The princess was getting angrier by the second. Her head was going to blow right from her shoulders and leave a giant hole in Geraldus’s ceiling. She is quite the spoiled princess and Vaeludar couldn’t bear the thought of being the groom of this spoiled princess.
“Also I will never be your lawful wedded husband. I will only marry the girl I love, not the girl who just wants me. And for another thing, I lack some necessities a full human had. So what’s the point of marrying a full human when I can marry something that is half human? I will marry the girl I love and not the girl who just wants me for my magic power I wield. I won’t choose you, and I never will.”
Stephanie was about to unleash her fury at the no-good hybrid she was now considering a real outlaw, disobeying a royal command from a royal princess of royalty. She darted to him.
Before she could take another step forward, Vaeludar drew the sword from its scabbard. The blade’s end point was pointing directly at Stephanie’s heart, if she moved an inch she would die.
Marina was struck with a shocking wave of wind up her spine.
“This is a magic sword I found inside a cave, along with an arsenal of weapons and I chose this to be my primary weapon,” said Vaeludar. “And it is now mine. I learned of some legendary weapons choose the users and I happened to be its new user. With this sword in my hands, I could be able to kill some long-dead king and maybe you as well. But as the good-looking specimen and good-hearted hybrid I am, I’m going to let you live under the condition you do not bother me again. Good-bye.”
Vaeludar sheathed his sword, slung it around his back and tied it down, before walking to the front door without looking back. He wasn’t going to hear another word of what people King Uragiru had found to go with the hybrid. Going outside, Vaeludar saw a small battalion of soldiers looking at him, from his perspective, Vaeludar thought the soldiers were ready to attack him.
The hybrid moved a few steps forward and the soldiers stretched from a single-file position into two opposite lines, making a pathway for him. He halted suddenly at the quick movement he saw the soldiers reposition themselves of making a pathway for him.
At the end, Vaeludar saw his two oldest foster bothers and two men around the age of thirty-three Vaeludar walked through the pathway without hesitation. When he got to the end, the two men bowed to him as did Alaric and Flavius. The men seemed to be twins and were very pale skins with orange hair.
The soldiers behind him even bowed to the glorious hybrid. Then everyone stood back up.
“Everyone knows you for what you did and they gave you a nickname for doing a single thing: Minotaurslayer,” said Flavius. “You’re famous all around the island for killing the Minotaur. You won’t be able to escape the spotlight anywhere.”
“That means I won’t be able to escape the eyes of a lot of female attractors. The king did bring the Siren with me, and if she ever finds me looking, she’s going to let her teeth do the talking.”
“And we already found the six companions for you to go with,” said King Uragiru, coming from behind.
King Uragiru, Geraldus, and Marina came walking behind him. Vaeludar saw Marina close to the king, thinking she may have heard him, and he could tell he was right: Marina gave a “Don’t you dare cheat on me” face.
For Marina, the Siren was dressed as a fine huntress. She wore brown trousers a light amount of emerald armor garments that covered a small portion of her upper body, left lower arm, left thigh, and emerald armored boots she wore on her feet. And a small skirt that hung like a cape from an emerald belt around her waist.
He didn’t know how Marina managed to change clothes that quickly. Maybe she was wearing the clothes under the dress, which she may have ripped, but Vaeludar wasn’t going to question it.
After the three familiar faces arrived, two more figures walked behind the king, Geraldus, and Marina: a big-bulky man in humongous battle-armor and a Griffin. The big man and the Griffin walked beside the king, and they were soon joined by the two other men who were standing next to Flavius and Alaric.
“These are your companions, Vaeludar,” said Geraldus. “And you will be able to lead this squad to find those armor artifacts. Vaeludar, I may not have been able to give you anything your heart desired under the seventeen years you’ve lived with me, but that will change because the is giving you your own group to lead.”
Vaeludar was speechless.
“I've watched you grow. Now it is time for me to let you go and allow you to venture out on your own. Go on and save this island from a terrible fate, otherwise we face a major crisis in the future.”
“A month ago, I was an outcast,” said Vaeludar. “Today, I am an icon. If that Minotaur hadn’t attacked this village, I’d still be in the closed room, shunning myself from the outside world. Where should I go first to recover these lost artifacts?”
“King Uragiru and I had thought that you should travel to the unknown Northern Region first. Go to this Lost Castle and find that armor artifact. We’re going to keep these raids at bay until you return. We’ll try to find this laboratory, but right now there are so many raids going on, we are going to have to be put the search on
