Belverda’s second Dragon dashed below Valverno’s feet and flew past him. Her new Dragon she mounted headed straight for the village.
Valverno followed after the witch mounted on her new Dragon. He used his hands to send out fireballs being fired at the Dragon.
Belverda took noticed of Valverno’s attacks coming behind her and counterattacked with her own, rivaling her magic power against Valverno’s divine fireballs. The witch seemed to have a power that could rival Valverno’s divine power he was placing in each fireball he was firing.
As she fired many fireballs, she threw some small throwing knives as her attacks, and she swung many of them.
Valverno could see the knives and use a wing to block Belverda’s throwing knives, as his eyes could detect they were made from the same metal used to forge on the Piper’s dagger. The throwing knives hit his wings, and his wings boomed from each throwing knife.
He saw through his wings the knives vaporizing once they touched his wings; his wings were immune to the knives, which meant his wings are being protected by his divine power. As long he had two thirds of his divinity restored, he could win against Belverda and King Uragiru. With one wing blocking the attacks and one wings flagging, Valverno was still flying behind Belverda and her winging Dragon.
After he could see the knives ceased, Valverno removed his wing and resumed flapping it. Once he removed his wing from his front torso, Belverda and her Dragon suddenly vanished. Seconds ago, they were ahead of him. Now they suddenly disappeared.
Then Valverno’s ears flickered; he turned face up to the sky and saw Belverda’s Dragon dropping down above him. The Dragon came swooping down upon him in the blink of an eye; it gave Valverno no time to counter against the big beast.
The dragon opened its mouth wide, intending of having a tasty treat. However, Valverno grabbed teeth from both top and bottom jaw. The Dragon’s massive weight pushed the hybrid down to the ground.
Holding the Dragon by its teeth on both top and bottom of its mouth, Valverno felt his feet plunging into the ground from the Dragon’s flying weight pushing in underground, and he held his breath as he didn’t want to smell the Dragon’s breathe.
Valverno’s legs were going deep underground, leaving behind two long trail lines of his legs drenching deep into the ground. He could no longer feel the strength of his legs and his divine persona was loosening from his mortal bod, so the last strength he had of his divine power he use his shoot out an icy beam into the mouth of the Dragon.
The Dragon froze into an ice sculpture-like. The Dragon didn’t move nor could it resume flying to a different direction.
Valverno flipped both his legs and pounded beneath the iced dragon’s chin, which burst into dust of snow. By doing this, Valverno had stopped his flying mobility and his lost his god side of his demigod body and had switch back to his mortal side.
After losing his divine power and switching back to his mortal persona, Valverno was caught in a blasting explosion after he crushed the iced Dragon with his legs and sent him rolling into the ground, along with the witch.
Both landed at the altar of the Crystal Dragon.
Valverno was the first to get up and Belverda got up three seconds later. Both were ready to fight again and with magic and brute force.
“You betrayed everyone!” said Valverno. “You betrayed humanity! You betrayed life! You betrayed everything you could have stood for. All my life, you and Ralenskrit had conducted experiments for the greater good of life, not just making weapons for a Shadow King to use and dispose. And in the end, you’d never represented any form of life. You shouldn’t be alive. You should have died at long ago as should have your four sisters.”
“My four sisters?” asked Belverda.
“You don’t know how they died?” Valverno walked over and placed his hand on the blood stained on the stone near the altar. “This place where you stand is the place the witches, your sisters, have died. My wife and I killed them.”
Belverda showed no sign of any anger to him or did she show any emotional reaction to him. By her current looks, she never cared for the other witches.
“So, you have a soft side after all, you do care about cute, young, innocent, little kids. Who would have known?”
“Children are so annoying and so underdeveloped they always neglect to listen to what their parents have to say,” said Belverda. The witch pulled out more throwing knives between all her fingers. “They never listen to their parents, as they only pay attention to their own fantasy worlds. Who would want to be a mother of mindless creatures? Yet, who would want to kill old, wrinkled women?”
Valverno smiled, not of anything sinister or vilely he smiled of sheer joy as his blue, glowing wings hovered his front body. “I would a father to those ‘mindless creatures’ than to toss them away, as you at tossed me away at Geraldus’s doorway. And I would kill any ‘old, wrinkled women’ who kills any child. Anyone who kills a young life who still doesn’t understand the meaning of life yet is a monster. Your sisters took many lives to keep themselves young, and I and Marina ended their lives before they would take more kids away from their fathers and mothers.”
“You are such a cold-hearted demigod!”
“As were the witches with their minion, the Piper, who gave me this scar on my face!”
Valverno wiped away some felt over dried dragon saliva over his eye. The scar burned brightly yellow-red across his right eye. He remembered the pain when he received the scar, and he did felt his skin being peeled off like a banana peel when he encountered the Piper dropping over him.
As Belverda held out a staff with
