After thinking seriously for a while, Abner turned to look at Fors, who was leaning by the window and continuously photographing the beautiful scenery, then asked thoughtfully:
"In your novels, if you didn't want the protagonist to encounter a powerful character too early, how would you arrange it?"
He had brought Fors to Taksar City partly to help her digest her Potion and partly to use her as his advisor.
After all, Fors's greatest strength was her wild imagination, which could provide him with a constant stream of inspiration.
Hearing the question, Fors put down her camera, turned around, and answered, "That's simple. Just find something for that powerful person to do so they can't spare the attention."
"But what if that powerful person has a premonition that something will happen on the protagonist's side? They might completely ignore everything else," Abner asked again.
Abner did not dare underestimate that overpowered Glorious One in the slightest.
If not for the fact that this Feysac empress was an easier target for retaliation, and could also serve as Tolerant Einhorn among the Knights of Virtue, Abner would not have provoked her now.
Of course, the main reason was that Sophia II had exposed a flaw during this Winter Hunt, and Abner did not want to let it slip away.
"I see..." Fors thought for a moment, then smiled. "Then you can only use some fraud... Make them unable to determine your true intentions."
"For example?" Abner pressed.
"For example, go along with their expectations and make them think the protagonist's methods have already been thwarted, then have the protagonist accomplish the objective elsewhere.
"Or introduce a new variable and make them think they've been deceived..."
Fors listed four or five possible plans in one breath, immediately giving Abner some inspiration.
"That's right...