Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation (Volume 6)

Vol 6/ Chapter 18: Recovering Power

One thing was clear - the "Calamity" couldn't just appear out of nowhere in New Parristol's underground space.

Everyone on this continent knew that "Calamity" only happens when two angels mate, or when an angel mates with a human who has high light element affinity. So the one that Nicola and Adrian just met must have been brought in from outside.

From what Adrian knew, there were rumors that the Ancient God Religion had helped Edenmere clean up "Calamity" long ago. So it wasn't strange if they had secretly kept a few of these creatures during all this time.

"So you think the Ancient God Religion released these things to find us? If that's true, it means Selene and her people must have found a way to not be affected by the 'Calamity'."

After seeing how powerful their enemies were, and knowing how the Ancient God Religion operated with the "Spring" god backing them, Nicola quickly understood what Adrian meant.

Things were getting more difficult! Just fighting one was already so hard, and she could clearly feel the light element getting more insense ahead. This probably wasn't just her imagination - there might be more than one "Calamity" released in this underground space!

But controlling "Calamity" wasn't easy either. In theory, you had to fight for control with the being behind it - the Light God Beluto.

But this world's Beluto was special! Maybe he wasn't completely destroyed back then. Like how Galadra's soul left her body completely and now lives in another dimension to keep the Cycle of Rebirth running, Beluto's soul was probably hiding in some higher dimension too.

Based on Adrian's different experience - he said that when the "Calamity" affected him, he only heard Beluto's voice trying to make him serve the "Spring" god! So Nicola had a feeling that Beluto was being controlled at that time. Maybe what he told her earlier was actually him secretly asking for help to escape being controlled?

"Didn't you want to save your people? Now you'll probably have to be ready to die. Maybe we should think this through first?"

The road ahead would clearly be dangerous. Nicola couldn't help but mock him, planning to convince Adrian to give up. But as soon as he could move a bit, he pulled out many arrows and still firmly said:

"No matter how dangerous it is ahead, I must hurry there!"

"Are you crazy or what!"

Adrian's strong sense of duty as King made no sense to Nicola. Be it for the public good or her own reasons, she didn't want this happen. She wondered if she had been talking to a crazy person all this time?

But Nicola was too weak to stop him now. She could only watch as Adrian picked a blue-feathered arrow from his pile and stuck it into his wound.

"What do these arrows do anyway?"

This wasn't the first time she'd seen what the blue arrows could do. She remembered how he used the same method to fix his twisted arms and legs. Nicola got curious and picked up an arrow. She saw the word "Heal" written on it.

"'Heal' means treatment..."

At first she didn't get it, but after a few seconds she suddenly understood. "Hey! Why didn't you tell me you had such good stuff? Did you forget I'm injured too?"

"Your injuries? These arrows have healing powers like water magic, but they probably won't work on angels, right?"

When Adrian heard Nicola's question, he was surprised at first, then explained why he hadn't shown them earlier.