Esquilax
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I'm not talking about specific techniques. How many chances have we had to raise our PER? Once, and this is number two. How many chances have we had to raise our stealth skill? I'm not going back to check, but I'd guess around 4-6 times. 3B certainly seems to be on a secure bandwagon to victory though, so I guess you're safe.
This is a fair point. All things being equal, a technique that boosts stats is more valuable than a technique that boosts skills. However, since we're probably going EXTREME for this one, I just think that we should pick the choices that might allow us to best survive the mission. Any thoughts on how the PER boost would allow us to perform the mission better than Kagemi? That being said, the Wudu qinggong is beginning to appeal to me because I think that AGI 10 might be sufficient to escape from a trap should we unfortunately trigger one. Superhuman reflexes would allow us to get away in time, and since we don't have our neigong at the moment, we'd need the extra push to get us to 10.
If we didn't have the mission to worry about, I'd definitely go for the improvement to Reikan.
As far as I'm concerned Operation Immortal is worth the risk. Either Jing will pull off something completely insane and become a legend (admittedly only one he, Shun, and Zhang Jue will know), or he'll go out stylishly (and probably go down in the history books as a worse villain than his teacher, which is an accomplishment in itself). A lot of the problem with the Youxia city ending was that Jing went down like a bitch, and it wasn't a very fitting ending.
It is true that we're going to have to a very, very good job of it to actually succeed. But hey, it's better than committing the worst act conceivable against the values we've been raised under, and Shun really does not want to have to actually kill his father. He's trying to do what's best for his country, and this is an out that lets him maintain filial piety as a proper ruler should.
Good point that we haven't considered; Jing's been following a moral code that's all about loyalty and taking care of the people close to you, but that personal sense of morality has really clashed with society at large (i.e. betraying your countrymen to protect foreigners - it was the right thing to do from Jing's perspective, but considered to be a disgusting act by pretty much everybody who is respectable). Now it seems that Shun and Jing are facing that dilemma again: killing the Emperor is really the best way out of a bad situation and probably best for the country in the long run so that Shun can take the throne, but it really is an incredibly reprehensible thing to do given the society's Confucian ethics.