Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 69: Joining Forces Against the Enemy

"Uh... so you're here too?"

I was totally shocked when Wayne Peng suddenly revealed my identity! Even though he didn't mean to, I was caught off guard. I could only say hello with a confused face.

I'll deal with his apology later. The main thing is there were many other people around! They all heard what Wayne Peng said. I had already hidden my wings, but now it might not matter.

I got tricked bad! I suddenly regretted listening to Gwendolyn and barging in. I couldn't help looking curiously at the people watching. They were mostly grouped together, sitting or standing. Their clothes were very fancy and expensive. They were probably from the capital.

"Are you having a meeting?"

I finally realized the woman in the main seat must be Katarina!

Even though it was our first time meeting, this princess was really good at reading situations, just like people said. Thinking back to her talk with Wayne Peng, in just a few sentences she blamed all the empire's mistakes on Reider who ran away. She was very clever!

"This isn't the official meeting. We just came to the castle to talk about trade and happened to find this situation," Wayne Peng said, shaking his head. He looked unsure, like he wanted to ask me something else. "By the way, about that spy thing last time, Reider mentioned something. You..."

But the mood in the room was very awkward! He seemed to feel it wasn't a good time to keep talking, so he stopped halfway.

"Angels again..."

"Did Edenmere already make some deal with these humans from another world?"

"We're too late in trying to make peace!"

...

The noble officials around started whispering to each other. I could hear clearly what they were discussing.

The empire and angels didn't have a good relationship to begin with. But unluckily, angels kept showing up during this invasion by humans from another world. And now, right before the peace talks, my identity was revealed and I suddenly appeared in this border lord's castle. Of course these people from the capital would suspect the angels were involved!

But it's probably okay to let them suspect. It won't change the big picture. The peace talks have to happen, and Katarina is too smart not to realize that. Their suspicions are just a misunderstanding. Plus, they don't know that I'm not the only angel in the city!

"Sorry, I was just passing by too! Don't mind me, please continue!"

I couldn't take it anymore! Everyone was staring at me. It felt so awkward and terrible! I quickly closed the door and left the meeting room without another word.

"Hey, don't go yet!"

When she saw me trying to run away, Elder Gwendolyn grabbed me in the hallway outside. But it was for something else. "I heard you can control your blue wings well now, and you can use water healing magic. You can help heal Dennis!"

So Sebastian family's oldest son Dennis didn't die in the big battle, but he was badly hurt by a stray bullet. After the war, there weren't many skilled people left. The whole city of Sifur couldn't find a good water mage. So Elder Gwendolyn grabbed me to help.

I won't go into details about the healing, but Dennis got better as expected. That's good! It added one more person to help defend against the bandits.

After healing him, I didn't leave right away. Gwendolyn asked me to stay just in case.