As he calmly descended the stairs, Minos decided to take a small peek at the belongings of the young master of the Nash family. 'Considering the Nash family's economic power, this young master must have a considerable amount of wealth,' he thought to himself before checking Luke's spatial ring.
Minos was not concerned about his soldiers being harmed by Luke's subordinates; the reason was the presence of beautiful Ruth with the group.
While living with Ruth for the past few days, Minos had learned a little about this young woman. He knew she was at level 45, just 18 years old and also possessed envy worth Silver-grade talent, which made her an essential disciple of the Gray Clouds Sect.
And along with that, considering the support she was given within this Flaming Empire sect, Minos was certain that she had Silver-grade techniques. And even though Ruth didn't tell Minos about her techniques, he was sure that she had at least two techniques at this level.
That was because even the Brown Kingdom royal family had a Silver-grade technique… So, a sect like the one Ruth came from certainly had many of such techniques. That way, an important disciple like her would certainly receive excellent treatment and resources.
Thus, Minos was confident that Ruth could handle any given situation unless a Spiritual King were to intervene. However, in the north of the Central Continent, no one would put someone on her level to protect a young man within his own city.
Hell, even if these young masters were to leave the kingdoms, their families still wouldn't send someone like that to protect them!
Of course, that would only happen if they were to leave the northern region of the Central Continent. But this was also not common, and it was far from Minos' current situation.
As to why the families did not protect their young masters so much that they were willing to send Spiritual Kings to defend them, well… the reason was not that they didn't love their children, rather it is because there were very few individuals at this level. Even when considering the number of Spiritual Kings of the entire kingdom, there would still be no more than 300 people at this level!
Thus, the chance for a Spiritual King to intervene against the most privileged descendants of a large family was minimal. Besides, these young masters were also educated to never offend someone of this level, especially when they were away from their families.
Therefore, there was no need to use the few experts at such a level to escort young masters.
Anyway, after a few breaths, Minos finally managed to probe through young Luke's spatial ring.
'Oh! Just as expected, there is a Silver-grade technique! And not only that, it's a cultivation technique that can greatly help speed up someone's cultivation speed...' Minos thought, looking at the silver parchment in his right hand.
It also explained why Luke had a higher level than Darell, the young master of the Silva family. Despite being almost the same age, the young master of the Nash family probably had been practicing a Silver-grade cultivation technique since he was 10 years old. Meanwhile, Darell used only a Black-grade technique to cultivate.
Minos then looked at the other items inside the ring.
There were 50,000 low-grade crystals, 300 medium-grade crystals, one low-level grade-2 weapon, three other grade-1 weapons, four Black-grade techniques, and numerous grade-1 spiritual pills of all levels.
'It looks like the Nash family is a lot richer than the Silva family…' Minos thought as he finished examining Luke's belongings.
…
On the first floor of the building where Minos' group was, four men stood beside the stairs he had passed previously. Anyone who looked at it would immediately think they were on guard in that place.
And indeed, that was their purpose. Still, when asked, their justification was that they were preventing their master from being irritated by contacting more people than it was necessary.
Another man was sitting on a chair behind a bench near the stairs. He wore silver armor and had no hair on his head.
These five men were the subordinates that the young Luke had brought into this trap.
At the same time, another five people were divided into two groups. With four men in similar clothes, while one of them was waiting by the window. In addition, a beautiful young woman with long black hair was sitting in an armchair, not far from the bald man's counter.
During the time that Minos had gone up to see the 'array master,' there was no action among the ten people who were there.
On the side of the Minos' group, this was just a business for them. Although unusual, strange behaviors like that of this 'array master' were not new. Therefore, none of them suspected that this was a plot to separate Minos from them.
As for Luke's subordinates, due to Ruth's presence, they didn't want to take any chances. They knew nothing of this young woman, and she had also now shown any discomfort while waiting for Minos.
What's more, they probably wouldn't have to act since they would leave immediately right after their young master returned. And the group of Minos could not follow them since the poor young man would undoubtedly need urgent medical care…
In that way, everything was peaceful on the first floor of the building.
Some time passed, and finally, footsteps could be heard coming from the stairs.
'It seems that the young master has already finished playing with that guy,' one of the four subordinates thought with a smile on his face.
'Eh? Already? I thought that Minos would at least last until the spiritual array stopped working, but he didn't even last half the time…' The bald man thought, a bit disappointed in Minos' inability.
However, when they saw the person who had arrived by the stairs, the faces of the five men turned ashen in surprise.
'What happened? Why was this person here? Shouldn't he be almost dying? But if he is here, what happened to our young master?' They all had the same questions in their minds.
At the same time, Minos' group was confused when they saw the young Stuart's clothes torn near his belly and the extremely tired look on his face.
Ruth then got up from the chair and asked, "What happened?"
"No big deal, just an idiot's joke," Minos replied without giving many details.
At that moment, the bald man in silver armor put his thoughts aside and glared at Minos murderously and asked aloud, "What did you do with the young master?"
"Oh! If you're talking about that blond idiot, well… you better go and see him yourself. He might be 'urgently' needing your help…" Minos said with an eerie smile on his face. Although Luke was not hurt so badly that he was at risk of death, he still needed help.
And even if Minos didn't want to create any problem for his newly-initiated alliance with Elen, he still wanted to scare these guys.
"Miserable, if something happens to the young master, I will show no mercy," the bald man growled, placing one of his hands on the sword hung at his waist.
"Two of you are going to check on the young master's situation. The rest are here to help me capture this bastard," Guard Brian commanded as he looked at the other Nash family's subordinates.
Meanwhile, Minos was already heading for the building's exit as if none of this had anything to do with him. That was when he heard an angry cry from behind.
"Little bastard, don't you even think about leaving so soon. Now that you have attacked the young master, you will have to pay for your crimes in the Nash family!"
While saying this to Minos, Brian quickly turned his gaze to Ruth, he knew that if he wanted to capture Minos, he'd have to face this young woman first.
As for the remaining two guards, they were already prepared to fight against Minos' other four soldiers.
Minos then glanced at Ruth and teased the beautiful young woman beside him with a smile, "Ruth, you talk so much about the greatness of your sect. Why don't you show me how capable you are?"
"Hmph, don't expect me to always help you during the months that I will be with you!" Ruth warned with a serious expression on her face.
Following that she activated her techniques and started to fight against the three of the Nash family's subordinates. Of these three, the strongest was guard Brian, who was at level 46, while the other two were at levels 43 and 44.
Pow!
Ruth quickly moved forward and started pressing the three men towards the opposite side of the building while throwing several punches at them.
After the three had gotten a bit wary of her Ruth quickly approached the weaker guard and punched him in the face.
Pow!
"Argghhh!"
The level 43 man screamed in pain as he stammered after being punched in the face.
His body staggered backwards, falling to the ground a moment later, as he tried to hold his face with unfocused eyes. This punch had sunk his nose, making him bleed heavily and not being able to do things straight.
"Ahhhh!"
At the same time, he also spat a mouthful of blood and a few teeth along with it while he gradually lost consciousness.
It did not take long before another guard, at level 44, also faced the same fate, falling to the ground while suffering from the severe damage caused by the beautiful young woman.
With that, now only the bald man, Brian, who was struggling with everything he had, remained. 'Shit! Shit! How can this little bitch be so strong?'