Dreams To Return: The God Of The Tower
23. Medusans

The sea breeze looks so fresh blowing through the skin, coconut leaves that grow around the coast seem to dance cheerfully with the wind, the waves that roll against the white sand so comforting the eyes who look at it. For the person who first saw it would not have thought that in that place there would soon be a disaster.

A white building surrounded by rocks looks so enchanting like a mysterious place that holds a treasure, not too flashy or closed, some parts of the building seem to have been destroyed in the eating of time, cracks and mosses are on some sides of the building. On the walls strange carvings formed like ancient paintings carved in such a way.

"So this is Medusa's headquarters?"

And right in front of the entrance a black-haired young man seemed to be leisurely standing there, looking carefully at the place with the thought of how could an abandoned building be so good as if someone was still taking care of it.

"Hey shouldn't we be here?" Fobetor.

"What the freak said is true, are you completely insane - I mean let's just go" Sela Rian.

At this moment the two men were visibly standing behind Novan's body, with eyes that stared fearfully at the building, both of them tried to pull Novan away but how strong they tried to make Novan not move from his place.

"Let's go in"

"Let's just go home!!!"

"Isn't your condition not good?! If there is a fight"

"Basic, this is not the headquarters of the Gorgons" Novan appears to point towards an engraving on one of the white stone pillars there, the cracked and indistinct carving vaguely depicts a woman holding a spear and over her head a knight-like headguard covering her head.

"This is the former temple of the goddess Athena?" Fobetor knew the figure of the picture, a figure he would never forget. The patron goddess of the city of Athens, the Goddess of wisdom and knowledge as well as the Greek Goddess of war, was the epithet Athena had.

"It seems that this has been abandoned for a long time, but why is there still anyone visiting?" Rian caught the silhouette of a woman who looked bent there and put her hands together as if praying.

Instead of suspecting Novan approached him "sorry can I pray next to you?" The hooded woman then simply nodded. In the silence of the two just closing their eyes, there was not a word of prayer the longest of the two until suddenly the woman opened her mouth to speak.

"Sorry, are you a worshiper of the goddess Athena?" The woman's golden eyes seemed to sparkle in the darkness and her faintly fanged teeth Novan could see for a moment.

"What about you?" Still closing his eyes Novan asked in a calm tone, pretending to be unaware that the woman next to him had been behind him, ready to kill him at any moment.

"I once believed her." answered the woman, her tone sounded low and deep, for a moment it sounded sad.

"That's it.."

"You haven't answered my question, are you a follower of the Goddess Athena?" But then he asked with a sharp look for the umpteenth time.

"Actually.. I do not believe in the gods" the woman looked surprised and still with her eyes closed Novan again continued his sentence "for what do I believe in an overly human figure like them? You also agree with me, don't you, Medusa?" Medusa who was ready to attack then froze still.

Silence struck for a while along with Medusa who was thinking how could the Youth in front of her recognize her even though they did not look at each other.

"How do you know..?"

"Of course, I don't want to be sure I'll see you" what Novan said was in accordance with what he believed, he believes the familiar and Dejavu feeling he feels every time he meets a new person arises because of old events that he has forgotten. And Medusa was one of the people he had met.

Never mind being threatened, a feeling of relief somehow burst into the heart of Novan, as if meeting an old friend, a friend who had disappeared for a long time, that's what Novan felt.

'By the way it seems like I also felt this when I met Arin and Abdi.. Are they also yes. ' Inner Novan for a moment.

"Because it seems like I'm better then I'll leave now" said Novan who then turned and walked away from Medusa still with his eyes closed.

"𝑱𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒂𝒏 𝒃𝒆𝒓𝒄𝒂𝒏𝒅𝒂.."

"Hm?"

"Basic strange man!! Don't think I'll just let you go!!!" Medusa quickly changed her form into a half-snake woman and tried to attack Novan ferociously.

From Medusa's moving speed and unique power that can turn anyone into stone to see, Novan knows he can't win against the snake woman without his help, but he also did not want to continue to rely on himself who could not even distinguish between friends and opponents. As much as possible, Novan continued to run from one pillar to another in order to stay away from the range of Medusa's attack, he did not want to fight

"Damn, I won't be able to get out if I keep my eyes closed. Once our eyes meet then I'll turn to stone" Novan reached into his pocket quickly "lucky I had time to buy this" from the reflection of a small mirror Novan can see the figure of Medusa.

His upper body appeared to be wearing priestly clothes that looked extremely shabby, on his head the green-hanging snakes looked to find where he was now while his lower body looked like a large snake tail.

Not enough with the sudden chaos of a little mouse approaching him and talking "Perseus is ahead", Novan knows it is Fobetor. If Perseus meets Medusa, it is not impossible for the young man to kill Medusa with the help of his glass shield, now the only way to escape is to make Medusa a little quiet so that Perseus is not lured into the temple.

"What about Rian?"

"I asked him to hold Perseus for as long as possible, we better get out"

"𝐃𝐢𝐬𝐢𝐧𝐢 𝐤𝐚𝐮 𝐫𝐮𝐩𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚!"

Suddenly Medusa appeared behind the pillar where Novan was hiding, and with full strength he then tried to attack Novan which unfortunately his attack missed and made the pillar in front of him collapse.

"Great, this building is already very fragile! it's gonna collapse soon!!"

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