Chapitre 111: Entrustment

"Please, just let me go..." A plea sounded through the air.

As the hired thugs burst through the iron doors, they were met with a scene of carnage—bodies strewn across the floor and Addison kneeling helplessly. They all froze in shock.

"Addison... you!" Not only were the arriving thugs stunned, but the bald man who was tightly choking Jony was also caught off guard. His hand, clenching a machete, began to tremble.

"Let him go, release him now!" Addison's mental defenses completely crumbled at that moment.

He had thought that kidnapping Jony would be enough to coerce the man before him, but it proved utterly ineffective. Especially when he recalled the scenes from the secret realm the day before, sheer terror swiftly invaded his heart.

Given Irving's strength and methods, any harm to Jony would undoubtedly lead to a gruesome end.

And indeed, it did.