Forced to become a delicate companion of a paranoid lord

972 5 Month 14 Day.

Current points: 0

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Number of souls in the soul-guiding bottle:

Slave Contract Magic Circuit Breaking Progress: Recording Suspended

Completion of banned drug reliever: Recording suspended

Dagambie told Xie Wei that they must leave Sunset City and go to the starting point outside the city before 5 o'clock in the evening on May 14.

Because the Trial Gate will open there, they have to go through the Trial Gate and return to the future timeline.

On the morning of May 5, after Xie Wei checked out of the hotel, he went to buy some things and then went to visit Andrew with them.

There are several guard teams in the Colosseum, and Andrew is the captain of one of them. He usually takes good care of Thrall. His guards never bully Thrall, but only tease him occasionally, but they don't have any major malice.

Andrew, who was on his day off at home, looked at the whole jars of sugar and salt, as well as cheese, flour, cloth and other things piled up in his narrow living room, and then opened the two boxes on the table in front of him and took a look.

After he asked his wife to take the children to the room upstairs, he asked the magician sitting on the shabby sofa thoughtfully.

"Mr. Xie, what are you doing?"

No one would give so many gifts for no reason, especially when these gifts included expensive potions and a small box of gold coins.

It was obvious that the young magician was not just coming to visit him.

"Mr. Andrew, I would like to sign a contract with you. During the term of the contract, as long as you continue to take care of Sal...that is, Sevich within your ability as you do now, you can get these rewards." Xie Wei did not like the insulting name given to Sal by the Colosseum. Unless necessary, he was extremely reluctant to call Sal by this name.

Andrew was not rich. He had six children and elderly parents to support, so after Xie Wei told him his purpose, he agreed without much thought.

This was not something that needed to be considered at all, these rewards were simply earned by him for free.

Because even without these rewards, he would continue to take care of Sal as before.

When Thrall was four or five years old, he was sent to the Colosseum. People on the Lar continent had some stereotypes about the Parasos being barbaric and uncivilized. When they couldn't communicate in the same language, everyone treated him as a little wild beast.

But later, when Sal learned their language and communicated with him, he began to think that the children of the Parasau people were not beasts but ordinary children.

Andrew doesn't think of himself as a kind and nice person, but he is a father of six children.

Ever since Thrall learned the common language and dialect and spoke so that the guards could understand him, Andrew began to feel some sympathy and compassion for him.

Sympathy is sympathy, but he is the captain of the Colosseum's guard. Even if he can't stand the trainers who enjoy abusing Thrall, he has no right to stop them. The most he can do is to give his own food and water to the wounded Thrall, or secretly feed him some cheap potions.

It only took Xie Wei more than half an hour from entering the room and sitting down to signing the contract. Andrew did not ask what the relationship between Xie Wei and Sal was. After carefully reading the contents of the contract, he cut his finger and dripped blood on the contract scroll.

After putting away the contract, Xie Wei left Andrew's house with a jar of applesauce.

Andrew said he bought the applesauce from a boy named Leo and it tasted pretty good.

Before the Colosseum opened in the afternoon, Xie Wei entered the Colosseum using the teleportation scroll that he had hidden in the Colosseum in advance.

But he did not enter the small room where Sal was imprisoned as usual, but stood outside the door for a long time.

The patrolling guards couldn't see Shevi who was hiding his body, and neither could Thrall. However, the Parasauan's keen sense of smell allowed him to discover Shevi's presence.

So he started pretending to sleep as he did before, thinking that as long as he fell asleep, Xie Wei would come close to him and hug him like before.

But this time it didn't happen, he waited for a long, long time.

Until he gradually forgot about Xie Wei's existence, Sal still did not wait for the gentle embrace he longed for.

……

"I thought you came to the Colosseum to say goodbye to him, but you just watched him from afar." Dagambie looked at the young man Palazzo who won the fight below the stage, and then looked at the person who turned around and was about to leave the Colosseum.

After pulling his hood down to cover most of his face, Xie Wei stretched out his hand and let Dagambi fall into his palm.

“Dagumbi, you said before that Thrall would grow up on his own to become the Snow Lord I know, and you also said that I would return to the time before I entered the Trial.

I will be able to see Sal again soon after I return, so there is no need to say goodbye now." After saying this, Xie Wei did not look back, he left the Colosseum directly.

Under the stands behind him, the trainer was pulling the iron chain tied to Sal's neck to take him back to the underground cage. The exhausted Paraso boy opened his silver-gray eyes and searched blankly among the crowd above the stands of the Colosseum.

His breath disappeared.

He is gone.

Will He come back?

Sal, who is about to turn twelve, often suffers from hallucinations and auditory hallucinations due to the side effects of banned drugs, but he firmly believes that "He" is real.

He put his hand over his chest, where a pendant was hanging that only he could see and touch.

Feeling the uneven marks on the round pendant with his palm, Sal reaffirmed his thoughts.

He is real.

In Thrall's distant memory, in the warm felt tent in winter, the old priestess once spoke in a gentle tone to the cubs sitting around her.

[God will not easily abandon his believers, unless the believers betray God]

Thrall believed that he would never betray his own god, and therefore firmly believed that He would return to him.

……

Since it is impossible to bring things from the past into the future, Xie Wei had to give the horse that had been with him for five years to the daughter of the owner of the Badby Inn. The kind and lovely little girl loved and was good at taking care of horses, but none of the horses in the inn's stable belonged to her.

But that was all in the past. From today on, she also has her own horse.

Without a horse, even though his magic power was enough to support long-term flying magic, Xie Wei still walked back to the starting point the same way he did when he first arrived here.

At around 10:30 in the evening, Xie Wei returned to the quagmire where he started from Sunset City. Over the past five years, the quagmire had shrunk a little, and beautiful wild flowers had grown around it.

But at this moment, Xie Wei did not have the time or mood to observe these changes. The trial door suspended above the quagmire was slowly opening, and he was going home.

Go back to that home in the Far North.

……

[Complete the Dagambi Secret Gate Trial, Points +, do you want to directly redeem the extracted magic points? ]

As the system prompt sounded, Xie Wei's magic power and system points bar returned to the values ​​before entering the trial.

Standing in a space filled with endless darkness, the system floating screen and Dagambie in front of him were the only two sources of light.

Without any hesitation, he exchanged the points he had just obtained for the magic points he had drawn during the trial.

After putting away the system panel, Xie Wei asked Dagambi.

"What is this place?"

Xie Wei originally thought that he would return to the gate to the secret realm, but after passing through the trial gate, he came to another space.

Xie Wei was often accompanied by darkness when he was young, and he adapted well to this place without light.

"This is the secret realm of the snowfield. Is it a little different from what you thought?" The three-headed man who originally followed Xie Wei changed his form at some point.

Dagambie, who had transformed into the appearance of an adult Paraso male, stood in front of Shevi. He was still a light golden soul, but had become an enlarged version.

Dagambie stretched out his hand and said, "The souls of the Parasau people must stay here, and you can't take the soul-guiding bottle with you. Can you let me take care of it?"

Xie Wei nodded, took out the spirit-summoning bottle from the system backpack and handed it to Dagambi.

After Dagambie took the soul-calling bottle, he removed the cork. Then, souls of different colors flew out of the bottle like fireflies. They floated in the air and illuminated a small space with the faint light of their souls.

The souls surrounded Xie Wei, as if they wanted to express something, but they had no entity, so after a while they all gathered around Dagambie.

Dagumbi was obviously able to hear what the spirits were saying because he made a gesture of covering his ears.

"They say thank you very much, Shevy, and I thank you very much, too."

Dagambie reached out and patted Shevi on the shoulder, but Shevi felt nothing.

"Your secret realm trial is over. You can ask me a question, but I may not answer you." Dagambi took two steps forward and motioned Xie Wei to follow him.

As Dagambie walked, the surrounding environment gradually changed. A dark red light appeared in his field of vision, as well as various strange-shaped magical plants.

Following Dagambie, Xie Wei thought for a long time and finally asked his own questions.

"The female magician you told me about 36 years ago who entered the secret realm is my mother, right? And the child who was destined to die young is me, right? I'm still alive, and my mother is..."

What price did she pay to keep me alive?

Dagambie said he could only answer one question, but Xie Wei had many questions.

"Shevi, when I met Florence, she was just a young girl. Her name at that time was Elodie. I once promised her that if I really met you one day in the future, I would tell you on her behalf that she is willing to do anything for you. You are her child, and she will love you unconditionally. You just need to know this."

Pushing aside the drooping branches of the tall demonic plant, Dagambi pointed to the cave behind the branches and said, "There are three treasure chests there. Do you want to open them and take a look?"

Although he was asking, he reached out and gently pushed Xie Wei towards the cave.

This was Xie Wei’s first time entering the secret realm, and he didn’t know that no one had ever passed the secret realm trial and then been led by the supervisor to find the treasure chest.

Still three treasure chests.

He obediently went into the cave to open the treasure chest. The cave was clean, with no guardian beasts or mechanisms, and there were even lighting crystals on the stone walls.

Leaning against the entrance of the cave, Dagambie felt that Florence doted on the child too much. He and Florence had found this place together, and the treasure chest was selected in advance. He dismantled the mechanism, and Florence drove away the monster. She also set up a barrier just to wait for this child who might enter the secret realm to come and hunt for treasure.

Xie Wei found three items in the three treasure chests, namely a scroll, a magic book, and a gorgeous magic wand that looked like a scepter.

This magic wand has a vertical shaft, with white magic metal as the main body, and dense magic patterns carved on the shaft. The head of the wand is surrounded by dragon wings, and is inlaid with seven-level light and seven-level wood magic crystal cores in the shape of 8.