Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 91: Showing Who's Boss

"Hey, since we all used to be guys, do the girls have to change their names too?" Flynn suddenly thought of something important and looked up at Henderson to check.

"I heard Quinn changed too, and became a guy... I mean, a male angel! Is that true?"

"Haha, about that... I'm not really sure. You'll probably have to go ask yourself to find out!" Henderson's reaction was strangely awkward. He gave a forced laugh, brushed it off, and quickly made an excuse to leave the room with Cyrae.

"Why are you avoiding the topic? Isn't it good? Flynn always liked Quinn, so maybe now they can be together!" Cyrae was confused and kept asking.

"You don't understand at all!" Henderson had to tell her the truth.

"The angels have a rule against male and female angels having any romantic relationships! We have to follow this rule now, or we might get punished badly!"

Cyrae could only stay quiet about this strict rule. Even though she didn't like it, she was also confused about her new angel body and couldn't worry about others.

Finally, it was time for the welcome party.

"Are you missing someone?" Gwen, who was counting people, checked several times but still found the number of new angels sitting in the hall was off.

"Must be Reed who's missing," the high school classmates talked among themselves and figured out who the missing person was.

"She probably went to the library. I heard there's an old library in this city with the whole history of angels. Reed couldn't wait, so she learned to fly by herself and went there alone," a female angel stood up to explain. Cyrae recognized her as Astrid from her face.

Unlike the "handsome guy" Quinn sitting next to her, Astrid and some other girls were lucky and didn't change gender when they came here. But her words made others restless.

"Reed learned to fly so fast? I tried many times but couldn't fly!"

"As expected of the 'emotionless girl'! Even with the infused memory telling us how to fly, it's still really hard to actually do it in a short time. They say you need to practice a lot!"

"But it fits her smart-student character. Reed always had her nose in a book, and that didn't change even after coming here."

"I'm just jealous she could stay the same gender. Why couldn't I stay a girl too? Now we're not even human anymore, but some kind of angels. It's crazy!"

"Hey, if there are angels, do you think there are gods above us too? Like..."

The room got very noisy as the classmates chatted in their H-country language. Cyrae watched coldly without joining in.

A few others were quiet too, most noticeably Feliciara and Nicora sitting across the table. They stood out because of their unusual hair colors.

"Nicora" was the new name Reilly chose for herself. Flynn didn't seem to like the name "Feliciara" that Norma gave him, but Reilly convinced him to use it when they submitted their info. So now they officially changed names like Cyrus.

"Quiet!"

The higher-up angels sitting at the head table couldn't take the chaos anymore. A female angel with five pairs of wings suddenly spoke up to stop them.

"I know you new angels still have your human memories because of some accident. But now that you're part of us angels, you better face reality and stop anything to do with your past!"

The speaker was Yvonne, one of the three angel Elders. She didn't shout, but everyone in the big hall could hear her clearly.

But before the noise died down completely, she gave them another shock.

"From now on, Edenmere has a new rule - all angels are banned from using any language other than the common language of the continent. Anyone who breaks this rule will be locked up for a month! If you break it many times, the punishment will double each time, up to death!"

No one expected such a scary rule from the Elder. Now none of the new angels dared to speak, and the whole hall went dead silent.

"Ahem, Yvonne! That's not really appropriate, is it? They're still young, you don't need to be so harsh. It's normal for new angels to be a bit lively!" Another high-ranking angel, Elder Meg, stepped in to smooth things over. She seemed to oppose Yvonne, making her look bad, but she didn't take back the new rules. Instead, she added:

"The biggest problem is that new angel Reed didn't even come to this important welcome party. That's really too much! I wonder what the Leader thinks about this and how she'll punish Reed?"

After saying this, Elder Meg looked at the third ten-winged angel sitting in the middle of the head table.

Cyrae knew this person too - she was the current Leader of the angels, the highest ruler - Elara III. They say she's over 5000 years old!

"About Reed, I think it's fine that she likes books and is interested in the library..."

Elara's attitude was clearly different from the other Elders. She hesitated for a while, but seeing all the high-ranking Elders staring at her, she finally sighed and reluctantly decided:

"Of course, the Elders' opinions make sense too. We need rules to keep order! Now that they've become part of us angels, no matter who they were before, they need to follow all our rules. Reed is so careless, she should be whipped as punishment. But since she's a new angel and it's her first time, let's just put her in the jail for two weeks. Start right now!"

"Yes, ma'am!"

Norma, standing nearby, immediately passed on the order. Soon they saw guard angels flying out the window towards the library.

Everyone knew what would happen to Reed now. Many classmates looked terrified. The smart ones quickly figured out why the high-ranking angels did this.

It was because they didn't trust these people who came from another world!

Twenty-something new angels was just too many, especially when they still had their memories from another word. If even one or two of them had bad intentions, they could be as dangerous as a time bomb in Edenmere! It was expected that they would use the welcome party to show their power, even using Reed as an example to scare the others.

"Maybe life will be tough from now on," Cyrae couldn't help but give a bitter smile. But she had heard this world had all kinds of amazing magic! And angels themselves were very powerful. For her, this might be a huge opportunity!

The only thing she wasn't sure about was if she could find a way back to Earth later. Maybe she could even get revenge for her father...

A month later.

Cyrae was practicing sword skills in the training ground of Tivi Palace when she suddenly heard someone calling her name.

"Cyrae, Leader Elara orders you to go to her office right away!"

It was Norma, the head of internal affairs. In the month they lived in Tivi Palace, she took care of all the new angels' daily needs, so they got to know her pretty well.

Of course, a lot had changed in this month. The original 20-something classmates were slowly separated for different reasons and sent to different places.