<div style="text-align: center">Questor:​</div><br/>Everyone was on their feet around the room. Again silence fell as the two Demon Lords faced each other in the center of the room. This is what Dante had been planning for for such a long time. He had not thought that it would be this soon, but things had worked out in a way that everything had been accelerated. Valkar was a powerful Demon Lord, with influence, which he used to try and gain more power and have things his way. Only Dante and his supporters blocked his schemes time and again and now the Demon Lord had made a very serious mistake. He had tried to have Dante Killed and one had survived. To try and kill another Demon Lord was a crime in their laws. Yes it had been done but always with such tact that nothing came back on the one ordering the murder. Always it was like an accident or robbery gone wrong where the assalient was immediately killed and could not say anything. Valkar had been careless, thinking that the number of demons he had sent would do the job. Perhaps they would have if Dante did not have the twenty with him. Now Valkar would pay the ultimate price for his failure. At least Dante hoped for that outcome.<br/><br/>The two Demon Lords began to move about the circular space that was flanked but the tiers of seats that the other Demon Lords would sit in. They were all standing and watching intently what was unfolding below them. Valkar tried a quick slash at Dante, which he easily parried. Each studied the other as they slowly moved about the center of the room. Each began to test the other's defenses and it was quite evident that both Demon Lords were excellent swordsmen. The ring of steel filled the room and that brought guards that were stationed through out the building to see what was going on. They to soon began to watch the duel and word began to spread outside of the building to the general public of what was happening within. Soon a huge crowd of lower demons gathered in front of the Council building, waiting for word of the result of the duel. Inside Dante wielded his sword with a speed that made his blade seem to be a blur, and Valkar paired and dodged as Dante did with Valkar's attacks.<br/><br/>Valkar was a large Demon, and a bit overweight due his his long years of having it easy. He had others do his dirty work and so even though he was good with the sword, he was soon breathing harder then Dante. Dante may have been sweating a bit from the exertion, but he was in good shape and in his spare time had exercised, and had with Andrew kept up with his sword play. So it was that Dante drew the first blood of the duel, slicing through Valkar's left arm. Dante chuckled as he seen the blood fly and began to ooze from the wound to stain the shirt of Valkar. That pissed Valkar off and he made a fierce attack on Dante, forcing him back towards the railing the surrounded the center of the room. There one of Valkar's supports stood and slowly was withdrawing something from the sleeve of his jacket. The glint of steel could be seen, but not by Dante, whose back was to the Demon Lord.