Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 230 Is it the power of the girl’s royal power?
The one who objected to this was Alice.

"I don't think this is a good thing." She crossed her arms and looked at Shemi with sparkling eyes, showing great momentum. "Of course, I'm not saying that it's not good to let her inherit Mrs. Tree's herb garden, but I'm saying that Olvera has been sealed in the castle for so many years and knows nothing about the outside world. It's time for her to deepen her understanding. If she does what you say, then in order to avoid the search of the Night Watch, she will have to stay in the hotel for a long time. How can she understand and integrate into this new world?"

"Well!"

Shaymi's face showed an embarrassment. He didn't expect that Alice, who was a bit stupid, could come up with such a reasonable argument to refute it. It was like the weeping mushrooms in the underground garden suddenly stopped crying and the stone guards became smarter. It was something that was impossible in theory. Could it be that after the rain stopped, he would see the sun rise from the west?
Having said that, the little fairy was not a vegetarian - in fact, she preferred sweets - in short, she quickly thought of a rebuttal: "It doesn't matter, the eldest and second sisters will teach her! No matter what Olvera wants to know about this world, she just needs to ask them!"

Among the three fairy sisters in the inn, the eldest sister Shesta and the second sister Shelia have already completed their pilgrimages. They have been wandering for a hundred years, traveling to various places and naturally seeing all kinds of scenery and cultures. In terms of understanding of the world, I am afraid that all the people present combined are not as good as them.

"No!" Alice still objected: "How can you understand it just by listening to others? It's no different from reading a book. You have to experience it yourself to have a more in-depth experience!"

"That's easy to say!" Shemi retorted, "The world outside is so dangerous, and Ovilla can't guarantee her safety alone!"

"Then let her go with us, it won't be dangerous."

"I think it's more dangerous, right?"

"What did you say?"

Ling's words just gave her the opportunity to change the subject. The princess held the overly thick book in her arms, perked up a little, tried to open her eyes wide, and stared at Ling like a cute owl: "I remember that Mr. Ling proposed a reward before..."

The pink-haired girl looked away awkwardly and whispered, "Well, I think... it's better to listen to Sister Avella's opinion."

When did we become one?
Saint Charia fed the lamb an acorn, and after gently brushing away the crumbs on her palm, she replied to Alice in a calm tone: "Where the thread of fate extends should be a matter of one's own choice."

In general, both Medien and Saint Xia Liya felt that it would be better to let Olvera make her own choice, so the current situation became two to one to one.

I've waited so long, and you let me hear this?

Xie Mi and Alice were a little disappointed that they didn't get the support they wanted, but the latter suddenly remembered that there was still one person who hadn't expressed his opinion, so she quickly looked over and stared at him: "Ling Ge, don't sit there without saying a word, don't you have anything to say?"

……

"Metien!" Shemi looked at his friend expectantly, "You agree with me, too, right?"

The two of them were quarreling, drowning out the noise of the rain for a moment, but they did not notice that in the corner where the firelight flickered, the princess hugged her knees silently, not saying a word. Under her drooping eyelids, various emotions such as confusion, bewilderment, bewilderment, and uneasiness kept flashing across her face. Especially when she heard Alice say, "It's no different from reading a book," she trembled slightly, and there was a look of loss on her half-bright and half-dark face.

Alice was furious, and immediately took the moral high ground to criticize: "Why are you like this? He just escaped from the castle and is in a confused period of life! It would be fine if you didn't care about him, but you actually discussed the issue of compensation. It's so cold-blooded! Don't you have a little sympathy and concern in your heart?"

"N-Never mind!"

Xie Mi expressed strong contempt for her shameless act of dragging irrelevant people into the water when she was at a disadvantage, and stared at Lingge with her, waiting for his answer. If the young man also thought that it was better for Olvera to stay in the hotel, then she would have two votes. Although she was temporarily tied with Metien and Saint Xia Liya, she could defeat Alice. Is there anything more important in the world than this?
And she was sure that Alice must think so too!
The young man himself was in no hurry to express his opinion, as he accidentally became an important weight that controlled the balance of the scale. He took a branch and dug it into the burning fire, turning up the dead branches and leaves underneath to make them burn more fully, and also making the flames "hiss" and rise up a distance. The flames greedily licked the void and evaporated the free cold water vapor.

Then, under the eager gaze of the golden-haired maid and the goblin, he said calmly: "Instead of discussing this, why not talk about the reward we agreed on before? What do you think, Miss Avella?"

After arguing for a long time, the two people who could not convince each other began to seek agreement.

After hearing this, Olvera, who had remained silent all the time, quickly shook her head, indicating that she didn't care, and even secretly breathed a sigh of relief in her heart: Although Shaymi and Alice were very enthusiastic and their proposal was entirely for her own good, the princess of Bemang felt a little overwhelmed. She always felt that no matter which side she agreed to, she would disappoint the other side, and she was caught in the middle, in a dilemma.

“Xiao Xia!” Alice looked at Saint Xia Liya who was feeding her and called out affectionately: “We are good comrades on the same front!”

Although she was already able to call Lingge's name very skillfully in the game, once she left the game and returned to reality, she immediately added the honorific.

The young man did not intend to explore whether the politeness in the words carried a sense of alienation or some deeper meaning. He replied simply: "I want an answer."

"Ah." When he said that, Olvera immediately recalled: "It's about the answer to a question, I see, I will try my best to help you find it. As long as it's not an unsolvable puzzle, you can definitely find the answer in this book!" As she spoke, she opened the book on her knees with her pale hands, which were stained with firelight, and then raised it with some effort, spreading the contents of the book in front of everyone. Everyone, who had long been curious, looked at the pages with the warm fire color, and then showed a confused look.

"You said the answer can be found in it, but..." Alice scratched her cheek: "There's nothing written in the book."

That’s right, the paper everyone saw was blank, without even a single word on it.

Is it the kind of setting that "only smart people can see"?

To this, Ovella replied: "Because the keywords haven't been entered yet."

"Key words?"

"kindness."

The princess nodded slightly and explained, "This is... I don't know how to put it, anyway, it's a special power I've had since I was a child. Neither the magicians nor the teachers in Beman can explain the source of this power, and no one except me can use it. I call it - [Library of Truth]."

"The Library of Truth?" Shemi stared at the book in the princess's hand, but couldn't see what a library looked like. "It's just a book."

Could it be that this is actually a special holy relic with a secret realm hidden inside, and through this book one can enter the real library?

Unfortunately this is not the case.

"Although it is just a book, it contains all the recorded knowledge in the world, whether it comes from humans or aliens, whether it comes from the past or the present... As long as there is recorded knowledge, you can find traces in this book, and even trace their origins." Olvera said word by word: "It is clearly only the size of a book, but it can carry tens of thousands of truths. There is no library in the world larger than this one, so I call it this name."

This is actually reflected in the game.

“That’s why it’s called the Library of Truth!” Alice realized. “No wonder it can automatically scan out the purpose of items, the attributes and weaknesses of monsters… Isn’t this too amazing?”

It is equivalent to carrying a strategy library with you, and the strategy is for Earth OL... Ah, Mirror Star OL, a super difficult holographic simulation game.

Ling Ge suddenly asked: "Does language also belong to the category of knowledge?"

"Yes." Olvera nodded and said, "The Library of Truth can automatically identify the languages ​​of different races, regions, and even eras, and convert them into content that both parties can understand. When I'm bored, I read all kinds of books in it to kill time. Sometimes I also use it to search for information about the outside world, but the scope is too broad and the content covered is too complicated, so I only touched a very small part."

Therefore, she was able to communicate with Lingge and others in the language of the Great Brittany Kingdom, or in other words, her Bemang language was translated by the [Library of Truth] into a form that Lingge and others could understand; so, although she had been sealed in the ancient castle, she still had some understanding of the situation in the outside world, for example, she knew the Gregorian calendar commonly used in the outside world... Some of the things that Lingge had been puzzled about before were answered at this time.

"But," Olvera said gloomily, "just like Alice said, what I read in books is too fragmentary and unrealistic to serve as a reference for the outside world."

"Ah this!"

Didn't it turn out that an unintentional word from you hit someone else's pain point?
Alice suddenly felt guilty, mainly because Metien and Shemi were looking at her with contempt, and it seemed unreasonable for her not to feel guilty.

"This is the power of the girl's royal power, which comes from the gift of mystery."

Suddenly someone said.

It was Saint Xia Liya who had been silent before. She was quietly looking at the book in Olvera's hand. At the same time, a golden ball of wool slowly emerged in her palm.

The [Beacon of Destiny] of the King of Destiny.

And, of the Mysterious Kingdom, the [Library of Truth].

　Give me some meow
　　
　
(End of this chapter)