Dreams To Return: The God Of The Tower
4. Outlandish

"It seems you need to teach a lesson. Okay.." It's weird but I can feel something inside me burning like fire. Anger, resentment, suffering, I could feel all the negative energy that just popped up inside me. As if to incite me to be immersed in that feeling.

"𝐌𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐥𝐚𝐡!"

My body darted rapidly towards one of the shadows like a blade that was thrown off unhindered, and as soon as the blade was stuck on his body, it was like a blade that was thrown off without a hitch, a black smoke came out of the body along with the smile that was now forming on my face the fishy smell but not a single drop of blood dripped from his body. He screamed in pain, tried to fight back but it was free, I kicked him pretty hard.

Pleasure, that's what's now clearly felt to me. My eyes were fixed only on the orb orb that was inside the creature's body, and my hand firmly took it and smashed it to pieces, making the creature then disappear and disappear without a trace "so this is your weakness" I smiled and looked at the rest of the shadows and once again the voice in my head sounded.

'𝐇𝐚𝐧𝐜𝐮𝐫𝐤𝐚𝐧 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐮𝐚𝐧𝐲𝐚!'

"Good, 'cause at least you guys don't bleed so I don't have to be afraid of my hands getting dirty by you guys"

The shadow slowly walked back "you think I'll let you go?" I could no longer control myself, a voice came back and he clearly said.

'𝐂𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐤-𝐜𝐚𝐛𝐢𝐤 𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐞𝐤𝐚 𝐬𝐞𝐦𝐮𝐚 𝐡𝐢𝐧𝐠𝐠𝐚 𝐭𝐚𝐤 𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬𝐢𝐬𝐚'

'𝐃𝐞𝐦𝐢 𝐬𝐚𝐧𝐠 𝐩𝐥𝐮𝐭𝐨!

Before then I could see nothing and fell unconscious.

𝔄𝔲𝔱𝔥𝔬𝔯 𝔭𝔬𝔳:

Novan finally opened his eyes, on the wind-blown grass, he saw Arin with his eyes moist.

"Sir Novan!!" Arin hugged her with Worry. "I'm worried, big brother suddenly fell unconscious! Wow!!" A cry broke and with a guilty face Novan stroked the boy's hair.

'Was it just a hallucination?' the question is terbesit on Novan's head but inevitably at this time they have to leave.

"Sorry, now let's get out of this place. The day will be night and the forest will become more dangerous. We have to go to the city" said Novan while glancing at the batik cloth that Rian had given.

Arin and Novan actually walked into the city. The atmosphere of the city looks crowded and beautiful. White and black painted buildings were everywhere, traditional merchants were lined up on the right and left sides of the street, there is no garbage because the buyers carry woven baskets while some people choose to eat their food directly in place.

The streets formed from rectangular concrete rocks seemed to be wider than the area of those towering buildings, even so wide the attackers did not have to worry about traffic jams because the horse carriages passed very little than pedestrians. The irrigation canal was right in the middle of the road and was covered by a wire net while on the roadside the medium-sized trees grew neat and well-maintained.

A wide variety of clothes seemed to blend in there except for their clothes, some were wearing simple dresses, kebaya, batik and also unique uniforms. But of all the batik cloth was not as unique as the batik given by Rian, the buyers whispered about something when they decided to rest on a bench.

"The Vivian princess is going to be a top-class promiscuity flower again, huh?"

"Of course, the people love him so much! I don't care who will be her partner as long as she becomes queen surely our kingdom will be more prosperous"

"I heard that currently 3 out of 5 candidates for the king are hunting blue whales on the edge of the kingdom"

"Geez, I hope Raden Abdi is okay. He was too unfortunate to have to be sent against the deities' discarded pets"

"Why isn't his sister the one sent? Didn't he get the blessing of Bathara Indra? Is it just a trick to be able to compete with his brother who got two blessings Raden Arjuna and Raden Karna?"

'Bathara is another name for a god. I know about the god of the senses, but Raden Karna and Arjuna are not gods but wewayangan figures, right?' just now that Novan had entered into his own realm of mind Arin suddenly asked.

"Where are we really?"

"Sister doesn't know for sure but, as you know, this is a world controlled by the gods" Novan couldn't explain in detail what vision he had.

"How did you know?"

"A memory.. somehow I remember it.." said Novan with a glare 'the memory that has been lost slowly returns. will one day I remember my true self?' his inner being secretly wished to remember his past memories, why he was there, why he did not remember anything and what was his reason for staying alive.

"As long as the Airawata elephant has not shown itself I think it's just a ruse" whispered the buyers slowly teasing Novan.

"Basar Adipati. Were it not for Duke Akasa's mercy he would still be in the orphanage—"

"Sorry to disturb" Novan suddenly stood beside the buyers "isn't he an honorable figure? It feels a bit impolite if you talk about him like that" Novan said as he could.

"Absolutely you are who— geez! Blue batik?!" They stared at the batik on the sash at the waist of Novan and Arin with a pale expression of "dukip's mission! Please forgive our silliness! We're really sorry we didn't mean to—"

"With your talk just now is enough to make your tongue should be cut" the sound of shoes rang out from behind, a young man with blue paint like them came and brought a gemstone rather magic stone "I have recorded it, I will remember your face" he told the buyers. His light brown eyes stared towards the front, his neatly arranged black hair split to the left, a blue batik black dress with a bross on his chest adding to his elegant impression, which was very elegant, his large and tall body appears higher than the height of Kak Novan while the sword he carries has a unique engraving on the sheath.

"And you two, thank you for maintaining peace in this area" he said politely, Arin just stood confused but other things with Novan who seemed to be able to read the atmosphere.

"No problem, an obligation for us" said Brother Novan imitate the style of language they use, what was he watching around and learning it? Sure oes.

"You seem to be new members huh, where are you from?" And at that moment they both froze in silence.

"We're from the suburbs, there's nothing special about our family haha.."

But instead of fixing the situation and becoming quiet and strange, all eyes were now staring at them before a shout broke the silence.

"Good Krama's eyes!"

A shout rang out from the crowd of people, a young man in round glasses with a purple batik cloth hanging on his left shoulder appeared. His clothes were so neat and clean, the golden-white suit looked perfectly matched with his wavy white hair that was somewhat blown away by the wind.

"A graceful step, neat wear, and how to speak and answer, really perfect manners!"

The person approached the two of them but then stopped his steps when he saw the blue batik they were wearing.

"Nortus Adipati Akasa. cih. I did not think I was first. They were really lucky to be one step ahead of me" the young man said.

"Mr Nikolai, please take care of your attitude" reprimanded the young man beside Novan and Arin.

"Oh look who this is, Kaleid. You look so much better than when we last met, am I wrong?" Wrinkles were clearly visible on the face of the young man who turned out to be named Kaleid. "Well, whatever it is, my judgment won't change until whenever my eyes won't betray me" he approached me and handed me a letter "the gates of the Candra family will always be open to you if you bring that, this sweet girl to us" Nikolai said before walking away and entering a decorated green horse carriage "oh that also goes for you strangely dressed master" he stared at Brother Novan.

'What kind of world have we entered?, no one wants to explain what kind of world this is? It's too complicated' Arin's inner self feels like he's done something wrong. But that worry just vanished when Novan stroked his head.

"Sometimes something can go beyond our expectations. Take it easy" said Novan smiling.

Unknowingly they had become the center of attention, immediately Kaleid invited the two to go somewhere "follow with me" he said and then left first. A calm gaze, a polite style of speech, nothing could raise suspicion on the figure. In the end Arin and Novan chose to follow him.

It had been about 15 minutes they had walked, the blue sky had now turned orange. Warm breezes hit the skin as they continued to move. From a distance there was a large field of green, in the middle of the field some flagpoles stood firmly waving some flags. The closer we get, the more we see a small fountain in the middle of the flags.

"Where are we going...?" Arin asked curiously and Kaleid then paused for a moment.

"You guys.. It's new, isn't it? You are not even wearing official uniforms. Were you directly chosen by one of the five Raden Akasa?" Both of them just fell silent not knowing what to answer and Kaleid then continued his sentence "don't worry, I'm not your enemy. I am also like you, directly chosen by the Raden" he continued walking.

"In this kingdom there are indeed many people who feel jealous of people like us. Born in incompetence yet possessed the advantages viewed by the royal nobles who had direct blessings by the gods"

"But that doesn't mean everyone is like that. They feel attracted or envied because we are looked upon by just any noble. Did you see those flags? Do you know what flag that is?"

"No, we've been living in the woods since childhood. We don't know the outside world" Novan replied cleverly.

"That's it, so you guys from an isolated tribe did you run away?" Terka Kaleids.

Fleeing, the word reminded Arin as Novan took her away from the ephemeral, for some reason it felt sad to recall. "I think.." said Arin while stroking his rabbit, though Arin did not regret his choice to run away, because he knew sooner or later he had to run away.

"That sounds sad, don't worry the outside world is heavy but there are many things we can do here" even for a world as beautiful as this man still considers it a heavy world.

"Although it looks beautiful on the outside.." Kaleid looked up at the sky, where unique living creatures were flying "the world is full of rules." he said.

"This kingdom is led by a queen not based on bloodline but from the results of the voice of the people and 'Bless than the gods' the future king is chosen from the 8 patron families of this land and is said to have the Revelation of the gods. The first of the Vishnu family embodied fertility and earth, the second of the Maruta family embodied the wind and the royal wing, the third of the Samodra family embodied the neutrality of the social and legal world"

"Fourthly, the Candra family embodied the royal wealth and domestic trade regulator. One of their Raden was Nikolai, the middle son of the family, who was said to be from the other side of the country and therefore his name did not reflect the common name in this country"

"Then the other four families?"

"I don't want to say this but it will be too long if I explain everything to you. To be sure we are emissaries from the Akasa family, the embodiment of the sky and the military power of this country" not long after they arrived in a large house.

"Come in"

Kaleid opens the door and invites Arin and Novan to enter.

"Thank you!" Said Arin smiling.

"It's a big house.. Is this the Akasa family residence?"

"What do you mean? this is my house."

Silence struck the three. "Why are you looking at me with such an incredulous look?" Ask Kaleid innocently.

'𝑌𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑏𝑒𝑛𝑎𝑟 𝑠𝑎𝑗𝑎...'

'𝑀𝑎𝑛𝑎 𝑚𝑢𝑛𝑔𝑘𝑖𝑛 𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑢𝑛𝑎𝑛 𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑢𝑎𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑖 ℎ𝑎𝑛𝑦𝑎 𝑑𝑖𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑖𝑘𝑖 𝑜𝑙𝑒ℎ 𝑠𝑎𝑡𝑢 𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔! 𝐷𝑎𝑛 𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑏𝑔 𝑖𝑡𝑢 𝑚𝑎𝑙𝑎ℎ 𝑚𝑒𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑘𝑢 𝑖𝑎 𝑎𝑑𝑎𝑙𝑎ℎ 𝑜𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔 𝑘𝑒𝑘𝑢𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑔𝑎𝑛?!'

'𝑺𝒆𝒃𝒆𝒏𝒂𝒓𝒏𝒚𝒂 𝒔𝒊𝒂𝒑𝒂 𝒐𝒓𝒂𝒏𝒈 𝒊𝒏𝒊?'

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