17 Drinking Dragon Blood.

(I edited the last portion of the previous chapter. It is time for him to drink the dragon blood.)

Vander removed his shirt as he did not want to risk his Jurrasic Park shirt. He sat down on the floor as he opened the vial and instantly poured all the Dragon Blood into his mouth. He handed the vial to Ripper who grabbed it and started to try to lick anything that remained behind.

"Sorry, Ripper. Nothing left now."

Just as he finished speaking he felt burning heat spread through his entire body. It was not painful just like when he accepted the Queen Piece, his body took over to improve everything. The Dragon Blood was devoured by his Demonied High Human cells which began to replicate and spread the new blood through his body.

His Demonic Mana and his Infernity began to react with the Dragon aura that began to fill his body. He was still only using Demonic Mana before he got his new gauntlets and Halberd, but once they were finished he knew more about his Infernity.

'If Infernity is the Devil version of Divinity, then that means that will be my key to Devil hood. Too bad my knowledge on that is so abysmal I won't even be able to beat even the weakest Devil possessing it. However, this is the key. Dragon aura.'

Vander rose to his feet as his wings and tail emerged from his body, but that was not all. Pitch Black scales began to erupt over his back, shoulders, and both of his arms. His bright green eyes darkened several shades as his pupil turned Dragon-like. Two large horns emerged from his temples while his wings grew in size looking even more dragon-like than before.

As for Vander himself, he was already 6'6, but his bones and his flesh began to break and tear growing larger and stronger. Even still he did not feel a bit of pain as his body was not feeling danger from this, it desired it.

In his body, his Demonized High Human blood fully merged with the new dragon one becoming much stronger than before. His height increased once again and now he was standing 6'8 which was an increase of 2 inches.

He felt his Infernity, Demonic Mana and his Dragon aura work together in his body causing him to open his eyes. Each of his tamed familiars began to absorb his energy in droves to grow stronger.

Ripper even managed to drink one small drop of blood from the vial which would help him the most. Vander looked at his new form in the mirror and he had only one thing to say.

"Badass."

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He looked so awesome that he did not know how to take it. He summoned his Duskborne Gauntlets that appeared over his scaled and clawed arms without trouble. They allowed his claws to be unexposed so he could still use them if needed.

He extended this hand and summoned Dawnbreaker. He used some Dragon Aura to see what happened and it worked better than expected as it did not clash with the Infernity in his weapons. As they were soul-bonded weapons, they adapted when he adapted.

"This is amazing I do have to say so."

Vander focused on his body and began to hide his new features until he looked human once again. His eyes stayed in their new dark shade and in a vertical pupil and his height as well. Being taller was not a bad thing so he was just glad to be even taller than before.

He reached for his shirt and noticed that it began to grow to match his new size.

"Nice."

He put it on and decided to try something. He focused on his shirt and saw it quickly become a JP3 shirt with the spinosaurus on it. Seeing how his favorite shirt could be changed was a great find. He did not have to buy clothes anymore.

"Come on Ripper. Let's give them some training."

Ripper was excited to see what he could get away with as he also wanted to put his new power to the test. His body looked larger, and his scales looked darker. As for his claws and teeth, they also looked sharper and he was itching to put them to use.

Both Vander and Ripper began to walk through the halls of the mansion to get outside. They were feeling better than ever, but he did not think he had suddenly grown stronger than everyone around him.

The strength increase he could get by just evolving was great, but it was not all-powerful. He still had to put the effort to learn about his power through his own experience. He did wonder what Persephone and Hades thought about his recent power boosts though.

Whatever it was he hoped they were impressed and just maybe Hades might just give him his divine protection. He did not know how much Hades wanted to do just that, but he already gave his word. If his brothers found out he broke his word they would use it as blackmail.

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When Vander reached the training field, Rias, Sona, and their servants were already going through the motions. La Folia was making them run laps with heavy weights while Leonidus chased after them. She was even standing on his head as they ran for their lives.

When Leonidus smelled Ripper he stopped chasing and glared at the Raptor. He growled at Ripper as he had a score to settle with him. As for Ripper, he locked eyes with Leonidus as if he was daring him to attack.

"Ripper, relax."

"Leonidus, stop at once."

Both of them were not very happy, but they still stopped. La Folia jumped from his head and landed on the ground in front of Vander. She looked up at him and stood on her tip toes and extended her hand to his head.

"You got taller and your eyes look different. Did you drink that dragon blood?"

Vander nodded.

"Yup, what you see before you is perfection."

He flexed his muscles which were visible through his shirt.

"Show that to Naerdeath. As she is part Dwarf muscles are all the rage for her people. You might want to grow a beard though."

Vander touched his chin as he liked the idea.

"Sure, I will try."

La Folia smiled when she imagined him with a beard.

"If it is as black as your hair I can say it will look quite nice. I am just glad your face is no longer pale like a bled corpse."

Vander rolled his eyes at her word choice.

"One does tend to look like that when they bleed for days straight. It was worth it in the end and drinking that blood was even more worth it. It went great with my mutated genes making me even stronger."

"I will say. I bet the Great King Faction will take you even more seriously when they realize just how special you are."

"Let's just hope that they are not dumb fools who try something. Greed will blind anyone, especially with the treasures I got. The biggest being me."

She laughed at that.

"You speak the truth. Now, Mr treasure. Care to help me train these fools? You missed three days of training."

"Sure, Ripper you go."

Ripper and Leonidus glared at each other as they were going to compete over who can train them better. As they both talked to each other Rias looked extremely annoyed as he promised to help her train.

He was not taking it seriously despite the fact her future was on the line. Seeing him miss three days of training made her feel like he did not care what happened to her. She called out to him while he and La Folia were ignoring her.

"Where were you? You promised to help me train."

Her tone was annoyed and angry which made Vander frown.

"Getting something made. I told you that before, but even then I don't answer to you. Not even Grayfia orders me around so what right do you think you have."

"Vander. My future is on the line and you are not taking this seriously at all. You missed three days of the week we had and I have barely improved because you vanished for three days."

La Folia was looking at her like she just did something dumb as she could feel that with every word she said Vader was getting more sick of it.

'She is fucked.'

Vander began to walk toward her while his Infernity and his new Dragon Aura began to surge from his body in waves. A heavy pressure began to assault Rias making her feel like she was standing in front of a Demon King.

Every step he took forward caused the ground to crack under the pressure. Kiba, Koenko, and Akeno were frozen in their tracks even though they wanted to keep Vander away from Rias. Sona's and Tsubaki's glasses cracked as Vander stood in front of Rias who was frozen in terror.

She was shaking in her tracks, as she locked eyes with Vander. She was used to him being so relaxed that she doubted if this was the same Vander she knew. La Folia shook her head at how dumb her aunt could be. Vander decided to put the spoiled princess in her place right now. Otherwise, he would have to deal with her for the rest of his school life.

"Well, that is too bad for you. Let me remind you something, your political marriage does not hurt me. If anything I will benefit from it so I could give a rat's ass if you get hitched to Riser. I don't care if you want it or not, I was nice enough to even bother helping you. Now you act like you are entitled to my time and effort? I am not going to take that shit from anyone. Do I make myself clear?"

Rias felt the pressure reduce enough for her to nod. Once she did that all the pressure vanished as if it was not there. The moment it went away, Koneko, Kiba, and Akeno got between Vander and Rias who fell to her knees.

Kiba was glaring at Vander with anger and rage.

"How dare you, Vander?"

Akeno also was angry at Vander and scared too.

"Is that how you treat your friends?"

Vander scoffed as he walked toward Ripper.

"Let's get one thing straight Akeno. You are not my friend. If not for having to go to that school, I would avoid you 4 like the plague. However, we can't get what we want so no more complaining. Training will start in exactly 5 minutes. Ripper and Leonidus will play with you all while I go do something else. Do anything you want, but don't kill them."

Ripper's toe claws lacked on the ground as Vander left them there. La Folia waved goodbye to them and left with Vander. However, she told the same to Leonidus.

"Don't kill them and don't fight with Ripper."

Both Ripper and Leonidus looked at each other and decided to take out their annoyances on their new prey. Once they gave those orders both of them walked away. La Folia was just curious about one thing.

"What was that about Vander? You don't normally lose your cool like that."

Vander shook his head as he walked toward the magic library. He was allowed access there at all times as Grayfia told him.

"I didn't. I was just giving her a hard life lesson she needed to learn in time. I don't like her one bit, but why should I have any anger or hatred toward someone weaker than myself. I just found her annoying like a spoiled brat."

"Is that from an anime?"

Her question made him laugh as it was.

"Not really, I made it up. Right now I am going to Gremory Library. I need to pick up some new magic spells."

"I will take you there. It has plenty of wards to protect some of the cursed and dark spells in there, but you have free reign to read them. As long as you don't get cursed by them?"

"Sounds fun. This dragon blood made me more sensitive to magic so I feel I should make use of it."

"Good idea. Just keep this hidden from Krumdrum and Naerdeath as they will try to harvest your arms again."

"I was going to tell them about it to see what they can do with it. Maybe even have them use the scales to make some armor or something."

"I forgot that you are not normal."

"Normal is about perspective. You are not normal either for rejecting your noble privileges."

"True. I guess we are just both different. Enough talking, we will never make it if we keep talking."

"Lead the way."

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Grayfia who watched what Vander did to Rias was not very happy to see that. Rias was her charge so she wanted Vander to at the very least be nice to Rias. However, she did see his real intentions so she would not bring this up again.

She still deiced to supervise Ripper and Leonidus to make sure they did not go too far. She had to make sure they would not cripple, torture, or maul them too badly which was not going well.

Sona nearly lost her arm while Rias had her right eye nearly plucked out. Kiba had his legs broken and dragged around by the shadow clones and Koneko was coughing up blood from the poison she breathed in.

Sona's rook suffered severe poison burns while Saji had gotten contracted by Leonidus. They had to call their healer to stop the training and put them back together to start it again. It was brutal, but they were learning faster with this method. Only that it might leave some trauma behind, but that was a small price to pay for power.

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"Here we are, Vander. The magic library of the Gremory family. Every ritual, spell, hex, jinx, curse, and the like is recorded here. You could spend years reading books and never read them all. Every Devil house with history as long as ours will have a library like this."

Vander looked around at the shelves full of grimoires and spell diagrams.

"I will be busy for the next couple of days. With Ripper doing my job I can spend the rest of this week learning magic."

La Folia decide to help him pick out some books that helped even her.

"As the library is huge, you should probably remember the location so you can teleport whenever you need. I have one spell I think you will want of the fire attribute. It's called Fiendfyre."

Hearing it interested him.

"Why is it called that?"

"Because it is a curse that summons a powerful living cursed fire to attack your foes. Depending on the type of flame that you use, it changes its properties of it. I am sure that you will produce a truly powerful one."

"Alright. Come on."

He and La Folia began to gather massive piles of books containing many types of spells and Fiendfire was at the very top. He sat down at a nearby table as he began to read. La Folia picked up some books for herself as she always read some books on Ice magic.

The more Vander read about the Curse, the more he fell in love with it. As he was part Dragon he was sure that he could cast some truly terrifying fire. La Folia herself began to read on rituals as she was interested in ways to make herself even stronger.

One never had enough power and both of them knew it.