"Haha! Lucky the reinforcement came fast! When I saw the enemy was stronger than we expected, I quickly used the Spiritual Network to call the closest First Angel Legion for help. Otherwise, we might have failed big time!" Clifford was the last to enter the cave. He laughed loudly when he saw Matora. Seems Matora being here wasn't by chance, but thanks to Clifford.
Looks like this wasn't the first time they worked together. Captain Joyce nodded and walked up to pat Matora's shoulder, praising him: "Congrats! I heard you passed the training test super fast. Now you can go on missions alone, right? Seems Captain Serena really thinks you're good, sending you to help us."
"Oh, it's nothing..." Matora felt shy. He waved his hands, being humble: "I was just patrolling nearby. Captain Serena probably just sent me because I was close. Plus, I didn't help much. Cyrae's the one who really beat Pachira in the end..."
"Oh yeah, you're a new angel too! So Cyrae must be from the same batch of new angels born about a month ago, like you?" Melissa greeted him friendly, then suddenly teased, pulling Cyrae along: "Hehe, didn't expect Matora to look like a girl when he's worried. Gives off a soft, pretty feeling. So different from when he tries to act cool!"
"Ah, no, I'm not..." Even though he knew Melissa was joking, his face turned red. He couldn't help looking a bit awkward.
"Uh, he's always like this. It's normal!" If it was before, maybe Cyrae would tease her old classmate too. But she just went through a life-or-death fight and was still shaken. So she just laughed it off and helped cover for him.
Pachira was gone, but Peyji was still alive.
Next, everyone saw the male traitor angel still passed out outside the cave. Cyrae finally understood what happened to Pachira.
Only Pachira really changed. Edenmere bans love between male and female angels for this reason!
All angels are pure light beings. If two angels break the rules and join together, the baby in the female angel's body might be affected by too much light elements. It could lose control. It might even make the mother lose control too, causing a chain of bad changes.
The final result was the floating light ball Cyrae saw in the cave!
In this case, when the runaway angels Pachira and Peyji got together, some unknown power made Pachira's body break apart. The light elements that made up her angel body spread out, affecting everything around in a bad way.
Peyji, being a male angel, luckily didn't change. But he couldn't escape the strong spiritual control that came after. That's why he had to fight Joyce so hard!
Good thing the spirit control stopped when Pachira's body was destroyed. So Peyji's just not awake yet. He saved his life, but now he's lost his love and faces Edenmere's harshest judgment.
"I haven't seen such a serious rule-breaking in hundreds of years. Every so often, a couple of angels lose their heads over love and do something wrong. That's why our 'Post-Event Clearing' team is so important!" Joyce sighed, looking at the messed-up lakeside. The light elements in the forest was still strong.
The effects of the light elements usually last at least years. But without someone controlling it, it'll slowly go away. So the element balance here should get back to normal eventually.
"So what was the mysterious power controlling Pachira?" Cyrae suddenly remembered what happened when she faced the six-winged light ball and lost consciousness. She couldn't help asking: "I heard a voice calling itself the God of Light! What's that? Do you know?"
"God of Light? You accidentally went into Pachira's mind? That's super dangerous! Be really careful next time!" Joyce was surprised. But he didn't seem to know much about the God of Light. He quickly connected to Edenmere's Spiritual Network to report to Lady Elara.
"The God of Light Beluto! He's an ancient god sealed away by our angel ancestors 10,000 years ago. His existence caused serious damage to the whole world! For a long time, Beluto's been trying to come back to life. The life created when male and female angels join gives his power a way to affect the main world. That's the real reason why angels absolutely can't have any relationships! You two should understand how serious this is after this mission, right?"
In the Spiritual Network, Elara gave the full answer. Of course, getting Cyrae and Matora deeply involved was also to indirectly warn their other classmates.
"What if an angel and a human get together?" Matora had been quiet. Cyrae thought he might have trouble accepting this because of his relationship with Feliciara. But she didn't expect him to suddenly ask this question after being silent for so long.
"Humans?" Even Elara seemed stumped. After a long pause, she finally answered: "Angels and humans getting together is very rare, but it has happened before. Although the God of Light can't use it, the light elements still affects things, , it's still really hard for them to have normal babies."
"I see..." Cyrae suddenly felt like she understood. With everything she'd seen, this was the first time she really realized that light elements, which she thought stood for justice and holiness, actually had so many hidden bad effects.
After all, there's a reason angels have used the Angel Descent Formation as their main way to grow population for thousands of years. Probably only angels called by the Formation can keep the soul from being affected by light magic.
The mission to catch the traitor angels was finally done. After a short time together, Matora left to report back to the First Legion.
Cyrae and the others couldn't relax yet. They still had to take the criminal Peyji back to Edenmere for judgment.
But no one expected that in just these few days, the world situation would change completely.
First, the capital of the Astralrealm Kingdom, Norvale, was totally taken over by monsters. The kingdom was gone!
Right after, the monsters used space transfer celestial weapons to attack Edenmere!
This was different from another parallel world. The monster leader Cyrae met was still Michelle, but this Michelle looked quite different from her!
That day, all of Edenmere suddenly went dark. Cyrae had just come back from outside. She knew something was wrong and rushed to Tivi Palace. But what she saw was just ruins. All the other angels had run away.
One of Michelle's goals in attacking Edenmere was to kill Elara! Above the ruins of Tivi Palace, Cyrae saw this strange "angel" with twelve fiery red wings for the first time.
In front of her, the ten-winged Elara looked super weak! They fought for less than five minutes before Michelle's sword hit Elara in the chest. Elara fell down into the messy ruins below.