Chapter 92: Special Mission

Splitting up the new angels with past memories was clearly a way for the Edenmere government to divide potential troublemakers and reduce threats from inside.

Some of the classmates with good talents joined the angel legion reserves. They could get better training and even go on missions to the main world. This included Henderson, Quinn, and others.

Of course, Henderson changed his name to Levins now. Quinn also got a new name - Matora!

They say Matora was the name of a character Quinn really liked in a book. A few weeks ago, when the First Legion that Matora joined was about to leave Edenmere, Feliciara rushed to the platform on top of Tivi Palace to see him off.

Rumors say that when they said goodbye, one stood on the ground and one floated in the air. They stared at each other for a long time without saying anything. Too bad Cyrae wasn't there to see it herself.

Some other new angels with less talent or who didn't follow rules well were sent to patrol corners of Edenmere. This was quite a lot of people, including most classmates like Astrid and Jaxon.

The few left stayed in their old rooms in Tivi Palace. They mostly just chatted, napped, studied and exercised. But recently, because they were so good at sword fighting and improved so fast, Cyrae and Nicora got special lessons from Aetna, an teacher at Tivi Palace. They were some of the most talented among who came from another world.

"Cyrae? Come in!"

 Cyrae was outside the office door. Before she could knock, she heard Elara call softly from inside.

"Wow! You even knew it was me?"

Even though she hesitated for a moment and felt a bit nervous, Cyrae still pushed open the door and went in.

"Lady Elara, why did you want to see me?"

The leader of all Edenmere was sitting at her desk. Cyrae gathered her courage to ask, while looking around the room.

When they first came to this world, all the high-ranking angels joined together to show these newcomers who's boss. But after living together for a while, everyone could feel that Elara treated them differently from the other elders.

Maybe it was because she faced pressure from the elder council at first. Or maybe she was really worried about these new angels with memories from before. But after everyone got to know each other better, Elara reduced many of the rules limiting what they could do.

Reed benefited a lot from this. Because she understood magic theory in a special way, she not only got out of jail early, but also got special permission from Elara to stay in the library and study. The others still ended up being split up and watched, but they could mostly move around the city freely.

During this time, Cyrae was pretty active. She helped the angel guards finish a mission to get rid of "suddenly appearing nightmares". She also joined the Second Edenmere Fighting Tourment! Of course, for her, this competition was just about taking part. She never thought about trying to win a prize.

"First, congratulations on getting seventh place in the sword fighting competition a few days ago!" 

Elara stood up when she heard Cyrae's voice. She smiled, looked at the papers in her hand, and praised Cyrae highly without beating around the bush. "Actually, that's a really good result! Eight new angels from your group joined different parts of the competition. You have great talent!"

"Huh?"

Cyrae didn't expect Elara to talk about this. She stood there stunned for a long time, then quickly said humbly:

"Actually, I'm still far behind. You know, Nicora got fifth place in sword fighting. If she tries a bit harder, she might really win a prize!"

"No! Her situation is very different from yours. Her speed of growth is definitely not normal. You shouldn't look down on yourself!" 

The situation Elara was talking about was definitely how Nicora and Feliciara suddenly grew four wings in just a few days! Everyone knew that normally, new angels take at least years to move up levels. Such fast speed really shocked many high-ranking angels.

 For a while, everyone in Edenmere was guessing what was going on. But no one could figure out anything useful. At most, they could only focus on how those two had different hair colors.

"I've been watching your hard work all along. Compared to those unknown powers that suddenly appeared in Nicora, in some ways I actually think you have more future potential. So keep working hard! I'm going to give you a new task next!"

Elara clearly showed where she stood. She walked over from her desk and patted Cyrae's shoulder to encourage her again.

"Huh? How could it be me?"

This really scared Cyrae. She never thought she'd get praised like this one day.

"But I still think Nicora has the most potential! Let's not talk about others, just in sword fighting she's already as better than me... Oh right, there's also Feliciara! Even though she didn't join the fighting competition, she understands magic much better than me. She even learned some middle-level magic by studying on her own!"

"So Feliciara is like that too?"

Elara didn't seem very surprised about Feliciara. But now wasn't the time to keep talking about this. She had to wave her hand and get back to the main topic.

"Anyway, we'll need to keep studying to figure out why they're growing so fast! So let's not talk about that. I called you here to give you a new task!"

The new task was because the Astralrealm Kingdom outside was being attacked by lots of monsters. Edenmere was really short on hands. So Cyrae would temporarily join a group called "Post-Event Clearing" under the angel guards. She'd go with them to the main world as a new observer for a special mission.

"So I can finally leave Edenmere too?"

When she first heard this news, Cyrae couldn't believe her ears. Only when she saw Elara smile and nod to confirm did she finally calm down.

"But this is just temporary permission to go out. After the mission is done, you must come back right away. Nothing can go wrong during this time!"

Then Elara reminded her about some important things to be careful about. But Cyrae couldn't listen anymore. She just quickly agreed and rushed back to her room to pack.

In the parallel world of the Eldoria Continent, there were also many countries of different sizes and strengths. The entrance to Edenmere happened to be in the Astralrealm Kingdom. As soon as Cyrae and her angel guard teammates came out, they turned and flew quickly towards their mission target - Atlantis.

Atlantis was a small city in the middle of the continent, controlled by the religious country Lumina Sanctum. They say this city's history is very old, going back to ancient civilization times. It's about two or three hours of flying from Norvale, the capital of Astralrealm Kingdom.

Lumina Sanctum is a religious country created by the Ancient God Religion, one of the biggest religious groups on the whole continent.

By the way, the Ancient God Religion believes some pretty special things. They teach that the ancient civilization long ago was actually a country of gods. But for some reason it suddenly died out. They think all the humans living on the continent now are definitely the descendants of servants left by those ancient gods. So in daily life, people should be super respectful to those ancient gods.

"There are many different stories about how this world began. Maybe the Ancient God Religion's teachings are a bit right! After all, they've grown to this size after thousands of years. Pure nonsense can't last that long."

Joyce, the male angel leading this mission, was looking at a map of the whole continent while flying. He heard his teammate explaining human religious stories to Cyrae and couldn't help adding this.