His muscles were stiff cold frozen and the swiling lights of his dragon wings and legs began to dim. His human half torso was shivering cold it was like a demonic spirit went into his body and possessed him to become weak, turning his hybrid strength to the strength of a newborn infant.
He looked at Marina, who seemed to having the same problem: her strength was dwelling form her Siren body. “Marina, are you alright?” he weakly got up and slowly walked to her. His used his wings and lift his body and go to Marina.
“My love? You did come, but you shouldn’t have.”
“Why? We gave each other promises on our wedding day we would look after each other, and I, as your lawful-wedding husband and as a demigod, I am not going to leave you at some stranger’s house. And I just might as well humiliate King Uragiru when I summon forth my—”
Valverno fell silent as his mouth suddenly spoke a few words but no sound came out. He spoke with his mouth again and still not sound came out. Then he felt his wings started to flip from their standing balance and made him completely fall to the ground. He couldn’t tell what cosmic force was draining his hybrid strength and forcing him to become weak.
“Humiliating, didn’t you say?” asked a man’s voice.
King Uragiru came walking from the shadows feet away. His face was completely different. His white hair was now dark brown and he no longer had wrinkles that made him an old man; the king shown himself to be forty years younger.
“I’d say with all your power and strength given to you by the gods, not even you can rival against the parallel word in which my ancestor has created: the man who almost killed by Teutates’s ancestor. The place we are in is a place where the power of time can be controlled by me. I can turn back time on a person’s physique, making his body and his muscle or magic strength weaker or the same strength when they have breathed their first air when entering into the world. You must be humiliated that your power could not beat against me power.”
Uragiru walked up to the down demigod and the Siren.
“The raw power, known as Time Control, I wield can only work on the human body. I can turn a human back into a small baby just born from the mother, kind of like the Shadow Men did to you, Valverno, but you and Marina are not humans. My power has no effect on non-humans, but it does work on their mental strength. In this different dimension created by my ancestor, there are number of possibilities I can do.
“All thanks to my ancestor who bathed in the Pool of Shadows, the place where the element of magic was created and created from the Titans. When the Titans dipped themselves into the Pool of Shadows, magic was created and wanted to become gods. But, as the legends go, they were casted away, leaving behind only Lusìvar to set them free.
“When Lusìvar does set them free, the witch and I will do away with him. Lusìvar trusts us both and we’re going to use that trust to our advantage. When the Titans are free, the Shadow King dead (or under my control), and the Titans under Belverda’s mind-controlling spells, there will be a new order.”
Valverno grunted at King Uragiru’s plans of conquering the two islands. There was no way Lusìvar was going to have two backstabbers take control of the Titans; he knew Lusìvar would strike them first before they could touch him with a dagger.
“If you think you can kill the Shadow King, you’re wrong,” grunted Valverno. “He doesn’t have a physical body, remember? How could you kill a Spirit that doesn’t have a mortal body?”
King Uragiru snapped his fingers and Marina and Valverno rose sharply into the air. Their bodies floated in the air, with their feet barely touching the invisible ground. Valverno’s wings were folded against a measure of power that far succeeds his own. His arms, legs and tail were pulled down, as were Marina’s arms.
Valverno saw Marina struggling to break free, but to no sign of winning. They were both appeared if they were chained through a magical force being control by the king standing before them; he is not the old, wise king they came to know as he was an entirely different person now.
“You underestimated the capabilities of magic, demigod. You have been using your divine power all your life, after you killed the Minotaur with it. When the news reached me that a Minotaur was killed by a single specimen that was human and dragon, I knew it was you and a matter of time you would find the truth about yourself. And here I have all the divine power I need and I just could steal yours away right away.”
“Similar how Belverda’s sister witches stole the youths of young girls and tried to stay immortal? Now I know why Teutates hates magic; it can twist a person’s mind and make them forget to be human.”
He softly placed his hands on her shoulder. “Such a beautiful creature. It is quite a shame you married the wrong specimen. You should have chosen me instead. How could you turn your back on me I was the one who took you in, gave you the food of my table, and gave you a place of live?”
“I’d already taken her,” shouted Valverno. “I’ve already won her heart, and she couldn’t come to love a human or a god, besides me. So, if you want to win her over, you’ll have to become me.”
The king ignored Valverno and only glared at the Siren. “Since you are refusing to be with me and be more loyal to a worthless half-specimen, I will show you how worthy I am to you. I will make you
