If Ren Loam were to be believed, it meant that Mina would be more difficult to save than Ian could have anticipated. However, he was willing to sacrifice his life, and he offered handsome bonuses to any man who volunteered to go on what was considered a suicide mission. Ren claimed that Mina was being held in a country where Ian had no friends, but plenty of enemies. Nael was just one of those people, the man's grandfather was another, and Sasha Ivanov was the last, but that did not account for the several other families who worked closely with or under them.