Growth and Bonding

Dyre strained in his training room, it had been a week since Allabelle had come to the Ring of Pride. Now it was only a day until the Progeny war, so Dyre had brought his training up a notch and was close to finishing the first part of training.

'Okay so things are going faster than I thought, but I think this can be a good thing' Dyre thought as he was doing squats while holding the massive stone. After continuing his training for hours he had finally succeeded. "{Lighten}" the stone that had been incredibly heavy instantly felt like nothing.

As he put down the massive boulder a pane appeared before him. And what appeared made his eyes bulge.

 [you have finished the first part of the art of slaying dragons.]

 [plus 50 to Strength, Agility, and Vitality]

"Well, I wasn't expecting that!" Dyre said, looking at the pane. "Yes, you've done the first part very quickly, my child." Dyre turned to his mother, she had read the two books to see if it was safe for her son.

Dyre knew that the next exercise will take time and that Lilith wouldn't let him grind the good old fashioned way. So he had to do something else then it came to him.

"Hey mom, can you let me make lunch?" Lilith actually smiled at this excited to make memories with her child outside of training or the like.

"Of course my child!" she said joyfully as she grabbed Dyre's hand as she showed him the kitchen. Dyre looked around and said, "Can we go outside to get some ingredients?" instead of answering, opened the door nearest to the stove. In Contrast to the fancy and pristine dark brown walls in the manor of pride the outside was paradise literally.

After Lilith was banished from Eden, she kept all the seeds And after taking over Pride she had planted all of them. The aftermath of all this was the Beauty of the Ring of Pride. "This is incredible! So this is what Eden looked like huh mom?" Dyre said, looking around the outside.

LIlith smiled "No, Eden was much smaller, and the gods wouldn't let us grow this much food."

Dyre turned to his mother, even though he didn't know much about Lilith's history.but that didn't really matter to him.She was his mother, his family her blood literally flowed through his veins.

"Okay so we'll first need heavenly peaches, mighty stone fruit, amber cherries, sun apples, and moon pears." Lilith stared at him "What are you making?"

"Drinks?" Lilith stared at her son, accepting that her garden and cold box would be raided and asked him to continue. 

…

After cleaning out the garden and cold box, he had everything he needed. Hero's Legacy was a very in depth game especially about how to get stronger. Cooking with special ingredients and the right recipes you could make level grinding for chumps.

After an hour of work it was all here eclipse punch, spit roasted sea serpent, titan stag steaks, roast roc, and kraken bisque. Dyre had to ask Lily to complete this feast.

After the table was set and food plated and then Dyre feasted. Lilith watched as her child gorged himself.

 [you have devoured the Land, Sea, and Air]

 [plus 50 to all stats and have gained the trait Apex Predator]

 [immunity to the fear debuff]

 [you have drank the sun and moon]

 [plus 25 to all stats]

"manners, son." Dyre stopped pigging out and looked at Lilith, he swallowed. "Sorry mom." he said as he wiped off his embarrassed face. 

Then a hollow voice came from behind Dyre. "Oh I wouldn't blame the boy." 

Dyre turned to the intruder. What came to his view was a gaunt man with black hair and dark circles around his eyes. Beelzebub, King of Gluttony. 

"So what brings you here, lord of the flies?" Lilith said, looking unbothered by the King of Gluttony.

Beelzebub put on a joyous face "Oh what always brings the hungry, a feast." he said looking at their table covered in food.

"Yeah, no." Dyre said after refilling his plate. Beelzebub face fell and then shook his head 

"Okay , what do you want?" Beelzebub understood that there was no such thing as free lunch. Dyre lifted his head "What do I want?" Dyre said, making a show of it.

Dyre had not been planning Beelzebub's arrival but he would not look a gift horse in the mouth .Beelzebub gave Dyre a furious look, Dyre signed

 "I want Midas' armor." Beelzebub and Lilith both turned to Dyre.

 "Okay, how did you know about that?" Midas Beelzebub's former demon general, whose hunger for gold could not be matched. After being disgraced and slaughtered while trying to steal from Mammon, all that was left of his legacy was that armor.

"Also you will still owe me one thing." Dyre said while devouring a roc leg. "Oh even now you still want more! You're already the son of Lilith, what more could I give you?!." Beelzebub tried bartering, but Dyre was unfazed. "Mom hows the bisque?" Lilith decided to join in on the fun with her child. "Splendid, son."

The King of Gluttony groaned, accepting that he was not going to get a fair deal, but that food smelled too good to pass up." Uh, fine you have a deal!" He said as he snapped his fingers and a set of golden armor appeared out of nowhere.

Dyre smiled "Mom are you done?" Dyre said as he was full and had gained all the rewards from the feast. "Yes, my child, I am done."

Hearing confirmation from his mother. "Okay, all yours buddy." Dyre said as he got up to the table. Then Beelzebub pounced on the table and started shoving the food down his throat, while laughing like a maniac. Lilith decided to move Dyre while he was looking at the armor.

…

The armor of midas, the strongest armor in this world. This set of full plate armor was made of pure gold and highly enchanted, making it stronger than armor made from holy metals like mythril and orichalcum, but it went unused for a reason. Its weight, even Dyre had to ask Lilith to move it for him. 

With a weight of five hundred pounds this armor went unused. But thankfully Dyre knew how to ease this problem. The library of Pride this mighty library resided in Dyre's home, in it held every book Lilith ever got her hands on. Thankfully his mother was quite a collector, Magic tomes, memoirs, royal archives from kingdoms long gone, and even cook books was held in this paradise of knowledge.

After combing the shelves he found the two books he was looking for. Calderian plate armor studies and the art of heavy armor and weapons. "Perfect!" he shouted and read the books one by one.

 [you have read Calderian plate armor studies! You have gained the trait Armor Mastery]

 [decreases strain of heavy plate armor by fifty percent]

 [you have read the art of heavy armor and weapons! Gained the trait Heavy Power]

 [your strength and vitality is increased by the weight of your weapons and armor]

Dyre smiled, he was already going to learn these two traits but now that he had the armor. This was just frosting on the cake. "Who would've thought you'd fall into my lap?" he said as he turned to his new armor. Dyre grabbed his spear and cut himself on the blade.

Putting his bloody hand on the armor, as his blood touched the chestplate it trembled . The armor clammered and clanked to life.