Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 70: The Portal Will Close

"It's not the same! Don't forget, you guys opened the space portal using the Angel Descent Formation before. The conditions and situation are totally different this time!" Galadra shook her head, reminding me. But then she looked confused. "Strange! Usually, even if Liana wanted to use her magic power to start a specific function of the Cycle of Rebirth, it should only take a little magic. Could the truth about this portal actually be..."

"Oh yeah, it's been so long I almost forgot about that!" Suddenly, Galadra seemed to realize something. She clapped her hands excitedly and shouted, "This explains where those humans came from!"

"Forgot what?" I stared at her suspiciously, not understanding what she meant. By "those humans", did she mean the people from Earth?

"Uh... nothing!" Galadra, that jerk, wasn't being straight with me. She turned her back and started keeping secrets. "There are some things you shouldn't know now. When the time is right in the future, you'll understand naturally!"

"Hey, how can you do this at such an important time!" I was annoyed and wanted to ask more. But she coughed and seriously warned me:

"Originally, this space portal was only supposed to stay open for less than a month. But when the empire's army carelessly used forbidden spell near the portal last time, it affected how long it stays open! Now it seems the time has more than doubled, but it can only be extended to about two months. That means there's not much time left!"

"What! The portal has a time limit?" This change was too big. I couldn't take it at first.

It's no wonder the portal seemed so stable lately. Nothing unusual happened, and they say its size didn't change at all! Earth kept sending things through, and no one really thought the portal might disappear on its own one day!

"For a while, the energy keeping the portal open came from the Cycle of Rebirth. The Cycle's projection disappeared, but elements were still being sent through. You just can't see the connection between the two dimensions with your eyes! Of course, I can't let the earth element from the Cycle of Rebirth keep flowing out for free forever, so I've cut off the connection between them now!"

Looking at the busy crowd below, Galadra's next words were clear without explaining further. "As long as nothing else happens, the portal will start getting smaller soon. It should finally disappear in about a month! If I'm not wrong, you probably have a lot to do during this time, right?"

"Okay..." When she reminded me, I couldn't help sighing. It looks like I'll be very busy later.

First, this is very important and bad news for Earth's army! If the portal disappears, it means they'll completely lose their supplies if they want to stay in this world. This is clearly unacceptable!

So I must tell Wayne Peng and the others to leave quickly. Of course, even if I don't say anything, the Earth people should realize this soon themselves.

"Huh, why did you come back?" When I landed on the ground in Sifur city and pushed into the happy, cheering crowd, Gwendolyn found me right away. She pulled me aside and asked in surprise.

"About that..." I told her everything that happened. As for how to tell the Earth people, I'll leave that tricky job to the Elder to pass on slowly!

Then...

Time was short, so I hurried back to the light elf village. After Serena led the First Legion away, the village suddenly felt very empty and quiet.

"You're finally back! You were gone for so long!" I saw Adrian standing alone in the village square waiting for me before I even landed. As soon as he saw me, he ran over and asked, "I just heard Chief Karati say there was trouble with bandits in Sifur city. I was worried and wanted to go find you, but I couldn't get there in time... But those bandits shouldn't be a problem for someone as skilled as you, right? You're really okay?"