Cloud Thinking

Helia took the time to look at Stella's schedule, and with a wave of her hand, she deleted half of the courses she thought were useless, and then stuffed a bunch of experience classes into it, such as horse riding, archery, painting, music, literature, gardening, etc., with the main goal of keeping Stella busy.

She let Starley experience these classes in the hope that she could find her own interests, hobbies and strengths, so as to decide in which direction she wanted to develop in the future.

Being born into a royal family means having the opportunity and confidence to try anything.

She guaranteed that until her birthday party at the end of the month, Starley would have absolutely no time or energy to pay attention to other things, and she could do her own thing at that time.

"I feel very uncomfortable here. Something is suppressing my power. I feel uncomfortable."

Lydia curled up her tall body into a ball and kept burrowing into Helia's arms. She looked listless and sticky like a puppy.

Helia stroked Lydia's head to comfort her. When she heard what she said, she suddenly frowned: "Are you saying that there is a force targeting your orc bloodline?"

Lydia nodded and continued to explain: "That's right, I feel like everything is dangerous, my whole body is hairy, and it feels like there are tiny needles pricking my back."

"When did this happen? Why didn't you tell me earlier?" Helia pinched Lydia's chin not too hard, forcing her to look at her, and said seriously.

Lydia felt a little guilty being stared at, and her eyes were wandering, but Helia was holding her and staring at her, so she couldn't hide anything or lie.

“I felt uncomfortable as soon as I entered the palace…but I thought it was just because I couldn’t adapt, and I didn’t want to cause you any trouble, so I didn’t tell you…” Lydia whispered.

Helia sighed helplessly and said to her patiently: "Lydiya, I didn't bring you here to make you work for me."

"I need you, you know, I need you very much, I need you to stay with me for a long, long time, I need you to help me do many things that I can't do and only you can do."

"I know I'm very busy and I often can't take care of you, but that doesn't mean I don't care about you."

"On the contrary, I care about you a lot. Think about it, if you didn't tell me that you were not feeling well and had to wait until you couldn't take it anymore and let me know, then I would be very worried, would I have to put down what I was doing and come to see you and take care of you? Because I am very worried about you and care about you, so I am willing to put down everything I am doing for you."

"Don't be afraid to bother me. When you bother me, it proves that you need me, just as I need you."

With every word Helia spoke, Lydia's heart felt warmer, swelling and swollen, as if it was soaked in water, boiling and about to overflow.

She hugged Helia's waist tightly, buried her face in Helia's soft belly, and uttered a muffled "I know".

"Does the entire palace make you uncomfortable? If so, I'd better send you out." Helia said worriedly, "I have a manor in the imperial capital, you can..."

Before she finished speaking, Lydia shook her head violently, drilling into Helia's belly like a little drill, and said with great resistance: "No, I don't want to be separated from you."

"It seems, it seems that not every place makes me uncomfortable."

"Does this room make you uncomfortable?" Helia asked. "Tell me the truth, don't lie to me."

"Yes." Lydia replied honestly.

"You haven't been out of the house since you got here, have you?" Helia asked again.

"Well... because I feel uncomfortable..." Lydia said truthfully.

Helia thought about it carefully and felt that this should be related to the defensive magic circle set up in the palace. After all, orcs like Lydia would be very difficult to deal with once they went berserk.

As early as a hundred years ago, the palace of the Otis Empire was besieged by an orc uprising, and the Abraham royal family almost died out. Since then, the royal family has issued a special ban that people with orc blood are not allowed to set foot in the imperial capital, let alone enter the palace. If they are discovered, they will be killed on the spot.

In order to prevent the disaster from happening again, a magic circle was set up in the palace to suppress the blood of the orcs, which was reasonable. However, the people who designed the magic circle probably didn't expect that the orcs would soon face a massacre that almost wiped out the orcs. Not to mention the imperial capital, it was hard to see them even in the Sad Forest that nurtured all things. And they didn't expect that one day, the royal princess would bring an orc with her.

"It should be because of the magic circle. Don't worry too much." Helia patted Lydia's back twice. "Come on, get up and walk around with me. I need to determine the location of the magic circle."

Although Lydia felt physically uncomfortable, compared to the physical pain, she wanted to do something for Helia more. She didn't want to be a burden to Helia.

After wandering around for an afternoon, Helia roughly identified three locations - her Amber Palace, the Archdeacon Hall, and Eric's Tanzanite Palace.

In fact, there is no need to be sure. You can figure it out with a little thought. There is no need to mention the Executive Hall. This is the core of politics. Claude's territory must be heavily guarded and protected.

As the only heir to the empire, Eric must be well protected, not to mention that he is not good at magic. In order to prevent anyone from using magic against him, Madeline designed a giant defensive magic circle with her friends during her lifetime, just to protect her child so that he can grow up safely.

As for Helia, her Amber Palace was built on the ruins of the original war, using the magic circle left over from before, and then passed through Madeline's hands, so it was a little complicated.

"Father, is there any magic that can make Lydia immune to this kind of suppression?"

It is extremely difficult to modify the magic circle, and it is impossible to destroy it just for Lydia. But she really doesn't want to send Lydia away. She is too short of people around her, so she can only find a way to start with Lydia.

"It's impossible to be immune to this kind of magic that targets blood, unless she can remove her own bones and blood." Watersise was like a portable encyclopedia, responsible for answering questions and solving problems.

"This magic is highly targeted, but its weakness is also obvious. It will only attack identified enemies, and those outside its targeting range will treat it as air."

"You mean, in order to solve this problem, we have to prevent Lydia from being identified as an enemy by the magic circle, right?"

Helia understood it all at once. The working process of this magic circle is nothing more than three steps: screening, confirmation, and attack.

It is impossible for Lydia to separate herself from her own bloodline, so she will definitely not pass the first level and she will definitely be screened out by the magic circle.

Therefore, it is only possible to start from the second step, which is to prevent the magic circle from identifying Lydia as an enemy, so as not to trigger the attack command in the third step.

"Yes, but we can't start with people. The magic circles you showed me are designed with very short and fast reaction chains. They almost jump directly to attack after screening. We have to add a confirmation link to the magic circle." Watersise explained.

Helia thought about it carefully and put forward her own idea: "How about adding a tracking magic...?"

"Chains? I think so." Watersisse confirmed her idea.

Helia's idea was simple. She didn't want to weaken the offensiveness of the magic circle, but just wanted to delay the progress of the attack. Adding a tracking spell was equivalent to putting a chain on every orc who entered the attack range of the magic circle. As long as a confirmed order was received, the attack would be launched immediately.

The only difference is that one will attack immediately upon entering the range, while the other needs to decide whether to attack based on the wishes of the owner of the chain after entering the range.

Moreover, tracking magic is a non-aggressive magic, so it is not easy to collide with other magic in the magic circle. It is not difficult to use and can be said to be very suitable.

Helia rubbed her hands excitedly. She hadn't used magic for a long time and her hands were itching to use it. "Why not do it tonight? Let's change the magic circle tonight."

"Be careful, some magic circles will have entry thresholds. If you don't get permission, you may be attacked." Watersise reminded.

"Permission granted..." Helia stroked her chin and thought for a while. She knew almost nothing about the royal magicians. Except for Britney and Brashili, she had never seen the others. She usually didn't see them in action. They were as mysterious as some kind of spy organization.

In fact, she could have discussed this matter with Claude, but she didn't want to let others control Lydia's life and death, and she must hold the other end of the chain.

Lydia was the one she saved, she saved her life, so she had to be responsible for her. From the moment she broke free from fate, she should be free, at least in the choice between life and death, the right to choose must be in her own hands.

That night--

Helia was wrapped tightly in black clothes, and her most conspicuous red hair was tightly covered with a headscarf, ensuring that only a pair of eyes that had changed color and a nose for breathing were exposed.

She sneaked out of the room through the window and walked straight to the bell tower near the Executive Chamber on the north side of the Amber Palace. In fact, that place could be considered an ancient relic, secluded and eerie. Normally, no one would be willing to go there unless they were passing by for cleaning.

She was clearly in her own home, but she acted like a thief. After all, what good person wouldn't want to deal with outsiders instead of turning her own home upside down?

Helia admired this beautifully balanced magic circle for a long time, and couldn't help but sigh at the wisdom of their ancestors. She took out a piece of brown paper from her pocket and copied the pattern of the magic circle for her collection.

The first one took a little time, nearly an hour, but the second one, Eric's, was much faster. She carefully avoided the guards and used magic so smoothly that she felt that it would be a waste of her abilities if she didn't become a thief.

But the last one was a bit troublesome. She still hadn't been able to determine the exact location of the magic circle. It should be said that the Dali Palace, where the Executive Hall was located, was almost covered with magic circles from top to bottom. She was dazzled and had no idea where to start.

[Host! What are you doing here in the middle of the night? Are you really a thief?]

Xiao Si had just received a notice from his superiors and rushed back to inform Helia. He thought Helia should be sleeping at this time, and he was still struggling whether to wake her up. Unexpectedly, the host was not only not sleeping, but also cosplaying as a black-clad snitch in his own home!

"Shh, I'm doing something important, stop making noise." Helia originally wanted to ask Watersise what to do, but the system suddenly popped up, and she was not sure whether her conversation with Watersise would be captured by the system.

She did not want the system to know about Wotsise's existence, nor did she want Wotsise to know too much about the system and the so-called main god space behind it. She could not afford to offend either of them easily, and she did not want to become the ant that was crushed in the middle when the two sides fought in the future.

[Oh, what's the big deal? Can you tell me about it? ]

Xiao Si really lowered his voice. Even though their conversation was conducted entirely in his head and no one else could hear it, he still listened to Helia and stopped making loud noises.

"I originally wanted to dismantle all the defensive magic circles in my house. Is that bold?"

"All of our own magic circles have been dismantled."

"It was a magic circle created by a bunch of high-level magicians. I dismantled them all."

"I actually just wanted to practice at first, but I didn't expect that I would become more and more addicted to it, and no one noticed me!"