Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

In the warm felt tent, Raymond was curled up on the kang holding Frost and Yrel. The little dragon had fallen asleep, but Raymond was obviously still very energetic. He stared at the black-haired magician who was marking on the map with his two purple eyes, and then tried to make his presence known from time to time.

Because Irel would get annoyed if he talked too much, Raymond counted 1000 potatoes in his mind before speaking again.

"Yrel, the ruins of Dagonbi are not fun. Do we really need to go in again tomorrow?"

As long as Yrel enters the ruins, he will know whether the ruins contain what he is looking for. Therefore, they will not explore most of the ruins seriously. They will only explore the ruins that few people have entered, or the ruins that Yrel thinks may contain holy relics.

It is precisely because of this that they have been able to screen the known relics in various regions over the past few years.

The map in front of Yrel was drawn with magic. When the scroll was opened, the routes and marks drawn by magic would float in the air.

Now on the map, except for the empire and the Far North, the ruins in many areas are marked in gray. This mark represents the ruins that have been visited and it is confirmed that there are no holy relics inside.

The scattered relics with red marks represent relics where the holy relics were sensed but could not be found.

Yrel used a crystal pen to add the ruins of the Far North Territory that were open to the public on the map. There were more than 5,000 of them in total, and they were basically marked in gray on Yrel's map.

On the Lar continent, only the ruins of the Far North Territory are open to the public and free of charge. However, it should be noted that there are many areas in the Far North Territory that outsiders cannot enter. Therefore, only a small part of the ruins of the Far North Territory is actually public. Of the rest, half are hidden, and the other half only exist in legendary secret realms.

In the bard's lyrics, the ten secret realms in the Far North were once the golden land that all bounty hunters yearned for. Every bounty hunter had dreamed of entering the secret realm to obtain countless treasures and wealth, but the thing was that even if they could avoid the Parasol patrols and go to the non-public area, outsiders could not find the entrance to the secret realm.

More than 20 years ago, when the king of the Dekara Kingdom joined forces with other countries to invade the Tajiyama Snowfield, they found a record about the secret realm in a half-burned scroll. The scroll said that in order to enter the secret realm, one must first obtain the key to open the secret realm, but no one knew what the key to the secret realm looked like.

King Dekara tried to get some information about the secret realm from the captured Parasos, but except for the priests, he could not get anything useful from the Parasos.

Every priest of Paraso would choose to die together with the enemy before being captured. Therefore, until the armies of various countries were driven out of the snowfield by the Paraso people, no clues about opening the secret realm other than the key to the secret realm were obtained.

Over the years, many bounty hunters have entered the snowfield to try to find historical records about the secret realm in the ruins. Some have also thought about opening treasure chests to try their luck and see if they can get the key to the secret realm.

As the springs passed year after year, no one had ever found any historical records, and no one had ever opened the key to the secret realm from a treasure chest. People gradually regarded the secret realm of the Far North Territory as a myth, and now some people no longer believe that there really is such a secret realm.

But Yriel knew that the ten secret realms in the Far North Territory were real, and there were relevant records in the Atlas of All Things in the Laer Continent left to him by his mother.

The treasure that he and Raymond brought out from the ruins of Dagumbe, the oval black metal block with uneven patterns carved on it that he casually gave to Shevi to play with, was the key to the secret realm.

Yriel was not very interested in the secret realm of the Far North Territory, and he had no way to find the entrance to the secret realm with the secret realm key, because his mother's atlas of all things wrote that only the Parasos and their partners could find the entrance to the secret realm and open the secret realm under the guidance of the secret realm key.

He is neither a Parassian nor a Parassian's companion, and the key to the secret realm is just a piece of scrap metal in his hands.

But it's different in Xie Wei's hands...

Raymond waited for a long time but Yrel didn't answer his question. He was neither angry nor depressed. He knew that Yrel would often ignore people when he was thinking about something.

After a while, after putting away the map and the crystal pen, Iriel reached out to hug Frost from Raymond's arms. Seeing that Raymond had a pouting mouth and looked pitiful, he narrowed his eyes and pinched his chin.

"What are you making a fuss about?"

When Raymond heard what Iriel said, he really wanted to make a scene, but if he did so at this point he would definitely be thrown out.

So he honestly repeated his question: "If the ruins of Dagonbi are not fun, why go in again?"

Iriel released Raymond's jaw, and instead of answering Raymond's question, he said.

"If you don't want to go, stay in camp."

Raymond rolled to the other side of the kang and pulled the quilt to wrap himself, and then a muffled sound came out from under the quilt.

"I'll go! I'll go! I'll go!"

Iriel seldom explained anything to Raymond. He mostly gave instructions and orders. He would only explain a few more words when he was in a particularly good mood or a particularly bad mood.

However, such situations where explanations were given were rare, so Raymond had long been accustomed to it. He stopped asking and instead began to repeatedly emphasize that he wanted to follow into the ruins.

In the yurt next door, Xie Wei had not yet slept. When he heard Raymond's voice, he shrunk his head into the quilt. When Sal carried him out, Xie Wei's whole body was red and hot like a cooked shrimp. Then he put his trembling fingers on Sal's shoulder and whispered.

"Sal, it's not soundproof. I could hear... I could hear it. Yesterday..."

Xie Wei no longer remembered whether he made any strange noises last night.

Sal held his little rose in his arms, wanting to laugh but afraid of upsetting Xie Wei. His chest rose and fell a few times, and he suppressed his laughter. Then he gently patted the person in his arms and comforted him, "It's okay. You can't hear it. It's just that Raymond's voice is too loud. Your voice is very soft, and only I can hear it."

"Really?" Xie Wei was a little unconvinced.

"Of course it's true. If you don't believe me, we can try it now." This time, Sal really couldn't hold back his laughter. He even began to prepare to hug Xie Wei to himself.

Xie Weicai was not fooled. He rushed out of Sal's arms, rolled up the quilt and went to the other side, far away from Sal.

The Lord of the Snowfield, who had most of his bedding swept away, realized that he had failed to successfully trick his partner, so he could only bring Little Rose back with her bedding, and then coax her to sleep.

Only after coaxing Xie Wei to sleep did Sal get up and take the coat Xie Wei was wearing today, then he took out a secret realm key from the coat pocket.

After looking at the secret realm key three times and confirming that it was the real secret realm key, Sal thought about how the black-haired magician gave this thing to Xie Wei as casually as giving a piece of candy to a child. After thinking for a while, he put the secret realm key back into Xie Wei's coat pocket.