Cloud Thinking

"Little red-haired princess, there's no need..."

Libertas frowned and stared at Helia with dissatisfaction.

After all, An Kelin was her companion. There was no reason for her to just watch her get beaten and do nothing, pretending not to see it.

"You were the ones who started it first, so don't be unreasonable."

Helia stared back, not seeming to worry at all about being beaten up or arrested. It was as if she had made up her mind that they would not attack her, and she had nothing to fear.

"Enough! Stop it!" Princess Wen Lisa couldn't stand it anymore, so she stepped between the two of them and gently pushed away the two people who were about to get together to fight.

Only then did Libertas give up. He strode over to help Ankolin up, showed concern for her, and after making sure that she was fine, he let out a heavy breath through his nose, which was considered a compromise.

But An Kelin was not a person with a good temper. She covered her stomach, fixed her cold eyes on Helia, and said through gritted teeth, "You wait."

Helia shrugged fearlessly, "Am I afraid of you?"

"Well, since you two are unwilling to lend a helping hand, then just stay aside and be a good spectator."

Kolinda took off the golden sword behind her, and Wen Lisa very considerately handed her the armor placed beside her and helped her put it on.

She said this only because she hoped that Helia and Eric would not be of any help and would not get in the way but instead become a hindrance.

Helia smiled and responded, "Don't worry, at least the moment I saw Her Majesty the Queen, my heart was on the side of the royal family."

"Oh?" Colenda seemed to be thinking about something. "You mean, before you saw me, you were more inclined to help the orcs overthrow the royal rule?"

Helia did not respond directly: "History is already determined. I can't change it just because I want to."

“No matter who I support or which side I help, it will not change the final outcome.”

Colenda was stunned for a moment, as if she was hesitating, as if she wanted to ask something but didn't know how to.

Finally, she suppressed her unnecessary curiosity and didn't ask, but said something else: "But, at least after meeting me, you are more inclined to let us win, right?"

She emphasized the word "I".

Not because of the Abrahamic royal family, but because of her, the first empress whose existence was erased from the history of the empire.

Helia just smiled and didn't respond.

"Don't waste time, hurry up and do it. If you delay any longer, the people outside might not be able to hold back any longer."

Libertas drew the broadsword from his waist, tore off the cloth wrapped around it with his sharp claws and threw it aside, then looked around, as if considering which one to cut first.

……

The tiger men and the guards from both sides stared at the door of the Executive Hall, while being wary of each other.

He was very annoyed. He had thought that the two men would be well-behaved. After all, he had already given them such a big convenience. Who knew that they would give him a big one halfway through.

If they rushed in and did something to offend others, Ankolin and Libertas would not let him go because it would be his dereliction of duty.

Damn! He knew that dragon cub was not a good guy!

But it's been almost half an hour, and it's still quiet inside, so everything should be fine...

He was just about to comfort himself and relax, but the next moment, the door of the Executive Hall flew out, hitting his face and falling more than ten meters away.

Come on, that's a marble door! It's so heavy that it takes three or four people to push it open! Who the hell kicked the stone door open with such strength? ? ?

The soldiers of both sides guarding the door were also blown away by the gust of air that could blow away the heavy stone door. They fell one after another on top of each other, with their brains all scattered all over the place.

Inside the house, Colenda and Libertas had already started fighting. The magnificent palace was now in a mess. The long table used for handling official business was broken into several pieces, and torn paper and waste were flying everywhere.

The golden high chair that symbolized the emperor's seat was also cut with dozens of mottled marks, and was about to melt into golden water under the magical attack of Helia and Ankolin.

Eric protected Wen Lisa and hid on the edge of the battle.

They looked at their mothers one by one, their faces full of worry, fearing that the strong Libertas might hurt her mother.

One of them was looking at his sister, watching her waving her wand wildly and wantonly, with unresolvable worry in his eyes as well as growing doubts and suspicions.

The sound of fighting soon spread, and the orc soldiers, who had rested for a while and felt their blood running cold, reacted almost immediately and launched another attack with bared teeth and claws.

Screams and wails came one after another, and the gradually approaching sounds of weapons clashing and hurried footsteps seemed to have foreshadowed the outcome of the battle, but there were still people who resisted stubbornly, and some who still refused to lay down their weapons until the last moment.

Helia dragged Ankolin with one hand and Theodore with the other, strolling along the corridor of the palace, followed by Eric and Princess Wenlisa holding swords.

An orc jumped out and howled twice before being killed by Helia's cannon.

When the wounded human soldiers and palace servants caught sight of Princess Wen Lisa, they knew they were saved. They cried and dragged their bloody bodies towards her, and soon formed a large team.

Although there are only a few people in this team who are capable of fighting.

With Helia, a powerful and unreasonable guy around, the human soldiers gradually gained hope and began to fight back.

On the other side, the blood-soaked Kolinda put her sword on Libertas' neck, and forced her to walk step by step to the invading orc army, threatening:

"You now have two choices: resist to the end, until death."

"Or, accept the peace agreement and withdraw your troops."

Although Libertas said that she was a leader who could be replaced at any time, when she was captured by Colenda, the orcs on the opposite side stopped attacking to prevent their leader from being killed.

She briefly explained the contents of the peace agreement. Just as they had expected, the orcs were unwilling to accept it and unwilling to give up the victory and freedom that were within their grasp.

But at the same time, this also means that they have abandoned their leader.

Kolinda tightened her grip on the sword, and as the orcs stepped forward, she silently said "I'm sorry", then she followed her heart and slashed Libertas' throat, killing her.

Goodbye, my friend...May you find light and freedom in the afterlife...

“Why…why is this happening…” The Lizardman stood in the outermost circle, but he witnessed everything with his own eyes and witnessed the death of Libertas with his own eyes.

His compatriots stepped over her lifeless body and trampled on it. At this moment, all they had in their eyes were the hateful human race and the throne they were determined to seize.

Although Colinda was strong, she couldn't stand being beaten up like this.

Her arms were so swollen that she could hardly lift them. Her body was covered with claw marks deep enough to see the bones. Her face was covered in blood, but she was able to hold on only with her iron will.

"Mother!!!"

Along with Princess Wen Lisa's scream that resounded throughout the battlefield, a warm halo descended from the sky, wrapping up Kolinda and isolating her from the claws and weapons that were rushing towards her.

The next moment, fireballs flew in from the source of the sound one after another, accurately hitting the enemies surrounding her. They were blown to pieces on the spot, and fell straight down.

"Tsk! I was hoping Libertas could hold on a little longer..."

Helia, who arrived late but finally caught up, wiped the sweat from her forehead, turned the direction of Theodore in her hand, and killed the orcs who approached her.

Although she said she wanted to be a spectator, Helia still took action in the end.

She was not sure whether she was the key to turning the battle from defeat to victory, nor was she sure whether she could really change the so-called history, but she firmly believed that the result was doomed, the orcs would definitely lose, and the royal family would definitely win.

Otherwise, she wouldn't be here at all.

Even if she didn't take action, the ending would not change. It's just that the process would be much more difficult, more people would die, and they would be stranded in this space and time much longer.

Helia didn't have that much time to waste here, so she decided to take action to speed up the process.

However, based on what she saw, if she hadn’t taken action just now, would Colenda have really died here? ? ?

Eric's fighting ability should not be underestimated. He pulled out a long sword cleanly, but now it was covered in blood, and blood was dripping from the tip of the sword.

The brother and sister were like reincarnated gods of death. They killed all the orcs they met on the way, leaving no one behind. They led the humans behind them and forged a bloody path.

The lizard man was kneeling on the ground, holding Libertas, who had been trampled to the point of being bloody and unrecognizable. Suddenly, he felt the light dim, and the cat man standing next to him made a threatening sound.

He looked up and saw Helia's beautiful but extremely cold face.

And in her hand, she held the weapon that had killed countless of his compatriots.

He forced out a helpless smile and said in a relaxed tone: "I said, you don't look like orcs..."

Helia's gaze slightly lowered to the body in the lizardman's arms, and she asked with a little confusion, "Libertus?"

The lizard man nodded.

"Didn't you say you were going to chop off the dog emperor's head? Why don't you move forward and instead stay here to collect the body?"

Helia was slightly interested in this lizard man, so she chatted with him for a while longer, thus completing this inexplicable fate.

The lizard man twitched his lips in embarrassment, lowered his eyes and looked at the corpse in his arms, stretched out his not-so-clean hands to wipe Libertas' face, and brushed away the hair that was stuck with blood.

"An army without a leader is just a pile of loose sand. I don't think they can win," he said.

Helia was a little surprised: "I can't believe you are so loyal?"

"I never told you that I was rescued by the leader. She gave me a second life."

The lizard man seemed to think that his story was cliché and boring, and he snorted and laughed.

"Miffy and I were both rescued by the leader, but as you can see, with our abilities, we can't help at all."

Miffy should be the cat person next to him.

"Under the law of the jungle where the strong prey on the weak, there have always been people in the team who are unhappy with us and think that we are just a waste of food. It is the leader who has been protecting us and encouraging us to find our own value."

"To me, the leader is not only the savior who pulls us out of the quagmire, but also the messenger who leads us to the light. Do you understand? These two are different."

Helia nodded, "I understand. I can understand."

"Libertas not only liberates your body, but also liberates your free soul."

"If she just rescued you, it would just be letting you jump from one quagmire to another, but she didn't want that to happen, so she pushed you, gave you courage and confidence, and let you find your own light."

The lizard man laughed again, and his laugh was sincere. "You really can understand me, and you can understand her as well."

"Such a good leader was abandoned by us, so our failure is inevitable."

Helia pursed her lips, hesitating whether to tell the lizardman Libertas's true purpose. After a moment's hesitation, she decided to tell him.

At least after death you should be a sober ghost, don't die in a confused state.

"But this leader you mentioned as such a good one finally betrayed you and reached a cooperation with the Queen, and wanted you to die here in battle."

"Impossible! The leader will never betray us and abandon us!" Miffy jumped out to refute without even thinking.

She knew clearly that she couldn't beat Helia, but she still stood in front of the lizard man and in front of Libertas's body without caring about her own life.

Even though his legs were shaking, he still bared his fangs in an attacking stance.

Helia ignored her. Miffy looked like a simple-minded person with underdeveloped limbs. She seriously doubted that if the lizard man hadn't been around, this cat-man with a firecracker temper would definitely not have survived until now.

"At least it doesn't make us kneel down and be slaves again, right?"

The lizard man took it well, as if he had guessed it long ago.

"Orcs will never be slaves."

After listening to this, Helia looked up at the sky and sighed deeply.

It's not just the orcs who shouldn't be slaves.

……

This turmoil lasted for half a month, but the battle that decided the final outcome ended within a day. Perhaps it was because of Helia's help, or perhaps it was...

That's how it should be.

Kolinda was seriously injured and is currently receiving treatment. Princess Wenlisa signed a peace agreement with the remaining orcs on her behalf, settled the survivors, and began to clean up the battlefield.

Under violent suppression, there were almost no orcs left.

The content of the peace agreement was also adjusted. Wen Lisa specially allocated a remote piece of land in the southern continent for them as their home. Without special reasons, the orcs were not allowed to roam around in the territory at will, and they were forbidden to set foot in the palace.

From then on, the two tribes kept to themselves.

With the presence of the healing magician, Colenda woke up early the next morning. She listened carefully to Wen Lisa's report, and then summoned all the remaining royal members.

Helia took a quick look and saw that besides Princess Wenlisa, there was also little Prince Wenlton. He looked frightened and very weak. He did not look like the great monarch who brought peace to the country as described in history books.

Kolinda had three daughters and one son, but except for Wen Lisa, the other two princesses died in accidents.

One of them was originally Colenda's favorite successor, but he died in the political struggle, so Wen Lisa was promoted by her.

But she did have quite a few brothers and sisters, but unfortunately, most of them are dead now, with only three strong ones left.

Judging from Colenda's expression, she seemed dissatisfied with the current result, perhaps because the person she most wanted to die did not die.

"Once this war is over, I will announce my abdication."

As soon as she opened her mouth, she dropped a shocking piece of news, which not only shocked the guys below who had their own ulterior motives, but also shocked Helia, who widened her eyes in confusion.

Kolinda didn't care about everyone's mood at all and continued, "Wen Lisa will be my successor, and the rest of you need to assist her well."

"This turmoil has not only caused heavy casualties in the royal family, but has also severely damaged the vitality of the empire. I will bear all the blame and take responsibility for all the mistakes."

"After that, please treat me, a historical criminal, according to the laws of the empire and erase me from the history books."