?"
Dante, after scanning around and finding no living demons or angels, turned to ask Trish.
"Right under our feet." Trish stomped the floor with her heel.
However, the seemingly solid marble ground, after Trish stomped it a few times, suddenly collapsed with a crash. The group instantly fell into the bottomless depths inside the Sacred Mountain.
"Don't rush to use magic to make yourselves fly, look under your feet, there's a portal." Trish quickly reminded them, seeing that besides Aiden, the two witches and Dante had already raised their hands, preparing to cast levitation magic.
Even so, the black and white witches and Dante did not lower their guard. The hands they raised were still condensed with magic. If anything went wrong, they could immediately react.
After the feeling of weightlessness caused by rapid falling disappeared, the group landed in front of the portal.
It was a tall tower built of some unknown material. At the top of the tower was a red portal radiating evil and terrifying energy.
The portal was wrapped around by branches extending from the tower's peak, as if forming an "eye," turning and "looking" at them.
Just as they were examining the portal before them, fierce explosions suddenly sounded from above their heads.
Looking up, they saw Balder, wearing golden sacred robes, fighting with a being whose entire body glowed with blue light. And in that blue creature's hand, it still clutched the young boy who had escaped earlier.
At this moment, Bayonetta, who had already vaguely guessed Balder's true identity, hesitated for just a second, then raised her twin guns and fired fiercely at the blue creature. Seeing this, Jeanne also joined her, shooting at the blue creature together.
Aiden also intended to strike, but just as he raised his Snake-Belly Sword, a nauseating, revolting aura suddenly poured out from inside the portal.
At the same time, the greatsword in Dante's hand began to tremble violently, as if it had sensed the identity of the one that aura belonged to.
"Mundus!" Dante calmed his greatsword, his gaze turning toward the portal.
For the greatsword left behind by his father to react so strongly, the only possible source was that demon called Mundus.
The moment Dante murmured that name, a black light, as if it could absorb all the colors in the world, shot out from the portal, directly targeting Aiden and the other two who had not yet attacked.
Wherever that black light passed, even massive boulders falling from the air were instantly annihilated upon contact.
"Move, now!"
Seeing the terrifying power of the black light, Dante shouted a loud warning. At the same time, he leapt aside, his greatsword swinging to release several arcs of sword energy, attempting to destroy the portal.
But this was the Gate of Hell, one of the entrances for demons to descend into the human world. Legend said it had existed ever since Hell and the Heavens first came into being.
It represented the supreme Lord, Queen Sheba's yearning for another world. No matter how powerful Dante was, he could not destroy it. Still, he kept swinging sword energy again and again.
Meanwhile, Aiden had also jumped away early. But when he looked back, he saw Trish still standing there in a daze. This female demon created by Mundus was trembling all over, seemingly enduring a pressure she could not resist.
"Creator's oppression? This isn't like the game at all!" Aiden muttered under his breath.
He turned back, and just as the black light was about to sweep across Trish, he grabbed her in a princess carry and leapt away.
'Another cliché hero-saving-the-beauty scene. But come to think of it, it's been a long time since I've run into one like this.'
Even in such a tense moment, Aiden still had the mind to let his thoughts wander. But soon, he had no time for that.
Because just then, a gigantic hand wrapped in flames and lava stretched out from the Gate of Hell. Just the size of that hand alone was like facing a mountain.
And on that massive hand, countless tentacles writhed, completely unaffected by the lava and flames.
The overwhelming pressure of that giant hand made Aiden, who had just jumped beside Dante, frown.
"Judging from this guy's current display of strength, he's probably far stronger than in the game…"
Beside him, Dante muttered quietly, "How the hell did Father defeat this big guy?"
The Demon King Mundus descended into the human world in his true form through the Gate of Hell, naturally causing a huge commotion. The interior of the Sacred Mountain once again began to quake violently.
But rather than belonging to the human world, the Sacred Mountain's interior was more like a junction between Hell and the human world.
Here, a force belonging to neither light nor darkness protected it. This strange power prevented the strength of a high-ranking demon from leaking out, so that the Sacred Mountain would not collapse and harm the townspeople at its base.
Even so, those facing Mundus all wore grim expressions. Aiden put down Trish, whom he had been holding princess-style in his arms.
Her delicate face blushed red as she whispered a "thank you," but Aiden acted as if he hadn't heard, his eyes fixed firmly on Mundus, whose massive head had already forced halfway through the portal.
"Dante, you can handle him, right?" Aiden motioned for Trish to stand a little behind him, then glanced at Dante gripping his greatsword, Rebellion, with both hands.
Dante swallowed hard and said with difficulty, "Should be possible. But how the hell did this guy get stronger after sleeping all these years? Father never told me he was this big… he's almost like a mountain now."
"Didn't Miss Trish already say? Some mysterious guy helped boost his power." Aiden tilted his head upward, looking at the battle above, where the black and white witches plus Balder were three-on-one against the blue creature.
Then he looked back at Mundus, who was squeezing more of his torso through the portal. This guy's strength had increased, but his intelligence seemed to have dropped.
Demons weren't incapable of using magic to change size, yet he was forcing his bulk through like an idiot.
["So this is the price of becoming stronger. Or maybe… this guy too has been controlled by Lepado…"]
As one of the highest gods of this world, the Chaos God's evil thought, even if Lepado only possessed a fraction of the Chaos God's power, it was still far stronger than any high-ranking demon.
While Aiden was thinking this, Dante could no longer restrain himself. He charged forward with his sword, intending to hit Mundus hard before he could fully descend into the human world.
"When I get back, I'm definitely making Enzo pay me more."
With this shout, Dante suddenly leapt mid-run. Carrying unstoppable momentum, he slashed down at Mundus's head.
Mundus's head was not like a traditional demon's. He had no iconic goat horns, nor was his massive body dripping lava and fire like a statue made of rock.
Instead, he had a head with clearly defined facial features. But unlike other demons, his forehead bore a third eye.
Seeing Dante's slash, Mundus raised a palm the size of a hill to swat him. At the same time, his third eye condensed another beam of black light, sealing Dante's retreat.
As a demon who had lived for countless years, his combat instincts were terrifying.
But Dante, the son of Sparda who once defeated and sealed Mundus, was not to be underestimated either. Not to mention, his mother was no ordinary human.
His growth was nearly limitless. Even though, in the eyes of the Demon King Mundus, his age was like that of a newborn, his strength was definitely not that of a baby.
Facing Mundus's dual attack, Dante's eyes instantly turned blood-red. The open-chest coat he wore glowed scarlet. His body and clothes began to change violently, following the transformation of his greatsword.
He directly entered Devil Trigger form…
In Devil Trigger, Dante's strength transformed qualitatively. His speed multiplied as well. In just an instant, he readjusted his posture.
With a sonic boom breaking the sound barrier, he stomped hard on the back of Mundus's giant hand, raised his body higher while dodging the black light, and in a blink appeared right before Mundus's face.
His Rebellion sword stabbed straight into Mundus's features, and as Dante's body plummeted, the razor-sharp greatsword carved a wound over ten meters long across Mundus's face.
"Awesome!"
Seeing Dante in Devil Trigger, Aiden pumped his fist hard. Ever since childhood, he had dreamed of transforming.
But after gaining the Demon Enticer profession, his "transformation" turned out to be summoning. Now he was extremely jealous.
But this was no time for envy. Aiden glanced back at Trish, noticing that her expression had returned to normal, she had clearly overcome her earlier fear of Mundus.
"Stay sharp!" Aiden reminded her.
"You too."
Trish nodded, lightning sparking between her hands. She pointed at Mundus, and countless purple bolts fell from above his head, scorching his face with charred marks everywhere.
The moment Trish acted, Aiden switched professions. After summoning Lilith last time to take care of Balder, he felt that letting others fight was much better than doing it himself.
All the more so now, since their enemies included not only a powerful demon but also the avatar of an evil god's will.
"Give me a stronger one!"
Aiden shouted in his mind as he activated Original Sin Release.
As his stamina and energy were drained madly, It answered his call.
"Nyarly, you go!"
"By the command of my Lord, the Apostle of Shattered Time and Space, Nyarly, answers the summon!"
An impossibly cute voice rang in Aiden's ear. The space behind him shattered inch by inch, revealing a void of countless overlapping dimensions. From it flew out a succubus.
"Nyarly reporting to my Lord!"
The succubus floated in front of Aiden, flashing a cute scissor-hand pose.
She wasn't dressed skimpy like the Nyarly Aiden had seen in DNF, but wore an adorably frilly princess ballgown.
"Hello, Nyarly." Aiden nodded at her, then pointed his demon scythe at Mundus. "Let's take him down together."
He had planned to slack off, but since the enemy was this strong, he decided to focus fire to finish off the slightly weaker one first, then deal with the greater threat.
"Roger! Nyarly is super happy to fight by Lord's side!"
The succubus gave Aiden a sweet smile, then turned her gaze on the gigantic demon. In that instant, a flash of bloodthirsty madness passed through her eyes. A long whip covered in fish-scale-like barbs appeared in her hand.
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