Twilight of a Hybrid, стр. 79
“After all, they were scientists working on experiments of rumors swelling around them. I wasn’t sure if you were a child they wanted to have of if they went of their way through experimenting to create you.
“I didn’t have the knowledge to know if you were Valverno. They didn’t give me any information about you, only to hold you until you were able to strong and fight on your own. Through the years I watch you grow and your power still hadn’t revealed to be the demigod my ancestors have been waiting for, but I know you are the demigod now. And you are regaining your power.”
“If you’re a White Knight of Loyalty, why didn’t you take the time to search for me while I in an underground chamber?” asked Valverno.
“It was complicated; when you were casted into an embryo when they Shadow Men invaded, the child born of Herus thought you and the four White Knights have died in that attack.
“However, Herus survived the attack, but his memory had been wiped clean after the ambush the Shadow Men put into place. When he returned to his children after he survived and without his memories, he settled down and to make a kingdom grow.
“One of his children, however, saw you in person but you wouldn’t remember the child. He goes by the name Merken.”
“I remember that name,” said Sora. “I never knew he was a child of Herus.”
“Merken, who is also my ancestor and the eldest child of Herus, saw Valverno only once in his lifetime. He knew his father had brain injuries and thought he had abandoned his master to start a new life in the new Generation beginning to take shape. He thought of searching for Valverno for a time.
“But since he had a father with amnesia and several younger siblings to look after; he faced a difficult choice. Give up his family and search for the demigod or not look for the demigod and stick to his family. He had the choice of honor in one hand and family on the other hand? Which responsibilities do you think he would have chosen?”
“So, it your ancestors, through the line of a bloodline White Knights,” said Valverno, “continued what I and the original White Knights did and personally helped with humanity grown from living in caves to living in stoned walls.”
Geraldus nodded his head. “The White Knights of Loyalty have all helped humanity ascend. We also helped other creatures ascend to greater heights than they were ten thousand years ago: Centaurs, Dragons, Fairies, Griffins, Merpeople, Pegasi, Sea Serpents, and Unicorns. We helped what was back then: primitive creatures. They ascended to a civilization of different creatures and humans living on the two islands.”
“So your ancestors were too busy being teachers and scholars with many of the unborn beings coming into the light. I can see why I was being left behind; you’re loyalty wasn’t just to me but to all living things living on the islands.”
“And it was Herus who named the islands Shimabellia and Isla Maeli. It was my ancestors who finished what you started long ago when everyone and everything were growing. Soon enough, danger also lurked in the Shadows. My ancestors, who were the only White Knights, stood against the dangers and they were soon joined mysteriously joined by the White Knights of Charity. Both White Knights managed to keep the peace, for a time.
“Then as soon as the White Knights of Charity came, they disappeared. They’re the only ones who came into joining the formation of the Second Generation. The White Knights of Strength and Trust were never heard from.”
“Those two White Knights must have sacrificed their powers to save mine, knowing I was of great importance.” Valverno leaned against the broken fountain, with him placing a leg on the fountain’s stem. “In their memory, I must not let their deaths go in vain.”
Geraldus laughed suddenly.
“What’s so funny?” asked Valverno.
“I find it rather funny you look evil and dementing, but you sound like you’re still an honorable demigod,” said Geraldus.
“Laugh it all you want. I’m still in control of myself. If Lusìvar wants to control me with some kind of magic, just let him try. He has no power over me, even if he is a spirit of the dead or a long-lost Titan. He may control my half mortal body, but there is no way he can control my half god body.”
“Enough of this talk of White Knights and evolution,” said Sora. “What about this threat you speak of Lusìvar? What greater threat does he possess that we don’t know about?”
Valverno leaned away from the fountain. “Follow me first. I’ll tell you that when we go see King Uragiru.” Valverno walked again and led the group through more crowds of people, creatures, markets, and alleys and toward the upper levels of the capital city of Shimabellia.
Once they got the upper level of the city, more construction was going on. It must have been here, the top level of the city, where the most damage was taken. Humans were formed in lines and handing rocks to another person right next to them while the Dragons were lifting the heavy rubble stones.
Griffins heaved small stones with their small claws and the Unicorns had lifted big rocks with their magical horns attached to their heads. Everyone was pitching in to help reconstruct the capital city, the home of the royal family of Shimabellia and the capital of trade routes and the main traveling route to the Northern Region.
“Never knew these people and animals could work together lifting and carrying big