After discussing the matter with Etesi, Lorraine Hill also felt a little sleepy. During this period, he had been exploring the remote and dark seabed. Not long ago, he was swallowed by a big whale. Later, he was running around collecting data and intelligence. Although the process

There were no near misses, but I also accumulated a lot of fatigue.

After it was over, she and Tehua returned to their residence to rest.

In the polar night of the Northern Continent, you don’t have to worry about the sun shining into your house, and you can sleep as long as you want.

Putting on light-colored pajamas and lying in a soft quilt, the sage girl soon fell asleep and had a long dream.

In the dream, she seemed to have turned into a child, playing around with Bumansha and Vimiya, and later went fishing together. Then a huge whale jumped out of the river and swallowed her.

In the haziness, it seemed that many familiar faces passed by, and then my consciousness became blurry again.

By the time the girl woke up, it was already the afternoon of the next day, or the time on her pocket watch showed it was afternoon.

"Are you up?" Tehua was already awake at this moment. She was sitting at the table not far from the bedside, seeming to be reading a booklet.

"Wake up." Lorraine Hill rubbed his eyes, put on his slippers and looked outside at the window. He felt that he had not slept for several months, and then sat back at the table.

"I'm sleeping in again." The girl whispered, seeming a little dissatisfied with her laziness.

"You have been very diligent, Luo Lan." Tehua comforted softly.

After the two had lunch at the mansion, Lorraine Hill said that he wanted to find a friend first, and then went out alone.

Ever since they parted ways with Yi Xue that day in Scaranda, the two had not seen each other for a while. Lorraine Hill could vaguely sense that Yi Xue was in the capital of the ice elves.

In the night sky full of stars, Lorraine Hill gradually floated up, flying high in the cool night wind until it could overlook the entire Beiyaohan Mountain.

Then she opened her hands, and the slightest breeze began to blow, washing every corner of the city, bringing her a lot of information.

"Where is it, Yi Xue?"

Lorraine Hill, who closed his eyes, felt quietly.

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Deep in the palace, Elshegrem 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 her.

The princess of Ice Glow Flower supported her head with one arm and leaned on the throne lazily, chatting with the person in front of her. Her fluffy and snow-white dress was dotted with complicated ice blue colors.

Flowers and skirts are layered one after another, reflecting the dazzling light spots.

"I didn't expect you to be alive, Archibald." Yi Xue turned her face sideways and looked at the tall window sill not far away.

"Yes, Your Highness, Your Majesty is still alive." This ghost, blue as ice liquid, barely formed a human form and answered with an old voice.

"It's a pity that you no longer have a body. If it were me in the past, the first thing I would do when I returned to the Ice Palace was to kill you." Yi Xue seemed to have a faint dislike for this old friend.

"That is your honor, because it means that your highness has grown up."

"Hmph." Yi Xue had already had an impression of this old man who was unsophisticated and extremely difficult to deal with.

After the death of the previous Ice Elf King, she should have succeeded her, but because she was young and had no experience in handling government affairs, the affairs and power of the Ice Palace at that time were almost all controlled by the three Dukes.

.

Then, under the influence of public opinion and the situation, she, the princess, had to go to the battlefield herself, which eventually led to her death in that distant foreign country.

"The original accident was entirely responsible for your Majesty and a few old friends. Later, when we learned of the news of His Highness's death, we regretted it and were heartbroken."

"Then the war collapsed like a mountain, and we had no choice but to lead the remaining tribesmen to leave the mainland and migrate here to avoid disaster in order to survive."

The old minister explained what happened back then with an extremely sincere voice. If Ixeglin hadn't been a high-ranking presence in the Necronomicon Order and knew that his emotions were genuine and that he wasn't lying, he would have been tortured and killed long ago.

"What's the use of talking about this now?" Yi 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, Yi Xue spoke again and asked about this ancient ghost, the ancestor of the Lucard family, one of the three major duke families.

"Besides you, there are two other old guys."

"Since you can survive, they should do the same thing. Although you have been united in the past, there is no absolute trust between you. I don't believe that they will let you live alone."

"They..." The old blurry figure twisted and sighed slightly.

"They are no longer here."

"Fisilde melted into snow more than 500 years ago, and Airans disappeared like smoke more than 100 years ago. Now I am the only one left. If a few more decades pass, I'm afraid His Highness won't even be able to see me.

"

"Such a transformation secret technique is not the right path after all, and it is reaching its limit now."

"That's really good. Then I don't have to do it myself, huh." Yi Xue glanced lightly.

Even after so many years, after recovering her memory, those old events still made it difficult for her to calm down.

"Although my time is running out, I have no regrets in seeing His Highness come back to life." The ice-blue ghost's voice trembled, and he suppressed the excitement in his words. If he was still alive now, he would probably have died.

I must have burst into tears.

"It can only be said that my resurrection was an accident. This was not part of your plan back then."

"If you hadn't deliberately suppressed and suppressed me at that time, how could those things happen again later?"

"I was still immature at that time, and I was fooled and deceived by you about many things. Later, I died outside because of your provocation. Do you dare to say that you did nothing wrong back then?"

"Back then, alas..." The old man sighed again.

"We did make a wrong judgment at that time, but it was not our original intention to let Her Royal Highness die."

"Perhaps you don't know that when you went on the expedition, we secretly added many insurance measures to your team so that you would have a high probability of surviving even if you were on the battlefield."

"But what I didn't expect was..." He was interrupted before he finished speaking.

"But I didn't expect that the Mercury Dynasty would make such a ruthless decision. They directly sent four witches and five Sequence 9 beings to suddenly attack me across thousands of miles. They made me die at the foot of the Sighing Mountains and never return to my homeland."

"You think so, Archibald." Issue Green turned her face and looked at the old figure coldly.

"Yes, Your Highness." His voice was extremely dry and full of regret.

"You are always like this. You think you have calculated everything. You play tricks on others and make the Ice Palace unpredictable, so that no one dares to easily refute your authority."

"It seems that this way we can avoid unnecessary explanations, and even if we fail to achieve our goals, we will not make a fool of ourselves in order to maintain our authority and status."

"I didn't understand it at the time, but now I understand. I just feel disgusted."

"Your Highness is scolding..." He could not refute.

"Huh." Yi Xue took a deep breath, as if she didn't want to talk to this veteran anymore.

"You go down."

"Yes, Your Highness..." After agreeing, the figure twisted and hesitated on the spot for a long time, and finally chose to speak.

"Will His Highness stay here from now on?"

"Are you afraid that I will take away your power? Don't worry, I don't care about this anymore. I will leave after a while." Yi Xue looked at her fingers on the armrest, thinking that she was already dead.

Just don't get too involved with the past.

"No, no, no, I sincerely hope that Your Highness can stay and lead the ice elves to glory again." The blue figure begged again.

"Brilliant, what kind of glory is there? The first era belonging to the elves has ended for thousands of years. Do you still want to counterattack and go back?"

"It's not a counterattack, I just hope that you can reintegrate the ice elves and change their current dead and outdated appearance."

"Oh, isn't this what you created? You are constantly suppressing all kinds of emerging new forces and ideas, and working hard to maintain the past traditions and customs."

"We, we only do this out of necessity." Archibald explained in an old voice.

"Since the bloodline of the royal family was severed, the clan has been unable to elect a legal elf king. Although our three major duke families have a prominent status, they were just vassal families serving the royal family in the past. They did not have the prestige and strength to unify the entire clan.

."

"However, the system and order still need to be maintained. If we don't suppress the emerging new forces and ideas, within a few hundred years, the ice elves will split into several pieces and never gather again because of their different ideas or forces.

Can’t get up.”

"When the time comes, it will be like a piece of loose sand, and internal fighting will become inevitable. And the number of ice elves is not large to begin with. One mistake will very likely lead to the decline and extinction of the entire race."

"So, you know clearly that this is an extremely damaged shelf, but you still refuse to replace it and work hard to support it, right?" Yi Xue's voice was filled with a hint of ridicule.

"It's really easy for you to excuse and find reasonable reasons for your actions."

"Now I feel like I can't hold on any longer, and I want to support you, so that the pressure that may eventually collapse is passed on to me again."

"What's the difference between this and what happened back then? It's really ridiculous."

"What you said, Your Highness, is indeed true, but the situation now is completely different from that back then."

"At that time, we may still have the selfish intention of holding some power ourselves, and we don't want to entrust everything to you who are immature."

"But now, we have no way out. The older generation has long passed away. Even if they can be transformed into such ghosts, they will just linger in a deep sleep."

"Many of the new generation of ice elves have never seen the outside world. Even if there are outstanding ones among them, they lack training and cannot shoulder heavy responsibilities."

"Now the only one who can easily unite the whole clan again and lead them to take steps forward is you, Your Highness. Moreover, after this long time, you have become mature and calm, and you are no longer the young person in the past.
To be continued...