Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation (Volume 6)

Vol 6/Chapter 33 New Relationship Conflict

"It's simple - when we came in, we alerted some soldiers guarding the city. I used some special methods to find our target! Kyndrill is nothing - with me here, it's a piece of cake!"

Since returning from another world, although Nicola had changed in many ways, she still kept her habit of showing off and being full of herself.

Though she didn't say it directly, I could easily tell that Nicola had probably used her time control ability again, since I could now sense disturbances!

"Don't tell me you used time reversal to walk through the entire city?"

I called her out, since after getting used to her abilities, it was natural to think in that direction.

"Uh, time travel isn't like selling cabbage - even now, using it consumes a large part of my power. And I can only go back ten minutes at most. This time it was just precognition..."

Seeing that I had figured it out, Nicola scratched her head awkwardly, then immediately put on a serious face to correct me.

This precognition - even human mages could do it to some degree. Since Nicola could control time, it was no problem for her.

"Unlike directly controlling time, precognition is a very energy-efficient method..."

According to her, because we had Adrian the Fate Breaker - an Observer - with us, the future could develop in countless different possibilities.

In other words, theoretically we might make many different choices going forward - like heading in different directions, down different streets. Unlike human prophets who could only make vague predictions, when Nicola activated her precognition ability, she could very clearly "see" every detail of every future for a long time ahead, including even herself currently explaining to us!

So after integrating all the experiences from all timelines, she could understand everything about the capital city's situation while standing in one place.

"That's really convenient! If that's the case, couldn't you directly observe the final result of our mission? Like whether we successfully killed Reider... But you just mentioned that you still couldn't properly scout such an important area as the palace?"

Since Reider, being the former emperor, would most likely be in the palace in the center of the city, Cyrae couldn't help but ask.

"Are you kidding me! You're just a lowly six-winged angel - just stand aside and watch, you have no place to talk here! Do you know how complicated the situation in the palace is? The various possibilities that branch out later are countless. Even though I caught glimpses of Reider a few times, he appeared in different locations each time, so nothing was certain! Not to mention there were always strangers with weird abilities appearing in the palace, nearly causing us to fail several times. How could I remember every future!"

Nicola seemed unhappy again and quickly threw out a bunch of reasons to explain. Simply put, she still only had ten wings and hadn't retrieved the complete power from Liana the Wind Angel. Of course, compared to me, she was undoubtedly quite powerful already.

"What do you mean by that? Although I only have six wings, I inherited most of Lady Elara's memories and battle experience. So what if you have ten wings - you just got them for free from the Wind Angel! Let me ask you one more thing - can you truly use all the power in your body?"

However, unexpectedly, at this critical moment, Nicola's earlier words looking down on Cyrae had accidentally stirred up a hornet's nest. Unlike the former Cyra who was used to swallowing her pride, Cyrae had completely different experiences. Seeing the other party belittle her, she immediately jumped up with various rebuttals.