An energy band wreathed in electrical sparks had already coiled around his Energy Shield.
Crackling and snapping, the energy band wrapped tightly around his Energy Shield like a long snake.
Electricity Band! This was Electricity Band!
Electricity Band was not a particularly powerful card, merely a rather obscure one. It released an energy band carrying electrical charges arranged with exquisite precision. The charges had no offensive power, but the weak field they generated could hold objects fast or impede their movement.
Card Adepts skilled with the Electricity Band Card were exceedingly rare among civilians, but more common in the military. No youngster entering school would choose a card with neither killing power nor any means of self-defense. Moreover, the Electricity Band Card demanded more difficult techniques than ordinary combat Illusion Cards. Only the military, with its emphasis on teamwork, specifically trained such unusual Card Adepts.
Training a Support Card Adept was far more difficult and costly than training an ordinary Card Adept. They were more likely to die in battle and could not fight independently; being isolated meant certain death. Card Adepts skilled with the Electricity Band Card were rarer still. It required superb Perception control to arrange the charges with greater precision. Those who practiced with the Electricity Band Card had to begin in childhood, and their training methods differed completely from those of ordinary Card Adepts.
To think he had actually run into a Card Adept skilled with the Electricity Band Card!
The grip around him abruptly tightened, its powerful force leaving him almost unable to move for an instant!
Could they be military? The thought flashed irrepressibly through his mind. But his formidable strength was no illusion. He abruptly pushed his Airflow Card to full output, and its enormous thrust immediately tore him free of the force.