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20 Minutes later, DH Concentration Camp
"This place seriously sickens me." Artemis mutters as he enters the camp, two guards pop out from the bushes by the entrance, and Artemis crossed his arms and pointed his fingers at them and smirked, "Bang." Fireballs flew from his fingertips, and threw them away, and they hit the ground and died.
He blew on his fingertips mockingly as a circle of guards form around him, and he put his index finger against his temple, *Don't worry, just watch the show* and he drew his swords and Hellfire glowed furiously, and Shadow began to emit a cloud of black fog, and he charged the front most man, and he swung Hellfire at his leg so fast he didn't have time to react as his leg was cleanly chopped off, and as the man fell, Artemis slashed upwards with Shadow and decapitated the man.
Artemis smiled as he stood casually, mocking them, and this infuriated the group as they had just lost approximately 150 men to Artemis's group the day before, the only salvation they had was that they killed one of his friends.
They rushed forward as a wave and Artemis rushed against the tidal wave of oncoming enemies, and he stabbed the frontman's face and spun around his falling body, blocking with Shadow, he maneuvered Shadow into position to stab his foe, and he thrust, receiving a cry of pain from the impaled soldier. He rolled over his back as he fell to his knees, withdrawing Shadow as he did so, and he batted away a strike from above, and aimed a slash with Shadow at the man's neck, decapitating him with ease, and he ducked under a strike from a claymore and rose with an upwards strike from Hellfire, slicing the man from crotch to chin, and kicked him away, the small damage from the kick killing him.
"You guys aren't very good at this." Artemis taunted as he ducked under another strike from an axe wielder, and this resulted in redoubled efforts, and Artemis finished off his current opponent, and jumped away from the group, and flung his swords into the ground, they stuck, and sunk into the ground, a portal to a storage dimension. He looked towards his opponents, and smirked, "MAGIC OVERLOAD!" He shouted, and his body engulfed itself in flames, and then the flames dissipated, and he was in a black robe with a hood and face mask, the flames were emitted from his mask, hands and feet, allowing him to float above the ground, and Artemis began conjuring a magic circle below the Death's Hand guild member's feet, and around the ring of the circle a wall of flames erupted, and Artemis waved all the slaves out, and as they passed him on the way out, they gave their thanks, and he called Oblivion, *You have about 600 slaves on their way out, go catch them all and keep them safe, tell them it was my orders, and please reassure them that they are no longer slaves, that they have a place in my capital city, and that they are to go there and if they wish to leave and go out on their own quest, get them some arms and armor, and then a meal of their choice, then they may leave, if that is their wish.*
Not 5 seconds later, he heard Oblivion's response, *Alright, sending the men on a capture mission, I'll be on my way to you, I'm relaying your message to the troops*.
That was his go ahead, and he added more magic energy into the circle and from the center of the circle a small glowing ball appeared and he smirked. The magic ball that formed may have been small, but it was full of condensed magic energy, and if he ignited it, it would blow the entire camp sky high, and that was his plan anyways, but as he was about to ignite it, he saw Oblivion charging in but when Artemis told him to leave, Oblivion activated Blur of Aura and charged past him, only to confront the leader of this particular Concentration Camp.
"If you want to live, I'd suggest you step out of my way." the man threatened.
Oblivion smirked, "No, if you want to live, you'd step away, you have no idea who he is, and if he has to get involved, your life is surely forfeit."
"Big words for such a small man, care to back it up?" The former leader of Deathwish said, smirking.
"Gladly." And with that, the man rose his katana and began rapidly slashing, but Oblivion, even with Blur of Aura on cooldown, he managed to block the incredibly fast strikes from the former Deathwish leader.
"You're fast, that's for sure." The man said, chuckling.
"What's so funny?" Oblivion said, confused, yet slightly worried.
"What's funny is, I haven't used a speed spell yet." He then quickly cast a speed spell on himself, and this caught Artemis's attention.
"Watch out! That's not just any speed spell, that's a buff, and that increases speed for an hour!" Artemis warned.
"Woah, a buff?! Hey buddy, how'd you get your grubby hands on a spell like that!?" Oblivion questioned.
"A friend of mine gave it to me, before he let me into this little guild!" The man replied.
"Damn it!" Artemis muttered, and he was starting to get a little agitated with this man, he put a magic hold on the magic ball of fire, and drew his swords out from the dimension he stored them in, and walked forward.
"Don't," Oblivion said, "I've got him." Oblivion drew his claws again and kept his guard up, as it seemed the man was about to go on the offensive, and Oblivion made the right choice as the man had started swing his blade at Oblivion quickly, and rapidly, though, Oblivion was able to block most of the attacks, the man had only landed a few small cuts. The man pushed further, forcing Oblivion back as the man continued to swing at Oblivion, though, Oblivion caught the blade in between two of the blades of his left claw and had his right claw heading for the man's head, though, the man was able to grab Oblivion's wrist, however, Oblivion had already threw a kick to his crotch and as soon as he hit him, the man backed away, letting go of the claw and fell down. Oblivion had him right where he wanted, though, as he was about to finish him off, the man rolled to the right and swiped his leg at Oblivion's leg, knocking him down now.
"Now I'll cut your throat and end this." The man said, who had his blade pointed to Oblivion's neck, and he moved the blade down towards his neck, quickly, but, not quickly enough for Artemis to swipe in and cut the man's hand off before the sword could reach Oblivion's neck.
"Okay, my turn." Artemis said, the man was about to run away, only until Artemis used a lightning bolt spell to send a bolt flying at the man's foot, and the man fell over and looked and saw his foot was disfigured and burned up now. Artemis came up to the man and kicked him right in the nose, in the process, broke it. Artemis then pointed Hellfire to the man's neck and said, "Now, before I cut your throat, you tell me about another base before I have to pry the information from your brain myself."
"Pry the info out of my brain!? What the hell are you talking about? What do you mean by that!?" The man asked.
"You know, just for yelling at me, you're gonna fucking see right now." Artemis said. He then activated a mind reading spell and got the info he needed quickly, and the man was in great pain while Artemis did this, but that didn't matter, Artemis would put him out of his misery and, he sent Hellfire though the man's neck, killing him.
Artemis then picked Oblivion up and dragged him towards the gates. "Ow, what gives?" Oblivion asked.
"We need to get the fuck out of here before this place blows." Artemis said. He ran with Oblivion until Artemis knew they were out of the big blast radius, and they stopped for a moment to see the place explode to bits.
"Wow, you know what else explodes, rockets, but not this much." Oblivion joked.
"Oh god dude, whatever, I'm gonna contact Nero quickly here." Artemis said. *Nero, where are you?*
*Um, in headquarters, why?* Nero asked.
*So we can fucking meet up, just, stay there.* Artemis said, and turned to Oblivion, who was contemplating about something, Artemis went and read his mind quickly. "You can't hide secrets from a god you know." Artemis said.
"I wouldn't call it a secret, it's pretty obvious." Oblivion said, he sighed afterwards.
"I know how he is, the other Owen, but hey, he's glad he's here, so, how about we just head out to headquarters and worry about it later." Artemis said.
The two pulled out their teleport crystals and they teleported back to headquarters, and when they got there they saw a large group of slaves, the looked extremely pitiful, and when they saw Artemis, they looked at him with hope, and Artemis smiled at them comfortingly.
He turned to Nero and said, "I hope you haven't harmed any of my fine guests, they used to be slaves y'know, and we don't want any new citizen's of this fine empire to be harmed."
This perked the interests of many of the slaves, and one brave man among them stood and strode over to Artemis, "And what are your 'citizens' meant to do, slave work?"
"Of course not, they are meant to remain safe within the capital, and any work they do, will be paid labour, I will never make my citizens work for free, unless they request it, or if it's general volunteer work." Artemis reassured the man.
"Well, that seems like the perfect thing to say before you start mis-" Artemis interrupted him by putting his hand on the man's shoulder.
"Mistreating my citizens? That's an insult if I ever heard one, but I'll let it slide, as I believe you may be very useful, would you like to join the army, you get free meals, and a warm bed, and you get paid, and on top of that, we are fighting the Death's Hand guild, the ones who trapped you, and mistreated you, the ones who I came personally to put an end to, as when I heard there were slaves, I had to come rescue them, but it wasn't just for the slaves, we had come once before, but I had to let everyone escape, as they would soon be overrun, but they killed one of my childhood friends, and they had to pay for that." Artemis said.
"Free food? Warm bed? And we get paid? Ok I think I'll join, you seem to put up a very interesting offer I just can't refuse." The man said.
"Great, but I think we need your name, so would you please give it to us?" Artemis asked.
"My name? Drake, that's my in game name, do you need my real one?" Drake asked.
"No, of course not." Artemis replied, he then turned to Oblivion, "Can you take Drake to the armory, he'll need to pick a weapon and some armor out for himself."
"Will do, do you want to set up a recruitment station for anyone else who wants to join, rather than go door to door for it?" Oblivion asked.
"Actually great idea, like a desk here at headquarters and anyone who wishes to join could just walk up to the desk and fill out an application." Artemis said.
"Ok, and also, the apartment complex is finished, so anyone who doesn't wish to join the army is free to live there." Oblivion said as he walked out.
"Well, for the next few months, you got free living, then you have to help out in some way, whether that be working in a restaurant, or farming, or anything, just work, but for now, for about 6 months, you got free living and free food, but you'll need a card for that, just to let the shop owner's know that you can eat for free, also the rooms should be furnished, so don't worry about that, but anyone who wishes to join the army, may come to the front and see me, or Nero, and we will sign you up." Artemis told the group of former slaves.
The next day
The previous day had been busy, not only did they save 600 slaves, but they signed about 200 of the slaves into the Army, and then some more people came and signed up, as they heard about the opportunity from some of the former slaves. In total they signed about 360 people into the army, and this day, everyone was tired.
"We should hire a recruiter, someone who can hand out the applications, and count how many people have been recruited, and we should also hire someone who can take the groups of people to the armory, and find them a bed in the barracks, unless you want to do it, Nero?" Artemis asked.
"Um… no, how about we ask people to do it, kinda like jury duty?" Nero replied.
"Absolutely not, but maybe, maybe we can send some troops to people's houses to ask about doing it, just an extra job, but we could ask the former slaves about it first, it could be nice for them." Artemis pondered out loud.
"Yeah, that could work." Oblivion said, he then looked to the door, and said, "Trouble coming, mainly for you Artemis."
Leafa burst through the door, and stalked up to where Artemis was sitting and yelled, "What's this I hear about you attempting to solo the camp?! Are you out of your mind?! You could have died!"
Though one could say she was furious, it simply wasn't true, she was extremely worried, causing her to have an outburst, Artemis knew this, and he smiled, "Don't worry, I'm still here, and no one will die, especially not me, not with the power I now hold."
"But that doesn't mean you can't die, don't you see?! If you die, there won't be a god, not only that, think about me! Do you think I want my boyfriend to die?! Don't you ever think about how heartbroken I would be if you did?!" Leafa was crying now, and Artemis grabbed her, and held her close.
"I won't die, I promise you that, besides, if I do, then who will be a better choice to be a god than you? I don't want to die, not now, not ever, but if you think I'm helpless, you are sorely mistaken, if you saw how I handled the camp, you'd understand, I may be a hothead when it comes to battle, but I know my limits, and if I were to go beyond them, I know I would die, and that's something I can't allow." Artemis was doing his best to comfort her, and it seemed to work.
"Ok, but please, talk to me before you do something like that again." Leafa said, sniffling.
"Ok, I will, now, how have the kids been?" Artemis asked.
"They've been good, they have been learning to fight with those swords you made them, and I really enjoy teaching them, and I'm sure Oblivion does as well, that is when he has time." Leafa responded, feeling better now that they were on another topic.
"Well, that's good, we were just discussing how we could hire a recruiter." Artemis told her.
"Well, I'd like you to come home sometime, so if you can, please find one soon." Leafa said as she exited the room.
Artemis called Drake, and he soon came, "Drake, I have a small favor to ask you, can you go and talk to the former slaves that accompanied you here, and ask them if they want to help out by becoming recruiter's we need only two at the most, and we need someone who is willing to show the recruits the armory, but you don't worry about that, just ask about becoming recruiters, Nero will take charge of finding someone to show the armory to the recruits."
"Ok, I will, I'll head there now, bye!" Drake said as he headed out the door.
Oblivion sighed, "I hope Kirito and Asuna are doing all right with their baby." Oblivion said.
"They'll be fine, so, next we need to go find another slave camp, and this time, we'll all come, well I mean, whoever can come." Artemis said.
It was then, Klein burst through the door and said, "Oblivion, you need to come here, now."
"Hey, calm down, why so shaky?" Oblivion asked.
"Just come here." Klein said, who shortly calmed down. Klein escorted Artemis and Oblivion to another room, which was locked, and Oblivion heard Lisbeth in there, but, he couldn't make out what was happening.
"What's going on in there? She's not…" Oblivion said.
"It's happening all right, your guy's baby." Klein said, who, smiled.
"You can't be serious, already? It's been five months, in fact, I was expecting nine months, even if we're in a game." Oblivion said.
They waited 10 more minutes, until someone came out from the room and said, "It's a boy."
Oblivion got up and said, "Should I come in now?"
She nodded and Oblivion walked into the room with Artemis and Klein behind him, Artemis was messaging the others to come see and they all came. Lisbeth was holding a cute, baby boy in her hands, and Oblivion sat in the chair beside the bed.
"Aw, he's cute, ain't he?" Artemis asked.
"Yeah, the cutest little thing i've seen." Oblivion said with a smile.
"I want Kirito and Asuna to see as well, and see if their baby can come in through as well." Artemis said, who, opened a portal into Kazuto and Asuna's house, who they were sitting on the couch, while Asuna's baby was in her arms.
"What are you doing here?" Asuna asked.
"Oblivion and Liz had their baby in game, and I want you guy's to see." Artemis said.
"Oh, right, let's go then." Kazuto said.
Artemis opened the portal again and they walked through and saw Oblivion and Lisbeth's newborn in Lisbeth's arms, and Asuna held her baby. Asuna sat down by Lisbeth, after Oblivion moved for her to sit down.
"So, how's your baby doing?" Lisbeth asked.
"She's been a little fussy at times, but, she's pretty energetic, but she goes to sleep easily." Asuna said.
"We named her Yui, in fact, she does remind me of her." Kirito said, and soon, the virtual Yui walked through the door and saw the two babies.
"You had twins!?" Yui said.
"No no no, one of them is ours, the other is Kirito and Asuna's. The black haired one is Kirito's, they named her after you." Oblivion said.
Yui gasped and walked over with a smile on her face. "She's cute." Yui said.
"Well, I'm sure Oblivion and Lisbeth are gonna want some alone time with the baby, and plus, Kirito, Asuna, I forgot to tell you, I have a surprise for you two." Artemis said. It was then Artemis opened a portal to Kirito and Asuna's house in the real world and said, "Yui can go into the real world."
"She can?" Asuna asked.
"And she can grow up there too, if you two want her too." Artemis said.
"But then, what's the baby's name gonna be? It'd be pretty confusing to have two Yui's in the house." Kirito said.
"Call her by her middle name, she can still have the same first name." Artemis said.
"All right, her middle name is Hope, and I want Yui to remain the same age." Kirito said. Yui went with Kirito and Asuna through the portal and the portal closed just then.
"All right then guys, let's get going." Artemis said. Everyone got up and walked out the door, Artemis went through last and once the door closed, he secretly cast a spell of immortality on each of his friends, they can live forever now, until they are killed off, as they are not invincible, and they won't age past 35, Artemis went home with Leafa and his two kids.