Cloud Thinking

If Beavis was present, he would probably be shocked, because at this moment, Helia's domain was not at all the exquisite and elegant garden with birds singing and flowers blooming that he saw last time, where he could sit down and drink tea and chat with others in a friendly manner. Instead, it was a purgatory-like place constructed of magma, fire and death.

Ashes float in the air, the heat can be felt with every breath, the lava underfoot is floating in pieces above the magma, white hot air escapes with tiny bubbles, and everywhere you look, it's the same hellish scene, with no escape possible.

The magma flowed under Helia's feet. The magma that could burn and melt people was as gentle as water to her, gently washing the area below her ankles. This was her territory, she was the master here, everything here was controlled by her, and here, she was the strongest.

"Territory...!" Xinlari was awakened by the burns. He looked around in horror and tried to get up in a hurry, but his palm pressed on a stone and a layer of skin was immediately burned off. He jumped up due to the severe pain and tore off a layer of skin on his hand, bleeding profusely.

"Beilai, if you dare to kill us, you'll pay with your life!" The woman was so frightened by the scene around her that she hugged herself and screamed loudly.

"Oh? Who are you? Tell me your family name." Helia leaned back, and the lava under her quickly separated and reorganized at a terrifying speed, turning into a chair for its owner to rest.

"I am the daughter of Earl Durham of the Xiali Empire! You dare to touch me! My father will not let you go!" The woman seemed to be certain that Helia would never dare to kill her. She even took two steps forward, as if to prove that she was not afraid at all, but her hands and feet were shaking non-stop.

"Xia Li Empire?" Helia became slightly interested and looked at the woman's face carefully. There were indeed some differences between her and the people of the Otis Empire, but not much.

Apart from Vikes, this was the second person from the Xiali Empire she met, and she was a noble lady.

"Yes! If you dare to touch me! I promise..." The woman was interrupted by Helia's laughter before she could finish her words.

"Promise what? Let the Xiali Empire send troops to attack us? Do you know that this is the Otis Empire?" Helia leaned forward, her hands on her raised legs, laughing at this guy who was so scared that he couldn't even think before speaking.

"Has the Xiali Empire been a grandson for so many years, but it still hasn't learned the word 'good'? Or do you hope that the Xiali Empire will become a part of the Otis Empire soon?"

Helia thought about it seriously and seemed to think that this was a good idea. "In this case, I must take the time to travel there in the future and experience the scenery of the northern country. It's great just thinking about it!"

"What do you think?" Helia looked at Duke, who had been pretending to be mute since he came in.

"Madman...you will pay for this..." Duke's severed right hand was still spurting blood, but it seemed to be better than before he came in. However, as a right-handed man, how could he lift the sword to fight Helia after losing his right hand?

He was now a lamb in the sheepfold, and the short and fragile fence was the rule of Carter's College, and Helia was the wolf wandering outside the sheepfold. As long as she wanted, she could cross the fence at any time, bite all the lambs inside to death, and then retreat safely.

But what little conscience she had left was like a thin string wrapped around her neck, pulling her tightly and preventing her from crossing the line.

"You know, when I first came to this world, I understood one thing clearly." Helia raised a finger, and the direction of her finger pointed from the magic swordsman who was groaning in pain while holding his left shoulder, to Shinlali who looked dazed and on the verge of collapse, to the noble lady who was in a mess and trembling, and finally stopped in the direction of Duke.

"There is no world that can achieve absolute fairness and justice, let alone so-called equality."

"In this world, as long as you have power, you can do whatever you want. The ones who pay the price are always the ordinary people without power. They cannot enjoy happiness, but have to share the disasters of those who deprive them of the right to happiness."

"And as it happens, I am the one with power, so most of the things I do don't require me to pay the price."

"Even if I kill you."

"Beilai, I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I kowtow to you! I'm sorry! I shouldn't have threatened you! I shouldn't have kidnapped your teammates! I was wrong! Please don't kill me!" Xinlari was a guy who valued his life. After Helia finished her words lightly, he immediately knelt on the ground and kowtowed to her with great force, and blood soon came out. But he didn't dare to stop before getting Helia's forgiveness.

Because he is just an ordinary man who happened to have some magic talent, so he came here. He dared not offend many people here, he tried very hard to fit in here, acted cautiously, currying favor with the powerful is his way to live a better life, and he got some power by bullying those who are weaker than him to gain self-recognition.

But he had never met someone as desperate as Helia. She was a lunatic! He had long seen that she didn't take the school seriously, or even the teachers seriously. Either she was really crazy, or she had a bigger backer behind her, so big that she didn't need to look at other people's faces at all and could deal with anything that made her unhappy.

When the others were about to faint from kowtow, Helia spoke up, "Don't be afraid. I still have some attachment to this school. I've only been here for less than a year. If I leave like this, my family will probably be unhappy."

"So I won't kill you."

This sentence was like a shot of adrenaline, and everyone who was still awake breathed a sigh of relief, but soon they were relieved again. Helia was willing to break the rules to pull them into the field, it couldn't be just to talk to them.

She just said she wouldn't kill them, but she didn't say she wouldn't torture them. Look at Duke, his right hand is gone. If he isn't sent to the hospital in time, he may never be able to hold a sword again in his life.

"What do you want to do? If you want money, I can give you a lot, but you have to let me leave safely." The woman put away her arrogance because she realized that this was Carters College. Even if she really died here, her father would not risk a war between the two countries to come here to avenge her.

Not to mention, Bailey seems to have a very powerful background, otherwise she wouldn't have said that. Of course, this does not rule out the possibility that she is bluffing.

But compared to resistance, submission is the best option now, because they are in Helia's territory and she holds their life and death in her hands.

Helia ignored her, but turned to look at Duke and asked, "Do you remember what you said to Karzer? About me and him."

How could Duke remember what nonsense he had said? He had said so many nonsense that he had even spoken nonsense as colloquial language. How could he possibly remember what he had just said casually?

He shook his head tremblingly. At this moment, honesty could save his life much more than talking nonsense.

Helia beckoned her fingers, and a palm-sized stone with a relatively flat surface floated over. She placed the imaging stone on it, injected magic power into it, and projected the scene that Helia and the others had seen at that time.

Everyone's faces turned paler as the video played, especially Duke. The image finally stopped at the moment he said, "Do you mind letting me have some fun?" He felt that he was not far from death.

Sinlari was so scared that he almost wet his pants. He recalled what he said to Helia when he first met her. He had no idea that Belei had placed an image stone on Karzer, and it hadn't been found during a body search. So he took it for granted that as long as Karzer didn't have any obvious scars on his body, no one would know about it.

But he was so wrong. Not only did Beilai know it a long time ago, but he also shamelessly told so many lies in front of her. No wonder the other party's smile at that time made people sweat. From the beginning, she had no intention of cooperating with them, and she had no intention of letting them go from the beginning.

"I only want two things." Helia first raised two fingers, then pointed at her mouth, and then dropped them to her crotch, "Tongue, I want everyone's, but as for that useless thing, just yours is enough." She finally pointed at Duke.

"You have two choices. One is to scoop a spoonful of the magma beside you and drink it, but I can't guarantee that you won't die. The other is to cut off your tongue. Although it will hurt a little, you will probably not die. Make your choice."

Perhaps it was because Helia had acted too harmless in the past that she allowed so many people to step on her head. In her heart, she always thought of the word "kindness" brought from her native world. But the more she understood this world, the more she understood that these two words would only become a knife hanging over her head in the future, and sooner or later she would be driven crazy by this knife that was about to fall.

So she made a decision, which was to blunt the knife.

She needs this knife to remind herself at all times and not to become a lunatic that even she is afraid of. But she also doesn't want the threat posed by the knife to be too great and make her live in fear all day long. So it is enough to reduce the threat of the knife.

Today, she might just run into some people who verbally offended her, but what about in the future? Would she not just talk about it, but "actually"? Once she was labeled as a coward, those bullies would swarm around her like flies. As the saying goes, flies don't bite cracked eggs. Once she gave in and exposed that crack, it would be difficult for her to mend it.

She wanted to kill the chicken to scare the monkeys. Not only did she want to make the students in the school afraid of her, but the people she really wanted to intimidate were the teachers who had ulterior motives and represented various forces.

Don't expect to threaten her with those visible or invisible rules and regulations. As long as you step into my territory and touch my things, I will act like a madman until you pay the price you deserve.

Suddenly I understand Claude a little bit... Helia thought.

"Mad man!" the woman yelled.

Helia smiled and agreed, "Yes, I am a lunatic. If you want to blame someone, you can only blame your bad luck for running into a crazy person like me who doesn't care about his life."

Helia's domain also reflects her inner darkness to a certain extent, but she usually hides it very well, using trash talking, jokes and joking to make people think that she is very approachable, but in fact, she just created a new mask for herself, just like Britney created a mask for her.

Why did she feel so conflicted and uneasy when she bombed the human traffickers' base camp? It was not only because she felt guilty for accidentally injuring so many people. There was a more important reason, which was that she felt a huge sense of pleasure that frightened her.

Taking someone's life actually gave her an overwhelming pleasure.

She felt very scared because she knew very well that this was not normal, but she could not control her physiological reactions. She did not like things being out of her control. Just like her father Claude, when faced with things that were out of her control, she would either suppress them by force and put layers of constraints on them, or destroy them. As long as they did not exist, there would be no problem.

She had no way to destroy herself, on the contrary, she cherished her life so much that she was willing to sacrifice it at any cost. So faced with the uncontrollable pleasure of killing, she could only find ways to suppress it again and again, using the knife hanging over her head to threaten herself not to cross the line she had drawn herself.

But patience has its limits, and desire cannot be suppressed all the time, otherwise one day when it bites back, you will become a slave to desire, a devil controlled by desire. So she needs to release it a little bit from time to time, just like constantly pumping air into a balloon, in order to prevent the balloon from bursting, she has to let out some air from time to time.