I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 139 - 139 131 Python Swallows Right Arm (Seeking Monthly

?Chapter 139: 131 Python Swallows Right Arm (Seeking Monthly Ticket) Chapter 139: 131 Python Swallows Right Arm (Seeking Monthly Ticket) The raging wind howled, sand and stones flew, a red glow pervaded all.

The black cat’s red-tinted black fur danced, smoothly flicking with the movement of its muscles.

Chen Shuyun hugged the black cat’s neck, squeezing tightly with her legs, her entire body pressing closely against the cat’s back.

Feeling the whole world begin to undulate rapidly, somewhat bumpy yet inexplicably reassuring, the black cat’s every movement seemed to carry a unique rhythm of balance, allowing her to sway back and forth yet feeling certain she wouldn’t fall off.

With some trepidation, she opened her eyes and looked forward, but she couldn’t see anything.

The entire world was filled with intense colors, everything so bizarre and irregular, large and small distorted whirlpools appearing without a pattern.

Around and about, up and down, three-dimensional whirlpools of color twined and twisted, blurring everything.

As her line of sight slightly wobbled, each whirlpool quickly merged and split, forming different swirling scenes.

She couldn’t make anything out, only felt as though she had fallen into a fantastical dream.

Even the sense of up and down began to flip and spin, losing all direction.

Only the touchable soft, warm back of the black cat, which also felt incredibly strong, was so real.

She liked the feeling of safety.

She had never felt safe since she was a child; her parents were always busy and hardly ever at home, and her sister was a literary young woman who only knew how to lock herself in her room and read romance novels. She was left all alone in the spacious villa, unable to find anyone to talk to.

Then came a fire that changed everything, a fire that burned away all traces of her parents’ existence, destroyed the wall of dolls and novels in her sister’s room, and also the villa that could not provide her any sense of security.

But the destruction did not bring a sense of safety. She hid for a long time in the filthy Water Mirror World, watching her sister gradually become mature, she decided to do something.

And she did.

If people don’t try, they’ll never know what they’re capable of.

She was so well-suited to become a wizard.

So began those fanciful, mad years, filled with bloodshed.

Back then, when Lu Tingyu, the leader of the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order had just died, and many members were not in the city, the power of the Antlers was still so fearsome.

But she wasn’t afraid, as she grew too quickly.

In just one year, she went from being hunted by Witch-hunting Knights to overpowering them.

Ghostface—this was the nickname others gave her after she donned the witch’s robe and a terrifying mask.

She became insane, indifferent, and violent, suppressing the Witch Hunter Knights, purging the wizarding world, establishing the Shenhou City Witches’ Association, heading north to open a channel with the Empire Sorcerer’s Alliance, protecting the Witches’ Assembly, and cleaning up those who dared to reach into her father’s company…

During that time, when she returned home, her sister would wash her wizard’s robe, which seemed to be stained with red blood no matter how much it was washed, often finding eyeballs or fingers in the hood or pockets.

Her memory wasn’t so clear anymore, only remembering herself becoming increasingly mad and powerful.

Those memories had become so blurry.

The only time she was sober was on the eve of her Witch-zombie Transformation, when her formidable strength helped her maintain a rare clarity of thought.

She began to instruct her increasingly mature sister earnestly on what to do after she was gone.

Her sister had actually become very powerful, but her own overwhelming brilliance made her talented sister seem dim and unremarkable.

Then her sister drugged her with a secret potion and knocked her out.

When she awoke, she was naked and tied to a massive iron-frame bed, with her sister straddling her, stabbing a dagger into her chest, and another knife into her own chest.

It was a unique ritual magic.

Allegedly, it was invented by a Witch Hunter Knight from another country; to protect the witch he loved, who had started to transform, he sacrificed half of his body to seal all her powers.

Chen Shuyun always remembered that horrifying scene.

Her sister had opened up both of their chests, swapped their hearts, and then, with a dagger, she flayed open half of her own body alive.

From then on, her sister became her knight. As long as she stayed by her sister’s side, she felt an infinite sense of security.

As a small accessory of her sister, she struggled to survive in this world.

She had never imagined that she could feel safe with someone other than her sister.

Fuzzy, warm, and with a powerful force.

Chen Shuyun squinted, feeling her entire being sinking into the fluff of the black cat and nearly falling asleep amidst the comfortable tossing and turning.

“I say…”

The black cat forcefully lifted its front limbs to claw on a building, leaped, and with some helplessness, twisted its neck to shake the woman on its back who seemed about to sleep.

“As a witch, don’t you ever think about doing something?”

Chen Shuyun raised her head in confusion, murmuring vaguely, “Do something?”

“Yes!” the black cat’s voice was full of helplessness, “You’re a witch! You understand witchcraft! Even if you can’t give me some sort of buffing witchcraft, shouldn’t you cast some interfering witchcraft on that demon hunter who’s relentlessly pursuing us?”

“Ah?” Chen Shuyun blankly pondered for a moment, then suddenly exclaimed, “Right, I’m so stupid! But… but I can’t cast many witchcraft spells now. The effective ones take a long time to prepare and aren’t suitable for use in battle.”

The black cat took a deep breath, “You have plenty of time now!”

“Oh, oh alright.” Chen Shuyun finally caught on. She tried to sit up to cast by supporting herself on the black cat’s back but nearly got thrown off with a stumble, which scared her into clamping down harder with her legs.

“I… I can’t sit still…”

That’s simple.

The black cat’s agile tail swung into action, coiling around her waist with a soft yet forceful grip, firmly securing her in place.

Chen Shuyun’s face suddenly turned red, thankfully masked so it couldn’t be seen, and she quickly caught the upturned tip of the coiled tail, shyly pulling it down a bit before biting her lip and looking back to assess the situation.

Um…

She saw nothing.

What stretched before her was an endless swirl of colors.

But that didn’t trouble her; as she adjusted her mindset to enter the state of spellcasting, those suppressed, distorted, wild, violent, and cruel emotions surged within her chest, and her intelligence once again returned to her mind.

Instantly, she knew what to do.

She began to murmur an incantation, gently caressing the bracelet on her wrist that served as a medium for casting.

Her slender and delicate right hand began to glow as she lightly placed it on the black cat’s back.

“Shared vision!”

It was said that a blind nun invented this witchcraft, which allowed her to share vision with a little boy by her side.

At the height of her powers, Chen Shuyun could even lift the limitations of physical contact from this witchcraft, allowing her to use people as her eyes without their awareness and maintain the spell’s effect over great distances between cities, effortlessly gathering a wealth of information.

But not anymore; she was now weak.

“Ahh~”
As the witchcraft was cast, a dark golden light flashed suddenly in her eyes, and the black cat she was seated on abruptly transformed into Lin An.

This was indeed Lin An, but the visual sensation of sitting on the back of a huge black cat compared to sitting at the waist of a man was completely different.

However, she soon had no time for embarrassment.

An incredible scene unfolded before her eyes: a giant white python, with fangs bared wide, engulfed her entire right hand as though swallowing prey.

The rest of the python’s body floated in midair, giving off a somewhat ethereal impression.

“Ahh~~~”
She let out a piercing scream, feeling a terrible bone-deep pain spreading across her arm.

The python’s fangs seemed to have sunk into her shoulder, fiercely tearing at it. Her arm, swallowed into the belly of the snake, felt as if it were being corroded by terrible gastric fluids, with endless waves of pain washing over her senses.

Lin An paused, taken aback. Was casting a witchcraft spell always so painful for a witch?

Hadn’t he already helped adjust the suppressor of witchcraft? And even tore the binding on her right hand?

“What’s wrong?”

Chen Shuyun gasped for breath, weakly grunting, “It’s… it’s nothing.”

She looked at her arm with a somewhat desolate expression, not blindly attempting to shake off or slap away the giant white python. As a witch who had reached her peak, she knew what this signified.

Part of her body had escaped the suppressive witchcraft of her sister, reentering the process of witch-ghoul transformation.

She did not have much time left. Perhaps, before long, she too should find a quiet place to put her life in order.

She must not become a witch-ghoul!

She told herself this.

It would harm her sister, all the people she cared about, and all the innocent citizens of this city.

Chen Shuyun’s eyes bore a sorrowful look as she took a deep breath and dispelled the ‘shared vision’ witchcraft.

She again lay weakly on the black cat’s back, her complexion turning pale.

After a short while, she managed to adjust her emotions and stretched her right index finger to her mouth, biting down forcefully.

Blood flowed.

She knew that the blood from an arm nearing witch-ghoul transformation was an excellent material for casting spells. The Witch Hunter Knights’ extensive research had long confirmed this.

She stretched out her hand, placing the bleeding finger on the black cat’s back, carefully tracing a hexagram filled with numerous symbols.

Lin An soon felt the effects.