A Month later

It took me a month to get into the actual routine of things. My general routine began in the morning at 5 where I stretched my body and did a light workout, after freshening up and eating breakfast I went to do odd jobs in the local area. These were generally either things like attracting customers to a shop or odd jobs around a house.

A devil body is sturdier than a human one, so I am able to easily do the jobs. Both jobs have one thing in common though, they required many a time, small periods of not doing anything. I passed the time by increasing my speed of doing hand seals.

I was so happy with my Sharingan, I just had to painstakingly make the hand seal correctly ones, see that using my eyes and then it was stored in my memory permanently, I just had to remember it and increase the speed the muscles coordinated to increase speed.

I have already read the entire academy books regarding chakra, ones normally, another time using Sharingan. In that, they said that while doing seals, I should circulate my chakra through the coils and tenketsu. Coils or pathways were all over the body while tenketsu were endpoints for a particular pathway.

There are a total of 361 tenketsu, so you can imagine the pathway is very complex. Each hand seal affected the released chakra in some way [The released chakra from tenketsu as I didn't have control to store the chakra there].

When I have work for selling products, I use the time while on the job to practice my control. Taking a leaf, I try to stick it to my hand while looking at people and attracting them to the shop. If anyone notices (even shopkeeper) I just say, I want to play with it and don't want to lose it.

With minimal expenditure I was able to make 300 silver, out of this; I would give 100 to Jou, while storing rest to buy a hunting bow. I already asked for the price and it is 7 gold for a used one. It will take me about a year to save that much amount, by that time I would easily be genin level.

The other thing I found was it takes a lot of time to go from low class to mid-class if you don't have contracts. Using contracts you can get a small amount of power from the pact. If I continued to train only my body using gravitation, there is very little chance that I would increase my magical power. So, using gravity I would start to increase the weight of my clothes while exercising.

Just to be cautious though I would not magically enhance my body, I would use chakra to do that. This way even if there is a risk of me becoming a middle-class devil, it's reduced.

Also during this time, I spent some time on empathy, it's just background awareness that now I have unlocked, it shows general feelings toward me.

Looks like I just rambled on technical things. After coming back home after doing the jobs, in the evening I used the time for exercising or control exercise. I am waiting till my third tail comes as I think then I would be able to produce a shadow clone. I have a lot of chakra and while my control is decent right now, I think if I complete tree (wall) walking, I would have both better control and increase my capacity.

Well as I am not doing anything right now, let's start now, to see how hard it is. Taking the required book from inventory, I looked through it and concluded that yes it is complicated.

First, I have to continually flow chakra all throughout my coils so as not strain my back, next I have to expel a steady amount of chakra from my feet. Attaching myself using that chakra I have to walk upwards.

I went toward the last corner of the apartment and then slept on the ground near the wall. Leaving the constant circulation, for now, I first positioned my feet's on the wall and started expelling a small amount of chakra. Trying to even it out, I made a mistake (a large amount of chakra in front) and my feet's got blasted off the wall. Not going to do this here again as I saw a small crack on the wall near where my feet were.

The next day

I waited for Jou to teleport in while reading a book on the history of the underworld. When a circle appeared, I put the book back on the rack with the rest of the books.

Jou appeared in a show of light, medium height, a grey-haired man wearing a combo of shirt and jeans. He looked at me for a minute and then chuckled, "looks like you have been exercising", he also sent a wave of magic large enough to cover the building.

I went toward him while replying, "of course I want to become a high-class devil in future"

Jou again chuckled and began to go toward the pantry, a cupboard using runes that store the food and keep fruits and other products fresh. As I said before Jou is not bad, he would answer any question that you have and do his work efficiently. He wouldn't even treat you badly. He is in this business just for the money.

He has 5 boys currently, a pair at about 13, 9 and lastly me at 5. He had another of my age, but his good fortune smiled on that one as that one had a sacred gear. A low-level one but still good enough to be sold. He told me this a few months back. Happy getting money so close to investment.

While he was doing his work, I sat back on the chair and asked him, "Who would be the nobles that you would sell me too?"

He looked back at me for a movement then went back to the work, "Well there are devils that sell themselves indefinitely to a household (pillars) and then they become part of it, the profit in this is that, while they themselves may lose some freedom, they gain a lot of resources. For example: even if you were to be used to clean a house with small pay. As you are attaching yourself to the house, the house trusts you with its resources and thus you are easily able to become high-class devil" he looked back again to see if I was paying attention.

"Now if in a few decades or century you became high-class devil, you get a nice raise and you need peerage, while still continuing to do the work. Generally, they are given an area to maintain as pillars contain 50% of the available area that's a lot for 32 families. They can't go out and choose and so they come to dealers who contact people like me to see who all are available"

I thought about the information he provided while he completed the work. Well, it's an even more complicated situation than I thought. Still, not interested as I don't want to become someone's servant, even if they increase my power. Now that is answered I went toward the second point I was thinking of asking.

"The other day, I was thinking of becoming a hunter in the future, do you know something about that field?"

He sat on the second chair while taking fruit from his pocket to eat and answered, "Well, while I myself have never done any hunting, one of my friends does, shoot"

"Well I was thinking of either saving for a ranged weapon or should I use magic to do hunting"

"First thing, never use magic for directly killing an animal as that changes their texture, sometimes it even makes them poisonous as animals have developed ways to discourage hunters from hunting them using that. Your best bet would be ranged one"

"What about chakra?"

"Most devils don't have chakra and Yojutsu books or techniques are costly as there are not that many masters of that field here. So, if you can use chakra to kill that would be best."

Well, I have stealth books and substitution can easily take me near it, same with genjutsu as it would increase my chance for an easy kill, at least for smaller animals. Then another thought popped up.

"If they can't be killed by magic, do they have magic to sense others nearby?"

"Yup, they got that too, they can sense magic and generally people use a suppressor for their magic. The thing is though cheaper suppressors get damaged even if you use some magic around it. So you have to be careful using that."

Well it looks like I would be using chakra only, all this while I noticed (from empathy) his emotions to be happy and intrigued.

"You look happy, did anything happen?"

"Well, you are asking good questions this time; I also noticed that you read some books looks like I was lucky in picking this batch, any other question"

"Do you know how to naturally suppress magic?"

"Nope, never interested in that"

"Do you have a laptop or mobile?"

"I have mobile"

"Can you come with a video of rating game next time, I wanted to watch it"

"Well, I have a few DVD's, can give you one for a week, it would take some money but you can watch it in nearby café"

"Thanks, can you get one where there is a physical fight"

"Well there is one, will come with that, now any problem in the house?"

I just shrugged and waited for him to inspect all over the house after doing that he came back and said, "Well no extra charge, there is a small crack near the end wall but that's nothing major, all the daily items are enough for the next month so the money?"

After handing him the money, I waited for him to go, as he never stops after receiving the money. Things went good today.

I had thought of various ways to hunt:

1. Using stealth and a bow but it had the problem that it would take me a long time to increase my aim and costly.

2. Using stealth and gravity magic, that too is a bust now

3. A gun but that's costly

4. Substitution and killing intent, killing using a sword or knife

Looks like I would have to save money, but I could buy a cheap second hand short sword for a few gold coins and can try using "forth" in a few months as the last one would take me a year just to buy the bow, then I would have to practice using it.

The sword may even be of use for first one later as there are many carnivorous who can use magic, so they may hide better. Also, there is a new expense for the suppressor. So, even for basic hunting, there are still a few months.

Three months later

I was sitting on the river bank trying to walk on it, I still remembered the first season of the show in which a fallen easily stationed itself on the water. Asking about it to Jou, from the angle of Jesus, and I found that it's very easy to do that; you just have imagined a pad of magic. He also told me his DVD's are not in playable condition.

Taking that in account, I sat down in a secluded area and tried to do water walking, I have completed tree walking and leaf sticking, even the circular one. Another thing is that I grew my third tail.

Now you may think why I haven't tried to do shadow clone Jutsu and let me tell you, Naruto is a monster, I tried to do it the last week and all I got was a blackout and 3 days of rest due to chakra exhaustion.

That's why I am trying to increase my capacity and control. All I did on those 3 days was brainstorm about different ways I can increase both. Apart from the three Jutsu from the academy, I don't have any other. It was described in the books that mastering different Jutsu increases your control, that's not possible for me. Another way is to shape manipulation or natural transformation. That led me to do the third exercise water walking, after that I am going to try the first stage of Rasengan.

Apart from that, I am planning to master the academy Jutsu seal-less as that too would increase my control and they are very useful. When I don't have chakra to do anything I focus on stealth and exercising.

Using Sharingan I copied all the fight to learn how to punch or footwork and as such after practicing on that, I can actually punch kick easily. It would take fighting a master using Sharingan to rapidly learn taijutsu, currently am just doing exercises.

Nothing else to lose I tried to step on the river.

"fuck"

It's very disorienting to stand for a second and then plunge in. Looks like I am going to continue being wet for a long time.

About seven month after coming to dxd

I was jumping around the clearing while my clone smiled at me. I finally could make a shadow clone, I was so happy, after 10 minutes of celebration, I took stock of my chakra and found it to be half full, just as I expected, it took me three months to increase my chakra capacity to have a fourth tail.

After that, I tried daily ones and after about 20 days I got the Jutsu to work. During this time I hypnotized the number of tails and what rank it belongs to

1 = academy

2-3 = genin

4-5 = chunin

6-7 = jonin

8-9 = kage/s-rank

While the shadow clone is chakra intensive, I have a lot of control now, more than enough to control my chakra near perfectly.

I ordered my clone to go inside and start reading books on magic that are in the library. This was done to see how much the memories hurt my brain. I would let the clone read for a bit than dispel it.

I remembered the levitation chakra control exercise, while it was not described, but I got an idea from that, I submerged my hand in the water near an even section of the river then I tried to form a whirlpool using my expelled chakra to evenly move the water. Yup, I totally didn't steal the idea from the first stage of Rasengan, especially as I don't have money to waste on balloons.

Now that I have a clone, I can easily increase my progress. The clone can read and perform chakra control while I focus on hunting.

Today, I would prepare for the hunt that would happen tomorrow, taking that in mind, I concentrated on what all I have accomplished.

Instead of taking a crappy sword, I stole a 2 foot steel bar from the recycle station; my stealth was good enough for that. Especially with the band that cost 1 gold. A silver color bracelet, runes covering the left portion. This was a suppressor that I got cheaply as using empathy I easily found a shop that was pitiable to my plight and with just a little bit of drama, I go item for 1.

With that and the stealth that I practiced, in how to walk without sound, dress not to make noise and such. It was easy to grab the bar.

Using the bar with alchemy I converted it slowly into a sword shape, used cloth as a handle and that's taken care of. I tried my best to make it sharp as possible, but that's still not that sharp. Turns out low-class devil have very little magic, and when there is no circle to even mold that, well it takes a long time and a large amount of magic.

There is a reason why I am not noticing any gravity affecting me while workout, that's because just imagination doesn't work. You need to have a circle that help you control your output, input and various other parameters.

Turns out it takes large calculation as to how the various runes will interact with each other, various circles are sold at various rates. The best though are those that are from pillars as they spent 100's of years to calculate the formula and horde it such that you only see a design instead of proper symbols.

These circles are costly and not actually that compatible with your magic as they keep their own family magic as a priority. In comparison, a cheap, mass-produced circle will help me with about 20% in casting. In the same place, a circle from a pillar would help about 50-60%. The Maou even have their own circles tailor-made for them that enables an even higher percentage.

As you can see I don't have the amount of magic or even directions to perform that correctly. One thing I find surprising is that there is no mention of controlling your magic in books, either it's hoarded or I would have to invent it myself.

On the side of academy three, I got them completed with a single hand sign; still, I need a bit more practice. My genjutsu didn't progress at all though as I didn't have someone to put the illusion on, now that I have a clone, it would be easier to do that. Using my Sharingan it would be easy to progress in that field. I thought a lot on the hunt in these months.

Instead of taking a bag, I got a plastic tub and put it in inventory, after covering it with aluminum foil. Now after killing I would just put the animals directly in the tub. Also, a few bottles of water and some fruits as it could take a long time.

Things also got added as; I could put bait and wait for the animal to appear while using henge or genjutsu to hide in the surrounding. In case you are wondering what is being add. It's a bed sheet as I would be using a false wall technique used by Naruto to cover a sheet in chakra and henge it to make it similar to the surrounding.

Also, if I found a small animal I could continue to watch with Sharingan and predict its movements. This way I would be one step ahead.

The first genjutsu I would concentrate on would be the sleep-inducing one, for a single target, I even found it in the books as it's very basic but can only be used on unsuspecting targets. I would either have to make eye contact for powerful illusion or make up a new one.