Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation (Volume 6)

Vol 6/ Chapter 45: Pressing Questions

"Another teleportation!" Adrian complained, unable to hide his frustration.

Then he turned to look at me worriedly and asked, "What should we do? Do you really think we can trust them?"

"We don't have much choice. All we can do is hope they keep their promise not to interfere with the Empire anymore!" I shrugged. To be honest, if we chose to fight instead, it would have been quite dangerous. Never mind whether Adrian and I could handle fighting against three people - just Mamos's mind control were enough to make me worried.

But thinking about it another way, since they chose to retreat even when they had the upper hand, could this mean they were actually showing some sincerity?

Anyway, this mission could be considered somewhat completed. Although we didn't actually kill Reider himself, the end result was probably close to what we expected.

Also, the rebel army led by various lords should have occupied the Imperial capital by now. As for what direction things would develop next, that wasn't something we needed to worry too much about.

"We better not stay here too long. After all, this villa isn't very far from the Imperial capital. If the rebel army's control has already extended to this area, we might cause some misunderstanding if their soldiers find us!"

After searching the surrounding buildings one more time to make sure no other enemies were hiding around, we were about to leave when Nicola suddenly appeared behind us, looking quite upset.

"So I still came too late? How did you let them get away? What happened?"

After hearing our description of what happened earlier, Nicola sighed with frustration and complained about how we couldn't stop these System carriers.

"Why don't you try it yourself! Aren't you supposed to be able to control time? Go ahead and redo everything!"

Seeing that she still hadn't fixed her arrogant attitude, I rolled my eyes and snapped back at her.

The reason Nicola only found this place now was obviously because she didn't know the way. However, I realized that if she had arrived in time, things might have turned out differently.

"It's not that easy! I've explained so many times. Without an observer nearby, it doesn't matter how many times I try to go back, it won't work!"

To my surprise, Nicola brought up her same old explanation again, saying that even if she activated time reversal, she couldn't change the final result of being late. Moreover, even if she did use an observer to change the past, that would only create a new parallel world, completely separate from our current one - in other words, there was nothing she could do about it.

"Didn't you go after that guy called Hanno? Did you catch him?"

Since the outcome couldn't be changed, Adrian changed the subject and asked thoughtfully. After all, Nicola had separated from us in the beginning because she insisted on going after that System carrier. And her pursuit of Hanno wasn't just for revenge - she was also looking for that book, "Ethereal Ascendance: A Journal of Transformation." However, seeing her empty-handed now, it seemed things didn't go very smoothly?

"Of course I caught him. How could I possibly fail!"

Hearing this question, Nicola immediately raised her head proudly. But the good mood didn't last long, as she deflated a bit and added, "But the book wasn't with him. I interrogated him for quite a while before that Hanno guy finally told me some truth. Unfortunately, he wasn't very familiar with the story either, but the book was indeed kept with him for some time. However, after being attacked by church knights, he returned it to their team leader for safety."