The First Realm...

[Understood.]

[Generating rewards...]

Dante was unsure over how body reconstruction works as it had never been recorded before.

He just laid down in the cracked stone floor within the dark in silence.

After a minute nothing happened then suddenly a burning pain came into throughout the outer layer of his skin.

Dante grunted as the previous pain he felt was amplified by magnitudes. It felt as if entire muscle groups were being burned off completely on a cellular level.

Although his mental fortitude was strong, nothing prepared him for a pain like this. The thousand needle like pain could not compare.

"ARGHHH!"

After what seemed like excruciating minutes. Dante could no longer hold it in screaming at the top of his lungs as his muscle tissues were on fire.

Black and white. His mind kept fading in and out of consciousness, tightening his grip, his palms bled even further as his nails dug through his skin.

'Harsh trials sharpens ones resolve. I shall not be lured by mortal emotions. Today I merely crawl... Tomorrow I shall run!'

Dante's eyes bulged as he harshly bit down, refusing to fade away and fail his modification.

Black sludge began to escape from his body and fall upon the ground. the substance was warm and slimy.

The burning feeling disappeared and the excess waste was pushed from his pores.

Dante's muscles had been rebuilt and refined completely.

He was still on the floor breathing in and out heavily.

Before he knew it he had fallen asleep from all the fatigue.

DING!

[Body Modification Stage 1: Muscle reconstruction has been completed]

***

That was the last message he saw before he had fallen asleep.

"Ugh..."

Dante stood up and looked around. It seemed he was out for the entire day as the openings in the stone room were showing the daylight.

There was a huge slump of dark slimly substances all over the ground and some on his body.

He could move freely and it didn't obstruct his movement as it seemed his muscles had repaired quite well.

He got on the ground and started doing push ups with ease, as well as all the other various forms of movements.

The biggest change was now he could completely feel all the mana close by. The perception had changed completely. If it was too far away he could no longer sense. However, the mana within a close 5 meter range he could perceive quite well.

DING!

[The essence of one's mind has improved drastically.]

[The eternal lotus blooms further.]

[The potential of the host has been raised from B real to A realm. Your purity increases.]

His eyes widened at the results.

"What? Even in my old life there were rare cases where one's potential would increase?"

'It would require the use of artifacts. Yet even then they would require heavy sacrifices, such as the souls of hundreds of people. Which lead to the mass murdering of someone from a demonic path.'

"What's my next main quest?"

[It is set automatically. I am merely an informant.]

"Hmm..."

Dante thought for abit. It seemed there was a power behind the system. Could it be from the lady who seemed to have gifted it for him. For now it seemed he would have no control over it.

"You mentioned this was the first body modification. What are the rest and will they have similar effects?"

[There are 2 more stages of body modification. They are Bone modification and Organ modification. With all three they allow for the host to be able to gain the perfect martial physique, a superior one to any other in their realm. Although these would build up. It is unsure whether it would beat those of a higher rank physically alone.]

Dante nodded as he realised there are other techniques which strengthen a persons defence and constitution. A supreme physique could help with the process of learning and mastery however it would be different against a person who has perfect information and practice over their techniques.

To use mana is to go against heaven and gain unnatural techniques. These could change the flow of a fight drastically.

[Gaining all three would help the host's talent massively.]

[The higher the realms you climb and the more ranks you earn. The more difficult it is to climb the ranks. If your essence is high you shall find it easier to cultivate. This shall also mean that the trials gained shall be more difficult and increases.]

If Dante's comprehension was correct. The rewards gained and this 'body modification' would be his key for a better potential. This was what was meant by the lady who said it would be his greatest tool.

"But how so?"

[The host has been given a special attribute. (Villain of Fate (EX) ). It is from a person who transcends time becoming an anomaly in this new world. They are given help to grow, which would be the system that was gifted.]

[The stronger the host becomes the more fate is aware of your presence, the more resources of the world is used with the aim to destroy the anomaly. Disaster and difficulties are lured towards you.]

"So I am a magnet for Danger."

[Currently you are still at the bottom of the chain. So the dangers you attract will not be much. Fate is the will controlled by heaven. The closer you get to immortality and the highest realm. The harsher the dangers will be.]

Before Dante could ask another question a noise pulled his attention.

BANG!

BANG!

BANG!

"Oi. Your time has been up for almost an hour. Get out!"

It was the old man knocking on the stone door. It shook from his heavy smacks as a voice amplification technique was used to speak through the stone wall.

Dante stared through the cracks in the top of the rooms. He was right, it was most likely in the middle of the afternoon.

Dante quickly went to the spring and washed himself off. He stunk greatly from the toxic sludge. It was quickly washed off as his clothes were still in barely wearable shreds, markings of burns all over.

His smell was greatly reduced yet some residue was still lingering.

After walking to the door he pushed it open, it came with ease as he felt his strength had improved.

"Finally you took so lo..."

His words stopped midway when he saw Dante's appearance. His crimson red eyes were still the same but there was an obvious difference to most of himself.

"What the fuck happened these last 24 hours, lad?"

Dante himself noticed it slightly. Now there was a brighter light source he could properly see it better.

He was looking down on the middle aged knight now as previously they were close to the same height, Dante being a little shorter.

His legs may have grown longer. The trousers he remembered which went up to his ankles earlier could only reach his calves now. His arms seemed to be slightly longer too.

The man pushed passed him and went inside the room.

"What the fuck did you do?!"

He seemed to be genuinely surprised. The man's face scrunched up deep as he smelled the toxic sludge from within, running out of the room quickly gasping for fresh air.

'Why is he running away from the sludge when I was lying upon it for a full day.'

[Your and muscles have been upgraded so resistance to poison and toxins have gone up significantly.]

[The host should not try to go against Powerful Potent poisons. The techniques reinforced with mana will be vastly different from a mere regular poison.]

"Get out!"

The man kneeling on the floor gasping for air screamed.

"Get the fuck out!! Have you no shame to look after a room provided to you."

Dante turned around and walked away without saying a word.

"Answer me you bitch!"

Dante continued to walk away forwards, paying his words no mind.

He had long since turned away his morality.

All that is worthy to pursue now is his goals. Since the moment he was reborn, there was only one goal for him.

To reach the peak of the world and become Immortal.

***

Dante stepped out from the seclusion rooms and back onto the training fields.

Silvana was out on the fields running today doing a form of stamina training when she had noticed a slightly familiar person enter her sight. He had just left the seclusion rooms and was now barefoot walking around.

She asked herself 'Is that... Dante? Why is he barefoot and his clothes are destroyed? Did he get into another fight...'

Silvana approached him and noticed he was considerably taller and between the holes on his clothes were visibly toned muscles. They were not that big but lean and strong. Effective for mobility and strength.

His face and eyes seemed sharper as well with his hair longer with the appearance of a wolf cut.

She definitely saw him walk in yesterday with a completely different look. Now he looked as if he had aged a full year.

Silvana took a few more steps closer and Dante finally noticed her as he looked upon her blue eyes...

Suddenly she stopped just 5 meters away from him.

She had done an internal gasp as she realised what she felt. It was a strong feeling she recognised from herself and those around her. He had a strong wave around him and within.

She could definitely sense it.

Her eyes grew wider as her pupils shrank.

'But how... How is it possible... It took me over a year...'

Just a few days ago when she saw him there was no hint. Completely. It did not even seem like he was in the process of it.

Silvana looked shocked and in disbelief as she calculated something in her head, meeting Dante's crimson eyes.

"What did you do..."

"I think you need to use more words for me to answer."

Dante responded back calmly.

"It's impossible to grow this much and in such a short time..."

She continued...

"I can sense your dark green energy..."

"The essence of the First Realm..."

"You've fully awakened..."