Life at the Top

“Have you seen whalers at sea?”

Fabian patted Conrad’s shoulder and continued meaningfully, “Whalers first find the whale, then follow it until it grows tired. They attack the moment it gets distracted.

“Whalers only get one chance to attack, because the moment they fail, an irked whale will capsize the entire boat and flee into the deep waters.

“We’re like whalers. The moment we attack, we aim to kill.

“I know of the processes and plans that you’ve used against Jasper before. You made the mistake of being too careful with all sorts of buildup and traps, but they all proved to be useless. Rather, you’ve only caused him to be wary of you.

“Hence, there are only two steps to my attack. The first, I hit his confidence hard. Then, I’ll follow it with the ultimate move right after. After all that, it’ll be time for us to taste the fruits of victory.”

Conrad fell deep in thought when he heard Fabian.

After a long while, he nodded. “Perhaps you’re right.”

“Then I look forward to working with you, hahaha.”

…

Waterhoof City, at the beach.

Jasper frowned as he aimlessly walked along the landscape route with Henry following beside him blankly.

The latter would glance at Jasper from time to time, yet, Henry did not disturb him when he saw that the other was still thinking.

to Jasper’s occasional strange expressions, since the man always managed to find a lead within a messy haystack of clues. This was something Henry could never come up with no matter how hard he wracked

did Fabian leave Harbor City recently?” Jasper

“I don’t think so.”

seen you so

or person easily from how the latter always acted. However,

look like a god to

lacks are capable people. If I can’t understand that, then death is right around the

may never have met Fabian, but do you

qualified supporter, he asked cooperatively,

“A venomous snake.”

his eyes and

the dark and rarely attacking. However, the moment he does, it’s done

die from just one bite. To be frank with you, I really

so, he must have thought of something as he suddenly laughed out loud. “You got that right. This

Harpoon River. “We already know that Fabian’s contacting my past enemies and they’re going to team up

or even who exactly Fabian has contacted. We have

can do now but wait. We can’t

are forced to take everything

also sense the severity of the situation and spoke up whilst standing beside Jasper, “Aren’t we playing a very passive role,

nothing we can do about that. After all, they know everything about us, but we know nothing of them. It’s not like we can run

was overjoyed when he heard Jasper’s suggestion.