Chapter 4220: Heart of Protection

Years of court life made Ajielina very good at dealing with strangers, and these children, whose spirits themselves were a bit abnormal, seemed to instinctively think that everyone was Mother's children, so there was no need to be vigilant against each other.

Plus Ajielina looked the oldest, so the children all told Ajielina about their situation. These children of "Mother" all came from the Arcadia region, and the earliest child to come here was brought here by Mother yesterday morning.

But the child who called herself Little Marika was very sure that she was not the earliest child brought by "Mother," because when she came here, there were already many children here.

"Then what about the children who came here earlier than you?"

Ajielina asked.

"They were called away by Mother, returning to Mother's embrace. Really envy them, I don't know how long I have to wait."

The girl who looked twelve years old answered. She was wearing old patched clothes, and beside her was a small bamboo basket. In the basket were a few withered flowers; she seemed to have been found by "Mother" on the way to sell flowers.

"After Mother called them away, didn't let them come back?"

Ajielina felt this was wrong, but the girl shook her head:

"Since they have happily returned to Mother's embrace, no need to think, no need to work, no need to worry about not having enough to eat or wear, why would they need to come back? Mother will protect all of us, that place is the final destination for all children who crave love and protection."

Ajielina blinked. The words spoken by the other party didn't sound like they could be said by a girl selling flowers on the street. She felt that the situation at this moment was becoming more and more wrong, but she also thought that the girl's logic had no problem; "Mother" was just this selfless and great.

Two different logics collided back and forth in her head. However, Little Marika's stomach suddenly growled, and she said embarrassedly:

"Mother should send us food very soon. Mother is very good to us, although the water is sewage, it can be drunk to one's heart's content. Breakfast, lunch, and dinner can all have meat, don't know if today's lunch is rat meat or gecko meat."

Although Ajielina was not afraid of rats and geckos, a princess born in the royal family would definitely not like to eat this kind of thing. She frowned deeply, turned her head to look at the surrounding children and the current environment, feeling that she was about to touch some kind of truth. But she shook her head, and was always unable to break through the strong spiritual influence of the relic.

However, Ajielina was ultimately not these ordinary children who had never been exposed to the supernatural world. She not only followed the Great Witch to learn, but was also a correspondence student of the Zalas Academy of Literature, and had been taught by her own sister, Xia De, her great-aunt, and other very powerful people.

Thus, Ajielina, according to the content in the textbook of the Zalas Academy of Literature, began to perform "spiritual self-check":

"Whether I still clearly remember who I am—yes, completely no problem; whether I can clearly explain my entire itinerary in the past 48 hours, and the memory is coherent without incongruity—memory is coherent, the sense of incongruity appeared only after going out; whether I can clearly explain why I appeared in the current position—yes, but because a sense of incongruity appeared now, the reason I know for my own appearance here, I'm afraid has problems; whether I can remember clearly my own 'spiritual anchor'—yes, the anchor is sister and Xia De, I can explain their identities and their importance to me."

After a simple spiritual self-check, although she didn't understand why she thought it was strange here, Ajielina still relied on logical analysis to barely recognize that "Mother" probably had a problem.

"Is it because I felt that Mother was biased? I remember I was the child Mother liked the most, after Mother brought me here, why did she put me here?"

Ajielina felt that she needed "startling wisdom" to exert its effect, but it was a pity that this was a passive effect, and she couldn't actively stimulate it.

And as time passed, the stomachs of other children also growled. Ajielina, who had followed her own sister to learn "Berry Spell," wanted to make food for these younger brothers and sisters, but just at this moment, the door of this moldy and dilapidated room was opened.

The eyes of all the awake children looked toward the door. Outside the door was thick darkness that couldn't be seen through. From the darkness, a few dirty plates were pushed into the room on the floor by a shriveled hand, followed by a hoarse voice saying:

"Little Marika, it's your turn to return to Mother's embrace."

The girl with yellow hair beside Ajielina immediately revealed a surprised smile:

"Alright, it's finally my turn! I'm going to see Mother!"

After saying this, she also waved goodbye to her newly met sister, which was Ajielina:

"Then I'm leaving, also wish you an early return to Mother's embrace! I will wait for you in Mother's embrace!"

She stood up from the floor, and because of hypoglycemia, she immediately felt dizzy. Ajielina on the side hurriedly supported her.

"I'm fine, I'm fine, I can return to Mother's embrace immediately!"

The girl broke free from Ajielina's hand and walked toward the darkness at the door swaying. Other children planned to wait for her to leave before eating lunch, so at this moment no one made any move.

Ajielina was also very happy for this sister of hers to return to "Mother's" embrace at first, but watching her walk toward the darkness at the door, the instinctive discomfort and the suspicion of "Mother" produced after the spiritual self-check just now made Ajielina produce a very bad premonition.

The joy she originally felt for this sister disappeared, and the red butterfly on her shoulder didn't flap its wings upon seeing this, because Ajielina finally determined that the bad feeling was an extremely dangerous feeling before the little girl called "Marika" stepped out of the room into the darkness.

Although she still didn't understand what happened here, Ajielina knew very well that as an older person, she should protect her younger brothers and sisters, just like Princess Lei Qianya had been protecting her.

She wanted to say the words of prevention, but at the same time as she opened her mouth, the strong guilt toward "Mother" surged into her heart. Two completely opposite thoughts collided in her heart, and then somehow, Yiluna's teaching once floated in her heart—

"When encountering uncertain things, don't think too much, first protect the things you can protect, this is at least a way to save the tragedy—this sentence is very handsome, right? It was written by Duoluoqian in 'Hamilton Detective Story Collection'."

"Can you not go out for now?"

Ajielina's voice sounded in the room. At the same time as the words were spoken, the strange filter that was originally like being covered in front of her eyes completely disappeared. Ajielina widened her eyes, understood all the things in an instant, and the expression on her face changed from the firmness just now to surprise and then to horror.

"Hmm?"

That girl with withered yellow hair turned her head to look at Ajielina, not quite understanding why this kind sister wanted to stop herself from returning to Mother's embrace.

And seeing that she really stopped, the shriveled gray hand in the darkness outside the door reached directly into the room, grabbing the little girl's arm. However, before it could pull the girl into the darkness, Ajielina had already completed the spellcasting:

"Turbulent Magic Gravel!"

This was the most basic attack secret art of the Chaos system, firing an unstable energy beam, causing extremely strong damage effects. One of the strongest attack strange arts of the Chaos system, "Chaos Tide," was based on this strange art.

Although it was the simplest attack-type secret art of the Chaos system, its learning difficulty was very high, and Ajielina was very coincidentally very talented.

The chaotic-colored light directly hit the arm that stretched out from the darkness outside the door. There was no explosion sound or strange light and shadow, the arm was directly evaporated and gasified under the action of extremely unstable energy, and finally only the severed hand fell to the ground, knocking over the dinner plate containing dead rats.

After a moment of silence, one after another screams sounded from this dirty and dilapidated room. The children were scared by Ajielina, and Ajielina, who realized everything, also finally understood that she had encountered some kind of relic with a strong consciousness influence effect:

"Miss Luolin is a high-ring witch follower, even she didn't realize the strangeness of 'Mother'..."

And thinking of that tall figure wearing a black robe, Ajielina immediately felt guilty for disobeying "Mother's" order again:

"No no, that's not my mother, that's not my mother."

She thought in her heart immediately, and then according to the process taught in the Zalas Academy of Literature for encountering similar situations, she began to meditate in her mind on an anchor point sufficient to keep herself awake.

Generally speaking, meditating on the holy emblem of the righteous god she believed in was the most effective, but Ajielina didn't do this, because she had really seen a god:

"Xia De, Xia De, Xia De."

First, she constructed the flawless silver moon in her mind, then imagined Xia De's figure in the god-state from her perspective, and finally let Little Mia appear on Xia De's shoulder. Ajielina immediately felt that she was much more awake.

"Be quiet."

She first grabbed Little Marika's hand to keep her away from that door, then cast a spell to make her voice louder, covering all the children's voices at once.

Ajielina knew that taking them away together would make her encounter more dangers, but if she were to give up these children she had just recognized as younger brothers and sisters, Ajielina would also absolutely not do it.

"Now I will take you home."

"But isn't Mother here?"

A boy who looked seven or eight years old asked. Ajielina shook her head:

"I received Mother's instruction, I came to take you home. You can believe me, after all, Mother is the most powerful, just now that thing was severed by me, this proves that I am the one who received Mother's order."

Ajielina's words successfully made most of the children accept, and the children who didn't accept, seeing others were going to leave, also didn't want to be left behind under the psychology of following the crowd. ===== CHAPTER 4221 =====