Cloud Thinking

Analia has been in charge of "Human Evolution", a core project established since the founding of Carter College.

As magicians, they possess the power to move mountains and seas, and are like gods in the eyes of mortals.

However, even so, they are still unable to break through the limits of the human body and can only watch aging take away all their glory and achievements.

It is this helplessness that makes high-level magicians begin to delve into the path of evolution.

They do not seek immortality, but rather hope to live as long as the elves and have a stronger physique on this basis.

But their goal goes far beyond that – they want the evolution of all humanity.

After evolving, everyone can use magic.

Magic exists within everyone, but most people are unable to use it.

Magicians hope to lower this threshold or even remove it completely.

If everyone were a magician, the world might develop to a higher level than they could imagine.

Regardless of whether this idea is a pipe dream, they have indeed set this goal and are working hard to achieve it.

Generation after generation of college teachers and researchers have devoted a lot of effort to this.

They tried countless methods, but none of them worked. Ultimately, the project was shelved – huge investment for no gain, and even the academy, despite its size, couldn’t sustain the ongoing overdraft.

Until Analia's teacher, the most outstanding healing magician in the magic world, restarted the project, and Analia took over it until now.

The initial research subjects were the elves, as longevity was the primary goal. This nearly led to a blood feud with the elves, which was a major reason the project was shelved.

After the project was restarted, they were no longer limited to the elves, but expanded to the three ancient tribes, Warcraft, and even... gods.

The first few categories are easy to deal with, after all, they all live on the same land. As long as there are enough resources and benefits, there is nothing they can't get.

But gods are beings that they can hardly reach.

The Morogen religion was able to collect the remains of the gods because it had the support of pagans and the god of wisdom, Amethizik.

The appearance of the divine blood in the Adalesi Temple is not difficult to understand - the Feathered People, as the followers of the gods, were once a race that could stand shoulder to shoulder with the three ancient races.

Although now extinct, hunting gods was not entirely impossible in ancient times when gods walked the earth.

But at the moment, this is almost impossible.

Therefore, items related to gods such as divine blood and divine pupils are almost extinct in the market and are in short supply.

Helia was able to come into contact with these things frequently because she often dealt with gods. Her background destined her to be extraordinary.

Ordinary people will never have the opportunity to meet the gods in their entire lives.

Analia had also obtained some items related to gods, including divine blood.

Unfortunately, they are either fakes or have lost their purity due to their age, making them almost unusable for research.

A recent breakthrough in the project involved extracting blood from the corpse of Golesa. Diluting it to a certain concentration and combining it with animal blood has proven to be effective in slowing aging.

This proves that the research direction of divine blood is correct.

But the problem is that Golesa itself is the body of a demon beast. Even though it has developed self-awareness, it still retains the ferocity of a beast.

Without exception, the animals that were injected with the diluted divine blood became extremely irritable and their aggressiveness increased significantly, but they showed no signs of developing self-awareness.

Now, the bottle of pure divine blood in Analia's hand - not from a beast, but from a divine messenger - may become a major turning point in achieving a key breakthrough in this research.

Since Analia had vouched for the precious specimen's authenticity, the other researchers didn't bother to inquire about its origins. They were focused on the research itself, unwilling to dwell on the hidden complications.

In a sense, they are the purest researchers.

Unfortunately, Analia thought she held the trump card to restrain Helia - her beloved disciple Kalzer, but she never thought that Helia was never a soft persimmon that could be easily manipulated.

She would never allow anyone to plot against her like this.

He wanted to use her, target Euros, and use Kalzer as a threat.

Haha, Analia has taken all the benefits, how could Helia let it go?

While healing Euros's wounds, Helia discovered a barely perceptible wound on his left arm—if it weren't for the slight stagnation in the flow of magic power through that area, it would have been impossible to detect.

Considering Analia's concealment, she instantly understood what the other party had done.

So, on the third day after waking up, which was also the fifth day at Carter's College, Helia blew up Analia's precious laboratory, just like she had done in the test field.

Her temper is there, and her strength is there. If you dare to despise her or use her, you must be prepared to pay a heavy price.

Since Analia is usually praised too highly, she doesn't mind letting her know that there are always people better than you.

By the time Analia learned the news, it was already a done deal. The academy's largest laboratory was reduced to rubble, and all the materials and documents stored there had been burned by Helia.

Even more terrifying was that all the researchers were inside when Helia set the fire and explosion.

She didn't care about the lives of these people at all, and seemed to be ready to send them to heaven.

Fortunately, a researcher noticed the abnormal fluctuation of magical power and led everyone to escape safely, avoiding the destruction of his research project.

Of course, all their research results were reduced to ashes, which was perhaps more painful for these people than death.

Helia moved too quickly, and they only managed to salvage sporadic information, while years of hard work were lost in the ruins.

Analia angrily went to find Helia to argue, but found that she was sitting leisurely in Dean Philip's office, drinking tea.

His calm and composed appearance clearly showed that he was well prepared.

"Are you here?" Helia nodded at the empty chair opposite with her chin. "Sit down." Her attitude was as if she was the owner of this place.

"Little princess, I haven't offended you, have I? Is this how you 'repay' me?" Analia dragged the chair over roughly, and the harsh scraping sound made her teeth ache.

She usually smiles and appears kind and cheerful, but everyone who has worked with her knows that you should never make her angry - when she gets angry, it's like a volcano erupting.

At this moment, she stared at Helia, her eyes as fierce as a predator's. If looks could kill, Helia would have been devoured alive long ago.

"I can only say that not only can you not blame me, you should thank me." Helia gently put down the teacup, leaned lazily against the back of the chair, and crossed her legs.

There was a fake smile on his face, but his eyes were as cold as ice.

"Huh?! Really?" Analia really underestimated Helia's thickness of skin.

In other words, most of her understanding of Helia came from Karlze's description, and she had no idea that the princess had completely different attitudes towards her own people and enemies - one was heaven, the other was hell.

Helia scoffed and raised an eyebrow. "You didn't think he was unaware, did you?"

"If he really gets angry and takes action himself, it won't just be a problem in one laboratory."

"Are you going to let the entire Carter College be buried with your ambition?"

Analia stood up suddenly, looking down at Helia with uncontrollable anger, her chest heaving violently: "It's not as serious as you say!"

Perhaps knowing she was in the wrong, she resorted to moral blackmail: "And this is for the greater good of all mankind! If we can produce results, we will be the heroes who rewrite history!"

Seeing that Helia seemed to be thinking about something and didn't refute it, she felt that there was a chance and continued to persuade: "Little Princess, you will understand the value of this."

"Through research on Golesa's blood, we have confirmed that divine blood is the key to delaying aging and prolonging life."

"If we can integrate dragon blood into this foundation, we can achieve the evolution of all mankind—extending lifespan and improving physical fitness!"

She spoke with great confidence, but to Helia, the master of empty promises, this statement seemed like a complete joke.

Helia tilted her head and said contemptuously, "So?"

"So you should understand us and stand on our side, right?" Analia said anxiously.

Helia just thought it was ridiculous and laughed out loud on the spot.

Dean Philip sat with his eyes closed from beginning to end, as silent as a statue, and made it clear that he would not intervene until the two of them had decided who was better.

Analia's face became increasingly ugly, her hands hanging at her sides clenched into fists, veins bulging in her forearms, and it was obvious that she wanted to punch Helia twice.

"Oh, I haven't heard something so funny in a long time." Helia wiped away the tears of laughter, and when she looked up, the corners of her mouth instantly fell. "So?"

"What does it have to do with me?"

Analia was visibly stunned, having obviously not expected Helia to stay out of the matter so simply.

Helia slowly rose, almost to her eye level with Analia. She was a docile kitten when she was sitting, but once she stood up, she revealed her true nature as a dormant lion.

"What business has this had with me?" Helia said, taking a step closer with each sentence. "No one asked you to do this research. You talk about it in high-sounding and sanctimonious terms, but in the end, it's just to satisfy your own selfish desires."

"If you are unwilling to give up the world's wealth and glory, then stop hypocritically saying that you are doing it for all mankind."

At this point, she sneered: "I don't usually see you doing good deeds to help the homeless. Why are you suddenly being so great now?"

"Those people you captured for human experiments begged so desperately, why didn't you show any mercy?"

Facing the pressing Helia, Analia refused to give in. She stood firm as a rock, her chin held high.

"That's the sacrifice that must be made to achieve a lofty goal," she said coldly.

"Oh? Then why don't you sacrifice yourself? Why don't you be the test subject yourself?" Helia felt that the other party was arrogant to the point of distortion, even more arrogant than her, the princess of the empire.

"Teacher Analia, as a top healing magician, I imagine your blood must be special, right? Why don't you try using your own blood? It might work wonders!"

"How do you know we haven't tried it?" Analia sneered. "My teacher, once the most powerful healing wizard in the magical world, volunteered to be a test subject at the end of his life."

"Unfortunately, it failed. This proves that the blood of a high-level magician cannot achieve the desired effect."

"Haha! You really can do anything..." Helia caught a flash of pain in the other person's eyes, it seems that he is not without emotion.

"I don't care what you want to do." Helia put her hands behind her back and began to pace around Analia. "Who you are, what you want to do, how you want to do it, none of this has anything to do with me."

"But your mistake is that you shouldn't have set your sights on me or touched my things."

"Since you crossed the line first, don't blame me for being rude."

"The research lab is just a small lesson. If you persist, I don't mind banning this project forever."

She twisted her wrist, raised her stunning face, and put on a dangerous smile: "Whoever dares to continue, I will kill him."

Analia was amused by Helia's arrogant words: "Little Princess, don't forget, this is Carter's College, not your backyard."

"Even though you are the princess of the empire, you have no right to arbitrarily dispose of the people in the academy or interfere in the academy's affairs."

Thinking of the recent rumors, she raised her lips in a sarcastic tone, "Besides, as a graduate of Carter's College, if word got out that you were openly slandering your alma mater, wouldn't that be bad for your reputation?"

Helia burst into laughter again, shaking with laughter.

Analia really doesn't understand her at all!

"Reputation? You're talking about reputation?" Helia clutched her stomach, gasping for air as she laughed. "Who doesn't know that I, Helia, have a terrible reputation? I've been called the 'Evil Princess' for eighteen years!"

"Some say I am a hero of the empire, a noble princess; others see me as a disgrace to the empire, a scum more vicious than snakes and scorpions."

"But do you think I care?" Helia pointed at her face. "I don't care about any of this at all."

"As long as the knife in my hand is sharp enough, as long as I can still lift it, no one will dare to act rashly in my presence. Even if they hate me, they can only curse me secretly in their hearts."

Analia ignored her excited reaction and sneered, "If you really didn't care about your reputation, you wouldn't have used the mouths of certain people in the academy to spread what happened a few days ago."

"Your reaction now further confirms this."

Helia was stunned for a moment, then her expression returned to normal. She covered her mouth as if thinking, then smiled brightly, "It doesn't matter."

"Anyway, I've done what I wanted to do."

Anali suddenly felt something was wrong and her brows suddenly furrowed. "What else did you do?"

Helia just smiled and turned to look at Dean Phillip: "Dean, I'm sorry, but I think you can understand."

Seeing Dean Philip lower his eyes and sigh, Analia grabbed Helia's shoulders, forced her to look at her, and shouted: "What on earth did you do?!"

Helia blinked innocently and spoke very slowly: "I just..."

"I just published some of your research data."

Her eyes curved into crescents, revealing her pointed fangs. "I think everyone should be very happy, right? After all, there are 'selfless' people like you who are quietly 'devoting themselves' to this."

"You are so great, how can you not let the world sing praises for you?"

Analiyah's eyes were red with anger, but she knew it was useless to continue pestering her. She pushed Helia away fiercely, almost knocking her to the ground, and then slammed the door and left.

Looking at Analia's angry back as she left, Helia patted the shoulder that had been grabbed: "It seems that you also know that what you did is shameful..."

Of course, Helia did more than just blow up the laboratory.

Even though she didn't know much about Analia, she knew that she would not sit idly by and wait for death.

As a former student, it would be neither right nor convenient to start a fight in the neutral territory of the college.

Just let the world judge.

Since Analia dared to kidnap her in the name of "evolution of all mankind", it would be better to let the people she represents judge whether they accept this fate of being exploited and implicated.

Although this is Carter's College, it is also Berman, the territory of Marquis Frank, the sphere of influence of the Antonio family, and the territory of the empire.

The underground bazaar was now under the control of Blot, and the Antonio family had always been protective of their own people. With just a little effort, Helia quickly spread the news that the academy was kidnapping children and luring homeless people into human experiments.

The information dealers even exaggerated the situation and exposed a large number of scandals in the academy - some of which were fabricated, and some of which were black materials that the academy dared not make public due to its power.

Now with Helia at the forefront and the Antonio family backing them up, they suddenly felt emboldened, and all kinds of negative information flew away like snowflakes.

At the same time, the story of Helia destroying the false god of the Morogen religion at the cost of serious injuries had already spread.

During her recuperation, she "accidentally" discovered the secret of the academy's human experiments. For the sake of her people, she betrayed her mentor, pointed the sword at her alma mater, and even risked being hunted by high-level magicians to reveal the truth - all of this allowed her to occupy the moral high ground.

With her achievements and the speech in Glory Square as a prelude, even if she has some moral flaws, people will understand her difficulties and even be grateful for her "sacrifice."

She won a great victory.