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

Vol3/Chapter 87: Our Secret Weapon

"It's like this..."

I had no choice but to explain Cyra's injury situation all over again.

"This is indeed troublesome, but luckily it's just a minor issue. As long as we go to the Astralrealm Kingdom, it should be resolved smoothly,"

Elara nodded as she responded.

"The Astralrealm Kingdom is also one of the more human nations to us. Plus, they tend to revere angels highly. You won't even need to report my name, just go directly to the palace in Norvale and you can meet with the king. With the magical ability of their court magicians, I believe they should be willing to help with this small favour."

"So does that mean I can finally leave Edenmere and go to the outside world?"

Cyra was immediately excited to hear this. Since the other party hadn't mentioned the four-winged bet at all, it meant she wouldn't have to be troubled by advancing in rank anymore.

"This is a special circumstance. Nicola had also brought up this issue with me before. If it was yesterday, I might have insisted on keeping you here. But after this demon invasion, I don't feel right insisting Edenmere is safe either, so letting you go out with them could be a better choice."

Elara's attitude had changed a lot. It seemed the impact of this incident had been quite significant on her.

"But before that, there are still many things to do. For example, you mentioned Reed just now - I'm currently gathering troops to rescue them from the Dark Continent. You should know, there were also many demons attacking the tournament grounds outside the city..."

"Rescue them? Don't tell me Reed got captured by the demons?"

I was greatly shocked. Is that why only Nicola came back?

When the city was teleported to the Dark Continent, the 'Lake District' on the Dark Continent got swapped to Edenmere along with the 'Eye of Galadra' control terminal.

Michelle definitely wouldn't have just sent an empty Lake District over. She must have brought over a good number of demons. There were also many angels attending and spectating the tournament finals on the forest clearing outside the city then.

Compared to the depleted forces within the city walls, those angels outside posed real trouble for the demons. So working with Yvonne and the other traitor angels to take out these obstacles first would be crucial.

I just didn't know why they had failed.

From Michelle's reaction when the city sky suddenly lit up earlier, it was obvious the return swap of Edenmere was completely unexpected for her. Subsequent events further proved this, since Nicola and many angels were able to return smoothly, and even helped resolve the demon invasion within the city.

But I didn't think it was all thanks to Nicola's efforts because Michelle had suffered at Nicola's hands before. She couldn't have overlooked Nicola's existence when making her plans and had likely prepared Yvonne and the other angel traitors specifically to counter her.

Thinking back to when I had just returned from Reed's place last night and bumped into Jeanette in the Royal Hall. She had specifically mentioned Nicola then, likely worried that her return to the city would foil Michelle's plans to assassinate Elara.

So was the actual situation like this: Nicola and the other angels repelled the demons attacking the tournament grounds, as well as the conservative angel traitors like Yvonne. But the lower ranked angels like Reed were unfortunately captured, forcing the demons to retreat early using the Eye?

It felt like something didn't add up still...

"No, she wasn't captured by the demons,"

Elara shook her head, denying my guess. But her next words made me feel it was a little fantastical.