"What? Nothing happened?"
Hearing Xu Shi say that, Xie Qingyan froze for a moment, then snapped irritably, "What kind of bull... what kind of pig nonsense is that? I'm the only one here. Did you expect your ability to work?"
After being injected with the enhanced version of "Ascension," her "Ability Nullification" was basically above + and below S—more precisely, around S-. Blocking the intrusion of other abilities had long become a passive effect she did not need to deactivate. How could she possibly have fallen victim to that dog man's scheme?
"Only a pig would accuse someone else of talking pig nonsense."
Xu Shi was equally annoyed. "I wasn't even targeting you with the ability... Besides, wouldn't I be able to tell whether it worked?"
That was true. It was like firing at someone: a bullet missing after being fired and having no bullet loaded in the magazine were obviously two different things. Naturally, the shooter would know the difference best.
At the very least, Xu Shi knew he was the latter. It was not that "United Will" had missed its target; he simply had not felt the new ability exist at all.
"...Huh?"
This time, Xie Qingyan was genuinely dumbfounded. Only after quite a while did she stare at him in disbelief. "You're serious?"
Whether he was serious or not, she had already realized it herself. She could feel it whenever she blocked an ability's intrusion, and normally, resisting that dog man's "Malice Entropy" was no easy task for her. Every time, it took considerable effort.
But this time, she had felt nothing at all... Even if it was a new ability, it should not have caused absolutely no reaction.
"How could I be lying?"
Xu Shi shot her a suspicious look. "There's something wrong with your medicine.