I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 176 - 176 165 Are you blind Youre not blind

?Chapter 176: 165 Are you blind? You’re not blind! Chapter 176: 165 Are you blind? You’re not blind! The next day, the sun shone brightly after a morning shower, rejuvenating the city once more.

No matter what happened in the Supernatural World, the city still followed its usual rhythm and continued to operate.

“Good morning, Mr. Lin~” The receptionist greeted sweetly, and Lin An nodded with a smile.

“Morning, Mr. Lin~” A few scattered greetings came from some members of the art team in the outsourcing department.

There was no shortage of astute people in this world, and some had already heard that their department would be incorporated into the new game development project after the outsourcing project ended. Naturally, they wanted to make a good impression on Lin An, the future ‘game producer’.

Zheng Miao from the Special Project Team, that stubborn woman with a bad temper, was now the unshakable Deputy Leader of the special project because she was the first to report to Lin An and had made a good impression with him.

In this respect, Lin An already possessed a great deal of authority, which was enough to decide the fate of many of these working-class folks with just a few words.

Lin An arrived at the Special Project Team cheerfully and first checked the development progress of the ‘Ink Jade Copper Bronze’ portrait with Zheng Miao. He ritually collected some tears of her Spiritual Mermaid, communicated with the original artist for a while, and then returned to his own office.

After taking a sip of chilled canned coffee, Lin An turned on his computer and started to adjust the third portrait, which he had named ‘Ink Jade Copper Bronze’.

The likeness of a bronze or ink jade-like Witch-hunting Knight’s deer antler portrait was now being crafted by Lin An with a deeper understanding of the Furnace, rendering it profound.

He roughed out a draft with a certain charm, tossed it to the graphic artists of the project team for refinement, and guided them towards the direction he wanted. Lin An was looking forward to seeing what kind of effects the final painting would produce for him.

It wasn’t until 10 AM that the young boss finally arrived at the company.

He first busied himself in the old office area next door, then had a meeting with the head of the outsourcing department in the new office area, before letting his secretary leave and coming alone to Lin An’s office.

Scratching the area between his temple and ear, he blew on the palm of his hand, and a stick made from the core of a large banyan tree materialized in his hand.

“Today, I’m officially going to teach you how to store such Stone Treasures.”

As he spoke, he placed the stick on the desk, hands akimbo with a triumphant look as if to say Lin An was in for a huge benefit.

Lin An glanced at the stick and couldn’t help but think of Professor Cao and Mr. Liu, who might not be dead. After a moment of silence, he looked steadily at the young boss, “Are you sure you want to give me something so precious?”

The day before, Lin An had used the excuse of ‘I don’t understand this method of storing Stone Treasures inside the body’ to persuade the young boss to take it back.

He did not want to accept a reward without earning it, hoping the young boss would reconsider.

After all, it was a treasure left to him by his father and linked to the powers of a strong Wizard subordinate (Mr. Liu), a Witch Organization, limitations on Professor Cao, and many other critical abilities.

“Are you kidding? Would I take it back?” The young boss squinted his eyes and waved his hand vehemently, “Once I, your boss, give something away, there’s no reason to take it back!”

Lin An chewed on his lip, “Maybe it could be of great use in the future!”

“No kidding, I know!” The young boss glanced at the stick and nodded, “Even without all those schemes, this item is a treasure that nobody would be willing to trade!”

Lin An hesitated; he didn’t have much to offer in return for the young boss’s generosity, and it felt a bit… wrong to keep accepting his gifts.

“Hahaha~” The young boss observed Lin An’s conflicted expression and patted his shoulder with satisfaction, “I can feel how dedicated you are to this game.”

Yes, but that’s because you pay me a high salary.

Plus, making games is also part of my career plan.

Not to mention that this item could help me continue on my spiritual path.

It’s a triple benefit, so how could I not give it my all?

“You gave me a raise,” Lin An said sincerely.

The young boss chuckled and leaned in to whisper, “It’s said that Mr. Cao is near the end, barely hanging on to his last breath, and might become a statue without cognitive ability at any moment. You never know what’s behind smiles. Without Mr. Cao’s deer antlers, who knows what might happen to me with my Werther’s Sorcerer’s Bloodline in the future…”

He raised an eyebrow at Lin An, “We’re in the same camp. We both have Sorcerer’s Bloodlines; we should support each other.”

“Take it!”

“This is a gift between comrades; you can’t refuse!”

Having come to that…

Lin An stood up, looking at him earnestly, “Thank you!”

“Hahaha~” The young boss slapped his shoulder proudly, “You’re being too formal.”

Absorbing a Stone Treasure into one’s body was an extremely advanced Furnace technique.

Clearly, neither the young boss nor Lin An had reached the stage of practicing the Furnace.

“That’s the wonder of this thing: the large banyan tree’s Stone Treasure is said to have tremendous spatial shaping and crafting capabilities, and the tree core is even more extraordinary.”

Indeed.

Mr. Liu created the headquarters for the ‘Mad Warlock’s Hollow’ Organization with the large banyan tree.

With Chen Xinmi’s help, I created a Space Ring using the banyan tree’s aerial roots of the Wolf Head Ring.

And this banyan tree’s core right in front of me is obviously an even more exceptional Transcendent material.

“My father took the ‘Jia’ Vein method of devising Armor from the deer antlers, referenced the principles of witchcraft, and made a very subtle modification to the banyan tree core,” the young boss said proudly, brandishing the stick to demonstrate to Lin An. “It’s actually very simple. You use the Breathing Skill to adjust your own frequency, which triggers a transformation in the spirit. This brings forth a shallow layer of Sorcerer’s power within our bodies, thus activating the core’s innate spatial abilities.”

“As a result, it enters a state of superposition with our bodies.”

“Hehe, let me tell you, if a Witch-hunting Knight doesn’t master this ability to use witchcraft, they can’t handle this.”

“And then, if a wizard can’t grasp this breathing technique frequency, they won’t be able to handle it either.”

This was clearly a transcendent artifact tailor-made for his son by Lu Tingyu.

Suddenly, there was one more person like this.

The young boss seemed to be quite happy to have a little friend who could share treasures. To him, Lin An was incredibly important in his solitude.

It’s as though the entire world had only him, a freak wandering between witches and Witch-hunting Knights, and now he finally found a like-minded freakish friend.

If this were some kind of physical technique or power-launching skill, Lin An might have found it difficult to learn, but key points like the breathing skill and emotional stimulation were really as simple for him as drinking water.

Just a simple adjustment made the texture of the tree core before him feel different.

Lin An stared at the brown wooden stick in his palm, dazed for a moment, then turned to look at the young boss, “I feel like I’ve grabbed onto something alive!”

The young boss snapped his fingers, nodding with feeling, “Weird feeling, isn’t it? That’s the property of the Stone Treasure, like an inanimate object that’s alive.”

Then, he looked at Lin An with profound meaning, “Witch-hunting Knights, in the end, turn into statues, and it feels the same.”

Lin An blinked and looked at the stick again.

He felt it constantly contracting and stretching, even if it wasn’t visible to the naked eye.

But on a spiritual level, he could sense it was writhing continuously.

This is…

The rhythm of life!

It seemed as though it was just asleep…

This was an extremely bizarre sensation.

Even under visual observation, the stick beginning to shorten and shrink was a very bizarre sensation.

It was as if its size hadn’t really changed, but the effect it presented in the real world had shifted.

And the most miraculous part was that when Lin An stopped the unique rhythm of the breathing technique, the tree core’s appearance in the real world completely vanished.

It seemed to have become something that existed reliant on his own existence, as if it were attached to him in another dimension.

“See, I told you it’s simple. Just adjust back to that breathing rhythm, and the stick will reappear,” said the young boss with a chuckle, although his head had turned into that of a Husky, staring wide-eyed at Lin An.

—”How the heck did you learn so fast? I freaking practiced for an entire month and almost got caught by Mr. Zhang with this stick!”

Just then, the office door was knocked on.

Lin An glanced at the young boss, who shrugged, “Go ahead with your business.”

Saying this, he went to open the door, intending to leave.

But the figure in front of the door froze him completely.

“Mr…. Mr. Liu!”

The young boss shouted in surprise, “You haven’t… I mean, you… you… you were on leave, weren’t you? How did you come back so soon?”

Mr. Liu smiled amiably at the young boss, “I finished up the tasks. Last time you asked me to take a good look at the programming group to see who would be suitable for moving to the new game development project, I have compiled a list and was just about to show it to you.”

“Is… is that so?” The young boss smiled somewhat forcedly.

His Husky spiritual head was in shock, yelling, “Didn’t you freaking die? Huh?”

Then, as if realizing something, the Husky turned its head 180 degrees to look behind, staring wide-eyed at Lin An, “Would it be really tasteless of me to ask for the tree core back now, would it seem lacking in grace?”

The Husky’s expression changed repeatedly, and finally, it spoke to Lin An with vicious determination, “If you don’t help me complete that game, you’re totally dead meat! Wuhuhu, my tree core… No, no, I need to be magnanimous, like my father, yes, it’s just a tree core after all.”

Lin An’s expression remained composed as he looked at Mr. Liu, as if he was unaware that the man had already died once.

He maintained a false polite smile typical of inter-collegial etiquette.

Under the sight of his Spirit Eye, when Mr. Liu looked over, his spirituality presented itself as a two-meter high stone archway.

Countless roots climbed out from within the archway, winding around it and converging into an interlaced root-faced mask.

The face looked incredibly excited, staring intently at Lin An—”You’re not blind? You’re not blind!”

“Hahaha, it was right to let my avatar visit Mr. Lu’s silly son’s company this time!”

Yes, I didn’t go blind in your experiment!

You’re excited, aren’t you, dying to take me back for more experiments, huh?

Lin An’s eyebrows raised slightly, he licked his lips, and the corners of his mouth curled up a bit.

Mr. Liu, what perfect timing your visit has!

I’ve been thinking about you for a long time…

Lin An felt a faint sense of closeness from the wolf head ring on his finger and rejoiced in the lively sensation of the banyan tree core that existed in another dimension bonded to him. His smile became increasingly bright.

This person was amusing, daring to show up so brazenly.