"Hya! Hya! HYAH!"
CLASH! CLASH! CLAAASH!
Benladra was the most intense out of the two, swinging her spear wildly as she desperately tried to pierce me with the tip of her Divine Weapon. Valkyrie shining brightly with each strike that I blocked, as if enjoying the game.
"Not bad! You're getting better!" I laughed. "However, when using a spear, you can't just rush all out like this, or you're going to end up easily overwhelmed!"
I stepped forwards, swinging Uller horizontally and unleashing a wave of slicing power, clashing against Benladra as she desperately tried to block it, only for her to lose her balance and fall into the grass.
SLAAASH!
"Ouch!"
As Benladra fell back, Kate emerged right behind me, as if with the intent to avenge her big sister. She held her sword with both hands and swung it vertically towards my head.
"Yaaah!"
CRAAASSHH!!
I barely blocked the attack with Uller, as the divine sword unleashed a shockwave of darkness once his aura clashed against Kate's weapon aura!
FLAAASH!
"Ugh…!"
Kate lost her concentration and was pushed back, only for Benladra to rush back into action, descending from the skies with her spear towards my head, overflowing with blinding light!
"HYAAAH!"
CLAAASH!
She clashed against Uller, but only managed to make me take a few steps back. However, she continued attacking consecutively, this time by reaching the ground and using her own weight to keep herself moving.
She was much smaller than me, so she was aiming at my legs while trying to paralyze me. Not bad, she's a smart little girl!
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
However, with my sword in hand, I simply followed the flow, without even using any techniques yet, and blocked her attacks as they came. Kate quickly sneaked out behind me, thinking I wouldn't notice her.
"[Heavenly Dragon Flame Jab]!"
In that very moment, Benladra roared, imbuing her Divine Power into her spear, and making it erupt with divine golden dragon flames, unleashing an explosive attack into my body, Uller blocked it but the flames covered my entire body.
CLAAASSSH!
"Oof, these flames are really something!"
At the same time, and making sure I was distracted blocking her blow, Kate appeared from behind, administrating a barrage of slashing attacks with her sword, while letting out beams of neon blue light from within them.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
"Oi, oi, aren't you going a bit too harsh on your daddy?! I thought you loved me!" I cried while joking around.
"Daddy's strong so it doesn't matter if we go all out!" Benladra roared, her body suddenly being covered by an entire armor of pure golden light, making her resemble a little and cute Paladin. "HYA!"
She leaped towards me again, unleashing a barrage of piercing, explosive attacks with her spear as heavenly dragon flames erupted from the weapon.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH! CLAAASH!!!
At the same time, Kate got more serious, spreading her electromagnetic field around herself which constantly dealt electrifying damage to me as she rubbed it on my back, all while she unleashed a barrage of attacks with her sword, albeit rather clumsily.
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH! SLAAASH!
However, these two girls were overwhelming me! They were much stronger than I had originally imagined, I shouldn't had underestimated them at all, even if they're inexperienced on using weapon techniques.
"Alright, fine, I'll push you back a bit more! Uller!"
"Got it!"
Uller roared as his aura of frost and darkness spread out further, enveloping my entire body like a veil, I kicked the ground and then a shockwave emerged, pushing my two daughters away!
TRUUUMMM…!
"Uwaah!"
"Ugh!"
Benladra and Kate fell flat into the grass, rolling over it a bit. I felt slightly bad, but the tenacious girls didn't even cry, they instantly got back up with their weapons on hand, and jumped to attack me again!
"HYAAH!"
"YAAAH!"
Benladra rushed to my rear while Kate confronted me in the front. Benladra swiftly flew around, firing beams of light from her spear as piercing blazing attacks emerged amidst the blinding light, smartly using the light to distract me from the real attacks.
CLASH! CLASH! CLASH!
Meanwhile, Kate attempted to fight head on, gathering the electromagnetic fields into her sword and unleashing thundering attacks made of system-attribute purple lightning, which electrified me a bit!
SLASH! SLASH! SLASH!
However, I held my ground and intercepted Benladra's attacks, hitting her weak spots and abusing her lack of technique and strength as I hit her with the handle of Uller in her back after I easily evaded her piercing blow, and then unleashed a blunt attack with Uller into her back, pushing her away!
BAAAMMM!
"Ugh!"
At the same time, I dealt with Kate by gathering Divine Power into Uller and unleashing a ray of darkness, which seemed to mess with her field enough for my attacks to get through and push her down.
CLAAASSH!!!
"Ouch…!"
When I realized what I had done, I looked around, finding both girls really tired, gasping for air over the grassland.
"Ah, did I overdo it? Are you alright?" I wondered, as I was about to heal them.
"I'm fine!" Benladra said, quickly getting back up, ready to continue.
"Me too!" Kate nodded, the light in her eyes showed her tenacity.
"Hahah, looks like I didn't even had to worry about a single thing!" I smiled. "Alright, come at me!"
I spent the next hour and a half sparring with my two daughters, teaching them better ways to fight using their weapons, they were slowly getting better at it, their attacks were becoming more precise, and above all, they seemed sharper.
They were like sponges in terms of experience and knowledge, absorbing every single little tip I gave to them and employing it into their attack patterns, while also learning from their mistakes and how to not leave their guard completely open.
"Alright, that's enough for now." I laughed. "You two fought really well!" I dropped over the grass, as the two ran to my side and rested on my arms.
"That was so cool, daddy! I wanna spar more and more later!" Benladra was pumped up.
"Me too. I want to learn the way of the sword." Kate said with a cute smile.
"Hahaha, alright. I'll make sure to teach you well." I couldn't help but hug them both, giving them kisses in their foreheads and caressing their soft and silky hair. "But for now, let's go back home! We can leave the divine beast hunting for later, alright?"
"Okay~ I'm getting a bit hungry anyways." Benladra said. "Did mom and auntie went to cook something?"
"Y-Yeah, that's right!" I nodded. "Now let's go!"
While holding their little hands, we made our way back home, to the Frost Castle. Once we opened the gates and slowly walked inside, we found the entire area dark, there was not a single light.
"Huh? Why is it dark? Did nobody turn on the lights?" Wondered Benladra.
"Hmm…" Kate was confused.
"Yeah, right? So weird…" I said, trying not to laugh.
And then…
"SURPRISE!"
The lights were on, and from behind the furniture, a bunch of people appeared, all of our family and friends, greeting us. Benladra and Kate were genuinely surprised because everyone had conjured strong stealth and camouflage spells beforehand.
The entire hall was decorated beautifully and colorfully, and there were many tables covered in sweets and other preparations, and of course, one huge cake made by her mom and her grandmother.
"W-What happen?" Benladra was shocked.
"Surprise?" Kate wondered.
"Yeah! For your birthday! We decided to have a surprise party!" My wife giggled.
"Happy birthday!" Miranda said.
"Ooohhh!" Our daughters took a little while to realize what that meant.
