Chapter 756: Elysia's Shadow
Chapter 756: Elysia's Shadow
"Ely's twin!? Ely brought her alter ego to the real world!?" Sylvia covered her mouth as if it was really an unexpected surprise.
"..." Alisha took a step back. She didn't feel comfortable being stared at by many people, especially those she didn't know.
"Grr... Roar!" The small Cherub roared on instinct.
However, there was a particular earth dragon who didn't like it. Gio walked over to the four-winged black dragon and suppressed the black dragon with his body.
"Grr!" Gio taught the arrogant newcomer dragon a lesson. No other dragon was allowed to roar for superiority before him.
"!!!" Cherub tried to free himself, but the brown dragon on top of him was unbelievably heavy. If he recovered, he was clearly capable of fighting back, but sadly, his current situation was not good.
"Gio." Elysia said names casually, and Gio immediately freed the poor black dragon.
Cherub rushed to hide behind his master. He didn't think there was a dragon here too.
"Nee, Ai, are you really Ely's alter ego?"
"I heard you went on an adventure with Master Elysia. Ah, that sounds so exciting."
"Mm, instead of fighting the alter ego, Master Elysia is in alliance with her alter ego. They actually became friends!"
The girls started to talk to Ai with enthusiasm. Elysia was also invited into the chat, but Alisha couldn't take everything so quickly.
"Ugh..." Alisha took another step back. She was overwhelmed by dealing with these radiant girls and could not respond with words.
She looked left and right because she had an impulse to run away to a dark place. However, she didn't want to be far from Elysia for many personal reasons.
*Poff*
Alisha turned into black mist and fled behind Elysia. However, she suddenly entered Elysia's shadow instead because she found that she could enter there.
The black dragon was shocked and immediately followed his master to escape to the shadow.
"Eh, what's wrong, Ai? It's not usually you like this." Elysia tapped her shadow. This was not the first time Alisha had taken cover behind her, but who would have thought that Alisha would enter her shadow.
"I can't handle them. Too much shimmering light. I'll be here while waiting for your explanation, Ely." Alisha responded in a relieved tone.
She was also a bit surprised that she could enter Elysia's shadow to monitor the outside world. In contrast, usually, she only took cover behind Elysia as a shadow due to a surprise battle strategy.
"Uhm, fine. I have a lot of stories to explain everything." Elysia stood up and faced everyone. "I'm sorry, everyone. Ai is embarrassed to meet you all. Nevertheless, she is Ai. You can think of her as my twin or my alter. She is the one who helped me in that unusual trial realm. For now onwards, please take good care of her."
"En, that's of course! Right, girls?" Sylvia took the opinion of the girls, and everyone didn't mind that.
"Uhm, where did the four-winged little black lizard go?" Lynn looked around. She didn't know where that little creature had run off to.
"Do you mean Cherub? He is Ai's pet and is also in my shadow right now." Elysia glanced at her shadow. She could see Alisha and Cherub looking back at her.
Elysia then invited everyone to return to the Nature Realm because their training event wasn't over yet.
Rhea and Elena also entered the portal, but Lifa and Nell didn't go there immediately. They glanced once more at where Elysia opened the black portal with some thoughts in mind.
'Do you have the same thoughts as me, Lifa?' Nell spoke via telepathy. What Elysia had just done was a complete violation of the world's rules and was impossible to accomplish.
'Yeah... That's really beyond my understanding. Elysia can really shake her alter ego into the real world? Is her trial a real event and not an illusion? She didn't come to Illusory Realm level thirty. However, how did that happen, and why did she get sent there? Is there a powerful entity that does that?' Lifa folded her arms with a frown on her face.
'Do you remember that Elysia and Elena asked who sent them to this world? They and perhaps we are already in a grand scheme of a broader universe. Let's see where we end up on this destined path.' Nell looked up and heaved a subtle sigh. She turned around and immediately entered the Nature Realm.
'Seems like you're right. We need to find out the truth when the time comes.' Lifa put aside her confusion and entered the Nature Realm. For now, she could only think of Ai as Elysia's alter ego manifested into an actual entity.
Elysia closed the portal temporarily, and everyone flew away towards her shore towards the Winged Tiger Palace. 'Rhea, can you help us build the dark portal's new container? What we make is a temporary solution, and that chakram frame can collapse if it's not supplied with magic.'
'With pleasure. My mother knows a lot about dimensional portals and their law. We will do our best to create a new container soon.' Rhea was ready to help anytime, even now, if Elysia wished for it.
'En, thank you. Let's do that after our regular practice session. I need to make my body stronger before next week.' Elysia appreciated Rhea's instant answer.
'Next week, eh? Hm, we will be holding a grand meeting involving the higher-ups of all races in this world.' Rhea brought it to mind in case Elysia forgot.
'I see.' Elysia nodded in confirmation.
The practice events in the Nature Realm lasted for another seven days. It was still about physical and magic training. Yet, Alisha became an instructor to train the girls with Elysia as her priority.
It took Alisha a few days to accept her current situation and mingle with everyone. Although she was fond of relaxing in the dark and in Elysia's shadow, she would go out occasionally to spend time with the others.
"Hm, a week has passed, huh... It's not bad, this place." Alisha looked up at the sun above and put on her sunglasses. She just found out here that there was a time calculation and the change of day to night.
This new place is much better. Based on Elysia's explanation, she assumed that Vrelenia was far more peaceful than the Boundless Realm, and she would do anything to stay in a place like this. However, there was one thing that made her dissatisfied.
"Really, this is a bit ridiculous. I've trained you to become a tier nine powerful mage. Still, it all disappeared into nothingness, and you returned to being a tier-three mushy girl again?" Alisha crouched down and poked the cheek of a girl who was lying exhausted on the ground.
"Hehe, it's not gone. However, I still need to strengthen my body. The current me is not a spirit, Ai." Elysia panted and smiled wryly.
"Physical flesh and body vessel. I don't understand your appeal to that. You are still much better off being a powerful spirit like me than a human." Alisha rolled her eyes.
"In that case, you can't enter my shadow." Elysia gave a concise and honest answer.
"..." Alisha was at a loss for words. It slapped her own words, and she couldn't refute that.
She presumed that Elysia took a great length by owning a vessel because of many clauses. And because of that, Elysia could connect all the powerful entities here in peace.
Alisha just scratched her head and walked away to the nearest lounge chair. She took shelter under a large umbrella and drank a cold fruit juice.
A few moments later, Elena and the two Goddesses came closer. Elena gave a pitch-black bracelet to Elysia. "We only managed to turn the dark portal into a portable container. Its law can't be changed much and can only be a one-way path. However, it's much safer than that big chakram."
Elysia received the black bracelet and checked it. Several intricate carvings and runes, such as high-end artifacts with priceless artistic value.
"Thank you very much!" Elysia smiled gently at Elena, Lifa, and Rhea.
"It was easy and quick to make because the three of us worked together. You can put it on your wrist or forearm and let us see." Lifa waved her hand and pointed her palm at that pitch-black bracelet.
"..." Elysia looked at her forearm, and there were already several bracelet artifacts. She moved the most important ones to the right and put on the new artifact next to her Void Bracelet.
"All right, everyone. We have already prepared a venue for the grand meeting of the highest-ranking dignitaries from each race. You better get ready now. We will depart in half an hour." Rhea announces to everyone.
"Huh? Is it about time? All right, we will prepare immediately!" Vanessa waved her hand and rushed towards Yuuki's portable wooden house.
The girls soon followed to the wooden house because they would attend that grand meeting too. They had to put on their best appearance for that event.
"You too, Ely. You can't go out looking like that. Come with me, and I'll dress you up in a minute." Elena uses her magic to take Elysia away.
"You will also come with me." Elena did not forget to drag Alisha away with her.
"Eh, why should I? I don't care about that grand meeting at all. I can wait in Elysia's shadow." Alisha could only surrender while complaining. She didn't dare to go against Elena because the previous events had traumatized her just because she tried to go against this Golden Goddess.
"Fufu, why not? It's just like I'm taking care of Ely's little sister. I can't be so biased, can I?" Elena chuckled and covered her mouth.
"Why am I the little sister? I should be the big sister!" Alisha felt a little dissatisfied with it.
"Oho~ Is that your will? Do you dare to bear the responsibility of a big sister? Ely's burden is not light, you know?" Elena was a little surprised but glad that Alisha was predictable. She had some plans for Alisha.
"Tsk, I could even lift a star. Do you think something like a burden would hinder me?" Alisha clicked her tongue and grumbled.
"Fufu, you must take care of my Ely as a big sister. Here, I give you a manual on how to be a good and proper big sister." Elena let go of Alisha's arm and handed over a book with a white-gold cover.
"..." Alisha reflexively accepted that book and read the title. "Have you prepared this beforehand? I fell in your trap again?"
"Fufu, save it, and you can read it later, Ai. Now, there's something else we need to do. Right, Ely?" Elena glanced at Elysia excitedly like a child who had just got a new exhilarating plaything.
"Well..." Elysia didn't even know what to say.