We had to wait about an hour for Issei to awaken. During those 10 minutes, my family had arrived after being told I had returned with a human.
I filled them in on why I brought Issei home which gave them a shock. Other than Ravel I had never shown interest in having anyone else join my peerage and nowhere in front of them lay a former human I turned Devil to serve me.
Right now I'm sitting on the floor with Ravel leaning on me while my parents stand to the side talking amongst themselves trying to guess what's so special about Issei since I asked Ddraig to hide for the time being.
Seeing Issei waking up my parents move in closer to where they're standing right behind us. Seeing how the amount of people has increased Issei looks surprised and then everything he just went through from me picking him up to the pain he just experienced hits him all at once making him scream.
Waiting for him to calm down which he does shortly after I begin to go further in-depth on what his life is going to be like from now on.
"Listen Issei I know you still have many unanswered questions but for now just listen. This girl sitting next to me is my little sister Ravel. And know this she is off-limits. Even if God himself came down and tried something towards her I would fight him to the death." I say while releasing an aura of a peak high-class Devil which is enough to immobilize Issei while he's covered in cold sweat.
Retracting my aura I continue with my info dump ignoring the smile my parents and sister are directing at me for my comment just now.
"Those two standing behind us are Ravel's and my parents so if they ask something of you make sure to listen. Te categories for power are Low, Mid, High, Ultimate, Super and Ex, these classes are further broken down into 10 levels ranging from 0-9 though we're the only ones who use it to better categorize ourselves. The difference between each class is 10x which is why further split the classes into 10 levels. Right now you're a Low-class Devil, the aura I showed you earlier was that of a High-class level 9 though my true strength is that of Super-class level 7. You following so far, I ask since he has a look of confusion.
"Yeah, I was just thinking about how weak I am." He answers with a dejected look on his face. I let out a smile hearing his answer since if he's able to acknowledge his own weakness's g=hes bound to work harder.
"Don't worry too much there aren't that many beings who qualify for Super-class and only 3 that I know of that are on the Ex-class while most are just Low and Mid-class." Hearing me Issei lets out a sigh of relief knowing there aren't as many but my family looks shocked at knowing there are three being stronger than the biblical god.
"Son, who are the ones that are at Super-class. I know of Ophis and Great Red but who's the third one." My father asks with concern.
"It's 666 the beast of calamity. I also believe that it's even stronger than the dragon gods." I say which results in a concerned look form my father and mother while Ravels trying to wrap her head around what she just heard. I look towards Issei who looks completely lost.
"Issei you're aware of the biblical god right. Well, he was only at Super-class level 9 while the two dragon gods Ophis and Great red along with 666 are EX-class. The other major gods like Odin and Zeus are typically at the peak of Super-class while the other gods would be in the lower levels of Super-class. the only reason the Biblical god was seen as stronger was because of the large number of worshipers he had which strengthened his skills. Anyway, let's get back on track. We are the Phenex clan which is one of the 72 major families in the underworld. We have the bloodline of a phoenix giving us high regeneration which is like a low level of immortality since we can recuperate from nearly any wound. We also have a high affinity for fire. then our tears act as great medicine that can heal those who consume them."
Giving him a few minutes I continue.
"anyway do you want to know why I chose to get you into my peerage." Asking him this he looks at me and says yes while my family perks up at this since they can't sense anything special from him.
"Why don't you come out Ddraig." Hearing me my parents go wide-eyed while my sister and Issei look confused but this turns to surprise after a few seconds.
"Hello, there partner," Ddraig says revealing himself causing Ravel's eyes to widen while Issei jumps in surprise.
"This is Ddraig, the soul stuck inside the booster gear and one of the two heavenly dragons." I introduce him to the others.
My parents look shocked since the booster gear is a Longinus class sacred gear. They wondered how I was able to sense it when they couldn't.
"Issei, Ddraig is your partner. His strength is your strength while yours is his, your two have to work together to get stronger from now on. At the moment your only a Low-class level 2 Issei. You will be staying here training until you reach Mid-class level 5 minimum, I'll do something about school and your parents. I'll make them believe you're on a foreign exchange program and if that doesn't work ill just hypnotize them so they don't have a problem with it."
"Ddraigs ability allows you to double an aspect about your self every 10 seconds as long as your body can take the strain of it. Take your strength, for example, let's say you can lift 100Kg and no more than after using the boosted gear on your strength you'd be able to lift 200Kg. But like I stated before it all depends on how much your body can take so unlike us who focus more on magic while mostly ignoring our body you'll be the opposite and focus on your body while ignoring your magic."
"anyway for the rest of today and tomorrow, you can use to relax and get accustomed to being here since after that you'll be put through hell. I'll be using this time to settle things with your family and your school. I'll also be telling your friends that you had to leave quickly and that you'll call them whenever you can or you can call them today or tomorrow."
I say while telling him to follow me. Ravel immediately gets up and walks alongside me back to the house while my parents stayed behind talking among themselves.
I lead Issei to the second floor to a vacant room. I order a maid to make a nameplate for his room so others know its someone's room.
Once inside I tell him that someone will call for him when its dinner time and leave him to his own devices.
"Hey Ddraig what can you tell me about your self," Issei asked now that he's alone and with no more bombshells of information hitting him.
"Nothing much partner, I'm one of the two heavenly dragons who got sealed away into a sacred gear after upsetting the biblical god. The other one is Albion who opposite to me can divide any and everything in two while I can double everything."
"Also know this partner, for many generations the wielders of mine and Albion's sacred gears have been destined to fight with each other. Never has there once been a time when our hosts don't meet and fight. So you better go beyond so your as ready as possible because as much as I hate to admit it none of my hosts have ever won."
Hearing him Issei begins to worry. Despite having changed he is still the same deep down.
"Don't worry partner. Your king is almost as strong as Albion and I used to be when we were free. I believe that if he's the one training you then this may be the generation where the Red Dragon Emperor comes out on top." Ddraig says after feeling the lack of confidence his partner had.
Back over to me, I'm currently planning how to train Issei. Though I also have to get Ravel some actual battle experience.
That's when I realized I can train the two of them and my fire at the same time. Ill have Ravel and Issei fight while I maintain my golden flames burning some meters away from me. When Issei can't take any more Ravel will just have to dump Issei into my golden flames and a few minutes later they'll be able to continue fighting.
2 days went by quickly and were now outback in the training ground ready to begin training once more.
"Listen up you two. Ravel needs battle experience while Issei needs to strengthen his body so here's what we're going to do. The two of you are going to fight and when you finish beating the crap out of Issei Ravel go dump him into the circle of golden flames. That'll heal him in a few minutes after which you are to continue fighting over and over again. The only times you will have breaks will be for lunch, dinner and 15 minutes after each of those. Begin."
Without waiting for Issei to get ready Ravel launches a fireball hitting him square in the chest. This puts him out of it already so as instructed she picks him up and hurls him into my flames. Then a few minutes later he wakes up good as new and they begin once more.
While they're training I go a few meters away on the opposite side of my flames as them and begin training in my darkness element. This element focuses more on stalling and restraining. I also realized that darkness has a relation to gravity as whenever I form an area f darkness small debris nearby starts going towards it and when I will it not to attract a specific piece that piece doesn't get attracted.
This gives me an idea of making a black hole from which nothing can escape from including light. Another thing I've discovered so far is that I can cover an area in darkness which restricts their sight and dims the other senses but not my own.
The only problem is that I can only make an area of 3 meters wide so with this training I hope I can expand it to a degree that it will be useful in battle and hopefully closer to being able to make artificial black holes.
Giving them one last glance I see that Issei's body is slowly getting stringer though he still can only last about 15 seconds against Ravel before he needs to be healed.
Sighing one more time I look away hoping his rate of improvement increases after he can actually do something against Ravel since right now it's a one-way massacre.
As I was about to begin training my parents walk in and head towards me.
"Son you know how you're engaged to Rias right." He asks while trying to not look away. And upon seeing my disgust towards that name it gets harder for him to look my way.
"Yes I know I'm engaged to that b****, for now, that is." Hearing how I addressed her he lets out a sigh though he perks up when I said for now.
"Before you ask yes I plan on breaking off the engagement. Though not before I get something out of it considering all the bullshit she and her family have been spreading about me for years. Can you believe the whole underworld see me as a womanizer that only thinks with his dick? Like for fuck's sake, I'm still a virgin, I haven't even had my first kiss and I'm seen as a male whore by the whole underworld." I yell towards him.
"What do you plan on getting out of this." My mother asks while feeling bad about how the engagement they made fore me made my reputation so horrible.
"That's a secret, for now, mother but don't worry I know that she's going to challenge me to a rating game so she can break off the engagement that's how ill get what I want."
Hearing my response they both sigh while apologizing for having made the engagement without my consent before wishing me luck on my training and going off to look at how Ravel is training for a few minutes before they leave.
Finally, without any further interruptions, I begin training.