High School DxD: The Game Master

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He highly doubted he was one of the chosen of God. Still, access to light magic gave him an edge he might need against any of the devils that might come after him.

He might like Rias and Sona but those two, and their families, were supposedly among the kindest within the underworld. Others were not so kind and many of them were cruel or downright evil. He wasn't stupid enough to think that none of them would come after him.

He'd also designed a few healing spells. Something he remembered as being very rare in the series. Which he expected was an excuse for the porn-like world since the 'healing' magic that Rias had was all about naked cuddling.

So, he made some spells of his own. Not that he was against naked cuddling with hot redheads, but that method of hers was also pretty slow.

He'd also taken a lot more time to study the Power of Destruction. He couldn't cast any spells with it yet, he was missing something, but once he learned what that something was, he would be able to use it to his heart's content. He was looking forward to that.

Now it was the start of the weekend and it was time for his next big upgrade... or upgrades rather. He'd been saving a portion of the Dungeon Energy he'd been gaining over the week to buy his next big upgrades.

With a thought, all that Dungeon Energy vanished and two new doors appeared in his Home Base.

Above the first door was a plaque reading 'Enchanting' and above the second was 'Jewelcrafting'. His smile lit up the room as he looked over his new purchases and reviewed the information that came with them.

Just like with Alchemy, he could purchase ingredients for either craft using Dungeon Energy or cold hard cash. Though, in the case of some of the enchanting materials he could only get them using Dungeon Energy.

He quickly got to his feet and made his way into the Jewelcrafting section. It was filled with all kinds of tools of the trade, many of which he only knew the names of because his power told him.

A quick purchase, using some of his rapidly dwindling funds, gave him a large selection of cheap metals and unprocessed semi-precious stones. What someone, on the outside, might have found weird was his purchase of some magical wood.

The reasoning was simple though. He could easily use the lathe in the jewel section to turn the wood into dowels, then slice them into pucks, which he could turn into wooden rings.

They would be super cheap piece he could use to practice his enchanting on. Obviously they wouldn't be super powerful or anything, but they were for practice.

He took the block of wood, a magical piece of Ironwood known as Steelwood, said to be as strong as forged steel. It didn't take long for him to turn the block into a bunch of long strips that were about an inch in height and width while being two feet long.

He had twenty of them and could make roughly twenty-four rings from each one. He wouldn't need that many, but it was definitely enough to give him plenty of practice.

After making a dozen simple wooden rings, he took them all into the other new section, the Enchanting room. Enchanting, at least at the lowest level, coincidentally the level Ryuji could work at currently, was a very simple affair. It was essentially two steps.

Step one, carve the anchoring rune scheme. In the case of what Ryuji could do, that scheme essentially boiled down to two runes meaning 'magic locked' as in locked into the item.

Step two, channel mana into the object while shaping it with your desire. It was a fairly broad and objective portion of the process and could cover pretty much anything.

His desires could be anything from 'make the user tougher' to 'give the user infinite wishes without restrictions'. Of course, he was nowhere near powerful enough for the second option.

That was just the first limitation of enchanting. The next was the quality of the materials. The better the materials the more powerful the enchantment they could hold. Another was that one item could only hold one enchantment.

With the wooden rings he'd created, he'd only be capable of making the weakest of enchantments stick to it. If he tried for something too strong the magical energy would destroy the ring.

He didn't care though, this was only for testing purposes and to get used to the work. When he wanted to get to more serious work, he'd use materials like silver to make the rings and necklaces he wanted to enchant.

Carving the anchoring runes into the wood using the provided tools was an easy process. The tools were designed to deal with significantly more durable materials than steel, after all.

The runes were also super simple as well, something a novice could easily scribe. Someone like him. He took the time to scribe the runes into every ring first.

With all the rings prepped, he picked up the first one and decided to go with a simple enchantment that would match the theme of the Steelwood, defensive. He started feeding mana into the ring focusing on having the ring share its toughness with the wearer.

Granted, the defensive power of the ring wouldn't protect from anything supernatural, but it would make the wearer almost immune to mundane stuff.

In moments the rung was filled with mana causing the anchoring runes to flash. Ryuji instantly stopped using his mana and checked the ring. He sighed when he spotted a small blackened crack on one side of the ring.

Too much mana. That was exactly why he'd chosen to practice on something cheap. Unlike with the Alchemy potions, he could actually break the stuff he was making with Enchanting.

He looked over at the remaining eleven rings and grinned. And that's why he prepared so many to practice with.

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