Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 174: Waking Up

When I woke up again, I found myself back at the base near H-country's Shine Metropolitan City. But Adrian said it had been three days since I stopped the nuke high in the sky.

"What? Three days? Are you kidding me?"

I almost jumped out of bed. I remembered talking to the "Holy Ones" for only about 10 minutes in the higher dimension. How did so much time pass in the real world?

"It's true," Adrian said calmly, sitting by the bed. "I followed where you fell after the explosion and finally found you knocked out in a pile of rocks. You were completely naked, almost all your clothes were gone except for a few bits of fabric. But luckily, you didn't have any injuries. Then Luke Channing quickly called for backup troops. While M-country was in chaos because of the sudden explosion in their airspace, they picked up us and the other mission teams from the other side of the Earth and brought us all back."

"Oh, I see... Haha..."

Since there weren't many teleport scrolls, we had to come back using normal military transport. But right now I wasn't really thinking about that. When I heard that Adrian found me without any clothes on, I felt really embarrassed.

My relationship with Adrian wasn't at the "seeing each other naked" stage yet. This was the first time it happened after I changed, so of course I felt shy.

"Um..."

Adrian was smart and quickly realized what I was worried about. But he was too embarrassed to say anything, so he just turned his head away with a red face. The room suddenly felt super awkward.

But in the end, this kind of thing couldn't be helped. Of course I didn't want to make a big deal out of it. Thinking about our relationship, I just sighed a little and waved my hand to tell him:

"It's okay... Keep going!"

The rest wasn't very interesting. Just some celebration parties that already happened, and how Reed and the H-country military doctors at the base tried to figure out why I wasn't waking up and how to treat me.

It's actually really easy to tell if an angel is dead. As long as the body doesn't turn into light and disappear, it means they're not dead and can still be saved.

The main problem was they couldn't find anything wrong with my body, so Reed thought my long coma might be related to my soul. And Earth people's medical skills are even worse, so the base could only give me basic care, keeping me in the room and just giving me some IV fluids.

"Now everything's calm again. The space portal is confirmed to be working normally again, and we've finally made contact with the base in the other world. Earlier today, Cyra came to visit you. General Lee even said he'd ask his superiors for a special reward for you..."

As I listened to Adrian, I pulled out the needles from my hand and stood up from the bed. But when I tried to open my wings, he suddenly stopped talking and froze.

"You've leveled up?! So fast?"

Yes, when I looked back and saw I had ten wings now, even I was surprised for a moment.

"Could this be the extra reward they gave me?" I mumbled quietly to myself.

They say after I understood the rules of water elements changing matter, I was already close to leveling up.

The "Holy Ones" kept their word! And it's not just leveling up. The reason I could survive a close-range nuclear explosion and fall from 10,000 meters without any injury was probably thanks to them!

"Who? Who gave you a reward?" Adrian caught what I said. He quickly asked, very confused.

"It's like this. When I was unconscious, my soul really did leave my body and went to a place they said was another dimension..."