So we finally saw Alessio's Apocolypticity and his italian warrior mistique just raising his stock in the eyes of superior opponents and upper level management.
we as human beings are driven by the desire for wealth, social acceptance, and once we hit our mid 30s our legacy (i'm not quite sure of Di Chirico's age). to me personally the latter would be meaningless as i do not buy into the afterlife aspect so who cares what people think after i'm gone but someone religious like fedor would for sure think otherwise which is why he trains so hard and i can't imaging anyone arguing the success of his labor, although i don't think Di Chirico is anywhere near in the same boat
but lets stay on topic, what makes Di Chirico the threat that he is even though his skill set may be lightyears behind him