Alice in the Land of Steam

Chapter 823: The most dangerous royal power?

Isn’t this statement too overbearing?

Moreover, why does it feel like the Gloria you are talking about is not the same person as the Gloria we know?
The girls looked at each other for a while. Seeing that Lingge was indifferent and didn't know what he was thinking, Saint Xia Liya finally stood up and refuted Bai Ye's remarks: "I think Gloria is not as bad as you said, Miss Bai Ye. She is a brave and kind girl. You should know this better than us."

Would a weak and incompetent person dare to risk falling into the witch society to spy on confidential information? Would a self-deceiving person stand firmly on the side of a companion he had just met after his mother abandoned him? Would a person as bad as Bai Ye said be able to resist unyieldingly under the pressure of the steam engine god Alexander until he grasped the last hope and turned defeat into victory?
Alice nodded her head like a praying mantis, repeatedly expressing her agreement with Saint Shallia's opinion.

To be honest, Gloria is the most active person among all the young girls she has met, except for the witches. Her plans also give people a very reliable feeling. For example, if another witch from the association had not suddenly appeared in Professor Heinrich's secret study, everyone would have already completed the intelligence gathering and retired. But this unexpected incident cannot be considered Gloria's mistake. With her identity and position, it is not easy for her to formulate such a perfect plan. You can't ask her to know the astrology of the Moryas and calculate every possibility that has not yet happened, right? Then she is not a human, but a god.

At least she's better than Olvera who only knows how to sleep in the castle, Ieta who only knows how to be depressed in the windmill tower, Leticia who only knows how to fight guerrilla warfare near the Virtual Root Swamp, and Rorona who only knows how to harm innocent tourists in her own alchemy workshop...right?

Alice glanced at the girls named above, but this subtle look was not subtle at all, so it was discovered by the parties involved as expected. Since the disdain and sympathy in her eyes were too obvious, Olvera immediately puffed up her cheeks and looked like a squirrel stuffed with pine cones; Leticia snorted coldly and showed her fangs, which flashed coldly in the night, as if she was eager to bite her neck; Rolena smiled and did not look angry. She just took out a very suspicious alchemical prop from her sleeve and shook it casually, as if to say: Be careful, I put this thing on your bed tonight?
The threats before were weak and Alice could ignore them, but the last thing was too dangerous. The genius player couldn't help but shudder. She withdrew her gaze from the bottom of her heart and shrank her neck like a quail. Unfortunately, she had no wings and could not test the purnies.

"So, you think you know Gloria better than me?" Bai Ye sneered, with naked disdain in his tone: "You know this girl better than me, who has been with her since I can remember? What do you think this place is, a circus comedy theater?"

Her words were very rude, but also very effective, leaving Saint Xia Liya speechless: That's true, as another personality in the same body, Bai Ye should understand Gloria better than others. If even she said so, could it be that my view was actually one-sided?
But Bai Ye's rude words to Saint Xia Liya made Aoweila a little dissatisfied. She had no brothers or sisters since she was a child. After leaving the castle, she had been taken care of by Saint Xia Liya. She had long regarded her as her sister in her heart - and you, you actually bullied Sister Xiao Xia in front of me, do you think, do you think I am easy to mess with?

There was really no need for Bai Ye to worry, because she had offended the most difficult person to offend on the entire Yunjingkong Island.

"It has nothing to do with me." Bai Ye replied coldly.

You are easier to please than Shaymi.

Olvera was even more proud: "So, it was all Gloria's idea."

Princess Bemang would not use force even if she was angry, mainly because she had no force to use. She could only choose to present facts and reason with the other party, trying to use talk therapy to make this rude guy realize his mistakes. However, due to her personality, her tone was always soft and submissive, so it didn't sound like questioning, but more like negotiating: "Although you, you said that, how do you explain Gloria's spying on the witch society and seeking cooperation with us? Are you trying to say that these things have nothing to do with Gloria, and you are behind it, uh, instigating it?"

"Hehe." Princess Beman proudly puffed out her chest, looking very proud of herself, and completely forgot that Alice had offended her just now.

"Wow?" Bai Ye looked at him in surprise, and sized up the young man's eyes and expression, wondering if he was just talking nonsense or had guessed the truth. After gazing at him for a long while, he said, "Sure enough, you are the only smart one among these guys."

what?
Avella was stunned and confused. Are you trying to say that Gloria has sleepwalking and will do things she doesn't want to do uncontrollably when she has a sleepwalking attack? How could there be such an outrageous thing in the world?
"I think," Ling Ge, who had been silent all this time, suddenly said, "it should be related to the curse on Miss Gloria, right?"

The evidence is irrefutable, do you still want to be stubborn?
But Bai Ye added: "It has nothing to do with Gloria."

"Instigate? That's a very advanced word, and it's very appropriate to use it here." The semi-illiterate Alice pinched her chin and commented seriously, "Well said, Olvera."

This sentence did not contain any sarcasm, but it made Olvera blush on the spot. She moved her fingers back and forth and stammered, "What, what do you mean by the only smart person? I am also smart. I have read many books, such as Del Cassano's The War of Human Nature, William Jason's The Apocalypse of the Eighteenth Century, and Victor Hugo's The Priory of the White Mountain... Have you read The Priory of the White Mountain? Do you know the thoughts and spirit that Master Hugo wants to convey in this book?"

After that, she continued to say incomprehensible things like "I can write a book myself", "It will be published soon", "It will definitely be very popular", and the air was filled with a happy atmosphere for a while, until Saint Xia Liya couldn't stand it anymore and reached out to pull her sister behind her, stopping her from continuing to talk nonsense and change the subject.

Useless guy! Alice looked at Princess Bemang who was hiding behind her sister and dropping the little pearl with disdain, and immediately threw her out of her mind. Once she was no longer useful, she was immediately abandoned. How cruel! She turned her head and asked Lingge, with a gleam of curiosity in her eyes: "What curse? What curse? Tell me in detail!" Others were also very curious.

After reincarnation, the Order Kings not only had their abilities weakened, but also suffered different curses. This was a restriction set by the Chaos Kings to prevent them from standing up again to stop the Eden Project. But thinking back carefully, from the time I met Gloria until now, except for the fact that she had a second personality, which surprised me, I couldn't see anything special about her. I didn't know what abilities her Mind King had, nor what kind of curse she was suffering from - from the outside, she looked like a normal girl, right?
When everyone was kept in the dark, only the arrogant male protagonist Ling Ge, who looked expressionless and actually had expressionless face, saw through the truth of the incident!

"It's very simple. I think it's a curse that changes her identity from time to time." Ling Ge stated calmly, "Every once in a while, Miss Gloria will passively change her identity. When she first met us, she was indeed a detective in the Seven Stars District. But on the day the banquet started, she became the Third Princess of the Victorian Royal Family, right?"

Bai Ye's mouth twitched: "How did you guess it?"

"From two aspects." Linger replied, "First, when Miss Gloria first approached us for cooperation, in order to prove the feasibility of her plan, she showed me an invitation from Professor Heinrich. The invitation addressed her as Miss Gloria, but on the night of the banquet, the professor addressed her as Your Highness. I don't think he is such a careless person that he would make a mistake even on the invitation. Second, I once asked Brother Mufasa of St. Annville Cross Church about the Sherlock Holmes Watson Detective Agency and Miss Gloria. He was quite impressed by it, but when I later asked Sister Livia, she said that the Seven Stars There has never been such an office in the Pan District, nor has there been such a detective. Both of them have lived in the Qixing Pan District for many years. I think their understanding of the same thing should not be so biased, right? So I had some doubts at the time, and later, Her Majesty the Queen's attitude confirmed my point of view from the side. Although she called Miss Gloria her daughter, her words never showed any feelings as a mother, not even disappointment or anger. I don't think she is such a heartless person, let alone rational to the point of being indifferent to family affection, so the only explanation is that she had already noticed something at the time."

"Wait!" Alice's eyes widened: "This means that the Queen is not Gloria's biological mother!?"

I've said so much, and this is all you care about?
Ling Ge was speechless for a moment, but still nodded and said, "You can understand it that way."

Lorena tilted her head to think, and suddenly felt that something was wrong. She gently patted the shoulder of Olvera, who was opening her mouth in surprise, and gestured a few times with her fingers. Olvera translated for her while comparing the gestures: "Lorena said that even if this change of identity is true, there is still something that cannot be explained, that is, Brother Mufasa's memory of Miss Gloria, and Professor Heinrich's memory of Her Royal Highness the Third Princess, what is going on?"

"This is easy to explain." Linger said, "You just need to think that every time Miss Gloria changes her identity, she will also change everyone's memory of her. This should be to make her identity change more reasonable and not so abrupt. It is a protective measure. Although I don't quite understand why the curse protects her..."

"Because it's not just a curse." Bai Ye interrupted Ling Ge with a cold, half-smiley expression on his face: "It's also her power as the king of the mind."

"The power of royal authority?" Lingge frowned slightly. This was an aspect he had never thought of.

The others cast curious glances at him, but Saint Shallia looked thoughtful, as if she had remembered something.

"That's right." The girl stretched out a white and slender finger, and wisps of mist entangled between her fingers, changing constantly: "The so-called spiritual kingship is born from people's emotions and memories, and these two things have no specific form, so the spiritual kingship cannot be defined. She is always changing her state like mist. As long as she wants, she can become anyone in the world, your neighbor, your classmate, your boss, or even those aliens that you can only see from afar but cannot touch. It can be a light elf, a silver elf, or even an extinct feather elf... When she decides to change her identity, the power of memory and emotion will also help her complete those incomplete settings, and even modify the impressions of those who have come into contact with her, so that there is an extra actor on the stage of the world without any impact, as if the script was originally like this. When she decides to leave this identity, it will be silent and no one will notice it. Generally speaking, this kind of change cannot be detected, and only a few spiritually sensitive people can find traces. I'm glad that you are such a person, Mr. Ling."

"I see." Ling Ge suddenly understood something very important: "Then I want to ask, the power of the Kingship of the Mind - I mean in its full glory - can probably not only affect oneself, but also others, right?"

"Yes."

As expected, I got a positive answer.

Long ago, Linger had been thinking about a question: Why did the Witch Society repeatedly allow the Creation Goddess Church to grow and become a threat to itself? With the power they control in the secular world, it should not be difficult to completely destroy the Creation Goddess Church, but they did not do so, resulting in several battles between Order and Chaos, and the Society itself suffered heavy casualties. Was it because they didn't want to? Now it seems that it was because they couldn't. With the power of the Kingship of the Mind, the Creation Goddess Church, which should have been hunted down and had nowhere to go, was able to naturally integrate into human society, disguise a reasonable and legal identity that even conforms to memory, and redevelop and grow. And within the Society, I'm afraid only a few people can perceive the memory confusion brought about by this identity disguise, and by the time they discover it, it's too late.

There was no Third Princess in the Great Brittany Kingdom, but when Gloria's identity changed, everyone's memory had a Third Princess who lived in seclusion and was low-key and unknown. Even the name on the invitation changed accordingly. Modifying memories, blending into the background, fabricating a non-existent person on the world stage, and even letting this power spread to thousands of people...

No wonder Tiantis said that the power of the kingship of the mind may not be the most powerful, but it is definitely the most dangerous.

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(End of this chapter)