Hero From The Dark Dimension
Chapter 6: Freedom

Two days...

This no-break fight continues. No one of them has fallen yet. The knight who did not want to let go of his desire to get out of the dark dimension and Hydra with the three core bodies of the goddess in his body, the fight between the two of them still did not get a winner.

"The stubborn switch. It turned out that even though I was able to absorb and multiply the attacks I received, but the crystal protector neutralized all the destroyed power from my attacks. It's troublesome." Both sides have been heavily injured.

Hydra was no longer able to regenerate its shattered heads. Now there were only two heads left. The crystal that enveloped the Hydra's body slowly fell out. Darius is the same. His left leg and right hand were broken. The regeneration of his body that was still sluggish, was unable to recover his injuries. They were both unable to move anymore.

"Retreat! listen to my words, stupid knight!" Snap Pamella. He was agitated while biting his finger. Worries of losing the chance to return to perfect form begin to haunt his mind.

"It's a pity, I can only watch that human folly from here. If only I could go there." Pamella's frustration peaked. Under such conditions, Darius still forced himself to fight. Pamella was upset to see that.

"Drake.., I'll be seeing you soon" said Darius in a soft tone. Darius tried to use the power of Pamella in his body. With a hand full of blood, he created a sword out of the lava element. The position ready to attack he has taken. With one hand and one leg, this knight was determined to defeat the opponent.

Fluid poison, Hydra sprayed in large quantities. Darius was unable to dodge the attack completely. His left shoulder was poisoned. There was still power that could be used to blast one more attack. The burning lava sword he swung. All the remaining energy he used for this attack.

"I'm the one who's gonna win this fight!" Shouted Darius. The last strike he had launched, the great slash hit Hydra. The attack resulted in an explosion with a large enough radius. The river dries up because of it. All parts of Hydra's body were scattered in all directions.

"Have I won?" ask Darius inwardly. After the great explosion ended, half the charred body of Hydra appeared. Some of it was destroyed. Darius painted a smile on his face over his victory. It was not in vain every blood and sweat that he let out. This way his freedom will soon be gained.

Darius raised his sword. The tip of the sword he pointed towards the dark dimensional gloomy sky....

"DRAKE...!!, your brother will be home soon. Darius Hunt will return to Invandara!" darius shouted out loudly, celebrating the success.

Three lights of different colors came emerging from the dead Hydra's body. Darius realized the light. His broken legs trudged closer to the light that had already blinded his gaze. Pamella's three core bodies have been successfully obtained. Complete was all he needed to achieve freedom.

"Finally..." Darius lirih. After reaching for the three cores he was looking for, Darius lost consciousness. The pain, fatigue and wounds had toppled the sturdy body of this young knight. He collapsed next to Hydra which had become a carcass.

His heart sank into joy. In his stupor, he brought that sense of pleasure along with him...

...—/—/—...

Waking up in a different place. Darius' mind was immediately filled with confusion as to why he could be in a place like this. As he remembered, he was in the area of the black river. After facing the giant Hydra, but why was he now in a dense forest with red-leaved trees?

"This where? did Goddess Pamella move me here?" ask Darius. His eyes spread around him.

A woman carrying a baby passed right in front of Darius. The woman ran fast, behind her was a group of soldiers chasing after the woman. From the appearance and complete weapons they brought, Darius was sure that the soldiers had bad intentions.

"Which kingdom are they soldiers? why are they chasing a helpless woman?" ask Darius. There was a hint of resentment imprinted on his heart. No soldier should want to hurt a woman helplessly. Moreover, the woman was carrying a baby, it further damaged the image of a true warrior.

Darius took immediate action. He hit one of the soldiers. Darius' hand pierced the soldier, as if the soldiers were ghosts. He also tried to block the way of the soldiers who were chasing the woman. But they even penetrated Darius' body. They are maya. At all, Darius was unable to touch them and they were unaware of Darius' own existence.

"What's going on? why can't I touch them?" Darius wondered. He ran, following the soldiers. They manage to corner the woman they are after at the end of a road that turns out to be a deep abyss. They pointed their sharp spears towards the woman.

"Give up!, hand yourself and the child over to our king right now!!!" Snatch one of the soldiers.

The woman looked at the baby's face for a moment and then stared intently at the soldier. He shook his red hair and took a breath...

"You will pay for what you did!, this child will become an extinction for you!" Snapped loudly at the woman. Then he dropped himself along with the baby into the abyss. Darius was surprised not to play.

It was still a question mark for Darius regarding the events he saw. What does all this mean? and who's that woman?

"Am I dreaming? it must be a dream, right?"

In his heart, he felt connected to the foreign woman he had just seen. But why would he feel something like that towards someone he didn't know?

Amidst the confusion, a bright light came...

"From..."

The voice that called out his name appeared along with that light. The voice without the source kept calling out his name.

Slowly the blinding light dimmed. Darius opened his eyes. He found himself lying in the altar room with Pamella by his side. Darius got up from his sleeping position, he saw that all his wounds had healed. The broken bones have recovered.

"How long have I fainted?" ask Darius.

"Two weeks, thank you for helping me" Pamella said.

It felt something different with his sturdy body, but it was not ignored. Pamella gave him a banquet of roast meat and drinks, looking luxurious in the eyes of Darius. But...

"It's monster meat, right? how do you make it mature?" darius asked, somewhat nervous. For the first time in this dimension he saw a royal dish. What was even more shocking was that all the meat that was in front of him had been ripely burned.

He still remembered when repeatedly trying to process the meat of monsters to mature with the burning process. But it was all for nothing. The monster meat was unaffected by the flames and now before him was mature monster meat. This caused a shock to him.

"The flesh of monsters in this dimension could only be affected by magic flames. Burning it with ordinary fire will only end in vain" Pamella briefly replied as she gave Darius a glass of drink.

Such a fantastic sweet drink on the tongue and throat. For a long time, Darius had not tasted a drink like this. The roast is delicious too. Darius' tongue seemed to come back to life after a long time eating raw food. Right now, it feels like heaven.

Even if it was just a banquet, for a person who had survived in the gloomy dimension for many years by eating something raw and unworthy, for him this was a blessing that descended from the heavens. Darius ate all the meat.

"Well.., scrumptious. My stomach was full" said Darius, followed by a large burp.

"Have you been full of goodies?" ask Pamella while she's shaking her waist.

"Thank you for your kindness. I was a stranger, but you were so kind to me" replied Darius.

"What are you talking about? you've been working for me, so it's only natural that you get rewarded. I'll keep my promise" Pamella said.

Darius was waiting for this. Pamella took him out of the tower. There, Pamella showed her perfect form. Pamella's body grew, her height far exceeding that of a black tower. The flaming red wings he flapped right, causing a strong wind. Horns with perfect curves appeared on Pamella's head, black flames adorning the elegance of her horns.

Like ants and elephants. Such is the comparison between Pamella and Darius today...

"Well..., are you a goddess or a monster?" darius' admiration.

"I'm not polite, I'm a real goddess. It's just that I'm different from the others and more terrible." Short answer from Pamela. This dark dimensional ruling goddess, handed over a small portion of the power from the core of her body to Darius. This is a manifestation of his gratitude.

"I'll also tell you one thing before you go" Pamella said.

"What's that?"

"Darius, you haven't been a whole human being since you were born." No doubt, of course this invites shock in Darius.

Pamella explains that the power that Darius has is from himself and has existed since birth. In the sense that both of Darius' parents were not ordinary people, not even humans. Darius still wanted to deny it, but after seeing for himself the real evidence of the power he had, confidence in Pamella's words began to exist.

"I didn't know you were the result of a marriage of what kind, which you must be rare. The rest you can find out for yourself." Clearly Pamella, the portal to get out of the dark dimension was opened.

There was a sense of indecision in Darius regarding who he was. After arriving at Ezius, Darius would instantly find out about this.

"Get your freedom, knight. You can go back to where you came from now." Pamella.

He took a deep breath before entering the portal. Darius looked back, seeing the smile of the Goddess who had helped him. Darius returned that smile.

"Again, thank you" said Darius.

"No, I'm the one who's grateful" Pamella replied.

Darius entered the portal that would take him home. I can't wait to see his family and friends. They must be very happy he's back.

"Her Majesty the king, the queen, Drake, friends. Sorry, make you wait a long time.."

Seriate....