I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 180 - 180 169 Resolute Mind Leather Armor Complete (Seeking

?Chapter 180: 169 Resolute Mind, Leather Armor Complete (Seeking Monthly Votes) Chapter 180: 169 Resolute Mind, Leather Armor Complete (Seeking Monthly Votes) The Witch Hunter Knights at the Sorcerer (Witch) Slaughterhouse were plentiful, with each person claiming to be the most knowledgeable about witches.

They not only understood every subtle change in the “taste” of witches and Sorcerer Zombies but also knew every critical node in the transformation from witch to Sorcerer Zombie.

But they were not witches after all.

They could not imagine what kind of transformation Lin An’s heart was undergoing at this moment.

And the transformation of the heart is precisely the most crucial node in a witch’s mutation.

To build a power of his own?

Amidst the Antler Witch Hunter Knights, Dark Sorcerer Mr. Liu, and even President of the Witches’ Association Chen Xinmi, whom he would surely have extensive dealings with in the future, he would navigate these forces to establish his own influence.

This was unimaginable for Lin An just two or three months ago when he was still yearning to pay off his mortgage, achieve financial freedom, and completely lay back.

He, too, would panic, be afraid, and feel at a loss.

However, such a state of mind precisely engendered a corresponding spiritual power—ambition.

Yes, ambition. With ambition, he suddenly was no longer at a loss, even though he didn’t know where to start.

With ambition, he suddenly wasn’t afraid anymore because he knew that every step he was about to face was just part of the process, not the conclusion.

The future was not set in stone.

Such ambition was not without foundation in the heart.

In Lin An’s own summary of the path of witchcraft cultivation, emotion, longing, vow, and practice were the steps that nurtured his current state of mind.

He desired to be an artist, a game developer who was recognized by others, and achieve the success of a social being.

Thus, he thoroughly assimilated the ‘Dizzy’ sorcery and successfully used this sorcery mold to cultivate his own ‘Oil Painting Vortex Vision’ sorcery. (128)

The motivation behind digesting this sorcery was because the Witch Hunter Knights had started a grand hunt, frantically slaughtering the witches in the city, and Lin An longed to save some witches to prepare for the possibility that he might stand against the Witch Hunter Knights in the future. (127)

During the time he learned the Slapping Skill as the third step in armor making with Professor Cao, he ignited the power of his heart, giving rise to a mental state of ‘self-hiding’ and ‘attracting attention.’ (161)

It was also then that he somewhat perceived Professor Cao’s issue due to the stimulation of his acute spiritual perception and vowed to have the strength to control his destiny. (162)

Strangely, when all the heart’s desires ultimately found an outcome and began to follow the path of practice, the ‘ambition’ that arose from the direction of the vow started to grow in the heart.

Ambition, focus, resolute determination, dissatisfied with the status quo, unafraid, undaunted by failure, far-sighted, and unrelenting!

It was the ‘ambition’ born from the ‘wandering’ about the future.

Such deeply entrenched spiritual power matured within Lin An’s heart.

This state was particularly similar to his previous ‘suppressed numbness’ and ‘pursuit of excitement.’

And this meant…

Lin An would begin looking for a witchcraft that suited his heart’s state, to match his mindset and start on the path of witchcraft cultivation.

And as it happened, he seemed to have just the thing.

Heart-to-Heart Skewer Fragrance Witchcraft!

The ‘wandering’ power in his heart made Lin An yearn to use this witchcraft to master the method of creating a doppelgänger as an insurance for dangerous situations and perilous cultivation paths.

The ‘ambition’ in his heart drove Lin An to use this witchcraft to strive for a leap in strength!

He needed to find someone to skewer.

This was his Spirit Intuition.

So who would it be?

Heh, Lin An squinted his eyes, and quickly, an interesting figure emerged in his mind.

Mr. Liu!

The Dark Witch who was about to become his witchcraft mentor!

See, everything comes together so naturally, as if a pair of destiny’s hands are quietly tweaking everything and then, after nourishing his heart, scooping it all up.

Bang~

Bang~

The more ambitious one is, the calmer one’s heart needs to be, and the greater the need for strength to back it up.

After the meeting, Lin An returned to a corner of the slaughterhouse, pulled off his shirt, and draped over his body the increasingly ‘greenery portrait’ textured wrinkly passion fruit Sorcerer Zombie skin.

The orange glow surged in his chest, vigorously bursting forth, passing through his arms, as if they were two big hammers rhythmically pounding the hide on his body.

Witches truly are monsters of the heart.

As Lin An’s heart underwent change, the effect of the Spiritual World Aura he leveraged also altered.

During the actual process of armor making, that’s when the difference emerged. Armor making is a contest between the heart and the residual obsessions, desires, and emotions within the Sorcerer Zombie’s hide. Now, Lin An’s spiritual power finally prevailed.

An orange glow diffused from his chest, surrounding Lin An as if he was engulfed in the light emitted by magma.

The hide started to meld, each piece fusing together automatically, eventually taking on the form of a vest-like armor.

Its color began to change, from a gem-like brown to an off-white, influenced by the ‘wandering’ spiritual power in his heart, driving the armor to look the same in color as Lin An’s previous ‘transforming armor.’

That was because of the sense of security brought by the identity-hiding transformative armor.

But soon it changed back to that gem-like brown with white fine lines, the texture of a glistening brown jewel.

This was because the power of “ambition” had eradicated the power of “wavering” spirit.

No, it wasn’t elimination.

It was an embrace following a balancing game of spirits.

As the saying goes, “The face is a reflection of the heart,” the fair Baisebao’s tan leather armor had also settled down due to the new state of the spirit.

Interestingly, under the vision of the Spirit Eye, the inside of the unremarkable leather armor actually displayed a pattern of colorful swirls.

From these swirls, numerous hands stretched out, firmly grasping every piece of muscle, bone, and skin on Lin An’s body.

Tugging at them.

This was the power of “wavering.”

Only “ambition” could counterbalance it!

Lin An had such a spirit intuition.

Professor Cao found it miraculous; although he wasn’t a wizard and could not practice the concrete effects of transforming the Furnace through witchcraft, he did know how fast Lin An’s cultivation speed was!

This was his judgment based on his extensive experience with the Breathing Skill Furnace and armor making.

Doctor Zhang curiously looked at the leather armor on Lin An, clicking his tongue, “Can a wizard really use the power of the Furnace to refine Knight armor?”

He gave a big thumbs up with force.

“Mr. Cao is awesome, isn’t he? Though the path may not be perfect, there are indeed substantial results. This proves that the path is the correct one!”

“An is awesome too, actually managing to train based on Mr. Cao’s blind guidance! Truly deserving of his talent, one who entered the Breathing Skill with a health-preserving Spirit Cat Spinal Stretching Technique.”

Lin An scratched his head with a silly smile, feeling his heart being filled with joy.

But Mr. Cao’s eyes brimmed with tears as he spoke with mixed emotions, “If only my dad and Mr. Lu were still alive to see this.”

For a moment, Doctor Zhang was silent.

He gave Mr. Cao a complex look and sighed.

The sigh was for Mr. Cao’s fate, but wasn’t it also for his own?

Mr. Cao never received approval from his own father and lived his life in Mr. Lu’s shadow like an invisible presence…

Just like himself.

In several generations, how many could there be like him, forging a Furnace on their own?

At least, in Lu Jiao, there was only him.

He was also quite proud, alright?

Initially overwhelmed by Mr. Lu’s charisma, he persuaded Mr. Cao to go their separate ways to find their own paths. After leaving, didn’t he also harbor the thought of comparing himself with Mr. Cao?

He couldn’t surpass Mr. Lu, but he didn’t want to lose to Mr. Cao anymore.

But now, Mr. Cao began to reach the end of a Witch-hunting Knight’s path, achieving the ceiling of combat power. Even if he was gasping with his last breath, he had left him far behind on the path of cultivation.

Not to mention on their individual paths of research, Mr. Cao once again came out ahead.

He tightened his thumbs with force, admiring Mr. Cao sincerely.

But he also felt—it wasn’t over yet!

He too had his own path to walk, and…

He was actually doing pretty well, hehe.

Thinking of this, he couldn’t help but look at Lin An, no, at Lin An’s eyes. He once felt in Lin An’s eye sockets the essence of his own concocted ‘Body Repairing Elixir’ (67).

He was carefree, with his daughter now a Witch Hunter Knight, she no longer needed his worry.

He was proud, with a kind of deep-seated pride in his bones.

Therefore, with no entanglements and pride, he naturally didn’t want to pin his hopes on the next generation like others; he wanted to experiment on himself, just like Mr. Lu had.

He still wanted to surpass Mr. Lu, and carve out a feasible path.

The path of a wizard’s secret potions seemed indeed to be a viable method.

No one knew that he had already infiltrated ‘Crazy Male Witch’s Tree Hole’, gaining fame for concocting secret potions, and no one knew what kind of outrageous things he had done back then.

For instance, ‘grafting’ his unique potions onto a ‘Kapok Tree’ male witch, using hypnosis to influence Mr. Lu’s silly sidekick, conducting experiments in various hospitals, including with the current An…

Sometimes, Doctor Zhang also evaded his past mistakes—research into the conversion of Witch-hunting Knights into wizards would surely result in being eroded by the Spirit World Aura, amplifying the darkness within…

He would feel pain, pride, disgust for himself, and even a wanton, hysterical laughter.

He…

Was also on a difficult path.

This was a desperate Supernatural World, where no one was spared.

But, ah…

Hehe, Mr. Cao, the competition isn’t over yet!

Doctor Zhang looked at Lin An, sighed in his heart—kid, I’m so sorry, really sorry, I was obsessed, crazy, but I’ll make it up to you later.

But he also knew that the damage was already done, a crack that could never be mended.

At least, after Mr. Cao took his last breath, he could properly protect the kid.