Chapter 326: Cardcaptor Sakura: The Magic Cards

Chapter 326: Cardcaptor Sakura: The Magic Cards

"Then stop!"

In Misaka Mikoto's spiritual world, George's spiritual form slashed through the darkness enveloping her spirit, and then used his psychic powers to awaken her spirit.

At the same time, outside, George opened his eyes. With a similar psychic ability, he simultaneously suppressed Misaka Mikoto's advancement and drew various sealing runes on her body, sealing her erupting energy.

Finally, he kicked away the black lightning surrounding them, lifting the control over Kamijou Touma.

"Come help!"

With the method he was using now, it would take at least half an hour to fully suppress Misaka Mikoto's advancement and return her to normal.

But with Kamijou Touma's cheat-like right hand assisting, it might be completed much faster.

"On it!"

With the tricky rebar control gone, Kamijou Touma quickly rushed in front of Misaka Mikoto and grabbed her shoulders.

Thanks to George's forceful suppression, the black lightning didn't attack Kamijou Touma, so his right hand's Imagine Breaker ability successfully activated.

In just five seconds, the black thunder armor covering both George and Misaka Mikoto vanished, returning everything to normal.

"She's all yours. I've got something else to deal with, so I'm heading out."

He pulled out two outfits from the dressing space—one he dressed Misaka Mikoto in to replace her destroyed school uniform, and the other he wore himself. Without waiting for Kamijou Touma or Shokuhou Misaki to question him, he quickly left.

Right now, his mind was full of insights about advancing to Level 6 and the essence of electricity. He had to hurry back into seclusion to properly comprehend and absorb them.

Although it wasn't exactly as he had expected, achieving more than 50% of the advancement still gave him great gains.

"Why is it always 'something else'?"

Seeing George leave, Kamijou Touma couldn't help but complain. Every time they ran into this particular Misaka clone, it always ended with George leaving abruptly after only a few words.

At that moment, Misaka Mikoto also opened her eyes and murmured:

"So strange... I saw a man I don't recognize pull me out of the abyss."

The one who entered Misaka Mikoto's spiritual world was George's spiritual form. Naturally, it did not resemble Misaka Mikoto but rather George's physical body from the main Marvel world.

After all, the soul that had originally split off and taken over this body was still George himself.

Returning to his windowless room inside the building, George didn't go to find Aleister but immediately entered closed-door cultivation mode.

However, this seclusion didn't last long before he was awakened by an intense soul-tearing pain.

His original body in the Marvel world had undergone another soul split.

His focus shifted to the new avatar in a different world. This time, the avatar was human, male, and mature—perhaps too mature, being over ninety years old.

Still, that wasn't a problem. Once he took over the body, the formerly aged and lifeless form immediately improved, gaining the same physique and magical power as his other world avatars.

Though his outward appearance remained unchanged, his essence had completely transformed.

The only inconvenience was the advanced age, meaning the brain held many memories, and digesting them wasted quite a bit of time.

"Li Family of Xiangjiang... Clow Reed... Could this be the world of Cardcaptor Sakura: The Magic Cards?"

After finishing digesting the body's memories, George sank into recollection.

He seldom watched anime, but that didn't mean he had never seen any. He had seen some of the older, hot-blooded series like Saint Seiya and Dragon Ball.

And Cardcaptor Sakura was one of the rare anime he had actually watched.

It was mostly because a girl who sat next to him in school loved it, and she convinced him to watch it with her.

At the time, he found the magic fascinating, and Sakura herself was cute and endearing, so he ended up finishing it quite unexpectedly.

He even later watched another similar anime called Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha.

Thinking back now, he felt he owed thanks to that deskmate he had once had a bit of a crush on—if not for her recommendation, he would probably be completely lost right now.

But honestly, even though it seemed like a girly anime, the world-building in it was quite extensive.

In fact, it could be considered a large multiverse world.

Aside from Sakura's world, there were many other parallel worlds, just like in Marvel—though not as many.

And the magic in this world was powerful. Clow Reed, the creator of the magic cards, could manipulate time and space, foresee the future, and even travel between worlds.

If he were placed in the world of Academy City, he'd probably be considered a Magic God-level figure who had grasped the true essence of magic.

"Let's get out of this coffin first!"

Slowly opening his eyes, George looked around and gently moved the coffin lid above him aside.

The elderly man whose body he had taken over was named Li Xuan, a direct descendant of China's strongest Taoist family—the Li family. He had average talent and mediocre magic power, and passed away at the age of 98.

Today was the seventh day since his death. If he didn't come back to life now, he'd be buried tomorrow.

Sitting up slowly from the coffin, he looked around. It was clearly a mourning hall, with many members of the Li clan in mourning attire kneeling below.

At the front knelt the head of the current Li generation, Li Yelan—mother of Li Syaoran.

Although Li Xuan had average talent and his 90+ years of cultivation hadn't surpassed the abilities of Li Syaoran, the most talented child of the current generation, his seniority and age were unmatched.

He was the highest-ranking elder in the Li family.

His younger brother was the grandfather of Li Yelan, which made Li Yelan call him "Granduncle".

Had he not been obsessed with Taoism in his youth and remained unmarried and childless, the head of the Li family might have been his own grandson or granddaughter instead of Li Yelan.

Of course, for George, this was a good thing.

He didn't want to suddenly inherit a bunch of blood relatives—especially not a wife.

"T-the a-ancestor has risen from the dead!!!"

At that moment, a Li family junior, no older than his teens, accidentally looked up and saw George sitting up from the coffin and observing his surroundings. Terrified, he screamed.

With his cry, all the Li clan members keeping vigil were startled awake. They simultaneously looked up at George.

When they saw he had actually risen from the coffin, they immediately jumped to their feet—some grabbing compasses, some drawing talismans, some pulling peach wood swords, and some beginning to chant incantations.

Even if it was their family's old ancestor, if he had turned into a corpse, they would still have to exorcise him and uphold justice.

"Young ones, cease your actions! Your ancestor has not turned into a corpse!"

Seeing this, George let out a powerful shout that stopped everyone in their tracks.

Indeed, if he really were a corpse, how could they not have sensed anything with their skills? And a zombie wouldn't speak like that either.

(End of Chapter)