Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 114: Showing Up

When I got to the H-country army base at Aurora Entertainment, Adrian, Reed, and the empire's group had already come back.

Of course, the army took over dealing with the two kidnappers who got caught.

As soon as we got out of the car, we saw an H-country officer who looked like a boss coming out of a building with Wayne Peng, Adrian, Reed, and some others.

"Hello, I think we've met before, right? But we found out later that what happened was just a misunderstanding, so please don't mind! Also, you helped us a lot again this time, so we want to say thanks again!" Wayne Peng said politely, clearing things up. Then he asked someone to take Irene to the medical room.

Irene still wasn't fully awake, so Reed go with her.

But it was different for me and Adrian. Wayne Peng knew us, so he took us inside a room. He gave us some tea before starting on the main topic.

"Though our boss decided not to dwell on you coming to Earth without informing us, we hope you can help us looking into what happend. This includes how you got to Earth and how to deal with those changed infected people."

I could guess that when they saw Adrian with the empire's diplomatic group, it must have really shocked the officials. I could even hear someone yelling outside: "They just come whenever they want! If they didn't show up themselves, we wouldn't even know. Wait! Does this mean they can leave whenever they want too? It's like a public toilet, any weird creature can come to Earth to take a dump. We're protecting billions of people on Earth, what's the base guard doing?!"

"Uh... well..." Wayne Peng seemed to hear it too. He laughed awkwardly. "You probably know about the evil creatures causing trouble in the city lately? It's giving the leaders a headache too!"

"It's okay!" I smiled a bit. Adrian and I were ready, so we nodded and agreed to help.

Then a few more H-country soldiers came in from outside. They sat down in front of us with a big pile of papers and started asking the questions.

"First, yesterday afternoon we saw a really bright white light in the controlled area in the south of the city. It came from an old factory. But when our people got there, they only found a few dozen local people who should have been moved away, and a few vampire-infected people who had run away. Later, we saw that those infected people's symptoms were just gone, and they were back to normal..."

The soldier looked up at us. "Did you have anything to do with this?"

"Yes, we did it!" Adrian said right away.

"Then about how to cure it..."
"Can you explain a bit about that light elements and dark elements?"
"What's the deal with angel wings?"
"How did you get past Earth's army and into the space channel?"
"Are there any other creatures from your world on Earth?"
"How can we find enemies who are invisible?"
...

It was clear the army had a lot to ask, and the investigation wouldn't end soon. But we were planning to work with them anyway.

We didn't need to show ourselves just to save Irene, but after hearing from Reed about the space tunnel changing, Adrian and I had to change our plan.

The best expert on space stuff is definitely Earth Angel Galadra herself. If we want to talk to her, we probably need to go back to the other world or get close to the space channel.

At least the H-country army controlling the space channel seems okay lately. The empire's group, Reed, and Irene are all at the base now, so we don't need to sneak back.

Also, the most important thing now is finding Nicola, and we need to try a different way.

After about two or three hours, Adrian and I finally came out of the questioning room.

Things went about how we thought. We got put into the empire's diplomatic group temporarily. Like Reed, we'll probably go back to the other world together tomorrow, following the plan.

Of course, to help more, I agreed to stay at the Earth base to help them deal with the vampire problem. Even Earth people know angels are better at getting rid of evil creatures. Since we haven't found Nicola yet, this will give me more chances to come and go from Earth in the future.

"They sent people to Tenda Flats to get Cyra, and they've sent Nicola's picture to police stations. With Earth people's abilities, we should get a report on where she is soon. But are you sure you don't want to tell them about Cyrae?" Adrian asked, not understanding.

"Cyrae has been living on Earth for so long, no doubt this is her real home now! It's right and fair not to make her leave with us. Plus, the world on the other side isn't her original world either." I said, shaking my head and walking to the window to look outside.

The building with the space channel was just about ten meters away. There were several soldiers with guns guarding the door.

The row of houses we were in was clearly for the empire's diplomatic group to stay in. Katarina and the others were all living there too.

"Princess, I found something good in the walking street shops! They were selling the second half of that story you didn't finish! But their magic... I mean, their way of storing videos isn't just on phones. This time I found a round, shiny disk. The Earth people say you need a special magic tool... I think it's some tech thing called a computer to see what's on it!" We were going to visit Irene in the medical room, but as we passed a room, we could hear someone talking inside. It was probably Katarina's maid.

"Really? Is it 'Pink Life and Death Love'?" Katarina's excited voice came next. "That's great! I thought there was no hope. Not knowing the ending was killing me! Actually, in that walking street, I only found a bunch of similar stories. A shop worker said they're all from another country on Earth, very close to where we are now! I think it was called Hanguk or something?"

"Yes, yes!" the maid agreed right away. "The shop worker I met told me almost the same thing! They say the stories from this country are very popular on Earth, especially with women! I guess even in different worlds, women like similar things!"

Then Katarina's proud voice: "Actually, I managed to get that computer thing too. They say these disk things aren't used much now, you need a special old computer to play! Look — this is an ultrabook! It's so small, right? Like a metal plate, totally different from the big computers the Earth people here use every day. It cost me gold worth tens of thousands of silver, and this was the last one!"

"That's amazing! As expected of the princess, you can get even such rare things!" The maid was so excited she almost shouted, then lowered her voice and sounded unsure. "Um... um... can I watch these stories with you?"

"Of course, it's more fun watching together! We just found the second half of 'Pink Life and Death Love', let's try to finish it tonight! After we go back to the empire, it'll be hard to get that electricity thing. Go tell those Earth soldiers outside to bring dinner to our room."

I quickly pulled Adrian away to hide, pretending we didn't know anything.

By the way, the two worlds could deal with language problems so fast thanks to Reed! She first made a magic design for learning the common language of the continent. The Earth people copied the whole design into a camera. They can't use it themselves, but it's not a big problem for the empire's diplomatic group. They can even make it work the other way to let empire people learn H-country language.