I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

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?Chapter 156: 148 The choice is yours! (Vote for monthly ticket) Chapter 156: 148 The choice is yours! (Vote for monthly ticket) This was very simple for Lin An, but apart from Lin An, Chen Xinmi probably couldn’t find anyone else to help.

Lin An acutely sensed this issue.

He raised an eyebrow, “I’m still learning, as you know, and it’s not easy, especially for a wizard.”

Chen Xinmi obviously agreed with this, her expression becoming somewhat solemn, “Breathing Skill was originally a method wizards found to seek a breakthrough.”

“At the time, people discovered that the less sensitive a wizard was to emotions, the more likely they were to achieve something with the Breathing Skill.”

“It was when the problem with Sorcerer Zombies first emerged, many wizards stood up to fight against these monsters, and wizards from the Breathing Skill School rose up, playing an immense role.”

“This school distinguished themselves from other wizards, self-proclaimed as ‘Demon Hunters.’ They even found through continuous practice that ordinary people without a wizard’s bloodline were more suited to the practice of the Breathing Skill.”

“Later on, Demon Hunters of ordinary lineage became the mainstream, and Demon Hunters of wizard’s bloodline completely withdrew from the world stage. Because of the natural differences in status between ordinary people and wizards, this evolved into the current opposition between Witch-hunting Knights and wizards.”

“History has shown that wizards aren’t suited for the Breathing Skill, and even wizards with talents so weak they’re almost ordinary can barely learn the Breathing Skill, but the effects are very poor.”

Lin An listened attentively to this historical origin.

But he was no longer the newbie who knew nothing about the Supernatural World, and he now had more ideas of his own.

He just smiled and shook his head, “But whether it’s witchcraft or the Breathing Skill, aren’t they both continuously being updated and iterated? Maybe there really is a Breathing Skill suitable for wizards.”

“Of course, there is, you must know that the Breathing Skill was originally a path explored by wizards.” Chen Xinmi saw Lin An’s eyes light up, no longer maintaining his previous composure, and couldn’t help but let out a cold laugh.

Huh~
Why stop playing the part now.

She slightly hooked up the corner of her mouth, “The Wizard Association does have records of this, and with your rank as an investigator, you can apply to view some of the less important ones, but I must remind you…”

“Instead of wasting time on researching these outdated and thankless subjects, it’s better to learn a few practical pieces of witchcraft.”

She pointed at Lin An’s wardrobe with disdain and shook her head, “I really didn’t expect that with so many classic hiding witchcrafts in ‘Crazy Male Witch’s Tree Hole,’ you actually used the ‘Coffin-Sealing’ Sorcery blanket to directly wrap those items imbued with the aura of witchcraft.”

“Weak wizards or Witch-hunting Knights certainly wouldn’t discover it, but at my level, that closet is just too eye-catching.”

It’s not that he doesn’t want to learn, but that he doesn’t want to.

Lin An had a natural wariness against witchcraft, believing that emotions should come first, and then learn the corresponding witchcraft to digest those emotions.

Instead of learning some random witchcraft and then letting it trigger uncontrollable emotions within oneself.

Even the simplest ‘Little Blanket Over, Nobody to Love’ Witchcraft that Chen Xinmi had previously taught, Lin An felt it had already affected his emotions at the time.

Thanks to this exchange, Lin An now knew exactly what he needed.

He sat back down in his seat, stretched his hand to rest on the Ugly Head sitting beside him, watching the commotion, and began to use its spiritual blood to assist himself into a state of overclocked brain function, pondering whether there was a flaw in his thinking.

In the end, he made up his mind.

Chen Xinmi was still narrating, “You’re right, the Breathing Skill is always being updated and iterated, and since wizards withdrew from the stage of Demon Hunters, the iteration of the Breathing Skill has continually been optimized for ordinary people, I clearly had too high expectations of you, you…”

“You…”

She suddenly widened her eyes, disbelievingly staring at Lin An.

Boom~
Numerous smoky black and dark golden mists rose from Lin An’s body, merging into the shape of flames, within which a curious little deer lowered its head to gaze at the black cat.

“Hello there~”
It greeted the black cat.

The black cat too looked curiously at it.

Of course, Chen Xinmi was no longer able to see all these spiritual-level changes.

However, she suddenly became acutely aware that Lin An, who seemed to have passed the Emotional Fluctuation Period and entered the official status of a wizard, had begun to emanate an aura akin to that of an Antler Witch-hunting Knight?

This…

How is that possible!

“Maybe I really lack talent, which is why I’ve had a decent breakthrough with the Breathing Skill, I guess that counts as getting started,” Lin An said with a smile.

Posing!

You’re such a poser!

You’ve stepped into the realm of an ‘Official Wizard’ so quickly, unaffected in aspects such as spirit, soul, and emotional display. No signs of madness, showing that you have a talent that’s simply too enviable.

This talent even reminded Chen Xinmi of her sister, Chen Shuyun, whom she had always been extremely jealous of since childhood.

No one knows the extent of what she went through to catch up with her younger sister! The path to transcendence, for someone as untalented as her, was really too difficult, too hard!

Are all of you cheaters?

And now, this cheater has actually cultivated the Breathing Skill of the Antler Witch-hunting Knight?

This…

“This is unscientific!” she muttered to herself.

Lin An gestured to the box on the table, “I don’t know about science, but I do know that right now, I’m the only one who can help you open this box to get the correct witchcraft materials.”

“But why should I help you?”

“Unless…”

Unless you pay more! But before he could finish his sentence, Chen Xinmi suddenly leaned back with her hands clasped, staring at Lin An with widened eyes and screaming, “You must not harbor any thoughts about me!”

“???”

“What the heck?”

Lin An was utterly bewildered.

Chen Xinmi, however, was looking at Lin An warily, “I know you adore me, but please restrain yourself. We are impossible.”

Even Miao Miao turned its head to look at Lin An and sighed, meowing.

—Meow, Lin An, you really shouldn’t fantasize about her. She bears her parents’ deep hatred, the pressure to save her sister, and the pain of her broken body night and day. Each of these things makes her feel exceptionally desperate.

—And, you can’t tell anyone. The reason she was able to catch up with her sister so quickly was actually because she secretly practiced Dark Witchcraft from a young age, using a special way to repress her own heart to stimulate emotional power.

—That’s why I, as a spirit, came into being, and why there is only one of me.

Miao Miao said these things with great sadness.

—She is slowly stripping away everything about her human self and suppressing it, giving it to me, creating a possibility for herself to become herself again. However, she doesn’t know that if she dies, I will die as well.

So this is why there’s a restless rhythm wrapped in the cold spirit, right?

Lin An looked at Miao Miao, then at Chen Xinmi, his expression slowly becoming more and more strange.

He finally had an epiphany.

It was because he told Chen Shuyun that he admired Chen Xinmi that he drew the portrait of the black cat.

That’s why the black cat was so good to him.

And why Chen Xinmi was so hostile towards him.

“What’s with that expression?” As her emotions settled down, Chen Xinmi regained her composure and finally realized she was able to handle this admirer with violence as she used to. Her demeanor became calm and indifferent again.

Wizards really are emotional creatures, aren’t they?

Lin An smirked, “I think you’ve misunderstood me. I have no demands on you as a person. I have only three requests.”

“First, the witchcraft inside this box is obviously very valuable, otherwise, you wouldn’t have made so much effort to find me. So I demand to have the right to look at it as well once it’s opened.”

“Second, you just mentioned past wizards’ study materials for Breathing Skills, saying my identity only allows access to a few insignificant ones. But I demand all of them. You must use your identity to retrieve all the materials; I want to see everything!”

“Third, I need a tool or a method to hide all these things.”

Chen Xinmi narrowed her phoenix eyes and stared coldly at Lin An, “You’re too greedy!”

Lin An shrugged and exited the rhythm of the Breathing Skill, returning to a normal breathing pattern.

“No, I’m not insisting. The choice is yours!”