"Don't!" Talia exclaimed and snapped her eyes open, only to find that nothing seemed to have happened.

"...... here?" She looked around suspiciously, and when she saw the familiar sight, she confirmed that she was in the bed at home.

(Wasn't the Llamas Forest supposed to be destroyed in that battle?) The Divine Heirs have all moved to the Divine Domain, so now this ...... What is it? ）

Talia had no idea what was going on, all she remembered was that she had been rescued by Loya in the same fire she had encountered as a child, and then killed by Roat, and when she woke up again, she went back to her bed at home.

"What's wrong?" A voice rang in Taria's ears, attracting her attention.

Talia looked at the source of the voice and found Artevans standing by the bed, her arms folded, looking at her with a puzzled expression.

As soon as Talia saw Artfans, she remembered all the things he had done, and her face instantly became gloomy, "Artfans, I'm going to settle accounts with you today for a hundred years ago!"

But Artevans frowned and asked, "Account? What the hell are you talking about? You don't have a fever, do you?'

"You don't talk nonsense! I'm ......" Talya's words were halfway through when she noticed Atvance's eyes, and felt the aura of the pure oracle power on Atvance's body, and she was instantly stunned.

"I was just walking around the village at night, and when I passed by the window of your house, I heard you screaming, and I thought something was happening to you, so I came in to see what was going on." Atvance looked at Talia like a fool and said, "Unexpectedly, it looks like you're just having a nightmare. I don't know what exactly you're dreaming about, but I hope you'll be able to explain what you mean by that yelling at me."

"No, no, I'm sorry." Talia said apologetically to Artevans.

Talia had no idea what was going on, and judging by the current situation, she was probably at a point in time when Artevans hadn't left the Ramas Forest. However, whether all this is real or fictional, Talia herself is not clear.

When Artevans heard Talia say this, he didn't ask any more questions, but waved his hand and turned to leave.

"That's right." As he turned around, Artevans said with a grim expression, "I suggest you go to bed with your clothes on, knowing that your bed is facing the window, and your curtains are not particularly tight. Of course, this is just advice, and whether you listen to me or want to be seen is up to you."

With that, Artevans disappeared without waiting for Talia to react.

Hearing Artevans say this, Talia froze, she slowly moved her gaze down, and found that at this time, just as Artfans said, her whole body, and the quilt covering her body had slipped off at some point.

Taria's face turned red instantly, but soon she took a deep breath and tried to calm herself, "Forget it, it's okay for Artfans to see it, he won't be interested in my body anyway."

Immediately, Talia put the quilt back on and lay back on the bed.

(Is it really just a dream?) ）

Talia felt like she hadn't been so relieved in a long time, and she gradually stopped caring whether what she was experiencing was real or imaginary.

And just then, Atvance's voice suddenly rang out, "Do you really think that's fine?"

Tarya's voice startled Talia, and she tried to sit up, but found that her body could no longer move. She looked sideways and saw that she was not lying on the bed, but on a bright red swamp, and many bloody hands came out of the mire, pulling at her body.

Talia desperately tries to break free from these bloody hands, but finds that she has no strength and can only let them drag her into the abyss.

In a moment of losing consciousness, Talia seemed to vaguely see the figure of Artevans.

"How can those who have sunk into the abyss see the light of day again......?"

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(Here, where is it?) Am I still alive? ）

Talia didn't know how many times she had opened her eyes, she only knew that every time she opened them, the scene around her would be different, but each time it was a fragment of Taria's memory, and at the end of the clip, she would be killed again.

In the face of each so-called "death", there is nothing Talia can do, and she simply cannot find a way to avoid death. Gradually, Talia gave up on any more useless struggles.

Talia looked around with a blank gaze and found herself lying in her own bed.

"What are you going to face me this time?" Talia spoke impatiently to the empty surroundings, but received no response.

All she knew was that she had fallen for a strange mental spell, but she had already taken it lightly. At this time, she just lay silently on the bed, closed her eyes, and waited for death to come again.

However, it was strange that Talia had waited for a long time and that death had not come.

She sat up, opened the curtains, and found that it was sunny outside, and there was a fresh fragrance in the air, which made her feel very comfortable.

Talia looked at it and found that it was the Divine Domain, so she judged that this time she should wake up in one of the hundred years.

(Want to try again?) ）

Talia struggled with her mind, and she didn't know if she should try again. After all, when she knew that she was in an illusion, she couldn't break this illusion at all, and she could only face "death" again and again, and she couldn't resist.

Eventually, however, Talia decided to try to break the illusion one more time.

After strengthening her convictions, she got out of bed, got dressed and walked out of the room.

Everything in this illusion felt too real and reasonable for Talia, so real that she once thought that this was reality, and what she had thought of as reality was a dream. But even so, after learning that everything in front of her was a false vision, Talia stopped believing everything she saw in front of her.

Talia walked to the central square of the Holy City, located in the middle of the God's Domain, looked at the Divine Heirs walking around, and shouted, "Artevans, I know this is a false vision, you come out for me!"

It's just that no matter how much Talia shouted, there was no response, and even the gods and heirs walking around seemed to ignore Taria's existence and didn't look at Talia at all.

Talia gritted her teeth and summoned the power of the oracle in her body, but this time she was surprised to find that the power of the oracle in her body was gone.

(Is that the case again...... ）

Talia's eyes darkened, and the momentum on her body gradually weakened. Every time she woke up to see the sights in her memory, Talia tried to mobilize the power of the oracle in her body, but almost all of them failed.

Talia seemed to be caught in an unsolvable situation, she had no idea that the spiritual spell she had received was that she had no way to break this spiritual space, and as long as she could not leave this spiritual space, then she would have to go back and forth in endless "death" and "rebirth", endlessly.

And that's not what Talia wants.

Talia fell to her knees, tears streaming down her face, and at this moment, she deeply felt helplessness. This is a spiritual space where there is no second living creature other than her, and all her actions in this space are meaningless, because she cannot escape the fate of "death" in the end.

Just as Talia was close to collapsing, everything around her shattered like glass, and Talia was in endless darkness.

She raised her head and looked at the endless darkness with desperate eyes, sadness, resentment, anger, all negative emotions instantly surged into her heart.

Talia screamed like crazy, clenched her fists and pounded wildly against the pitch-black ground, until her fists cracked open and she stopped because she couldn't stand the pain.

At that moment, Artevans' voice rang out all around, "Do you feel it, this feeling of loneliness and helplessness. The so-called Seven Hells is actually a reflection of your heart, the fragments that have happened to you in the past, and those that remain in your memory, all prove that you are a person who blindly wants to go back to the past and cannot look directly into the future."

"After that battle a hundred years ago, you've come to a standstill. You're lonely and helpless all day long, you can't accept the reality, you don't see a bright future, you just think how good it would be if none of these things happened, it was all a dream, and when you woke up everything was the same. Talia, you were the one who was really destroyed by that battle."

"Stay in this darkness and go to true destruction in loneliness and helplessness. You will not get any help, you have long been abandoned by this world. Without you, the world would still work the way it was. And you will always be stuck in the past, never able to take a single step forward.'"

Artefans' voice grew farther and farther away, eventually disappearing into the endless darkness.

Of course, the spiritual space that Artevans can't actually interfere with, and the words of Atvance that echoed in this darkness just now also belong to a part of Taria's heart, but she shows this part of her thoughts in the words of Artfans.

"I will remain in this darkness forever, forever ......."

Talia fell to the ground, her mind already deranged.

Artevans' true intention is to destroy Taria's spirit by stimulating the dark and weak side of Taria's heart.

Time doesn't seem to flow anymore, because Talia doesn't need time anymore.

Just when Talia felt like she was about to be destroyed, suddenly, a ray of light broke through the darkness and pulled her out.

But this time, is it real or is it unreal?

(End of chapter)