Jonathan took a fighting stance, then activated his shadow ability, immediately his pupils turned black and black smokes emitted from every pores in his body, then move towards his feet forming a shadow underneath his feet.
He summoned the shadow towards him. The black shadow moved towards his right hand in line wrapping around his wrist, forming a three inches wide dark spot around his wrist, it was a contrast to his pale white skin.
He moved the shadow towards his palm forming a longsword, five feet in length, which was almost the same height as him considering he was five feet five in height.
He had to had to move his hand a little from his body, and hold the longsword in a slanted position, he then ran toward his father, while raising his sword.
He got before him in less than a second without using his ability. Since he was less than ten feet apart from him.
he slashed at him aiming for his neck. thomas moved a feet backwards dodging jonathan's attack without a sweat. Jonathan seeing this expected as much but was not dishearten by it.
He stopped and immediately move forward then stab his sword towards thomas abdomen, thomas moved to the side, jonathan slashed his sword to the side towards thomas neck.
Thomas suddenly moved forward then behind him, then he hit on his shoulder. Knocking the sword off his hand, this all happened in a second.
Ahhh! jonathan screamed from having his shoulder broken by his dad, jonathan cancelled his ability, making thomas, worry, he held his shoulder then turned him around.
"are you alright" thomas asked with a worried expression written on his face. "of course not, not when you are pressing on my broken shoulder" jonathan said with a pained expression on his face.
"oh sorry" flustered thomas immediately retracted his arm from his shoulder. "Let's continue," jonathan said while activating his ability. "Are you sure, your right shoulder is broken," he said while pointing at jonathan's broken arm.
"I'm fine, it will just heal in an hour, my left arm is working just fine, let's continue." he said with determination in his voice.
Jonathan body can heal on its own without magic, but it takes a lot of time, but much longer when his knocked out.
"Okay, let's continue," thomas replied with a smile on his face, jonathan holding his five feet long longsword in his left hand, attacked....
Three seconds later, he was on one knee with thomas hand on his neck while his longsword was ten feet away from him.
This cycle continued for the next four hours, with jonathan attacking with his shadow ability while thomas dodging and bring him down without much effort not even using his ability in seconds.
It's not that jonathan is weak, compared to his peers, infact his among the strongest in his peers, he is no match for his father who was five level higher than he is.
Four hours later....
Jonathan was on both of his knees, with both his arm and legs broken, a broken jaw and three broken ribs and a bloody body full of cuts and bruises, some which have stopped bleeding and almost healed up, while some are still fresh and bleeding.
With his longsword on the floor beside him, gritting his teeth he tried to get on his feet, but all he could feel was immerse pain. After a while of him trying to stand and falling there after.
He finally got on his feet while swaying, under his feet you can see a small pool of fresh and oxidated blood, under him, gritting his teeth he said.
"Am sorry father for being too weak, i know you weren't even trying at all, but i promise i will get stronger and reach the god level of cultivation and make you proud of me, just you wait, i promise."
Summoning his sword to his hand, he placed the tip on the floor, he leaned on the sword a little while holding the hand. Then he said to thomas
"Let's continue dad" jonathan seeing his father not reacting to his words, but stood there without moving an inch with a solemn expression on his face.
Jonathan cleared his throat to get his father's attention then said, "i can't keep my promise to you by standing here, come on let's keep practicing.
swaying, under his feet you can see a small pool of fresh and oxidated blood, under him, gritting his teeth he said.
"Am sorry father for being too weak, i know you weren't even trying at all, but i promise i will get stronger and reach the god level of cultivation and make you proud of me, just you wait, i promise."
Summoning his sword to his hand, he placed the tip on the floor, he leaned on the sword a little while holding the hand. Then he said to thomas
"Let's continue dad" jonathan seeing his father not reacting to his words, but stood there without moving an inch with a solemn expression on his face.
Jonathan cleared his throat to get his father's attention then said, "i can't keep my promise to you by standing here, come on let's keep practicing.
Thomas hearing what jonathan said was very touched by his word. This son of mine don't know strong he is, he looks pale compared to me but, that doesn't mean he's weak compared to those at the same level as him.
Although Thomas know he won't be able to get to the god level of cultivation, but, that was very ambitious of him, to be honest, he quite happy, with his speed of cultivation he will be able to get there with hard work and time.
Although it was going to be very hard and difficult, he believed he could do it, even if he doesn't get to that level he will be very proud of him.
With a smile on his he looked at jonathan and wanted to say to him, that they should call it quit for the day, when he was interrupted from his thoughts by the voice of a male.
Jonathan seeing his father smiling, he finally sighed in relief, i guess we can continue practicing, but he was suddenly interrupted from his thoughts, by the voice of his butler luxe saying.
"Master, young master, the young mistress is back, she said i should call you guys for lunch."
"When did she get back," thomas asked quite surprised his wife was back already, "i thought she would be back later in the afternoon."
"She was back an hour ago, she saw you guys practicing, then went to prepare lunch, she said i should call the two of you that it's noon and she's done preparing lunch" luxe replied quickly.
Thomas replied with an "oh, we will there shortly, you can go before us, tell her we will be there soon. Sure master luxe replied, then turned and started walking.
Thomas seeing jonathan in a sorry state, called luxe back, "yes, you called for me," luxe said after walking back to where thomas and jonathan was standing.
"Can you get a healer for jonathan, he can't go to his mom looking like this." Sure master said before going to get his task done.