Agent's plan to talk Pride and Greed into surfacing with him had no fancy purpose at all. He simply wanted to borrow their mental strength to activate hallucination vision. And there was nothing lofty about activating hallucination vision, either. He just couldn't see.
"This damn city has visibility of less than two meters. There are storm clouds, darkness, fog, and rain. If I don't use a hallucination talent that can lock onto enemies precisely, how am I supposed to aim at them from a distance?"
Pride and Greed had no response.
They should have realized it sooner. Agent had never come here to discuss philosophy. He was a thoroughgoing pragmatist. He disliked hallucinations because he found them unreliable, and he needed to use one now because he had no other choice.
"I didn't need it before because nobody in this city used guns. I had a gun, so even with limited visibility, I still held a certain advantage." Agent continued, "But after testing the nanotech equipment, I discovered that it also had night vision. If the enemy uses nanotech gear, they'll have a visual advantage over me, and my advantage will vanish."
"Besides, they didn't use guns against Batman. But now that I have one, they might use them too. If the gap in weaponry is erased while visibility remains their advantage, I could end up at an extreme disadvantage. The mission's success rate could drop dramatically, and that isn't what I want."
"So you want to use our unique talents to level the gap in visibility?" Greed asked. "But your ammunition is limited. The difference in weaponry will eventually be leveled out too."
"They'll soon realize that the methods they used on Batman don't work well on me. They'll change tactics and use more violent means. They might even