I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 116 - 116 108 Okay wheres the money

?Chapter 116: 108 Okay, where’s the money? Chapter 116: 108 Okay, where’s the money? The weather in Shenhou City is capricious; by the time Lin An let his car take him to a street corner near the Green Sail Hotel, he looked up to find the sky had unknowingly been shrouded in dark clouds.

He kept gazing up dumbly for a while before he licked the corner of his mouth and slowly walked into the dim alley beside him.

Innate Witchcraft ‘Heavenly Eye’ was rapidly deployed, and his field of vision began to permeate his surroundings.

Where people were still awake late at night, where security cameras were operating—all became vivid in his sight.

The dim streetlights cast his shadow onto the pile of objects in the alley, stretching it longer and longer until it suddenly swelled and began to twist.

As his figure completely left the range of the streetlamp’s glow, only a long, smooth tail could be seen slipping into the darkness.

Lin An had already transformed into the body of a black cat, slowly stretching himself.

He increasingly felt an instinctual pull of the feline variety, something he could resist or allow his body to follow.

He arched his back high, his tail erected, head hanging low, with both front paws stretching intensely forward before slowly twisting his spine.

This was ‘Spirit Cat Spinal Stretching Technique’.

And it was not just the ‘Spirit Cat Spinal Stretching Technique’ by itself; it included an air of the casual relaxation seen in feline stretching, as well as elements of the Soft Body Skill and the force of the Thirteen Roping Skills.

Then, guided by ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes,’ the black cat leapt lightly onto the balcony on the second floor of a nearby building.

Crouched quietly, his tail curled around himself, he gazed up into the sky.

He waited.

He waited for the thickening clouds to shift with the wind and obscure the moon above.

As he waited, he couldn’t help but ponder his current state in detail.

This transformation into a black cat…

It seemed not to be a Witch-hunting Knight’s technique because he felt a robust support from the emotion of ‘fear’ swelling within him, this emotion rendering him increasingly agitated and wild.

It seemed neither to be a Wizard’s technique, for there was no trace of witchcraft in his transformation; this was why the Witch Hunter Knights, back in the inferno, couldn’t lock onto him, and why his emotions weren’t stirred from using this ‘witchcraft.’
It appeared to be a path of ‘spirituality’ that he had always relied upon!

It was spawned from the Witch Hunter Knights’ ‘Spirit Cat Body Stretching Skill’ and ‘Breathing Skill’!

It was strengthened through the Wizard’s ‘Fear-style Softening Skill’ and the emotions of fear!

During this journey so far, whether on the paths of the Witch Hunter Knights or those of the Wizards, he felt bewildered, but on the path of spirituality, he seemed to make steady progress step by step.

He was drawing nourishment from both paths of the Witch Hunter Knights and the Wizards.

He even had an instinctive reaction on a ‘spiritual’ level; as a black cat, he pursued excitement, seemingly digesting the ‘fear’ within him bit by bit.

He turned the thrill of the chase by the man in the rabbit mask into his excitement, displaying it in his way.

Emotions contain power; he was absorbing the nourishment of these emotions.

All in the Transcendent World seemed to become progressively more intriguing, and some principles could be affirmed by his past experiences.

For example—in the circles of the working class, the difference between a regular employee and an executive sometimes truly doesn’t lie in ability, but in a difference of mindset. These mindsets provide entirely distinct emotional strength, allowing some people to easily summit peaks.

Finally…

As the clouds in the sky covered the moon like a blanket, the whole world seemed to quiet down, drowsy and about to sleep.

Transformed into a black cat, Lin An became like lightning under the guidance of ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes,’ leaping lightly onto the smooth exterior wall of the Green Sail Hotel.

His speed was extremely fast, like a bolt of lightning scampering swiftly along the exterior of the hotel, occasionally pushing off slightly raised sections of the wall to swiftly ascend toward the 26th floor.

He wasn’t merely idling while waiting; even though his mind was occupied with his thoughts, his vision swiftly surveyed his surroundings with ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes.’
It included every corner of the hotel, ultimately pinpointing Mr. Liu’s location.

The hotel’s exterior windows could only be opened a small crack, but that was not an obstacle for him.

The black cat made a light leap, speeding toward the crack, quickly shifting back to the smaller form of a human as he touched the gap, then transforming back into a black cat as he emerged through.

When he landed lightly, he had already turned back into a human form.

Dressed in a T-shirt and overalls, his hands neatly placed at his sides, his feet slightly pigeon-toed, his face was covered by a rabbit-patterned mask.

Clouds over the city began to rumble with stealthy thunder.

As a flash of lightning split the sky, its light illuminated his mask.

Mr. Liu, entangled with a blonde in his bed, turned over in a daze and lazily lifted his wrist to check the luminous hands on his watch; it took him a while to realize it wasn’t dawn yet.

He always had trouble sleeping.

Only the heavy exhaustion following a frenzied bout allowed his tense mind to relax slightly, sending him involuntarily into a deep sleep.

He turned over again, his palm contentedly sliding across the girl’s smooth skin as he drifted back to sleep.

Suddenly, as if sensing something, he turned over abruptly and twisted his head to look.

“!!!”

A smiling rabbit mask had abruptly appeared beside the pillow, and the eyes inside its eyeholes were staring straight at him.

“Ah~~~”
He screamed in fright, then tried hard to suppress his cry, merely shaking as he stared at the scene in front of him.

Somehow, a person had appeared in his room without notice, crouching at the edge of the bed, resting their head on it and staring intently at him.

It wasn’t very clear in the darkness.

Swallowing hard, he shakily reached to turn on the bedside switch.

Click~
The bedside lamp lit up, giving him a slight sense of security.

There was no one beside the bed, and he let out a sigh of relief, only then noticing his forehead and back were covered in cold sweat.

“Damn it~”
He muttered, then quickly looked around the other corners of the room by the light.

Nothing!

There was no one by the room’s entryway, no one behind the transparent glass of the toilet, and no one on the sofa in the middle of the business room.

Only then did he breathe a sigh of relief, collapsing onto the bed with a sense of powerlessness, staring blankly at the ceiling above.

No one knew what that ordinary man, under the guidance of his Wizard cousin, had experienced by the side of Witch-hunting Knight Lu Tingyu.

Nor did anyone know how desperately this common man, lacking both Sorcerer’s Bloodline and any talent for witchcraft, yearned for transcendental power. To the extent that after the disappearance of his Wizard cousin and Witch-hunting Knight Lu Tingyu, he searched high and low until he found the Tree Hole Organization of the Mad Male Witch.

The horrific pressure hadn’t forged him any resilience; he was merely surviving on jealousy, discontent, and a frenzied longing.

He was so very tired, so tired that even sleep had become a struggle.

Finally, calming down from the scare he had just had, he hesitated for a bit before deciding not to turn off the bedside lamp, turning over with the intention of embracing the woman to sleep.

That’s when he noticed a figure curiously peering at the exposed lady because he had pulled back the covers, from the other side of the bed.

“She’s pretty~” came an admiring voice from behind ‘Little Rabbit’ mask.

Yes!

You have no idea how expensive!

Mr. Liu swallowed hard, looking incredulously at him, “‘Little Rabbit’ Sir?”

Lin An didn’t speak but just cocked his head, looking at the young lady before him. In his memory, Mr. Liu’s wife had come to the office once, she didn’t quite look like this, did she?

My, isn’t life grand?

Staying in a luxurious hotel, cuddling up with a hot young girl, with what looked like an expensive bottle of foreign wine and a glass placed at the bedside…

Lin An smacked his lips, making a sound that was hard to interpret.

He had come here intending to kill Mr. Liu, but suddenly another thought occurred to him.

“You need to pay up! We agreed on a million.”

Mr. Liu’s eyes widened, “Wizard Sir, the premise of paying one million was to complete the task of killing Lin An, that’s what we agreed on. A simple man like him, you could easily kill with a pinch! But he’s still alive!”

With that, he reached under the covers, grabbed his watch on his right wrist, and flicked open the safety lid.

The watch contained a strong sedative needle that could put him to sleep in 0.01 seconds, instantly sending him to the Tree Hole Organization’s headquarters.

Having been around for so many years, he still had some trump cards. At the very least, the active life-size puppet that had been prepared in the headquarters’ warehouse would ensure he wouldn’t be confined to being a waiter there for life.

But who would want to be a puppet if they could be a person?

“I have made a move!” came a string of neurotic laughter from behind ‘Little Rabbit’ mask. The Mad Male Witch actually climbed onto the bed, stepped over the girl, walked up to Mr. Liu, and crouched down to look at him closely.

“I don’t care, I almost died, wuwuwu, anyway, you have to pay up!”

Can’t you be reasonable?

You’re asking for payment when you’ve failed the mission?

Do you know it’s against the rules to extort from the members of the Tree Hole Organization’s mortal division?

And why aren’t you clear about why you almost died? Told to kill Lin An, you went after a witch instead. Do you think that witch was as simple as she seemed?

Mr. Liu’s expression changed rapidly, and he finally nodded bitterly.

“Fine, I’ll pay!”

In the Tree Hole Organization’s headquarters, these Wizards were accustomed to ordering him around, but in the city, where the Witch-hunter Knights were present, the Wizards had to tread cautiously.

Therefore, they at least showed a smidgen of respect to those ordinary people like him, who had achieved something in the real world.

It wasn’t much, but at least he had the right to a conversation.

But evidently, the Mad Male Witch was not in the mood to be reasonable now. What could he do? Dealing with the devil sometimes turned out like this. It was a risk they took when members of the mortal division secretly sought out these insane Wizards.

Damn it!

Why couldn’t I be a Wizard!

“Alright, where’s the money?” the man behind ‘Little Rabbit’ mask stretched out his hand, asking forthrightly.

Mr. Liu blankly stared at the Mad Male Witch’s hand, feeling as if the entire world had taken on an air of fantasy.

Can’t you see I’m lying here stark naked under the covers?

How am I supposed to give you a million right now?

But he dared not speak to the Wizard like that, only managing a strained smile while cursing inside.

But there was nothing he could do no matter how much he despised it.

He could only helplessly point to a bag on the table, “I have an anonymous private bank safe deposit box card. Just take it and withdraw the contents; inside is a scroll of Master Xu Xi’s ink painting.”

Lin An paused, “Antique?”

Mr. Liu nodded, “We can’t deal with cash. It’s too conspicuous. Take it to the antique street’s shops to sell. The works of this master are priced by size, and the market is transparent. This painting would normally fetch between one hundred to one hundred and twenty thousand.”

“Oh,” the masked man acknowledged, seeming less than pleased.

Lin An was overjoyed.

Suddenly, he found Mr. Liu, with his plump figure and large ears, to be exceedingly pleasing to the eye.

Mr. Liu was extremely dissatisfied.

He never thought these mad Wizards could be so repugnant!

Damn it, damn them all~~~