Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation

"I don't care, I'm staying this time! I'm a six-winged angel now, even if they find out, they can't do much to me!"

Sadly, Cyra wouldn't back down this time. She thought it was okay to fight with the H-country government because she could use magic.

"You really want to do this?"

I was worried. Angels can easily hide on Earth, like Cyrae, who can come and go in this base easily.

But things might be different now. The whole Earth knows about magic and angels from other worlds. If they really want to, with a country's resource they might be able to find her.

"I have a way to solve this problem that works for everyone!"

Suddenly, a voice came from behind me. I turned and saw someone who looked like an H-country soldier leaning on the door, speaking calmly.

Of course, if you look closely, you can see it's not a real H-country soldier, but Cyrae using magic to look like one!

After the M-country fight ended, Cyrae's official identity - a human magician from another world - died in battle and they couldn't find the body. So she had to go back to H-country alone and sneak into the Shine Metropolitan base with a new identity.

"You finally showed up!"

I was wondering why I hadn't seen her for days. When she appeared, I quickly took out the crystal ball and said:

"Where have you been? I've sent everyone from other worlds back! If you want to go back to your world, we can try while I still have the 'Eye of Galadra'."

Galadra said if the target world is too far, we might not be able to send someone back. But since Cyrae has been on Earth for a long time, I thought we could try anyway.

"After this mess with parallel worlds, my ideas have changed a lot..."

Surprisingly, Cyrae shook her head. She barely looked at the celestial weapon in my hand and refused my offer. "First, I don't think this celestial weapon has enough magic to send me back! Second, it's been decades since I came here. There's no point in going back to the world I left now. Plus, there are things on Earth I can't leave behind..."

I never expected to hear this from Cyrae. Does this mean she's decided to stay on Earth forever?

"But what about your husband's soul? Didn't you say you wanted to take his soul back to the Eldoria Continent and put it in the Cycle of Rebirth? If you stay on Earth, doesn't that mean your husband's soul will disappear someday!"

Cyra asked in disbelief.

"Of course I won't give up my husband's soul easily. I won't leave him behind! But how to solve this problem goes back to the win-win solution I mentioned earlier!"

Cyrae smiled mysteriously. She came into the room, closed the door tight, and checked that no one was outside. Then she continued telling Cyra her plan:

"I've been thinking about this since the space portal appeared. Now that you want to stay, it fixes some problems, like no one to take care of my mother and granddaughter, and the Horayze Medical company..."

Cyrae's plan wasn't too complicated. Basically, she and Cyra would swap identities.

She would go to the Eldoria Continent in our world using Cyra's name, while Cyra would take over all her stuff on Earth and handle her leftover business.

"Everything else is fine, but I don't know how to run a company, especially a medical company!"

When Cyra heard Cyrae wanted to give her the big multinational Horayze Medical company, she panicked a bit at this big opportunity.

But Cyrae had already planned for these details. She calmly reassured Cyra:

"Don't worry, I'll teach you what you need to know, like how to make PureBalance Gold Pills and get light elements from space. These aren't too hard for angels. Also, remember my other self, Cylaren, is the company's chairman. She can help run most of the daily business. All you need to do is give her body light elements regularly!"

"Is this really okay?"

I couldn't believe it. This Cylaren is a part of Cyrae that's been separate for a long time, with a small part of her consciousness and most of her memories.

But now she wants to leave this part on Earth to help Cyra, while her main self goes to the Eldoria Continent forever. This means separating and losing part of her soul, which is very risky.

"There's no other way! Wendell's soul has been sealed for too long and can't last much longer. So a few days ago, I put it in the Cycle of Rebirth in your world. Now I can't stay on Earth anymore."

Cyrae shrugged and answered sadly.

This "Wendell" must be her husband who died long ago. Since her husband's soul is in the Eldoria Continent now, it makes sense that Cyrae doesn't want to be apart from him.

Swapping identities was good for both of them, so they agreed. With the little time left before leaving Earth, they both worked hard to learn about each other's situations while pretending to be each other.

I kept working with Serena to teach magic to the Earth people, as we promised.

The details in between were not worth mentioning.

Time flew by, and soon it was the last night of our teaching plan.

The Ilandra Dominion Empire delegation left Earth first. They only taught basic magic, nothing too deep.

Of course, to help Earth people understand magic scientifically, element theory was important. Reed, the genius new angel from Edenmere, took on this big job!

I asked to stay on Earth until tomorrow morning, saying I was helping Reed teach.

But I had another important reason - to say goodbye to Cyra.

After they swapped identities, Cyra rarely came to the base. Cyrae had no official identity here. And Cyra wasn't as good at disguise magic as Cyrae, often showing small mistakes that might get her caught.

So to be safe, she left the area and went to the Horayze Medical company to find Cylaren, as Cyrae told her to. Today was the day we agreed to meet for the last time.

Since everyone's leaving tomorrow, except for a few angels still teaching, people like Adrian and Cyrae who weren't involved had already gone back to the Eldoria Continent.

After class, I walked quickly to my room. On the way, I passed the warehouse with the space portal and glanced at it.

There were still many soldiers guarding the warehouse door, but the big space portal was now smaller than a person's height.

If we wait a few more days, it'll probably be too small to use. That's the main reason the H-country army decided to close the entrance completely starting tomorrow.

"You're finally back! A bunch of patrol guys just walked past the window, I was so scared!"

My room was empty when I went in, but then Cyra appeared from a corner.

She used invisibility magic after all!

"Didn't I tell you not to sneak in invisible? They added a lot of infrared cameras in the base recently, just to catch people like you!"

I shook my head, feeling helpless. Of all the disguise magic, invisibility is probably what Cyra's best at. But even so, she always leaves small clues, like bending light weirdly. No wonder she's afraid of being found in the room.

They're both Cyrus transformed, but Cyra is so much weaker than Cyrae in power and mind. But if we're talking about friendship, only Cyra is my real high school classmate and the troublemaker friend who went on adventures with me in another world.

"Don't worry, it was Raydwin and I who set up the cameras near this dorm. How could I get caught so easily!"

As expected, Cyra didn't care about my warning. Instead, she bragged proudly.

To be honest, I'm used to her personality, so I didn't bother saying more useless stuff. Instead, I changed the topic to how we've both been doing lately.