Chapter 844 Ah Zi, Turn Around
"Freedom should be above all else, free from restraint and free from persecution."
"This is what elves should pursue."
"Right, wealth, desire... When the elves choose to pursue these things, you are the real rebels."
Irina's voice was not loud, but it was clearly heard by every elf in the Wind Forest.
The elves present gradually calmed down, with expressions of thought on their faces, and some elves showed shame.
"It's really similar to Her Majesty the Queen back then..." Helena looked at Irina, a flash of nostalgia flashed in her eyes, she thought of some people, and thought of Her Majesty the Queen who shared the suffering with the people in the war-torn era.
Back then, under the tree of life, there was an argument about freedom between them.
In the end, she convinced the queen, and then the concept of family began to appear in the Wind Forest.
What is freedom?
That night, she once said to Her Majesty the Queen: "Without strength, how can we talk about freedom?"
Even now, she still insists on her ideas and ideas, but, standing here today, she doesn't want to repeat that sentence with Irina again.
Maybe she is really old.
Or maybe Irina, who is still as stubborn as a girl, is not the queen who has experienced hundreds of years of race wars after all. There is some truth, and since I know it doesn't make sense, I don't need to say it again.
As for the freedom of those wandering elves, what does it matter to her?
The freedom she wants is the freedom in this forest, the freedom to resist the enemy outside the forest.
The distance between the forest and the enemy is the freedom she insists on.
The servants and slaves who were locked in cellars, cells, and rooms, and soldiers guarding the most dangerous frontiers also heard Irina's words.
Tears flowed from the corners of their eyes, slid across the harsh lettering on their faces, and dripped to the ground.
"Rebel"
What a disgusting word, but it was engraved on their faces.
At that time, they or their ancestors shed their blood to defend the forest of wind, so that the elves had a place in the Nolan continent.
After the war ended, they chose to leave the place where their comrades-in-arms and relatives were buried, to find their own freedom far away, and to forget those days of blood and fire by wandering.
Then, they waited for the butcher's knife from the tribe.
Overnight, all the elves who left the Wind Forest were regarded as rebels, and the demons and orcs who had invaded the Wind Forest and slaughtered elves wantonly were entrusted by the elves to pick up the killing knife again.
The elves wandering freely across the mainland were besieged and killed. Those who survived were tortured in various ways, and were either auctioned off at major underground auctions, or sent back to the Forest of Wind to become slaves of major families.
This is the death of the wandering elves.
The helpless elves had hoped that the good queen would end it all.
But, no.
The queen seems to know nothing about it, and has never even expressed any opinion on the matter.
In other words, this is simply the will of Her Majesty the Queen.
No elves knew, because in the past few decades, Her Majesty the Queen held an annual sacrificial ceremony, and hardly appeared in front of the elves.
The power of the several big families is getting bigger and bigger. In order to satisfy their desires, more and more mercenary groups are arresting elves, and their actions are becoming more and more rampant.
Facing the large number of mercenary groups, the wandering elves had little power to resist.
They were escorted to the Forest of Wind, labeled as rebels and dark magicians, and forcibly accepted the baptism of the so-called water of life.
Beautiful elves were selected as personal servants, while ordinary-looking and old elves were engraved with the word 'rebel' on their faces and became slaves.
The elven code has set layers of shackles on them, and the strict hierarchy has pressed them to the bottom layer, unable to break free, and even dare not struggle.
Perhaps there was an elf who took pity on them and gave them a helping hand.
And the most famous,
The one who did the most was unconsciously Her Royal Highness Princess Irina.
She hunted in the Nolan Continent, targeting the mercenary group, and wiped out countless mercenary groups in just a few years, killing demons and orcs in terror, and disappeared for a while.
Her appearance is like a ray of dawn appearing in the heart of the homeless.
They have even begun to fantasize that if one day he becomes the Queen of the Wind Forest, all this may end, and they will finally leave their status as slaves and embark on a journey to seek freedom again.
However, just three years ago, Alex was killed and Irina disappeared.
The mercenary group that had been hidden for a long time reappeared and continued to hunt down the wandering elves frantically. The dawn went out, and everything returned to darkness and despair again.
However, two months ago, Irina reappeared.
First, he killed Hubert and asked the queen to revise the elf code, and then killed Cobir, who was leading the mercenary group, and let go of the captured elves.
The words that spread throughout the Forest of Wind touched the softness deep in their hearts.
It turns out that there are still people who understand their hearts. It turns out that there are elves who remember the ancestral training of the elves and know what the elves have been really pursuing all along.
"This is?" McGonagall, who was looking for ducks on Lake Vaddil, looked back in the direction of the Forest of Wind in surprise, his eyes narrowed.
At this moment, two brightly colored ducks suddenly flew up from the side reeds.
"Finally found you!" Mag's eyes lit up, and he swooped down with the griffins, turned around and grabbed one of them by the neck.
On the top of its red head, three colors were mixed and smeared all over its body. The red-capped three-flowered duck, as fat as a swan, is really ugly and invisible to people.
"Ah Zi, turn around and go to the Forest of Wind." Mag said in a low voice as he tied the duck he had finally obtained to the back of the griffin.
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"Nonsense!" Berg scolded angrily, shocking everyone to withdraw from their swaying mood.
Although the patriarchs of the major families have complex expressions, they are extremely firm in their hearts. Now no one can make them give up their rights and the benefits and status that this rights can bring to them.
And what Irina wants to do is to subvert all of this.
Therefore, she is their enemy.
Berg looked at the elders of the elders sitting on the elders' table with a serious expression, and said in a deep voice: "Elders, I and the patriarchs propose to remove Irina and abolish her mana. Please make a ruling!"
"The Bellman family asked the elders to depose Irina!"
"The Earhart family asked the elders to depose Irina! Severely punish her!"
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The patriarchs of each family spoke up one after another and asked the elders to dismiss Irina. There were eight major families and ordinary small families, accounting for almost half of them.
Irina looked at the elves with mocking expressions on her face.
The elder sitting in the middle stood up slowly, and said in a deep voice: "According to regulations, if more than three of the eight major families jointly propose, it will automatically enter the voting process of the elders' group. Now, all elders are invited to vote on whether to dismiss Princess Irina. bit!"