Daddy's boy pt. 2

"Are you ready Dad?"

Michael nodded without hesitation standing firm with just a wand in his hand.

Within a blink of an eye, Jacob threw a spell without wasting a single breath, "Obscuro"

Blinding his vision, he immediately cast another spell, "Incarcerous" proceeding to bind Michael's arm, but Michael stood in place not even flinching a bit.

Jacob who was in a hurry, threw his wand to the side and took out the heavy sword from his back launching an attack straight at him with full force. Despite the sheer size of the blade, Jacob moved with efficiency and carried on the attack with enough force to shatter whatever was in front of him.

Michael just mumbled a few words and with just a small flick of his wand, he created a visible blue shield out of magic which blocked his attack, leaving behind just a small aftershock from the attack.

Jacob sighed, and without giving up after his initial fail, he launched various different kinds of attacks from left to right and up to bottom but all of his attacks seemed to be just wasted efforts.

"Looks like all he did was put points on his strength and agility..." Luke mumbled,

"What?" Ethan asked,

"Nothing, I was just saying that his strength and speed are amazing," Luke replied, "He looks more like a warrior from medieval times than a wizard."

"That is indeed the case," Ethan nodded, "Jacob is better with his physical abilities than his magical ones, hence why he can carry out such heavy attacks with ease."

"But isn't that useless?" Luke asked, "Fighting a magician with physical force, after all, no matter how many times he keeps swinging that sword around he still hasn't gotten a single hit through, and he even threw away his wand the moment he reached for his sword,"

"That will be the case for most people," Ethan said, "But do you really think all of his attacks are normal?"

"What do you mean?"

"Although he's swinging the sword with great ease, that sword alone weighs around a hundred and fifty pounds (68 kgs approx)," Ethan continued, "Now do you understand?"

Luke who was left in shock with his mouth wide open, trying to process what was said to him, "So you mean, that he is using magic to enhance his physical abilities."

Ethan nodded his focus on Jacob and Michael as he glanced a little at his younger brother who was looking at him with sparkles in his eyes, "Ahem! You won't find the magic in any books, after all, it's our family's personal magic, so it's passed down orally to successors and to those members who want to learn it."

"Don't even think about it," Ethan continued as Luke's eyes couldn't be more wider and brighter, "It's a very painful process for anyone to go through, Jacob was an exception!!"

"Fine fine!" Luke shrugged, "Although it would be cool to have such speed and strength when you can't use magic alongside it, isn't it a bit worthless?"

"You're half right," Ethan said, "Jacob has always been better with physical magic than regular ones, that's why we pair up so well. I use magic and he uses his physical attributes."

"But there's one thing you should keep in mind brother," 

"Don't underestimate your older siblings."

Luke was about to ask what he meant by that but before he could, a light flashed before his eyes.

After giving his best, Jacob took a couple of steps back breathing heavily. Every time he would manage to crack open the shield, Michael would immediately generate another one making it almost an impossible job to keep cracking the shield one after the other.

Jacob glanced at Luke and Ethan talking about him as he couldn't help but smirk, 'I guess, I have to really give it my all,'

"Hey, dork!" Jacob yelled at Luke as he began sliding two of his fingers across the blade of the heavy sword chanting something to himself, as the letters ingrained in the sword began lighting up one after the other, "Don't talk behind my back!"

Jacob lifted up the heavy sword which was now covered in a strange white light engulfing the entirety of the sword blade as he readied himself. A breath later, he moved at such a speed that Luke couldn't even see him for a second.

Jacob appearing in front of Michael, swung the heavy sword with all his might cutting through the air itself, unlike the previous attacks, this one cut through the shield like butter but as soon as it did a sharp ring echoed throughout the area.

Michael had long taken out a rapier from his waist as he blocked the attack of the heavy sword. Despite how easy he was trying to make it seem, him gritting his teeth trying to hold back the heavy attack seemed to tell the whole story.

Jacob kept trying to push through but his strength began failing him, until he couldn't exert more of it, the light coming from the sword immediately disappeared as Jacob dropped the sword crashing down on the ground as well.

Michael kept his rapier back inside his robe, "You've learned well, but you're still lacking."

Jacob nodded a bit disappointed and embarrassed.

"Your physical enhancement is the best that I've ever seen for someone your age, not even my great uncle could draw the same amount of power that you do with just pure strength alone, but what you lack is focus." Michael continued, "You've neglected your mana training completely since you rely on Ethan too much. Throwing away your wand left you more defenseless and you lost your chance at any long distance or different types of spells and curses."

"But your final attack was perfect, but it seems to drain your mana quite quickly so be very careful on how and who you chose to land that attack on."

"Yes, Dad!" Jacob kept nodding along like a woodpecker hammering down on a tree,

"Good, you should continue fixing your shortcomings," Michael nodded as he stared at the wand Jacob had thrown away earlier in his fight, "I should begin working on that as well..."

"Did you say something to me, Dad?" Jacob asked as Michael just shook his head,

Luke couldn't help but stand up, his eyes wide open and his mouth agape, "Ethan? How come Jacob could still use magic and why is Mic- I mean our dad so much stronger?"

Luke couldn't forget the amazing display of power, Jacob had shown with his sword and as for Michael who took the hit on like nothing, seemed even more amazing.

"Those swords are infused with the same materials they use on a wand, adding to that, we have our weapons made with a particular metal which again has ancient runes engraved in them. All of that works together and helps the swords be good conductors of magic, letting the runes add on various forms of enhancement." Ethan took out one of his dagger as he flipped it around and within a second, a similar glow formed around the blade as he ran his fingers through the dagger but unlike the white light he had seen Jacob produce, Ethan's dagger became engulfed in bluish dark flame.

"Jacob's blade becomes heavier due to the enhancement and it covers itself with a sharp coating of mana that acts akin to a chainsaw spinning around the whole blade." Ethan continued to explain, "Similarly, mine does the very same thing but with different enhancement since I don't have any physical enhancement done to me."