"Let's talk about Yvonne first..."

Elara was unable to understand quantum communication and turned to ask Mia instead.

"Did you find anything on her?"

"Yes, these are all the things found on Yvonne..."

Mia immediately took out item by item from her storage ring and laid them on the ground. Among them were weapons, money, change of clothes, emptied storage rings, and some miscellaneous little gadgets that were unrecognizable.

"I'm a little dizzy, this guy has so many personal belongings. How are we supposed to find that legendary 'escape teleportation gadget'?"

Cyra blinked and complained.

"I remember when we killed Janette, the personal belongings she left behind were collected by you, why not take them out as well?"

Nicola suddenly recalled and reminded Mia.

"Janette? You killed Janette?"

I had always thought Jeanette was either captured or escaped, but it turned out she was killed by Nicola.

"It was a coincidence. Earlier when I went back to the city with Mia, we flew straight to the Tivi Palace to find you, but at the Royal Hall we saw two ten-winged angels fighting, although I didn't recognize either of them. But Mia recognized one as Councilor Meg, and the other as Janette."

Nicola spread her hands helplessly, briefly recounting the entire process.

"At the time we didn't know why they were fighting, let alone that Janette was also a traitor. We just saw from the battle that Councilor Meg seemed to be disadvantaged, while Janette kept pressing her. After secretly watching for a while, I realized that this Janette kept instilling some nonsense that Michelle is the true light to Councilor Meg, which of course could not be tolerated! So I took the opportunity when she was unaware and sneaked up from behind, stabbing her directly to death."

"You're quite ruthless..."

Although I said this, I also knew that if Nicola hadn't bumped into them by chance, Janette would most likely have escaped as well. After all, with Janette's status, she was fully qualified to possess that kind of "escape teleportation gadget".

"Councilor Meg is fine now, right?"

Speaking of this councillor, I recalled the original plan for this morning, I was going to attend the hearing with Cyra on behalf of Reed, but now it seemed I didn't need to consider this matter anymore.

"Although Councilor Meg suffered some minor injuries, her wings were intact. She was healed quickly afterwards. Physically she is fine now, just mentally..."

Elara seemed a little hesitant but eventually disclosed everything.

"Her mental state has been a bit depressed, seemingly very impacted by Janette's words, which worries me greatly. But Meg is after all a councillor and an elder, I can't restrict her movements, I can only secretly have some confidants keep an eye on her for now..."

"Why, is Councilor Meg also showing signs of defecting? What exactly did Janette say?"

Since Cyra came late, she didn't know the situation back then. But I had heard everything clearly from start to finish.

"Is it because of the matter of the angel ancestors?"

"I don't know why the ancestors disappeared thousands of years ago. Although successive Elaras have inherited many secrets, there are no records explaining the whereabouts of the two founders."

Elara looked at me and answered very definitively.

"I can assure you that the Michelle that Janette spoke of is definitely not the angel ancestor! Moreover, although the two ancestors have always been revered as deities by us angels, there has never been any notion of compulsory faith. As for the so-called mission of angels, that is even more irrelevant, completely separate matters."

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"Uh..."

I didn't care much about this. Even if Michelle was the ancestor of angels, it didn't seem that surprising to me. The main reason I stood on Elara's side was because she had shown goodwill to us crossers from the very beginning, and her attitude towards us was also very tolerant and generous.

Of course, the more important reason was that Michelle had long stood in opposition to us! If Nicola hadn't summoned her future self back to help us, it would be hard to say whether we could even stand here now.

"My lady Elara, all of Janette's personal belongings are here. Please take a look."

By now, Mia had laid out a pile of large and small miscellaneous items on the ground, roughly divided into left and right halves.

The left half was the stuff from Yvonne.

The right half was the personal belongings Janette had left behind after death.

"Let me take a look!"

Cyra rushed to the front and began sorting through them.

"If we're looking for the 'escape teleportation gadget' that Reed speculated, it's obvious that ten-winged angels like Yvonne and Janette should both have been carrying it. So we just need to compare if there are any identical items left by them..."

"Although you say that, there are still quite a lot of identical items between these two angels."

Not to mention common stuff like money, there were many identical objects among the daily necessities and jewelry.

Take for example the two combs I held in my hand, the styles were almost the same, equally gorgeous and exquisite, seemingly produced by the same workshop. Could it be they had the same hobbies too?

Then there were those weirdly shaped, colourful rings. These two loved rings, with no less than a dozen types!

I couldn't tell at all which ones were storage rings, which were ordinary, or which might be our target. They didn't seem to look very different on the surface.

"I remember this comb, it was imported from the Laputa Empire a few years ago. The quantity was extremely scarce, said to be daily necessities very popular among their royal family. It was only distributed to some high-level council angels, so I don't think it's what we're looking for."

Elara glanced at the item in my hand and explained.

"Alright..."

Just as I was about to dejectedly put it down, I suddenly thought that this comb of Janette's should be ownerless now, and I happened to like it too, so I conveniently slipped it into my waist pouch.

"I saw that you embezzled secretly!"

Cyra stared at my waist pouch, exposing me.

"How could you not get me a share too!"

"It doesn't matter, as long as you don't take the 'escape teleportation gadget' we're looking for, feel free to pick anything else you want from the rest! They won't use them anyway."

Elara was very generous, saying so and glancing again at Yvonne in the cage with a sigh.

"Just in time, I'm lacking a weapon. This sword looks pretty good, I'll just shamelessly take it then!"

As soon as Cyra heard, she hurriedly hugged Yvonne's gorgeous glowing long sword. That's right! The kind that emits white light! It made me green with envy, regretting that I didn't act faster.

Unfortunately, Janette's weapon here was a long spear, completely not to my taste, and it didn't glow either, nor was it easy to carry, so I could only give up and look for other suitable options.

"This looks like a storage ring, you just happen to not have one right?"

Naturally, Nicola would not miss this good opportunity either. She also squatted down and picked out a plain-looking ring to hand to me.

"That's right, I almost forgot about it!"

I slapped my forehead. How could I have missed such an important item? So I quickly put it on to check.

"Fortunately you reminded me, I have to thank you!"

Indeed I was not mistaken, this was a storage ring, and it seemed the space inside was even larger than Nicola's.

This was finally a stroke of good fortune. Without hesitation, I stuffed the previously abandoned long spear and other things into the ring. Although I wouldn't use them, they could be sold for money. How could the weapons used by the commander of the Angel Legion be lacking?

"There's no need for thanks between you and me..."

Nicola waved her hand very casually, randomly picking up a black button-like object from the ground and examining it for a while. Suddenly she knitted her brows.

"What is this thing?"

"I don't know either."

I leaned over to take a look, also clueless.

If you called it a button, but there was no hole in the middle for threading the needle and line through. From the appearance, it looked a bit like a small button cell battery on Earth. Although black overall, it had a metallic luster.

"I've never seen anything like this before..."

Elara took the mysterious object from Nicola's hand and looked at it, then immediately turned to hand it to Mia and asked:

"Are there any similar button-like items on Yvonne's side too?"

"There are, here!"

Cyra was still frantically hunting amidst Yvonne's pile of stuff. Upon hearing this, she scanned the ground and quickly found the target to hand over to us.

"Completely identical! It looks very suspicious!"

Holding one in each hand and pinching the two "buttons", I carefully compared them and simply could not find any difference, yet they came from different former owners.

"But can an 'escape teleportation gadget' be this small?"

Cyra still seemed a little incredulous as she asked, holding up the handful of rings in her hand.

"I thought it might be something like rings..."

"You don't know how to make magic gadgets either, who knows if magic can make it so small."

I shrugged and retorted.

"If these 'buttons' are magic tools, they do feel a little too small..."

At this point Elara also gave her opinion, siding more with Cyra on the issue of size.

"Wait, there's another one on Janette's side!"

Suddenly Nicola stared at the pile of items by her feet, squatted down and picked out yet another identical "button".