Cloud Thinking

"Look, look, what are you looking at! You can't even remove the restriction, what are you looking at, are you looking at the air?" Elroy said unhappily.

For some reason, Grammy, who always had a bad temper and was not very good at moral character, became silent instead, while Elroy, who was only slightly sharp-tongued, became like a powder keg that could explode at any time. There was no trace of the dignity and elegance of an elf in him.

"I think I might know how to unlock the ban..." Helia said weakly.

It's strange to say, before this, Helia had no idea what to do with the image stone she got from Camelin's sea of ​​consciousness.

But after coming out of that room, no, to be more precise, after hearing Wisdom's completely incomprehensible mumbling, when she held the imaging stone again, the method of unlocking the ban inexplicably appeared in her mind.

It's a vague feeling, as if it comes from instinct. Although I can't figure out the principle, I just feel that I can do it.

"It seems that the information that the Uncovered Eye just now conveyed to me is the kind that I cannot understand, but can grasp by feeling." Helia explained.

"Why are you talking so abstractly..." Alfie raised his chin towards her, "Just try it yourself."

"Try it, you big head ghost!" Grammy and Elroy glared at Alfie and cursed in unison.

The two of them looked at each other, and then looked at Helia in unison, "Don't tell me your teachers at the academy didn't teach you that you can't just look at image stones of unknown origin."

"Of course I know I can't look around randomly!" I've been trapped by the Morrogan's video stone trap before!

Every failure makes one wiser. She is not the kind of person who only remembers the food and not the punishment. Ha!

"I am only responsible for unlocking the seal on it. As for how to view the contents of the image stone, it is up to you." Helia's eyes swept from Elroy to Grammy and finally fell on Alfie. She knew that some high-level magicians could "play" the contents of the image stone, but she didn't know if the three of them could do it.

"I can present the contents of the image stone to the outside world. Don't worry, I won't let your little princess be in danger." Alfie said with a hint of sarcasm.

"Okay, I'll do it."

Helia took out the dagger from her waist, cut a gash on her palm with a determined heart, and warm red blood gushed out.

She put her five fingers together and hooked them into a bowl shape. Soon, a small pool of blood formed on the palm of her hand. With her other hand, she placed the imaging stone into the pool of blood and slowly released her magic power into it.

Soon, a "click" sound was heard, and the restriction on the outermost layer of the image stone was released. Helia poured the image stone in her hand into Alfie's hand, which was covered with a handkerchief. Elroy then came up and used healing magic on her, and the wound healed quickly.

"Then it's my turn to start." Alfie carefully wiped the blood off the image stone and very carefully burned the handkerchief with Helia's blood on it to prevent anyone from getting her blood and doing bad things.

Helia's eyes were as big as bells, staring at Alfie without a single mistake, and she pricked up her ears to listen carefully to the spells he recited, trying to learn from him, but unfortunately Alfie recited the spells too quickly, and she really couldn't hear clearly or remember them.

Alfie first called up Helia's imaging stone, and everyone gathered around it, staring intently at the content projected on the imaging stone, which felt like a modern projection movie.

The first scene on the screen is a crowded banquet hall. The noisy sound is "played out" along with the screen, and the buzzing sound makes people feel a little annoyed.

But this thing can't be fast-forwarded, so everyone can only continue watching while covering or rubbing their ears.

Then, the picture began to move closer, all the way to the extended platform on the second floor of the banquet hall, clearly showing the five people standing above.

Helia's eyes suddenly widened. This... wasn't this the scene of her eighteenth birthday party? From the layout of the banquet hall to the participants, it was almost exactly the same!

But she soon realized what the difference was, because she, who was standing next to Claude, was wearing a burgundy dress, exuding elegance from head to toe, while the person standing opposite her, who was glared at, was Starley, who was wearing a plain white dress.

Eric stood next to her, and next to Starley stood Earl Henry.

Damn! Isn't this the plot in the original novel? Why would Wisdom know? And why is there a video stone recording it?

Soon, she heard Count Henry's voice coming from it: "Your Majesty Claude."

"Please allow me to introduce you to this beautiful lady next to me, who is also the royal family's treasure among the people - Starry Eliza."

At the signal from Count Henry, the little white flower-like heroine took two steps forward, and looked at Claude, who was frowning at her, with a pair of clear sapphire eyes, neither humbly nor arrogantly. She took a step back with her right foot, lifted the hem of her skirt, squatted slightly and lowered her head, performing a standard greeting.

"Meet His Majesty Claude."

And the ignored "Helia" was naturally unhappy. This was her birthday party, how could she allow a country girl who came out of nowhere to steal her limelight? Even though she was sure that Stella was a member of the Abrahamic royal family at the first sight of her.

But she didn't want to believe that this was Claude's child who was left behind.

Let us ask everyone, who doesn’t know that Claude and Madeleine were a loving couple, who had been together from their youth to the highest positions in the empire. If life and death had not separated them, it would be hard to imagine that Claude would one day betray Madeleine.

"Earl Henry, what do you mean by this?" Helia walked forward in her high heels, approaching Stellar, looking down at this uninvited "guest" with arrogance, and said in a bad tone: "You brought an unknown guy to my eighteenth birthday party, and you embarrassed me in front of so many people. Can I think that you are here to ruin my place?"

"Since when did a mere earl become worthy of running wild in my territory?"

The original owner's words were so disrespectful to others, but it was true. She was a beloved princess and she dared to lose her temper even at Claude, so why should she give any face to the people below her?

"Tsk tsk, this is the little princess I knew before. Now she's so easy to talk to. I'm not used to it." Grammy interrupted.

"It seems that Lord Grammy prefers me who has a bad temper? I don't mind being bad-tempered only with you." Helia said with a wry smile.

Grammy waved his hands repeatedly, "No, no, no! Let's leave this honor to someone else. I'm too old to enjoy it!"

"That's not what I meant. I just think that the little princess has changed a lot compared to before. So much so that I even doubt if she has become a different person."

"Indeed, Belaiyi, you really are nothing like the princess in the rumors, so when I learned of your true identity, it was difficult for me to equate the two." Vikes also nodded and expressed his opinion objectively and honestly.

"I also find it a little strange." Alfie also cast a scrutinizing look at Helia. "Although I have never met Your Highness the Princess before, but after spending these days together, I feel that you don't look like a Princess at all."

Damn it! Are you doubting me?

Helia really didn't expect that the video stone actually recorded the original plot. The performance of the original owner was so different from hers that everyone else was more or less doubting themselves.

Although Claude discovered something unusual about her not long after she came here, he did not expose her but accepted it well.

She thought that Madeline had expected this and her mother should have arranged it for her in advance.

But now looking at Grammy's reaction, as one of the few people who knew her secret, he seemed to only know that the God of War was sealed in her body, but he didn't know that the one who now controls this body is a soul from another world.

I won't be exposed here, will I? If they find out that I'm not the real "Helia"... I won't be eliminated on the spot...

"Tsk! If you are either kidnapped or stabbed in the heart every other day, I don't believe you can still live normally." Elroy clicked his tongue unhappily, frowned, and stared at Grammy and the others.

"Let me ask you, think back, is there a big difference between you before you came into contact with magic and now?"

"Not to mention that Helia was so unlucky that she either encountered a black magician or a heretic, and even had a fight with a fire dragon. If she was still the delicate little princess she would have died a hundred or eighty times ago. How could she have waited for us to rescue her?"

Helia didn't expect Elroy to speak for her. She looked into his purple eyes, trying to find some information she wanted to know, such as whether he had already guessed that she was not "Helia"...

But unfortunately, she didn't see anything and her attention was attracted by Ansel standing next to her.

"No one can decide what Her Royal Highness the Princess is like or what she should be like. Helia is Helia. Princess is just an identity for her, not a constraint for her."

"She is just herself, she can live whatever she wants, not like the princess people think she should be."

Ansel firmly refuted those who doubted Helia on her behalf, but when he noticed Helia's gaze, he couldn't help but curl up the corners of his mouth and looked back with a smile.

He raised an eyebrow and looked at me to ask for credit: What do you think, was what I said okay?

It has to be admitted that although she was very unhappy that Ansel chose her as his concubine at the beginning, Ansel treated the person he chose very well.

If you want stars, I will give you the stars; if you want the moon, I will give you the moon. No matter what happens, I will stand firmly on your side, which almost shows the word "favoritism" to the fullest.

It's really hard not to like someone like this.

Lydia didn't say anything, but just stood motionless beside Helia, holding her arm tightly, with her other hand on the sword at her waist, looking vigilantly at those who suspected Helia.

It felt like if Alfie and the others dared to take another step forward, she would draw her sword and stand in front of Helia.

Perhaps out of a desire to please Helia, or perhaps because of something else, Carlisle also stood up to speak for Helia:

"Those rumors can't be trusted. Common people just like to gossip about the royal family after dinner. Even the slightest rumor can be made into something very real."

"I still remember one time before, a maid accidentally broke a precious vase while working, but when the story got out, it was said that Her Royal Highness was jealous of the maid's beauty and deliberately smashed the vase and scratched the maid's face with the sharp fragments. In the end, she was blamed for the broken vase and kicked her out."

"From this, we can see how outrageous those rumors are. They cannot be believed at all."

"..."

Not to mention other people, even Helia was speechless after hearing this. It was just a vase that was broken by accident. It was her who broke it. How could this be blamed on her? And it was spread so outrageously! Am I a fool or a scapegoat?

"Alright, alright, what's there to argue about? The contents of this video stone are obviously made up. We all know what happened that night. So why should we doubt a little princess who is standing next to us and has been with us for so long just because of a made-up princess?"

Grammy jumped out again to smooth things over. It was obviously him who started the argument in the beginning, and now he came to be the peacemaker. He changed his expression faster than turning the pages of a book, causing Elroy to roll his eyes frequently.

"Since you know it's made up, do you still want to continue reading it?" Helia asked.

She actually didn't want everyone to continue watching. After all, she couldn't guarantee that others would ask questions after watching that she would find difficult to explain for a while.

Moreover, the original plot actually hides many secrets about the original owner and about her, and the people around her cannot be fully trusted.

At least, none of them were truly trustworthy people to whom Helia could confide her identity secret.

"But the question arises again. If the content of the Image Stone is fabricated, then what exactly does Wisdom want to convey to us? Why did He spend so much effort to make such a thing?" Alfie analyzed seriously.

"It's not conveying anything to us, but to the little princess." Grammy looked at Helia and replied, "Perhaps the little princess knows what secrets are hidden in it."

If Helia had not been certain that the other party did not know that she was a soul from another world, and did not know that the content of the image stone was the plot of a so-called novel, she would have suspected that Grammy knew something.

Facing the gazes of the crowd, Helia stroked her chin and thought for a moment before giving her answer: "I suspect that 'He' is trying to sow discord between me and my sister."

other people:? ? ?

She pointed at the paused image on the video stone and analyzed it carefully: "Look at this scene. It should be that Earl Henry brought Sister Starley to my eighteenth birthday party without any prior notice, hoping to use the people present to force my father and the royal family to recognize my sister."

"It's obvious that I'm extremely unhappy here. A relative I've never seen before suddenly showed up out of nowhere, and this relative came with the intention of destroying your place. Anyone would be unhappy, right?"

"So if Sister Starley had met me in this way, I would have had a very bad impression of her."

"What's more, I seem to have a bad temper here. I'm afraid she will think that Sister Starley is here to compete with her for her father's favor, and she will definitely target her in the future."

"But the problem is that my sister entered the palace long before my eighteenth birthday party, and we got along very well. It was me who took the initiative to ask for my sister's identity to be acknowledged in front of everyone at the birthday party."

"Wisdom must be displeased with my relationship with my sister, so she made up this story to make me feel uneasy and make me think that Starley is here to steal my things, so that I will be wary of my sister from the bottom of my heart."

The more Helia made up her story, the more she felt she was right. She ignored the question marks that slowly grew over the heads of others and continued to speak passionately: "And the reason why Wisdom wants to sow discord between me and Sister Starley is to stir up conflicts within the royal family so that she can take advantage of the situation and interfere with the royal government!"

"My brother and I are born from the same mother. We are connected even if our bones are broken. Besides, my brother has always been tolerant and accommodating to me. It is unlikely that there will be any conflict between us, and even if there is, it will not be a big deal."

"And my father is protected by the power of the emperor. He cannot harm my father. And my father only has two children, one of whom is highly valued and the other is highly loved. He cannot arbitrarily sow discord between us."

"That's why He set His sights on Stella, who is not particularly close to us. He wanted to use her half-outsider status to stir up disputes in the royal family and cause chaos, so that He could achieve His goal."

other people:! ! !

Hey! Don’t tell me! Don’t tell me! It seems like there is some truth in it!

"Then why did He insist on bringing you here? It can't be that He did it to sow discord between you and Her Highness Starley?" Grammy asked again.

"Why not?" Helia retorted, "First of all, the palace is the political center, and the gods cannot interfere. They even have to think twice before approaching it."

"At most, they can bring in a few believers to act as eyes, but they cannot peek into or approach places involving confidential political information."

"If I stay in the palace, it will be difficult for Wisdom to contact me, let alone convey such divisive words."

"He separated my sister and I, so that even if we had suspicions, we couldn't immediately go to each other to verify. The suspicion in my heart could not be eliminated, and it grew little by little over time."

"Think about it. When I return to the palace, whether Sister Starley has this idea or not, under the influence of my uneasy mood, even if she doesn't have it, it will become true."

"If I had this idea early on, I would be doomed. I would have become more determined to distance myself from my sister or even take action against her. Then our relationship would have deteriorated, and wisdom would have had a chance to intervene!"