Ability Extraction, Liberation from Shackles!

"Forget it, the ability value consumption is clear now. Let's extract your ability," Ling said with a sigh.

"I can extract it now? There's nothing else to confirm?" Fang Ran asked one last time.

"Nope, go ahead and extract,"

Whether it was Fang Ran's illusion or not, he always felt he heard a tone of indifference, as if it had nothing to do with her.

"But you'd better think it through. I remember in your Clow Cards, it seems not all of them are useful, right?" Ling's leisurely questioning voice came.

Fang Ran's movements immediately paused.

Damn it!

It really was like that!

To be honest, as Fang Ran, who had watched Cardcaptor Sakura when he was young, he still didn't know what the 'Flower', 'Bubble', and 'Sweet' cards were for.

Bang!

The Magic Book appeared with a bang and landed in Fang Ran's hand. Fang Ran swallowed nervously.

There were a total of 52 Clow Cards.

The Sun-attributed Light Card that controlled the Fire Card and Earth Card among the four elements.

The Moon-attributed Dark Card that controlled the other two elements, the Water Card and the Wind Card.

And the other 46 cards under the control of the two supreme attributes and the four elements.

Among these Clow Cards, which had fourteen double-card combinations and many single cards roughly divided into attack cards, spell cards, and special cards, Fang Ran wanted to draw a useful, powerful card.

It really wasn't easy.

"God bless! God bless!..."

Fang Ran kept muttering, but in his heart, he was constantly praying. That's right!

He was praying for that card!

The hardworking Wind Card!

Ling floated to the side, not making a sound to disturb him. Before she threw herself into the net, she had briefly collected information on Fang Ran's abilities. Unlike some abilities whose information was hard to find, Fang Ran's ability's 'origin' was very clear.

It came from a magical girl anime called Cardcaptor Sakura.

Ling wasn't surprised by this. After all, she had already been surprised when she faced a Devil Fruit ability user in the past.

But...

From that casual glance back then, Ling actually knew this was a very strange ability.

Although Ling was a maverick who used magic energy value within her own category, she was still a thorough tech-side. While she wasn't clear about the styles of the opposing mystic-side abilities, she naturally had some understanding.

Spell slots, mental power, magic power, mediums, sacrifices, magic circles, incantations, techniques...

She had naturally heard of the names of these strange and varied abilities as a Wandering Night Angel of the Night Web, and she also understood the methods of those who were called wizards, mages, techniques, or sages, arcane users.

Indeed, for those guys, playing with fire, summoning a demon, and so on, were minor things.

However, there's still that "however."

As far as Ling knew, no one in the mystical world had the ability to interfere with extremely high-level concepts like time or space.

But Ling knew that among Fang Ran's 52 cards, there seemed to be some that could do this, and he also had many inexplicable cards.

And then there were the highest-level cards he possessed, the Light Card and the Dark Card. Ling frowned in thought. What were these two cards for?

Flash spell? Blindness spell? Dark element magic?

And what about that fifty-third card, The Nothing, mentioned in the data?

Ling pondered silently, burying these doubts deep in her heart for now. Then, seeing that Fang Ran's various prayers seemed to be complete, he slowly reached out towards the Magic Book.

"This time I'll shout properly! Come out! I command you as your new master!!"

"Workhorse Sister Wind!!!"

Fang Ran roared!

Then the locked Magic Book automatically opened, the golden pages flipping one by one. Fang Ran's expectant big eyes, even though he couldn't understand what was on them, stared intently, muttering continuously:

"Wind! Wind! Wind!"

Then, the pages stopped, as if the power that had been flipping them had disappeared. On the open book, only one page stood upright.

Fang Ran suddenly fell silent, looking somewhat lost.

"As expected... it's really..." he murmured softly.

Ling found it strange. What was wrong with this guy now? Why had he become weird again? Like that night?

But before Ling could observe further, Fang Ran quickly snapped back to reality. That previous demeanor vanished, and he stared intently at the Magic Book!

"Sister Wind! It has to be Sister Wind! The protagonist on TV gets one of the Four Elements right away, a versatile card like Sister Wind!"

Fang Ran muttered loudly to himself. Then, a rectangular light detached from the flashing page, the same size as the Sword Card, made of an unknown material.

The pattern and text on it gradually appeared.

[The Float]

[Symbol: Liberation from restraint, freedom.]

[Description: Possesses magic that can make people or objects float, and can move at high speed.]

Fang Ran: "Pfft!"

"Oh, not bad. Liberation from restraint, freedom, looks quite impressive~"

Ling's voice, full of schadenfreude, rang out.

Fang Ran looked at the card that floated into his hand, speechless. Then, he roared fiercely in his heart, angry but daring not to speak to his Summoned Beast!

Damn it!

Why!

Is it this card?!

I remember this card only appeared once in the anime, and transformed once.

And then it never appeared again!!

And it makes people float and move at high speed.

He was speechless inwardly, but in reality, Fang Ran still held the card firmly, only his eye twitched constantly.

"Damn it! I still have one more chance! I don't believe it! Next time it'll still be this useless card!"

Fang Ran angrily prepared to draw again, but just as he placed his hand on the Magic Book again, Ling slowly floated away from him, then said indifferently:

"I advise you to keep one drawing chance~"

"Why?" Fang Ran stiffly stopped his action and asked Ling, not understanding.

"Heh! You think there are many opportunities to improve your abilities?" Ling's voice was a little condescending and cold: "It's not as simple as you think for Night Battle participants to improve their abilities."

"Listen up, you just got incredibly lucky this time and got two chances," Ling floated in front of him again, saying with a warning tone: "Don't think you'll be this lucky every time."

"Your luck is clearly bad right now. Keep one chance for yourself, at least it's a hope, so you don't end up in a desperate situation, heh heh~"

Then Ling completely floated away this time, leaving behind this ambiguous remark.

Leaving Fang Ran standing alone in the living room, his expression struggling, and then finally, he slumped his shoulders, took his hand off the Magic Book, and let out a long sigh.

The Silver Severing Dragon Tooth, which maintained the form of the Sword Card and spread its dragon wings, was still consuming magic energy. Fang Ran looked at the card he had drawn at this moment, slightly lost in thought. In the instant Ling wasn't paying attention, he softly whispered:

"Released from the bonds..."