Chapter 25: Jacob x Raphael (5)

Moments before...

'Damn, I need to stop this fight before it starts.' Jacob said mentally as he looked at zed arguing with Raphael.

"Hm, it looks like they are fighting over princess ysabel, but why are you going to stop them?" Grace asked confused, but Jacob gave a cold answer:

"Have you forgotten? No questioning and especially not reading my mind!"

"Sorry... Sometimes it just happens naturally."

Jacob let go of Grace and started walking towards Raphael as he reflected:

'If the zed x Raphael fight happens, everything indicates that ysabel will fall in love with him and that Anna will awaken and recognize Raphael as her master, but I cannot allow that to happen under any circumstances! Should the silver sword glow and fly to Raphael, it means that I have failed and that it will be impossible to continue my plan to redeem the power of immortality.'

Present moment ...

Raphael looked at Jacob's empty hands and asked:

"Are you going to fight using your hands?"

"My plan is not to kill you, all I'm going to do is give you a good beating."

"Haha, you really are different from the others.... Your name is Jacob Voss, right? I'll remember this name well after I take a beating."

Jacob smiled and began to ponder:

'That damn thing is god rank.... The only god ranks in this world were the demon king and Varda, this guy even has a cheat that allows him to copy any skill or magic he's ever Seen and use it at will with no mana cost. Really lives up to the name of overpowered protagonist.'

"Okay, are you two ready?" Lagertha asked the two, she was almost dying of anxiety to see the two of them fight.

"Yes."

The two answered at the same time and after getting their confirmation, lagertha raised her arm and lowered it shouting:

"Fight!"

Suddenly Jacob was in front of Raphael with a punch almost hitting him in the face, but just as the punch was going to hit him, a huge mirror was conjured in front of Raphael and Jacob's punch crashed into the mirror.

"Boom" an explosion-like sound was what happened as Jacob's punch collided against the mirror and Raphael said smiling:

"Mirror Magic, this magic creates a mirror that projects the opponent's attack and launches it against himself, no matter if the attack is physical or not, the mirror will always reflect the attack that is directed at me."

"Hm, now I understand why my hand hurts.... Taking a punch from me is not an easy task."

"Hahaha, I imagine it's not easy at all."

Jacob smiled and attacked him again with a horizontal kick, but again his attack was reflected and made a boom sound as it crashed against the mirror.

He stepped back and began to limp as he reflected:

'Damn, It's like I'm kicking concrete instead of a mirror...'

Jacob slammed his sore leg on the ground and advanced on Raphael, but he would decide not to attack him this time.

Raphael from the beginning of the fight, stood motionless without moving from his seat, he was still not taking the fight seriously.

Jacob got within a reasonable distance to apply a strangling blow, But just as he was about to advance on Raphael's legs to knock him down, the huge mirror appeared again in front of him and the two collided.

"Haha, did I forget to warn you that this mirror works as a shield?" Raphael said while debauching the situation, but Jacob was already losing his mind over these tricks.

He took a deep breath and decided that he would put Raphael in his place. Calmly, he started walking towards Raphael and when he stopped at a distance of one meter, he said smiling:

"That mirror only activates when I'm within 30 centimeters of you, doesn't it?"

"Oh? Have you figured that out yet?"

Jacob smiled and walked back toward Raphael, but just as he was about to cross the 30 centimeters, he stopped and asked:

"Don't you think you're underestimating me too much?"

"Hm, it's you who doesn't want to use Mana..."

Suddenly, a jab was landed on raphael's chin at a speed greater than that of a gunshot. Because of the short distance and lack of concentration, Raphael was unable to activate the mirror magic in time.

Raphael fell unconscious to the ground and the surrounding audience was shocked by it. In their minds, it had to be someone extremely strong to knock someone out with one punch, but for Jacob who knew some fighting techniques, he knew that a punch to the chin executed in the right way and in the right place, could easily knock out anyone.

Now the question is, why does a punch to the chin cause a knockout? A well placed punch, anywhere on the head, causes the same effect. But the chin is really the most dangerous point, because from there the force of the punch can go straight to a region of the brain called the brain stem. It is the cells in the brainstem that control consciousness.

Even if Raphael is a monster in terms of power, endurance and strength, nothing prevents him from being knocked out by someone who is strong enough with a punch to the chin.

Jacob smiled as he saw Raphael lying unconscious on the ground and waited for him to get up.

Suddenly, Raphael regained consciousness and stood up quickly ready to defend himself from any attack, but all he found was Jacob standing there watching him.

"Haha, I guess it was a mistake to let you come near me..." Raphael spoke as he smiled. He smoothed his sore chin and spoke again:

"It really is a difficult task to take a punch from you.... But you made a mistake in letting me recover, because this time, I will fight for real!"

Jacob prepared to attack and defend himself at any moment, but suddenly, he began to feel a burning sensation in his body and then he heard drops falling to the ground. Then He looked at his body and noticed a huge deep cut that went down from his collarbone to his navel and said impressed:

"Dismantling magic..."

"Haha, I wanted to cut him in two, but it looks like the cut couldn't cut through his bones." Raphael said impressed and used x-ray magic to see Jacob's bone structure. All he could see, was a palace of bones protecting his vital organs, so Raphael came to the conclusion that Jacob was immune to cuts.

"Hm, I thought this battle was fair play, but are you really thinking of killing me?"

"Forgive me, but it was you who told me not to underestimate you."

"Yes... I said something like that."

Suddenly, Jacob was in front of Raphael and punched him with all his strength, right in his face. The force of the blow threw Raphael against the barrier, causing him to collide and take a slight shock.

Now it was no longer a fight to see who was the winner. For Jacob, the fight was about how many times Raphael would get hit, so he decided to be as brutal as possible, but in a way that wouldn't kill Raphael...