Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 78

“People of this age build their homes within a city, but to big enough to house hundreds of millions of people,” she said. “Pangaea had more cities a hundred times bigger than this city, and it was very more active. And these humans are not using any magic at all. How can these species of this Generation live in such a small space?”

“Pangaea was then, Sora; Shimabellia and Isla Maeli are now,” said Valverno. “They don’t wield any magic powers like the Pangaeans when they were alive. People here aren’t used to using any magic, so they build everything out of their hands. These people show such great discipline and how they can manage to they can live, without the use of magic. That is how they evolved from creatures living from caves: discipline, teamwork, and encouragement.

“If it weren’t for us (you, me and the other White Knights), these people would have evolved on their own. They would still be stuck in their caves for another ten thousand years and I would have, maybe, awaken in another ten thousand years instead waking of seventeen years ago. ”

Sora wasn’t circulating the math of years on her mind. She was confused by the years her brother was talking about and couldn’t calculate the number of years when he and her could have awaken for another ten thousand years. Number of theories and possibilities was never Sora’s greatest talent; she was trained as a warrior of war than a scientist of math. She had no talent in the world of mathematics.

Valverno walked through crowded alleys where stone rubbles were still piled over and wounded people lying in the streets. Guards were posted on the unrumpled buildings that still standing tall. Several carts were packed with people buying and selling medicine.

“Just what happened here?”

“It was an ambush,” said Valverno. Valverno came to a stop at a fountain; the same fountain Marina sang her song the first time he came to the city. “It was on my wedding day a few days ago.” Valverno looked at the fountain, which was broken and the pillars that sprung the water from the hole had been destroyed. “Several monsters fell from the sky and a dark cloud. Lusìvar invaded while Marina and I were confessing our love in front of the eyes of these mortals and the gods. It was long and bloody. And you get the picture.”

“Not quite the story I was expecting,” said Sora.

“It was not my idea for to have an earlier wedding. The people I know already had scheduled the wedding to be held in a week, but it was changed by—”

“Me,” said Marina. The Siren stood some short length from Valverno and Sora. “I told the king of this castle and Geraldus to switch the wedding day, but it seems I still don’t have regrets to have changed it, even if it did anger my husband or a battle causing an uproar inside a castle home.”

Sora looked past Valverno’s shoulders to see the Siren giving a strange stare toward Sora. “Your idea? And you didn’t care what would have happened?”

“Of course not,” said Marina. “I do care of what happens. I just don’t care of being lonely in the dark.”

“You Sirens do have a way of causing disasters, even when you were just fish fits swimming in the open seas long ago. Sometimes you would come would crawling out from the waves of the sea and drag any lurking animals.”

“What does that have to do with me?”

“I’m just saying from experience, Sirens have always caused trouble and always made choices that lead to disasters. And by switching this wedding day, which is supposed to be a day of great importance and the best day to remember and a brain filled with many memories, ended up becoming a bad memorial day for you and your dear husband.

“And I think it is a big mistake why my brother had to marry you in the first place. I mean, marrying a fish from the seas and evolved from watery minnows? Valverno would had been better off with someone else who the surface world instead of the world living underwater.”

Marina found Sora insulting her and pulled out her bow along with an arrow, pointing at the girl was calling to be Valverno’s sister. Sora replied back, with her pulling out her twin daggers.

However, before they could start a catfight, Valverno rushed himself between the two female rivals. “Enough!” With one small flap of his wings, Valverno unleashed a small air gush that made Marina and Sora drop their weapons from their hands. “What’s done is done. We can’t let old affairs intrude on present times. So unless any of you have the power of time to undo these past events from happening, we’re moving forward.”

Sora and Marina remained silent, staring past the demigod; this was one rivalry Valverno was somehow going have to get through. After some moments of staring at each other and studying each other’s movements, they preceded to grab their weapons from the ground and sheathed them.

“But before we move any forward, Geraldus,” said Valverno. Valverno walked up to Geraldus, who was standing on the other side of the fountain with Flarefur.

“Yes?” said Geraldus.

“Why didn’t you tell me you were a White Knight? Of the travels I’m been on and the battles you could have been with me, fighting alongside me. But when I traveled to the Northern Region, your son, Flavius, came instead of coming yourself? But of all times, why did you hide your identity of the White Knight of Loyalty?”

Geraldus remained silent from answering immediately. He knows the demigod was demanding from the man who raised him an immediate answer. “I’ve been quiet for a long time, Valverno, Chosen Warrior of the Gods, as my ancestors have been since the days of Herus. The reason I’d concealed my identity from you was your identity,” said Geraldus.

“My identity?” asked Valverno.

“I