Celia was sure she could face the cries of her children though, after all it was only an illusion, just an illusion, nothing more than an illusion she tried to convince herself again and again.
A blinding light appeared and made her blink, when she opened them again she was in a place she did not know, it looked like a prison, the walls and the floor were made of stone and cells were everywhere in sight, one would have thought that it would be cold in this kind of dungeon, but it was extremely hot there.
Celia then heard someone crying and walked towards that noise, she kept telling herself over and over again in her head that it was only an illusion and nothing more than just an illusion, like the way the soldiers recited their registration numbers when they were tortured, it was important that she didn't let herself be trapped, she had to keep her mind in the reality with Anaya and her friends who were waiting for her.
In this cell where the cries came from, there were her mother with Gabin her eldest son, her mother looked at her without recognizing her and she looked away when she saw that the stranger in front of her did not intend to speak, she preferred focus her energy to console the little boy in her arms.
Celia had kept an impassive face, it was out of the question that she would endangered her family life just because of a simple illusion, she looked in the other cells and her stepfather was there too with her other baby boy Basile, they both were asleep, then each of her brothers occupied a different cell and seemed to be injured.
Celia wanted to clench her fist in frustration when she realized that her fist was still closed, and she remembered the code she wanted to send to Anaya, she closed her eyes and focused on her fist hoping her movements would be seen also in the reality.
When she felt a strange connection with her own body, she grabbed that feeling and opened her fist, she showed two fingers, then, she closed it and reopened it showing this time three fingers, she had just told Anaya that she was fine and that she had to give her three minutes before destroying that force field that imprisoned her with this madman.
Celia was sure that this big brother of the demon god's loyal servant was none other than the second man Anaya had drawn, now what she wanted to know was if this Gildas was dead or if he could still be saved.
Was it a simple possession of a body and it would be enough for her to withdraw the demonic energy which had to be in this body to free this Gildas or was he already dead, that was the question ?
She would only know that when he will decide to show himself because she needed a physical contact with him to break his defenses.
He had to observe her from somewhere because according to her intuition this illusion was different from the one in which she was previously.
He had to look for his weaknesses and not only her fears, because otherwise Anaya would be in one of those cells with her family, after all Anaya was now the most important person in her life, she couldn't imagine her life without her baby wife.
Here were her original's familly, but they were safe like she thought because unconsciously for her, they couldn't reconize her in this stranger body so they acted like they didn't know each others.
It was paining to not be able to go embracing them and freed them, but that evil man will never guess what kind of relationship they had with her.
And if he still wanted to find them, he will have first to find her originale's world to do it, they were hundreds of worlds in the low plan of existence, so good luck to him.
The fact that Nara was an orphan will save her for this one, if he had made some research he will just guess that it was Nara's familly but she wouldn't care because she doesn't know them at all, so it will be pointless for him to use them against her.
Celia did not really want to stay here any longer, as he could not make up his mind to come, it was her who was going to find him.
She had been able to concentrate with all her strength, but she had found no fault in this illusion, even her mother's perfum was the same, if she didn't want to be tempted to stay close to her family she had to immediately break this illusion.
As she couldn't find any loophole like the last one, there was only one solution left, she took her dagger and stabbed herself in her thigh, then she turned the blade inside her thigh so that the pain was to such an extend that it would make her come back to reality.
The pain was really unbearable but it had worked, this man had his hand resting on her head, and before he realized that she had shattered the illusion, she put on him five green papers filled with light energy.
The light energy was deadly dangerous to the demonic energy but it was harmless for Gildas if he was still alive, so she grabbed his hand on her head and said "Disperse".
He looked at her in disbelief and felt an immense pain all over the body he had chosen to possess.
He haven't had the time to think over it that he felt that bright energy surging all inside the meridians channels of this mage annihilating all the darkness energy that he used to possess this body.
That girl had only needed few minutes to break this illusion, and the only thing he had learned about her was that she came from another world and that she was not the true owner of this body.
His spirit could no longer stay inside this body so he went back in his own one.
He had used only ten percent of the darkness energy that his goddess gave him for that mission, so he had still plenty of it to kill that girl.
She was way to dangerous, she was still young and inexperienced, and she was still only a level six mage but what kind of threat will she become if they let her grown up ? Kill her was the only option left for him.
Meanwhile on the combat ring Celia finally gave the signal to Anaya to stop the attack.
Anaya said to everyone to stop the attack and just when she said that, the force field disappeared on its own.
Anaya went immediately to Celia who had still the dagger in her thigh and said to her : "It's gonna hurt my love, ready ?"
Celia just nodded and then Anaya removed it quickly, Celia didn't screamed nor cry she was just deadly pale, she took out a green paper of light energy and disperse it on her wound, only few seconds after her wound had completely healed and her cheeks got some colors back.
She said to everybody : "Gildas is still alive and he is safed now, that man was the big brother of that demon god's loyal servant. He had just possessed Gildas's body so he should not be far, i think it's not over yet, i can track him down so that the people here will be safe, what do you say guys, want to kick a devil ass ?"
Liam knelt down next to her and asked her very seriously : "How are you feeling ? What happened in this illusion ?"
She smiled at Liam and said : "Sorry bro, this is not the good time to talk about it, but you should not worry I'm fine, I was mentally prepared to face this eventuality."
Anaya caressed her cheek with her thumb and asked her : "My love, what direction and what level of power do you think he has ?"
Celia smiled at her : "My baby wife you were right, training in the simulator will have finally served us for something and not just for playing around ... He is at nine o'clock and about fifty kilometers from us, for its power level I do not know, I think this demon god will have lent him more darkness energy than his little brother after what we have done to him, so we should be on our guard."
Celia got up with the Anaya's help and said again : "Tal you stay there with Onyx, Sky, Snow and Lilac, you will take care of the safety of the people here, Flame and Arthur both of you will return to the dimension for now on, it's not safe for you guys. "
She turned to the others and said : "Let's go, Liam will you carry us it will be faster this way ... i wanted to crack a joke but i guess it's not right time though."
Caleb asked out of curiosity : "What was your joke?"