Magical Totem.(Three years later)

Three Years Later,

The training room in the Summerking castle is unrecognizable at the moment. If anyone steps into the room, it will assault them with scorching heat. The walls of the room are marred by burnt marks, broken pieces of training dummies scattered all over the place.

Even the floor of the room is bizarre, to say the least. One portion of the floor had iron spikes coming from it, another portion is just entirely made of sand it was like someone brought a piece of desert and replaced the floor with it. One can say that the entire floor is a mosaic of different terrains.

Among all this mayhem stood Brax. His bare muscular chest heaving up and down from exhaustion because of casting magic continuously for the past two hours. In his right hand, he held his training wand, which has smoke coming out of its tip. There was no sweat on him instead there was steam rising from his body, showing how hot the temperature was.

Brad steadied his posture and flicked his wrist and a tall mirror materialized in front of him. another flick and he conjured a white towel. After placing the wand on his wand holder, which was on the right hand. Brax started to clean himself with the towel. After a few moments, he stopped what he was doing and looked towards his reflection in the mirror.

Seeing himself in the mirror, Brax shook his head and with a hint of amusement thought,

"I almost look like Escanor from Seven Deadly Sins Anime. Even in height, I am as tall as him except I have long black hair instead of blonde hair."

Brax after that thought chuckled a bit and looked at his image once again. His bright orange eyes went to black earrings pierced to his ears. That brought his memories to a few months back when he created his first magical artifact with the help of runes. Yes, these earrings are magical. Brad created them because of discomfort, caused by his extreme sensitivity to the sound.

Brad touched his earring and felt the runes engraved on its surface. These earrings help him by acting as a buffer between external sound and his ear. Brax spent considerable time creating them.

Brad stopped inspecting his earrings and summoned his wand, immediately the wand left the wand holder and smoothly slid into his hands. The wand still felt a little hot in hands because of all the magic he was casting with it for the past two hours.

Bringing the wand closer, Brax inspected it. The wand has several minute cracks all around its length, seeing this Brax sighed and thought,

"I need to stop putting this wand through this much of work. It clearly can't handle my magic potency. If it wasn't for the fact that most of the time I cast spells relating to fire this would have already broken."

After the inspection, he just waved his wand a tiny bit and the mirror along with towel vanished. After that Brax shouted,

"Brood."

Responding to his call, Brood popped into the room and was greeted with the same old sight of a destroyed training room. Brood wasn't annoyed though. No, he was more of a happy elf. His master always provides him with so much work to do.

But Brood always thought the young master was different. He never saw any Wizard's child grow so fast as his young master did and his magic was so bright and at the same time it was so intimidating. To Brood, Brax magic felt like a scorching day at the peak of summer.

Brax turned towards brood and said,

"Brood clean up the room and also bring me some fruits to eat. I will be going to my room to take a bath."

Brood listening to Brax's instruction bobbed his head up and down and replied,

"Everything will be done, young master."

Brax just nodded his head walked out of the room. While he was moving towards his room, he thought of his past three years. He completed all of his rituals in eight months and they were extremely potent in transforming his body and magic. Before the second set of rituals, he was like a Junior Captain America, now he was like a Captain America on steroids in physical aspects.

Brax worked extremely hard to turn his body into a weapon. Even though he was big and muscular, he was not slow on the contrary when he moves, he is like a phantom. Combining his immense strength, endurance, and a large magical pool, Brax created his own Duelling style. But since he didn't have any dueling partners or never faced any battle, he did not know how effective his style is.

Brax's mental capabilities also shot through the roof. His IQ is on a whole different level. After completing the mind ritual, his memory retention power has increased drastically. But after the second set of rituals on his mind, his memory retention upgraded to Eidetic memory.

Brax, with his mental capabilities, was able to rush and complete all the books on Runes, DADA, and Charms in just two years. The three Battle transfiguration Books by Grindelwald took some a year more.

But in Brax's opinion, it was worth the time as his battle powers skyrocketed when he combined his Battle transfiguration with his considerable amount of Spell repertoire. And also he made Battle transfiguration as an integral part of his dueling style.

Another benefit that Brax got because of spending large amounts of time practicing battle transfiguration was that he could train his Minor Magical Talent, Magical control to a very high level. Transfiguration, unlike other branches, demands a high level of magical control.

Brax's magical pool is also ballooning rapidly. When Brax checked a week earlier, it was already at 1300 and rising. He completely mastered Occlumency by successfully creating an astral body. The Astral body gifted him with the ability of TELEKINESIS. Which was the ability that Brax was hoping for.

But Brax found that using that ability to be very tiring to use, as it consumes a large amount of magic. He could lift a considerable amount of weight at present and also levitate multiple objects at once. Brax was hoping one day he can levitate himself. But he was sure that with his rapidly increasing magical pool he would be able to use this awesome ability to full use.

Now the astral body was a different experience for Brax. He can directly possess it and roam his astral plane. He can even feel the texture of the grass and he can also live in his memory palace with his astral body. It was like playing a virtual reality game. The only downside Brax found was that staying in the astral plane with his astral body consumes double the magic than his usual stay.

The Ancient Mind Arts book explained to Brax that the Astral Body was mystical with many mysteries waiting to find out. So Brax decided to find out what these secrets were. So, for the past 1 year, he experimented with his Astral body. But found nothing of sorts which can be labeled as its hidden mysteries.

Brax finally gave upon on unraveling the mysteries of his Astral body and left it to time and fate. He also stopped mastering the last two levels of Legilimency as it requires people to practice these two forms of Legilimency and the Eye of astral can help only for the first two levels.

But at present Brax is facing a huge problem, and that is his large physique. In a few more months, a letter from Hogwarts will arrive and he doesn't intend to go to Hogwarts with his "Escanorish" appearance. When he consulted his father about it. His father just smiled at him and assured Brax that he had a solution for it.

When Brax asked what the solution was, his father was cryptic and told him he would eventually know about it. But Brax was getting anxious not knowing what it was as the days went on. Finally, his father informed him to come to the ancestral hall today to solve his "Problem".

Brax after having a refreshing shower ate the fruits that Brood brought him and dressed up and went to meet his father. After entering the Hall, he saw his father's portrait floating beside the family grimoire. Seeing his father noticing his arrival, Brax quickened his steps and went in front of his father and greeted,

"Good Evening father, I hope at least now you can tell me what this solution of yours is?"

Brax's father just gave him a cryptic smile and pointed his hand towards his Grimoire. Not getting what his father meant Brax just raised his left eyebrow and thought,

"Why does he is pointing towards grimoire? Does grimoire hold the solution for my current predicament?. I don't even understand why he tries to act so mysterious. Ah! Fucking tell me already."

Seeing his son's annoyed expression. Brax's father just laughed and said,

"Well, you see Brax, Physical changes are not uncommon when one undergoes Rituals. Our family has fair cases of wizards and witches whose physique was changed drastically because of rituals. But even then, the changes you went is unheard of. Well, it's not like we had a wizard with the number set 7 since the death of our founding Ancestor. I have to say Brax You have exce..."

Brax Interrupted his father and with a smirk on his face said,

"Father I don't want to listen to any more of your monologue on how better I am then you in every aspect. So let's get to the point already."

Listening to his son's remarks. Brax's father replied in a fit of mock anger,

"Not Even 11 years old and already talking back to your father. Sigh what can I even do. It's not like you're not giving me any reasons to be proud of. You even mastered the occlumency according to that "Book". No one in our family went more than Level three and you somehow mastered that entire damn Book. I even had to give up practicing Mind Arts according to that book and start learning Occlumency in a more orthodox way. How can there be so much difference between a father and son?"

Brax sighed and said,

"Father just tell me what this "solution" is and later I will listen to you on how great of a son I am."

His father just shook his head to his son's cocky reply and said,

"Well, I would have told you, if you hadn't interrupted me. Like I was saying some of our ancestors also had such problems and to hide the effects of rituals they created a solution with the help of our family grimoire. The grimoire will imprint on you a magical totem to shrink you back to the "original" physique. Which means you will look exactly like what you should look like without the effects of rituals. But don't worry it will affect none of your magical abilities."

The moment his father finished his words. Brax rushed towards Grimoire and put his hands on it and asked for the Magical totem. Responding to his request, the grimoire hummed and shot out a beam on to his chest.

The moment that beam fell on Brax. He was assaulted with searing pain. It was like someone is carving on his chest with a super-heated Iron tip. After a few moments in which Brax felt like an eternity, the beam stopped. Brax fell on his knees and started huffing from all the exhaustion he was feeling.

His shirt has a huge burnt hole and one can see a Black Sun tattoo with an orange outline. The burnt marks on his skin started visibly healing at an astonishing rate. The Asclepius Blessing Ritual was showing its potency. After a few moments, the pain receded and Brax got up with the wand in his hands and flicked his wrist and conjured a chair and a mirror in front of him.

Brax sat on the chair and inspected the tattoo that was engraved on his left chest. The Tattoo was vivid, to say the least. He ran his hand through the tattoo and felt nothing but his skin. It was a little warm, but he guessed it would cool after some time.

After inspecting the tattoo, Brax looked at his father, who was watching him intently the whole time, while the tattoo was getting imprinted on him. Brax could see the worry on his father's face and with a cocky smile said,

"Well, it was certainly painful. Now, Father, shall we see how effective it is."

My father just shook his head and said,

"Well, If you think you are feeling all right. Then try it out."

Brax immediately sent magic to communicate with the totem and to ask it to seal his physique. Suddenly the totem heated and Brax's body started to shrink, and after a few moments later it stopped shrinking.

Gone were the bulging muscles adorning an Intimidating man, with a natural grace of authority. Stood in his place was a kid who looked like an 11-year-old adolescent. Brax started observing himself and found weird in his new body. It reminded him of his previous life, he just looked so average. Well, except maybe for his eyes which were still bright orange.

Brax with the locking of his physique also lost his strength. Except for his strength all his other physical traits like his refelxes, eyesight, hearing and everything that he gained through Rituals was still with him.

But Brax found nothing wrong in his magic. He had full access to his magical pool and his magic was flowing as smooth as ever. His mind shield was intact and so was his Astral body. Everything is the same as before, except his physique which shrunk a lot. Brax was brought out of his inspection by his father's voice,

"It looks like it's working fine Brax. How about you try to return to your original self?"

Listening to father suggestion, Brax immediately sent magic to the totem to unseal his physique. And in the mirror, he can see himself expanding and bulging and returning to his previous 6 feet 2 muscular body. Brax felt more at home in this form. Brax's father clapped, seeing the totem's wonders.

But in Brax's mind, one thought ran through him,

"Now I can in a true sense say I look and feel like ESCANOR. All that I need now is a wicked Axe hahahahaha. I have to say LIFE IS GOOD."