Cloud Thinking

Helia moved her home to the first floor. She took care of all her eating, drinking, and defecation on the first floor. She even slept by spreading a quilt on the floor.

Although Helia had wanted to ask Wattsise to teach her magic at first, she had never been able to say it out loud. Unexpectedly, she realized it when she took the opportunity to dismantle the magic circle. Wattsise taught her to identify the magic formulas in the magic circle and told her what magic she could use to offset it.

Everyone fears war and believes that the God of War is a symbol of tyranny, but in Helia's heart, He is a very good teacher, very patient and careful, even better than Yoriff who taught her the ancient language.

"The wedge magic used for connection has one end connected to the defensive magic and the other end connected to the confinement magic. How do we solve this problem?" asked Watersise.

"First, determine the strength of the two magics." Helia had gained a lot of experience under Watersise's teaching. She released a little magic power to sense the strength of the two magics. "Defense magic is stronger than confinement magic."

After confirming, she opened the notebook aside. It contained all the magic spells that Watersise had taught her these days. She searched for a while and found the magic that could dispel the restraining magic.

"Start with the weaker one, use magic to neutralize it, and then add another magic of equal power."

"Hmm... let's use amplification magic."

She erased the original traces of magic, and then used her own magic power to create a new one, so as not to destroy the original balance in the magic circle and cause a conflict between magic spells.

It is not accurate to say that it is demolition. It should be called tearing down the west wall to repair the east wall. Tear down the original designer's work and then repair your own wall.

In order to avoid conflicts between the added magic spells and the original spells, Helia basically chose magic that was not too aggressive and had strong compatibility, such as wedge magic, amplification or weakening magic. By tampering with the effectiveness of the magic, it would not be so easily rejected.

After finishing another round of dismantling, Helia was so tired that she felt dizzy and fell to the side on the quilt spread beside her, closing her eyes and relaxing for a while.

Now she is really studying day and night. She is not very sensitive to spells and words, so it is difficult for her to remember them in a short time.

In addition, the magic circle was so complicated, with dozens of circles densely packed together and various magic spells connected together, that she almost went blind.

"There's not much left. Conservatively speaking, it will take another three days to get out," Watsisse comforted.

Helia was indeed gifted in magic, but her memory was not very good. She could never remember or distinguish the specific patterns of various magic spells, and sometimes she always got them mixed up.

When she encounters something she doesn't understand, she will ask questions proactively, is willing to try, takes notes carefully, and humbly accepts criticism. At least here at Watersise, she is a good student.

"I don't know why, but I always feel a little uneasy, as if something big has happened outside." Ever since the day she discovered that her food source had been cut off, she had been feeling vaguely uneasy, and would wake up inexplicably at night, but she didn't have any dreams.

"If you are worried, go out and take a look as soon as possible." Watersiser said. He was not good at comforting others.

Helia buried her head in the quilt again and said in a muffled voice, "Rest for another minute. I'll get up in a minute."

Perhaps because the fatigue had not been eliminated in time and had accumulated, Helia's efficiency became lower and lower as time went on. She really wanted to go out, but she couldn't muster the energy. Dismantling the magic circle took a lot of magic power and brainpower. She didn't get enough rest and couldn't hold on.

Three days passed, and when there was only one round left, Helia had a fever. Her head was so hot that it seemed to smoke, and she felt dizzy and weak. She struggled to get up from the bed and staggered upstairs, intending to get some cold water to cool down, but she fell on the stairs and hit her head on the stone steps, which immediately broke a gash and blood gushed out.

She was about to faint from the fever and blood loss, but she knew that if she really closed her eyes, she would be trapped alone in this remote and unattended place and would probably die. So she gritted her teeth and crawled to the bathtub, grabbed a towel, dipped it in water, and wrapped it around her head.

"You shouldn't be so anxious. You're sick now and I can't help you at all." Watersiser was somewhat worried when he saw that she was whimpering in pain.

"Um...it's okay...it's okay...it's okay..." Helia replied in a daze, leaning against the wall with her head drooping and her eyelashes drooping, looking like she was about to fall asleep.

"Your body is too hot. You need to cool down quickly. Taking a warm bath might help." Watersiser suggested.

"Hmm... OK..." Helia gathered her strength for a while, injected her magic power into the magic circle in the middle of the bathtub, and used her magic power to heat the water to the appropriate temperature. She slowly took off her clothes and soaked in the water.

"Don't fall asleep, talk to me for a while." Watersiser said.

"Um... Father..." Helia responded, but her head felt heavy and very hot, so she slowly sank down and soaked her head in the water.

"Helia! Get up!" Watersiser shouted, fearing that she would drown.

Helia then reluctantly emerged from the water, staring at her long red hair floating on the water in a daze.

"What are your plans after you get out? Where are you going?" Watersise took the initiative to bring up the topic. He deliberately spoke louder in order to keep Helia as awake as possible.

"It depends on where I am first... If I'm close to Saturde... I might have to go back to find Cheko and the others and ask them to take me back to the palace..." Helia reacted to this topic, and after a long silence, she slowly spoke.

"Or go to Elman to find a teacher or the dean and ask them to help me contact my father..."

"Don't you plan to retaliate?" Watersiser asked again.

"Now... I can't beat him... Later... I will take revenge with my own hands..." Helia murmured.

Neither Qi Qi nor Hawke were enemies she could face head-on. She was alone now, and she didn't know how Hawke fabricated the reason for her disappearance for half a year. She could only take it one step at a time.

"Well, when you get out, I'll give you a gift as a reward." Watersise coaxed.

"What's the gift...can you tell me in advance..." Helia was a little interested in this and obviously perked up.

"It's something you don't have now and you're always thinking about it," said Wattsiser.

Helia thought about it seriously, but couldn't come up with an idea. "That range is too wide... I have a lot of things that I don't have but want..."

"You have a cut on your head now. You need to stop the bleeding quickly, or you might lose too much blood and pass out." Watersiser noticed the blood in the bathtub and reminded him, "Find a clean cloth to bandage it."

The towel tied around her head was stained red. Helia untied the towel and touched her forehead. She gasped in pain when she touched the wound. Blood mixed with water flowed into her eyes. She closed them suddenly, and the stimulation made her wake up.

She groped for the towel beside her like a blind man groping for an elephant, wiped her face, and then pressed the towel on the wound. Although it hurt so much that she grimaced, it made her clear-headed.

She heated the water in the bathtub. The scalding water soaked her body. Every pore on her body opened comfortably. The hot steam made her sweat all over. She felt a little more comfortable.

When she came out of the bath, her temperature had dropped a lot, but it was not completely gone. She simply treated the wound on her head. She looked at herself in the mirror and felt that her bandage skills were not good enough. Now she looked like an Arab.

She sat back down at the magic circle on the first floor, ready to start dismantling the last, and also the most difficult, round of magic rituals.

The core of a magic circle is usually in the middle, so as the most core, basic and inner-circle magic spell, it is the one that best reflects the designer's ability. Even if it is not ancient magic, it will be some rare self-created magic, or at least the most powerful among the high-level magic.

"Why don't you wait until you've recovered before trying again? I'm worried that you might make mistakes." Watersiser didn't recommend Helia to rush into it now. The last lap was difficult to begin with, and she wasn't thinking clearly now. If she made a mistake, all her efforts would be wasted.

Helia glanced at the food on the other side. There were only two or three palm-sized pieces of hard bread left. She was not sure if she could contact anyone immediately after she went out, so she had to leave as soon as possible, at least before the food was completely consumed.

"I don't have enough to eat. I have to speed up." Helia pursed her pale lips and lowered her head to continue studying the last round of magic spells, carefully identifying the words and patterns in them to confirm what kind of magic it was.

It seemed like an ancient magic that she had never seen before. Helia couldn't understand it, so she asked Watersise for help.

"I have never seen this magic, but it is likely that this is the core of the so-called divine cocoon and the key to transforming faith power." Wattsisse said, "I am afraid it cannot be simply dismantled..."

Helia sat aside with her head in her hands, waiting for Watersise to come up with a solution for her.

She was frail and often sickly, and it was not obvious at other times, but when she got sick she became extremely weak. Now she felt uncomfortable all over her body and just wanted to lie down and sleep.

"Just cover it up, use my mark to forcibly cover it up, but there is a high possibility of backlash, so you have to be prepared." Watersise finally thought of this more feasible method. He was about to ask Helia to cooperate with him more cautiously, but he found that this guy was nodding his head and was about to fall asleep.

Seeing this, He had no choice but to persuade: "Do you want to sleep a little longer? Let's get some rest and continue."

"No..." Helia woke up when she heard that she had to rest. She shook her head and knocked her forehead hard to wake herself up.

After a long sigh, she asked, "What should I do?"

Seeing her insistence, Wattsiser followed her lead. "Put your hand on it, and I will engrave my mark. When I call your name, you will try to mobilize all the magic power in your body and engrave the fire explosion magic that you are most proficient in. Is that clear?"

"Why is it Pyroblast magic? Does it have to be all the magic power? If something unexpected happens and I run out of magic power, wouldn't that be terrible?" Helia asked puzzled.

"I cover it with my mark, which acts almost as a balance, with the original magic formula on one end, and the magic you imprint next on the other end," explained Wattsiser.

"So it has to be stronger than the power over there, right? I have to use more power to cover the original magic mark?" Helia continued.

"That's right, so you must try your best." Watersiser confirmed her answer, "This is an ancient magic that even I have never seen before. The power contained in it is immeasurable, so it is very likely that even if you use all your strength, you still cannot win."

“Be prepared to fail.”

"Can't you help me? Can't you lend me some more strength?" Helia certainly didn't want to fail at the last step. If she really couldn't win, she estimated that she would starve to death here.

Oh no, maybe he will die of illness.

"This tower is still suppressing my power. Even now, when I talk to you, I am under tremendous pressure." Watersise said helplessly, "Leaving my magic mark is the best I can do."

"Aya, there are some things I can't help you with, and I can't do it for you. You have to rely on yourself for many things."

Helia looked down at her hands and murmured, "I now possess the Devouring Power you gave me, as well as most of Adalassi's power, and part of the power of that false god."