Valverno was giving a small dose of his strength and into the people around him and into the weapons. The spears, the arrows, and the shields and every weapon each person was carrying became stronger by each passing second. He gave such small divine power to each weapon, of hopes of surviving the battle with greater odds of having slightly more powerful weapons.
Then it happened: the Manticores, the Chimeras, the Cyclopes and the Giants, by the dozens, plowed right into the spears of the spearmen and the strong, board shields of the shield-maidens.
Both opposing sides clashed into each other. The monsters swarmed into the spears now sharpened by Valverno and stepped on the shields now more durable and unbreakable.
It was utter chaos. Both sides were suddenly fighting and losing many lives in the crossfire. Even with Valverno slightly raising a ground into a small hill beneath his entire army, just as both sides clashed at the same time.
Humans were being tossed away and many of the evil animals. The Giants and the Cyclopes were charging straight through the spears and shields since they were seven feet taller than a six foot man. And the soldiers had difficulties stabbing their spears into the Giants and Cyclopes.
Valverno and Sora also fought, plowing their weapons at each creature they were seeing. Both were fighting back-to-back like a duo paired for fighting. They used their magic power to slay any monster they cross paths with.
From that point, Valverno seemed his small army with small weapons had been surrounded.
“Onward, Centaurs!” the Centaur King shouted at his men.
Then the Centaur King and about two hundred Centaurs vastly appeared and charged toward around Valverno’s army. They charged with great speed as they shot with their bows and arrows at the bunch of Giants and lion-headed monsters. And another hundred Centaurs charged on from the other side of Valverno’s small army, and joining the fray.
As the Centaurs rode into battle, the black dragon bodyguards to the Dragon King flew into the sky. They met with the other Dragons head-on, grabbing with claws and biting with sharp teeth. And the Griffins clawed and bite on the Harpies’ feathers, causing those winged-humans to lose their grip on the Hobgoblins from the air.
Dozens of Unicorns trotted beside the besieged humans with glowing horns. The Unicorns used their horns not for healing but for enhancing each human’s muscle of strength and speed and less painful skin piercings.
Now both sides were fighting and killing each other. And both sides were losing fighters of great skill and brute strength.
Amidst the battle, Valverno’s nose caught the scent of a very familiar person he wanted dead. He could smell the scent of his most hated person coming from the sky. His eyes took him to see dozens of Dragons fighting other Dragons.
There was one pale, blue Dragon not fighting but drifting between the fighting Dragons. From his eyes, Valverno could see a woman standing on the dragon’s head, and he had assumed she was the leader of the army.
The leader of the invading party was no other than Belverda; she traveled a long way and assembled a small army in a short amount of time.
FACE OFF WITH A WITCH AND SHADOW GHOSTS
“Sora, take command of the fighting forces!” ordered Valverno. “I have someone I need to see off before she takes off from battle.”
Sora glimpsed at Valverno and clearly saw the expression of pure hatred; she knew the witch was there and Valverno was staring at her. “Don’t worry about me. I know how to take command of a small army. Go get her and kill her for what she has done to you.”
Valverno nodded and looked at her. “And don’t anything so rationally. I want to see you alive again before you ended up dying.”
Sora smiled and nodded before running off in the direction of the human army and she yelled loudly as she ran to take command. Sora does have the heart of a warrior as she gave a war cry and charged.
Valverno turned to see Belverda riding on the Dragon. His eyes enhanced his vision to see farther. She was standing on the Dragon’s head while holding metal reins, which were chains around the Dragon’s jaw.
The witch was wearing battle armor with a short emerald cape around a shoulder, waving in the wind. She wore an emerald helmet with two short goat-like horns. She held up high her staff, showing a puff of smoke from the jewel attached on the staff’s top.
Valverno flown from his stance to the witch and meet her head-on. While Sora would take charge as the new chain-in-command, Valverno could take out the opposing forces’ leader: Belverda. Not only would he get personal vengeance of what she tried to turn him into, but ending Belverda would be a blow against Lusìvar.
From Valverno’s perspective, Belverda was just a puppet unknowingly being used by the Shadow King for personal use. And, once that usefulness was done, Lusìvar would do away with the witch and then King Uragiru. Once Lusìvar had what his heart desired, he would cut the strings of his puppets, as he would not share his power with anyone else.
At his thundering flying speed, Valverno stopped in front of the blue Dragon Belverda was riding on, and the both exchanged staring glares at each other.
For all his life, Valverno thought of Belverda as a mother who couldn’t bear to have a child with many watchful eyes gazing on the hybrid, thinking his life would have been in danger. He’d always thought she may have loved him and didn’t have the power to protect her son from danger, even with a Dragon by her side. He thought he would have safer at a friend’s house than being in great danger.
But he was wrong of the seventeen years he’s been with Geraldus and his family. Belverda was never his mother to being
