Arcus shrugged. "Don't worry. I'm just discussing the prospect of a partnership with Mr. Derek. All we want to do is make money, and we have no interest in anything else.

"Moreover, if Mr. Frankton wanted to act, he would already have. Why wait until now?"

While Arcus already had a plan on what to do against warhawks like the geezer, he decided to be reasonable for the time being-it was never too late to move against him later.

And the geezer was a sly old fox who would never believe Arcus either. He pretended to buy it nonetheless, as the purpose was to distract.

Nonetheless, as Arcus returned to the mansion, he quickly had his people look into the geezer and other people of interest in the Costner family.

In a day, a full stack of data was in front of him.

As it turned out, several elders of the Costner family carried considerable influence in the family-one of whom was Walt Costner, the geezer who showed up to warn Arcus. He was a strong martial artist and used to be the head of the family but overestimated his importance and made too many enemies.

The family ended up in shambles because of that, and Walt was forced to step down. Even so, he never deferred to Derek since he was younger and was constantly sabotaging Derek, even once planning to leave and establish his own family.

they had other adopted members and vassals. In fact, certain small factions who were concerned about being bullied or lone martial artists

one wanted to establish another branch of the family, the new family head must establish a similar foundation of outsiders beforehand. Not even the new family

family also meant no chance of accessing the base of the family's power and wealth, so Walt quickly gave up

ran in his room and exclaimed, "We have a problem! Someone attacked

he already had a good read

attention to himself, though he

pin the blame on Derek. Hence, after the

shot." Arcus snorted. "We can retaliate-but make sure that

"Alright!"

was

Derek who really was responsible and what the true culprit's purpose was. Moreover, Arcus would not embarrass Frank, while he would also get Walt to understand what

day later, Walt arranged

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