Cloud Thinking

Half a year was neither long nor short. Helia was locked up in this desolate tower, isolated from the world for half a year.

During the past six months, she had been reading the books on the bookshelf one by one without sleep, honing her magic control ability day by day. Her hard work paid off, and she finally ushered in a moment of qualitative change - she could use magic without relying on a wand or spells.

Of course, this is limited to the simplest and most basic type of magic, and it is not enough to break the current predicament and escape.

During this time, she has been thinking about what's happening outside. She doesn't know how Hawke will explain her disappearance to the outside world, how Ronnie and Cheko are doing now, whether her father has come to see her, and what progress Britney has made. She is also worried that even if she goes out, she will find that the world has changed. She is even more afraid that if the news of her disappearance or fake death spreads, it will speed up the release of the original plot.

What if you go out and find that the protagonist Stella has taken your place and entered the palace?

She didn't hate Stella, but as the saying goes, every man has his own place. If Stella became a valuable person in Claude's eyes, then what would Helia do when she lost her value? Everything she did now was for herself from beginning to end. Wasn't she actively seeking change just to follow the established plot in the original work again?

If everything returns to the original state during the time she is locked up here, or even speeds up the development of the original plot, then wouldn't it be a loss for her, and all the days she has spent traveling here have been in vain?

Absolutely not, so she had to speed up and escape from this damn place.

She had already scanned half of the books in the bookcase, and with the unremitting efforts of her and Adalasi's eyes and brains, they finally found some clues - this tower has more than nine rooms.

In a collection of love poems, Helia discovered that some of the words were deliberately covered with other colors. The shapes of the covering were irregular, but the dark red color close to brown should be bloodstains. The edges were light and fuzzy, and it looked like they were rubbed on. There were also several pages with sand the size of particles.

She copied down the words that needed to be emphasized one by one, arranged them in a certain order, and formed a line of words - there is a problem with the wall behind the curtains on the fourth floor.

The fourth floor is the restaurant. Speaking of walls, Helia thought of the creepy family photo that Avril had drawn with blood behind the curtains. But she soon figured out something. The bloodstains in the book, as well as the little sand and dust mixed in...

Avril didn't paint that picture out of madness, she was using it to cover up something! There are clues hidden in the painting!

Avril probably didn't have any tools. After discovering something strange behind the wall, she could only scratch the wall with her bare hands, until her hands were covered in blood. Then she left clues on the pages of the book with her bloody fingers covered with sand and stones. However, the marks she had scratched out with her hands were covered up by the painting she had drawn in blood.

She realized that all traces here might be eliminated after she left, and guessed that someone else would be locked up after that, so she used a special method to leave clues for those who came later.

Most people's first impression when seeing this painting was creepy. Those who didn't understand would definitely think that the person who left this painting was mentally ill. However, Helia, who knew all this, also thought that Avril was a little sick when she saw it, and thus she didn't suspect that there was something fishy going on.

If it was Hawke who came to clean up the traces, he might have mercy on Avril after seeing the painting, and the facts proved that he was indeed soft-hearted towards Avril; but if it was Saturday, in order to ensure the smooth progress of the entire plan, he would not leave any trace of Avril's residence to Helia, and the rooms on the seventh floor were specially locked and well-preserved, which showed that... Hawke's people were responsible for the cleaning of the tower.

Helia inexplicably suspected that Qi Qi might not even know that he had been sent to the divine cocoon. She gave her own answer in the last hurried farewell. If Qi Qi really had an unclear preference for her as he showed, then he should have postponed his plan for a while.

But no, Hawke single-handedly pushed the plan forward, and Hawke was the only one seen throughout the arrest operation.

However, this tower must be a product of the Morogen religion. Such a sophisticated and complex magic array and the collection and transfer of the power of faith are not something that ordinary people can do. It must be the work of Qiqi. But if he really participated in it, there is no reason for him not to say a word to me...

She always felt an unknown and strange sense of familiarity from the other person, and his indulgent and intimate attitude towards her also showed that the relationship between them was unusual. Could it be that the original owner had had contact with him before... ?

No, Qiqi was familiar with the current her, not the original owner. But the problem was that since she traveled through time, Helia had carefully considered every person she had come into contact with, and was very sure that she had not come into contact with anyone like him, so when did they come into contact? This relationship was very different from ordinary ones...

Helia returned to the fourth floor and opened the curtains again - because she felt uneasy, the curtains were usually closed. She held the oil lamp close to the wall, pressed her hand against it and groped carefully, and finally found a groove about half a finger deep on the uneven wall.

She ran her fingers along the grooves of varying depths, and was surprised to find that it seemed to be in the shape of a magic pattern?

No, wait...

Helia carefully traced it again and drew it on paper. When she saw clearly what the shape was, her eyes widened in disbelief. A light flashed through her mind, stringing together all the scattered clues and giving her a rough outline of the facts.

It was in the shape of an open book, with an infinity symbol in the upper middle of the page. The combination of the two formed the symbolic symbol of Amethystik Sophia, the goddess of wisdom.

Avril is a believer in the God of Wisdom.

She thought Avril was just a proud peacock, but she was completely wrong. She was much smarter than she thought. She thought she had only learned magic after leaving the tower, but in fact, Avril might have learned magic in this tower!

She taught herself with the help of that magic encyclopedia.

Her magical strength should be more than what she shows, she is deliberately hiding her strength.

As for why Avril became sullen and silent, and looked mentally ill after leaving the tower, she originally thought it was because she was locked up for so long that she became mentally disturbed, but is there a possibility that it was because she had contact with God... ?

Humans cannot look directly at the true face of gods, and cannot even listen to the whispers of gods. The influence from a higher dimension can drive people crazy at best, or even kill them at worst, and even Helia is no exception.

Whether she saw the goddess of luck or the god of war, what she saw were projections and slices, not the true bodies of gods. Even Adalassi was only an incomplete body now. As for William Tanlis, she only caught a glimpse of the other party's dark eyes when they were projected on Neytina, and her eyes were scrapped. It was a real sense of oppression from the gods. She still remembers the pain of those hands piercing her chest.

Helia is different from Avril. She is a vessel of God and has a certain resistance to the pressure of God. This is understandable. But Avril is just an ordinary person. If she comes into contact with God, even if it is just a projection or a slice, let alone the God of Wisdom, even if it only grants her a little wisdom, it is enough to make her brain explode, and mental disorder is considered a minor problem.

So when did Avril come into contact with the God of Wisdom? Was it before she entered the tower? Why did she believe in the God of Wisdom? And by what chance did she receive the attention or blessing from the God?

"Isn't this the symbol of Ameshizik? How come it appears here?" Adalasi also saw the symbol on the paper through Helia's eyes. Most of the gods in power today are ancient gods from ancient times, that is to say, they are all Adalasi's old colleagues, and He knows them very well.

"This is the clue Avril left behind," Helia explained. "There's something behind this wall." She raised her hand and knocked on the wall with the creepy picture on it, but from the sound, the wall seemed to be solid.

"That's not a good thing?" Adalesi said, "Then what are you doing here? Hurry up and find something to break open this wall!"

"If it could be easily broken open, why would Avril use her fingers to dig it out, and why did she dig her fingers into a bloody mess?" Helia put one hand on the wall and tentatively released some magic power, but strangely, she did not sense any traces of magic on the wall, which means that there was no magic circle or magic spell on this wall.

"There are no signs of damage on the wall, which means that Avril didn't enter it before she left. There are tools here, and she also knows magic, but she couldn't open the wall. She just left a symbol of the God of Wisdom on it. What do you think this means?" Helia threw the question to Adalaisi. Two brains working together is definitely more efficient than one.

"Could it be a hint?" Adalasi replied after thinking seriously for a moment, "The door is not in this place, but the key to opening the door is on this wall?"

"That makes sense. Then where do you think the door is? What is the key to opening the door?" Helia continued to ask.

"If you ask me to guess, I think the door is on the first or ninth floor. Even if it's not the exit door, it must be the door to a hidden room in this tower." Adalassi replied, "We have carefully checked every floor of this tower. It is unlikely that there is a hidden space on the horizontal surface. It can only be a space above the ninth floor or below the first floor."

"You're really smart. I'll give you the burnt edge of toast today as a reward." Helia praised calmly. Her attention was still on the painting. She still couldn't figure out why Avril would paint such a picture on it. How could she guess that no one would destroy all traces of her after she left? It couldn't be based on some unfounded guesses. Just by the way she left clues, it was not difficult to see that she was a smart person and would not do anything without confidence.

Unless she could ensure that when others came to erase any traces of her presence, they wouldn't see the painting.

If you can't see it, there's no need to go to the trouble of erasing the traces.

"Adalassi, do you know of any magic spell that will not leave any traces after use?" Helia asked.

"There are many," Adalesi replied. "You think there was magic on it once, but the traces disappeared over time?"

Helia nodded. "Otherwise, there is no reason for Avril to leave a symbol of wisdom here, and even cover it up with a painting. She must be trying to convey some message..."

But she couldn't figure out what the key to opening the door was. The wall was not destroyed, and she would not easily try to destroy it, because it would most likely trigger the giant magic circle stacked outside the tower, and she could not withstand a casual attempt.

As if sensing Helia's anxiety and restlessness, Adalaxi said a few words of comfort in a humane way: "It seems that the clues we have collected are not enough. Don't worry, go back to the study and take a look."

"Anyway, you've been reading for almost half a year. One more day won't make much, and one less day won't make much either. Don't be too anxious."

Helia couldn't help but snort and chuckle after hearing this, and said jokingly: "You have changed a lot in the past six months."

"Maybe I was influenced by you. After all, I share senses with you. I know what you think and feel what you feel. It's impossible to say that it has no influence on me at all." Adalasi said seriously.