I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 140 - 140 132 Theres no point in running anymore (begging

?Chapter 140: 132 There’s no point in running anymore (begging for monthly passes) Chapter 140: 132 There’s no point in running anymore (begging for monthly passes) Lin An felt very itchy.

But this itchiness was not because Chen Shuyun scratched his back with her fingertips through the fur, but rather an itch that seemed to emerge from deep within his bones.

It was restless, as if something was about to manifest itself.

“What witchcraft is this?”

Lin An frowned. He had found that, after turning into a black cat, his sensitivity to the outside world became extremely high, whereas his perception of his inner body had become somewhat dull.

“It’s the ‘Mountain-Sea Monster Skill’ from the Origin Sect, a type of transformation spell under the category of ‘Legendary Sorcery’,” said Chen Shuyun in a weak voice, which sounded somewhat hoarse. She had been using witchcraft to extract the profound spiritual blood from the witch-ghoul transformed arm in her right hand, smearing runes on the back of the black cat.

Lin An was taken aback. “Legendary Sorcery? Does that mean it’s of a legendary level?”

This was a term commonly used by game designers, first developed from web novels about online games. It is customary to classify powerful abilities with a high-status name.

Chen Shuyun shook her head. “Legendary Sorcery is a type of classification. It’s a method of casting spells using the power of legends, relying on the world’s collective belief and cognition as the foundation.”

“The modern ‘Faith Sect’ developed this category of witchcraft, believing it to be the power of the mind that ‘exists if believed, and doesn’t if not believed.’ As long as the spread of the information about the thing is wide enough and its history deep enough, it can bring forth a power far beyond one’s own spirit.”

“Let’s get back to this transformation spell.”

“The ‘Origin Sect,’ which developed this transformation spell, is an emerging modern sect that focuses on researching Sorcerer Zombies. They don’t care about the consequences of witches turning into Sorcerer Zombies; they only care about the powerful forces possessed by the Sorcerer Zombies and try to let wizards wield the power of Sorcerer Zombies autonomously during their wizard phase.”

“They drew from the ‘Faith Sect’s views and combined them with some ancient characteristics of the ‘Classic of Mountains and Seas’ that manifested in animals turned Precious Pets (Stone Treasure) by the Spirit World Aura. Finding patterns, they developed this ‘Mountain-Sea Monster Skill’.”

“It allows wizards to randomly transform into a type of monster described in the ‘Classic of Mountains and Seas’.”

Lin An was fascinated as he listened but did not stop running.

Chen Shuyun did not stop drawing the runes, either. She kept narrating softly, “After the Origin Sect developed the ‘Mountain-Sea Monster Skill,’ it once broadened the path for wizardry cultivation.”

“However, this temporary transformation spell is extremely difficult to cast, the process is complicated, it takes a long time, and the abilities of the transformed monsters are random, so it did not really become widespread at the time.”

“The Origin Sect did not stop their research. They attempted to make this spell permanent in a wizard’s body, and eventually, they succeeded. This sect became the main force of wizards.”

“But as time went on, those wizards who had made the spell permanent began to experience problems. They slowly turned into huge Precious Pets (Stone Treasure).”

“Humans transformed into Precious Pets are more formidable than those transformed animals possess traits of Sorcerer Zombies and are the best casting tools, but they seem more suited for the Witch Hunter Knights’ Furnace.”

“At that time, a powerful Witch-hunting Knight joked that this sorcery was our way of processing ourselves to be more palatable…”
“The Antler Witch-Hunting Knight Order has a headquarters in Purgatory World, made from the body of a huge elk Precious Pet…”

“This sect was eradicated by our own wizards because, in the end, all the wizards from this sect turned into powerful Precious Pets, which propelled the Witch Hunter Knights from the Furnace Era towards the era of the Furnace Core.”

“The Furnace Core is what you see as the antlers on the heads of the Witch Hunter Knights.”

“With the downfall of the Origin Sect, the Faith Sect went from being a first-class sect to an insignificant one within the country. The permanent ‘Mountain-Sea Monster Skill’ was listed as forbidden by the Empire Sorcerer’s Alliance. Only the temporary technique was spread out…”

“But this sorcery is too weak; few people use it, mainly as research material…”

“I just feel like your current state as a black cat seems particularly suitable for this witchcraft…”

Chen Shuyun’s voice grew weaker and weaker, and Lin An found it harder to listen.

Because he felt his bones were especially itchy, and not just his bones, his heart began to beat extremely fiercely.

It felt like his blood, after being affected by some kind of rhythm in his bones, had started to change. This blood then stimulated the heart, causing it to pump more blood throughout his body.

Then, a tingling sensation began to spread in his mind.

Unconsciously, Lin An stopped running. He pressed his body down sharply and stretched his front paws as far as he could.

The Spirit Cat Spinal Stretching Technique.

This was a reflex action to the itching caused by the changes in his blood and musculoskeletal system.

After that, he saw his own transformation.

Through his ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes’ vision, he could see that his body was gradually turning snow white.

Intermingled with the snow-white color were black, irregular blotchy patterns.

His body changed from slender and smooth to long and robust, his limbs becoming very thick, as he could feel a strong force pulsing within his flesh and fur.

A long tail hung behind him, looking even thicker and more powerful than that of a black cat.

And his head began to take on the appearance of a lion.

Not the kind found in nature, but more akin to those stone lion heads commonly seen at the entrance of ancient buildings or banks (a guardian lions).

The lion’s head and body seemed to be of the same fur, with eyes of precious blue.

It looked…

Rather like the ‘snow leopards’ he had seen in wildlife documentaries.

The only difference was that each strand of his fur seemed to flow with iridescence, emitting a spectrum of colors.

This transformation seemed to fit Lin An’s current state perfectly.

He felt the iridescence flowing through his fur merge into the surrounding intense whirlpool of oil painting colors, making all visual patterns seem even more distorted.

Reality is not like a TV show.

The enemy won’t wait for one to finish transforming and then mock before continuing their attack.

Rabbit-Eyed Demon Hunter Feng Xin evidently noticed something wrong, and abruptly pulled out a huge hunting bow, lifting one foot high to brace the massive bow body, and in an instant, shot out an arrow adorned with purple lightning.

And Zhuang, the Antler Witch-Hunting Knight, who had somehow caught up again, was also swinging his exaggeratedly shaped hammer, casting it towards Lin An to smash down upon him.

Lin An was not panicked.

His mind, aided by spiritual nature, provided him with extremely powerful cognitive abilities; he surveyed everything from above with his ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes,’ instantly analyzing evasion plans.

He then confirmed his next escape route, a path along the rooftops of earthen clumps on high-rises in the Purgatory World, leaping and spreading until he appeared on the rooftop of another building a kilometer away.

The route was instantaneously analyzed, and action was immediately taken.

The power from his hind leg provided a strong force, and the tail’s oscillation offered excellent balance.

Following the plan, Lin An lunged toward the balcony ahead, prepared to drop from the tall building, then pivot at a leverage point.

But it seemed things had changed.

As he sprang swiftly from his body, countless streams of multicolored light spread from his fur, twisting the surrounding oil painting vortex.

In just an instant, it was as if a tunnel of multicolored lightning had appeared before him.

Lin An did not burst out onto the balcony and fall toward the ground!

Instead, as though passing through this lightning tunnel, he leaped in one step to the rooftop of a colossal skyscraper!

This was…

The endpoint of the escape route he had planned, the rooftop of that building a kilometer away!

He had arrived there in one bound!

Under the vision of the ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes,’ it was as though he had truly stepped through space to reach the top of the building.

“Meow~”
With a loud cry, Lin An shook his body in tune with his animal instincts, blinked, and tried to step forward once more.

Whoosh~
In just an instant, he reappeared on the rooftop of another building a kilometer away!

“!!!”

Not just Lin An, but Zhuang and Feng Xin were stunned too, disbelievingly looking around from their positions.

“Where’s that black cat?” Zhuang said, turning to Feng Xin in astonishment.

Feng Xin quickly licked the back of her left hand, then plunged it forcefully into the earthen balcony of the rooftop, grabbing a handful of sand and flinging it skyward.

“It’s in the away position (12 o’clock direction), at least a kilometer away…”

“If it hasn’t put down that witch it marked earlier, then it should be…”

“No!”

Feng Xin’s eyes widened in disbelief as she watched the drifting yellow dirt, “How did it reappear two kilometers away in the quake direction (9 o’clock direction)…”

In the following moments, she kept tossing sand and reporting positions, and the distances began to become more exaggerated, sometimes one or two kilometers, and sometimes even five or six kilometers.

Zhuang gripped his hammer with a wary expression, coldly surveying the surroundings, “So are you saying that this guy was actually just messing with us just now?”

“Could it truly escape our pursuit with ease?”

Feng Xin’s gaze sharpened, no longer grabbing sand, but pulling out the large curved knife from her waist and holding it in her mouth, drawing the huge bow again with her body’s strength.

“No, it hasn’t fled; with such powerful mobility, it doesn’t need to flee at all!”

“It’s closing in on us!”

“Goddammit!” Zhuang cursed, feeling played once more and scoffing cynically, “Beast is as beast does, these wizards turning into beasts, even begin to adopt animalistic habits.”

“Becomes a big cat, gets the habits of a cat?”

“Toying with prey and then biting them to death with one bite?”

“Really thinks itself to be a cat now?”

“Just doesn’t break its own teeth!”

His mockery was obviously effective; as everything in their vision suddenly turned into whirlpools of intense colors, a huge cat paw struck him.

Smack~
He was sent flying far away.

Just in an instant, the big cat skipped through, evading the arrows shot by Feng Xin, and appeared right before her.

A meaty big paw pushed on Feng Xin’s shoulder, and with a smack, she was swept off the earthen rooftop.

Right then, Chen Shuyun’s extremely feeble voice came from behind, “Did the witchcraft succeed? Let’s run!”

She seemed to have fainted just now due to the execution of this witchcraft.

Lin An was indeed stunned as he gazed at his own meaty paw, marveling, “There’s no need to run now!”