Chat Group: Starting by Swapping Bodies with Elysia?

Jiang Qiao: Didn't I ask her to book plane tickets?

Although boat tickets and plane tickets didn't matter much, it was mainly a matter of speed.

But this precondition was that Cocolia hadn't set her sights on New Zealand yet.

If they took a boat, and if she was fast enough, Cocolia might have already succeeded by the time they arrived.

Elysia blinked, not having many clues about this issue.

She turned to Raven.

"Boat tickets?"

"Ahem… It's not that I'm trying to save money."

Raven coughed twice, instantly understanding what he meant. She didn't deliberately choose boat tickets because they were cheaper!

She said helplessly:

"…Don't look at me like that. The airlines here in Nagazora don't have any flights to New Zealand recently, okay?"

Although Raven did want to save money, even with the black card covering expenses, her frugal nature had become a habit.

But this time, saying that she deliberately chose the cheaper boat tickets instead of plane tickets was purely wrongly accusing her.

"?"

A question mark vaguely appeared above Elysia's head.

Although she was uneducated, she still knew what kind of city Nagazora was.

Located in the prosperous Far East, as an international metropolis, Nagazora should have flights to everywhere.

Although New Zealand wasn't a popular destination, Australia, which was very close to it, was relatively popular, right?

"You wouldn't know, the weather in Oceania and its surrounding waters has been extremely bad recently. Not only are there no flights from Nagazora, but flights from all over the world have been suspended or delayed."

"It's already good that we have boat tickets. I spent a lot of effort to get these."

Raven's words were filled with complaint.

The rough seas and bad weather not only affected airlines but also shipping companies, perhaps even more so.

After all, extreme weather was even more unfriendly to ships. It was just that the regulations for shipping companies were less strict than those for airlines, and some shipping companies were willing to continue operating in bad weather.

Even so, there were very few routes to Oceania. If it weren't for her extensive connections in this area from years of traveling as a mercenary, if it were someone else handling this matter? They might as well swim there!

Saving money… the price of these damn boat tickets was almost ten times that of a first-class flight!

Recalling the process of haggling with her acquaintances, looking at the boat tickets, Raven pouted.

She had never bought such expensive boat tickets in her life!

"Ah… is that so."

Realizing her misunderstanding, Elysia wrapped her arms around Raven's waist, taking advantage of being in a girl's body to snuggle up.

"Thanks, Natasha."

Don't look, this was just close friendship between girls. She was just making full use of the [Kiana] model's advantages!

Raven, being hugged, felt a bit uncomfortable, but because it was a girl's body, her guard was lower. After hesitating for a moment, she said:

"Seriously, you don't have to go to New Zealand."

As a World Serpent executive, even though Gray Serpent assigned her to Nagazora City and didn't tell her anything, Raven still knew quite a bit through her own channels.

World Serpent's attention would be fully focused on New Zealand next, unlike the hands-off approach with Nagazora City this time.

To welcome back their Sovereign, Gray Serpent was determined to obtain the Gem of Desire.

Going there would be equivalent to standing against World Serpent.

Although she didn't understand what was going on with that pink-haired hooligan that made her adoptive father so concerned, but if she weighed [her] and the Sovereign on a scale, Raven didn't think Gray Serpent would choose to side with the pink-haired hooligan.

In that case, it would be very difficult for her, a World Serpent executive.

"…Sorry, I have to go there."

The white-haired girl's muffled voice was slightly low, but filled with determination.

Just thinking about the people there being put in danger because of Cocolia, she couldn't just stay in this city with a clear conscience.

—Although Elysia wasn't as stubborn as the Kaslanas, when it came to protecting people, the kind-hearted Elysia wouldn't be inferior to those resilient warriors.

How strange.

This feeling of wanting to protect others, to protect humanity, seemed to be stronger in Kiana's body than in others.

She didn't know what a Kaslana was, but now…

The girl gently touched her chest, feeling the emotions brewing in her beating heart.

It made her want to indulge…

"Did bad Jiang Qiao have the same feeling when using my body?"

…

"Weather factors, huh."

The pink-haired girl, leaning against the railing of the ship, looked at the reason Elysia gave in the chat group for the plane tickets turning into boat tickets, understanding. 

Her azure eyes, reflecting the gloomy sky in the distance, flickered thoughtfully.

—Was it a coincidence?

In fact, it wasn't just Raven who chose to travel by sea due to the weather, but also her.

Although she did have the thought—Compared to taking a plane, enjoying the ocean scenery by boat would be more interesting—the reason she ultimately chose this method was a compromise.

Exploring the Imaginary depths of the Fourth Eruption was a time-consuming task. To save time, choosing the fastest flight would be the most rational choice.

But—

Just like the predicament Raven encountered, the Oceania region of the Previous Era was also experiencing extreme weather, causing all related flights to be cancelled or delayed.

Helpless, she could only choose the less restricted option of traveling by sea.

—As for using the Void authority for faster travel?

This option was ruled out from the beginning.

Besides being really boring, the bigger reason was… this body couldn't do it.

Even for the Herrscher of the Void herself, accurately opening a Void portal between two distant locations wasn't easy. The greater the distance, the greater the difficulty.

Moreover, the current [Elysia] was only the Herrscher of Origin.

To maintain [Elysia]'s integrity, the portion of Void authority she had gleaned from the Second Herrscher's core couldn't support such a high-difficulty operation.

And—

A slender index finger gently touched the Void ribbon, feeling the information transmitted, and her brow twitched.

He could feel it.

—The Imaginary energy tides were becoming turbulent.