Overdoing it would be just as bad. The fight over which Ariel was real had already ended. How could he keep standing there like an idiot, offering himself as a target?
Fu Qian had always approved of the Native Council's talent for escaping, and he had never minded making use of it.
What he had offered up back then wasn't just a Frenzied Fireball. It was also the Corrosion of Life.
For "Ariel" to achieve that degree of self-presentation just now, a simple projection probably wouldn't have been enough.
In Fu Qian's view, though he wasn't sure how it had been done, the Ragdoll had practically been the real thing, as if its true body had appeared in person.
So while he had offered up the Frenzied Fireball to clash with it, his actual move had been to try to activate the Seed of Corrosion inside his target once the fireball hit.
As it turned out, the Ragdoll did have a strong life aspect, and the skill had activated quite successfully.
Even more encouraging was that the interview procedure from earlier, along with the mark on his hand, really did seem to be as extraordinary as he'd imagined, and had brought about some subtle effects.
Don't forget, his Inspiration was currently at zero. Even if he planted the Seed of Corrosion, the odds of using it to trigger Extreme Hunger Infection were theoretically low, because he couldn't "see" it at all.
Essentially, he'd done it mainly to test things, while also trying to leave himself a fallback.
Then something remarkable happened. Just as the Ragdoll leaped out of sight and fled, a peculiar concept had allowed him to "see" a trace of it.
And that was how he'd ended up here, leaping straight toward the Seed of Corrosion.
This discovery