Valverno head-butted the king, who fell to the ground. Valverno pulled out the dagger from his chest and his wings destroyed the two spikes penetrating his body; he was free at last.
After breaking free, the demigod stretched out his right arm and a long white, glowing spear appeared. It was a long thin spear with a four-foot blade. After drawing out a weapon of his liking, Valverno snipped a finger and Marina behind Uragiru suddenly dropped to her feet. “Sorry, Marina, I’ll be a few seconds, once I do some god slaying here.”
“You can’t you that! No one can! No one mere mortal can break my world I have created! I am the human god king of this world! No mortals can’t say otherwise.”
“Any ordinary mortal, in your dictionary! I am a demigod, half mortal. The other half is a god waiting to take over the half mortal when the half mortal feels weak and ready to go into disappear. You claim you have great power, but the power you hold is false power, as is magic. Magic is a false power as illusions are false images like you are.”
Valverno dashed and sliced off one of the king’s arms. Then his tail plunged into Uragiru’s legs to prevent him from moving. Valverno could hear the young version of the king yelling in great pain.
Then the demigod swung the spear and cutting off the upper half of the king’s body from his bottom half. “Who’s the weak one now, false human god?” Feeling the power being channeled through him, Valverno grabbed Uragiru’s hair of the head from the upper half he just cut and lifted up the entire half body.
“You tried to mistreat my love with your own hands, considering the gods gave her to me and not to you. You betrayed the human race. You allied with Lusìvar with promises of false power that only Lusìvar will only have. And worst of all, you called yourself a god yet you bleed. There is one thing I have learned about immortal gods: they don’t bleed. But you do. This is the end of your world of illusions, where I am a human god slayer and will destroy this world of illusions you created and your false body, and the last thing you will see is the blade of illusion running through your skull.”
Seeing the tears of horror drip from the head Valverno was carrying, he vigorously threw Uragiru’s upper half torso into the air and lifted up the spear he created pointed directly at the head. And the last thing the illusion image of King Uragiru’s younger self, and through his own eyes, was that his head falling and being impaled through the spear’s long and wide blade.
Uragiru’s body on the spear (and the bottom half of the body made from illusion magic) faded into purple-red smoke.
After seeing his victory, Valverno dropped the spear and rushed over to Marina and embraced her in his arms. “Sorry to have taken so long.”
Marina was overjoyed to see the hybrid embracing her. “Oh, my love. You did come to protect me and you have shown the false king what strength you have.”
“It is because I love you. It was no mistake our first meeting was the power of fate. We were destined to be a part of each other. And no matter what kind of danger there is, I will drop everything I would be in and come to your aid. Speaking of danger, how did you even get here?”
“It was that witch! Belver—”
A sound of snapping fingers sprang loudly. The dark space quickly changed back to the throne room.
Valverno and Marina blinked their eyes several time; they were no longer in the fake world but in the throne room. They were lying on the ground and feeling weaker than they were.
Behind them, Valverno saw the king Uragiru sitting on his throne; he was the old man Valverno and Marina remembered seeing. His face was heavily scared and his eyes were petrified if he was struck by a sharp blade. Then he waved his hands at the door entrance, which burst open quickly.
Uragiru’s bodyguards came and swarmed around Marina and Valverno. They placed their spears around the two prisoners and were ready for an order to kill both of them. About a hundred of them were ready to strike and kill without any hesitating.
Then Uragiru pointed a hand at Valverno and suddenly black chains came floating down from the ceiling and wrapped around Valverno’s entire body. In a matter of seconds, Valverno was chained up and couldn’t move a single portion of his body.
“If you won’t join me, then you will die. Guards, escort Marina outside and place her on the stable set in the lower levels of the city. And send word to my secret army at once and have them invade the Western Region. Tell them to kill Geraldus, his family, and everyone living in the Western Region. I want no obstacles in my way to victory. Kill everyone in the Western Region! Kill them all!”
Two guards grabbed Marina and carried her outside the throne room. The rest of the guards placed their spears at Valverno. One guard grabbed the Crystal Sword from Valverno and gave it the king.
“The Crystal Sword will fit me nicely,” said the king. “The Crystal Dragon will always favor the strongest and not the weak.” The king began to walk with a small battalion of soldiers while thirty men kept their spears pointing at the demigod. “You may have won against my younger self in my world of illusions, but you will never win against the real me.”
Valverno wanted to talk back but one of the black chains was wrapped around his chin tightly he couldn’t utter a word or even move a finger. His body was completely trapped at the mercy of the king. Even back in the real world from whatever dimension he and Marina were in, he
