Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 16: A Thousands-Year Homebody

To understand what the Cycle of Rebirth's projection is, we need to explain the Cycle of Rebirth first.

Galadra created the Cycle of Rebirth using her own power. Its job is to manage souls and guide them to be reborn. Besides angels, some humans on Eldoria Continent know about this too. To me, it's a lot like the legends on Earth.

The Cycle of Rebirth manages souls and guides them to be reborn. So the main element isn't light, like you might think, but earth!

Earth element has a hidden space ability. This is needed to make sure every soul can quickly come to the Cycle of Rebirth after death, and be reborn anywhere in the world. Of course, the Cycle of Rebirth isn't just pure earth element. It uses all elements except fire to do things like erase souls' memories.

Galadra says the Cycle of Rebirth was born on the Dark Continent. But for safety and secrecy, it's actually hidden in a high-dimension space. The room we're in now is inside the Cycle of Rebirth. Galadra made it specially, and says it's set up like the room Michelle was locked in before. But Michelle was physical then, and I'm a spirit now. Usually, only formless spirits can break space limits to come here.

It's like how angels use "Spiritual Convergence" magic to talk. You can use it anywhere there's continuous light element. The Cycle of Rebirth is the same. Anywhere there's continuous earth element, Galadra can use her space power to collect dead souls from the world into the Cycle of Rebirth, then send them out to be reborn.

But there's no earth element in this high-dimension space where the Cycle of Rebirth is (actually no elements at all). And it can't just drop into the low-dimension world anytime. So to manage souls from other worlds, it has to project outside. The Galadra I see now isn't her real soul. She's just a small part of mental power split from the Cycle of Rebirth, like a "clone". Galadra, whose soul became the Cycle of Rebirth, can make many of these "clones". But her mind still needs to project to go outside, so she has many limits. This gives Michelle outside many chances.

In the end, without help from others, Galadra can't easily stop Michelle and her followers in the real world. Michelle might even be able to use the projection to find the exact location of the Cycle of Rebirth. Then it would be even harder to guard!

"But I'm probably not strong enough to beat Michelle, right?"

I remember how hard it was to fight Fernando and Mirium alone on Chromos Tower. If I agree to help, wouldn't I just be going to die for nothing?

Michelle escaped from Edenmere badly hurt a long time ago. She must be mostly healed by now. This kind of "rough job" shouldn't be for me, right?

"You're Gisphrael's reincarnation. Even though your damaged soul makes it hard to get back all your original power, you should still be able to manage in special situations. Haven't you noticed? Whenever there's a crisis, you always find ways to break through using water element power. Maybe this is a chance!"

Galadra gave me a meaningful look, then turned back to the virtual screen. But she seemed a bit distracted.

I know she has a point. My blue wing state suddenly woke up in a dangerous moment like this. Adonis and the others predicted they saw me using water element even more in the future. But Adrian changed history and saved me early from the Slime King's body. So the "cheat code" that just arrived got stuck activating and quit. I lost a big chance to get stronger.

Of course I don't blame Adrian. But I'm starting to think maybe I shouldn't be so careful all the time. Nicola already has eight wings. I can't compare to her naturally, but I still only have six wings. I've been stuck at this level for a long time. If I want to protect Adrian, I can't always depend on the Sage Council. I need to find a way to get stronger myself.