"What do you think, General Higg?" Benjamin smiled as he walked over to the campfire and asked Higg.

"Hehe, I'm wondering how old His Royal Highness the Prince should be this year?" Higg laughed.

"I think I'm ninety-six years old!" Benjamin smiled, "Well, it's good enough to be your great-grandfather!" ”

"Calling your grandfather looks like you're too old, let's call you little uncle!" Higg smiled, "Actually, I think I still have a lot of connections with the Forest Country, haha!" ”

"Uncle?" Benjamin said suspiciously, "What is your relationship with the Forest Country?" ”

"I caught my little uncle in the Forest Country, haha!" Higg laughed, "Don't you think it's a source?" ”

"Want to kiss?" Benjamin said, "I'm the youngest prince of the Forest Country, and I'm of noble blood, haha! ”

"Actually, I'm wondering why your powerful forest empire has declined!" Higg said, "Why did the great empire, which has stood for thousands of years, fall to the point it is now? ”

"I'd be interested in hearing about it!"

Higg asked, "Your warriors aren't strong enough?" ”

"It's not!"

Higg then asked, "You don't have enough resources?" ”

"The forest is home to the most abundant resources in the world!"

Higg continued, "Was it the invasion of a strong enemy that frustrated you?" ”

"A thousand years ago, who would dare to be the enemy of the Forest Nation?"

Higg smiled: "The soldiers are well fed and have no external worries, then there must be something wrong with you!" ”

Benjamin said hatefully: "It is the hateful tribe of druids, but they have betrayed the empire, causing it to divide and eventually gradually decay!" ”

"Ridiculous!" Higg laughed, "That's how your elven kings have always told their people that it was a traitor who betrayed the empire and caused it to fall?" ”

Benjamin said: "Yes, we have been educated like this since we were young, and we hate the druids to the core, and everyone has vowed to defeat the druids and restore the glory of the Elven King's empire!" ”

Higg laughed and said, "Hehe, it's so funny to put all the blame and fault on your own tribe rebellion!" Your elven king and even your entire elven clan, in order to cover up their incompetence, have come up with some foolish policies and deceive themselves, which is simply ridiculous, haha! ”

"Incompetent? Maybe! Benjamin was intrigued: "General Higg, as a bystander, you tell me the real reason." ”

Higg smiled: "Your elves have too long a lifespan, and the renewal of the dynasty is too long, so there is not much history to learn from!" The real cause of your decay is none other than you elves yourselves! ”

"Ourselves?"

"You have gone through thousands of years of powerful rule, and no one in Middle-earth is dissatisfied, and no one dares to provoke you, resulting in you being high and pampered, everyone only knows how to enjoy themselves, and pursues material and spiritual luxury, without any awareness of internal and external troubles, resulting in negligence and neglect of prevention! Otherwise, how could a druid, a branch of an empire, succeed in a rebellion without a single word and without a trace? You're so self-righteous! Including a thousand years after the decay, you elves are still living the days of a thousand years ago, pursuing a flashy life, drunk and dreaming of death, can you also restore the country in this way? What have you done to restore your country, apart from some intrigues and intrigues, have you done anything from yourself? Any elves who make changes will be ridiculed by you for losing their identity, and those who have tried to find a way back to their kingdom will be regarded as aliens by you! For example, Princess Jenny, who once led an army to war against the barbarian country a hundred years ago, how old was she at that time? But you think it's an extraneous thing! Powerful empires only exist when they have internal and external troubles, and the people of the empire who only know how to enjoy themselves can only lose everything they have in the end! ”

Higg paused, then continued, "The forest is too abundant, and you are too greedy. You enslave the dwarves to work for you, and let them help you absorb a lot of forest resources, so that you lose your enterprising spirit! You know? I've been to the two countries of Shenlong Island and the Alchemy Country, these two countries are very powerful now, but their land doesn't have any good resources in the first place. Shenlong Island is a large island with volcanoes, and the whole island is lifeless, but the people of Shenlong Island have developed their own underground castles with their own hands, and developed their own biological soldiers, who have created and forged the entire magical underground kingdom with their own labor. The Alchemy Country is a frozen country, and the continent is basically frozen all year round, but the people there have built a magical frozen empire with advanced technology and powerful manufacturing. Do you know why these two countries are so strong? Not only because of the environment that the people there have to work hard and strive to create wealth all the time, but also because the two countries have never stopped fighting each other, becoming mortal enemies of each other, and then developing their own strength in the midst of adversity! And what about you elves yourselves? Born to sit back and enjoy the success, relying on the foundation laid down by the ancestors, little by little is consuming, smoothing your edges and corners, and extinguishing your will. ”

Benjamin nodded and said, "That's true! Are you saying that you can only be strong in an environment of internal and external troubles, and if you are too comfortable, too lifeless, you will eventually lead to defeat, right? ”

Higg smiled: "Your Royal Highness, you yourself have sworn to restore the country, what have you done to restore the country?" Your greatest bowstring is to give Arad as a hostage to keep Erathia from wrath, right? ”

Benjamin said embarrassedly: "As you said, the elves of the Forest Country are indeed too greedy for pleasure, and the restoration of the country is only in their dreams!" Just like a dozen of my elder brothers, they have to intrigue every day to win the trust of their father, form gangs, and play tricks, which seem to have nothing to do with the great cause of restoring the country! ”

Higg continued: "If my uncle also wants to return to the country, you should thank me for kidnapping you, so that everyone in the forest country can be in danger and no longer get drunk and dream of death!" Even if you lose for a while, you will definitely be reborn in a desperate situation! Since we are destined, and you have the desire to recover the elves, I suggest that you take a different path from them, and maybe there will be a different result. ”

Benjamin said movingly: "Hehe, General Higg, I underestimated you before, I want to ask you to help me restore the brilliance of the elves!" ”

Higg smiled: "Hehe, little uncle, how can the great cause of recovering the country be so easy?" Change yourselves first! Would you be willing if I let you participate in the civil war in Erathia? ”

"This ......"

"So what's the change?" Higg smiled, "Your current forest territory belongs to the territory of the Alasia Empire, and if you want to break away from the civil war in Alasia and be alone, you don't even have the courage to participate in the war, but you can only talk about the dream of recovering the country, but you don't have the courage to regain the country!" ”

"You want me to participate in the civil war, and then involve the forest country in this big war, and drag the people of the forest country into the general environment of internal and external troubles, so that all the elves will put aside their illusions and have to create and fight for their homeland, right?"

Higg said, "For a thousand years, you have been disconnected from the world for so long that people are about to forget that you exist! Only by reintegrating into the new environment and the new competition of forces can you gradually return to yourself and get closer and closer to your dream of recovering the country. ”

"It's too dangerous!" Benjamin said worriedly, "General Higg, I know you're right! But I can't represent the Forest Country, and I don't have the right to put the people of the Forest Country in danger, only my father has the right to prove it! ”

Higg said, "Uncle, but you are now my captive, and I told you to do this. Besides, why should I help you? Only if we are mutually beneficial, there will be the possibility of cooperation, you don't want to help me, but you want me to help you realize the dream of recovering the elves! Hmph, I don't know what you're worried about, the forest country is now a pool of stagnant water, if you don't change, sooner or later, the country will die, make a change, there is still a little hope, but it is a failure, and you have entered your best efforts! His Royal Highness the Prince, if you want to fight for your own power, you can't rely on me to help, you need Your Highness to work your own. Didn't His Highness think that if the Forest Country embarked on the road of revival because of this, and he had an overwhelming power, His Highness would still be worried about the loss of the crown prince's position? ”

Benjamin said: "I said that my brothers are intriguing for the position of the crown prince, although I want to use your strength, but I also want to have the strength to support my territory when the dynasty changes, and I don't want to compete for the crown prince!" But you, General Higg, although we have a deal first, it is not enough for the general to care about the infighting of our elven royal family, right? Say, why are you so concerned about the affairs of our forest country? ”

Higg smiled, took the Dryad Bow from his back, then opened the shroud of the Dryad's Bow, handed it to Benjamin, and said, "Your Highness the Prince, I said that I have a lot of connections with the Forest Country, do you believe it this time?" ”

"Sister Jenny's bow?" Benjamin exclaimed, "Where did you get this bow?" ”

"This bow was mine!" Higg said solemnly, "I originally wanted not to tell you about this first, but I think that now my little uncle is hesitant, so I have to let you know!" To tell you the truth, I'm actually one of the heirs to the throne of the forest, but I have no interest or energy to fight for it, and besides, your father may hate me to the core! ”

Benjamin took the Dryad's bow and examined it carefully, then looked up and down at Higg, and said in surprise, "You are the orphan of Jenny's sister, my own nephew?" ”

Higg laughed, "Why, do you hate me as much as the Elven King Cross?" ”

"No!" Benjamin shook his head and said, "Sister Jenny is the best royal warrior in the past hundred years, and several brothers are afraid that Sister Jenny is too powerful and will inherit the throne in the future, so they instigate their father to marry Jenny to the barbarian royal family. Sister Jenny and I have a very good relationship, since I was a child, thanks to my sister's care, I was against harmony at the time, but I am soft-spoken, and I have no power to rely on, so there is no way to stop that! Unexpectedly, after the twists and turns of this incident, my sister was kidnapped by Michael and forcibly married, and the forest royal family was ashamed of this! But Sister Jenny herself is not at fault, she can only hate Michael for bullying others and not taking our forest country into account, and finally she was defeated and died, taking my sister's life! ”

"Hahaha!" Higg laughed and said, "My father was a bully, and he was defeated and killed? That's what your father Cross said? ”

Benjamin said, "Although I hate your father Michael, you are my sister's only son after all, and I will never be alienated from you because of this!" ”

"Hahaha!" Higg continued, "It was my mother who begged my father to help rob your family, but in your eyes, it turned out to be my father who bullied people to destroy your marriage? My father was not really defeated, and I can't explain the reasons for this, but I just want to say that after my father killed himself under the fortress of Kuba in desperation, my mother even abandoned me and followed my father! Father and mother love each other, although it is not for a long time, but it is also a vigorous love, love is bright, how did you get to your forest royal family, it became a father and a bully, and dirty? ”

Benjamin said: "I also had doubts about this at the beginning, but after all, this is the conclusion of the entire royal family, and even the forest country does not hesitate to secretly support the barbarian country and make Michael's enemy!" ”

Xige smiled coldly: "Your forest royal family, apart from intrigue, intrigue, and mutual suspicion, what other decent things can you do?" In order to save your royal family's own face, of course, you have to say things like that, otherwise, how ridiculous is it that Princess Jenny would give up the marriage with the barbarian royal family arranged for her by the Elf King, and take the initiative to marry a marshal with troops in Alasia? ”

Benjamin hesitated for a moment, then nodded and said: "Sister Jenny is indeed a very assertive person, I don't think she will succumb to the barbaric royal family, as for the matter with Michael, I only get such news from the royal family!" ”

Benjamin sighed and continued: "No matter what happened before, you are the only bloodline of Sister Jenny after all, and I don't want to mention the past!" ”

Higg breathed a sigh of relief and said, "Your Royal Highness the Prince believes what I say? Believe I'm Princess Jenny's son? ”

Benjamin said excitedly: "The bow of the tree elf is impossible to trigger without the bloodline of the elven royal family, I can see that you have used this bow!" You are indeed the only flesh and blood of Sister Jenny who has been lost, and my own nephew is no doubt about it! ”

"It's a loss for you, but it's a relief for me!" Higg smiled, "If I grew up in the Forest Country, I'm afraid I would have died of a drunken dream!" I'm also half a royal member of the Forest Country, it's my mother's country, and I don't like it very much, but I'm not going to hurt my mother's country! Like you said, we don't talk about the previous things anymore! How about it, my dear uncle, I helped you seize the crown prince, and you brought your forces in to join me in the civil war in Aracya? ”

"The crown prince?" Benjamin asked in surprise, "I put the forest country in danger, and my father doesn't hate me to death, and will make me a prince?" ”

"At that time, strength is everything, when your strength is enough for you to be the crown prince, unless the elf king kills you, otherwise, if he appoints someone else as the crown prince, then he must also weigh whether the crown prince he has set up can sit on the throne!"

"The Crown Prince? The Elven King? Benjamin said with excitement on his face: "Add one more condition, and I will promise you!" ”

"You say?"

"If I succeed in seizing the throne, you have to help me restore the country!"

"Let's talk about the civil war and the seizure of the crown first, the great cause of restoring the country is too complicated, and it is too early to talk about it!"

"No, you agree first!"

"Good!"