Of course, the conclusion that no more rewards would be gained during the mission was merely an educated guess. The Warehouse might make a judgment based on an overly drastic change and deprive him of the chance to regret it.
And even if things went a little more gently—if he ate the trait, realized something was wrong, and the Warehouse didn't immediately judge that his state had changed—then when the mission ended in failure, the rewards still might not necessarily be empty.
As for the first possibility, Fu Qian had never expected to secure a hundred percent chance of success, considering that his opponent was very likely a true deity who had endured through endless ages.
The only bets he needed to avoid were those with odds of fifty percent or less.
This possible low-probability exception would simply mean discounting his odds when calculating his chances of winning.
As for the latter possibility, Fu Qian was even less naive than to think he truly had as many chances to make mistakes as he had Sanity Value.
On the contrary, in his estimation, the latter possibility was extremely likely.
Rainbow of Yao Bian, who had harmed so many predecessors, was sure to be quite familiar with how the Warehouse operated.
How could the meticulously laid trap—the open conspiracy that amounted to a dead end—possibly leave such a huge loophole?
Unless that loophole had been left there on purpose.
In fact, Fu Qian had never entertained the pleasant fantasy of deliberately failing the mission, letting the Warehouse reset everything for him, and then continuing to make mistakes.
In his plan, he had only one chance to try again—Transcendence.
It was the only way to start over without triggering a mission failure check.
As he'd said before, professionals never wasted resources of any