Cloud Thinking

The college reallocated the teams based on the team configuration for the team competition. Second-year and third-year students were mixed into teams, with six people in a team and ten teams in a large group. Each group had an college teacher who was responsible for a specific area.

All teams in the group are equipped with communication magic props that can communicate with each other, which can also effectively ensure the safety of students. As long as there is danger, they can get support in time.

The incident at the last team competition also scared the teachers, and the college’s reputation was damaged, resulting in a pitifully small number of new students admitted last year.

These second and third grade students are now the most valuable seedlings in the college, so they should be carefully watched. If anything happens to them, the teachers will be heartbroken, after all, they are the children they have carefully taught.

In fact, at the beginning Helia insisted on going with the teachers to the Warcraft lair in the Sad Forest. She was also very curious about how many Warcraft had evolved self-awareness. However, due to safety considerations and Eric's special instructions, Dean Philip refused to agree.

So she had to settle for the next best thing and chose to go with her classmates to clean up the escaped monsters and search for survivors. She also wanted to see what the villages that once worshipped her were like now.

Helia was still on the same team with Lydia and Kalzer. In addition, three familiar faces joined them - Beavis, Mirang and Alturamon. The three of them had been teammates in the previous team competition and had a tacit understanding between them, so it was reasonable for them to be grouped together.

Of course, the leader of Helia's group is definitely Mobicius. He has always been worried about his apprentice who has been absent for three days and is worried that she will get into trouble. He is even more worried that someone with bad intentions is doing something behind her back.

Although the news that Helia was studying at Carter's College had spread, only a small number of people knew that Belleley was Helia. It was really hard for people who didn't know Belleley to regard her and Princess Helia as the same person.

After the team was arranged, Beavis was congratulated by many people, saying that he was so lucky to be on the same team with Princess Helia. He just smiled and perfunctorily said, then complained in his heart:

If possible, I still don't want to be in the same team with Princess Helia, a celebrity, a house demolition expert, a first-class vandal, and an explosion fanatic.

The area their group was responsible for was the southeastern part of the Sad Forest, and the area assigned to Helia's team was only a tiny area the size of a thumb on the map. It was very close to the military camp of the Otis Empire in the south, and they could run back in fifteen minutes. Of course, this was also a special arrangement by Eric.

Hilda sent someone to bring Theodore to Helia. It was obvious that it had been well maintained, and the magic stones inlaid on it were shiny.

Helia hadn't used a wand for a long time, and it felt a little rusty.

In addition to the three familiar people, Beavis, there were also people that Helia knew in other teams in the group, including Judith and Mi's team, Donaldson and Darlie, and even Likawi. Even Avril was assigned to their group.

Looking at the familiar faces around her, Helia couldn't help but wonder if this was a mission or a gathering of acquaintances.

But it was also good. She just wanted to discuss something with Avril. She had been thinking about when to go back to Elman to find someone, and now, the person came to her door on his own initiative.

"Your Highness Helia, it's been a long time since we last met. How have you been lately?"

Winnie was the first to come over and say hello. Although she was quite shocked that Belai was Princess Helia, after all, Belai's erratic personality didn't make her look like the apple of the empire's eye, but on second thought, she felt that it was a blessing for the empire that such a powerful, kind and brave person was the princess.

"Winnie, long time no see." Helia responded with a smile, "I'm really not doing well. I don't know where you've been suffering since you disappeared for a year."

Although everyone knew Helia was joking, the people around her obviously couldn't laugh after hearing this.

Seeing that she had unconsciously ruined the atmosphere, Helia had to change the subject: "How are you guys? How are you doing? Which team is the champion of this year's team competition?"

"We didn't hold a team competition this year. Instead, we had an on-campus assessment. The college is worried about what might happen next, so we plan to revise the team competition process. I guess we'll hold it again next year or the year after," Beavis responded.

"Is that so...hiss--it seems that I have caused a lot of trouble for the academy..." Helia said thoughtfully.

"You are quite self-aware." Mi Rang retorted subconsciously, but after that he suddenly realized that this person was no longer Belai, but Her Royal Highness Princess Helia of the Empire, so he immediately added: "What I mean is that Her Royal Highness has a very clear self-awareness of herself, she is so smart!"

"So smart~" Gena was also a talkative person. When he saw Mi Rang's cowardly look, he couldn't help but imitate him in a sarcastic tone.

Mi Rang immediately glared at him and yelled, "What the hell do you mean!"

Gena shrugged his shoulders and pretended to be innocent. "I didn't mean anything else. You are the one who meant something else, right? Your mouth is faster than the reins of the groom!"

"You're looking for a fight, aren't you?" Mi Rang knew it was an insult as soon as he heard it, and without saying anything else, he rolled up his sleeves and walked towards Gena, but was stopped by Judith who was standing beside him.

"We are classmates, it's so ugly to make such a fuss. Aren't you already past the age of having too many hands and feet? Why are you still so impulsive?" Judith lectured.

"Judith, how come your words are even more rude than cursing? Haha." Helia couldn't help laughing when she heard them bickering, and her laughter got louder and louder.

She had always felt that Genna and Mirang were very similar, both were foul-mouthed and arrogant swordsmen, and she thought it would be fun to bring them together someday.

"Alright, alright, stop arguing. We're going to go on a mission together soon. It's no use arguing now." Finally, Winnie stepped forward to mediate. At her eye signal, Judith took Mi and asked them to leave first.

Winnie looked at Helia with a sweet smile on her face, which softened Helia's heart. "Your Highness Helia, no matter what, I am very happy to see you again."

"Well, I'm glad to see you again too." Helia took the initiative to step forward and gave her a hug, and then they said goodbye.

After the team assembled and listened to various precautions, they went to their assigned places in an orderly manner to conduct a carpet search.

Helia and her friends were lucky. They didn't walk far before they found a village that had apparently been invaded by monsters. The air was filled with a burning smell, and the whole village was eerily quiet. Huge claw marks could be seen on the walls of the houses and the ground.

There were signs of burning on the houses, but the fire had been put out and the charred roofs and the ground were covered with fallen snow.

In addition, they also found several corpses that had been eaten to the point that only skeletons were left. Most of them were outside the houses. After all, when the monsters attacked, everyone wanted to escape.

Mijan and Beavis took the initiative to take on the task of dragging the bodies and digging graves to bury them. Al and Kalzer kept watch nearby, and Helia took Lydia into the house to search for any survivors.

The village is not big, with only a dozen households. In addition to the houses of each household, there is a building in the middle of the village that is more magnificent than the other houses. It is also the tallest house in the village, and its pointed roof can be seen from afar.

Helia was the first to push open the door and walk in. As expected, she saw a statue in the room. The statue had no facial features, but she inexplicably felt that it was somewhat similar to herself.

This is what the villagers call the temple, where the statue of the god Ornn is enshrined. Even though the village has been trampled by monsters, the statue still stands, as if it really has divinity.

The statue was placed on the steps, looking down at all living things. Helia walked through the antechamber that had been destroyed to the point where only sawdust remained. There were several bodies crushed under the wood and stone, and a red-black bloodstain spread across the wooden floor.

She climbed the steps and slowly approached the statue. She looked at it carefully for a while, then raised her hand involuntarily to touch the statue's face.

But as soon as her fingers touched the face of the statue, there was a cracking sound, and cracks instantly spread all over the statue, and then it shattered into pieces in front of her. She subconsciously raised her hand to grab a piece, but without any force, it turned into powder and flowed away from her fingers.

Lydia was standing not far away and witnessed everything. Seeing that Helia was a little stunned, she took two steps up the stairs, patted her shoulder gently, and asked with concern: "What's wrong?"

Helia lowered her eyes and stared at her hands, then shifted her gaze to look at the powder on the ground and shook her head slowly, "It's okay... it's just... I feel a little weird."

Then he suddenly thought of something, raised his hands innocently, and explained: "I want to make it clear in advance that I really just touched it lightly, I didn't break it!"

"I believe everything you say." Lydia gently grabbed Helia's hand that was raised above her head and pulled it down. What she meant by this was that Helia didn't need to explain anything to her, and she always believed in her.

"Yeah." Helia gently tickled Lydia's palm and smiled at her.

"Helia, Lydia? What's going on here?" Karzer's voice sounded from not far behind. Helia turned around and saw him walking into the temple with his nose covered, staring at the corpse on the ground with a frown.

When he looked up, he saw Helia and Lydia standing on the steps holding hands. Lydia stared at Helia's happy smile and couldn't help but complain: "Helia, I have something to say but I don't know if I should say it..."

"Is there anything you can't say? Say it." Helia said.

"Well, I know you have a good relationship with Lydia, but... you two should choose a better place to be intimate..." Kalzer spoke softly, but the echo effect in the temple was very good, and the surroundings were very quiet, so it was hard not to hear him.

Helia: . . . . .

"Hey! Why are you all here?" Another furry head popped out from outside the door. It was Alturamon.

She walked in and looked around curiously, "Where is this place? Why are there so many corpses?"

"It's the village's temple, dedicated to the gods believed in by the villagers." Helia walked down the steps and explained as she walked, "Perhaps they gathered here to seek the protection of the gods when the monsters attacked."

"In the end, they were all wiped out."

"Helia, you know a lot." Al said. She was a straightforward and cheerful person, without any twists and turns in her mind. Helia knew that she was praising her for knowing a lot from the bottom of her heart.

As for the name, Helia told her friends who knew her that they could just call her by her full name, without adding words like Princess or Your Highness. However, everyone else still had to be polite to Helia, saying that this was disrespectful to her.

But Al just called Helia's name directly, because she regarded Helia as a friend, and since Helia said so, she called her that.

"I heard it from others," Helia said. "I heard that the villages near the Sad Forest all believe in a god named Orne. Perhaps this temple is used to worship him."

"God Ornn? What kind of god is that? Why have I never heard of him?" Kalzer looked around but didn't find anything useful. The temple was very empty.

"I don't know either." Helia shrugged, looked at the broken bench next to her, and found a place to sit down. "Maybe he is also a false god. After all, there is one in the Morrogan Church."

"I heard before that you were kidnapped by the Morrogan. Is that true?" Al approached Helia curiously and stared at her with his big round eyes.