Facility Binding Successful

A full moon hung over the boundless black sea, where an enormous wooden ship floated.

The bottom of the massive hull had been divided into dozens of narrow, cramped rooms, with scattered straw laid out for people to sleep on.

Damp, moldy air flooded his nostrils, irritating his lungs and triggering a violent fit of coughing.

Li Ang woke from his sleep coughing.

It seemed he had transmigrated.

The moldy hay creaked beneath him as a jumble of chaotic memories surged into his mind.

Li Ang Carlson, son of a minor noble in Carter Village.

Not immensely wealthy, but still fairly well-off.

A week ago, he had been tested and found to possess wizard talent, which was why he had boarded this giant ship bound for the Wizard Tower in Riley City.

This was a ship controlled by a wizard, specially tasked with regularly transporting "qualified candidates" from various places to the Wizard Tower.

"Cough, cough cough."

His lungs itched and ached as though scraped back and forth by burrs.

When Li Ang had been found to possess wizard aptitude, his father had been overjoyed, because Li Ang had not let down the testing opportunity he had bought by emptying the family coffers.

He had spent several gold coins to successfully bribe an official into coming to test the Carlson Family, a minor noble lineage without wizard blood.

Even more delightfully, the two attendants from the Carlson Family who were the same age as Li Ang had also been found to possess wizard talent.

Three wizards had been discovered in the same village, and all three belonged to the Carlson Family!

Everyone believed that the Carlson Family was about to rise to glory once more. Even when Li Ang's original self boarded the ship with those two attendants, he had been immersed in that bright future.

Yet things did not go as smoothly as imagined...

"Bang bang—"

A burly figure suddenly appeared in the doorway, wildly slamming the doorframe with a thick palm.

"You Carlson Family bastard, why are you still here? Can't you hear the wizard's assembly order?!"

"Kavi..."

That man was one of the two attendants Li Ang had brought aboard a week ago.

Li Ang instinctively called out his name, only to watch helplessly as Kavi's fist shot toward him.

Bang!

Already weak, Li Ang took the punch head-on and gasped harshly for breath.

"Bastard, I'll warn you one last time. I am now the deputy class leader personally appointed by the wizard. If you dare call me by my name again, just wait to die. Pah!"

With that, the powerfully built Kavi slammed the door and strode out.

Li Ang clutched his stomach and gulped down breaths, forcing himself to endure the pain as he rose and headed for the deck.

The wizard had issued an assembly order. If he did not arrive immediately, he would certainly be punished.

"The deputy class leader personally appointed by the wizard..."

Recalling Kavi's arrogant expression just now, Li Ang felt a deep, instinctive disgust.

Kavi and Matthew had originally been noble attendants of Li Ang's family.

The original owner had believed he treated them well. Even at mealtimes, he had ignored the rules separating nobles and commoners, and the three of them sat at one table, chatting about everything under heaven.

Even their chance to be tested for wizard aptitude had been bought at the cost of the Carlson Family's entire fortune.

Yet the original owner had never imagined that there would always be a divide between classes. He and those two could never truly become sworn brothers.

After boarding the wizard ship, Matthew and Kavi had somehow been lucky enough to be chosen by the wizard as the class leader and deputy class leader of this group of apprentice candidates. Their former respectful manner vanished, and they frequently beat and kicked Li Ang.

The lower-deck cabin where they lived was far too damp and moldy. Li Ang was also often brutally beaten, so he contracted a lung disease, lost the hope to go on living, and died in despair at the bottom of the ship.

"Cough cough." Li Ang kept coughing as he walked.

Though he had now transmigrated, the original owner's lung disease did not seem to have healed just because of the transmigration.

If he kept coughing like this, he feared that he, newly arrived in this world, would not survive more than a few days either.

He had to treat it...

But on this endless ocean, where could he find a doctor? Li Ang felt his head swelling with frustration.

Just then, a shaft of moonlight fell across the ground before him. The wooden stairs leading to the deck appeared in sight, and he climbed upward along them.

This enormous wooden ship had four levels. The rooms on the lowest level were all cramped, tiny, dark, and damp, meant for the several dozen trainees; the upper levels had only a few rooms, occupied by the supervising wizard managing these apprentice candidates and his attendants.

When Li Ang reached the deck, he saw that the ship had only one massive mast, bearing three pure white sails.

"Such a gigantic ship can be driven by only three sails..." Li Ang pondered. "They must be using some sort of wizardry to power the sails and propel the ship forward, right?"

Looking up, he found that the sails actually seemed to be gathering wind automatically.

Just then, a panel suddenly appeared before Li Ang's eyes.

[Gale-Sailing Canvas: lv0]

[Status: Bindable]

[Binding Cost: 1 point of spiritual power]

"What the hell?"

His cheat had arrived!

Li Ang coughed several times in excitement, then calmed himself and studied it carefully. At the same time, knowledge of how to use the panel flowed into his mind.

In short, the cheat he had awakened was the "Facility Upgrade Panel." It could bind facilities, and once certain conditions were met, it could even upgrade them.

Moreover, only with his approval could others use the effects of facilities he had bound. Otherwise, even if someone occupied the facility, they could only use its most basic functions.

In other words, after binding it, unless he personally granted authorization, the facility would look like nothing more than an ordinary facility to everyone else.

A farming-type cheat...

Farming seemed far too slow to solve his present situation, and besides, he was still on a ship. He did not even have any land.

Forget it. He would bind it first and worry about the rest later.

"Confirm binding."

[Binding successful]

[Gale-Sailing Canvas: Current Level lv0]

[Lv1 Effect: Air gathering and dispersal capability +10%, environmental concentration of wind-element mana +10%]

[Upgrade Conditions and Cost: The number of mana star particles in the spiritual world must reach 1; consume 5 points of spiritual power]

The instant the system announced that the binding had succeeded, Li Ang suddenly felt as though he had gained an indescribable degree of control over the three sails. His mind also gained some relevant knowledge about this facility.

The Gale-Sailing Canvas was a type of sailcloth inscribed with a Wind-Gathering Array.

Through the Wind-Gathering Array, the canvas could gather and disperse wind within a limited area, thereby propelling the ship forward.

"So that was it..."

Li Ang tried manipulating it to gather the wind. Sure enough, a fierce gust surged around the canvas, causing the entire wizard ship to pitch violently.

Li Ang: "!"

After binding a facility, it could actually operate according to his thoughts.

In his memories, when they had first boarded the ship, that eccentric wizard had said, "This ship consists of multiple precise wizard arrays. Do not touch anything recklessly, or the consequences will be more than you can bear."

Looking at it this way, if he worked hard enough, might he also be able to bind this entire ship?

By then, the ship would obey him completely!

At that thought, Li Ang immediately felt restless with anticipation.