Tony watched Nick and the others leave without ordering anyone to pursue and kill them.
At that moment, aside from the members of the Dark Alliance, not a single living person remained on First Avenue. Everyone else had become a corpse.
The sight of severed limbs was enough to make anyone shudder. Even the members of the Dark Alliance, who had personally taken part in it all, felt their hearts pound with fear now that they had calmed down.
They had mainly targeted Steve and his companions and had not killed many ordinary people, so these corpses were all the Shadowkhan's handiwork.
At that thought, they instinctively glanced at the Shadowkhan around them. As it happened, the Shadowkhan turned their scarlet gazes toward the Dark Alliance as well, as though regarding them as their next targets.
A chill immediately crawled over everyone's scalp.
Fortunately, Tony spoke just then, breaking the eerie atmosphere.
"Reed, are you all right?"
Tony's voice was not particularly warm, but it still stirred a trace of gratitude in Reed's heart.
"I'm fine, boss."
Reed sounded far more respectful than before. Previously, he had merely regarded Tony as his employer.
But after Tony had brought people to rescue him, even going to war with the authorities for his sake, Reed had given him his wholehearted loyalty and come to regard him as his lord.
Watching this, everyone around them felt a mixture of emotions.
They had gathered around Tony for all sorts of reasons. Previously, they had seen their relationship as little more than mutual exploitation, but this time, they had seen his sincerity.
Tony truly regarded them as his own people, not tools to be discarded once they had served their purpose.
For a moment, the relationships within the Dark Alliance felt warmer than before. Even