203: Rank difference

“Who are you?”

“As far as I know, the owner of this courtyard was executed some time ago for violating the city's regulations, and it is now temporarily held by the Galaxy Mercenary Group. Why are you here?”

“Speak! What are your intentions?”

Li An was truly astonished. He had not expected that Yan Ming, who had previously welcomed them, would now be like a completely different person, not only pretending not to know them but also starting to accuse them, attempting to frame them.

“Interesting, interesting.”

“It seems you had this planned from the start.”

As soon as he finished speaking, Li An heard crisp footsteps behind him. Without turning around, he knew that Nie Guang and Mark had arrived.

“What happened?”

Nie Guang came to Li An's side, standing shoulder to shoulder with him.

Seeing Yan Ming, who had just been entertaining them, suddenly change his attitude and act as if he was going to apprehend them, Nie Guang's expression froze. He immediately looked at Li An and asked.

“Nothing much, this captain seems to no longer recognize us.”

“He also said that the owner of this courtyard was executed by them not long ago, and now he’s even suspicious of us.”

In response to the question, Li An first chuckled, then began to explain the current situation to Nie Guang.

“It seems we were all wrong from the beginning.”

Compared to Yan Ming, Nie Guang naturally trusted Li An unconditionally. After hearing Li An’s explanation, Nie Guang immediately sneered, his gaze fixed on Yan Ming.

“It seems we were too merciful. Since that’s the case, we’ll just slaughter all of you.”

A murderous aura instantly erupted from Nie Guang’s eyes. When Yan Ming felt this killing intent, his body stiffened, but the order from his superior still compelled him to give the command.

Yan Ming’s gaze swept over Li An, Nie Guang, and Mark in turn. Then, he raised his right hand and shouted to the mercenary soldiers behind him.

“Kill them!”

In an instant, deafening shouts of battle roared, and the mercenary soldiers charged directly at the three of them.

It was clear that after witnessing Li An's power and terrifying strength not long ago, those hiding in the shadows had decided to drop all pretense. As long as they could kill the three of them, even if Lord Sain Dale became enraged afterward, it would be useless.

After all, killing someone from the restricted area already meant incurring hatred from the restricted area.

Looking at the overwhelming number of mercenary soldiers charging at the three of them, Li An remained calm. However, Nie Guang was not in good condition, and Mark's strength was insufficient to stop all of this, which made things difficult for him.

He was wondering whether to kill all these people or to first take care of his temporary teammates.

The power divisions in the Myriad Worlds were slightly different from those in the Paradise. They divided the ranks below the Sequence into one to ten tiers.

At first glance, this seemed to correspond to the Paradise's rank sequence, meaning ten levels per tier. However, in reality, the power divisions in the Paradise and the Myriad Worlds were not on the same level.

It should be known that one tier is ten levels. While this ensured that people in the Myriad Worlds improved their strength very quickly, it also meant that they were destined to never reach their true limits.

For example, a Myriad Worlds warrior might reach the threshold of the second tier not long after entering the first tier. However, if this threshold were converted to the Paradise's rank sequence, it might only be Lv.6 or Lv.7.

This meant that the warrior could still continue to improve his strength; he had not yet reached the limit of that tier.

However, this warrior was unaware of this, so he chose to break through. Similarly, after he entered the second tier, the limit he reached might only be equivalent to Lv.15 in the Paradise's ranking. This accumulated continuously, and the higher up a Myriad Worlds warrior went, the harder it became to improve, and the further he got from his potential limit. Eventually, when he reached the tenth tier, his strength might only be equivalent to Lv.80 in the Paradise's ranking, or even lower.

As a result, when these Myriad Worlds warriors faced Paradise Contractors, only one situation would arise: an overwhelming defeat!

They would be mercilessly crushed!

“Don’t underestimate me. Since they’ve delivered themselves to us, there’s no way I’ll let them go.”

“But damn it, I wasted a potion. If I catch the person behind this, I’ll drain him dry to compensate for my loss.”

Perhaps sensing the difficulty in Li An's heart, Nie Guang, standing beside Li An, chuckled and cursed.

Then, under Li An's gaze, Nie Guang took out a potion and drank it in one gulp.

Gulp~

As Nie Guang drank the potion, under Li An's gaze, Nie Guang's condition began to recover. When the mercenary soldiers charged to the door, a powerful aura erupted from Nie Guang.

“Hahahahaha, that’s good. Then I wish you both a good time.”

Seeing this, Li An burst into laughter, but at this moment, the enemies had already charged forward. Li An lunged out with a bang, directly confronting the attacking mercenary soldiers.

Among this group of mercenary soldiers, Li An only sensed a few extremely powerful auras. According to his estimation, their strength level should have already reached around eighty-something.

Their strength was very high!

But Li An remained calm in the face of powerful enemies. He had once killed opponents at the Sequence's limit, so enemies at eighty-something levels, though strong, were nothing more than that.

However, what Li An could never have imagined was that those eighty-something level presences he sensed were actually several highly-ranked vice-captains of the Galaxy Mercenary Group. Aside from the Galaxy Mercenary Group’s captain, who had disappeared for decades without a trace, these individuals were the strongest beings in the Galaxy Mercenary Group.

“That kid is charging at us.”

“Ignorance is bliss. I'll kill him.”

At the very back of the mercenary army, a vice-captain with the appearance of an Earth Demon Clan member shouted, then charged forward.

At this moment, Li An also charged forward, constantly reaping the lives of one mercenary soldier after another. As the warriors blocking his path fell, Li An rapidly approached the charging vice-captain.

“He actually dares to charge forward?”

At this moment, Li An's perception was fully open. He immediately noticed that one of the powerful energies he had previously sensed was now rapidly approaching him.

“Get out of my way!!!”

Li An roared, his hands erupting with terrifying fist power, directly sending the surrounding mercenary soldiers flying.

And just then, the Earth Demon Clan vice-captain also arrived. He directly swept past the flying mercenary soldiers and charged at Li An, who stood in the center.

It must be said that this vice-captain chose his timing perfectly. At this moment, Li An had just unleashed a powerful punch and was between old and new strength. He extended his large hand and grabbed at Li An's neck.