Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(1-3VOL)

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"Ahhhhh!"

A scream suddenly came from behind me. I looked back and saw that Camille, who was chasing right behind me, had crashed head-first into the wall of a nearby house. She was stuck in there for quite a while.

"Who ambushed me?!"

Her angry roar came out from the pile of rubble. This time I saw it - two flashes of white light shot into the rubble, followed by a long wail from the succubus.

"Who was that....."

Selene had seen it too. She looked in the direction the lights had come from and noticed two figures standing behind the roof of the house to the left.

One of the figures looked familiar to me. They waved at us and pointed at the base of the nearest tall, slender tower, then jumped off the roof and disappeared instantly.

"I guess they want us to go there to find them?" Selene said to me.

"Yeah."

I nodded. I looked back at Camille - she didn't seem to be seriously injured but was probably stuck in the rubble for now.

I quickly brought Selene over the rooftops to another small alley, taking a few more turns before finally losing our pursuer.

"Hide your wings quickly! Otherwise we'll easily be found again."

As soon as we landed, Selene reminded me. So we had to walk the rest of the way to the tower the figure had pointed to.

"Who was that figure on the roof?" I asked Selene softly as we walked.

When we first entered the city, we were hoping to find a lone monster. But now, I desperately hoped we wouldn't run into any more monsters.

"Looked a bit like Adrian."

Selene wasn't sure either, but she seemed to notice something familiar from the figure's actions and skills.

"Adrian? How could he possibly be here?" I thought I had misheard. After all, Selene and I had crossed over to this place. And wasn't Adrian with Brennan on the front lines? There's no way he could be here!

"Are you sure you didn't get it wrong?"

"I think I might have gotten it wrong too." Even Selene herself couldn't believe what she sensed.

"But the way he shot the arrow, and the power behind it, it really looked like him..."

"You could tell it was an arrow?"

I was shocked and turned around. I didn't even know those flashes of light were arrows!

"Yeah, maybe you were too focused on the succubus to notice."

Selene seemed very certain in her reply to me.

"I realized after the first attack. That kind of light was clearly an arrow infused with light magic - it's Adrian's go-to move."

If that's the case, then it really might be Adrian after all. I immediately recalled the sense of familiarity I felt after seeing the figure.

"Oh well, no point guessing. We'll find out when we get there."

I really couldn't figure out how Adrian could possibly have come to this place. Could he have also crossed over somehow? That would be too absurd!

With the huge tower as our guide, there was no way we would get lost even with the maze of alleyways. After madly sprinting down the streets for about half an hour, we finally arrived at the base of the tower without catching sight of a single monster along the way.