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Location: City Ruins
@LmpkioDante watched as Doom Slayer backed up to avoid Dante's sword and started to fire at him from a distance again. Thinking quickly, Dante held his sword horizontally in front of his chest as the shots were being fired. The broadness of the sword allowed it to catch quite a few shots, but some of them managed to fly by it and hit Dante in his left arm, the right side of his waist and his thigh in particular. The shots hurt, not as much as the last ones but definitely enough for Dante to take pause for a moment before running in the opposite direction that Doom Slayer was, just to throw him off
Alright, if bullets didn't work and he wasn't gonna let Dante get close, then he'll just have to try something else. While still running, Dante made a vertical slash with his sword in the air, followed by 3 more slashes. On the 4th slash, a wave of energy flew out of the sword and flew straight ahead at Doom Slayer. The energy wave was about the size of the sword, was crescent shaped, and had the same glow and color that the sword itself did only a moment ago. It wasn't as fast as a bullet, but it flew quick enough to be difficult to avoid