In Marvel As Dante

I teleported to Antarctica next. Some SHIELD agents still mulled about collecting body parts and retrieving chunks of Vibranium. I scanned the minds of the miners and teleported to one of the deserted locations. A Density-infused Axe chop split the ground for hundreds of meters, letting me pull an apartment building-sized chunk of Vibranium from the ground with a combination of Density, Gravity, Telekinesis, and Devil Trigger. It vanished into my inventory before I reappeared in lower Manhattan.

Regan was waiting on me by a street corner, wrapped in oversized clothes. She was thinner than I remember and had bags under her eyes.

I wasn't privy to what Jean had done to her, but the guilt of what she'd done to Wenwu's wife was getting to her. She jumped when she saw me, and I could sense the question at the tip of her lips.

"Don't worry," I assured. "I won't let him hurt you."

"Okay," she muttered in a low voice. With a complicated expression, I held her by the shoulder and activated Dimensional Jump. We were in a deserted forest in China faster than she could blink, standing in front of an imposing compound that looked abandoned on first brush, but Predator's Gaze allowed me to see through the deception. Dozens of Ten Rings agents clung to the walls and hid behind structures, ready to pounce.

Regan gasped the second her mind located them, but I mentally urged her to relax.

"I've come with a proposition, Wenwu," I called out, "though I'm surprised you're hiding. You're not nearly as hospitable as the legends say."

There was silence for a long time before the double doors of the central stone building swung open.

A tall, lithe man stepped out in a modern interpretation of traditional warrior attire.

He had a square jaw, was 5ft 11 inches tall, and had 10 mystical rings humming with considerable power around his forearms.

"How do you know my name?" he asked.

"Come on," I said. "You must've heard of me. You know what I can do."

"Only in passing," Wenwu said. "Leave. You are not welcome here. I will not warn you again."

"Not before you hear what I have to—"

Wenwu's fists shot forward, all ten of his ring firing at supersonic speeds. In one singular move, I sent Regan to an Island in my simulacrum and summoned Rebellion. The blade burst with Neither Fire as I swung, parrying the first Ring.

Nine more Rings followed a fraction of a second later. They were all parried at increasingly fast speeds. They flew in every which direction, carving deep rents into the vegetation. Wenwu summoned back his Rings with a flick of his wrist as he closed the distance between us with a superhuman leap. Two Rings gathered around his fist as he threw a punch. Demonic Aegis flickered on just before impact, sending him skidding back. The eight other rings attacked me from all sides. I teleported behind Wenwu before contact, lashing out with a kick, Invictus wrapped around my leg.

Wenwu barely got his rings up to block the hit, but it made no difference. His rings and arms were swatted to the side, leaving him open, but I did not press my advantage, far too stunned by the suddenness of my teleportation. I'd meant to open up a portal into my Dimension using Dimensional jump like always, but I'd simply teleported instead--no middle dimension necessary.

I saw a notification at the edge of my awareness but ignored it for now.

I had a Warlord to sweet talk.

Wenwu skidded back several meters, and his hands shot forward. The rings returned, nine rings circling a central one like a solar system on fast forward.

I raised a brow, still floating in the air. "You do know your attack won't touch me?"

"I've dealt with overconfident children like you before," he snorted. "People who do not fear their betters."

"You talking about the gang that murdered your wife?" I asked, causing Wenwu to freeze slightly. "The girl you nearly pureed was the one who hypnotized them to carry out the deed."

His hands dropped slightly. "That's not possible."

"Just like Tao Lo isn't?" I asked. "Come on. You've seen what's out there. Monsters, mutants, demons. A telepath shouldn't surprise you."

"How do I know you're telling the truth?" He asked.

"Because Shaw hiring somebody to force you out of retirement because he wants a Trillion-dollar gold mine makes a hell of a lot more sense than ancient enemies murdering the wife of an immortal warlord, especially when it guarantees death."

"No," he whispered, his rings slowing down. They climbed up his arms and lost their color. "How could he?"

"He needed your men," I said. Wenwu's dark eyes shot up, meeting mine.

"Why are you telling me all this?"

"He's in business with people that make you look like a saint," I said truthfully. "I want him out of the picture."

"It would be my pleasure."

==

Dante

I left Regan with Wenwu after gifting her a bracelet. It contained a charge of my demonic Aegis. It should buy enough time to call me if the situation with Wenwu deteriorates.

I teleported into my Dimension and arrived in a starkly different environment. I had gotten the inkling that it would change significantly since Angel Ascension and my little epiphany, but I underestimated how much.

The floating Islands were larger and more plentiful, the storm clouds overhead had taken a distinctively purplish tone, and off on distant Islands, I saw things that should've been in my inventory floating in the void, suspended.

"What the fuck is going on?"

The notification I'd been putting off gave me my answer.

The abilities—Weapon Vault, Dimensional Storage, and Paradise Simulacrum have merged into a Transcendent Ability.

(T) Dimension of the Demi-God.

Located in the Soul of a budding Nephilim and fueled by their affinities, life force, and powers, the Dimension of the Demi-God is under the complete control of the Demi-God Aspirant, Dante Sparda.

Land Mass, Authority, and Power will grow over time. Current abilities include:

Instant Transportation: Limited to known places in this Universe

Timelessness: Limited to 1 week for visitors. 2 weeks for Dante Sparda.

Expanding Mass: The size of the Dimension grows with increments in strength in any category.

The notification put it all in context and raised several more questions. This said Abilities, not Skill, which meant it did not have the growth potential my other skills did. Yet the description said otherwise. I expected that the abilities would just keep rolling in with every subsequent level up or something.

It also further simplified my growing skill list. Three Space abilities were now distilled into one. The introduction of a personal dimension also gave me an excuse to put a plan in motion I've been thinking about for a while now.

Moving my base of operation to my Dimension.

It was unassailable, only accessible to me, and I could eject anyone, anywhere I pleased in the Marvel Universe as long as I'd been there before. It'd be stupid not to take advantage of it.

The mutants could have the mansion. I didn't need it tying me down.

I leaped off my platform, soaring blisteringly fast, and landed with surprising grace, using Wind to blunt my descent. The combination repeated itself until I stopped at the center of the realm.

"This will do nicely," I said, folding my arms. All I had to do was find a way to transport a house into my Dimension. How hard could that be?

Before I started with any of that, though, I teleported to the station I set up when I was forging my Twilight Sentinel Armor and summoned the hunk of metal.

It had fully recovered from the beating I took in the North Pole, and I could tell from a glance that it was more durable.

The Evolving scales mechanic had restored and reinforced the missing scales.

I was planning on pushing the armor to and well past its limits. I summoned all six of the cores I retrieved and scanned them.

Arc Reactor

A new-gen Arc reactor constructed by Tony Stark, capable of generating potentially limitless energy if the output of the radioactive material is not exceeded and the reactor overheats.

Current limit per second: 5 gigajoules per second.

I whistled. These things were mobile power stations. What exactly did Tony Stark hand me? I shook my head. If only he knew. Well, there was no time like the present. Let's see what manner of horror I could whip up with this.

I busted out a marker, electrical engineering, and physics textbooks for this project and started studying. Luckily, with my advanced mind, it took no time, especially with my new and upgraded Cloak.

Hungry for more information, I teleported to Universities, purchased books, downloaded academic papers, and read through most of Stark Tech's patents and technology.

Pretty soon, I knew what I could do with the reactor.

I started with the Symbiosis effect. It allowed me to tap into technology directly and combine it with my demonic and angelic energies. I created a vast network of miniaturized runes designed to fit on the outside of the reactor. All were storage runes. I also planned to bolster the vulnerability of the outer shell with the most energy-absorbent and resistant substance I had, Twilight Vibranium. Add copious amounts of devourer blood into it, and it should be able to repair itself if it sustains damage when provided with enough energy.

However, to start my experiments, I needed Rin. When I told him the long and short of it, he was happy to help, especially since I promised he could drain half of their capacities.