Two days passed in a flash, and finally, Artemia, who had not moved since when she was caught, reacted.
She saw her reflection on the plate used to give her food and frowned. It was not the once beautiful woman who could topple kingdoms with her beauty but a girl with an unkempt appearance, dirty blue hair; her blue eyes had lost their luster while dark circles were under her eyes.
''Hahahaha!" Artemia suddenly burst into laughter; she laughed as if she had gone mad. Her cellmate, who was sleeping nearby, opened her eyes and stared at Artemia, wondering if she had finally gone nuts; she shook her head and decided not to bother; everyone has their own circumstance.
''I see, I finally figured out. It takes me some time, but I guess I have been muddleheaded because I saw him with another woman; how pathetic. Time to get out from this illusion.'' Artemia muttered before standing up.
''What the fuck !"
Her cellmate shouted because, like a movie, lightning gathered around Artemia's body.
''Are some kind of female Thor?" The woman asked, and Artemia, who had no idea who this Thor or whatever meant, ignored her and moved.
The blue lightning surrounding her body moved like tentacles cut through the cell's door.
Boom!
There was an explosion, metals flying through the air, one of them pierced the visitor who about
to visit Artemia, unexpectedly it was Alex.
''You! You!" Alex mumbled before falling to the ground holding his throat, pierced by a small piece of metal.
Artemia, who had just come out, stopped, her eyes narrowed, lingering on Alex's dying body for a moment before locking on the golden-eyed girl accompanying him.
''Finally, you appeared,'' Artemia said, ignoring everything else.
As she was seizing the woman with golden eyes, the latter did the same thing; finally, she opened her mouth.
''How heartless. To think you will kill your lover. Contrary to your gentle exterior, you are a cold murderer.''
''Oh? You think too?" Artemia asked while lightning continued to gather around her.
The woman with golden eyes frowned; she was unhappy that her provocation did not affect her enemy; still, she was not done.
''You are an interesting one. While most people are easy to manipulate and possess a weak mental world, yours is quite complicated. It's like a tower, I can only access the lowest floors but the important part I couldn't, even for me, it's quite unusual. How is it? Do you love your lover's world? It's called Earth; it seems, quite an interesting world, I do say.''
''By the way, I'm Horus, master manipulator and the Goddess of Illusion.''
Artemia snorted, putting a strong front while inwardly her brain was running faster, thinking about a solution to beat this enemy. The moment Horus announced her name, Artemia felt an enormous strength gushing from her body, crushing the reality they were in.
Suddenly, Artemia remembered something, and she smiled. Upon seeing Artemia smile, Horus frowned and decided to act first; somehow, this human gave her a dangerous feeling.
''You are curious about what I sealed into the deepest part of my mind? You are curious about the upper floors, aren't you? Then let me show you.''
''No good!" Horus frowned, trying to stop Artemia, but it was a step too late.
"Unseal!" Artemia ordered, and immediately her memories were unsealed.
A black hole appeared that sucked in both Artemia and Horus; the latter couldn't go against her nature, so she was naturally dragged inside.
When Horus appeared again, she was floating in the air; lying under her was a scene of destruction; a massive hole was like a black hole in the middle of the continent.
''Roarrrrrrrrrrrr!"
Suddenly, there was a roar that shook the earth and the heaven. Horus who was floating in the sky was flung away; her body disappeared to reappear fifty meters away.
''Dragon?" Horus exclaimed.
Swoosh!
From the black hole, a gigantic beast flew out, it was fifty meters long, blacker than the night itself, there was an extremely dangerous aura surrounding the black dragon, its eyes were black as well, and when those eyes looked at Horus, she became unable to move her body, a feeling she had long forgotten after becoming a guardian inside the tower resurfaced and one of her sealing memories was back.
''C-Chaos beast???"
Horus was trembling; her eyes were filled with terror.
Swoosh!
Bang!
Suddenly, something knocked into her chest and sent her flying, Horus's mouth fell open, and golden blood sprayed out.
Artemia, who had struck Horus in the chest, clutched her chest; dark tattoos were trying to cover her body. She quickly sealed away the memory in which the natural appearance of the dragon controlled by one of chaos race was; she then moved into another memory with Horus.
The two appeared in the middle of an arena; Horus still hadn't come back to her senses; however, Artemia didn't dare to get closer, thinking she might be faking it.
A beautiful spear with a chain appeared in Artemia's hand, and as she was about to swing it, her eyes widened because Horus roared before a figure appeared before her.
A man whose eyes were covered, red hair and muscular body, purple skin.
''!!!!!!!!!!!!"
The man made an unintelligible roar forcing Artemia to close her ears.
Fwoosh!
Bam!
It was Artemia's turn to fly in the air; she could not see the man moving at all.
A giant sword appeared in the man's hand, and he swung it. Artemia disappeared, sensing danger.
The arena was split in two, making Artemia frown.
''Kill her,'' Horus ordered, and immediately following her words, the thing covering the man's eyes disappeared, and Artemia was shocked to see a pair of countless tiny eyes.
''Eyes of Law!"
The man activated his ability, his eyes glowed red, and Artemia soon found out that she could not summon lightning, nor she could use any of her skills; this realization hit her hard, making her panic.
''What?"
''Die!"
The man declared before appearing behind Artemia; before she could move, the giant sword pierced through her back.
''Gah!"
Artemia vomited blood but firmly held the sword piercing her stomach before she swung the dagger in her left hand.
Swoosh! Puchi!
The man with purple skin hadn't seen it coming as the black dagger pierced through his brain through his eyes. Artemia, who was vomiting blood, still twisted the dagger inside the man's head, completely killing him.
''!!!!!!!"
The man's body trembled before slumping to the ground; Artemia fell weakly to the ground, she could feel her HP draining at a fast rate, and she knew she couldn't make it as her heart was touched.
Horus was shocked by the unexpected situation but still chose to deliver the finishing blow; she appeared behind the kneeling Artemia and raised her hand. A small sword appeared, and she was about to chop off Artemia's head.
''In the end, I still win.'' Horus declared.
''I wonder about that.'' The dying Artemia chuckled.
''!!!!!"
Boom!
Horus felt danger, but before she could move.
Artemia's body burst in a huge lightning vortex that swallowed Horus within it, the Goddess of Illusion died, killed because Artemia's self exploded.
Artemia experienced her first death in Exodus.