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After two minutes, the barrier opened, and a middle-aged man welcomed them.

”Welcome to the city. I am the mayor here. I don't know what business you have here, but you are welcome to stay as much as you want.”

The middle-aged man was a Law God, but he remained humble in front of Yale's group.

Usually, he wouldn't go to receive someone at the barrier, but when he noticed that of the four people, he was unable to see through the strength of three of them, and the last one was a Law God who had an aura stronger than his own, he decided that they couldn't be offended.

Although the people in the city had conflicts with other people which would usually end in a full check of the identity of everyone who wanted to enter, the middle-aged man knew that Yale's group could surpass the barrier without permission and if they were angry, they could just destroy the barrier with the city included.

Thus, there was no way that the middle-aged man would do something that could offend Yale's group. Even if they went to kill someone once inside, he would just act as if he didn't know.

There weren't a single Essence God living in the city and the middle-aged man guessed that Yale, Lina, and Shiba were at least Essence Gods, so there was no way that a coward who fled from a battle impossible to win would offend that kind of people.

The middle-aged man changed his looks and his name after fleeing and managed to live a long time with a new identity because he managed to live while being low-key without offending anyone who could kill him easily.

He was the mayor because he was the strongest there, but he would give up on that position to anyone who asked for it since it wasn't like if he wanted it or something like that.

In fact, more than fearing them, the middle-aged man hoped that they would stay, the longer, the better.

After all, given that they chose to wait outside the barrier showed that they didn't have plans to destroy the city and having strong people inside the city would be very good for his own security if he managed to be close to them. As for the wellbeing of the city, he didn't care at all as long as he and his family were protected.

The only reason for him protecting the city was to protect his family, and those living in the city helped to protect them as huge numbers were better to serve as deterrence, but he really didn't care about their lives in the same way that the others wouldn't care about his life.

They were together in the city just for their own sake, and although they wouldn't harm each other, they won't step to protect someone unrelated to them just because they lived in the same city.

”We are just here to rest for a bit before continuing with our travel. The environment is better here than in the dead worlds.”

Yale told the truth, but the middle-aged didn't believe it.

After all, the world was in a place that was difficult to visit because past it there was a solar system known by most people as a forbidden place if you didn't want to die, which was the one belonging to Yale's parents.

Thus, the middle-aged man didn't think that they were going to that place and less that they came from there.

Previously, Shiba avoided stopping as much as he could while going to Yale's world and the two experts, he killed on the way didn't stop either.

Lina and Eini stopped a bit more, but they avoided worlds with people living in them, so they hadn't been in that world before.

As far as people from that world knew, no one had gone in or out of that forbidden solar system since they started to live on the planet.

That planet wasn't too old, so it didn't exist before Yale reincarnated.

It wasn't strange for a world being destroyed or created when experts were involved, so Yale didn't think too much about the creation of that world.

The middle-aged man didn't believe Yale's words, but he didn't speak because that wasn't his business. Usually, asking for the reasons for them to visit the city was a rule, but he didn't ask them and didn't want to meddle with them because the other party could kill him if he were to be a busybody.

Yale's group wanted to rest a bit while obtaining information about rumors from the universe. After all, there were people from too many places gathered there, so it wasn't impossible that they had some news about the Battle God. Even outdated information was better than nothing.

Moreover, given the place where that world was, it wasn't impossible that the Battle God visited it personally in the past.