The true masters never gambled. They made sure they won.
To put it more specifically, even when they sat down at the table, they never left things to chance. They used every means at their disposal to ensure victory.
Like that Holy Infant across from him, who had no fear of losing, and the untargetability Fu Qian was trying out now.
And it seemed his little innovation had worked.
When it came to higher-order powers, the effects of Eternal Clarity of Thought lasted an extremely short time, so Fu Qian had tried to time his use of it as carefully as possible.
And so, just as a sonic boom was about to erupt from the ice crystal, the power of the Transcendent Ban swept past.
Then nothing happened.
The bell's peal faded, and the sonic boom never came.
The lock of the gamble seemed to have been severed in that instant. At the other end of the bond, Virgo La Nina's crystalline body shuddered once more.
He didn't even need to confirm it through perception. The sheer violence of the impact was audible.
After all, the distance of the other party's leap wasn't all that far—just one floor up or down in the same building.
So after becoming untargetable, not only had the bullet in the Russian roulette revolver failed to come roaring over, but with only one target left, the other party had simply fired first and asked questions later?
Sure enough, you could never afford to be rigid in your thinking. Whether it was an item or an ability, you had to learn to use it flexibly.
In all his past experiences, Fu Qian had almost never tried using Eternal Clarity of Thought to evade an attack from a higher-order being.
The reasons were, on the one hand,