Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

The taverns in the town were always dark and noisy. Cyril put his arm around Xie Wei's shoulders and walked him inside while whispering in his ear:

"Members of the Bennett Mercenary Group like to hang out in taverns like this. If you follow their convoy, they may often invite you to drink with them. You can't drink much, so I'll ask Bennett to take good care of you. Of course, you're an adult, so I believe you can take care of yourself."

It was Xie Wei's first time to enter such a pub. Looking around, he saw tables, chairs and benches squeezed together, and sub-human women in cool clothes carrying trays were moving flexibly in the not-so-wide aisles.

The various smells in the tavern mixed together and made people's noses itchy. Xie Wei didn't like staying in this kind of environment very much.

"Don't like it?" Although Xie Wei didn't show it, Cyril could see that he didn't like this kind of tavern. So he turned around with Xie Wei and was about to leave the tavern, but as soon as they turned around, they were stopped by someone.

"Cyril, I've been watching you for a long time, why don't you come over to our side?"

The short-haired man in a short-sleeved shirt with his chest exposed had seen Cyril and Xie Wei when they entered the room.

This short-haired man is Bennett, the leader of the Silver Fang Mercenary Group. He and Cyril are old friends.

Because he was worried about Xie Wei traveling alone, Cyril sought Elodie's advice and contacted Bennett. Knowing that they would be responsible for escorting a caravan to many countries in the second half of the year and that magicians were very much welcome to join, he asked Xie Wei if he was willing to temporarily join the mercenary group and travel with them.

Xie Wei was not actually afraid of walking alone on the Lar continent. After all, before he was with Thrall, he was alone most of the time and he was used to it.

Besides, Dagambie would be with him.

However, facing Cyril, who had obvious blue and black spots on his eyes and seemed to have not had a good rest these days, Xie Wei said without any hesitation.

"Of course I am willing. It would be great if I could join the mercenary group."

Cyril was slightly relieved that Xie Wei was willing to join the mercenary group. In fact, if it wasn't for what Elodie said, that being too involved with them would have some bad effects on Xie Wei, he would have wanted to arrange for his own guards to protect Xie Wei secretly.

"How can this be considered help? You have done me a great favor. We are in great need of magicians. I will get him a pass. We will set out at 7 a.m. three days later. Our mercenary group will stay at the inn outside the town. We can just let this little guy meet up with us there. Of course, he can go with us today, too."

Cyril pulled Bennett out of the tavern. Although he didn't know why they had to stand outside the tavern and chat, he still followed Cyril and sat on the big wooden barrel outside the tavern to chat.

Bennett took out three cigarettes from the metal box, put one in his mouth, handed one to Cyril, and when he wanted to give the remaining one to Xie Wei, Cyril reached out and snatched it and clamped it between his ears.

"He is in poor health. Don't teach him bad things. Don't let him smoke tobacco or force him to drink. Otherwise, I and Elodie will cause trouble for you."

"You are so nosy. He is a grown man. If I didn't know that you couldn't have children when you were in your teens, I would have thought you were his father." Bennett took the cigarette that Cyril had pinned on his ear and put it back into his own cigarette box. This cigarette was a good one. He himself usually couldn't bear to smoke it!

Cyril held the cigarette but did not light it. He looked at Bennett, who started smoking, with a look of disgust and asked him to stay away from them.

Bennett held his cigarette and stepped back, waving his hands: "Okay sir, since you saved me before, whatever you say is what you mean."

Before Xie Wei went to Bellagio, he obtained a short-term adventurer pass under Mason's guarantee. He needed to provide a second guarantee one year after the application, but after Xie Wei joined the Silver Fang Mercenaries, his short-term pass could be changed to a long-term pass.

As for the identification, Cyril had already forged it for him.

Bennett and Cyril hadn't seen each other for a long time and really wanted to catch up with him, so they simply asked the tavern owner to set up a small table for them outside.

Xie Wei sat at the table drinking grape juice and eating beans cooked with salt, listening to Cyril and Bennett talking about all kinds of things while drinking. It was not until around eleven o'clock that Xie Wei couldn't help yawning, and Cyril realized that more than four hours had passed.

"I have to go back. I'll drink with you tomorrow night."

Bennett looked from Shevy to his friend Cyril and grinned.

"Hahahahaha, Cyril, you are just like an old father taking care of a child now. Is it true that you will become like this after having a child? This is so interesting. I must tell everyone about it tomorrow."

"It's up to you. I'm just an old father who takes care of the child. You don't even have a partner. I don't know how long you have to wait to take care of the child." Cyril said indifferently, and then said to Xie Wei.

"Thank you, and say goodnight to Uncle Bennett."

Xie Wei followed Cyril and stood up, pursing his lips and smiling.

"Good night, Uncle Bennett."

Bennett looked at his old friend and the darling magician who had just joined their mercenary group, and always felt that there was something indescribable about the way the two of them got along.

They just... they really look like father and son. What’s going on?

Before Bennett could figure it out, Cyril took out two bottles of potion from his space ring and said, "Ilodi asked me to bring them to you." Then he left the tavern with Xie Wei.

Looking at the person who was walking further and further away holding the little magician's hand, Bennett muttered while holding the two bottles of healing potions worth a thousand gold.

"Could this magician named Xie be Ilodi's younger brother? After all, they both have black hair, so they must be related by blood. These two people are taking this child a little too seriously..."

Cyril personally brought people to meet him and asked him to take care of the child in person. Elodie also gave him this advanced healing potion, which put a lot of pressure on him!