A/N : was caught by real life stuff... okay, who am i kidding? i got addicted with a game, so... yeah. Anyway, here's the next chapter.

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As the blinding light covered my vision, I felt as if my body was being stabbed by countless swords. Not that I am afraid of being stabbed by countless swords or something, mind you, since usually they wouldn’t even be able to scratch my skin. But this time, I felt like I was back on my early days after being summoned to a new world. No super strong body, no endless magic pool, no nothing.

Needless to say, this kind of pain was unbearable for me, to say the least. In the back of my mind, I could hear Lucia’s shout which was filled with a hint of panic.

‘Lily, don’t ever lose your consciousness, even for a moment! Try to stay awake!’

Hey, that’s easy for you to say, but at the moment, I felt like the world around me was spinning and spinning and spinning and… Or maybe the one who was continuously spinning was me? Ahh, I don’t know anymore~.

If I could, I would’ve puked out right now…

It was at that time when suddenly, I felt like I heard a loud ‘crack’ inside of me. The power within me became chaotic as hell, as I felt the bond between me and Lucia in my soul began to loosen. What’s actually happening to me!?

As far as I knew, also based on my own memories, summoning ritual shouldn’t even gave you this kind of pain. Lucia, care to enlighten me?

‘This… what you knew about summoning ritual was true, but it was also incomplete. It could only be applied in a normal case. What you’re currently experience right now, however, is something which is vastly different from that. You’re forcefully trying to interrupt and forced yourself to enter a summoning ritual between a God and their emissary, while you yourself is already an emissary of another God. The summoning ritual had deemed you as a foreign object, as such, it tried to eliminate you!

‘However, as you are connected to me, the summoning ritual was unable to directly eliminate you. And thus, it would have to first sever the bond that had existed between us. Hence, that’s why you feel that our bond had loosened.’

It wasn’t even that long since you had resided within my soul, yet we’ve already faced one tribulation after another! Does the Heaven hate us or something!?

‘Hey, I told you to search for a distorted space, not a cracked one. You’ve brought this upon yourself!’

AAAAAHHHH! Shut up, at least help me or something, don’t just blame me for this situation damn it!

‘In fact, I DID help you since the beginning! If it wasn’t for the fact that I had my barrier protecting you, you’d be long dead. Bear with it for a while, and don’t be such a wimp.’

Okay, okay, I got it. Now please, don’t disturb me anymore, I need to concentrate!

I kept resisting the force of that summoning formation for quite a long time, until I could see something that resembles a portal in the distance. Far away from my location, a streak of light suddenly appeared from a different direction than me, yet I could see that the streak of light was also going towards that portal-like stuff.

Then, Lucia once again spoke within my mind.

‘Lily, that streak of light was most likely the original emissary that should have been summoned here. Quick, follow it!’

Being told so, I began to focus myself as I willed my body to flew forward at a breathtaking speed. Before long, I had flew side by side with that streak of light, while enduring this intense pain I felt.

Together, the both of us entered that portal thingy.

***

What greeted me as I opened my eyes was a magnificently built stone temple, supported by tens of stone pillars, with each of them carved with ancient runes. The walls in my surrounding also had murals depicting some kind of Goddess with her followers, battling the force of evil. The overall size of this temple was actually comparable with a football stadium on Earth. Neat, huh?

Currently, I was standing on some kind of altar with a glowing formation, which was most likely the damn summoning formation that had forcefully summoned me. On my side, also stood on top of the altar, was a white haired middle aged man. On his waist was an ornamented long sword, probably was just another so-called ‘holy sword’.

‘He’s the emissary.’ Lucia said.

Duly noted. Surrounding us were hundreds of people…KKK? No, this was a different world, so it was impossible. But still, their similarities were so…

Suddenly, I felt something trying to break open the barrier protecting my mind, and couldn’t help but glance at the middle aged man on my side. He was glaring at me, and I could feel some magical energy directed at me. He was probably trying to gauge my power, but his method was so crude that I couldn’t help but frown at his incapability. I could have thought of many different ways which were far better than this one.

When he saw me frowning, that middle aged man also frowned. And somehow, I felt that the nearby white robed man with a magic staff and a thick book on his hand also frowned at us.

Then, that white robed man stepped forward and kneeled, “Milord, forgive this humble servant, but may I ask, which one of you is the emissary of the Goddess Soluna?”

The white haired middle aged man harrumphed and said as he pointed at me, “My name is Lode, the Emissary of Her Majesty Goddess Soluna. However, who is this brat and what is she doing there?”

You know, it’s rude to point at someone…

“Forgive us, milord, but we also doesn’t know anything about this person,” the white robed man, still in a kneeling position, answered respectfully, “As a matter of fact, this person appeared from the summoning formation at the same time as Lord Lode.”

“From the summoning formation!?” That Lode guy’s eyes widened as he turned his head and looked at me. Don’t tell me, he knew about how a foreign entity shouldn’t be able to exist inside of a summoning formation?

‘Actually,’ Lucia said, ‘It’s a basic knowledge, and almost every emissaries knew about it.’

Jeez, thank you very much. Oh well, I should introduce myself now. As I willed it, black smokes appeared from within my body and covered the whole stone temple. The weaker people instantly dropped down and lost their consciousness, while those who had more resistance had their bodies trembled and sweats pouring down from every pore of their bodies.

I imagine, it was hard for them even for just standing straight. This was a neat skill I learned from one of the summoned heroes, [Domain of Darkness]… it truly sounded like something that was made by a middle schooler, but since the effect was truly great, I guess the name doesn’t matter huh?

A chilling sensation suddenly could be felt within my right hand, as a heavily enhanced ice sword materialized out of thin air. Same as before, I casted a forbidden level ice magic and compressed it to a weapon. The name of this weapon was… [Ice Sword]!

I tried my best to smile as gently as possible as I greeted the trembling Emissary on my side, “Hello!”

A hint of fear, panic, and disbelief, could be clearly seen within his gaze, as I pointed the tip of my [Ice Sword] at him, “Nice to meet you, old man!”

Oh gosh, it has been so long since the last time I fought against someone, so this was kind of exciting for me.

“W-who are you!?” he stuttered out. Well, since he already asked for my name, I should gave him an answer, right? A wide grin appeared on my face as I exclaimed cheerfully to him:

“Me? I am the Goddess of Death!”