I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 119 - 119 111 Professor Caos Lecture

?Chapter 119: 111 Professor Cao’s Lecture Chapter 119: 111 Professor Cao’s Lecture Professor Cao stood like an iron tower on the side, his gaze deep as he watched them.

“Remember, the moment a wizard becomes a lich, everything about that person disappears! The moment a witch-hunting knight turns into a Stone Treasure statue, everything about that person also vanishes!”

“That’s why we strip the skin off a lich to craft armor.”

“That’s why we also take the antlers from the heads of witch-hunting knights, to pass on to the next generation.”

“In the transcendent world, everyone is desperately struggling. If someone can grab a lifeline, they will grasp it, and it’s utterly primitive.”

“Everyone yearns to establish civilization and order in this wild land, but despair shrouds everything, forcing people to revert to the most primitive form of natural selection.”

“We won’t investigate who was the first to tear out the core of a witch-hunting knight’s furnace and implant it into their own body in an attempt to obtain the other’s power.”

“But we should know that this has now become the most common practice because we have no other choice.”

“Only in this way, through the accumulation of generations, can we reach greater heights and continue to search for a path out of this impasse.”

Professor Cao’s words were filled with profound truths.

But Doctor Zhang obviously knew better what these two young people with sorcerer’s bloodlines were really thinking.

He chuckled and added, “In the neighboring city, Ruicao City, the witch hunter knights are named ‘Fish Scales.’ Our antlers grow on our heads, where do you guess their fish scales grow?”

Lin An drew a sharp breath and blinked as he looked at him, “On their skin?”

Doctor Zhang nodded with a weird expression, “For the sake of inheritance, skinning is a dreadful sin.”

“Hiss~~~”
Lin An was stunned.

It was miraculous; he suddenly felt like he could accept the lich in front of him.

Good lord, if witch-hunting knights could be so ruthless to their own people, to their own masters, or even their fathers, then doing the same to an enemy seemed more acceptable.

Wait! No!

Spit~
Still not acceptable~
But regardless of acceptance, that’s just how the transcendent world operates.

“Each generation of us with antlers holds great expectations for our successors, hoping they can find paths we didn’t explore, see landscapes we couldn’t see.”

Professor Cao looked at them intently, “If you aren’t satisfied with this, then go out and search, find a better way for everyone; then everyone will give up this method.”

“If you can’t find it, then you’ll have to do like us, learn to change yourselves, adapt, and accommodate such practices.”

Speaking of this, he sighed.

“Mr. Zhang and I, no, all members of the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order, haven’t been able to find a solution.”

“All we can do is to improve.”

“And for me, the heir of the ‘Jia’ Vein, the direction of improvement has always been armor.”

“Based on the idea of crafting armor from the lich’s skin and inheriting the core of a witch-hunting knight’s furnace, I reverse-engineered the process of apprentices refining furnaces.”

“Following such a direction, I improved the low success rate of the basic training process for apprentices, but it’s still not ideal…”

“Until…”

Professor Cao looked to Lin An, “Your arrival.”

“Me?” Lin An blinked in surprise.

“Yes, after seeing you, I suddenly had an idea.”

“You have the Sorcerer’s Bloodline; you should have the easiest time obtaining the ‘legacy’ of other sorcerers.” His eyes blazed with zeal, “By utilizing the Furnace, we refine Sorcerer Zombies into armors suitable for Witch Hunter Knights to absorb. Isn’t this the same as the way we install the antlers of our forebears onto our heads?”

“Since that’s the case, if I reverse-engineer the process of the Furnace and integrate it into the crafting of Armor, and then have apprentices with the Sorcerer’s Bloodline wear such Armor, they would naturally possess a Furnace of their own.”

“Mr. Lu’s ‘Self-Sustaining Furnace Project in the Chive Garden’ gave me plenty of references. I have integrated the Breathing Skill into the three steps of crafting the Armor, wearing the Armor, and absorbing the Armor.”

“In theory, it’s feasible and should be much easier than before.”

“But it also brings a negative impact.”

Professor Cao pursed his lips, a hint of hesitation flickering in his eyes, “That is, our ‘Jia’ Vein’s legacy can only seek sorcerers as apprentices.”

“That’s why I hope, Lin An, if you find this path unworkable in the future and need to choose a successor, give him my antlers.”

Lin An nodded solemnly, unsure of what would be better to say.

However, the young boss exclaimed in surprise, “Even though I’m a wizard myself, I must say that this could lead to a lot of ostracism from other Witch Hunter Knights.”

“Hahaha~” Doctor Zhang laughed beside them, clapping the young boss on the shoulder, “Daring to be the first, that’s precisely why we of the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order are so awesome!”

Professor Cao also smiled faintly, “We should be grateful to our ancestors who sought breakthroughs generation after generation, giving the Antler a renowned reputation, allowing our peers to be a bit more tolerant towards us so that we, the later generations, can seek every possibility with greater ease.”

After a not-so-light-hearted conversation, Professor Cao pulled out two bone-scraping knives from the shelf beside him and handed them to Lin An and the young boss.

“The materials from this Sorcerer Zombie are enough for two sets of Armor. You can choose whether you want materials from a sheep or a crocodile.”

“Keep that leopard’s tail for me; I plan to forge a whip for Lin An out of it.”

The young boss was indifferent; he had gotten fired up last night in the slaughterhouse meeting hall, finally managing to get the Witch Hunter Knights to allow him more involvement in their actions. His presence here today to sit in on the class was also a result of such negotiations.

He was curious to hear why the method his father devised, which discarded the Breathing Skill in favor of mere forms, turned into focusing exclusively on the Breathing Skill while reducing the training routines at Mr. Cao’s end.

He didn’t even need the Armor; if he truly wished to become a Witch Hunter Knight, all he had to do was fuse with the antlers left by his father. It didn’t need to be so troublesome.

Most other Witch Hunter Knights did the same, selecting their successors early but not allowing them to partake in the Supernatural World, simply waiting until they turned into Stone Treasure Statues to directly pass the antlers onto their chosen successors.

Those like Doctor Zhang who cultivated their own antlers and completed the full Knight apprenticeship process were few and far between.

But Lin An couldn’t wait that long, waiting for Professor Cao to take his final step.

He had to start training at once!

Lin An chose the sheep part without hesitation.

If there really was no choice and it had to be done, then might as well go all out!

He had seen Xiao Susu’s spiritual nature, that strange thing made up of all sorts of items, but its core was definitely that of a sheep.

Following that, they formally began the lesson.

“Once you have fused the Furnace with the Armor, and the Armor has absorbed completely, you will also possess a complete Furnace.”

“Split into three stages, crafting, donning, and absorbing.”

“Each step requires the use of the Breathing Skill to tune the compatibility between yourself and the Armor.”

“Now, let’s start with the ‘crafting’ phase, the first thing we need is skinning.”

“Now, lift the bone-scraping knife in your hand.”

“Remember, whether it’s Armor, a weapon, or any other tool, the rhythm of your breath is the best way to link it with you.”

“Let this bone-scraping knife become an extension of you within the rhythm of your breath.”

“Holding the knife, piercing, cutting, retracting, every action of skinning is accompanied by these four movements, each movement with its own Breathing Skill bias.”

“This is actually a variant of the Deer Frolic Breathing Skill and Deer Play framework. Once mastered, you can also use it as a skill in combat.”

“…”