Dreams To Return: The God Of The Tower
75. Eternal Darkness (1)

Darkness unfolds in its shadow like a pool of fire ready to draw anyone into eternal darkness. His eyes that shone as bright as the red halo on his head looked like an angel who had incarnated into a demon.

The woman hesitantly walked over, the sound of shouting was heard from a distance. Hera with an astral form seemed to try to prevent the woman from reaching for darkness. But instead of retreating he was increasingly convinced to step into the pool of darkness created around the feet of Novan. His white hand held the hand of Novan and when he looked back at the goddess Hera he smiled.

"I'd rather fall than be above endless suffering"

Everything Vivian dreamed of when she let go, there was no hope for anyone. He realized that the light would not always be there to guide his slumped self, but darkness would always be present wherever he was. He chose not to stay away from the darkness anymore.

The dark energy of Novan possessed Vivian, turning her sky-blue eyes into bloodshot. The thorn tendrils that were covered with red roses on her symbolizing her bond to fate that Hera made slowly wither in the darkness and were replaced by black roses infested by the black butterfly Novan.

Hera looked at the two with a wrathful look but a smile formed on Novan's face. "It seems that your beloved pigeon would rather fly in the darkness of the night than a bright cage" the remark infuriated Hera.

"How dare humans like you! You don't know thank you!" A large red rose plant grows on the ground and the thorny tendrils move towards Novan, ready to attack both. But before the object approached further the bones of the Dragon that Novan had defeated moved and protected Novan and Vivian.

Black flames smouldered all over the dragon bone and its eyes emitted a red glow. Novan's dark energy had controlled those bones into their new body skeleton. The flames of darkness burned the giant rose and made Hera lose half her power from being contaminated with darkness.

"No... What kind of power is this?!"

The dark energy of Novan is made of dream-eating monsters, in other words the fire that burns the plants and attacks Hera is nothing more like the energy that can annihilate the dream energy. Now Novan is no more like a dream-eating monster that has the ability and mind above other dream-eating monsters.

The sound of screaming rang out from a distance, Hermes came along with a young man and immediately invited Hera to retreat "he is not a human! We must retreat and report everything to the god Zeus!" When Naga Novan was about to chase the two gods a sword of light held by the young man brought by Hermes immediately cut the monster's wings.

"I didn't know it was going to be like this, Mr. Novan"

Perseus looked at Novan with a sharp gaze that was enveloped by a heavy heart. The arrival of Perseus brought by Hermes confirms that the reason the god brought the hero figure was so that he could kill Novan —or sacrifice so that the two gods could escape.

"So yes, instead of Medusa's head, you were ordered to hold my head?" Perseus did not answer, his sword and shield were firmly grasped.

"Mr Novan, you're already drowning in darkness. Please be aware" Perseus' worried speech made Novan laugh.

The fight between the two was inevitable, the black butterflies in the air melted into dozens of dark daggers that shot rapidly towards Perseus. The sword of light that Perseus had tried to dispel them, clash after clash between weapons continued to sound along with Perseus who was galloping while fending off all the daggers that were pointing towards him.

Novan did not move from his place, unlike him who always faced his opponent from close range. Now Novan seemed to control his dagger from a distance well, slowly Perseus realized he had recognized the style of the attack. The style of attack was so similar to Andi Akasa's. And I don't know why Perseus started thinking.

'were you so hurt because of your brother's departure that you still remember their attack technique'

Starting from a dagger that flies like it is driven by the wind to dark arrows that shoot from all directions. Perseus knew all of those were Akasa family techniques. The flying dagger was Andi Akasa's technique, The arrow of darkness that shot from all directions was a combination of Rian and Abdi's techniques, while the shadow of darkness that moved on the floor was like a whip attack used by Nikolai. All the techniques the Akasa family can now do, while being silent in his place Novan actually imagines all the sisters are now fighting with him.

But when he realized that it was just a wish he gritted his teeth. Actually, Novan did not pay much attention to his fight with Perseus, all his attacks were based only on instinct and his mind that remembers everyone who went from his side. Novan's head felt completely full and when he began to recall the figure of a pale brown-haired child a sword of light had already pierced through his chest from behind.

"You've really fucked up Mr. Novan..." The sentence came out of the mouth of Perseus who was now bleeding, either he or Novan both like two figures forced to contradict each other. Along with Perseus's sword of light that pierced Novan's back, Perseus' body was already covered with wounds from the fight between them.

"You shouldn't have approached me, Perseus"

The darkness under Novan's feet slowly devoured Perseus' body and his sword of light. Now the sword was completely uprooted and lost into darkness while Perseus was about to fall but Novan stopped him. "Until the end you still don't give up... You can kill me right now. But why do you doubt?" Perseus did not answer, he just smiled.

"Stop pretending to be stupid-" Novan's remark was then cut off.

"Do you know, everyone calls me by that name. But I know it's not my real name... Whether in my previous spin or the next, I will continue to be 'Perseus' and that much I also have to carry out the duties of the gods even though I do not want to do it...

"But when you put Medusa in the same fight as me, it made me realize that I should have made my own story instead of continuing to act as a hero sent by the gods.. but now it's too late... There's no way back, so that's why. I think dying in the grasp of your darkness will be much calmer, so please..."

"Make me part of that quiet darkness"

...[.Connecting]...