"—Didn't you just say that Qian Zi'ang was from the Wu Yue Qian Family? And that he attended the Qian Family Private School?"
Listening to Fordes's story, the Black Cat looked utterly baffled. It stuffed a strip of dried fish into its mouth, frowned, and muttered indistinctly, "I heard the Qian Family Private School is pretty formidable..."
"This matter is tricky precisely because of that."
Nigel Fordes sighed with a troubled expression. "If his background had been a little worse and his knowledge a little shallower, or if his background had been better and he had more resources for cultivation, he would never have taken this risk... It was precisely because he came from a great family yet belonged to a collateral branch, knew much but received little, was ambitious, and had a bit of cleverness that he caused this mess.
For example, he attended the Qian Family Private School and had broad knowledge, so he knew that 'Sense Outer God' was a legitimate path of cultivation. If it succeeded, gaining their guidance or protection could make future cultivation advance by leaps and bounds; likewise, because he 'knew much,' he had connections and could acquire knowledge that was taboo to Ordinary Wizards; and because he 'knew much,' he understood the terror of those Outer Gods and the risks involved. Thus, once he made up his mind, he did not rashly begin preparing a Magic Array to summon an Outer God. Instead, he intended to go 'from simple to complex' and 'from easy to difficult,' first summoning a 'little ghost' for practice."
"—Clearly, being well-informed is not entirely a good thing."
The Black Cat offered its assessment, turned its head, and spat out a small piece of fish bone.
Nigel Fordes glanced at the bone and swallowed. In the end, he