FATE of DxD

Jun's status showed a telling truth. While his skill in the various types of magecraft he had learned and martial arts had improved, his Parameters had stagnated.

Truth be told, there was improvement, just not significant enough to show in his status. The rate of integration for the Draconic Essence was also much slower than Jun had expected and did not show any significant process in the last two years.

That was the main reason that led him to start researching and learning Time Manipulation magecraft. His goal was to speed up the time that his body experienced in order to fast track the integration.

However, as it was a fairly recent idea, Jun's progress in said magecraft was correspondingly low but he would get there.

As for his other exploits in magecraft, Jun's grasp of Rune Magecraft had improved significantly, his mastery of the haphazardly learned Imaginary Numbers Magecraft had reached a basic level and he had also grasped the basics of Numerology to the point it became quite useful already.

This manifested in the current absolute control Jun had over his Magic Bullet spell, resulting in an A+ rank that demonstrated Jun's transcendent mastery of the skill where A rank represented. standard mastery.

Reinforcement had been trained to A rank as well for full mastery as had Magic Burst that, with a few changes, now worked as a more efficient version of Mana Burst that required training in magecraft to use rather than just great amounts of magical energy.

Still, despite its greater efficiency, due to Jun's relatively low Mana parameter, he would burn himself out extremely quickly if he tried keeping it going on full blast.

As such, he normally limited its output and used the skill in shorts bursts like the name implied rather than how Artoria user her Man Burst for full body reinforcement during battle.

Lastly for the matter of magecraft, Jun's mental magecraft had leaped forward with each of his spells being raised by a rank. And, due to all of them working in concert to one another, the end result improved a great deal more that just the addition of the progress of each spell.

As for the area of martial arts, things had similarly improved but not quite in the direction Jun had intended.

Rather than developing his own unique style like he had intended, Jun gained a broad understanding of the principles of martial arts in general instead.

He wasn't unhappy thought since this just meant his journey to create his own martial arts school would have one more step and a step that would make its foundation far more solid.

Last but not least, his Magic Resistance improved once more, now reaching the A rank and ensuring that nearly all magecraft would be useless against him, making Jun not only and invincible opponent to modern magi but also to most Caster class servants as well.

Even though they could still protect themselves from his meager attack power or take care of him using golems and other constructs that specialize in physical combat.

Other than the magecraft he had actually learned, Jun was also looking towards a few other things for the future as well.

Chief among these were Reality Marbles, the highest level of Bounded Fields and magecraft with enormous potential that Jun was eager to tap. Unfortunately, for those that did not possess it innately, it was quite a hard thing to obtain.

Still, it did not stop Jun from researching deeply into the topic as, once the integrations of the Dragon Factor into his body and Soul progressed, he would develop the ability to make one of his one, that he was sure of.

Musing about his abilities and his future, Jun looked himself in the mirror.

A young man, quite tall for his age at 5'10 and having a muscular build but a streamlined ideal one, owing to his martial arts practice and his Breathing Technique that helped regulate his body for optimal growth and improvement.

Hair could be quite a powerful catalyst or ingredient for Magecraft and, since he was parts dragon, this went doubly so for Jun. As such, he had never cut his hair, not that normal scissors could do the job either due to its natural toughness.

This resulted in lush and shining straight black hair that reached his knees and Jun usually kept it in a thick braid so that it would not get in his way but he was seriously considering learning some hair manipulating magecraft to deal with the problem.

Jun's biggest complaint however, was his face. Piercing black eyes that shined with unusual strength and showed an unflinching will, along with sword like, thin eyebrows and sharp features with just enough softness to create a spectacle of beauty that would charm men and women alike.

Yet, Jun himself could only scowl at such a face.

'Give me back my ruggedly handsome looks of my previous life!' He shouted in his mind.

'Why the hell would I want to charm men with his pretty face!?' He asked nobody in rage.

Eventually, he just looked away from the offensive mirror, praying like never before that he would not be such a pretty boy after he grew up, and become a handsome man with similarly masculine features instead.

'I have nothing against androgynous looking people. I just don't want to be one!' Jun piously said in his head.

Shaking his head at his own foolishness and appreciating the fact he had gotten a new chance at a much more fulfilling life, Jun went back to his meditation while thinking on the best way to proceed for the improvement of his abilities.

Part of this, was making a decision of when he would pay a visit to the Nasuverse and where and when in the timeline he would do so, which timelines would he visit, and in what order, etc.

Meanwhile, his other mental "rooms" were hard at work researching various topics in the Akashic Records and dutifully archiving said research in his mind.

In such a way, Jun spent the whole night, sleepin now being little more than a luxury since an hour or two per week was more than enough to keep him going at full strength.

As morning came however, Jun's endeavour was interrupted by a loud knock which he could only assume was the other tenet of the building.

Getting up from his bed, Jun answered the door.

"Good mor-" He attempted to greet before being interrupted by his enthusiastic visitor.

"Good Morning new friend!" Valia greeted.

"I am Valia Lucifer! Descendent of the original Devil King Lucifer and holder of the sacred gear Divine Dividing as the current White Dragon Emperor!" She proudly introduced herself but Jun could notice some nervousness hidden in her voice..

She was a beautiful maiden with silver hair and eyes with a good figure, her but standing out more than her breasts which despite being quite nice, were not big when considering this world's standards. Valia was quite tall as well, only slightly shorter than the tall Jun.

"Morning. I'm Haikami Jun, a humble magus."  Jun introduced himself, holding out a hand for a shake.

Seeing this, Valia showed a brilliant smile and shook his hand.

"Nice to meet you." Jun said.

"Yeah! Nice to meet you too!" She replied.

Then, a little silence settled in and Valia became jitterish as if she did not know what to do.

'She's quite cute. Guess she was not as confident when she was young huh? She is probably lacking in friend too, hence the enthusiasm.' Jun evaluated in his mind and decided to move the conversation forward to help her out.

"Did you come to show me to Nephilim like Azazel mentioned?" He asked.

Suddenly remembering her original purpose, Valia noodle with strength and replied.

"Yes! Follow me!" She said as if declaring to leave thing to her dependable self.

Jun internally chuckled before replying.

"Lead the way." Which seemed to satisfy the girl quite a bit.

Valia then led Jun through a noticeably scripted tour as she seemed to very carefully go through her plan in her mind, showing him every important place.

All the while, she seemed like she wanted to ask him something, this feeling was especially strong when she showed him the Battle Rooms where students could spar.

After the tour was over, Valia stopped and turned around to face Jun.

"So . . . How did you like the tour?" She asked with expectation and hidden nervousness, like a child wanting to be praised for a good job.

"Thanks, it was great." Jun replied, much to her satisfaction.

"It was planned be me after all. Of course it was great!" Valia smugly said as if her previous nervousness was a lie.

"Tell me Valia." Jun started.

"What is it?" Valia responded enthusiastically.

"Any questions?" She inquired.

"I was wondering if you would assist me in testing out the Battle Rooms?" Jun requested.

Valia's eyes shined like stars.

"You want want to fight me!?" She asked with shock, surprise and joy all bundled together.

"Yeah. Nothing like a good spar to get to know each other better right?" Jun said.

Nodding repeatedly in support, Valia responded.

"Let's go!"

And so, the pair set off to the Battle Rooms . . .

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