Dante

**Dante** (ダンテ, *Dante*) is an S-Class Mage of the Dragonscale Guild, its Ace and the strongest fighter from Enca.

## Appearance

Dante is a handsome middle-aged man with black hair and a neatly trimmed black beard. He is noted to be very tall with an incredibly muscular physique, and possesses several scars around his body. Dante has sharp white eyes which glow pure-white when using his powers or becoming agitated. His attire consists of a long, black, high-collared and cloak with shoulder plates; along with a dark red tunic, and loose-fitting dark pants tucked inside simple black boots.

## Magic and Abilities

**Sage Dragon Slayer Magic** (賢の滅竜魔法 *Ken no Metsuryū Mahō*): Dante's Magic allows him to take on the traits and abilities of a Sage Dragon. The most notable feature being his ability to amplify Magic or Magic Power to higher than normal levels, said to transcend the land, sky, and seas.

* **Dragon's Roar**: Like all Dragons and Dragon Slayers, Dante can perform a Dragon's Roar, incorporating his respective element into a massive breath attack. His Roar is said to be potent enough to "completely eradicate" every major Guild in Enca.

**Enchantment** (付加術 *Fukajutsu*): Dante has shown extremely high proficiency in the art of enchantment. It's been noted by the Chairman of the Magic Council that he's prodigious when it comes to attaching and detaching Magic from objects.

**Shape-Shifting**: Dante has the ability to freely enter and exit his extremely powerful **Dragon Force**, whereby he takes on the appearance of a dragon, gaining reptilian scales and several traits of a dragon, such as further elongated, and sharper, canines and scale-like patterns on his skin. Additionally, being a Dragon-Human Hybrid, Dante takes on more characteristics of a dragon, such as growing Dragon wings from his back and gaining sharp claws on his hands and feet. When utilising Dragon Force, Dante's physical prowess, durability and speed are drastically enhanced, along with considerable boosts to his Magic Power, which becomes visible, taking the appearance of a Dragon.

* **Flight**: While he can fly in his human form, Dante can also fly in this form, but in the more conventional sense.
* **Enhanced Magic Power**: In his Dragon Form, Dante is the Sage Dragon, and has his already immense Magic Power increased to much larger levels, which allows him to greatly increase the power of his Enchantments and Spells.
* **Master Enchantments**: With the Sage Dragon's great power, Dante can increase the power of his enchantments to levels that no human could reasonably cast, something that transcends the land, the sky and the seas, and allows him to enchant the heavens themselves. These enchantments are of a higher rank than "High Enchants" ( *Hai Enchanto*) and are thus known as "Master Enchants" ( *Masuta Enchanto*).

**Blast Magic** (爆風魔法, *Bakufū Mahō*): Dante uses this Caster Magic to create an explosion (blast) in a specific area. He can trigger the explosions remotely or upon direct contact with an opponent. Nevertheless, this Magic requires large amounts of Magic Energy and if not executed carefully can cause a drawback on himself and cause Dante physical harm as well.

**Chain Magic** (連鎖魔法 *Rensa Mahō*): This Magic allows Dante to shoot long chains from his hands, complete with grappling hooks at each end. These are capable of piercing through foes without actually hurting them, allowing him to grasp opponents and smash them around against surrounding objects.

**Wind Magic** (風の魔法 *Kaze no Mahō*): Dante is a master of Wind Magic, being able to generate wind, as well as to manipulate the wind around him at will. Wind Magic grants Dante high offensive power, allowing him to assault enemies in different ways: the most prominent aspect of such Magic lies in his ability to give his wind cutting properties, manifesting it in the form of fast-moving aerial blades which he employs at mid-to-long range. Dante can also generate powerful gusts to inflict blunt damage upon enemies and send them flying away from him, and even form hurricanes of various scales, which, in addition to their rotational power, seem to retain his wind's signature sharpness. Dante is capable of producing powerful blasts of wind towards his opponent ,without the need of moving his hands; and can also employ his wind on himself, using it to levitate and traverse over long distances.

* **Flight**: By generating a current of wind below him, Dante is capable of lifting himself high up in the air and remain suspended. Such ability can be used for a variety of purposes: he can fly around freely at high speed, cross long distances in short times, remain out of enemy's range and evade their blows, as well as reach otherwise unreachable places.

* **Wind Wall** (魔風壁 *Mafūheki*): Dante is capable of creating a gigantic tornado that surrounds a certain area in order to cut it off from the outside world. This will leave the surrounded area unscathed, and objects and people from the outside will be able to enter it freely; however, the ones from the inside are bound to be cut into pieces by the slicing winds composing the hurricane if they try to get out of it.

* **Storm Bringer** (暴風波 *Sutōmu Buringā*): Dante generates a powerful hurricane, which spins and strikes his opponent, cutting them with wind blades, stunning them with its rotating motion and subsequently sending them flying away.

* **Storm Mail** (暴風衣 *Sutōmu Meiru*): Dante uses this spell to prompt air currents to gather around him, creating a hurricane surrounding his entire body, forming a protective armour. While clad in this "armour", Dante's destructive power is boosted, allowing him to go into melee to perform wind-enhanced blows capable of shattering rock. His defense is also increased exponentially, with the currents moving around him being strong enough to repel enemies and prevent them from nearing him. In addition, due to Storm Mail blowing wind inside out, all the fire around him will be extinguished, meaning that fire-based attacks directed against him won't land.

* **Storm Shred**: While Dante is clad in Storm Mail, he is capable of firing barrages of wind blades at his opponents just by swinging his arms. These, unlike normal wind blades, take on a more compact form, resembling flat, elongated and arched projectiles of sort.

**Storm Magic** (嵐の魔法, *Arashi no Mahō*): Growing up in the famed *Isle of Storms*, Tatsuki has become a master of Storm Magic. He is able to manipulate the weather either by hand, and utilises this magic to take control over winds, clouds and lightning, and can use them for defensive purposes as well as offensive purposes. Dante is capable of using this magic to conjure up storms and perform powerful spells using rain, lightning and hurricanes.

**Lightning Magic** (雷系各種魔法 *Kaminari Kei Kakushu Mahō*): One of Dante's most used Magic types, it allows him to produce and manipulate lightning. Dante possesses a great mastery over Lightning Magic, and is able to manipulate lightning and electricity to his every whim, having complete control over its manifestation He can attack with a single or both hands to generate electrical discharges from long-ranged distances or at a close-range. Through its use, Dante can not only generate lightning from his body, but also make it appear from almost anywhere to strike his opponents, taking them by surprise. By generating electricity on different parts of his body, he’s capable of making his attacks in melee deadlier, and of propelling himself around to gain extra momentum. The bright light from his lightning can be also used to momentarily blind enemies. In addition, much like his use of Wind Magic, Dante uses Lightning Magic to turn his own body into lightning, in order to evade enemy attacks, move around at high speed and strike every opponent crossing his path, and take, or even block, lightning-based attacks without being injured.

* **Lightning Body**: Through the use of Lightning Magic, Dante is capable of transforming his own body into electricity, turning himself into a lightning bolt, whose size can vary from mere, fast-moving sparks to large pillars of lightning. Together with the signature intangibility of Elemental Magic, which allows Dante to let physical and magical attacks pass harmlessly through his body when he's transformed, this form also grants him some traits typical of real lightning: he's capable of freely moving around at high speed and to travel over long distances, rapidly appearing at his destination from places away from sight as though as he was teleporting, as well as to electrocute everything crossing his path.

**Water Magic** (水系各種魔法 Mizu Kei Kakushu Mahō): Dante is able to use Water Magic, a form of Magic which, as the name implies, allows him to generate, manipulate and control water. His capability with this type of Magic is not known.

**Master Hand-to-Hand Combatant**: Dante is a prodigious hand-to-hand combatant, and expresses a mastery over multiple fighting techniques. He is capable of calmly defeating multiple opponents at once through physical combat, disarming and dodging attacks from many directions. He can strike with precision before his opponents can react, and overpower individuals twice his size. His most frightening ability, is his ability to adapt to combat and environment in order to give himself the advantage. His **learning ability** (超学習能力, Chō Gakushū Nōryoku) allows him to learn countermeasures to other people's fighting styles while making their fighting styles his own. Moreover, his skill lies in using his intelligence in battle where he aims for the vital points and joints to make his opponents lose the ability to fight back and gradually lose concentration. Furthermore, through analysing his opponent's line of vision, posture, muscle tension, breathing, energy, movement patterns, and center of gravity he can almost perfectly predict his opponent's next movement.

**Immense Strength**: Dante holds tremendous raw strength, largely due to his Dragon-Human Hybrid physique. His monstrous strength is evident through his capability to beat a Dragon within an inch of death, without the use of Magic. Dante is able to, with a bare hand alone, rip right through an S-Class Mage's abdomen and kill them in one swipe almost instantly, and can destroy a vast portion of his surrounding landscape with a single punch.

**Immense Speed**: Dante possesses incredible raw speed, being able to out-manoeuvre and surprise someone at the calibre of the Ten Wizard Saints.

**Enhanced Smell**: Dante has an incredible sense of smell, which he shares with other **Dragon Slayers**.

**Immense Durability**: Dante is extremely durable, and is able to emerge completely unscathed while taking the full brunt of a Dragon's Roar attack.

**Indomitable Will**: Dante possesses extremely powerful willpower and is immune to the likes of Dragon Supremacy Magic.

**Immense Magic Power**: Dante's Magic Power is said to be absolutely overwhelming to the point that even members of the Wizard Saints, become in awe and sweat at his enormous power. He possesses terrifyingly immense Magic reserves, being crowned the strongest individual of Enca. Several S-Class Mages hail his Magic Power, with some claiming it as defying common sense, while sweating from simply being in his presence. Those in his immediate vicinity can be brought to their knees by its sheer power, with its devastating force being felt at great distances away. When exerting his power, it is capable of shaking both the earth and sky while making the very foundation on which he stands steadily crumble while he releases his Magic Power as a thick, potent aura around him resembling a dark red and black cloud.

## Equipment

### **Ryūge**

**Ryūge** (竜牙 *Dragon Fangs*): is the signature weapon of Dante; they are a pair of large dark red daggers with gray hilts and glowing blood-red edges, with one dagger being thicker than the other. The smaller dagger has a black blade guard, while the thicker one has a golden blade guard.

## Trivia

* Dante's favourite food is prawn tempura.