I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 54 - 54 054 Wildfire in the Heart

?Chapter 54: 054 Wildfire in the Heart Chapter 54: 054 Wildfire in the Heart The grey wolf let out a piercing howl as blood sprayed from its fur, splattering in mid-air before it was slammed heavily onto the ground.

Its claws skidded twice on the ground as it hurriedly darted towards a corner of the office, breaking free from the reach of the red rope, and turned to stare at Lin An again.

A terrible wound appeared on its neck, with blood dripping along its grey fur.

Just then, it suddenly turned into a wisp of smoke and dissipated.

Clearly, there was some problem on Mr. Liu’s end, as his attention left the surveillance view on the phone screen.

Lin An stood still and took a deep breath, twisting his shoulders and neck, then widened his eyes excitedly, “Yes~~”
Yes!

So satisfying!

He had never felt such exhilaration before.

The thrilling sensation soared and surged within him as if a wildfire was raging fiercely.

Lin An licked his lips, his eyes filled with a murderous glint, and the corner of his mouth twitched slightly as if he had thought of something, “Hide? Where can you possibly hide?”

He pushed the office door open and walked outside, dragging the red rope with him.

“Good morning, Mr. Lin,” the receptionist greeted him sweetly as he passed by the front desk. She glanced at Lin An and suddenly exclaimed.

Her gaze focused in front of Lin An to form a huge tangle of yarn, a mess of pink, grey, white, and black intertwined and twisted together, with a pair of large eyes filled with terror screaming from within.

As the ball of yarn moved and touched Lin An, he stealthily nudged it with the back of his hand, and the screams suddenly became comprehensible.

——”Ahhh, Mr. Lin suddenly looks so terrifying! Ahhh, I’m going to die! Ahhh, I really can’t handle how handsome it is when a good-looking guy frowns! Ahhh, I think he looks so starved, will he pounce on me? Ahhh, can you…can you be gentler… ”
Lin An paused for a moment.

What the hell was that?

He pulled at the corner of his mouth and asked softly, “Did Mr. Liu come to the office today?”

The receptionist stared blankly at him until he repeated the question, then she stood up with her legs tightly clenched, nervously pointing at the adjacent old office area, “Yes, he came very early. I saw him when I was coming up in the elevator for work today.”

Lin An nodded, “Thank you.”

Then he quickly made his way towards the old office area.

One should muster the remaining courage to pursue the desperate foe!

He was going to kill that grey wolf, he was going to devour it, he was going to find a way to become even more powerful!

The flames of determination burned fiercely in his heart.

It made him somewhat impatient.

He rounded a corner, greeted the receptionist in the old office area, and went straight to the offices inside.

From a distance, he saw Mr. Liu sitting at his desk surrounded by several people feigning concern.

“Mr. Liu, what’s the matter?”

Mr. Liu’s voice sounded pained as he hissed, “I think I might have slept wrong last night, now all of a sudden my neck is twitching with pain, and it keeps shooting up to my forehead. My teeth and the back of my head are throbbing in pain too.”

Suddenly, those concerned began to talk all at once.

“It’s probably not a stiff neck, which you would feel right after waking up—it wouldn’t just start hurting now.”

“It must be a toothache that’s causing it. I remember when I had a toothache, it felt like there was a tendon connecting my neck to my scalp—it made not just my neck but my head hurt too!”

“It might also be inflammation caused by a headache, which has now made the tooth start hurting.”

“…”

The buzz of these peoples’ voices surrounded Mr. Liu, making him grow increasingly irritable.

Clenching his teeth, he forced himself to try and pick up his phone from the floor.

Seeing this, the others began to circle around the workstations to help, but this seemed to startle Mr. Liu, “I can do it myself, I can do it myself!”

He shouted madly and, braving the pain in his neck, lunged towards the ground. His corpulent body fell, but he still hastily grabbed his phone and quickly turned off the screen while holding its edge.

“Heh heh~” someone at a distant workstation whispered to others, having seen the spectacle, “Just now, Mr. Liu must have been logging into the browser to check out something juicy.”

He spoke with animated excitement, a ‘you know what I mean’ expression on his face.

The person he was talking to also started to snicker sleazily, “I’ve heard a story about a guy who got into a car crash and insisted on deleting his browser history before passing out.”

“Ha~”
At once, a joyful laughter filled the air.

Someone whispered, “Mr. Liu is looking this way.”

Immediately, the few of them hastily straightened up and pretended to look at their computer screens seriously.

Lin An stood not far behind the group, raising an eyebrow. He used to be one of these colleagues, and their greatest joy was to see Mr. Liu, the usually busy team leader, have some misfortune befall him.

At that moment, as Mr. Liu looked over, the grey wolf appeared once again.

The grey wolf that appeared again no longer had a bleeding neck, but rather a mangled patch of flesh that was particularly horrifying to behold.

Heh heh~
See, there’s no use hiding.

Lin An watched the grey wolf with a burning gaze, thinking, you really got forced to respawn again, huh.

A raging fire blazed in his heart, making him somewhat eager to kill this grey wolf. With a slight shake of his hand and immersed in the ‘Spirit Cat State,’ he felt terrific, even feeling that he could swing the red cord just by waving his arm lightly.

In such a state, he should probably go unnoticed while making any peculiar movements, right?

Just then, a door further away in the office opened, and the junior boss looked puzzledly at the group of people gathered around Mr. Liu’s area, “What are you all doing?”

The grey wolf disappeared.

Mr. Liu turned around with a pained smile, about to speak, but then he sucked in a breath of cold air and covered his neck again, “I got a crick in my neck last night, it’s killing me, and they were just coming over to show their concern.”

“I think it’s a tooth inflammation…”

“It’s probably a cold causing the headache…”

The others babbled on, leaving the junior boss bewildered.

He walked over and yanked Mr. Liu’s hand, squeezing hard at the base of Mr. Liu’s thumb, “Right here, press it yourself, put some strength into it until you feel a sense of soreness and swelling. It’s effective no matter if it’s a crick in the neck, toothache, or headache.”

“Right, that’s the spot, push up there,” he advised Mr. Liu on where and how to apply pressure.

“A pinch should provide some relief, but it’s still better for you to go to the hospital for a check-up.”

“…”

Lin An quietly left without disturbing anyone.

He pursed his lips, furrowed his brows, and rapidly exited the Spirit Cat State, gradually feeling the wild fire in his heart simmer down and extinguish.

Something’s not right!

Very not right!

He knew very well that the young boss had Lu Tingyu’s antlers inside him, which could sense the presence of witchcraft, yet he still acted rather rashly and came over.

Moreover, who knows if there were still Witch Hunter Knights secretly lurking in the software park, waiting for any wizard that might show up.

After all, the young boss said that the appearance of a Sorcerer Zombie with a big eye in the sky had made the Witch Hunter Knights antsy; they couldn’t possibly stop investigating that quickly.

What exactly the plan of the Witch Hunter Knights was, Lin An didn’t know.

All he knew was that he indeed had a problem.

The wild fire in his heart?

Was it being manipulated by emotions to do something irrational?

This…

Is this what it means to be a wizard?

Lin An returned to the new office area, where the receptionist timidly lifted her head to glance at him, looking somewhat frightened and cautious.

It was clear that his fierce look just now had scared her.

The tangled spiritual energy was rather interesting.

He gave the girl a smile and a nod and then returned to his office once again.

Sitting silently in front of the computer, he breathed deeply, becoming increasingly adept in the meditation method explained by the yoga blogger, and finally managed to calm the wild fire within his heart.

He couldn’t help but recall his conversation with Professor Cao.

—So is there really no hope for wizards?

—Oh, there is, subdue the Heart Demon, practice restraint and return to ritual, maintain perseverance… there are plenty of ways.

But Professor Cao also said, “If it’s just a matter of different cultivation methods, why didn’t wizards change their methods when they were being hunted and pursued in the country? Because, wizards are influenced by spiritual energy. Even if they follow the path of the Witch-hunting Knight, in the end, they are still influenced by spiritual energy and return to the path of a wizard.”

Professor Cao said a lot, roughly meaning that ‘Demon Consumption’ could also trigger desires in one’s heart, similarly turning Witch Hunter Knights into Sorcerer Zombies. However, Witch Hunter Knights have ways to subdue their Heart Demons, turning them into a pair of trained antlers.

Humans have always been in a struggle with nature, even if they become Sorcerer Zombies and grow antlers at the end of their cultivation, those are still antlers that fit into human social life, instead of becoming a monster that succumbs to inner desires.

But wizards – chosen ones of the Spirit Realm – even if they reluctantly followed this path, would ultimately return to the fate of becoming Sorcerer Zombies.

No salvation.

Lin An might not have deep knowledge about the Supernatural World, but he knew that wizards surely hadn’t found a way out, otherwise, they wouldn’t still be in a situation where they were constantly being hunted and persecuted by the Witch Hunter Knights.

Unfortunately, he was a wizard.

What a profound despair.

It would’ve been better not to know any of this. That way, he could’ve enjoyed the satisfaction of using powerful witchcraft as a wizard, while joining other wizards in cursing the relentless pursuit of the Witch Hunter Knights.

Despair churned within him, once again lighting the wild fire in his heart.

This wild fire, fueled by suppressed emotions, could make one wish to destroy the world.

Lin An did not go out to destroy the world; he just sat in silence, stabilizing his breathing, once again suppressing this surge of emotions.

Since awakening as a wizard, the problem of not fitting in with the world had started to emerge.

He didn’t even know what to do.

Take sedatives?

That might actually be a good idea, but he couldn’t be expected to take them 24/7, every day until he died, could he?

Finally, the wild fire inside him subsided once more.

Lin An pursed his lips; the pleasure of having severely beaten Mr. Liu’s Spiritual Grey Wolf was gone, leaving only endless silence behind.

He took out his phone from his pocket, opened the forum app to see if Yunjuan Yunshu had replied to him.

Subduing the Heart Demon?

This sounded incredibly difficult, maybe only saints could achieve such a thing, especially for wizards with their volatile and magnified emotions.

The only method he could think of right now might just be the yoga meditation breathing technique taught by Yunjuan Yunshu, which he had personally found effective against various supernatural entities and their spiritual energy in the past.

Restraint! Suppression!

He had to restrain himself, to the point where even if he wanted to kill someone or destroy the world, he wouldn’t let it affect his actions.

He could do it!

He’d definitely strive to achieve it!

Not to hurt innocent bystanders because of his own situation.

The best method now was to learn the practice of the Antler Witch Hunter Knight from Professor Cao, even though Professor Cao said that ultimately, wizards would still be led by spiritual energy to become Sorcerer Zombies.

But at least it gave room for struggle, time to find a solution, right?

It’s just that…

One month.

It would be one month before Professor Cao could teach him, and even after being taught, it was uncertain how long it would take for him to learn it.

To master Deer Play, become a Knight apprentice, refine the ‘Furnace’, and then use the Furnace to cultivate antlers, that’s what it would take to become a Witch Hunter Knight.

How much longer would that be?

A month? Half a year? Or even several years?

Lin An didn’t know, but he had to find a way to endure this period of time.