Chapter 91: The Card is Empty
“This one is a sealing card for a general-class monster.” After taking out a sealing card she had collected over the past few days, Xia Mo handed it to Luo Shuangyue, encouraging her to try absorbing it.
After some negotiation, Xia Mo finally reached a consensus with Luo Shuangyue. Xia Mo passed her the sealing card to absorb, while the magical energy that emerged from the card would be dealt with by both of them together.
This outcome posed no disadvantage to Luo Shuangyue, as she didn’t particularly need the magical energy from the card; her focus had always been on Bai Ye’s magical power.
Absorbing this power would help her body better adapt to Bai Ye’s strength, extending the duration of her transformations into Bai Ye during battles.
The longer the time for this ultimate move, the better, of course.
Xia Mo wouldn’t give Luo Shuangyue the strongest card for her first absorption, in case something went wrong and they couldn’t handle it together.
The card for a general-class monster was a perfect choice; even if something went awry, two initial bloom levelers could easily resolve it.
After all, a general-class monster was unlikely to withstand even one blow or shot when facing the two of them now, let alone the magical energy left behind after its defeat.
Of course, any potentially dangerous absorption activity would take place at Xia Mo’s home. Otherwise, if something went wrong, it wouldn’t be amusing to blow the house up.
Transforming, they flew for a few minutes to an uninhabited area on the outskirts of the city. Luo Shuangyue and Xia Mo landed one after the other, ready to work on the sealing card.
Previously, when Luo Shuangyue absorbed Bai Ye’s magical power, she didn’t do it herself; Monise would extract the magical energy from the card and hand it to her, while all she had to do was consume the power like a snack.
Now, it was more like she had to cook her own food.
Black-purple butterflies flew out from the void, landing on the sealing card suspended above Luo Shuangyue’s palm, gradually staining the white card with black-purple color.
Luo Shuangyue’s absorption action was slow at first. She created a small opening in the seal to release the magical energy inside, but after damaging the card, she discovered it contained no magical energy.
“Nothing?” Luo Shuangyue was startled, but her hands didn’t stop. Since there was no threat of magical energy, she could let loose.
The butterflies immediately quickened their pace,
Swiftly tearing the sealing card apart and absorbing any residual magical power left within.
Absorbing this card would probably extend Luo Shuangyue’s transformation into Bai Ye by a second or two.
Although that was a bit less, as long as the quantity was sufficient, it could still lead to a qualitative change!
“The magical energy from general-class monsters is weak; it should have been completely purified over the years. It seems only the sealing cards for royal-class monsters might still retain some magical energy?” After absorbing this card, Luo Shuangyue formed a hypothesis: that the sealing cards left behind by her mother might not necessarily all contain magical energy.
There would be a low probability of finding magical energy in a card for a general-class monster.
In contrast, sealing cards for royal-class monsters usually contained magical energy, and as for royal-class… Luo Shuangyue hadn’t seen a royal-class sealing card yet.
Her mother must have encountered a royal-class monster, but she didn’t know if her mother had used her usual sealing spells after that encounter.
In any case, there had been no recorded incidents of royal-class monsters attacking near Xinghai City, and even if there were sealing cards for royal-class monsters, they wouldn’t be in the Xinghai City area.
“Give me another royal-class card; I want to test my hypothesis!”
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In the barren wilderness, five figures were rapidly advancing in the night.
“Master, we’re almost at Xinghai City ahead. Should we avoid it…”
On the distant horizon, traces of lights appeared, and a black-clad man hesitated to ask the petite figure surrounded by several other black-clad individuals.
Xinghai City is the territory of that magical girl.
“No need; the pursuers are pressing hard, and they won’t let me leave alive. My body can no longer sustain prolonged exertion, and Xinghai City ahead is the best resting place.”
The surrounded black-clad man spoke in a cold voice, devoid of any emotional fluctuation. “Bai Ye won’t be here, but the things she left behind can help me recover quickly.”
“Follow my orders, Mo Yi, Mo San, Mo Si, you will enter Xinghai City to search for Bai Ye’s sealing card. Mo Er, stay behind; we will find a hidden corner to hide.”
“Yes!”
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“Do you mean to say that the magical energy in the sealing card for a general-class monster has been completely purified? I thought you got a fake…”
“Ahem, I spoke with Rosemary last night, got a sealing card from her to test it, and found out that there’s no magical energy in the sealing card for a general-class monster, but some magical energy does remain in the sealing card for a royal-class monster.”
Luo Shuangyue rolled her eyes. Am I that kind of person?
There was nothing wrong with admitting her connection to Xia Mo to Monise; after all, when Monise conveyed her information to the Magic Department, she already suspected that her boss had ties with the people from the Magic Department.
You previously sold me out to the magical girls; is it a problem for me to ask the magical girls for some things now?
Sure enough, Monise seemed entirely unfazed by the private dealings between Luo Shuangyue and Xia Mo. In her heart, the idea of her second-in-command flirting with the magical girls didn’t seem to be an issue.
…Oh, maybe it was because she had already experienced this once, so she didn’t care.
After all, Monise’s previous deputy seemed to have been taken by the magical girls too.
“Also, that royal-class monster might be heading our way, so we should be a bit more discreet.”
If a royal-class monster were to come, the magical girls from the Magic Department following it would naturally do the same. Creating a commotion at this time wouldn’t be wise, as the magical girls might not hesitate to eliminate those who were oblivious to the situation.
Therefore, from any angle of analysis, Luo Shuangyue felt it best for them in the Polar Night to lay low for a while, at least until the magical girls were gone before they acted.
“That’s really no problem; we’re not the kind of organization that enjoys causing trouble.” Monise shrugged, indicating that Polar Night was quite passive, with only the Dark Butterfly actively causing trouble.
At other times, Polar Night was like a store within an evil organization, merely selling their local specialties without kicking up any fuss.
Compared to these matters, what Monise cared about most was the information Luo Shuangyue brought regarding the sealing cards. If that information was true, then some of the cards she had collected were of little use at all.
