Cloud Thinking

When Helia felt the emotions of the person next to her being aroused, she finally understood why the other person suddenly began to project Eric's memory scene.

It turned out that this was to make him "touch the scene and recall the past", and once again bring up those thoughts of self-blame that had been temporarily soothed by Helia.

As long as Eric becomes emotionally unstable and heads towards collapse, the fantasy world created with his nightmare as the background will probably not be as peaceful as it is now.

Helia immediately started running, dragging her brother along as she ran, with the main message being that as long as she ran fast enough, all the memories and negative emotions would be gone.

As she ran, she took out the system bracelet from her pocket and buckled it on her wrist. Xiao Si immediately came online in her mind.

[Master! You haven't come to see me for a long time! ]

Although Xiao Si is just a system, it does have self-awareness and is not stupid.

It vaguely guessed that its immediate superior had most likely signed some kind of agreement with its bound host, so that Helia would no longer be completely constrained by the system and the Lord God. It had been offline for several months!

"Si'er, I have a problem here. You have sharp eyes, so please keep an eye on it for me. Remember to remind me if there is any danger." Helia said.

【Guaranteed mission completion! 】

Seeing that the memories could not trap them, the shadow ghost appeared again, but this time, it brought a new friend that Helia did not expect to see - a monster made up of messy human tissues.

They are just a kind of product randomly put together, with an arm, a leg, and a pair of eyeballs, it's a monster.

Anyway, all the organs in the human body are randomly combined and pieced together in twos and threes to form a bunch of weird things that make people feel physically uncomfortable when looking at them.

"Oh my god...what is this..."

Eric used a sword to chop off a finger that served as a spider's leg, a butt that served as a body, and an eyeball stuffed in the anus of the monster. He was so disgusted that he retched.

All the emotions such as grief and self-blame that were previously triggered by past memories were now forgotten, leaving only nausea.

"I'm sorry, brother. I don't know what this is. It's so weird."

Helia swung her knife and disintegrated several limb monsters. The air was filled with the unique aroma of burning protein, but this time she had no desire to eat barbecue at all.

Because this new type of monster is as difficult to kill as the shadow ghosts, even if you cut them into pieces, they will still spontaneously aggregate.

It may have originally been a combination of arms + torso + legs, and after being cut into pieces and reassembled it became a combination of fingers + toes + buttocks + intestines.

It was either white skin or red meat, with soup and juice included. Helia felt so sick just looking at it that her stomach was churning.

Even later on, these human tissues began to combine with the shadow ghosts, gathering the scattered parts like a snowball, trying to become a disgusting ball to crush the two people.

Eric jumped and chopped it in half.

Helia felt that her spirit was polluted. If she had a san value setting, it would have dropped to 0 after this battle. She couldn't continue to waste her energy like this meaninglessly.

"I can't stand it! I'm going to burn them!"

Unable to bear it all, Xiao Si had already consciously censored those images that could not pass the review. As a result, in its field of vision, except for the two living people, Helia and Eric, the rest of the place was full of mosaics, and there was nothing to see at all.

She retreated behind Eric, put away the flint and sickle, and summoned Theodore instead. She gathered her magic power and chanted a spell, preparing to burn the monster meat ball that had gathered together again into ashes.

Eric stood in front of Helia, chopped down the small monsters that tried to get close to attack her, and kept swinging his sword to prevent the meat ball from continuing to grow.

While chanting the spell, she bit her finger and used her blood to draw a small magic circle in the air. It was a relatively simple amplification magic circle.

Although the painting was sloppily done, the advantage was that the drawing materials were high-end enough. Even if her blood was not as valuable as the blood of gods, it was much more precious than the blood of ordinary magicians.

Everything was ready. When Helia called out "Brother", Eric consciously made way and retreated to a position behind Helia to avoid being affected or hindering Helia.

It took less than a second for the two to switch positions when the magic was completed. The layers of zip-format magic in Theodore's front, as bright as the sunlight at noon, shot out in the form of a pillar of fire, enveloping the still squirming meatball monster in blazing flames.

Just like a rainbow in broad daylight, it suddenly split open a crack filled with flames in the dark night.

But this pillar of fire that shot up into the sky was unreasonable. Not only did it burn the monster that Helia wanted to kill, it also burned everything along the way, whether living or non-living, into ashes.

The sizzling and crackling sounds continued, mixed with some mutterings from the monsters, but Helia, who was holding Theodore like a cannon, turned a deaf ear to them.

A wave of hot air came, and Helia, who was in front, was pushed back a step, but was quickly supported by Eric behind her.

The flying hair of the two people met in the air, and the firelight illuminated the two extremely similar faces so clearly that people could not help but sigh that the power of blood was so strong that it made two different souls have the same background.

"Cough—" The magic ended, and the ashes and smoke that were raised entered Helia's nasal cavity. She couldn't stop coughing, and her eyes became sore and tearful because she had been smoked for a while.

Eric was protected behind him, which was fine. He took out a handkerchief, held Helia's face, and wiped her face which was a little blackened by smoke with his tears. In the end, he couldn't help but laughed and teased, "Little cat."

Now that the meatball monster has disappeared, the remaining shadow ghosts and human tissue monsters are no longer so troublesome.

It's just not clear whether the owner of the illusion will create some messy monsters to block their way after seeing this.

And Helia clearly felt that the magic power in her body was a little different from usual, much less. After using magic just now, she felt a little overwhelmed. It seemed that she was affected by this illusion and her fighting power was reduced.

If the monsters kept coming one after another without taking a breath, even she wouldn't be able to handle it...

As soon as they stepped into the Amber Palace, they clearly felt something different, as if they had passed through an invisible membrane and were now inside the membrane.

What's strange is that it was still dark on the road near the Tanzania Palace, but when we reached the Amber Palace, it was daytime. Something was obviously wrong.

After they had walked a few steps, they heard a rustling noise, followed by the sound of people talking in a low voice in a corner not far away.

"Hey - why is this little princess so weird? Sometimes she's like this, sometimes she's like that..."

"You are courting death! You dare to talk about Her Royal Highness the Princess behind her back. Be careful that she will hear it or she will drag you into the lake and drown you!"

"Not really... Is it as exaggerated as you say? I've only been here for a short time, and I haven't seen the little princess punish anyone..."

"Hush, hush, hush! As someone who has been through this, I'm giving you a piece of advice. The person you can't afford to offend the most in the Amber Palace is Princess Helia!"

"Don't you ever think about why the Amber Palace always has to have a new batch of servants coming in every once in a while?"

"Ah! Could it be that he is...dead..."

"Of course! I heard that there is a secret torture chamber in the Amber Palace. Disobedient servants will be caught and put in there, and they will be thrown into the lake to feed the fish!"

Helia looked around, and finally, at Xiao Si's reminder, she saw little Helia squatting under the window sill. It was obvious that she was listening to the servants talking about her just like them.

"She's so cruel... Could it be that she's really the reincarnation of a devil as the rumors say..."

"What rumors? Rumors outside the palace?"

"Yes, although everyone says that Queen Madeleine died of complications during childbirth after giving birth to Her Highness Helia, some people say that Queen Madeleine did not die of complications during childbirth, but was eaten alive by the child in her belly!"

"Your Highness Helia is the reincarnation of a devil!"

Helia: ...?

I'm going to sue you for defamation!!!

She glanced at Eric standing beside her, and seeing his complicated expression and the anger that he could not hide, she looked away in surprise.

She thought these were all made up by the Lord of Illusions, but looking at the expressions of little Helia and Eric, it seemed that this was really happening.

Was the original owner once said to be a devil incarnate? She didn't have much impression of this.

Little Helia had her back to them, so Helia couldn't see her expression, nor did she know what her mood was at the moment.

"That would explain why she always has such an erratic temper. Those servants who disappeared might have been eaten by her! Or sacrificed to the devil!"

"Ah! Then shouldn't I hurry on? I thought this was a good job!"

"No, please don't! There have been people who wanted to leave after noticing something was wrong, but I haven't seen that person since then. I don't know if he really left, or..."

"what are you guys saying!"

The sudden shout startled Helia, and the two people who had just been whispering bad things about their master fell silent immediately.

"Who allowed you to talk about the princess behind her back? Go and get your punishment!"

The visitor didn't know how much he heard, but the other party probably guessed that it was not something good, otherwise he would not have punished him right away.

And this voice... was really familiar. Helia recalled it carefully before she matched it with Hegemon.

Then there were hurried footsteps, and then everything returned to silence.

Helia and Eric both stared at little Helia under the windowsill, wanting to see her reaction.

But she just waited calmly for everyone to leave before she stood up, patted her butt, and turned away.

Soon, the servants' exclamations came one after another, and they called out "Your Highness Helia" one after another, but there was not much respect in their tone.

Eric held Helia's hand a little tighter. He was worried that Helia would be sad and uncomfortable.

Before this, he didn't know that Helia's situation in the Amber Palace had reached such a point. He knew that someone was spreading these messy rumors, but he had sent people to resolve all the ones he knew about.

But he didn't expect that he wanted to protect his sister from these noisy noises, but she still heard them.

Her calm reaction was enough to show that it was not the first time she had heard these words. She had gotten used to it and didn't care anymore.

He couldn't help but start blaming himself again, blaming himself for not caring enough about his sister.

But Helia just smiled and looked back, raised a finger on the hand that was clasped with Eric's, and tapped the back of his hand twice, "Brother, let's keep going."

Eric was stunned for a moment, and recalling what Helia had said to him before, the haze in his heart was dispelled.

He couldn't fall into the trap of the master of the illusion and hold his sister back. He had to be extremely alert to protect his sister.

He smiled and responded, "Well, let's go."

The master of the illusion's routine is just like that. If this memory scene doesn't work, then try another one. He will definitely be able to find one that can stop them.

If memory doesn't work, then use monsters.

Monsters are useless...then they are useless, what else can I do...

But even this repetitive routine really slowed down the two of them. They couldn't find a way to break the illusion, so they could only keep wandering around in it, and this was what the master of the illusion wanted.

The two walked to Helia's dormitory. She violently kicked the door open. Before she entered, she saw the original owner who was about to hang herself.

Oh my god! Is this the scene?!

The two men rushed in without saying a word, wanting to hold the original owner's legs to prevent her from hanging herself, but they forgot that this was a memory scene, everything was an illusion, and they ended up holding nothing.

It can't be said that he hugged in vain, because the two of them bumped into each other, and Helia's forehead hit Eric's nose, causing her brother to bleed from the nose.

Memory is memory, memory is the fact that has already happened, they can only watch and can do nothing.

The original owner, who accidentally glimpsed the future solution, went mad after returning and wanted to die. With Eric's comfort, he finally showed signs of returning to normal, but who knew that it was just the calm before the storm.

On a sunny day, the original owner made a simple hanging rope with bed sheets and quilt covers and chose to hang himself.

Then... the Watersice buried in her body awakened, saved her, and they began to live as one.

Helia watched the whole process of the original owner hanging herself again, but when she saw that the other party's struggle gradually became weaker and it was time for Watersiser to take control of the body, the scene in front of her suddenly flickered.

It was as if the projection equipment was unstable; the picture flickered, blurred, twisted, and distorted, and then began to shrink into a narrow crack.

“What is this...?” Eric didn’t understand, and out of caution, he didn’t go forward.

"Let me see."

Helia summoned Theodore, who now liked the fact that his staff was too long, and poked at the crack with her wand.

But as soon as they touched it, it was like opening Pandora's box, and the darkness hidden inside rushed out, engulfing them and the entire scenery behind them.

Fortunately, before being swallowed, the two people immediately reached out to grab each other and held each other tightly.

Helia also quickly chanted a spell of defensive protection magic to protect the two of them.

The darkness disappeared in a flash, but the scene before my eyes changed drastically. The surroundings were no longer magnificent palaces, but ruins burning with war.

A few blurry figures flashed vaguely in the smoke in the distance, and the sounds of weapons clashing and people shouting and yelling approached. At their feet lay the bodies of several soldiers, who died with their eyes open.

She could feel the hot wind blowing in her face and smell the smell of gunpowder mixed with the smell of blood.

The ground beneath her feet was even more solid, and she stomped her feet to make sure she was standing on the ground.

Eric squatted down, reached out to the body at his feet, and tried to turn it over.

The hard touch of the armor, the coldness of the corpse on his fingertips, and the sticky blood that he accidentally stained, all told him that these were real, not illusions.

He looked up at Helia. She clearly didn't ask anything, but the moment their eyes met, they understood each other's thoughts.

He frowned and nodded, indicating that something was indeed wrong here, at least different from the memory scenes they had seen before, but more like the six corpses they saw in Eric's dormitory.

Is this an illusion within an illusion... Helia thought.

Before I could figure out what was going on, there was a sudden ring in my ears -

[Master!!! Three people are coming from the right front, two people are fighting in the left front, and there is a small team behind! ]

[It's an orc! ]

Helia now knew where they were.

It was a battlefield a hundred years ago.

The orcs broke through the defenses of the palace and launched a war against the royal family under the banner of "Orcs will never be slaves."

The Amber Palace where she lived was built on the ruins of this battle.