Wai, having lost his sense of direction, staggered all the way to the edge of the arena platform.
Though he was still more than ten meters from the edge, he was already very close to the void outside.
Ghost Shadow's eyes lit up. In the previous duels between official wizards, the victors had all won by forcing their opponents out of the arena. Perhaps he could try the same thing now?
Ghost Shadow was tempted, but reason told him to wait. As long as he waited for Wai's potions to run out, victory would surely be his.
But could he really wait until the other man's potions were depleted? Would some accident occur during that time?
After all, his opponent was a descendant of the Noah Clan. He surely had plenty of potions and enchanted-skin scrolls. Perhaps he might actually devise a way to break the fungal barrier?
At that moment, it was as though two different voices existed in Ghost Shadow's mind. One was called "Better Safe Than Sorry," the other "Go All In." They held utterly different ways of thinking and values, and to defend themselves, they argued without end.
Better Safe Than Sorry followed the fundamental doctrine of his true self. With "absolute reason" at its core, it cited the single oversight in a hundred careful measures and the one wrong move in a game of chess as arguments for its position.
Go All In was the newly born radical faction. Under the banner of "do as one pleases," it used the lesson that hesitation when a decision must be made only invites chaos to explain its views.
For now, neither could convince the other.
Yet in this state where neither could persuade the other, Better Safe Than Sorry actually held the advantage. If he could not