Kelvin nodded and said with a tone of finality, "Fine. I won't infiltrate them. I'll just ambush their convoy the good old fashioned way or wait for the man at the location of his father's grave and put a bullet in his head with my sniper."
Then he asked, "But there's something that I find odd about this whole process. He seems like such a cautious man. Why would he leave the safety of his house and the city to visit the grave of a dead person?"
Wrath replied with exasperation, "It is his father's grave. It is clear that he loves his father really well and misses him. He also respects his father a lot. I know that this can be strange to understand because of the current era. But in the past, humans had a lot of elaborate rituals for sending off a loved one.
Some were expensive and some were simple affairs, but they did always did something to get a sense of closure."
Kelvin was still confused. He said, "I still don't understand. His actions seem so stupid. Why expose himself to so much danger for someone who is already dead?"
Wrath sighed, "His actions seem irrational to you because he is spending a lot of effort and taking a lot of risk to honor the memory of his father. All I can say is that he can do so because he can afford to. He is clearly rich, so there is very little he can't do."
Kelvin shook his head stubbornly. "This isn't about money. I still think he is stupid."
"I'm guessing you are not going to honor your father when he dies," Wrath said with certainty.
Then it asked, "Who is your father anyway?"
Kelvin replied, "He is dead."
Wrath chuckled and asked, "I hope you didn't kill him."
Kelvin didn't answer. This caused Wrath to be surprised.
It said in shock, "No way! You killed your father?"
Kelvin finally replied. "I didn't kill him. Though I wish I could."
Wrath shook its head. "I don't know if I should be glad or not."
Kelvin shrugged and said, "There is no major difference between my father and everyone else I have killed before. It shouldn't be strange that I killed him."
Wrath didn't quite agree, but it didn't argue. It said, "If you say so."
Then it asked, "When your father died, what kind of burial did you give him?"
Kelvin replied, "I didn't attend his burial. But I heard that he was cremated. They burned his corpse and turned it into ash."
He said that with a smirk of amusement. He doesn't know why his father allowed himself to be killed only to resurrect as one of the justice league, but he hopes his death was painful. Just the thought of Fire Rose scattering him into smitherings makes him feel good.
Wrath didn't know what he was thinking, but it saw the smirk on his face, which was a little unsettling to see. So it said, "I see. I guess the fault is mine. I should have expected that you wouldn't attend your father's funeral when you hated him enough to want to kill him."
Kelvin returned his attention to the printed-out copies of maps on his table as he said, "It is what it is."
He and Wrath looked over this map and many others to plan for their mission. They couldn't find a good ambush point on the road to the burial site, so they decided that he would just assassinate the target at the burial site.
Besides, the convoy had too many cars and me for an ambush to be viable. It would be difficult to identify which vehicle his target is in the convoy, plus so many men would be able to rush his position.
He won't be able to kill all of them as they come out of their vehicles, as there are more than 10 vehicles in the convoy. If all of the men scatter and approach him, he will be quickly overwhelmed.
All of these reasons made it too dangerous to ambush the envoy or try to kidnap him. The smart thing to do was to find a vantage spot to kill the target after he comes out of the vehicle.
He had to give up on his goal of acquiring the man's ability because of the difficulty. But he didn't want to waste all the time he had spent preparing for the mission. So he decided to simply kill the man for the money.
It was a large amount of money too. The person offering the mission was offering 500,000 dollars for the information broker's head. Wrath thought it was too little in value compared to the value of information in the man's possession, but Kelvin was fine with it.
This brought up another problem of which position to use to kill the man. The maps were helpful, but they couldn't provide accurate information of the wilds because it was constantly changing thanks to the incursion.
He had to drive out into the wilds to scout the location. Only then did he find someone with a good overview of the vantage point. Unfortunately, this vantage point was too high up, so he wouldn't be able to escape quickly from it.
It was a position on top of a dilapidated skyscraper. It granted him a good overview but made it easy for him to be cornered. So he installed a system to rappel down quickly after making his shot.
He made many more preparations which didn't take time, but he still had to wait. It is because he couldn't start the mission anytime he wanted. He had to wait for when the target would leave his fortress and venture out into the wilds.
When it was a day to the time, he left New London to go camp out in his chosen spot and make sure the rappel system was functional.
It wouldn't do to become stranded at the very moment he needed to escape the most. Plus there were other important reasons for him to go early.