Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation(Vol 5)

Vol 5/ Chapter 179: The Original Celestial Weapon

While the space portal on Earth was acting strange, the portal entrance on Eldoria Continent didn't disappear. But it got weird - if you went in, nothing happened. It just looked like a round, see-through ball.

When H-country's military suddenly found out they couldn't go back, they got really scared! They didn't know how the portal worked, so there was some trouble here.

Luckily, most of the important people from the Ilandra Dominion Empire delegation had come back. One of the magic experts with Princess Katarina knew a lot about earth element portals. After checking things out, they said that since the portal entrance was still there, the connection to Earth wasn't totally broken. There was still a chance it could work again. This helped calm down the worried soldiers a bit.

Of course, after the portal started working normally again, all this became old news. When I went to the base office to report to the top commander, General Lange, and explain why I came back, I found out something surprising.

"Irene didn't come back here?"

I remembered Irene was the last one to go into the portal before that vampire died inside. But nobody from the empire group or anyone else saw her come out of the portal. At first, everyone thought she didn't enter the portal in time, but that's not what happened...

"I heard light elves are really good at turning invisible. Maybe the little girl didn't like it here, so she used her power to go back to her village right away?" Princess Katarina thought for a bit and guessed, even though it wasn't very likely.

There was an old, secret light elf village near the empire's border. The empire officials knew about it, but they never figured out exactly where it was.

"I'll go to the village and ask about it," I said. But I wasn't very hopeful. Irene wouldn't leave without waiting for Reed. But after the portal went crazy, who knows what happened to Irene inside. Maybe she got sent to some unknown parallel world, or even died in there!

But before I could fly far from the base, someone suddenly appeared in front of me in the air.

"You're finally back! It's been so long! What happened on Earth?"

"Galadra?"

For different reasons, Galadra's copy couldn't go through the portal to Earth. She looked a bit worried.

After I left, she kept watching the portal closely. Of course she saw when it started acting strange. But the problem wasn't on this side, so she couldn't figure out what was wrong.

"We found Cyra, but now there's a big problem that only you can fix!"

It was good timing - I didn't have to spend time looking for her. I didn't waste time and told her everything that happened on Earth, and that I needed her help to send a group of people back home.

"That's so complicated! Dealing with weird stuff happening across many universes is a big headache for me too!" Galadra frowned after hearing the whole story. Then she surprised me with her answer.

"So if you want me to send all those visitors from parallel worlds back to where they came from, I can't do it!"

"Huh? That's impossible!"

I almost hurt my back from the shock. Never mind the rest, but Nicola from World 14 took a Galadra's Eye and volunteered to take most people home. But now the real Galadra from our world is saying she can't do it?

"Are you a fake... or maybe your soul isn't complete, like mine?"

I looked at her, confused and annoyed.