Ethereal Ascendance: A Journey of Transformation

"The M-country President?"

I was shocked. You know, M-country is the top superpower on Earth. But this M-country President skipped the embassy in H-country's capital and chose to send a call for help to the consulate in Shine Metropolitan instead. The meaning behind this is really interesting.

As for what the call for help was about, it must be about vampires spreading, right?

"For some reason, vampires have indeed started spreading in M-country, and it's gotten really bad!" General Lee's words quickly proved I was right. He read from the report in his hand, explaining the real situation happening on the other side of the Earth. "In the letter, the M-country President said their country's two spy agencies, ICA and FIB, were first affected by vampires to different degrees. Then it spread very quickly among M-country's top officials. Even though some people tried hard to warn the President, he found out he had no one left around him that he could trust..."

The M-country President didn't know how to handle it. He remembered that vampires first came from the Shine Metropolitan in H-country. Even though Shine Metropolitan was affected by vampires, it didn't completely fall. So he had no choice but to take a risk and ask the Shine Metropolitan consulate for help.

"But sadly, the Shine Metropolitan consulate had already been taken over by vampires. His email was received a few days ago, but it was deleted to the trash folder..."

"This means M-country has been watching us closely for a while. They probably know about our base too. Maybe they even know all about the other side of the space portal!" one of the base's high-level official said, looking upset. He angrily suggested, "It's time we must thoroughly check for traitors. Otherwise, we might wake up one day and find our secret all over the international news!"

"Leaks are small problems now. M-country's spies are everywhere, but they probably don't know the real secrets inside the base yet. If they did, M-country wouldn't have just been waiting and watching without telling the world about this," Wayne Peng disagreed. The M-country President's letter never mentioned the space portal. He was probably just asking for help because he knew the vampires came from Shine Metropolitan.

And of course, the M-country government controlled by vampires wouldn't want to tell the whole world about this!

"I agree with Wayne Peng! M-country's problem shows that now even the whole Earth has to face the threat of vampires from another world. We can't just care about our country anymore. We must look at this event from the perspective of all humans!" General Lee suddenly cut in, reminding us. "Don't forget this letter was sent a few days ago. By then, M-country's military had already fallen. A nuclear superpower being controlled by vampires is extremely dangerous! I've already reported this situation to top leaders and asked to approve taking action!"

"So what exactly should we do? You mean you want us to go to M-country to get rid of the vampires there?" At that moment, I quickly caught the hidden meaning in his words.

After the military was infected, there's no doubt that M-country has fallen. If the vampire ancestors want to increase their numbers, the infection rate of their followers could grow really fast. The only solution we can see is probably for us angels to step in. But the problem is, even I, an eight-winged angel, can't guarantee I can successfully purify M-country with its hundreds of millions of people and who knows how many infected!

Moreover, this base is having all kinds of troubles now. We still don't know how to fix the out-of-control space portal!

"I don't have a solution either. I hope you can help with this! Actually, those diplomats from the M-country consulate also asked our country for help after they were purified. As a member of Earth, our H-country naturally can't ignore this and let those vampires do whatever they want!" General Lee understood the situation well. He looked at me deeply, kind of agreeing with my guess.

But I didn't expect him to suddenly change the topic and move the focus of the meeting to Reed's research.

"But before that, I want to put M-country's issue aside for now. This is a good chance for all of you to learn about Reed's results!"

As the door opened, we saw one Reed after another, wearing different clothes from different parallel worlds, walking in from the hallway. Soon, the not-so-big meeting room was packed with people. Looking around, almost everyone was Reed!

I counted quickly. There were about thirteen Reeds. Basically, all the Reeds from the parallel worlds were standing in front of us now.

"Have you finally found a solution?" Adrian asked. He was stunned for a while before he couldn't help asking.

"You could say that!" The Reed wearing the number 0 badge, from our world, was naturally standing at the front of the group. Since many people weren't familiar with magic and elements, she kindly started explaining:

"As we all know! In our world, space portals are usually opened by earth mages. So even if something goes wrong with the portal, mages can close it anytime. We rarely see situations like what we have here, where it keeps connecting to other parallel worlds..."

"That's because this space portal wasn't opened by magic following the normal process. It was an accident!" Suddenly, Reed from World 12 cut in. You could tell this world's Reed had a clearly different personality, at least she liked to jump in and talk more!

"...We must start by dealing with the root cause of the problem, which is how to get rid of the dark element inside the portal!"

"Let me interrupt for a moment!" Just as she paused, one of the base's high-level official suddenly raised his hand.

"Actually, we've pretty much known what you just said. But I'm really confused about something. I met some Empire mages, and they say that if monsters die, that dark element will disappear on its own! So why didn't the dark element from that vampire who died in the space portal disappear? Why did it stay in the portal?"

"Because it's a vampire! A vampire's magic power, which is dark element, comes directly from its ancestor. That's why we can only use light element to purify vampires!" Reed from World 12 immediately answered.

I actually know a bit about this too. After all, vampires usually can't be killed! This is why humans in Eldoria Continent suffered so much from vampires long ago! Even if a vampire is killed, after some time, it will 'come back to life' because of the dark element. But when it comes back, it will probably lose some memories.

If a vampire dies and comes back many times, it becomes a real "zombie", just like humans who die from dark pollution! By that time, the vampire's intelligence is probably only left with the instinct to bite and infect others, which comes from its ancestor's will. Even if it's purified by light element, it will just die and can't go back to how it was before getting infected.

"So from what you're saying, if we put light element, which is the opposite of dark element, into the portal, wouldn't that purify the dark element inside? Moreover, aren't you angels really good at using light element?"

To be honest, this high-level offical is pretty smart. I actually thought about this idea myself, and even considered it as a last resort! But unfortunately...

"Unfortunately, we don't know exactly how much dark element that vampire who died in the portal had. So we can't use the right amount of light element to purify it! Also, the inside of the space portal is very complicated. Even if we put in the same amount of light element, it might not balance out the dark element spread across different times and spaces. Plus, we don't know how light element might affect the space portal. Unless we have no other choice, there's no need to take this risk!"

This time, it was Reed from World 1 who spoke. She probably has been doing research for as long as our world's Reed, and her personality is very similar too. Then she gave everyone the final solution.

"The only way out now is to find and kill the vampire ancestor hiding behind all this! Once the ancestor dies, the dark element left in the space portal will disappear with it, and the portal will naturally go back to normal!"