No wonder we couldn't find Nicola anywhere! While Adrian and I were stuck on Earth, Nicola had been in another world all along.

And from what I heard, that world was almost exactly like the one Cyrae came from!

"Could it be... did you go to my world?" Cyrae, who had taken Cyra's place here, couldn't hold back her excitement as she stepped forward. "How are they? I mean, how is Nicola and everyone else doing there?"

"Cyra?"

Nicola turned around, surprised. After recognizing who was asking, she looked confused. "Why you suddenly asking about this?"

Of course, she didn't know this Cyra had been replaced. But now that the portal to Earth was completely gone, there was no need to keep such secrets anymore.

"Well, it's like this..."

I quickly stepped forward to help explain everything to everyone.

"She's not the real Cyra? How are we going to explain this to Lady Elara?"

While others were okay with it, Serena and the First Legion angels were shocked. They couldn't help but whisper among themselves.

"So in the end, Cyra couldn't resist wanting to go home and chose to stay on Earth?"

But Nicole seemed to understand this well. She let out a long sigh, then turned to Cyrae with feeling. "Don't worry, your friends in that world are doing fine. We even fought together side by side. About Feliciara's death - they say with Galadra's help, they can bring back her soul and revive her. When I left, everyone was working very hard for this. Just one more step to success!"

I remembered Cyrae mentioned that in her world, Feliciara only had four wings and died saving her before Cyrae came to Earth. This was why for decades Cyrae had been torn about going back.

Between Cyrae and Nicola, they must have met in that other world too. Probably Nicola remembered this, that's why she specially mentioned it.

"Really? Feliciara can be revived? That's so good..."

Hearing this news, Cyrae got so emotional tears almost came out. Years of bottled-up feelings finally burst out. She just sat down on the ground, taking long time to calm down.

"..."

Seeing this, I felt a bit worried. I quickly pulled Nicola up and dragged her aside to ask quietly. "What you said just now true or not? The me in that world really can be revived? You not just making up story to comfort Cyrae right?"

I mean, revival isn't something easy. Angels don't leave bodies when they die, which makes using magic to revive them very difficult! Except for the "Holy Ones", I don't think anyone in the real world can do this easily.

"Of course it's true! You think I'm that kind of person who likes to make up stories?"

Nicola answered very firmly. As someone who was actually there, she even explained all the details to me. "The Galadra in that world told me that using the Angel Descent Formation can revive Feliciara. But the problem is, the Formation needs lots of energy and materials to work. That's why angels can only use it once every few decades! If we want to use Angel Descent Formation again quickly, we must ask Michelle, the Fire Angel who controls energy. But in that world, Michelle was kidnapped by the Empire. So for a long time, our main goal was to rescue her from the Ancient God Religion!"

This Ancient God Religion was supposedly the mastermind in that other world, and the "Beta Shock Bomb" that Fernando used to attack Michelle was also from them.

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"Rescue Michelle?"

To be honest, hearing this felt a bit weird. After all, the Michelle in our world was totally fine. Fernando, who supposedly kidnapped her in that world, was even one of her top assistants here. Hard to imagine she needed rescuing...

"The world where Cyrae came from must be quite far from ours, even the names are different! None of the parallel worlds we've seen before had this feature, so it's normal for things to develop differently."

Unexpectedly, Reed overheard my conversation with Nicola. It was the first time she jumped in so eagerly to share her thoughts. After thinking a bit, she added, "But the power difference between Cyrae and Cyra is too big. Maybe we can study this in the future."

What did she mean by "study"?

Considering how much Cyra had already suffered under Reed, hearing her mention this now made me worried for Cyrae too.

"Speaking of world differences, I actually encountered something strange in that other world..."

As if Reed's words reminded her of something, Nicola suddenly had a weird expression on her face. She hesitated for a long time before finally saying:

"I think I saw Irene!"

"Irene?!"

Remember, Irene got lost in the space turbulence right when the portal started malfunctioning. We still couldn't locate her. Hearing this, Reed and I immediately got interested:

"Which world's Irene did you see? Was it the Irene from Cyrae's world?"

I added this to avoid confusion. Since parallel worlds have another version of me, meeting another Irene there wouldn't be too strange.

"Actually, I'm not sure..."

Nicola had a bitter smile on her face. She lowered her voice even more and briefly explained what happened.

This happened before Cyrae came to Earth, during the confrontation with Michelle.

Because of Fernando's "Beta Shock Bomb" sneak attack, even Nicola couldn't handle the power and passed out for a while.

But when she woke up, she wasn't where she had been. Someone unknown had brought her to a small room she'd never been to before.

From the looks of it, this was just an ordinary civilian house in the Empire, not very big. She could hear angel gathering signals from outside, so she probably hadn't been taken very far - must be somewhere near the explosion site.

Feeling she hadn't been out for long, Nicola just got up from the bed and took out a water bottle from her storage ring to drink. But right then, a girl who looked both familiar and strange opened the door and walked in.

Familiar because she really looked like Irene, and her aura was definitely that of a Light Elf. But age-wise, she looked much older than when Nicola had converted her from Dark Elf to Light Elf - almost an adult already!

You know, Light Elves are like angels, they live very long. So for Irene to grow to almost adult age, you can imagine how much time must have passed.

But Nicola knew she was in a parallel world, so at first she just thought this might be this world's Irene. She didn't realize anything strange about it.

But then this girl just hugged her straight away and even introduced herself.

"Nicola, I'm Irene! Don't you recognize me? I missed you all so much! I finally found you!"

"Pffft—"

Nicola, who was drinking water, spat it all out. Before she sent Irene to the church in Norvale, though Irene's attitude had softened towards her, it was definitely not this close!

For a moment she even wondered if maybe this world's Nicola had some connection with this Irene, and that's why she was mistaken.

But then the girl went on to say that she was actually the same Irene that Nicola had converted from Dark Elf. She said she came to this world because she was following something called "System" that randomly transported her here.

"Wait wait wait, what are you talking about? Let me sort this out first!"

Nicola's head was completely confused.

According to Irene, she seemed to have gotten some kind of mind-sensing ability from this "System" - in other words, she could freely access the mental conversations between people. This included overhearing when this world's Galadra first summoned Nicola and asked her to help deal with Michelle.

It was because she "eavesdropped" on many details of their conversation that Irene realized this Nicola might be the one she knew. So when Nicola got knocked out by the "Beta Shock Bomb", she secretly transported her to this room.

"Did you get this teleporting power from the 'System' too?"

Nicola asked with a wry smile. From what she heard, it seemed like Irene had been in this so-called "System" for a long time. The System would randomly connect to some parallel world every now and then, then give out tasks or grant special abilities, letting its users improve their power through these means.

But Irene's goal was to use this to find her way home. Of course she had been to a few similar worlds before, but this was the first time she met someone she knew.