At this moment, Brandon was truly frightened. After seeing Steve's real strength, he realized how foolish he had been to ever cross him! After all, Steve could defeat both the Night Hawk Combat Machine and the King Ice Tiger with a single blow each!

Moreover, Steve's basic cell value was more than 430 points, and there were less than 100 people in the entire Stanlos Base Camp with that high of a basic cell value! Plus, these geniuses, the forces behind them, were even bigger and more powerful than Brandon's own family!

"It's too late to regret things now." Steve's voice was calm, without any emotion. As he spoke, the mimic weapon in his hand became a sword, which he slowly raised.

Over the past few days, when Brandon had been constantly finding trouble with him, Steve had tolerated him so many times. But, Brandon had finally crossed the line.

After all, Brandon had left Steve behind with two Elite Ice Tiger Magical Beasts, driven the Night Hawk Combat Machine into him, and even attracted the attention of the King Ice Tiger towards him!

These incidents had all been life-threatening for Steve. If it was not for Steve's strength, he would have been killed long ago!

Thinking of these things, Steve raised his sword even higher in the air, ready to slash it down. But, just when Steve was about to kill Brandon…

"Stop!"

"No!"

"Your Excellency Steve, please don't kill him!"

Jacob and others suddenly stood up and begged Steve to have mercy on him. Steve was confused by this. After all, Brandon had done so many bad things, yet Jacob and the others were pleading for him to have mercy on him now.

"He tried to kill me several times. Why can't I kill him?" Steve demanded to know.

"Indeed, Master Brandon deserves to die. But, he is still our employer. If you kill him, his family will punish us severely." Jacob explained that he had no choice but to beg for such leniency.

"Failure to accomplish our mission is a trivial matter, but failing to protect our employer would mean that no one else will hire us in the future." Alia sighed.

What the both of them said was true. If Brandon died, his family would hold the Theodore Team accountable, and they would have to bear the consequences. Specifically, their team's reputation would be tarnished! In the future, who would hire a team who could not even protect their employer's safety?

That was why they would not allow Steve to kill Brandon. Even though Brandon had done many bad things, they would still protect his safety. After all, it was their professional responsibility.

"If you want to kill Brandon, you have to kill us five first," Jacob said calmly. The five of them were clearly ready to battle Steve if he insisted on killing Brandon.

Steve frowned, reminding himself that the Theodore Team had been good to him. Although they had not established a strong relations.h.i.+p, they had cooperated well with each other and trusted one another. As such, sacrificing the entire Theodore Team just to kill Brandon was not at all what Steve wanted.

"You're lucky. I won't kill you, but I can't just let you off so easily either," Steve spoke to Brandon coldly.

He then took out an iron lock and locked Brandon's hands with it. "If you want to live, ask your family to pay to redeem you from me."

As Steve now had no intention of killing or torturing Brandon to vent his anger, he figured that the best course of action was to let Brandon's family pay him a satisfactory amount of compensation for his safe release back to them.

Though he was being held captive, Brandon was ready to escape when an opportunity came. He knew that his family would pay to redeem him, but he also knew that this would bring great shame upon his family.

In fact, the main reason why he did not tell his family about the Magical Beast's egg in the first place was because he did not want any compet.i.tors. He had planned to get the Magical Beast's egg and become the only heir of the family!

Now, instead of getting the Magical Beast's eggs and claiming victory and spoils for himself, he was being held captive!

What was worse, his family would have to pay a huge amount of compensation to redeem him. If word of this spread, he would lose his reputation and the chance of becoming the heir!

Hence, Brandon was secretly looking for any chance to escape...