Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation

How could it not be important? When this Feliciana, who looked exactly like me, said those words, I nearly lost my mind.

"Oh, so you're not the Feliciana from our world?"

To my surprise, this Adrian Number 12 was a real oddball. Seeing the situation going south, he quickly made up an excuse and ran away.

"Damn, what a coward!" I couldn't believe it.

Suddenly, it was just me and Feliciana Number 7, who looked very unhappy. Of course she wasn't in a good mood after her secret lover ran away. She looked at the number on my chest and said meanly:

"Don't tell me you're still single in your world? No wonder you get jealous... Hmph! Even if it's myself, does jealousy make me this ugly?"

"Are you crazy? Of course I have my own Adrian. Don't talk nonsense!"

I was so angry! I never thought I'd see the day when I'd be arguing with myself from another world. I suddenly understood how Cyra felt before.

Anyway, why am I arguing with myself? The most important thing right now is to fix the space tunnels. We don't need any extra fights, especially silly ones like this!

It's hard to believe how different the same person can be in different worlds because of different experiences! I shook my head, suddenly thinking there must be other Felicianas who think like Number 7. What if there are other badly behaved Felicianas in the base and my Adrian from my world meets them?

What would that be? Cheating on myself with myself? If I have to blame someone, it's that unreliable Adrian Number 12. I was really worried, so I walked faster.

By chance, I saw Wayne Peng when I passed by the base canteen.

It was already past dinner time, but there were still quite a few people in the canteen. The base decided to extend the canteen's opening hours because more and more outsiders might keep coming in.

It looked like Wayne Peng and his team came here to rest after their patrol. When they saw me, they waved and said, "Perfect timing, why don't you join us?"

The patrol team they put together wasn't very big. Besides one or two other base members, I finally found Adrian among the few people sitting there!

"Adrian... oh, no!"

I got excited for nothing. The number on this Adrian's chest wasn't 0, but 1!

"That's right, he's Adrian from World Number 1, the first group we questioned!" Wayne Peng quickly explained when he saw I didn't look happy. "Come to think of it, you two probably haven't met yet. Since world one isn't too different from ours, I decided to let him join the patrol team."

Compared to other parallel worlds, World Number 1 was one we could trust for now. Wayne Peng had seen Adrian's strong abilities, so when they had to deal with so many outsiders, he chose him.

Even though I thought this wasn't enough, that wasn't what I was worried about right now. "Then where's my Adrian? Wasn't he with you?"

"This canteen actually has sour fish soup. I just saw it and got you a bowl." Suddenly, a plate appeared on the table in front of me. It turned out my Adrian had went to get me some food. He sat down and said, "Try it and see how it tastes. Maybe because it's leftover food, I think it's not as good as what you make!"

"Really?"

To be honest, after all the surprises, I felt touched by this. I picked up the bowl and tried some fish...

It's quite delicious! No matter what, it's made by army chefs, so it can't be worse than my amateur cooking.

"What do you mean, pretending to be me?"

But just then, there was a big commotion in the canteen! Two Felicianas were arguing, and another Adrian with them looked completely confused.

These two Felicianas were so excited that they spread their wings, and one of them even had ten wings! This sudden change caught everyone's attention, including some other mes in the canteen.

"Since it's rare to have a chance like this, of course I want to try something exciting! We're all the same person, why angry about it?"

That sounds familiar. It looks like quite a few people think this way. The one saying this was the Feliciana with ten wings! This ten-winged Feliciana was from World Number 14 and was quite powerful. But she did something ridiculous - she changed her number tag to pretend to be Feliciana Number 11 and tried to seduce that world's Adrian!

"What are you standing there for? Help me catch her!"

Feliciana Number 11 was about the same as me with only eight wings, so she was no match for the other one. Plus, they couldn't just start a fight in the base, so she could only ask her Adrian for help.

"Huh? But you're both Feliciana... and she has ten wings. Even if you tell me to catch her, I might not be able to!"

Adrian Number 11 had just come to his senses and was really worried about this difficult task. He didn't know what to do, but he still took out his weapon.

"Everyone stop right now! Fighting is not allowed in the base. You were told this rule when you first came to this world. If you don't listen to our warning, don't blame us for being harsh!"

Seeing this situation, Wayne Peng couldn't just sit there. Isn't this why they made the patrol team? Under his lead, two Adrians, me, and a few armed H-country soldiers all surrounded them.

Of course, Wayne Peng didn't know the difference in power! We didn't have enough force to face that ten-winged me. But luckily, Feliciana Number 14 didn't want to make a big scene. After all, she wanted to go back to her own world soon. So with the base getting involved, both sides came to an agreement.

"Faking your number tag is not allowed. If I catch you doing this again, I'll have to put you in confinement!"

Feliciana Number 14 was about to leave, but Wayne Peng stopped her to give her a serious warning.

"Hmph!"

She was clearly in a bad mood. Feliciana Number 14 looked back at Wayne Peng. Then she suddenly disappeared from in front of Wayne Peng, and the clothes he was holding in his hand mysteriously turned into a chair!

This chair looked exactly like the ones in the canteen, but it wasn't actually any of the chairs around. It was a completely new chair that appeared out of nowhere!

"Huh? What's going on?"

I was really surprised. What Feliciana Number 14 just did was unbelievable. If she used magic, I'm almost certain that there's no similar magic in either water or light magic.

It's a bit like the "switching objects" trick I've seen in some cartoons! But in theory, even for switching objects, there should be an original object to switch with. After checking, we confirmed that the chair in Wayne Peng's hand didn't belong to any chair in the whole canteen.

Besides that, the only other difference at the scene was probably the faint water element energy that wasn't there before.

I suddenly realized that even I couldn't tell how powerful this Feliciana Number 14 really was. She seemed much more mysterious than I thought, far beyond the level a ten-winged angel should have.

"We're going to start patrolling again. The canteen should be open 24 hours, so if you want to eat something, talk with the kitchen staff."

Adrian had to go with Wayne Peng to continue the patrol team's job. Before leaving, he reminded me:

"Um... take care of yourself out there, okay?"

I was lost in thought, those words just came out of my mouth. Or maybe I should go with Adrian? That might be the safest option.

But right after Wayne Peng and Adrian left, someone came up to me with coffee. She was trying to be nice and gave me a cup too.

"Hi, I heard you're the me from this world?"

This was Feliciana from World Number 5.