Kapitel 242: Training

After an interesting and fruitful conversation with Shizuku, Alex immediately headed back to Asora with those who'd be accompanying him, Liliana, Meld, Hajime, Kaori, and Shizuku. Upon arrival he headed straight towards the training area with the rest of his entourage in tow, everyone looking around in awe as none of them had been to Asora before. Hajime was looking around curiously as he'd only been there briefly in the past, but when he saw a kid running around with a figurine of a white haired man in a trench coat he tried to make himself look as inconspicuous as possible. Alex then said to amazed Meld and Liliana,

"I don't mind if you two explore and interact with people over the next couple of days, but don't cause problems and remember you aren't in the Heiligh kingdom anymore." Liliana nodded absentmindedly as she tried taking in everything around, meanwhile Meld instead asked hesitantly,

"Actually I was wondering if I could also partake in this training. I'd like to see for myself how much of a difference there is and improve myself as well if possible." This caught Alex off guard since he assumed that Meld would want to stay wth Liliana to protect her in this strange place. As if he could read his thoughts Meld explained,

"If any of you wanted to do anything to either of us, I doubt I would be able to stop you after what I witnessed when you saved us in Orcus. I'd rather focus on becoming a stronger knight than worry about pointless things." Liliana also nodded in agreement beside him as she also wanted her kingdoms knight commander to get stronger. Alex shrugged before using magic to call someone and asking them to meet them at the training center. The rest of the walk was uneventful except for Liliana and Meld pointing new things out to each other, before they finally entered the training center and met with Seekvaira, who was standing in front of an entire crowd of people. She glanced at each of them before turning towards Alex and saying,

"Everyone else has already began their training sessions and I can start the rest of yours when you're ready." Alex nodded and indicated for one of those gathered to step forward, Ravel.

"Kaori you're with us since you need to be accustomed to both using your Devils magic, and working with the rest of my peerage members. I'll also take this chance to properly introduce you to everyone and our training regimen." When she heard Ravel's words Kaori tried to cling to Hajime and said,

"Hajime's coming right? I want to stay with him!" Ravel shook her head and stated,

"His presence would just distract you so he's not coming, and besides I'm sure that Hajime would need to focus on his own training by himself." As she finished speaking one of Ravel's rooks, Isabella, stepped forward and gently grabbed Kaori before peeling her off of Hajime and dragging her behind her.

"NOOOOOOO! HAJIME SAVE ME!!!!!" Kaori cried out, while Hajime simply mercilessly waved goodbye as she was taken away, silently grateful that he'd get some quiet time to work on his new projects. Seekvaira then said to him,

"We've prepared your own training room as well, it already contains numerous materials for you to work with for your inventions." Alex couldn't help but notice an expectant look in Seekvaira's eyes as she led Hajime to his training room, making him recall her love of mechas and his promise to show her some from other worlds. While thinking the two might actually get along unexpectedly well, Alex did the next introductions while they waited for Seekvaira to return. At his gesture four girls stepped forward and he introduced them to Shizuku,

"This is Shizuku, she specializes in using swords so I want you to spar with and teach her while you're together. Shizuku these two are Irina and Xenovia, who were trained to be exorcists by the church before Irina became a reincarnated angel, and Xenovia became one of Rias's Knights. The other two are called Tomoe and Bennia, they are the Knights of a woman call Sona Sitri, who's head of academics in Asora." Shizuku bowed slightly and greeted them while the other four similarly greeted her, before dragging her off to their own training room when Seekvaira was done setting up Ravel's and Hajime's. As she left the determination in Shizuku's eyes hadn't faded in the slightest since she called out to Alex previously, driving her to master her new powers as much as possible during these two months. That left just Alex, Meld, and Liliana when the next and last person that was waiting stepped forward while offering her hand.

"It's a pleasure to meet the both of you, I am Ingvild leviathan. I'm supposed to show you around for the next couple of days while you're staying in Asora." Liliana similarly stepped forward and shook the offered hand while replying,

"Liliana, princess of the Heiligh kingdom. Thank you for taking the time out of your schedule to accompany me." Ingvild shook her head and said,

"Don't worry about it, I'm just in charge of musical entertainment in Asora so all I do really is practice singing and perform the occasional concert." Liliana tilted her head curiously and asked as she walked away with Ingvild,

"What's a concert?" Alex fought the urge to smile at the interaction, as he requested Ingvild to accompany Liliana intentionally. As the two walked away it was just Alex and meld left until another person arrived and approached them.

"Hey Kiba, sorry to ask you to do this on such short notice." The handsome man shook his head and replied,

"It's alright, I'm actually somewhat excited to spend some time with a genuine knight, is a pleasure to meet you sir." After introductions the two were also on their way to their training room leaving Alex alone until Seekvaira was ready for him. As he waited Alex suddenly thought of something and called out,

"Nyx!" Causing the goddess of night and darkness to suddenly appear before him. She glared at him in annoyance and demanded,

"What do you want?" Alex arched an eyebrow and replied,

"I'm about to enter a training room for two months. I need someone to cook and clean while I train, and to screw when I'm not." The last part was just a joke due to her attitude when he summoned her. Nyx's face became increasingly pale though, as she was scared he might actually use her body if they were alone for two months in a locked room. This was a baseless worry though since if Alex wanted her that badly, he could have already ordered her to service him regardless of her own feelings. Enjoying the discomfort he inflicted on her Alex dragged her wth him when it was time for them to enter the training room. Before closing the door however Alex stopped Seekvaira and summoned a small folder of designs he'd worked on.

"What are these?" She asked curiously, before she looked at the first design and her eyes widened as Alex explained,

"A new idea for a training room. I would like you toy with making these when you don't have anything better to do, however it would require combining several Age of Gods magics to accomplish such as Creation and a recently acquired Space magic. I would also recommend trying for the Regeneration magic since it compliments your time manipulation abilities." Leaving the dumbfounded Seekvaira as she looked over the rest of the designs, Alex finally closed the door to his training room before she regained herself and activated the time formation. Now that they were locked in together Alex was thinking about how to go about his new training regimen while Nyx was growing paler by the second, as she was now almost literally locked into the wolves den with the wolf, and even though he may not be hungry now he'd be starving soon enough. She then nearly leapt out of her skin when Alex started walking forward and said,

"First things first, we need to establish boundaries." Nyx was think/hoping he was referring to boundaries between the two of them, but instead he stopped at the space between the living area that had things such as kitchen, bathroom, a bed, and the training area that had various pieces of training equipment, and started setting several barriers up. This confused Nyx until he finished and said,

"You need to stay on the other side and never cross the line unless I say otherwise." As he said it as an order Nyx's body moved automatically until she was on the other side of the barrier and facing him. She then snapped back as a small form of retaliation from how stressed she'd been the last few minutes,

"What are scared your stuff will get cooties or something if cross the line?" Alex frowned at her remark as this was set up for her own safety more than anything. He then said,

"Come back over here." As it was also an order Nyx's body moved before she was on the same side of the barrier as Alex once more, before he continued,

"This barrier is made to block the effects of my magic since you are not accustomed to how I train, and since you want to have an attitude then I'll show what I'm trying to protect you from. This is an order, when it become too much for you then go back to the other side of the barrier." Though a small part of Nyx felt a bit bad for trying to antagonize Alex when he was looking out for her, another part felt indignant since she believed she could take whatever a mortal could. She was soon proven wrong when it felt as if each part of body suddenly felt like doubled in weight, which Alex confirmed when he said,

"This is currently twice the amount of gravity that you are used to, which to me doesn't even mean a thing." As Nyx forced herself to look at him she was dumbfounded to see that he was right, and it seemed as if he completely unaffected by the increase in Gravity. Spite rose in her as she then spat out,

"S-so what? If you didn't catch me off guard then I wouldn't have been effected by something so minor as well!" Alex had a small smile at her outburst, which irritated Nyx since it seemed to contain more pity than anything else, before the pressure on her increased even more.

"Guh!" As she let out a grunt at sudden increase Alex continued,

"This is now three times the usual gravity, if you want to play strong then let's see how far you can go." A sense of foreboding came over Nyx as the pressure increased even more, before increasing once again. Alex continued increasing the amount of gravity on them slowly until he reached ten times the usual amount of gravity, and Nyx's body moved automatically to the other side of the barrier due to his previous orders. This was the reason he gave her such an order as it would keep her from trying to push herself too far just for her own ego. Though it took a minute due to how heavy she felt, when Nyx crossed the barrier she collapsed as it felt as if a massive burden was taken off of her body, which it was. As soon as he watched her cross the barrier Alex stopped fooling around and changed into his training gear, a pair of shorts with an couple metal bracelets and anklets like what he gave Shizuku previously. He then said to Ddraig and Lauren,

'Keep track of my body's condition while I train, I'm going to do a twelve hour stretch and I want to know if incorporating Regeneration magic will help.'

'Of course.'

'Will do partner.'

With that said, Alex started increasing the gravity around him at a much faster pace than before, to the point that he could no longer keep track of just how many times the normal gravity he was under. He finally stopped when the gravity was suppressing his body much more than normal, while the weighted anklets and bracelets also added to the strain to his body. He was purposely increasing the difficulty of his workout as he wanted to push his body even further and hopefully, reach ssj2 during this training. His hope to accomplish this was that by using Regeneration magic to repair and restore his muscles as quickly as possible he'd be able to not only be able to push his training further, but he'd also be able to increase the rate in which his strength increases by several margins.(A.N. Think of 'The Wrong way to use Healing Magic')

As he started his training in earnest Nyx looked back towards Alex after she had managed to catch her breath. She was dumbfounded to see him in nothing but a pair of shorts as he was completing his stretches, his muscles seeming to strain with each movement. As he didn't even flinch when she couldn't even take ten times the usual amount of gravity, Nyx couldn't tell just how much pressure he was under to strain him so much. She continued watching him train dumbfoundedly, and didn't realize how fascinated she was until several hours had already passed and realization dawned that she needed to start working on the chores and making the living area more livable.