Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/Chapter 60: The Allure of Comfort

"High school reunion?"

Hearing those words, I couldn't help but turn my head and ask more.

"Oh, it's nothing! It was just a gathering of former classmates from my old school. But your friend's name sounds quite similar to someone I know, and the resemblance is...." Wayne Peng's gaze suddenly shifted past me and landed on Reed. Since crossing over, Reed had always used her real name, which might have caught his attention from the start.

However, after becoming an angel, Reed's appearance had changed quite a bit, with her hair turning a pale golden color. So Wayne Peng only hesitated for a moment before shaking his head and brushing the thought aside.

"Let's not dwell on that! By the way, do you have places like schools in your world where people learn things?"

It was clear that he didn't want to spend more time on this topic and quickly changed the subject.

"Schools? Places for learning? Wouldn't that be like the mage towers in Crescent City?" Adrian's interest was piqued. Back in the day, we had spent a lot of time in those towering mage towers, so the memories were still fresh.

"Wow, mage towers? So those really exist in this world! You must tell us all about them when you have time!" The female translator's eyes lit up. She had been the most attentive when Reed was teaching about magic circles, and now that mage towers were mentioned, she wasn't about to let that information slip away.

"So, Wayne Peng joined the National Defense Forces of H-country. No wonder we haven't heard much about him since then!"

While the others continued discussing unrelated topics, Reed and I fell behind, exchanging a knowing glance.

It was almost certain now that this Wayne Peng was indeed our former high school classmate! He was lucky enough not to have attended that fateful reunion, so he didn't get caught up in the crossing-over event.

But the information he accidentally revealed was quite significant. Although he didn't explain exactly what the "accident" was, it hinted at what might have happened to our bodies after our souls left Earth for this world. It probably wasn't anything good.

The most baffling part was that the portal opened up right where our high school reunion had been held—in that KTV suite. This couldn't just be a coincidence; there had to be more to it!

"It's a shame Galadra isn't here. What is she up to, and why hasn't she shown up yet?"

In this situation, only Galadra, the master of the Cycle of Rebirth, could give us some authoritative answers. I suspected that everything was connected to the Cycle of Rebirth! After all, the Angel Descent Formation was related to the Cycle of Rebirth, and the portal opened right when the Cycle of Rebirth's projection was descending. The connection was too obvious to ignore.

As for the role of the necklace given by the future twelve-winged Nicola, that was harder to guess. Perhaps we would have to wait until Galadra finished her work with the Cycle of Rebirth to get some answers.

"This is the shelter! It's equipped with fairly decent living facilities. You can move freely within the designated area, but you can't leave without permission," Wayne Peng announced as we arrived at a courtyard surrounded by high walls. He swiped a card to open a small gate and led us inside.

The courtyard wasn't too small. Behind the gate, we saw three rows of temporary housing, with roughly twenty or thirty individual rooms. In one corner, there were some miscellaneous items that didn't seem like military supplies from Earth—they looked more like farming tools from this world.