I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 93 - 93 087 Are you still saying youre not a wizard

?Chapter 93: 087 Are you still saying you’re not a wizard? Chapter 93: 087 Are you still saying you’re not a wizard? The wind howled and sand danced in the air, with bone fragments occasionally rolling out from the sandy soil.

At some point, Professor Cao and Doctor Zhang had activated ‘Furnace.’ Red light spread from beneath their feet, enveloping Lin An from front to back.

“What are you talking about? Damn it! You’re not including me in this!” The boss’s voice came from afar, fading completely as Professor Cao planted a flag, pulled from who knows where, into the ground. His voice was lost in the howling wind of the ‘Furnace.’
The three of them silently watched the boss, who was fuming and cursing as he paced back and forth in the real world dimension.

Doctor Zhang sighed and looked at Lin An, “Yes, you guessed right, he is a wizard.”

“Originally, he only had a sorcerer’s bloodline, which wasn’t a big deal,” Professor Cao snorted coldly. “After graduating from college and starting a business in another city, who knows what he encountered. When he came back, he had already awakened as a wizard.”

“It’s not just that,” Doctor Zhang clicked his tongue and gestured for everyone to look at the boss’s face, where octopus tentacles appeared, “To have such an image appear in the glasses’ field of view, it seems our student Lu has been truly diligent in secret.”

He raised an eyebrow, “Sneaky growth, then shocking everyone!”

“Just too clever for his own good!” Professor Cao snorted again, his expression complex, “He secretly learned from his father’s research notes behind the backs of us uncles and elder brothers. He thought the rampantly growing emotions of a wizard were the best nourishment for a Witch Hunter Knight’s Furnace.”

“As long as he controlled the scale, treating himself like a vegetable garden and his emotions like leeks, he could be self-sufficient, creating a perfect self-contained cycle.”

“Hmph!”

“He dares to recklessly learn from his father’s notes. He truly has a death wish. His father blew himself up from his experiments! When he died, each part of his body had its own will, more a Sorcerer Zombie than a Sorcerer Zombie!”

Doctor Zhang smiled wryly and shook his head, “But isn’t that the very creed of our Antler? As a notorious rebel Witch Hunter Organization, haven’t generations strived to find a way out for this desperate world?”

“And what’s the result?”

A trace of sadness flashed in Professor Cao’s eyes, “The result is, in the not-so-long history of our Antler, several near-complete obliterations, several close calls where everyone nearly died. Mr. Lu died a horrific death, I’m about to turn into an imbecile, and then there’s you, and everyone else, all suffering various symptoms.”

“Is it worth it?” His words were filled with desolation, “It would’ve been better to be a proper Witch Hunter Knight, slaying Sorcerer Zombies and witches, rather than treating ourselves, our descendants, our apprentices, as experimental fields.”

Doctor Zhang laughed heartily, looking up at the blood-red river surging in the Purgatory World’s sky, “My spirit will not die, the fire will never cease!”

Lin An’s expression flickered at the side.

He had been constantly suppressing that ‘thrill-seeking’ thought inside, suppressing it fiercely.

But the screams within were hysterical—”You idiot, have you gone completely numb? Run! If they know the boss is a wizard, won’t they damn well know you are one too?”

—”Who does the boss think he is? He’s their relative; even as a wizard, they can tolerate him, but who the hell are you? What do you count for?”

—”Strain every nerve, turn into a black cat. Use the ‘Dizzy’ Sorcery now while they are startled by the information, and then create some distance!”

—”This is the conclusion you’ve analyzed in your mind, yet you have done nothing. Are you just going to stand here and wait for death?”

—”Oh, but I must say, standing next to two Witch Hunter Knights, at risk of death at any moment, feels thrilling. It feels great, as a lot of Spiritual Energy is merging with me, making me stronger.”

—”…”
Lin An pursed his lips, wishing he could now master the Witch Hunter Knight’s Furnace, and refine this entity that had its own consciousness.

Is it me?

Lin An wouldn’t think so, even if the reasoning made sense, he refused to believe it.

He is him, he can only be him, and not him and it.

Even in the future, there could be a bunch of ‘its’ standing in the mirror, yelling at him, ‘I am you~’
Heh~
No, you are not me!

I know it!

Although I cannot articulate as you do, I know, I am me.

Lin An patiently awaited the right moment; if his enemies did not move, neither would he.

Indeed, as Professor Cao and Doctor Zhang conversed, he finally breathed a sigh of relief—the fact that the boss’s wizardry had been spotted by the glasses meant that it had been secretly practiced to a certain extent.

Meaning, he had not been exposed.

The first time he practiced the Breathing Skill and saw the Fawn Spirit Nature, symbolizing the Antler Witch Hunter Knight, was before his awakening as a wizard.

Just then, Professor Cao turned around, took a look at Lin An, “Lu is a wizard, you are also a wizard.”

The tone was calm, with no fluctuations.

Lin An’s heart missed a beat, yet his face showed a look of surprise. He pointed at himself, dumbfounded, and blinked.

“Heh heh heh~” Doctor Zhang patted Lin An’s shoulder, “You can’t say you didn’t know you were a Wizard, kid. Haven’t you secretly used witchcraft before? It’s badass and fun, right?”

Lin An blinked innocently, “I don’t know what you’re talking about! I… I…”

“Stop teasing Lin An,” Professor Cao raised his hand and pulled out a file from thin air, handing it to Lin An.

“On this undercover mission to ‘Mad Warlock’s Hollow’ Organization, what you need to be most careful about is their leader, the warlock we’ve code-named ‘Kapok Tree’.”

Lin An tugged at the corner of his mouth, relieved. Goodness, Mr. Zhang, don’t scare me like that!

Trying to bluff me?

Utterly unscrupulous.

He looked down and saw a profile of ‘Kapok Tree’ on top, with a slightly blurry photo attached. It showed a doctor wearing a mask, a white coat, and who was somewhat overweight.

“Whether a Witch or a Witch Hunter Knight, both paths are so despairing,” Professor Cao said in his deep, resonant voice, speaking slowly, “but while paths are set, people are alive and will always seek to break through, to find a living way.”

“There are those among the Witch Hunter Knights seeking it, like our Antler, and among the Witches too, like this Kapok Tree.”

“From our investigations and analysis, he’s using a secret medicine approach, stimulating the mind to unleash a complete force within.”

Doctor Zhang smacked his lips and added, “But witches are ultimately evil. For the sake of his research, this guy disguised himself as a doctor and infiltrated major hospitals, using people with a Sorcerer’s Bloodline for experiments.”

“Come on, Lin An, flip to the back. No, not that one, keep flipping.”

“!!!” Lin An’s flipping hands suddenly froze. He looked unbelieving at the photo on a medical case file. That was…

Him!

“What does stimulating the mind entail?” Doctor Zhang chuckled, “The eyes, ah, the eyes are the windows to the soul!”

“This evil Wizard caused blindness in no fewer than a hundred people!” Professor Cao snorted coldly. “By the time we discovered this and acted, it was a shame he slipped away. But at least we stopped him from harming others.”

“Though~” Doctor Zhang whistled as he slung an arm around Lin An, “not everyone went blind, right? We’ve got someone right here who narrowly escaped.”

Lin An remained silent.

“According to the research data we obtained from one of our assaults on his temporary residence, he was trying to achieve a ‘Shallow Awakening.'” Doctor Zhang continued, “That is, to have the best ‘Innate Witchcraft’ without fully becoming a Witch.”

“A genius design indeed.”

“If every witch could use witchcraft without the risk of post-emotional derangement, it would be a change capable of affecting the world’s power structure.”

“But it’s not so easy. There are too many theoretically self-consistent methods that ultimately fail. And the price of failure is often death.”

With that, Doctor Zhang forcefully squeezed Lin An’s shoulder, “Hey, kid, you’re lying when you say you don’t know you’re a witch. You definitely have an innate witchcraft!”

This…

Lin An looked silently at the ‘cataract surgery’ record on the file, his fingers gripping so hard the paper began to deform.

‘Mad Warlock’s Hollow’ Organization leader, Witch Hunter prey code ‘Kapok Tree’…

This piece of information echoed in his mind for a long time.

“When you go undercover into the Witch Organization, you must be cautious about two things,” Professor Cao wasn’t as capricious as Doctor Zhang; he didn’t seem like the joking kind.

“First, Kapok Tree will definitely recognize you. He was too eager to escape at that time and may not have realized you, the test subject, succeeded—so he didn’t come after you later. But if you appear before him, that will change.”

“Once exposed, you’ll become his target.”

“Second, after going undercover, you’ll start accessing a lot of information on witches and witchcraft, but don’t just go learning witchcraft willy-nilly.”

“If you don’t learn it well, you’ll have problems. If you learn it too well, you’ll start to look like Mr. Lu to the eyes of other Witch Hunter Knights.”

“Then, other than me and Mr. Zhang, the other Antler Witch Hunter Knights will hunt you down.”

“So will Witch Hunter Knights from other cities.”

“Going undercover…” Professor Cao turned his head to look at Lin An, “isn’t easy. Many people get lost in it along the way.”