Dreams To Return: The God Of The Tower
78. Nightmare

His faint red brown wings spread wide on his back, a halo of red light remained clearly visible even though the sunlight shone in the clear blue sky. All eyes were instantly fixed on him as he came and landed right on the sturdy looking stone path.

The wings on his back and the red halo above Novan's head instantly disappeared once he took to the street but even for a moment everyone who saw him would never forget his figure. "Novan!!" Fobetor's voice rang out and he walked over to Novan with a meat satay. "Where have you been, you know I searched all over the fort when I realized you were no longer in your room?" Fobetor looked nagging and Novan just laughed.

Novan's eyes were then glued to the figure of a dog carrying a cat, the two animals then looked at Novan and it took a while for Novan to realize something strange. "I didn't know cats and dogs could be this cute"

"Who do you call a stupid human cat!" Mammon protest.

"Well I guess I saw it wrong, why did you become like that again?" Novan approached Mammon and bowed.

"He lost a lot of his strength to fight Ares" without waiting for a reply from Mammon, Morpheus immediately answered Novan. "Sorry we couldn't help Leviathan or Mammon who were dealing with the gods, we were busy looking for you" Fobetor said.

"It's not my fault I didn't expect that there would be such a kidnapping.." Novan stroked Mammon's cat's head and then gave a compliment that also felt like a "good job satire, in this way at least I really believe you're a future demon lord" and that pissed Mammon back.

"So what have you seen me all this time?!"

"Babu-ah forget it" Novan immediately stopped his speech with an innocent face.

"Bashful child" mammon taunts notya make Novan upset but instead make him smile satisfied, at least Mammon did not experience any change except the form of his form that returned to being a cat for a while.

"From that try to explain to me why you're carrying so many monsters inside of you?" Mammon stared at Novan's feet, as if he saw something under the shadow of that foot. Something so dark and terrible that it made the body fur of the Mammon cat stand up on alert.

".... It's nothing" Novan paused for a moment and stomped his feet, leaving Mammon feeling no more of Novan's dark energy.

'i can't show my strength anywhere'

'*because there might be a god spy in sin*i'

Novan stared around the crowded street with a sharp gaze, without him noticing it made Fobetor confused. "Is there a problem?" But Novan immediately smiled and shook his head.

"No, this place is much nicer than I thought... Even so we must not lower our vigilance"

"I understand"

"Good" Novan smiled and looked at Mammon again "by the way I want to ask you how to get to the demon world" Novan's question made Mammon instantly scream in shock.

"You're planning on going to the underworld?!"

"Jawab my question! Why are you screaming!" novan firmly and immediately shut Mammon's mouth. Everyone then looked towards them and started to whisper.

"Am I starting to hallucinate? Can cats talk?" Some people stared at Mammon but as one of them also stared at the whereabouts of Novan.

"That's a Discarded Hero"

Discarded Hero, or which means a banished hero. That's the nickname that began to be heard a few months before the disaster, the nickname was made to mention the figure of Novan or a mysterious hero with a red dagger that sometimes protects the elf forest and eradicate monsters in the North port. The nickname was made because many people did not know the name of Novan.

A banished hero means a figure who has a noble heart and great abilities but is not recognized by the nobility and the kingdom even heard there is a revelation from the gods that he is a sinner who fights for the sake of darkness in the future. Only ordinary people pay attention to the figure of Discarded Hiro played by Novan and Fobetor. Because coincidentally rumors about the figure of Discarded Hero also appear when Novan decided to make the figure of Askara Akasa, the new leader out Candra and Akasa.

'shit knows as soon as I change my form before here' inner Novan. Everyone's attention is always directed towards him. Morpheus and Fobetor used disguise magic to avoid provoking the crowd. Novan wants to use the same magic but there is also a rule, that is Novan should not provoke people, and he is not fulfilling that rule.

'If I want to go undercover now I have to go to a deserted place but... Is there a lonely place here? Why is everyone looking at me so seriously?!'

Novan felt bad but then he smiled and immediately invited the others away "we better find a safe place first. There's something I want to discuss with you guys".

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"How did you actually become like this?!" Leviathan stared at a crack of light on Novan's back "why are you so careless that you let a holy hero stab you anyway?" The crack seemed to give off positive energy and the fuse crept into the surroundings trying to purify the dark energy of Novan.

Surely the clash of the two forces caused tremendous pain, everyone knew it but what worried them more was the attitude of Novan who was not concerned about the pain. "Don't worry I can still hold this" Novan put his shirt back on and then smiled but Mammon immediately snapped at him.

"How can we not worry?! You know that your current self is like a half-demon figure, meaning that if this holy energy is allowed to continue inside you will be purified! You're going to disappear!!"

"Therefore I need your help" Novan immediately interrupted Mammon's sentence and his expression now became serious "I need your strength to go to the underworld" everyone looked surprised, as did Morfeus.

"But the underworld is the realm where the dead are. That place is beyond the dream world!" Fobetor does not understand how Novan can reach the place while they are confined to the dream world.

"Right, but the underworld is the place that dead souls go to, just like the dream world where souls come to sleep. Actually entering the underworld is easier for us because we are now in the form of a disembodied soul, which is the problem is indeed the path out of this place" said Nvan.

"And the only place that can be a pathway for us to get there is by meeting the owner of the place" Novan smiled and then he stared at Mammon and Leviathan "the coordinator of the current nightmarish world, the underworld god. Hades" Mammon and Leviathan now understand what Novan means.

"So you want us to take you to nightmare and meet Hades? But he's not a friendly god, you know?" Mammon gave a warning.

"When did I meet a friendly god? In my eyes it's all the same"

"Haha you're right... That's you, frivolous base" Leviathan sighed and stared at Fobetor and Morpheus for a moment. "What about you guys?" He asked because Fobetor and Morpheus were now former gods, whether they would follow Novan or not.

"Then I come" said Fobetor, feeling challenged to go to nightmare, however, it is his former territory and he has some questions for Hades, especially why the dark energy of Hades was once present in Novan's body.

"There should be someone to organize this place as long as you're gone. I think I'm the best fit for that" Morfeus said, believing Nova.

"Alright I guess we've already decided on our next destination" Novan nodded in satisfaction and smiled happily "me, Mammon, Leviathan and Fobetor are going to the nightmare. Tell the others to protect this place as much as possible" Morfeus nodded in understanding and then asked.

"Do you have a message for the people? It seems impolite if you just come and go again when they seem curious about you"

"Well, since when do you care about something like that, let's just say they can think freely of anything about me, I don't really care. And tell me that this place is not just mine, but theirs too, they have the right to protect this place"

"Then I'll send you a message tomorrow"

"Then now we have to create a portal, me and Leviathan can make it together but our strength is drained a lot because against the gods, maybe we need time-" mammon's speech was cut off as Novan then let out a black blaze in his hand.

"We don't have much time left, for that let me give it to you" a red halo and wings were seen on Novan's body.

"Reply absorb as much energy as you need"

The black flame in Novan's hand grew bigger and released so much dark energy in the air, making Mammon and Leviathan able to absorb that energy.

...[.Connecting]...