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Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation
Vol 3/ Chapter 23: Customized Courses

Vol 3/ Chapter 23: Customized Courses

"How long did you originally plan for the teaching time?"

Nicola seemed to have a bad premonition and asked specifically.

"The content implanted into the new angels' memories is not particularly large. I plan to finish teaching in half a year."

Aetna thought for a while and gave a rough timeline.

"Half a year?!"

I underestimated the angels' tendency to waste time. I thought it would only drag on for a month or two at most, but I didn't expect it to be half a year right off the bat.

"No, that's too long. The course time must be compressed!"

Of course, such an arrangement was unacceptable, not only to me and Nicola, but even Cyra didn't expect the classes to drag on for so long.

"First, change to two classes per day, one in the morning and one in the afternoon, each class about three hours. And for practical classes like today, they don't need to be taught so carefully, one class can fully cover multiple contents. For magic, there's no need to worry about me, just focusing on Feliciana and Cyra is enough..."

Nicola re-formulated the teaching plan for Aetna. She originally wanted to arrange consecutive class times, but after thinking about it for a while, she still left a break at noon according to our past habits.

Since Edenmere's time is synchronized with the outside world, and many angels have stayed in the human world for a long time, the naming and division of time is still based on the outside world.

If she hadn't remembered that she still had to go to Reed's place every day to assist with experiments, she would have added another class at night.

"It sounds a lot like the teaching time arrangements in human schools in the outside world. Isn't it too tiring?"

Aetna thought for a moment that we were deliberately "tempering" herself, but because of Elara's order, she could only obey the requirements.

"This kind of intensity usually only appears after joining the angel legions. Can you handle it?"

"Don't worry, no problem! This is already quite relaxing."

Of course, I didn't care at all. These were all basic levels, far from my high school days.

"Not bad for a genius who rose to six wings in a month... Don't tell me pushing yourself desperately like humans in the outside world is the secret?"

Aetna gasped, seeming to have misunderstood something.

"It's not that exaggerated. We just simply want to save time..."

I suddenly felt somewhat speechless. But the other party simply didn't believe this explanation. After all, if we don't know why we rose to six wings so quickly, how could we convince others?

"You two are too desperate! It's making me lose a lot of free time too."

After deciding the curriculum arrangement, Cyra complained with us halfway back to the room.

"How dare you say that! You wasted more than half a month. Otherwise, maybe you would have risen to four wings by now."

Thinking of this, I felt Cyra was just too lazy. A whole month, such an unreasonable arrangement, she never thought of applying for an adjustment.

To be honest, at first, I didn't expect this situation where I could customize courses and even class hours. But I have to admit, it feels pretty good.

"...I'll work hard!"

Cyra wanted to refute a few words but considering her previous promise, she could only swallow it back into her stomach.

"There you are! I've been looking everywhere for you!"

Just as we reached the room door, Norma ran over from the depths of the corridor and called out to the three of us.

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"Tonight at eight o'clock, Lady Elara will hold a banquet in the hall to welcome Feliciana and Nicola, as a make-up celebration for the new angels. Cyra can come along too!"

After Norma finished speaking, she looked relieved. It seems the housekeeper is not easy to handle either.

"Why is it tonight? I thought I didn't have to eat that meal!"

Cyra was very dissatisfied and said, having just eaten her fill earlier. Plus she wouldn't get hungry either, her appetite was far worse than it was yesterday.

"You guys disappeared without a trace yesterday, only coming back past midnight. There was no way to notify you in time, so I could only postpone it to today!" Norma glared at her and said.

"Did you notify Reed as well?" Nicola was also worried, suddenly realizing there were many things to handle. Thinking that she still had to go to the library after class in the afternoon, she wondered if she could make it back in time.

"I just notified her earlier. You're all the same batch, of course, I wouldn't leave her out. But Reed said she already attended once a month ago and felt it was a waste of time, so she refused."

I think it's mainly because she just ate yesterday...

Speaking of which, I don't have much appetite either, but considering this is Lady Elara's good intentions, it would be impolite to refuse, so I can only reluctantly agree for now.

"You must be on time!"

Seeing that none of us were very willing, Norma reminded us with a strange expression.

Eating is considered a luxury for angels to begin with. Let alone a banquet personally hosted by Lady Elara.

She didn't know about our dinner yesterday, so of course she couldn't understand why this situation occurred.

"See if you can make it." Seeing Norma's retreating figure in the distance, I said helplessly to Nicola,

"Why don't we go ask Reed for time off?"

"I'll try my best. But actually, I don't care if I don't eat."

Nicola shook her head and headed straight back to her room.

In Edenmere, who has any appetite... Nicola proposed having dinner yesterday for the gathering of classmates.

Having it again today, the enthusiasm would be lacking.

...

Sitting in my room, I flipped through some books placed on the shelves out of boredom. Most were recreational books, such as novels brought back from the human world, records of angel adventures in the human world, and some famous heroic biographies.

"So boring. Why are there no magic books? Should have borrowed some from the library yesterday."

I closed the book in my hand and looked at the time.

If it wasn't because I still had class later, I would have wandered out already.

"Feliciana? You shouldn't be sleeping right?"

Just as I was lying in bed with nothing to do, Nicola's knock came from outside. I hurried to open the door for her.

"How could I fall asleep!"

I let her in and jokingly said,

"The door can be opened from outside anyway. When were you ever so polite as to knock? You just directly ran into my room this morning!"

"Cough... I'm always very polite okay? It's because you didn't lock the door! And I knocked for so long in the morning because I was worried something happened to you before rushing in."

Nicola walked in and plopped down on the bed.

"Mainly because I don't know how to use this magic lock. Also, there shouldn't be anything in Edenmere that needs special precautions right?"

I glanced at the door then turned my head back to ask her,

"Come on, what did you come to my room for?"

"What? Can't I come visit you? See if you miss me after we started living separately!"

Nicola joked half-seriously, casually grabbing a book from the bed and glancing at it.

"《The Biography of Elara the First》? Ha, so Elara is just a title. I always thought it was her name! Since when did you become so literary as to read biographies?"

"Get lost! Your room must have a copy too, go read it yourself!"

I kicked her in annoyance and snatched the book back to put on the shelf. "Did you just come here to chat?"

"How is that possible? Alright, I came to discuss proper business..."

She made an aggrieved expression, then suddenly turned serious and asked me,

"What do you think is my relationship with Liana?"

"Liana..."

I didn't expect her to take the initiative to ask about this. My hand holding the book paused slightly as I casually answered,

"How would I know? Isn't this something you should be most clear about? Been in Edenmere so long, never mentioning her, I thought you didn't even care..."

"That's why I'm here asking your opinion now! Come on, tell me what kind of existence you think Liana is?"

Nicola urged me earnestly. It didn't seem like she was joking.

"I don't know anything about her, only confirming your time control ability comes from her. But you crossed over here, so I don't know how you're related. Otherwise, I wouldn't have asked your future self back then. But your future self didn't want to answer, always avoiding my questions..."

I could only honestly tell her everything I knew, explaining it clearly.

"Then where do you think my wind element control ability comes from?"

Nicola frowned slightly, seeming to feel I hadn't touched on the key point.

"Wind element ability? Isn't that as Lady Elara said, related to the soul..."

I answered matter-of-factly without thinking twice, but suddenly felt something was wrong.

"Looks like you finally realized it too."

Seeing my expression, Nicola finally breathed a sigh of relief.

"I only thought of it yesterday when Reed examined the Condensation Sword..."

"You mean when she saw that the Condensation Sword is condensed from wind elements?"

I asked uncertainly because we had discussed the method to make Condensation Sword long ago, it wasn't much of a secret. But combined with what I know now, there seems to be some contradiction.

"If what Lady Elara said is true, you obtained wind element control because of your soul. But the Condensation Sword is formed by condensing wind elements, Michelle recognized Liana through the Condensation Sword, meaning Liana can also control wind elements."

"Then doesn't that mean the wind element ability also comes from her, same as your time control? Or your soul is Liana..."

Based on the reasoning, I came to a terrifying conclusion.