"What's so bad about being reborn as an angel?"
Hearing Cyra say this, Elara asked in puzzlement.
"Although you described Earth life as peaceful without magical beasts causing turmoil, angel lifespans are also not short. Barring early battlefield death, angels can generally live for thousands of years. I'm already over 5,000 years old. Isn't that much better than being a human?"
Elara was already that old? I was surprised and looked her over again carefully. Although she did look slightly older than Nicola, if she were human she would only be in her 20s. This refreshed my understanding of angel longevity again.
I had to agree with her words. Although the initial transformation was inconvenient, after gradually adapting I realized an angel body was quite good. At least there were no worries about food or clothing, great strength, ability to fly, and no fear of small-time gangsters.
Undeniably, I had become somewhat decadent...
"It's not that there's anything bad, only that the True Church here is different from Earth's. Although very similar, it's not what I want."
Cyra could only state the reason for her desire to return.
"Plus, I'm homesick..."
On hearing this, not just Cyra but even Nicola was slightly moved.
"Yes, unlike other angels we have a family."
I sighed slightly and said, somewhat envious of their inseparable feelings towards family. As for myself, it would be false to say I didn't miss my parents at all, but my feelings were still more of fear. Scenes of getting slapped over minor disagreements at home were common, so ever since I moved out, I seldom went back.
"Sorry, we angels don't have parents so we don't understand that kind of familial love."
Seeing our despondent looks, Elara apologized.
"But I really can't agree to reverse the angel descent formation for you. It's not just that I don't want to, but mainly because it's fundamentally impossible."
"The angel descent formation was created by two ancestral angels thousands of years ago through immense power and eldritch principles we descendants can't comprehend. Actually, not only is reversal impossible, even slight modifications are out of the question."
As she spoke, she glanced meaningfully at Cyra.
"So when someone first asked me to change her body to male, it wasn't that I was unwilling, but that the ritual fundamentally only allows female angels. There has never been any such thing as a male angel."
"I just wasn't used to it at first..."
Cyra explained with a red face, looking unexpectedly cute.
"Then what about just opening a gateway to our world?"
Nicola thought of a compromise. She just wanted to take a look and no longer harboured hopes of becoming human again.
"Unfortunately that won't work either."
Elara shook her head again.
"Putting aside that we don't even know the location of your world, even if we did, spatial magic isn't an angel specialty. Opening a gateway to another world purely through light magic is fundamentally impossible."
"Then what about Edenmere?"
I recalled Serena mentioning this landmass had split off from the main world, surely that counted as high-level spatial magic? Unless...
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Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(1-3VOL)
FantasyOne day at a high school reunion, I was transported to another world and became an angel. What happened to my high school friends? Did they come here too? In this new world, everything was unknown. Why did we come here, and what will happen to us no...