Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 72
Both Valverno and Sora were kneeling on the ground. Sora was in perfect shape to fight, but her demigod brother was in half-shape to fight.
“Valverno, can you hear me?” asked Sora.
“Yes,” answered Valverno. “My mortal body has been weakened by the shield I created, but it ended up backfiring on me instead of protecting me.”
“You could have died in one swing of the Leviathan.”
“But it was worth saving a little girl from a monstrous creature like a giant Titan. After all, sister, I am the elder sibling of this golden family, and it is the duty of the elder sibling to look after the younger ones and the fishy wife who I call family.” Valverno stood back on his feet; his waved his wings in circles and a great power flowing through those things channeled into his human body. His arm muscles grew half an inch longer; his strength increased thanks to the armor gauntlet he found in the cave in the Northern Region attached to his right arm, which also stretched over his shoulders, and taking over his left arm.
Sora smiled of Valverno regaining his former strength back. “You’re really are weak when it comes to facing the enemy and saving the people you love.”
“Our morale is more important than a gold coin, for a gold coin could always be replaced by another gold coin but people can’t be replaced. We get one chance. One shot. One life. After the one chance is over, there can be no refunds.”
Valverno moved away from Sora and looked at the Leviathan. The Titan swung its arm instead of the tail toward Valverno. The humanlike hand made into a fist if it was about to squash a small bug like a flightless housefly, and it aimed at Sora and Valverno; two birds with one stone was about to happen.
Valverno leaned down and folded his wings thinly and curled his tail over his head. The pointy end of his tail turned sharp and poisonous like a scorpion’s tail.
“Valverno, what are you doing?” asked Sora.
Before Valverno could answer an immediate answer, his curved legs made him jump from the ground, leaving behind a small hole from a hard push his legs made. He unfolded his wings wide open and his tail pointing at the falling Titan’s hand. Valverno growled loudly as he curved his body sideways and have the claws of his dragon feet also pointing at the Titan’s big hand.
In a splitting second, Valverno landed on the palm of the hand and stung his tail deep into the skin of the hand. Then Valverno sank the claws of his feet into the skin after he tail stung the hand of the left arm.
The Leviathan gave a small yelp of pain of a small bee sting it had endured for what seemed forever since it felt pain but not something small as a housefly. The Leviathan moved his hand closer to its eyes to see what small insect had stung its hand.
Valverno saw the head of the Leviathan coming up close and shared a growling expression. “Titan! You should have died when the First Generation of the Living Life ended,” said Valverno, looking into the eyes of the Leviathan. “I am Valverno, son of the Crystal Dragon and Demigod of the Second Generation of Living Life.”
The Leviathan grunted at the word “demigod”, which meant the Titan knew who was at first sight. “Valverno, you forfeited your life long ago.” The Leviathan crunched eight fingers together to crush the demigod in the palm of its hand.
Valverno felt the eight fingers crawling over him like an octopus wrapping its eight legs around its prey. Crouching under the Titan’s fingers, Valverno managed to use the curved ends of his wings to detach the Crystal Sword and wrapped his tail by the hilt and part of the blade, pushing it into the Titan’s palm.
The Leviathan growled and pulled his fingers away from Valverno, who then took the sword into his hands and spin-slash the blue blade on the eight tentacle-like fingers.
Valverno seized this chance to dig the blade into the Titan’s wrist and run around the Titan’s hands, with the blade cut deep into the Titan’s flesh.
In a full complete circle, Valverno ripped through his big enemy’s wrist and used his tail to finish off the cut-edge hand from the Titan’s left arm. Valverno saw the hand falling from his view and disappear over the cliffs, knowing a part of the Titan fell into the Pool of Shadows.
The Titan growled in a swelling pain it was feeling from its arm. It never had thought a creature the size of a housefly would have be able to easily rip off one of its hands. Yet, no blood drooled from its torn wrist.
Valverno lowered his eyebrows that of a great expression of anger. “And I have been reborn into a second lifetime, Titan.” Valverno jumped off the Leviathan’s torn arm and used his wide wings to glide around the Titan’s wavering body. The air coming from the Titan’s body made it easier for Valverno stay in the air and making him glide toward the one item he was looking for and could see it with his hybrid eyes: the leg armor.
However, it was more of a foot than a full leg, a sabaton armor. This was a specific type of armor forged and made for the foot of a living being. This sabaton was in perfect form for it to be placed on a dragon’s foot: Valverno’s foot.
Valverno was within a small range to get what belongs on his dragon foot and the one holding a part of his true powers of his half-god form. His body twisted and turned around the swirling tail of the Leviathan, so he would be able to maneuver and