“How would you know of this?” asked Valverno.
The Dragon King held out a forepaw and a large, white, glowing crystal ball came into view. There was a small purple mist dimming within the crystal ball. Then images of Valverno, King Uragiru, and Geraldus appeared in the clouds, showing Geraldus and Valverno attacking the king. Thereafter, the images suddenly faded and the Dragon King removed his paw and glared at Valverno.
“I thought you were a hybrid of special magnificence, but you turned out to be a traitor. Killing the Minotaur to protect human lives is what you famous. But now the island is naming you a traitor and a disgrace for being alive.”
“I beg to differ,” said Valverno. He placed a finger on his forehead and the claw on his index finger sank into his hair. He quickly pulled out a long, watery liquid from his head. He spat on it and it shot toward the open space centered between him and the ruling creatures that were walking to him.
A large cloud appeared from the liquid Valverno spat at. It grew to be large as the Dragon King and his dragon bodyguards.
“Let me show you my side of the story before someone delivers the final judgment,” said Valverno. He waved a hand and the memory of his fight with King Uragiru was shown. It showed the real fight with him, Sora, Marina, and Geraldus fighting the king and Belverda. Suddenly, Valverno made a fist stop and the images stopped and zoomed in on Belverda’s image.
“Is that Belverda?”
“Yes,” said Valverno. “You want to know what she had been doing listen to what she has to say about me and the experiments she and Ralenskrit were making.” Valverno waved his hand again and her voice spoke out as to why she herself tried to make the experiments: she wanted to have the powers of a god through using the DNA strands of Valverno’s embryo.
Valverno used his other hand to use a windy power to pull the book from the altar to his hand. Then he flung the book to the Dragon King and the other animal rulers. Again he used his hand to use an air-wind power to flip through the pages as he quickly explained Belverda tried to play the role of god and tried to make undead animals made from multiple body parts from mythical creatures, and Valverno’s embryo was a power source into bringing the dead to life.
He also showed them the entire talk of her and King Uragiru joining Lusìvar in the cloud of memories. He mentioned the most important thing he never would have expected to learn in his seventeen-year life: “She was never my mother, and Ralenskrit was never my father.”
Valverno explained he was found in a cave as an embryo by the two scientists he, and the other creatures and Geraldus, had thought to be his parents.
From there, they used his embryo to withdraw his DNA strands believing to have godly power to bring the dead animals to life. Belverda was the one who wanted the power, but he didn’t knew what Ralenskrit’s goals were.
Then came to the last few pages of the book came into view and the one page Valverno found about his true self: Project Vaeludar.
Then a curious Centaur strolled to the book and picked it up. Outload, the half man horse read through the lines and great shock came in his eyes.
The other creatures had shocked looked in their eyes as the Centaur was reading to them. They now knew what powers Valverno had possessed. The last few lines the Centaur read would even bring them to more shock than ever: Vaeludar was Valverno, the ancient demigod chosen by the Crystal Dragon to be the gods’ weapon against Lusìvar.
“Did I hear that right again?” asked Orinù.
“That is right, clan leader Orinù of the Eagle Clan. My name was never Vaeludar, and it never will be. My real name is, as of this moment, Valverno!”
There were many gasps. Teutates raised an eyebrow. The gathered leaders all gasped from a great shock of what the hybrid had just told them. It seemed they all have heard of the ancient legends of the Demigod but never expected it to be the hybrid standing there in front of them all.
“Did you just say what I think you said? The name of a legend?” asked the Dragon King.
Valverno stomped his feet hard into the ground. “You all heard me loud and clear. I. AM. VALVERNO! The demigod of the ancient world of Pangaea and leader of the White Knights. Son the celestial witch Celestreá la Mùne and the dragon god, the Crystal Dragon. The one who brought humanity from living under stone to living over stone.”
“Impossssible! He isss no demigod. Hiss isss lying! Vaeludar is no demigod! Don’t lissten to the traitor. He iss nothing more but a lair.” The Council of Three was not convinced and they wanted to say otherwise.
Valverno’s patience was being pushed to the ultimate limit. The fuel from the darkness he has from the Pool of Shadows was starting to grow. He stood while his eyes had closed. His wings were thinly widened and the palms of his heads faced upward, if he was trying to balance two different items in both hands.
Then his wings, legs, and tail popped from their disguised form and showed them his demonic form. He wiped his face with both hands and revealed his true figure: his yellow-sclera, red-iris, and green-pupil eyes.
Then he felt his entire body sinking into the ground if he was standing over quicksand. His was letting out his divinity to the ground, if he was calling out to spirits in the deep and coming forward to move the soil and started an earthquake.
The earthquake was happening! The ground beneath them was shaking and the statue behind began to rubble back-and-forth. Every human and the
