DESTINY GAMES

That jab at him made him grin. His mood eased up.

He said, "I guess you’re right. If only there was a way to find out when powerful individuals awaken."

Wrath scoff. "Unfortunately, you don’t have that. So you have to work hard."

He asked, "Do you think something like that is possible?"

Wrath said proudly, "I know it is possible. You can do something like that with the ring of knowledge. With it, you can know everything happening on Earth-11. I’m sure you can use it to find whoever you want."

He rolled his eyes and said, "I meant something more practical and won’t need me to kill a demigod for."

He already knows about the ring of knowledge. With it, the wielder will become aware of everything happening on the planet. The only beings whose actions and whereabouts that the ring can’t know are demigods, welders of divine artifacts, divine artifacts themselves, and the paragon.

Having such a ring would make finding targets very easy for him. Unfortunately, he can’t have it. Wrath doesn’t even know who is in possession of it or where it is. So he has to keep his expectations low.

He said, "I want something like a machine or an ability that will inform me of the location and identity of omega supers."

Wrath shrugged. "Anything is possible. Maybe the weapon class ability to form a connection with cameras or like the one to form a connection with the satellite would do."

He nodded. Those abilities could make what he wants possible. He decided to prioritize them for his second slot. He wants something that will help him to acquire knowledge about others or things easily. 𝓯𝓻𝓮𝙚𝙬𝓮𝙗𝒏𝙤𝒗𝙚𝙡.𝒄𝒐𝓶

There are many psychic abilities that help their wielders to acquire information. One particularly famous one was a visual ability that could see the weakness of others and view their destiny report.

The wielder of the ability was able to find out exactly people’s power rating and what abilities they possessed. This knowledge helped them to gain reknown in the games until they were killed somewhere in real life.

The memory of the villain known as the Scholar brought to his mind about a mission he saw that required him to kill someone who could communicate with insects.

The target is a summoner-class super who was an information broker. He hadn’t been interested in the mission before because communicating with insects wouldn’t add to his power, and the target had a large armed force of supers to protect him.

Not only was the ability a beta ability, it was worse than the ability to control rats. It didn’t seem worth the risk before, but now he is not so sure.

He spoke to Wrath about it. Wrath said, "Targeting an information broker is a bad idea. It is generally bad business. They are supposed to neutral entities that you shouldn’t touch."

"Don’t look at how this guy can’t fight. He is not completely harmless because of it. In fact, the opposite is true. He will have a lot of connections in the underworld that he can use to bring a world of pain on you should you fail. But if you can get his ability, it will be good for you."

Kelvin shrugged and said, "I guess I must not fail then."

He returned home determined to get an ability to help him acquire information. This made him accept the mission to kill the information broker. He went over the mission and accepted after seeing the mission parameters.

Wrath mused beside him, "This is going to be difficult."

He agreed, "It is. But I have a shot."

The mission will be very difficult because the information doesn’t leave his apartment. He stays indoors most of the time, and his apartment is guarded by a lot of men. Everything he needs is brought to him.

According to the data he has, his guards are up to 100 in number. They rotate shifts, but there are always 50 of them around him at a time. They roam the whole floor that he lives on armed with guns or nothing else.

These two factors show that the information broker is rich. Not only does he have the whole floor of a skyscraper to himself, he has enough money to hire 100 people to watch him constantly.

Then there is the fact that the information broker’s partner and head of security is a weapon-class super that speaks with machines. This makes two information-gathering abilities working together. It has raised the difficulty of the mission by a whole level.

Next is the part where the information provided about the interior of the building and the guards is incomplete. So either he finds a way to get more information himself or he will be going into this blind.

Kelvin didn’t want to go through with the mission after seeing the difficulty of it. If not for the slight window of opportunity that he will have when the information broker goes to visit his father’s grave every month, then he would stand no chance at all.

He said to Wrath after reviewing the information, "I can either ambush him when he leaves the city or replace one of his guards to infiltrate his fortress. But I am not certain of the second option. Something about coming under the scrutiny of two observant supers without enough information doesn’t feel like a good idea."

Wrath chuckled and said, "It doesn’t feel like a good idea because it is not. You can look like someone and fool others into believing that you are the person you are pretending to be, but observant people, especially information brokers who have done intensive background checks on their guards and are ready for infiltration, will be very difficult to deceive."

"Your habits, the way you talk, the tone of your voice, and other mannerisms will expose you. Then there is the fact that you don’t know the routine of the guards. You will be like a sore thumb in front of them. Even if you manage to pull this off and kill them, I doubt you will get away with it."