Cloud Thinking

By the time Helia had polished out the sixth word "positive", which was the 30th day she had been locked up here, her life that was so boring that she had to pick her feet had finally changed. Specifically, she was no longer trapped here alone, and she finally had a companion to talk to.

Watersise was unable to give her any response, but to Helia's surprise, Adalasis woke up at this time, which was undoubtedly a good thing for Helia. She was locked up here alone and was so bored that she almost split out a second personality to chat with herself.

After the first bubble appeared on the fifteenth day, new bubbles appeared in the room every day thereafter. However, because some wishes were beyond Helia's ability to handle, the bubbles kept accumulating. By the thirtieth day, she was surrounded by these bubbles.

"What's going on with you? Where are we?" Adalaisi shared senses with Helia, but he couldn't take control of his body. Seeing the bubbles inside and outside the surroundings, he felt inexplicably familiar, yet strange.

"Adalasisi?!" Helia was eating when she heard his voice. A familiar voice suddenly popped up in her mind. Although she was startled, she was filled with joy.

"You are so brave. Who allowed you to call me by my real name?" Adalesi said unhappily. "What is going on now?"

"Are you the only one awake? Where's Wattsise? Can you see what's going on with Him now?" Helia asked. Compared to this guy who was both good and evil, she felt that Wattsise was more reliable. At least the two of them had reached a cooperation on the surface, while Adalaisi was a completely unexpected factor, uncontrollable, and not necessarily reliable.

"Tsk! Show some respect to me, how can you talk like that!" Adalassi was very dissatisfied with the tone of Helia's words. He vaguely remembered that before he fell into a deep sleep, this guy kept calling him "my lord". Why did he have this attitude after waking up? Could it be that he was scared silly?

Although he was very unhappy with Helia's attitude, he felt more comfortable seeing that she also had that attitude towards War. However, he still spoke reluctantly, "War, He seems to have fallen into a deep sleep. It seems that something has restrained Him. I can't see clearly because of the barrier."

"So what's going on? Tell me what's going on with you now."

Helia briefly explained to Adalasi everything that had happened since she was on the verge of death, and emphasized her current predicament. She and Adalasi were now tied together, and the other party was likely to be the key to her breaking out, so information sharing was necessary, and there was no need to lie about these things.

“No wonder…” Adalaxi understood completely, “No wonder I felt the power of faith in my sleep that I haven’t felt for a long time. If it weren’t for this power of faith, I’m afraid I wouldn’t be able to wake up from my sleep so quickly.”

"The power of faith?" Helia asked.

"Some people worship you, believe in you, and pray to you. The power gathered in this way is the power of faith." Adalaxi explained, "They are really capable. You are lucky. Just by sitting like this, someone can carry you to the throne of god."

"It's not like us before, we relied on fighting and killing to become strong by eating others. If we want to secure our own position, we have to fight and plunder constantly."

Helia: I have visions of my parents talking endlessly about their past lives...

"I want to escape, and you'll help me, right?" Helia asked.

"Why? And what is the basis?" Adalesi asked in return, "You just need to stay here and wait for the power of faith to flow into your body continuously. After three or half years, you will probably have the qualifications to become a god. Then, you can devour the so-called false god and become a god directly."

"Why are you resisting? How many people want to become gods but don't have the chance. Now such a good offer is in front of you, and you actually want to refuse? You are really crazy."

"If you think I will be so generous as to spare your life after I become a god, then you can just choose to ignore it." Helia sneered. She just thought Adalassi was funny. He still couldn't see the current situation clearly.

Adalaisi was silent. Indeed, if Helia really became a god, it would mean that He could no longer control Helia. Not to mention that this human race also had a difficult war god, Watersise, sealed in her body. From the looks of it now, she and the war probably reached a cooperative relationship. If that was true, then Helia had no need to keep Him.

If it weren't for the symbiotic contract that bound the two of them tightly, he would have probably become the other party's nourishment as early as the moment his war consciousness revived.

No, at least not now. Adalassi figured it out. The reason why he chose Helia was because she was easy to control and noble, and could indeed help him recover his strength and rebuild his faith. But now Helia was forced to embark on the path of becoming a god. This was too fast and too early for her. Even if she really became a god in the end, she would only be a puppet of war or order.

The puppeteer would not allow another god to covet his puppet. He was not strong enough to fight against any of the gods in power. He needed time and strength, so he needed Helia, who was still in human form.

"Well, since you begged me, I will be generous and do my best to help you escape." Adalassi agreed to Helia's request, "But after you get out, you must help me build a new temple church and reunite believers for me."

Helia did not reject the other party's additional conditions. After all, it was just a verbal promise, just a pie in the sky. Who wouldn't do that? Not to mention that she was particularly good at making big promises.

"Okay. Let's deal with the bubbles in this room first." Helia pointed to the source of anxiety that surrounded her and made her unable to eat or sleep well. "I took a look and found that these were prayers. When I touched the bubbles, I could see the believers praying and hear their wishes, but I was restricted by the statue and had no way to help them solve the problem."

"Why bother with them?" Adalesi replied with a tone of three parts puzzlement and seven parts contempt, "So many prayers, do you really think you are a god and can solve everything for them?"

"What if I don't respond to their prayers and they stop offering me sacrifices?" Helia frowned and said, "I need the food they offer to sustain my life, and you also need the power of faith to maintain your consciousness."

"Ha! Even if we don't respond to them, they won't give up their beliefs easily." After all, Adalasis had been a god, so he had experience in dealing with matters of faith and prayer.

"We are gods, with so many believers, how can we possibly hear every one of them? Just treat them as noisy frogs and let them croak."

"So, the gods won't listen to the believers' prayers at all?" Helia asked seriously.

"You can say that. I never listen anyway. When I was in power, other gods didn't listen much either. After all, we have our own things to do. Instead of wasting time solving their trivial matters and gaining that little bit of power of faith, it is better to focus on other gods. As long as we do our best to devour one of them, wouldn't the power be stronger than taking the trouble to serve these noisy believers?" Adalasi replied.

"But as far as I know, from ancient times to the present, many people have received the attention and blessings of the gods. Even I have received the blessing of the goddess. What's going on?" Helia asked again.

"Stupid, is this hard to understand?" Adalaxi said with disdain, but still explained to her without complaint: "The frogs croaked in a noisy manner, and each one croaked differently. Suddenly one day, they croaked in unison. Aren't you curious? If you were curious, wouldn't you go and take a look? After taking a look, you found that it didn't seem to be a difficult task, so you just helped."

"Or, in the midst of the cacophony of frogs, there is one voice that is particularly loud and piercing, and it is hard not to notice it. Of course, out of curiosity or the desire to make it shut up, you would go and take a look."

"Is this hard to understand? Anyway, as long as you respond once, those people will remember this incident and shout and scream every day, declaring how great the Lord they believe in is, and will offer a large amount of faith power."

"Even if someone prays devoutly and doesn't get a response, they will only think that they are not pious enough, that their offerings are not enough, and that the gods didn't pay attention to them. They will find the reasons in themselves anyway, so you don't need to worry at all."

"After all, people are stupid enough."

Helia felt a little complicated. She had never thought that the gods in high positions would look at their believers in this way. They regarded them as the greatest, purest and most sacred Lord, but only regarded them as a boring pastime, as noisy frogs that kept croaking, as an annoying burden. They even looked at them with amusement and exclaimed in ecstasy at the divine power they displayed by snapping their fingers, just like watching an exaggerated clown performance on the stage.

"And even gods are not omniscient and omnipotent. The gods hold different powers and have different strengths. But these fools don't care about anything and just ask you for help whenever they encounter problems. I still remember a fool who asked me to give birth to three sons. I told her to think about it in her next life." Adalaxi muttered, "There was also one who asked me to strengthen his virility. He said that someone sent him eight women and he was afraid of being drained, so he asked me to make him last longer."

"Ha! I just made him lose that thing, so he doesn't have to worry about this and that, hahahaha!"

Helia: I didn't realize you have such a bad taste... Or should I say, Adalaisi is too boring. He could have ignored such a thing, but He even punished us. He really made me cry.

"So it's okay to leave these wishes alone. They will just think that they are not pious enough, or that God is too busy to notice them. When things are solved inexplicably one day, they will think that God helped them and give the credit to you." Adalassi said, "Just like Sphentania, do you really think that He can control something as mysterious as luck? Luck or not is your own business. What does it have to do with Him!"

"Just leave it like this? I'm afraid one day they'll fill up the room and I won't even have a place to stay," Helia said.

"Do we have to sleep here? Why not change the room?" Adalasi said speechlessly.

Helia raised her left hand and shook it. The chains jingled, indicating her current imprisonment. "You think I don't want to leave here? Of course I do, but I can't untie this chain."

"There are no weapons here. The only sharp objects are made by grinding bones bit by bit."

"I would like to use magic, but they took all my wands away. I can't use magic without a wand."

"Ha? What kind of idiot are you? Did your head get smashed while I was asleep?" Adalaxi started to curse after hearing this. "I've never seen you so stupid before! You didn't just stay in this room for thirty days with nothing to do, did you?"

Although Helia wanted to refute, what the other party said was indeed true. She had indeed been locked in this room for thirty days doing nothing, and she had spent these thirty days well-fed and well-drinking.

"Who told you that you can't use magic without a wand? Are you an idiot?" Adalassi cursed.

Helia looked shocked and puzzled, "Ah? But, but, when I first learned magic, everyone, even the books, said that you can't use magic without a wand and chanting spells."