The Man’s Decree – Chapter 6003

Luck favored Jared's route, every bend he picked lay outside the patrol patterns of the Jade Immortal Manor, and each time torches appeared they slip past with inches to spare. At last they reached the vine-choked corner wall.

Jared cracked open the concealed hatch, and the group filed inside before he sealed the stones again.

The tunnel was damp and narrow, as they moved through it, tension drained from Jared's shoulders in slow increments. The hardest part, the snatch itself, was done.

Getting Quentin out of a locked-down city and prying the truth from his mouth would be another fight altogether. Still, with the man in hand, the initiative now belonged to Jared.

They emerged in the hidden chamber where Lyza and the others relocated.