About six months ago, a scene occurred that left many people's life paths permanently altered.
Atlas left the 40th Floor and immediately focused on saving his friends, but he had been consciously avoiding all thoughts about their safety and status.
He didn't want his own resolve to be broken by what he might find, so he did not think about it at all. In his mind, only a few facts were present.
Artemia and Horus were alive.
They were in the underworld.
If he wanted to bring them back to the overworld, he had to go there and drag them out. They had been trapped indefinitely without a means to escape.
It was all a plot of the Cosmic Dragons meant to draw out the Heavenly Dragons and affect their strength somehow.
However, the two people who'd been caught by such a plot had no means or time to be considering "why" they were in their current situation.
They could only think about survival.
"Khh…!"