9 Dinner With Gains

The dinner table was silent as Azaroth chewed on his food, there were only 3 people at the table with their respective attendants standing beside them.

Venelana sat at the head of the table with the head maid next to her, Rias sat at the table too with her attendant and Azaroth was at the table with Grayfia, the attendants were standing and Venelana had something important to discuss with every one of them at the table.

"Here Azaroth," Grayfia whispered as she gave Azaroth a cup of water which he gratefully took.

Azaroth's words were still fresh in her mind, and she wondered whether Azaroth would grow strong enough to fulfill his promise- Grow stronger than her, if he could defeat her at full power then he could marry her.

If she was truly such a gem in Azaroth's eyes, if he was really determined on having her as his wife, then he would train very hard to surpass her. Maybe if she was really satisfied with his improvement, then she would hold back during their battle and let him beat her.

Azaroth drank down the water.

"Azaroth, How would you like to be granted a personal training room?"

The offer surprised both Azaroth and Grayfia, they usually practiced in the backyard and surely it drew a spectacle, the other maids and servants also came to watch so a chance to do it privately was not something that could be passed up.

Azaroth was fully aware that the original Azaroth would have not received something like this, not in a million years. He didn't work on growing stronger but rather lazing around.

Azaroth wanted to be close to the family, but Rias's behavior left something to be desired. But this... suggestion that his mother just gave left him suspicious.

'Maybe she saw Grayfia and I sparring,' Azaroth thought as he looked at her smile warily, The family resources were some of the things he needed to get stronger currently and since he wanted to boost the relationship he had with his mother as well- Azaroth did the reasonable thing.

"Alright Mom," Azaroth said, eliciting a shocked expression from Venelana but it changed to a happy one.

"Okay son, If you need anything more, don't hesitate to tell me," Venelana said.

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Azaroth sat on his bed, his lights were turned off yet his azure blue eyes kept shining in the darkness as he focused, no matter how much he tried removing the Destruction element from POD- it wasn't possible, he could only partially do it.

'I could use Demonic magic,' Azaroth thought of the alternative.

Utilizing Demonic magic to emulate the Limitless Technique of the Gojo clan was not entirely impossible but it would take a lot of refinement and honing to achieve it, Azaroth was currently 8 years old and he wanted to be able to beat Grayfia before he was 15 which might have looked like a lot in his past but right now, It might be too little.

That was just how hard Magic refinement was, if he combined how much time it would take to refine his Demonic magic to be able to copy the Limitless technique and how much time he would spend on mastering other spells as well as his POD- He could only hope he was strong enough to face off against Grayfia.

But the time he spent attempting to manipulate the Power Of Destruction wasn't for naught, although he could not use it as Infinity, He could use it for an alternative kind of spell- Portals.

Yes after experimenting, creating a gateway with the energy gotten after partial 'Destruction' has been removed from POD is very possible. What Azaroth had to worry about was how to establish the gateways.

'There are a lot of things that I plan on doing to beat Grayfia,' Azaroth thought, the matter of defeating Grayfia to win her hand in marriage was still fresh on his mind but it was not only about Grayfia, it was about becoming really strong in this world- He would only be able to do that by training himself from a young age so by the time the canon started, he would have a strong peerage and become one of the most powerful beings in the world of High School DxD!

'And I also have to get the Boosted Gear,' Azaroth thought.

Although he didn't want to make Rias's future peerage weaker than it already was, he wanted the Boosted Gear from Issei Hyoudou. He was the MC of the canon and Azaroth admitted, for Reincarnators or Transmigrators like him, meeting the MC of the franchise would make one feel amazed but to meet Issei Hyoudou, Azaroth had to admit, it would be stupid.

He was a Pervert, not just any ordinary pervert but one of great stature... He didn't deserve to have the Boosted Gear and Azaroth would make sure to take it from him, better to do it when he was Young than when the Boosted gear fully manifested itself in the body of Issei- he wanted to save the Red dragon a lot of problems in the future.

With thoughts of building his peerage in mind, Azaroth quickly bought up a dungeon key with the gold he had gotten after clearing the D-grade Demonic Dungeon and fell asleep.

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Azaroth's training was going nicely, another month had passed and Azaroth had started making headway into the refinement of demonic magic. As expected, it was more easier to gather pure Demonic magic than trying to tune out Destruction from POD.

His spars with Grayfia had gotten a lot intense too, if she was using a whole 7% of her physical power then she might at be 13% because it was very hard for him to read her moves at first- she was slowly increasing her power depending on how much he could manage.

But the best part of this was that Rias had actually dropped her haughty attitude, She had started talking with him a little and Azaroth enjoyed her company.

'It has been a month since I entered the dungeon,' Azaroth thought as he just finished his Martial arts training with Grayfia and cleaned his face with a towel, muscles were already being endowed on his little body.

'I tried to avoid entering the dungeon since the difficulty comes at random,' Azaroth thought, He just couldn't spam dungeon gates like Sung Jin-Woo, although that would help him build his power more quickly, he had to remember that he was thrown into these dungeons at random... What if he got thrown into an S-grade dungeon? What would he do then?

Die?

Azaroth valued life too much to lose it fighting against monsters he couldn't win against, which was why he took his training with Grayfia very seriously and powered up but there was nothing that could take away the sweet feeling of leveling up, He needed to enter a dungeon.

"Thank you Grayfia," Azaroth said while bidding her goodbye, Grayfia watched Azaroth leave and couldn't help but purse her lips in annoyance, she was annoyed about something.

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Azaroth was in the confines of his room, and he tapped on the Dungeon Key... quickly a blinding flash of light covered the entire room as crimson aura began to burst into bloom, right atop his bed.

Slowly but surely, a red gate appeared right above Azaroth's bed and he approached it, getting sucked inside by the relentless force of the Dungeon gate.

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Author's Note:

I took the ideas from some readers and decided to use Demonic Magic instead of trying to remove Destruction from POD, as for where I got inspiration to try and implement that in my book, I saw it in a DxD fic I read a little over a year ago where Rias was able to remove the destruction element from POD and use it to create another dimension or shit like that.

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