Facing Cha Anping's threat, Paranoid merely snorted disdainfully. "A senior military officer? Don't think so highly of yourself."
"If I took out my military ID, it'd scare you to death!"
His ID really was impressive—if only it hadn't expired.
So he was from the military too? Cha Anping was not surprised by that answer at all.
Soaring Academy was a military academy, while Chaoyang Academy was also an Ability Warrior Academy. Among the military's experts, quite a few had come from Chaoyang.
Properly speaking, people like the Senior Female Apprentice beside him—who had come from Soaring Academy but left the military system—were truly rare.
Cha Anping sighed inwardly and spoke in a deep voice. "Then may I see your ID?"
"Is something wrong with your brain?" Paranoid answered without any courtesy. "If it were appropriate for you to see it, I'd have come during the day."
"Anping, it's him," Hillary spoke up at once. "Be careful, his cultivation is very high."
Cha Anping had no time to respond to her—if he could evade my senses, how could his cultivation be low? Still, at least the other party was willing to talk first. That meant there was room for mediation.
Before mediation, however, he naturally had to seize the moral high ground.
So he gave a slight nod. "As expected of someone from Chaoyang. You really are utterly unreasonable!"
Paranoid was still leaning sideways against the iron post. He waved a hand and spoke blandly. "At least I didn't impose Coercive Pressure on a B-rank."
"Now I'll ask you one question... are you determined to protect this woman?"
Imposing Coercive Pressure on a B-rank... Cha Anping was quite speechless when he heard that.
The Senior Female Apprentice had already told him how the conflict between both sides had begun, so she