“We have seen everything we needed to see,” said Wasso. “We have seen Vaeludar in his changed form and his talk with Uragiru. My twin brother. Me. Lots of soldiers heard what ‘Vaeludar’ really was, and we’d never known he would have been an ancient demigod.”
“We have traveled with him to the Northern Region,” said Monico. “We’ve seen what the Shadow King could do, and we saw him take control of five Dragons and turn them into a large body with five heads. And we had no idea Uragiru was having an alliance with him. I was taught to not to serve any man searching for power, and Uragiru lost my respect.”
“So what are you doing here?” asked Teutates.
Monico and Wasso looked at each other then back at Geraldus and Teutates. “We wanted to rejoin Valverno,” they both said.
Valverno smiled greatly, as his old two companions were thinking of joining him, but he saw their sad expressions.
“But he too has a different changed form we don’t like,” said Wasso. “So, we’d thought of joining you, Geraldus.”
Valverno sparked with great interest; despite the fact the twin sprinters were joining Geraldus. Wasso and Monico came riding with ten thousand horsemen, making their forces at about forty-five thousand. Thirty thousand men on foot and fifteen thousand horseback riders were going to fight against Uragiru’s seventy thousand men.
Geraldus seemed he was willing to let the men join him, but Teutates was thinking otherwise. Teutates thought the twin splinters were spies for Uragiru. And when the twins would have an opportunity, they would backstab both Geraldus and Teutates. Teutates didn’t trust the two strangers.
Before things could get any more complicated, Valverno flew down and landed behind Geraldus and Teutates. He made sure to get into view of Wasso and Monico.
Wasso and Monaco’s eyes saw the hybrid landing so suddenly. “It’s you!” they both exclaimed.
This caused both Teutates and Geraldus to look the way the twin splinters were seeing. And in the center of the village, even though Valverno has no fear of his appearance, a lot of eyes were gazing at the new form of Valverno.
“I am an enemy of Lusìvar; are you allies of Lusìvar or are you my allies, Wasso and Monico?” asked Valverno.
Wasso and Monico looked at each other and turn back to see the hybrid. “We will be allies in the battles to come and we will only fight for the will of the Living Life.”
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Two days passed since Wasso and Monico were joining their forces with Geraldus and Teutates, along with Valverno who was the leader of three clans. The armies of the joining forces stayed rested in camps away from the nearby villages. The leaders of each army was discussing heavily of how they would handle the invading army coming their way. It was going to be forty-five thousand against seventy thousand.
The chances of them winning were not in their favor. However, Valverno did state they did have a few White Knights with them: Geraldus and Sora. Valverno told Wasso and Monico Geraldus was the White Knight of Loyalty and Sora was his half-sister originally from Pangaea, like the demigod was, and the White Knight of Charity. He didn’t tell them about Teutates, as he didn’t want to be told he was a White Knight.
This came as quite a shock to Wasso and Monico. Not only did they meet a White Knight of Charity in the Northern Region, but they are meeting with the original White Knight of Charity.
Valverno went to explain he was forced into bathe in the Pool of Shadows when there was a whip aiming at Marina, who Valverno saved from being pulled into the Pool. He was dragged into the Pool where both he and the Leviathan drowned. The Titan told him about Lusìvar was a Titan and how he was to free the last imprisoned Titans.
Wasso and Monico were also shocked by that kind of news and how Valverno went to say Belverda and Uragiru were planning to backstab Lusìvar and try to mind-control the Titans once they were free under the Summer Solstice in a matter of three years. It was only matter of time if Valverno would have found the last artifact and cleared all the obstacles getting in his way.
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As the dusk was setting on the fortieth day, the scouts of the Eagle Clan have reported the invading army was several hours away and covered several distant foothills. The forty-five thousand men had set up camp dozens of miles away from Geraldus’s village.
Valverno looked from the high sky to make sure no rogue soldiers would be infiltrating the army. His eyes haven’t caught the sight of any rogue soldiers sneaking in or out of Valverno’s army. There have been a few disturbances of soldiers who weren’t getting along and nearly broke out fist fights. But Valverno would be the one to hold back the fights before they could become brutal.
He learned Geraldus stayed behind with a few hundred men to escort any civilians like peasants or blacksmiths. Basically, people who don’t know how to fight with axes or swords were escorted away from Geraldus’s village and moved to a saver location. Geraldus had been moving his people and any nearby villages or towns away from what a formidable battle.
With no civilians who won’t be caught in the crossfires, Geraldus and his patrol guards returned to the encampment of the united army. And when he got back, it would be time to march.
The invading army was on the horizon. Thousands of lit torches the darkening horizon. Many were spread for some wide miles. Marching was heard in
