A few more days have passed and the day of my journey came closer and closer… in fact, Marie's and my flight was scheduled for the next day. If you wonder why I take her with me, that's because I can't let her stay here who knows what kind of things she figures out or if I come back home and there are members of Hexennacht waiting for me. I rather spend a bit of money and take her with me especially when I get a discount. In preparation for the trip, I spend all my time in the Training Room where I also did train Marie just in case and to help her master her new Magic. I was getting harder and harder to get the Experience for a Level up while Marie did increase her Level way easier than me… she was now at Level 16, almost at Level 17, while I increase my Level by four Levels which brings me up to Level 23… now you're wondering why I complain even so we both increased it by form but I spend almost all my time in the Trainings Room while Marie only joined me occasionally. I didn't know why but the EXP I earned from the fights grew a lesser by every hour I spend Training now. After I finished my current fight the EXP I gained wasn't even a fourth of what I should earn… and that's why I decided to head out of the Training Room, this didn't lead to anything. I went up to the living area which was connected to the kitchen in which Marie was cocking and Jin was happily chewing on a bone. As I looked into the kitchen I took a peek at mine and Marie's stats:
[Train Ritter]
[Title: Of the Sharingan]
[Age: 17]
[Race: Human]
[Gender: Male]
[Sacred Gear: Canis Lykaon]
[Level 23]
[Exp: 540/2300]
[HP: 500]
[MP: 600]
[STR: 25]
[VIT: 25]
[AGI: 50]
[INT: 30]
[WIS: 30]
[LUCK: 30]
[Unused Points: 15]
(I decided to save some points just in case I need a sudden burst in a certain area.)
[Marie Sphere LV 16]
[Title: Allay or Foe]
[Race: Human]
[HP: 150/150]
[MP: 800/800]
"Already done with your Training?" Marie asked as she turned to me.
"Yeah… I felt kind of strange," I said lying to her since she didn't know about my gamer abilities.
"Why don't you watch some TV until lunch is ready?" Marie suggested before continuing to cook.
"Yeah, sounds good," I replied before I set down on the couch but instead of watching TV I started my gaming console as I took the player some games as I took up the control ready to start the game, as I did that Jin appeared next to me with a Controller in his mouth.
"Seriously?" I asked Jin and he barked.
"Alright… this could be fun," I said with a smirk as I started Tekken.
15 minutes later lunch was ready and all my pride as a Gamer was gone. In multiple matches, I couldn't even win a single match against and what was even worst, afterward Jin walked around holding his head high looking really arrogant. During the entire lunch, he was reminding me of my really annoying losses. While the three of us were sitting on the table we went over how tomorrow is going to play out… well, I was talking about how it was going down, Jin was sometimes barking in and Marie was asking questions. Half an hour later we were done eating and did clean the dishes. I thought about heading down and train a bit more, but if I still have this decreased EXP gain then it would be pointless. I decided to relax this last day and try out something I wanted to try out before I came into this World. After we finished Jin activated the TV and the game console to play some video games, Marie sat down on the couch starting to read a Magic Book I purchased in the Shop to learn a few new Spell, I still prefer Jutsus, from which only a few were useful for my skillset but they some of them would be good for her. As for me, I went back into the Training Room but this time I just choose a Forrest as setting and then entered. I sat down in a clearing and began to Meditate… you probably wonder why I wanted to try something like this. Well, I'm just looking for a way to relax and when I lay down or do something else I was always thinking about stuff and never truly had a clear mind. I closed my eyes and started to empty my mind which was at first really hard but after some time I was able to do it. I didn't know how much time passed before someone shook me which stopped my Meditation.
"Train, do you sleep?" Marie asked me as she shook me.
"No, I'm meditating," I replied as I opened my eyes.
"Meditating? For four hours?" Marie asked surprised.
"Four hours? Seriously, I wanted to Meditate for an hour," I replied astound as I tried to get up but I couldn't. "Verdammt meine Beine sind eingeschlafen!"
"What?" Marie asked.
"Sorry, sometimes I speak in my native language," I said to her.
"It's alright, but you should come up the devils are here and they wanted to talk to you," Marie informed me.
"Yeah, tell them that I'll join them shortly," I said as the feeling in my legs started to return.
"All right… maybe you should get some clothes. I don't think its advantages to appear in front of them without a shirt and torn trousers," Marie said and I looked down.
"Good point," I replied before she went back up again.
I opened the Shop menu and browsed through the clothing shop. I wanted to buy something cheap but then something caught my eye, a certain piece of clothing. This belonged to a character than had something in common with me, Sasuke Uchiha. This clothing was the same as Sasuke's at the start of Shippudden. It was a bit more expensive than what I was initially buying but this clothing gives me a good boost… and the price was reduced, so I did take it. As I was now walking up the stairs my outfit consisted of dark blue pants, over which hangs a blue cloth that covers me from my stomach to my knees, which I secured with a purple rope belt. I complimented this with a white long-sleeved shirt kept open at the torso and black arm guards that cover my forearms.
[Sasuke Uchiha's Cloth – Orochimaru]
[STR: +2]
[AGI: +5]
[INT: +3]
I wanted to take a look at my stats but there was something strange:
[Train Ritter]
[Title: Of the Sharingan]
[Sacred Gear: Canis Lykaon]
[Level 23]
[Exp: 540/2300]
[HP: 500]
[MP: 630]
[STR: 25+2]
[VIT: 25]
[AGI: 50+5]
[INT: 30+3]
[WIS: 30]
[LUCK: 30]
[Unused Points: 15]
While the stats increase of my cloth didn't seem to affect my HP, but for some reason, my MP increased that's strange… I have to look into that at a later point.
When I walked into the living area I saw Rias and her Peerage inside my kitchen drinking tea with Marie.
"Ah, Train. You finally here," Rias said as she saw me.
"And you got some new clothes… they fit you," Akeno said seeing my new attire.
"Thanks, Akeno-san," I said to the girl. "Now why are you all here?"
"I wanted to offer you something before you go on your trip," Rias said to me.
"If you ask me again I swear to god," I said and the devils winced.
"Yeah, I leave that out, but please don't mention him again," Rias said.
"Fine," I replied.
"So, the offer I wanted to make… I told my brother about you," Rias said.
"The current Satan Lucifer," I stated.
"Yeah, so we said that if you don't want to be a Devil, but need protection he said I could offer you to work for the Gremory and him. This would basically put you under the protection of the house of Gremory and one of the Satans," Rias said.
"Sorry, but I have to decline," I replied almost immediately.
"Won't you at least consider it?" Rias asked.
"No, if I would accept your offer then I may be protected but this would come into conflict with my own plans… also, there is always a price to pay," I replied.
"A wouldn't have to pay a prize," Rias replied and I raised an eyebrow. "Not a big one."
"There it is," I said satisfied.
"But I'm more curious about something else. You mentioned you had plans… may I ask what these plans are?" Rias asked intrigued.
"Sorry, but I can't tell you right now… but I would like to ask you a favor," I said to her.
"A favor?" Rias asked.
"Yeah… I would like to meet that brother of yours," I said.
"You want to meet my brother? …he probably would like to meet you too, but he is pretty busy managing the Underworld," Rias replied.
"Just ask him if he can in one to two weeks when I get back from my trip," I said to her. "If he meets with me I own you a favor… but nothing that affects me negatively."
"…fine, I will inform my brother... I must admit that I am interested in what you are planning," Rias said.
"You will know if it works out," I said with a smirk.
"I must say until now this visit was rather disappointing," Rias said to me.
"Sorry," I said not feeling sorry at all. "So is there anything else or can I continue with what I have been doing?"
"What were you doing when we arrived?" Akeno asked.
"Well, I was training… or rather I was meditating," I replied.
"Do you really think that with training and meditating you can grow stronger in such a short time?" Rias asked.
"Yeah, with my kind of Training even one day is more than enough to increase your strength tremendously. You can ask Marie," I said and all heads turned to the white-haired girl.
"Uh, yeah. Train's training is a bit special but very effective," Marie said.
"And before you ask I won't tell you about my training methods, it's not like you can do the same training even if I told you about it," I said to the red-haired girl.
"Seriously, we can't start a conversation like this," Rias said kind of annoyed.
"Yeah… I'm kind of busy since we're leaving tomorrow and I want to master a new ability before we leave," I lied with a smile.
"Uh… it seems that we won't be able to have a conversation then… I hope you won't die when you are away," Rias said to me.
"Yeah, I hope so too," I replied before I brought the Devils to the door but before they all left Koneko turned towards me.
"Come back in one piece… I need to talk to you when you get back…" Koneko said to me and I understood what she wanted to talk to me.
"Got it," I replied and the little girl left.
After they all left through the door, I closed the door and went back into the kitchen where Marie was still drinking her tea.
"So, you're trying to learn a new skill by meditating?" Marie asked me as I sat back down again.
"That was a lie, I just didn't want to deal with them today," I replied as I sat down.
"You're not going back down to train?" Marie asked surprised.
"Nah, today I had enough training. What do you guys think of watching a few movies?" I asked with a smile and Marie looked surprised while Jin barked happily.
"Seriously?" Marie asked.
"Yeah, why don't you head over and I make some Popcorn and get some drinks?" I asked and Marie seemed even more surprised.
"Sure, that sounds good," Marie said sounding a bit unsure before she headed over to the living room.
The rest of the evening went by rather… should I say normal because it was like normal people would spend their evening or should I say unusual because normally I would be fighting against a simulation… but that's not the point here. The point is that I was really happy to spend a normal evening like this. I wasn't able to have a movie night with someone for a few years… you could say that I was pretty happy with this. It seemed that Marie was enjoying it to… well, she did ask a bit many questions about the plot but that kind of reminded me of… yeah, I was happy. The three of us watched TV until we fell asleep and when I woke up the next morning Marie's head was placed onto my shoulder and my arm was placed around her. Luckily I was the first to wake up or so I thought until I saw Jin with a wolfish grin on the table. I glared him telepathically not to bark so that Marie won't wake up until after I removed my arm. Jin's grin grew bigger and I tried to remove my arm faster but Marie suddenly moved in a way that made it even harder without waking her up. I already thought this would get embarrassing but then Jin hopped onto the couch, helped me to remove my arm from her and lay Marie down. I thanked Jin and he wanted a new bone, a dragon bone… where the heck am I supposed to get a dragon bone? Jin then mentioned the basement and went down where I followed him. He went to my Terminal and used his paw to choose something. He then told me to enter the Dungeon. When Jin and I opened our eyes the next time we were in front of a mountain chain and we already saw a few dragons… no, they were too small wyverns maybe. Jin then demanded that we would spend the next couple of hours searching for a dragon to slay. Why not? I still have a few hours before Marie and I fly to Europe per plane.
We started to make our way up the mountain. On our way up we slew Wyvern, Wyrm, and Drake but nothing big. The most surprising thing for me was that I started to earn an even higher amount of EXP than normal and the reason for it was rather… logical. Apparently, when I overwork my body it doesn't show itself by me being tired or my muscles hurting, which is pretty convenient if I ever get involved in a long fight, but instead the EXP I obtain will decrease and with the way, I basically tortured my body the last weeks it's not really surprising that it decreased. As for why my EXP gain increased… apparently, I gain more EXP the following day if I slept close to women my EXP gain will be bigger, the more women the bigger and the most I can get by doing it with someone… yeah, not going to happen anytime soon. Anyway, we have been mountain climbing for the last two and a half hours and we finally found something interesting. Jin and I found a skeleton Dragon on which's side Jin had stars in his eyes. He did bark demanding that the two of us would take down the Dragon and all of its bones would go to him. Before I gave him an answer I took a quick look at the dragon's stats to find out if I can defeat him in the first place.
[Zoro-Agruga]
[Title: The Dark Dragon]
[Race: Undead Dragon]
[Gender: Male]
[Level 25]
[HP: 800]
[MP: 800]
Uh, he is two Levels higher than me. We could probably take him on and as I turned to Jin he was ready to go… and by that, I mean that Jin now grew into a full-grown hound with a black blade which had red glowing symbols on it. He looked at me ready to attack the dragon. I agreed and reached for his fur and pulled out a Scythe. Then the two of us started our attack but Zoro-Agruga had seen us and summoned corpses of, I guess Heroes that wanted to slay him before, which attacked us.
Half an hour later, I was a Level higher, acquired the Title Dragon Slayer and Jin was happily chewing on one of his hundred new dragon bones. In the meantime, I was going through the bones to see if I find something interesting and I did. I found three interesting things. One was a sword that was stuck in one of his bones. The second was a bone that seemed to have a strong affinity for Demonic Magic. The third was a violet Orb but I had no idea what good for it was but I decided to hold onto it regardless.
[Hrunting]
[Type: Weapon]
[Rank B]
[A sword, otherwise known as Hound of the Red Plains. This magical sword once belonged to the Hero Beowulf. This sword has the ability to sniff out the smell of blood and it can launch the most optimal slash with a mere ordinary swing. Each time the sword lands a successful hit, the drawn blood will flow into the blade and it will shine in red color.]
[Bone of the Dark Dragon]
[Type: Material]
[Rank B]
[This is a bone of Zoro-Agruga, an ancient Dragon that held the power of darkness and necromancy. These magical powers have been absorbed by this bone which was closest to the dragon's heart.]
[Eye of Zoro-Agruga]
[Type: Material]
[Rank A]
[A violet crystal ball, that was once the eye of the Dragon, and in which the soul of Zoro-Agruga is now sealed.]
Pretty nice… but as I wanted to pick up the bone Jin growled at me saying that the bone was his. We had an argument about who of us would get the bone which resulted in a brief fight. The fight ended with me bribing Jin into giving me the bone… with what I did this is a secret. Anyway, the two of us headed back to the living area where Marie had already woken up. As soon as she smelled the two of us she sent us up to take a shower before we would head out to get to the airport while she would make some lunch.
A few hours later Marie and I were walking through the airport to the runway from where our plane would start. Jin in the meantime was hiding in my shadows from where I can hear him chew on his new bones, he is probably still mad that I took that one bone. As we were walking to our plane we were having small talk until we were suddenly approached by a man.
"Are you Train Ritter?" the man asked me.
"Who is asking?" I replied.
"Oh, how rude of me to not introduce myself… my name is Alberto Gonzales," he said to me. "And I'm here on my master's orders to ask you to join her Peerage."
"Then please tell her that I have not the slightest interest in joining and now would you please let us through or we're going to miss our plane," I said to him.
"I'm sorry but milady told me to take you with force if necessary… she is quite intrigued by your eyes," Alberto said to me.
"Do you want to start a fight here with all these witnesses?" I asked.
"A fight? No, I think with my over 500 years of experience I can easily knock you out and vanish before anyone notices something," he said to me.
"I don't think that will be so easy," I said.
"I'm sorry to inform you but I am a Rook and as much as I know you're still a human and as such weaker than me," Alberto stated his opinion.
"Yeah, but even if you would try it's already too late," I stated with a smirk.
"Why is that?" Alberto asked confused.
"Well, you see I already knew that you were a Devil when I first saw you and you fell right into my trap," I explained much to his confusion. "You see I have already expected that at least a few Devils would try to recruit me and I was correct. You're the seventh who tried to recruit me, but at least among them were two Kings that had the guts to ask me themselves. One even accepted that I didn't want to join him and left me alone, I guess there are a few among you Devils that respect the wishes of us humans. Now, where was I? ...Ah, right I wanted to tell you about why you can't take me to your master you see. You fell into my trap when-"
"You already told me that get to the point!" he said annoyed by me.
"Why don't you look around?" I asked and as he did that he saw multiple people strangely looking at him. "You see these people all staring at you? Well, that's because you're talking with thin air."
"What!" he now shouted.
"You see I put you under an Illusion where you think you had approached me, but actually you have been standing here talking to thin air. Also, I talked so much that Marie and I have enough time to get to our plane. Now have a nice time explaining you shouting and talking to the air to the Security," I said with a smile and he had a shocked expression as Marie and I vanished.
Meanwhile, the two of us were already one in our plane. Marie told me that she was only once before one a plane and that she thought a plane was more luxurious. The only time she was on one she was apparently flying first class… not something I could have afforded. Soon the plane took off and the two of us started to talk to each other… I noticed that I never really got to know her and that's something I decided to change on this flight. We started to talk to each other and got to know each other better… and I think I got really fond of Marie. Soon it became night and Marie seemed to grow tired. While I was telling her something I suddenly felt a weight on my shoulder. As I turned to see what it was I saw Marie's head resting on my shoulder just like the day before. I was thinking about removing her head but then I decided to let it stay there and close my eyes too. Next time I would have to deal with new threats and so I decided to enjoy my time with Marie.
That's it for chapter 10… one week earlier than I expected which isn't surprising when you temporarily don't have a TV or game consoles that keep me from writing in the evening… oh well. This chapter Train completed his training and now is on his way to Germany. He also acquired a new weapon, Hrunting. I choose this weapon for two reasons. First, it isn't really that strong but still has a useful ability and second it will be a funny interaction when he meets Beowulf, Sirzechs' Pawn and original owner of Hurting. He also got two materials which won't come into play for quite some time. Now for Marie's new Magic… I was kind of disappointed with just seven votes in the Poll and that's why I decided to don't reveal it in this chapter and leave the Poll open for another week. Now I will go over the options one more time, also I added a new:
Celestial Spirit Magic: I will give Marie one Gold Key and two normal Keys. If Marie acquires this Magic then she will continue to use it until the end of the story as an extension to her own Magic. This would give me the option of creating OC Spirits and introducing more characters who can use the Magic in the future.
Jewel Magic: A costly magic that Marie will only use until she will unlock her full magic abilities and then she will switch to other magic. She will continue to use the Magic from time to time.
No new Magic: Marie won't get any new Magic and instead wants to focus on learning more magic which will make her more versatile.
Just so you know it I also removed Trace from the abilities he can get because it wouldn't make sense for without the UBW ability which he will only not get before Level 35 which is around the start of the original story.
Next time Train will finally arrive in Germany and he will meet a new member of his harem.
Giblenator: Yeah, Train is mostly relying on his weapons and with Ice Devil Slayer Magic he could create weapons which would give him an advantage over Devils. It is currently the top contender of him getting it at Level 25, due to me not wanting to give him UBW just yet. As for Marie learning Celestial Spirit Magic… I said that I keep the Poll open for another week and I will give her whatever the Poll votes for.
Borisd: Now I get what you mean, but the way I decided to introduce the power doesn't really give him the option to lend his powers to others and that's why I can use it that way.
Robocoaster: Thanks for explaining Unlimited Blade Works for me. I did read through the Wiki again and you're right. Without UBW it wouldn't make sense for Train to get the ability to Project Weapons. Also, I will use UBW a bit differently in this story because I'm going to combine it with Canis Lykaon and make it into a Sub Balance Breaker. I decided to make Canis Lykaon basically have two different Balance Breakers. The first is the normal Night Celestial Slash Dog and the second would be his UBW combination with it, which you did suggest some time ago (don't have a name for it yet). This combination would fit really well because Canis Lykaon can create all kinds of bladed weapons and through UBW it could recreate stronger weapons. Also, he will probably get UBW when he reaches Level 35 which is around the time when the main story begins.
akasuna123: I think his growth is pretty good. Tobio had a much longer time to master his Sacred Gear. He had already Balance Breaker at birth, but only started training a few years, judging by Vali being a little kid in Slash Dog. He had great potential from the start and in DxD he had already achieved Abyss Side Balance Breaker which makes him incredibly strong. Train had only two weeks and went from a normal guy to a decent opponent for the supernatural. Besides, right now he is only Training to get onto the same Level as Rias and her group so that he can stand a chance against what will come when the original story starts, and when the time comes he will defiantly learn to master his Sacred Gear which will give him the chance to fight against opponents who are even at a higher level than him. So all in all, I think with Train's momentary progression and the abilities he acquires he will attain the Title of Strongest Human and make it able for him to keep up with Issei till the end and Issei is absurdly strong in the end.
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