Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 177: Success and Fame

"Oh?" Wayne Peng's eyes lit up when he heard me mumbling to myself. He leaned in and asked eagerly, "Did you figure something out?"

"No, nothing..." In just a few seconds, I understood a lot of things I hadn't before. But there's not much real proof about the "Holy Ones". And I don't know that much anyway. If I told Wayne Peng the truth, he probably wouldn't believe me.

So it's better to say nothing! But I know the H-country military is trying hard to find Number 14 Feliciana. They won't find anything. So I tried to explain to Wayne Peng:

"Actually, Number 14 Feliciana is way stronger than me. She can even go back to her own world by herself. She only stayed here to help us. So don't worry too much about her staying in this world. Maybe she finished her job and left already. If she's not even in this world, you won't find her no matter how hard you look!"

"But how she and Number 14 Nicola got here is so strange. I can't explain this to my boss!" Wayne Peng said, looking very stressed. World 14 helped a lot with the space portal problem. Like how Nicola from World 14 took many visitors from other worlds away early. Wayne Peng couldn't deny that, but he was still very worried. "Now even the central government knows about this. They ordered us to check all the security footage of visitors from parallel worlds coming in. We can't let any 'illegal immigrants' slip by, including the rumors about World 18."

"World 18? You mean that rumor where three shadows were seen entering the space portal, but only two humans arrived, and then someone at the base said they saw Cyra from World 18?" Adrian understood right away. This rumor was all over the base. The human visitors from World 18 had already left with Nicola from World 14. But later, many people, including me, had weird experiences of meeting a "mysterious Cyra"!

But sadly, no one here could explain the truth about World 18. Wayne Peng himself saw three shadows enter the space portal. So he could only guess it was somehow related to the mystery of World 14, but he couldn't be sure.

Just as we were about to leave after eating, Wayne Peng suddenly got a phone call. It sounded like it was from one of his bosses.

"Really? I'll come right away! My injury was completely healed by Feliciana... Yes, the same person. They're right here with me! I'll bring them along!"

Wayne Peng kept looking at me while he was on the phone, looking very surprised. After he hung up, he tried to calm down and explained to Adrian and me:

"Raydwin is alive again, and he's somehow here at the base! We heard he was dead before, and there wasn't even a body. But they say when they found him, he kept talking nonsense about some god-like beings called 'Holy Ones' who saved him. Then Cyra showed up and explained that you used some special magic to bring him back to life! That's amazing, you really are an angel! Not only are you not afraid of nuclear bombs, you can even bring people back to life!"

I have to say, Wayne Peng's praise at the end made me feel a bit embarrassed. Actually, I can't bring people back to life. If those "Holy Ones" heard that I took credit for their work, would they strike me with lightning?

But then again, for Earth people, bringing someone back from the dead is a big deal! Adrian and I looked at each other. We knew it was time for me to step up again. Wayne Peng had clearly been told by General Lee to bring us to deal with Raydwin coming back to life.

But we weren't going to the research lab like I thought. We were going to the base's office building. They said Raydwin was there now.

I'd be lying if I said I wasn't curious about the body the "Holy Ones" made for Raydwin out of thin air. Who knows if they gave him any special powers?