"Oh no, I overslept!"

I suddenly woke up and opened my eyes, only to find that it was already the next morning. The bright sunlight was shining on my bedside. By now, I should have been heading to the Adventurer's Guild with Adrian and Cyrae.

Wait! I sat up and shook my head, suddenly realizing something wasn't right. When did I go to bed yesterday? And this room...

My last memory was when I made physical contact with the mysterious Cyra No. 18, and after that, I couldn't remember anything at all!

Even more strange was that the room wasn't the spacious and fancy room at the Kyndrill inn in the imperial capital. At first glance, it was very small and simple, with various clothes and items piled up in the corner, like an ordinary bedroom that hadn't been used for a long time.

Of course, the view outside the window had completely changed too. It seemed I was now in a small cabin in a lush forest. I had somehow ended up in a totally different place! Did I travel through space again?

"How can this be? Where are Adrian and Cyrae?"

My whole body suddenly shivered as the situation was completely beyond what I expected. I quickly walked out of the room. Sure enough, what I saw was a farmhouse courtyard full of lush green plants.

"You're awake! You must have been very tired yesterday. Did you sleep well?"

Probably hearing my call earlier, a door opposite to mine opened, and Adrian walked out stretching. He greeted me and sat down in the middle of the courtyard to do some exercises while saying, "We should be quite close to the empire's border now. If everything goes well, we can enter the Kingdom of Astralrealm today and probably reach Norvale tomorrow!"

"The empire's border? Weren't we supposed to use the Adventurer's Guild's teleportation circle to go directly?"

Adrian's words left me confused, but the fact that I woke up in a completely different place was more important! I couldn't care about other things and quickly asked, "By the way, where is this place? Weren't we at the inn in Kyndrill?"

"Why are you asking this? Don't you remember?"

Not surprisingly, my strange questions immediately alerted Adrian. He frowned and looked at me with confusion, examining me up and down for a while. After a good moment, he explained everything. "We've been away from Kyndrill for more than a day! The guild's teleportation circle had a malfunction and dropped us in the middle of nowhere in the central empire. Then we spent a whole day traveling before finding a local family to stay with temporarily."

I never expected this outcome, and my spine felt cold as I had absolutely no memory of anything Adrian mentioned!

Moreover, how could the Adventurer's Guild's teleportation circle malfunction so easily? This technology had been developed for several hundred years and had always been very reliable. There had never been any reports of people being dropped halfway!

According to Adrian, when he and Cyrae first encountered this situation, they also found it very incredible. However, I was the only one who remained calm and even said there was no rush, and that we could take this opportunity to appreciate the scenery of the southern continent!

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"Are you sure I said that? Appreciate the scenery?"

This was terrifying! We had already wasted so much time and were in a hurry, how could I possibly have the mood to appreciate the scenery!

Obviously, this wasn't another space travel incident! During the time I lost consciousness, someone had secretly taken control of my body while traveling with Adrian for a whole day.

However, this wasn't the first time something like this had happened - when Cyra and Cysper accidentally switched bodies before, it was very similar to this. The only difference was that I had no memory of controlling anyone else's body.

"Could it be her! That mysterious Cyra No. 18, did she control my body?"

I suddenly had a flash of insight and blurted out. Since the physical contact with Cyra No. 18 was what triggered this incident, it was natural to think of her.

"What Cyra? I think I heard you say someone controlled you?"

Probably attracted by my voice, another door behind me opened, and Cyrae walked out, together with what appeared to be a very elderly person in eighties.

It turned out Cyrae had woken up even earlier than Adrian and me, but since she had nothing to do early in the morning, she was chatting with the house owner who was almost the same age as her.

Since the house owner was just an ordinary human, after quickly reassuring the uninvolved person, the three of us closed the door and got together to seriously discuss this issue again.

"How can this be! Was the person who stayed with us yesterday really not you?"

As soon as we sat down, Cyrae immediately asked me with disbelief. After all, this was no joking matter. If the person controlling my body had evil intentions, it could possibly lead to everyone being wiped out, or cause some even more terrible disasters.

"That's right! The most possible suspect is Cyra No. 18. After we made contact, I didn't wake up until just now."

Considering they all knew about what happened the night before yesterday, I restated my theory. Of course, it was just a theory.

"Is it possible that you just lost your memory of yesterday?"

Adrian cautiously offered another possibility. The main reason for this was that yesterday I didn't show the blank expression that Cyra No. 18 supposedly had.

I have to say this perspective made some sense. We couldn't rule out the possibility that Cyra No. 18 had used some special ability that could erase memories.

"But don't you think yesterday's Feliciana was really strange in many ways? She was basically in a playful mood the whole time. If it wasn't for this reason, we probably would have already entered the Kingdom of Astralrealm by now!"

However, Cyrae immediately objected. She also felt things couldn't be that simple, mainly because I didn't act like me yesterday, and I didn't even care about ridiculous things like the teleportation circle malfunction.

"So you just let me play around like that?"

Hearing this, I couldn't help but twitch my mouth. Everyone had their own reasons for wanting to get back to Norvale quickly, but this strange incident unexpectedly delayed us for more days.

However, Adrian said that yesterday's me actually gave a reasonable explanation! I told them that something unexpected had occurred in Norvale, so Elara would stay there for a while longer and there was no need to hurry. Since I was usually the one who contacted Elara through the "Spiritual Convergence" magic, others didn't have much doubt and happily believed it.

"So, this reason was probably fake too?"

After learning that I hadn't actually contacted Elara in the past two days, even Adrian felt the situation was becoming serious.

"No matter who it is, maybe the person controlling you actually wanted to prevent us from getting back to Norvale early? We must leave immediately! Otherwise, we might have fallen for the enemy's plan!"

Cyrae stood up and suggested. Now, to prove whether these guesses were correct, the best thing to do was undoubtedly to return to the royal capital as soon as possible!

We immediately said goodbye to the elderly house owner and flew at full speed towards our destination.

Several hours later, it was noon, which happened to be the regular time for communicating with Elara. I quickly cast the magic to enter the spiritual network hosted by Elara.

"Some events did happen here in Norvale, about magical beasts... but it's not necessarily a bad thing. Let's discuss the details when you arrive, there's no rush! But you just said someone controlled you, what exactly happened? You know that we angels are immune to any spiritual magic..."

The message I received was even more puzzling. Elara actually confirmed what "I" had said yesterday. Also, she confirmed that I hadn't initiated any contact with her yesterday.