Achieving any goal requires sacrifice, but choosing the right one is a delicate matter.
You have to strike where it hurts most!
If you can offer sothing they desperately want but can’t obtain, your efforts will be doubly effective.
Paige Sumrs rembered a casual chat she’d had with Quentin Sutton in The Citadel. He’d ntioned he was researching a dicine that could suppress superpower energy, but he’d had no success so far. Of course, that wasn’t his only goal. He hoped to use that dicine to master the key to controlling energy, which would in turn allow him to create the dicine he truly needed: one that could *enhance* superpower energy.
Paige Sumrs didn’t quite grasp the connection between the two, but she was sure of one thing: Levi Young was far more skilled! Because Levi Young had already created such a dicine—even if its effects were only temporary.
And what Quentin Sutton now held in his hand was undoubtedly the very thing he needed. However, the quantity was minuscule—not nearly enough for him to analyze its composition.
So, when Nora Lowell’s voice erupted from outside, scolding his n for keeping her out, Quentin Sutton had no ti to process his conflicted emotions. He just pointed to the storage room where they had been hiding, signaling for Paige Sumrs and Levi Young to hurry inside.
Back inside the underground storage room, Paige Sumrs was in a fairly good mood.
Now that Quentin Sutton had taken the bait, he would surely cover for them.
’Truthfully, with my current power, it wouldn’t be hard to take down Quentin Sutton. But with enemies all over the city, having another collaborator is a much better deal than fighting it out. Besides, I have Levi Young to think about.’
The kid was looking utterly dejected, and Paige Sumrs knew why. He felt like he was dragging her down.
She didn’t plan to comfort him.
’Because this is reality.’
’If you want to survive and thrive, the first thing you have to do is face reality!’
’But I also believe that as long as Levi Young works hard, he’ll achieve sothing incredible sooner or later. Even if his superpower isn’t top-tier, his talent for dicine is a gift.’
At that mont, Nora Lowell had already burst into the room, pushing past Quentin Sutton’s n.
She looked absolutely furious.
In truth, she hadn’t gotten far before she sensed sothing was off.
Quentin Sutton had clearly provoked her on purpose to make her leave.
’What did that an?’
’It most likely ant he’d found Paige Sumrs’s hiding spot but didn’t want getting involved!’
So she’d returned.
But Quentin Sutton, preoccupied, had already lost his patience for her gas. He shot her a look. "What now? Still not satisfied? Thanks to your ’advice,’ we’ve already wasted a good deal of ti! I think before we make another move, I ought to go ask the City Lord who was actually assigned the task of hunting down Paige Sumrs—you, or ?!"
With that, he strode straight for the door.
Nora Lowell swallowed her rage and quickly scanned the room, but she saw no change from before. She frowned. ’Did I guess wrong?’
Just then, Quentin Sutton’s voice, cold and laced with anger, drifted in from outside. "Back to The Citadel!"
She gritted her teeth and rushed out, forced to try and stop him.
’I ca here behind Shawn Monroe’s back. If he finds out I’m ddling in a task he assigned to his subordinate, he won’t react well. Our relationship is so fragile right now, like we’re standing on a knife’s edge. One step forward could bring us closer, but one step back... and I might lose the support I need from him forever.’
She thought of her father back in Norgate, of the humiliations she had endured there, and of the vow she had once sworn: "I will make that woman and everyone who ever looked down on bow at my feet." She took a deep breath and plastered a smile on her face for Quentin Sutton...
「Not long after Quentin Sutton and Nora Lowell left, Woody Warren returned.」
He called Paige Sumrs and Levi Young out of hiding and said excitedly, "Quick! Both of you, change your clothes. I brought so stuff. Do whatever you can to make sure no one recognizes you! I’m getting you out of here now!"
They exchanged a glance and quickly did as Woody Warren said, changing into combat uniforms.
While Paige Sumrs smudged their faces to disguise them, Woody Warren explained the situation.
He had first gone to the outer city. He found that even though there were more guards at the gate, the city wasn’t on lockdown. Hunting Parties could still pass through after an inspection. After all, it was how many of the city’s residents made a living. You couldn’t just stop them from earning money to eat and drink!
Seeing this, Woody Warren imdiately had an idea.
He’d lived in The Dead City for a long ti, so of course he knew a few Hunting Parties. He was even on good terms with one of the captains. He wouldn’t normally want to bother them over sothing trivial, but this was a perfect ti to call in a favor!
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