In a sudden flash, Flavius drew out a sword. Valverno did the same, and both people had their swords drawn at each other’s faces.
“Enough you two!” Geraldus swipe a spear across the each sword each of the two boys were pointing at each other. Geraldus and Sora, who were both in their White Knight uniforms (bright, shining, white-glowing armor), stood against Valverno and Flavius. Sora held one of her kukri knives at Valverno while Geraldus held a spear toward Flavius.
Valverno and Flavius’s argument was heating up into a near-ready sibling rivalry fighting with large metal sticks. This had caused Sora and Geraldus to interfere from having the two boys from trying to cause a violent fuss.
“Enough bickering, you two!” shouted Geraldus. Geraldus swing his spear quickly near the hands of Flavius and Valverno. Their swords were quickly flung from their hands and Sora grabbed the sword flying swords with her hands.
Flavius grunted and walked passed Valverno, rudely bumping into Valverno’s shoulder while passing him; Flavius showed there wasn’t any mutual trust between the two boys who grew up together in the same house.
Valverno felt Flavius bumping into his shoulder as he hazily saw Flavius walking away from him in disgust. Valverno didn’t feel anything around his shoulder after being bumped, so he would go to ignore what Flavius did. It seemed the brotherly bond they both shared looked like it was gone, and it was because of Alaric’s death.
Geraldus and Sora withdrew their weapons and walked back from Valverno. “It will take a long time for fresh wounds to heal, Valverno,” said Geraldus, grabbing the Crystal Sword and tossing it to Valverno. “Flavius still trusts you, but he is just too shocked to hear of you being the demigod hero he grew up listening to and also learn he is a son of a White Knight. Like all children, he thought it was a belief you could save everybody’s lives, including my eldest son’s life.”
Valverno signed heavily. “It was a regret of my part. Now what was supposed to become Alaric’s burden will become Flavius.”
“Yes, but we must not dwell on the past. We have to focus on gathering what forces we can muster. It won’t be long before King Uragiru will send word to every lord, duke, and earl of a false treason he would accuse me of. We would have to fight the king’s loyal army within a fortnight, and my army is smaller than his.”
“We’re going have to get as many as fighters as we can,” said Sora. “We may be White Knights, but we can’t just kill an entire army without reason, we just need to kill those who poisoned the minds of the weak-minded, lesser people. These higher ups would be our target, and if we take those people out, then the lesser people would be set free from their lies. And our White Knight power is weak, just like your powers, brother. No offence.”
“None taken. When I went against the Minotaur, there were some moments where I did feel weak and not strong enough to take on the beast. Even with the three of us, our stamina of magic power is slightly weaker and none of us wanted to hurt any innocent people in the process. The damage would have been colossal if we went out on full power.”
“Sometimes innocent people would have to die in any crossfire, at any powerful crossfire there could be,” said Sora.
“I just hope no child would have to be caught in future fights when it comes to Lusìvar and his minions. Well, Geraldus, did you send out messenger birds to your loyal bannermen?”
“Yes, I have, so it will be some time before I hear any word from them. A few days at the most.”
Valverno stroke his chin, waiting a few days or a week for people to come answering for Geraldus would too boring and too long for him to wait. So, Valverno thought it would be best if he would travel to the Northern Region and gather what armies he could get and march south and attack the capital city from the north.
Or at least distract some part of the king’s army so Geraldus army could attack from the west. King Uragiru would be attacked from two battlefronts; it could overwhelm the military force.
Then another idea Valverno has thought but mustn’t be necessary: he himself could attack the capital city. This was something he didn’t want to do as he could destroy the entire population of the city, and there wouldn’t be people to save. He learned when it comes to great power, there came great responsibility. If he would to abuse or overuse his power, his godly power could have devastating side effects such as destroying villages and people living in the villages.
He could not risk unleashing his full power upon any terrain and inhabitants. Once he would let out a furry blast, there would be no take backs; the power he released from his body would go all-out and not stop until the unleashed power had destroyed its target, and the bigger the blast, the bigger damage would have been done.
He was going have to resort to human power instead of god power. He didn’t want to unleash powerful power upon any beings within a ten-mile length of a big battle.
In his train of thought, the front door crept open. Marina entered into the house as the twin boys came running down the stairs and exiting through the door Marina entered through.
Marina didn’t mind the boys passing by her, as long as she was walking to Valverno. Marina drew her eyes from the running boys to the twin girls running right behind them. The four kids dashed right outside the house as Marina was entering. She walked to where Valverno was standing.
“Planning on something without telling me?” she asked. Her voice sounded very soggy.
Valverno nodded his head.
“Just what are you planning without notifying me?” she asked. The Siren suddenly raised
