Chapter 229: Angelic Evolution
In the days following their reconciliation, Cassie and Malz had spent a lot of time talking to each other. Of course, once they remembered Rainier’s part in the reconciliation, they wasted no time interrogating him about his past relationships. As miserable as it made him, at least he got them to stop referring to Kir as an "abomination" or "it." And they both agreed to keep his secret.
At first, Rainier was just glad to have everything back to good. But then things started getting weird. Sometimes Cassie and Malz would whisper to each other, only to stop once Rain entered the room.
Then yesterday Malz showed up and told Cassie, "I want in."
"In on what?"
"On the mana sauna thing. Me and my team."
"Do they know about it?"
Rain was just sitting there with a book on the mid-canopy, learning mostly that spirits and the odd monster were left to roam the wide, tiered planes as they wanted. That must have been the source of the magical food.
"Not yet," Malz said. "But I did my homework. You and I both have our wings, so once we figure out a good inflow-outflow with our mana, something might... happen."
"Something?" Cassie asked, crossing her arms.
"Our second evolutions," Malz whispered, loud enough for Rainier to hear.
Cassie blinked rapidly. "What? I thought we were supposed to be decades from that sort of thing. You just got yours a few months ago... Why didn’t it say anything like that on the network?"