Marina glared at the man she thought to be a father figure. She saw Uragiru with impious eyes and a hand ready to mind control her. She suddenly spat in his face, and he made a loud growl.
“Do what you want,” said Uragiru. “You can’t win against me in this realm. This is my realm and my kingdom. I am the god here.”
“No,” grunted Valverno. He wasn’t going to keep floating in the air and watch Uragiru does want he wants to the Siren. There was some strength left in him and he suddenly start to pull free from whatever was chaining him in the air. His feet landed on the ground and rushed ahead with sharp claws.
But Uragiru waved his hand with circled fingers at Valverno, who froze in a second. Uragiru unleashed a magic wave of what seems to be an invisible ice spell. He saw Valverno standing still like a white marble stone statue. “This is my world you are in, and here I am the god. No one is above the god king. Everything may be an illusion, but an illusion under my creation nonetheless. And you are not above me… the god king.
“Since you dare to defy me instead of joining me, Marina, you will now face the penalty: you will watch me watch I lay this unworthy specimen to waste. You will watch as he will slowly die in this world of illusions and the real world where your bodies lie in my throne room.”
Uragiru snipped fingers on both hands, and long spikes of a black Shadow power pierced through Valverno’s body with ease, sticking from the end they pierced and out the other they came out. Uragiru pulled out a dagger from his cloak and stabbed Valverno in the chest but he kept the dagger’s pointy tip on Valverno’s chest.
Valverno growled in agony as Marina helplessly watched as the demigod feeling the pain of a dagger sinking deep into his chest. The Siren shouted his name “Valverno” to him, but his loud growls made his ears unable to pick up what Marina was saying.
Uragiru released the dagger and the dagger very, very, very slowly magical sank into Valverno’s skin. Valverno growls suddenly grunted softer, as he could feel the dagger slowly going into his skin, moving slower than a snail moving with a heavy shell.
“You now know the feeling of pain, and you will be feeling the aftereffects. The deeper the dagger sinks into you, the more harm it is going to do to your real body sleeping in my throne room. Such a pity to see raw power go to waste. Now, the Crystal Dragon will see he’d picked the wrong living specimen to be his ‘son’ and his hybrid warrior. He should have chosen me, the king of an island and its civilians.”
Valverno grunted and growled loudly as he felt the dagger sinking into his skin. He saw Uragiru walking back to Marina. Every time he would move his body, he felt each spear moving back and forth within his body if they were sharp saws cutting through a tree trunk. And the dagger would also sink deeper less than an inch by the minute.
The great struggle he was making made him feel weaker and weaker of each passing second. He arms could barely slant and his legs couldn’t bend. His wings were folded so tightly they were roll up like rolling a carpet. It was if there were chains tied around his entire body, there wasn’t any joints of his that could make him move and made him look like a stick.
He could not bear to watch the king try to kidnap the Siren whom Valverno was sworn into marriage. He did give a sacred vow to protect Marina from any harm, not because she was a wife or a creature of the sea; he did love her and that is what made him feel alive.
The bond of his love for her kept him growing strong, and he wasn’t going to allow another man take the woman away from the demigod.
Valverno gave a gently sign and gripping his hands into tight fists. The demigod felt his wings unfolding and legs going into a standing position; he felt himself breaking free from whatever was tying him down. He felt the power of his god and human sides converging into one form within his body, a great unison of mortally and immortally rallying into one form.
Of this scary, great, unknown, mysterious transformation Valverno was feeling, he slipped from his floating positon and fell to the unseen ground.
This caught the attention of Uragiru, who just slammed his hand on Marina’s hands. He saw the hybrid starting to stand up and free from the magic keeping him trapped.
“This may be a world of illusions, but I am the human god here, not you!” said Uragiru. “There may be some resistance people may put up with. However, in the end, I end up coming on top of everyone. You may have broken free, but you’ll be tied down soon enough.”
Then Uragiru waved his hand toward Valverno but was grabbed so tightly by one of Valverno’s hands. Uragiru gazed upon Valverno’s eyes, which weren’t demonic anymore; Valverno’s eyes had turned human.
“You are no king of Shimabellia and you are not a god. You may have created a different dimension of illusions, but it is created by illusions, objects that are not real or physical, something we can see but can’t touch. And I am here to show you I am not weak as you claim me to be. You just can’t admit I am
