Chapter 106 - Rescuing Haccid - 2 (1/2)

Soo Hyuk doubted Ross.

‘It can’t be this easy?’

He didn’t expect Ross to take him to Haccid this easily. He initially thought a fight would break out, and he’d have to earn some hints of where Haccid was located.

“But I hope we maintain some distance between each other on the way,” said Ross.

“That’s fine.”

Soo Hyuk was lost in his thoughts and quickly nodded. He didn’t want to close the distance either.

Ross kept his long sword in his hand as he walked towards the door. Soo Hyuk took a few steps aside, and Ross passed by while being wary of Soo Hyuk.

After Ross went out of the room, he said, “Why don’t we introduce ourselves? I’m Ross.”

“Garrett…”

There was no point in telling Ross his real name in a situation like this, so Soo Hyuk told him an alias.

Ross and Soo Hyuk continued to walk while cautious of each other, and after a short moment, they arrived at the first floor. Ross took out a book from a bookshelf, and the shelf started to move to the side, revealing a staircase headed downstairs.

‘Oh! They had a basement.’

Soo Hyuk thought there was a secret room because Haccid wasn’t on one of the three floors, and that secret room was this basement.

“I’ll take the lead from here. It is best for your sake not to plan on stabbing me from behind.”

Ross threatened Soo Hyuk and headed down the stairs. Soo Hyuk hurriedly followed behind in case Ross was scheming something.

Ross quickened his pace, and Soo Hyuk frowned, realizing that Ross probably had a plan.

‘Is he planning to use Haccid as a hostage…? I should have just killed him.’

Once the stairs leading to the basement appeared, Soo Hyuk originally planned to kill Ross. He let Ross be in case he’d have to use Ross, but Soo Hyuk regretted his decision.

“Captain?”

A voice came from ahead, but the voice was not from Ross.

‘So there were other people in the mansion.’

Soo Hyuk has killed quite a lot of people at Romian’s place, and seeing that the first two floors were empty, he thought that only Ross was in the mansion, but the voices ahead proved him wrong.

Stopping his steps, Soo Hyuk saw Ross smirking at him with three men around him.

Each of the three men held a weapon; a shield, a whip, and a dagger.

“Who is that man?”

The man with the shield asked Ross while staring at Soo Hyuk.

“He came for the guy in there.”

Ross then told Soo Hyuk, “He’s in there. Well, you probably won’t believe me, but you can go ahead and check.”

Ross opened the prison gate and stepped aside.

“Hmm, are you worried that I’m standing too close to the door?”

Ross and the three men then stepped further away.

Soo Hyun stood still while thinking, ‘What is he scheming?’

He then walked closer to the prison door while glancing at Ross and his henchmen.

Soo Hyuk was surprised when he saw a man chained and filled with scars inside the prison chambers. That man was Haccid.

Soo Hyuk approached Haccid and checked his condition, and asked, “Are you alright?”

“Ughh..” Haccid groaned painfully.

Haccid could not answer Soo Hyuk and kept on groaning due to his body and mind going through a long duration of torture.

“This guy must know a lot, too.”

Ross said to the three guys while staring at Soo Hyuk.

‘Of course, it was gonna turn out like this.’

He felt it was strange that everything was going so smoothly.

‘He let me in to prevent me from running away.’

Even when Ross met the three other men, he didn’t attack Soo Hyuk in case Soo Hyuk ran away.

“What do you want?” asked Soo Hyuk.

“The things you know.”

“The things I know?”

“Yeah.”

“What are you talking about?”

“I was going to figure that out later.”

Ross smirked and made a cold gaze.

“Seize him,” ordered Ross. The three men followed the order and equipped their weapons.

Soo Hyuk checked on Haccid and looked at Ross and thought,

“The storms are a no go.”