"Of course, that's certainly a good thing, a good thing." Countess Kalea finally couldn't bear it anymore, and her voice became a little impatient, "But, Lord Tarks, we are going to explore the ruins of Elbak Volcano, not to fight in Scorpion Valley, have you thought about this?" ”

The new question thrown by the countess made Lord Telx confused again, and he did not know how to answer for a while, so he had to look at Countess Callea speechless for a long time, which made the atmosphere gradually awkward.

After a while, Countess Callea seemed to be unable to take it anymore, so she sighed and shook her head, restrained her impatience and told Telx, "Lord Telks, listen, our next action is to explore an ancient ruin at the foot of Mount Elbak, not to organize an army to fight at the front. If you want to explore the ruins, a full-fledged exploration team should have the tools for every member of the team beforehand. We agreed that you would only need to bring a few elite personnel to escort us to the gate of the ruins, but now, the exploration tools prepared in advance on my side are simply not enough for us to evenly distribute the number of people, and your self-determination has not brought substantial help to our cooperation. ”

"I'm ......" Meter's face of the counts of Countess Calea, Telkes spread his hands and was speechless, and after holding back for a long time, he turned back as if he was looking for something, and searched Finn's party and the armed guards he brought with himself for a while, and then his eyes lit up, and he raised his hand to point out a person from among the servants and scolded, "Douglas, come out!" ”

"Your Excellency?" The mountain man named Douglas stepped out of the ranks of Telx's hukou and looked at Telx with respectful eyes.

He came from the countryside and mountains of the Lasverne hills, and began to follow Telx for three years, and at this time he thought that Telks was going to instruct him to complete a new task, but Telkes continued to yell at him the next second: "Look, Douglas, this is the stupid thing you did!" As I explained to you when I was in Orlan, the reason why Countess Kalea asked us to bring fewer people here naturally had her own ideas, and that you, a lowly servant, had to be clever enough to encourage you to bring more people, and I am so disappointed in you! ”

As soon as the words fell, Telkes's eyes seemed to be annoyed, and he really put on an extremely disappointed stinky face and glared at Douglas fiercely, making Douglas look dazed.

When Douglas was overwhelmed by Telkes's training, several people on Finn's side also looked at Telks and Douglas in a daze, and for a moment they all blinked blankly like the fat owl Pol standing above Lilith's head.

At that moment, Fein suddenly felt a little sympathy for the mountain man named Douglas, and thought that Telkes's black pot was really sudden, and even a little fresh and refined.

While Finn sympathized with Douglas, Leah, who was standing with Telx's servants, frowned, and couldn't stand it for a while, so he also stood up from the queue and walked to Douglas, raised his hand to press the latter's shoulder, causing the latter to turn his head to look at him in a daze, and then asked Tyrks: "Brother, are you not doing this?" ”

"Shut up, Leah." Terkes glared at Leah mercilessly, and continued to raise his hand to Douglas and said, "Douglas is my servant, and if a servant makes a mistake, he should be punished." ”

"But brother—"

"Lord Leah, please don't say it." After a while, Douglas looked at Telx again, and immediately understood Telkes's intention to deliberately splash dirty water on himself, so he raised his hand and gently pushed Leah's hand on his shoulder away, shook his head sideways in front of Leah's surprised gaze, and then bowed his head and knelt down in front of Telks, "Lord Telks, it was my own opinion that I instigated your organization to have extra manpower a day ago, so I should now bear the due responsibility for my mistakes, and your loyal servant Douglas begs you to punish you." ”

"Hmph, that's pretty much it." Seeing that Douglas was finally not as stupid as he thought, Terkes suddenly breathed a sigh of relief in his heart, but the expression on his face was still pretending to be angry, "Then, as a punishment for your own clever mistakes, all of our luggage will be carried upstairs by you, and you will sleep in this hall tonight and watch overnight, understand?" ”

"As you wish." Douglas kept his head bowed and half-knelt down, sincerely kowtowed to Telx again, and then stood up and obediently stepped aside with Leah, leaving the rest of the scene to Terks.

After successfully blaming Douglas for his faults, Telx looked back at Countess Calea, who was also a little confused at this moment, and forced an embarrassed smile on the corner of his mouth to spread his hands to show helplessness: "I apologize for my stupid servant being like you, respected Sir Calaiya." As for the extra people I brought, I think the extra people can stay in the hotel first, so that if something happens to the exploration team members who entered the ruins, our liaison can move from here to us in time to rescue the troops, is that reasonable? ”

"Hmm...... Maybe this is the most appropriate way for now, so the extra personnel you bring with you will be arranged according to what you said. Callea looked at Telx in a daze, glanced sideways at Douglas, who had retreated with Leah at this moment, and then completely recovered from the surprise just now, and then beckoned to everyone at the door of the inn, and motioned for everyone to gather at a square table in the middle of the hall on the first floor of the inn.

In the following time, Countess Callea explained in detail to everyone who was going to participate in this exploration operation about the precautions in tomorrow's exploration plan, and took out the various exploration tools she brought all the way from the Ronster Plains and put them on the table one by one to introduce the names and explain the purpose to everyone, and finally took out a map of Scorpion Valley from the backpack of one of the exploration team members next to her and spread it on the table, circled the map with a pen, and drew a route from the inn to the location of the ruins. Tell everyone which places on the map are marked with a pen that are safe, and which places that have been crossed with a pen are infested with snow wolves and ice scorpions, which are very dangerous and must not be approached.

In this way, after explaining and discussing all the points that needed to be paid attention to in the next day's operation, everyone in the inn had already eaten dinner, and the sky outside the house was still covered with a layer of darkness.

In order to ensure sufficient physical strength and mental state during the operation to be set off early the next morning, everyone went up to the second and third floors of the hotel to rest soon after it got dark. The Countess of Tokalea paid for most of the rooms in the inn, and the large group of people brought by Terkes were finally not unable to sleep because of the lack of rooms - of course, Douglas, who had volunteered to carry the black pot for Telks, had to stay on the first floor of the inn even after everyone had slept because of the punishment.

In the middle of the night, the unfortunate mountain man hung an iron sword at his waist, sat alone on a chair near the door in the lobby on the first floor of the inn, squinted and snoozed.

Suddenly, he blinked his eyes, and saw Leah holding on to the handrail of the stairs and looking at him from the stairs and walked down, and suddenly his mind woke up, and when Leah walked up to him in a pajamas, he asked him, "Lord Leah, is there something wrong with Lord Tarks?" ”

"Nope." Leah shook her head, then looked at Douglas earnestly and advised, "Go to sleep, Douglas." My brother is a man who wants to save face, and the anger he got during the day should have passed, and if he still makes things difficult for you tomorrow morning, I will help you plead again. ”

After he finished speaking, Douglas looked at him for a moment, then shrugged his shoulders with gratitude and helplessness, and replied to him, "Thank you, Lord Leah, for your kindness, but I still have to stay here for the vigil." ”

"Why, Douglas?" Liama was puzzled, "Even if Countess Kalea doesn't know, the rest of us know that you have been wronged, and this crime should not be borne by you in the first place. ”

"But Master Tarks has been gracious to me. If it weren't for Master Telks, our family wouldn't have gotten the money he bountied, and I'm afraid I wouldn't have been able to leave the mountains of Lasverne for the rest of my life. Douglas patiently explained to Leah, "Also, Lord Leah, if Lord Terks shows any strange temper in the future, please don't complain too much about him." ”

"Why is that?" Leah looked at Douglas and continued to ask in confusion.

"Because...... During the time that Lord Leah left Orlan, the declining Alfred family fell on the shoulders of Lord Tarches. ”

After a long silence, Douglas looked into Leah's eyes, and a slightly bitter smile gradually appeared on his face, and said.

…… (To be continued.) )