The villainous prince who bullied Feng Aotian was actually myself.

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"Hmm, the mind of a god is hard to fathom, not to mention this thing seems to be stronger than an ordinary god."

"no, I can not."

Helena suddenly felt an indescribable sadness in her heart. Could Leon have lied to her again? He never intended to solve the current difficulties with her. From the very beginning, he planned to shoulder everything alone.

"That liar!"

Helena gritted her teeth in anger, but her eyes welled up with tears.

At this moment, the power within the underground palace seemed to have lost its stability in an instant, just as Leon left, and all the sealed artifacts began to stir.

"Get out of here first, this place might collapse."

"That's what Bai Lishi said."

"But what if these sealed artifacts..."

"Survival is the priority. Since Leon has decided to do this, I think he must have considered the possibility of the underground palace collapsing. As Leon said, all we can do now is wait."

"That's what Bai Lishi said."

"okay."

Helena took one last look at the underground palace, then turned and left decisively.

As soon as they stepped out of the underground palace.

Helena saw a familiar figure at the entrance of the underground palace.

This person was none other than Leon.

He was wearing a military uniform with knotted ropes hanging from it, and he was leaning against a stone statue at the exit of the underground palace, as if he had been waiting for Helena to come out.

This guy has always wanted to capture her, and Helena becomes extremely cautious every time she sees him.

But this time, Helena didn't sense any danger. It seemed like Leon was standing there all by himself, without even a powerful protector by his side.

The two looked at each other.

After a moment, Helena spoke first.

"You have something to say to me?"

Helena stared directly at Leon, her posture wary.

"Relax, I have no intention of harming you this time."

Leon looked at Helena and smiled. "I'm all alone here, and I know neither martial arts nor magic. You could kill me easily."

"Really? Aren't you afraid I'll really kill you if you say that?"

Helena said coldly.

"Helena, right? Your brother always protects you. He's even willing to risk his life to protect you. I'm so jealous of you."

Leon looked at Helena and said angrily.

"Jealousy? I don't understand."

Helena took a step back, putting some distance between herself and Leon.

Although Leon knows neither magic nor martial arts, in terms of combat ability, he is indeed not much of a threat unless he is constantly protected by a loyal and powerful person.

However, this guy is too cunning. He's so young yet full of schemes. Who knows what kind of bad ideas he's up to now?

"Let me have a frank and open discussion."

"Leon said, taking a step toward Helena.

"Open and honest? I don't see any sincerity in you."

Helena took a step back.

"I'm all alone here. I didn't bring anyone with me. And—I don't have any sealing artifacts or anything like that on me. Now, if you want, you can slap me to death. Isn't that honest enough?"

As Leon spoke, he turned his clothes pockets inside out for Helena to see, and there was indeed no tangible evidence of any magical items on him.

"Alright, what would you like to talk about?"

Helena crossed her arms across her chest.

"I want to talk to you about something on my mind."

Leon smiled slightly and said.

Although he appeared very approachable, his smile always seemed sly.

"Your true feelings? Leon, we don't seem to have much of a relationship. Do you think it's appropriate for you to say this to me?"

"Of course it's appropriate, because you are the person your brother loves most in this world. Telling you is the same as telling your brother."

Leon continued.

"Okay, then you say it."

Although Helena didn't know what Leon was up to, she figured it wouldn't hurt to hear what he had to say. If things got out of hand, she could just take him hostage or slap him to death, which would be a way of getting rid of a major enemy for Leon.

Chapter Nineteen: Heartfelt Words (Part Two)

"Helena, you may not believe it, but from the very beginning, I have always wanted to destroy you, but I never wanted to harm Leon. However, without Leon, I might not have destroyed you, since you are very powerful and it would be a pity for you to die."

After a moment of hesitation, Leon spoke.

"Destroy me? But don't want to harm Leon?"

Helena carefully considered Leon's words.

"But you know perfectly well that Leon will protect me or destroy me. Isn't that harming Leon? Isn't your statement contradictory?"

Helena continued.

"Yes, so I lost. Actually, I knew I would lose, because I knew clearly that I was doing something wrong."

Leon smiled and said.

"I don't understand what you're trying to say."

Helena remained expressionless, wary of any hidden dangers around her, and ready to kill Leon at any moment.

She didn't understand why Leon was doing this.

"Okay, let me tell you one of my stories."

Leon smiled and began to speak without asking Helena's permission, "In everyone's eyes, Prince Leon always seems to be clever and resourceful, but in reality, I was very stupid when I was a child, and I was basically no different from an ordinary person."

"I have royal blood flowing through my veins, but until I was six years old, I showed no signs of awakening any power. I have never been able to sense that mysterious magic power in my life. At the same time, my physique is weak, so I am unable to cultivate martial arts. This has destined me to be an ordinary person in this life."

Leon continued,

"Leon, who is two years older than me, was born with powerful magic and was chosen by the legendary artifact of the hero, which is said to grant the mission of saving humanity. In everyone's eyes, he is a genius who is the focus of everyone's attention and has a limitless future."

"So you're jealous?"

Helena raised an eyebrow and asked.

"NO, I have not!"

Leon immediately retorted.

“I hope he gets better and better because he is actually a very good person. When I was young, I was weak and sickly, unable to learn magic, and had a withdrawn and unlikable personality. My father was very indifferent to me, the ministers in the palace had no hope for me, and the children in the palace did not want to play with me. Only Leon never disliked me.”

"He took me to play in the sand. We built many, many sandcastles together and made many clay figures. He also taught me how to use a slingshot and a bow and arrow. At that time, I always followed him around happily."

“Once, he had a fight with his father and locked himself in his room in a fit of temper, ignoring everyone who came to him. But when I knocked on the door, he quickly opened it and pulled me inside.”

I asked him, "You ignore everyone else, so why are you talking to me?"

He replied that it was because I was his only brother. Even if everyone else disliked me, I was still his brother, and he had no reason not to like his brother.

“When I was little, I was playful and didn’t like studying. I could never memorize the books that the teacher asked me to memorize, so my mother would always scold me for being a good-for-nothing and kick me out of my room.”

"At that moment, I could only helplessly find a corner in the palace to hide and cry."

“It’s really amazing. Every time, my brother can find me. He stays with me and squats down next to the low wall, in the haystack, under the pebbles, or in the reeds. He stays there until it gets dark.”

"I said, it's getting dark, brother, you should go back to sleep."

“He said he wouldn’t go back, and he wouldn’t go anywhere as long as I was here.”

"Then he sat with me like this, and we complained about all the bad things about my mother. We also played a game of throwing stones. We always liked to see who could throw the stone the farthest. I always lost. My brother always threw the stone high and far. After throwing countless stones, the palace guards finally found us, and my brother and I were taken back to our respective palaces."

"Later I found out that every time my brother accompanied me like this, he would be punished by our father after we returned home."

"But these innocent days gradually disappeared as I grew older. After my mother kicked me out that day, I cried for a long time, and my brother couldn't find me either."

"It turned out that his father had taken him to the military camp to study, and he came to visit me less and less often, and each time he did, he seemed extremely tired."

"He told me that his father and ministers had too high expectations of him, which made him feel suffocated. But he had no interest in the throne at all. He loved magic and only wanted to be a great sage who studied the mysticism for the rest of his life, just like his teacher Bancroft."

“I said, brother, since you don’t want this throne, then let me take your place. As long as I perform better than you, they will put all their bets on me, and you can concentrate on doing what you like.”

"After that, I stopped skipping classes and started studying like crazy. I couldn't practice martial arts or use magic, but I could use the knowledge I had to defeat those guys who had superpowers but no brains."

“I read all day long. I spend almost every day in the palace library. The knowledge I have acquired is basically from reading. No matter what the book is, no matter how dry or boring it is, I force myself to read it. If I find a good book that I find useful, I will read it repeatedly.”

"And so, day after day, year after year, I persisted in reading every day. The number of books I read increased from one or two to ten, a hundred, a thousand, ten thousand. I found myself becoming more and more knowledgeable, and I learned more and more. I found that there was a huge gap between me and other people. In my eyes, they were just like dogs that were a little smarter."

"I applied the knowledge from the book to reality, and I found that through my understanding and analysis of society and people's hearts, I could easily manipulate those self-proclaimed clever ministers."

"I look at those foolish people like I look at monkeys. I clearly realize that although I am still powerless and weak, my extensive knowledge has brought about a qualitative transformation. I am now terrifyingly strong!"

"Because it's so easy for me to see through people's hearts, I quickly discovered that something was wrong with my father."

"Therefore, I secretly launched an investigation. After sneaking into the imperial mausoleum one day, I finally uncovered this horrifying secret—our father was not the father at all!"

"The reason he went to such great lengths to nurture his brother was that if his body suffered a fatal injury or was nearing its end, he would possess his brother's body."

"I think my brother must have told you who the current emperor is, right?"

Leon paused here and looked at Helena.

"Yes I know."

Helena replied, "So, you're trying to say that you did all this for Leon?"

Chapter Twenty: The Knight King Under the Moonlight? (Gender-swapped Jack)

"It can be said like this."

Leon paused for a moment before answering.

"If that's the case, then why did you do so many things against Leon?"

Helena asked.

"Firstly, it was to mislead King Hoyle and his ministers, creating a situation of conflict between the princes. This would prevent the situation from becoming one-sided, spread the danger, and prevent King Hoyle from discovering that I had discovered his secret."

Leon explained, "Secondly, I really hate you."

"Before you came along, Leon would still be with me, but after you came along, he became a completely different person. He saw me as an enemy and sided with you at all costs."

“I understand. He has developed feelings for you called love. People have to grow up eventually. Even the best of brothers will gradually drift apart after they get married and start their own families. I’m afraid of this feeling. I’m afraid that Leon will leave me. Although I know I’m doing something wrong, I still want to destroy you.”

Leon shrugged. "But I've figured it out now. We've all grown up. Leon has gone from a fanatical magic fanatic to a passionate and ambitious idealist, and I'm no longer that brat who just followed my brother around. We've all grown up!"

"Why don't you just say these things to Leon?"

Helena looked at Leon and asked.

Although he still harbored doubts about Leon, the suppressed sadness Leon displayed when he spoke these words seemed genuine.

"Forget it, I can't bring myself to talk to him about these things. Anyway, you'll be his wife sooner or later, so telling you would be the same as him knowing."

"Leon spoke up."

"No, he has a wife now. Although it was broken up, the marriage is still legal."

Helena said coldly.

"You mean that vampire saintess? No, Helena, you're different from other girls. Leon has always valued you the most."

Leon chuckled softly, then walked past Helena and headed towards the underground palace behind her.

"I'm just giving you a friendly reminder: the underground palace is about to get out of control. For a mortal like you to go in is tantamount to suicide."