"My resurrection was an accident. It was not part of your plan back then."

"If you hadn't deliberately suppressed and oppressed me at the time, how could those things have happened later?"

"I was immature back then, and you fooled me into many things. I later died outside because of your provocation. Do you dare to say that I didn't do anything wrong back then?"

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

"We did make a wrong judgment at the time, but it was not our intention to let Her Royal Highness the Princess die in such a situation."

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

"But what I didn't expect was..." He was interrupted before he could finish his words.

"But I never expected the Mercury Dynasty to be so ruthless. They dispatched four witches and five Sequence 9 beings across thousands of miles to launch a surprise attack. They wanted me to die at the foot of the Sigh Mountains, never to return to my homeland."

"Isn't that what you said, Archibald?" Iseglin turned her head and looked at the old figure with cold eyes.

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

"You're always like this, thinking you've figured everything out. You play people around, making the Ice Palace mysterious and unfathomable, making it so that no one dares to challenge your authority."

"It seems that this will avoid unnecessary explanations. Even if the goal is not achieved, it will not make a fool of itself, thus maintaining one's authority and status."

"I didn't understand it then, but now I do. I just feel sick."

"Your Highness scolded me." He couldn't refute it.

"Hmph." Yi 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.

"Will Your 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 on my own after a while." Yi Xue looked at her fingers on the armrest, thinking that she was already dead, so she shouldn't be too involved with the past.

"No, no, no. I sincerely hope that Your Highness can stay and lead the Ice Elf clan to glory again." The blue figure pleaded again.

"Glorious? What glory is there? The First Age of the Elves has ended for thousands of years. Are you still thinking of counterattacking?"

"It's not a counterattack. I just hope you can reintegrate the Ice Elf clan and change its current dead and outdated appearance."

"Heh, isn't this what you guys created? You constantly suppress all kinds of new forces and ideas that emerge, and strive to maintain past traditions and customs."

"We, we do this only because we have no other choice." Archibald explained in an old voice.

"Ever since the royal bloodline died out, the clan has been unable to elect a legitimate Elf King. Although our three duke families hold prominent positions, we were once merely vassal families serving the royal family. We do not have the prestige or strength to unite the entire clan."

"However, the system and order must be maintained. If we don't suppress those emerging new forces and ideas, within a few hundred years, the ice elves will be divided into several parts due to their different ideas or forces, and they will never be able to gather together again."

"If they become a loose group, internal strife will be inevitable. The number of ice elves is small to begin with, and if we're not careful, the entire race could very well decline and become extinct."

"So, you know that this is an extremely damaged shelf, but you still refuse to change it and try hard to support it, right?" There was a hint of sarcasm in Yi Xue's voice.

"It's really easy for you to justify and rationalize your actions."

"Now it feels like it can't hold on any longer, but it wants me to hold it up, transferring the pressure that might eventually break it onto me."

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

"Your Highness, what you said is indeed true, but the situation now is completely different from that time."

"At that time, we might have had some selfish desire to hold some power ourselves, and we didn't want to entrust everything to your immature self."

"But now, we have no way out. The older generation has long since passed away. Even if they could transform into ghosts like these, they would only continue to 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 are unable to shoulder heavy responsibilities."

"Now, the only one who can easily unite the entire tribe and lead them forward is you, Your Highness. Moreover, after all this time, you have become mature and calm. You are no longer the young princess of the past, and are now fully capable of becoming the king of the elves."

"We have no other choice. If you are willing to ascend the throne, any punishment you can give us is appropriate. You can even directly announce the truth about our clan's past and purge us, the old ministers, so that you can proceed in a more convenient way."

"You are cruel and can say these words easily, but will your descendants be willing to do so now?"

"To obey a princess ghost from the past who has never been seen before, to hand over all your power and let others bully you, such a thing is too naive."

"I'm no longer the innocent girl I was back then, and you don't need to use those coaxing words to guide me anymore."

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