After discussing matters with Aitexi, Roland Hill also felt a little sleepy. During this period of time, he had been exploring the far and dark seabed. He was swallowed by a big whale not long ago. Later, he ran around to collect data and intelligence, although the process There were no surprises, but also accumulated a lot of fatigue.
When it was over, she and Teva went back to their residence to rest.
In the Northern Continent of the polar night, you don't have to worry about the sun shining into the house, you can sleep as long as you want.
Putting on light-colored pajamas and lying in the soft quilt, the sage girl soon fell asleep, and she also had a long dream.
In the dream, she seemed to have become a child, playing with Bumansa, Vimiya and the others. Later, they went fishing together, and then a big whale jumped out of the river and swallowed her.
In the haze, many familiar faces seemed to pass by, and then consciousness fell into the lake again.
When the girl woke up, it was already the next afternoon, or the time on the pocket watch indicated that it was afternoon.
"Are you up yet?" Teva was already awake now, sitting at the table not far from the bed, as if looking at a booklet.
"Wake up." Roland Hill rubbed his eyes and looked out the window in his slippers, feeling that he hadn't slept for a few months before sitting back at the table.
"Sleep late again." The girl whispered, as if she was a little dissatisfied with her laziness.
"You've been very diligent, Lorraine." Teva comforted softly.
After the two had lunch at the mansion, Lorraine Hill said that he was going to find a friend first, and then went out alone.
The two had not seen each other for a while since they parted ways at 'Scarlandi' that day, and Roland Hill could vaguely sense that Yin Xue was in the ice elf's capital.
In the night sky full of stars, Loren Hill gradually floated up and flew high against the cold night wind until it could overlook the entire North Yaohan Mountain.
Then she opened her hand, and the slightest breeze began to blow, washing every corner of the city, bringing her a lot of information.
"Where is it, Yin Xue?"
Roland Hill, who closed his eyes, felt quietly.
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Deep in the palace, Yin Xue Gelin sat on a throne that had not been used for a long time.
In the huge hall, besides her, there was only one other figure standing quietly in front of him.
This ice calendula princess supported her head with one arm, leaned slightly lazily on the throne, and talked with the person in front of her. The fluffy and snow-white dress was embellished with complex ice blue. The flowers and the skirt drop layer by layer, reflecting the dazzling light spots.
"I didn't expect you to be alive, Archibald." Yin Xue turned her face to the side, looking at the tall windowsill not far away.
"Yes, Your Highness, your servant is still alive." The ghostly blue-like ghost reluctantly took the form of a human, and answered in an old voice.
"It's a pity that you no longer have a body. If it was me in the past, returning to the Court of Ice Palace, the first thing I would do would be to kill you." Yin Xue seemed to have a nasty disgust for this old friend.
"That's an honor for His Majesty, because it means His Highness has grown up."
"Hmph." Yin Xue had an impression of this old man who was not good at oil and salt, and was particularly difficult to deal with.
After the death of the previous Ice Elf King, she should have succeeded the throne, but because she was young and had no experience in handling government affairs, the affairs and power of the Ice Palace Court were almost all controlled by the three Dukes at that time. .
Then, under the influence of public opinion and the situation, her princess had to step on the battlefield herself, which eventually led to her death in that distant foreign country.
"The responsibility for the accident at the beginning rests entirely with this minister and a few old friends. Later, when I learned of the news of His Highness's fall, I am deeply remorseful and grief-stricken."
"Then the war collapsed like a mountain, and we had to lead the remaining clansmen to leave the mainland and migrate here to avoid disasters in order to save them."
This old minister explained what happened back then with a sincere voice. If Yin Xue Gelin had not been at a high position in the Necronomicon Sequence, knowing that his emotions were true and that he had not lied, he would have been tortured and killed long ago.
"What's the use of talking about this now." Yin Xue shook her head.
"Fortunately, thousands of years have passed, and the ice elves have survived. They did not perish under the world tree like the silver elves."
There was a brief silence in the hall.
After that, Yin Xue spoke again and asked about this ancient ghost, the ancestor of the Luccard family, one of the three major duke families.
"Apart from you, where are the other two old guys."
"Since you can survive, they should do the same thing. Although you have been united in the past, you can't say that you have absolute trust in each other. I don't believe it. They will let you live alone."
"They..." The old Mohu figure twisted and sighed slightly.
"They're gone."
"Fissild melted into snow water more than 500 years ago, Elance disappeared like smoke more than 100 years ago, and now I am the only one left. "
"This kind of transformation secret technique is not the right way after all, and now it is reaching its limit."
"That's really good, so I don't have to do it myself, hum." Yin Xue glanced lightly.
Even after so many years, after regaining her memory, those old things still made her feel difficult to calm down.
"Although your time is short, I have no regrets to see His Highness come back to life." The ice-blue ghost voice trembled, holding back the excitement in his voice. If he still has a body now, I am afraid he has already The old tears run wild.
"My resurrection can only be said to be an accident, which was not in your plan back then."
"If you didn't deliberately suppress and suppress me at the time, how could those things happen later."
"I was immature at the time. I was deceived by your lake for many things. Later, I died outside because of your fierce generals. Do you dare to say that I did nothing wrong back then?"
"Back then, alas..." The old man sighed again.
"At that time, we did make a wrong judgment, but it was not our intention to let Her Royal Highness fall outside."
"Perhaps you don't know, when you went out, we secretly added many insurance measures to your team, so that you can survive with a high probability even if you are on the battlefield."
"But what I didn't expect was..." He was interrupted before he could finish speaking.
"But I didn't expect the Mercury Dynasty to have such a stern decision. It sent 4 witches and 5 Sequence Nines directly to raid across thousands of miles, leaving me dead at the foot of the Sigh Mountains and never able to return to my homeland."
"You say yes, Archibald." Yin Xue Gelin turned her face and looked at the old figure coldly.
"Yes, Your Highness." His voice was extremely dry and full of remorse.
"You are always like this, thinking that you have calculated everything, and make others play around, and make the Court of the Ice Palace so unpredictable, so that people dare not easily refute your authority."
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"It seems that some unnecessary explanations can be avoided in this way, and even if it fails to achieve its purpose, it will not make a fool of itself, so as to maintain its own authority and status."
"I didn't understand it at the time, and now I do, it just feels disgusting."
"His Royal Highness is scolding." He couldn't refute.
"Hmph." Yin Xue took a deep breath, as if she didn't want to talk to this old minister anymore.
"You go down."
"Yes, Your Highness..." After agreeing, the figure twisted and hesitated for a long time, and finally chose to speak.
"In the future, will His Highness stay here?"
"Are you afraid that I will take away your power? Don't worry, I don't care about this for a long time now, and I will leave after a while." Yin Xue looked at her fingers on the armrest, thinking that she was already dead, Stop getting too involved in the past.
"No, no, I sincerely hope that His Highness will stay and lead the ice elves to glory again." The blue figure pleaded again.
"Brilliant, what else is there to be brilliant? The first era of elves has ended for thousands of years. Are you still thinking of going back?"
"It's not a counterattack, I just hope that you will reintegrate the ice elves and change the dead and outdated appearance."
"Oh, isn't this what you guys created? Keep suppressing all kinds of emerging new forces and ideas, and try to maintain the traditions and customs of the past."
"We, we are only forced to do this." Archibald explained in an old voice.
"Since the bloodline of the royal family has been cut off, the clan has been unable to elect a legitimate elf king. Although our three dukes have a prominent position, they were only vassal families serving the royal family in the past, and there is no such prestige and strength to unify the entire clan. ."
"However, the system and order still have to be maintained. If we don't suppress those emerging new forces and ideas, within a few hundred years, the ice elves will split into several pieces because of their different ideas or forces, and they will never gather again. Can't get up."
"At that time, if the sand is scattered, infighting will become unavoidable, and the number of ice elves is not large. If one is not careful, it is very likely that the entire race will weaken and become extinct."
"So, you all know that this is a very damaged shelf, but you still refuse to change it, and try to support it, right?" Yin Xue's voice contained a hint of sarcasm.
"It's really easy for you to justify your actions and find reasonable reasons."
"Now I feel like I can't hold it anymore, and I want to support it again, and transfer the pressure of the final collapse to me again."
"What's the difference between this and what happened back then? It's ridiculous."
"Your Highness, what you said is indeed the truth, but the situation is completely different now and then."
"At that time, we may still have the selfishness to hold some power by ourselves, and we don't want to entrust everything to the immature you."
"But now, we have no way out. The older generation has long since passed away. Even if it can be transformed into such a ghost, it will only continue to linger in deep sleep."
"Many of the ice elves of the new generation have never seen the outside world. Even if there are excellent ones, they lack exercise and cannot bear heavy responsibilities."
"Now, the only one who can easily unite the whole clan again and lead them to step forward is only you, Your Highness. Besides, after this long time, you have become mature and calm, and you are no longer the young man of the past. Princess, has the ability to become the king of the elves."
"We have no other choice. If you are willing to take the throne, no matter how you punish your ministers, you can even directly declare the truth of the old affairs of the whole family, clean up our old ministers, and then do things conveniently."
"You are ruthless, you can say these words easily, but now your descendants, will they be willing?"
"Listening to a princess ghost in the past that I have never seen before, handing over all my power and letting me be a mermaid, this kind of thing is too naive."
"I'm not the innocent girl I used to be, and you don't use those coaxing words to guide me."
"I know that they may be unwilling, and may have some dark thoughts, but!" The old minister spoke again, and his voice suddenly turned sharp.
"However, as long as His Highness is willing, this minister is willing to lead you and sweep away these rebellious juniors."
After speaking, the hall fell silent.
In the eyes of this old man, with Yin Xuegelin's current strength and the assistance of these old people, it is easy to clean up the high-level ice elves. As long as Yin Xuegelin wants to do it, he will definitely be able to do it. And what can those younger generations do if they don't want to, they can't stop the return of the princess.
"I'm tired, let's talk about this later."
In the end, Yin Xue Gelin did not answer the old minister, but asked the other party to step back and stay alone in this lonely and deep inner court of the palace.
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Looking at the ancient drawing engraved on the ceiling, Yin Xue Gelin fell into a burst of contemplation.
In fact, there are also contradictions in her heart. On the one hand, because of her past memories and her background as a princess, she cannot completely give up the current ice elves.
But on the other hand, she is a little bit disgusted with the court and politics, and doesn't want to get involved in these complicated human calculations. If possible, she would rather live in the secluded lake and flower sea in the Sigh Mountains, sleeping quietly by herself. At the bottom of the lake, occasionally chat with Lorraine, and then take a walk in the sea of flowers, living a simple life like this.
"In the end, it's the same with myself."
After a long time, the Mononoke Princess sighed.
She had always said that Roland Hill was always too kind and weak in heart, and was not very good at rejecting others, but when it came to making a choice for herself, she found that she would not behave any better.
There are always some things that I can't give up. Even after sleeping in that cold ice coffin for so many years, when those memories come back to my heart again, they are still so hot and difficult to calm down.
She regretted her weakness back then and hated those vassals and nobles who deceived her, but she couldn't cut it all off.
When I was young, the beautiful life like a flower was flawless and pure. Under the peaceful courtyard of the World Tree, various seniors came to visit me, expecting high expectations, and fairies played around me and gave all kinds of blessings and protection.
These kinds of things have nurtured her, and also constituted her initial memory and everything, so that she has always kept a quiet and peaceful soil in her heart, surrounded by dandan cares and thoughts.
What should I do, or should I go down this road
Along with thinking, a flower made of ice and snow twirled gently between her fingers.
In the end, she sighed, leaned back on the lonely throne, put the ice calendula in front of her forehead, covered her eyes, and prepared to take a quiet nap or reminisce for a while.
Not long after, in the empty hall, a silver-haired figure descended quietly and walked towards the hesitant princess ghost.