Secret of Mayor

 When the two come out of the room, the other three women gave Era a slightly envious mle, though, they are also relieved that she appear to be better than before.

 "So, are you alright Era?" Ina, the ever always caring one, asked.

 "Yes, I think I will be fine. I will remember it but at least it would not haunt me any longer," she replied, earning a satisfied nod from Ina.

 "Though, I want to go to the town and paid my respect, is that alright?" the blonde as Ryker.

 Naturally, Ryker agreed, seeing there is nothing wrong with accepting her request.

 "Sure,"

-x-

 Soon, they come to the center of the town, where it could be seen a mighty building once preside.

 "This is my old home, but I think either they burnt it after taking of value, or it was destroyed by my father's fight," Era explained, looking at the once mighty building with a sad look.

 The others merely nodded, not planning to speak while she head towards the destroyed mansion. As she walked into the mansion, her eyes starting to tear up at the sight of a skeleton. The skeleton itself were broken apart in many places, but Era was sure it belong to her father.

 She kneeled towards the skeleton and raised her hands for a small prayer. The others watch her, letting her pour out her grief as well as anything else to the body of her father.

-x-

 The prayer took half an hour, though she did not stand up for a full hour, in which when she turned, there still some tears in her eyes.

 "I-it, just painful to see my father's body like that. I wish to bury him here," she said. Ryker oblige, opening a large enough hole to fit the skeleton as Era carried it and drop it as gently as she could. After which, she grab a brick and shape a simple grave from it.

 To add to the whole thing, Ryker create a small flower bed on the grave, the final resting place for one of his lover's father.

 She stayed there for quite sometime before returning to look at Ryker with gratitude, mouthing a simple "thank you,".

 Ryker merely smile as he pulled the blonde into another embrace, one that is joined by the others.

-x-

 "Actually, what did cause your father and the entire towns to be destroyed?" Mashia asked, her tone serious.

 "Why do you ask now, Mashia?" Ina questioned the dragon girl.

 "It just, there should be a reason for destroying the whole town right? After all, from what I could tell, this town is located between Alten City and the capital, so, while it might not be super important, it has the value of being one of the resting spot for caravans," the blue-haired woman said with a frown.

 "I am not sure myself. The only thing that came to mind is that it all happen when my father turned of the visitor," Era replied honestly.

 "Don't you say your father returned home with the man, suffering from some injuries. Do you think it might be related?" she asked again.

 "Why do you ask all this question?" the blonde starting to feel annoyed by the dragon girl incessant questioning.

 Mashia gave the group a wry smile, "Because, from the sound of it, your father found a treasure trove, and the man as well as whoever behind the bandit group want it all for themselves,"

 The group stopped walking, as they gave her a shock look. Mashia merely snorted, "What, I have heard such thing from my father and mother. After all, the Natural Realm, Hidden Realm and Secret Realm in the Core Region is more plentiful than in the Outer Region, so it often happen, relatively that is," 

 "Natural Realm, Hidden Realm and Secret Realm?" Miriam asked, "Are there any difference?" considering how Mashia words the two thing, she believe there to be some different.

 "The three realm is not realms as the 8 Super Realm, but instead a spatial area that is connected to a part of the world. Natural Realm is naturally formed spatial area, usually created by certain circumstance and usually have plentiful of resources, from ores, herbs, to even precious treasures.

Meanwhile, Hidden Realm is usually created by powerful experts. They tear a small part of space and create a connection to the world before building a spatial area. Then, they will use it either as abode, sanctuary, or sometimes, a place to hide their legacies. Only those powerful peak Genesis Grand Realm experts and above could hope to create a Hidden Realm.

 As for Secret Realm, there are less numerous because they need one thing, the death of a Source Realm experts. The Source Realm experts body have already form a small world in their Inner Realm, so, when they die, some part of their Inner World will link to the place of their death and create a spatial area on it's own. 

 Though, some dying Source Realm experts would often create Secret Realms just before their death, in order to leave a legacy,"

 The listeners nodded, taking in everything she had told them, though Era quickly realize what she meant, "Do you think my father found such thing?!"

 "There is a high chance for it," Mashia replied. "After all, he might found a precious treasure that the one behind the bandit groups wanted," she shrugged. As much as she want to help, the dragon girl did not have a lot of information to go by so she can only speculate.

 "Maybe," Ryker suddenly said before he took out several storage ring and began to sift through them. He soon took out two storage rings before taking it's content.

 "I think this is a map, or their attempt to map the places," Ryker said, before unfurling it.

 Though, they soon find themselves to be disappointed, "I think they are trying to find the entrance to that place, that's why there are so many bandits," Mashia said, seeing the multiple crosses on the map.

 Yet, Era's eyes soon lit up in recognition.

 She did a quick check on her storage ring before taking out a similar size paper.

 "I think this is the map to the spatial area," she said, unfurling it and letting the entire group to see the map. Mashia soon make a hum of understanding.

 "I see, your father likely find himself inside the spatial area, and it is where he and the man injured themselves. Your father clearly conscious and remember where they pass through so he create the map to the spatial area, likely to keep it for himself, and them things go awry,"