I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession

Chapter 76 - 76 073 Seeking the Optimal Solution

?Chapter 76: 073 Seeking the Optimal Solution Chapter 76: 073 Seeking the Optimal Solution “Snap~!”

The five-meter-long Sword Hemp Rope danced in mid-air, rolling out one circle after another. These circles were born from the twist of the wrist, traveling along the rope to its end.

At the last section, the end of the rope broke free from the momentum of the circles, as if it had escaped the rolling force and smashed out fiercely.

The tremendous force struck the moth-sized insect, directly smashing it to burst open.

Lin An swung the rope at an extremely fast speed, and he was in superb condition.

In his ‘Cat Instinct State,’ he was particularly suited to using such rope techniques, striking with swiftness and precision like a cat’s paw slapping a large mitt.

Snap snap snap~
A series of dense bursting sounds echoed as insects were smashed into powder one after another.

But the eeriness lay here—the insects didn’t seem real. The beige powder carried by the wind billowed and, caught up by the forceful winds from the swinging rope, it began to swell in the air.

In just an instant, the powder rapidly expanded, once again taking the form of moth-sized insects.

It was as if the more he fought, the more they multiplied.

“Hahaha…”

The raccoon-masked sorcerer pointed at Lin An, clutching his stomach and laughing uproariously, “You… hahaha… you, a Wild Sorcerer… using a rope to fight witchcraft?”

“Don’t you know… hahaha… Troublesome Insect, Troublesome Insect, the more you try to dispel it, the more it multiplies?”

As he spoke, he leaned his head back, waving his hands as if to shoo away mosquitoes, “Just like the annoyances in life, damn so many of them, the more attention you pay to them, the more they torment you.”

Sorry.

I really didn’t know.

Lin An’s expression remained stern, and he didn’t stop swinging the rope because of the words of this mad sorcerer. Instead, he subconsciously controlled the force, as suggested by the sorcerer’s remark.

Merely flicking the moth-insects instead of bursting them.

However, such control of force clearly required great skill, and his success rate was not high, resulting in an ever-increasing number of moth-insects around him.

However, Lin An did not hope that he, at the level of a sorcerer’s apprentice, could fight against two sorcerers who were clearly battle-ready.

He hadn’t hidden away simply because he felt that while trapped in this oven-like giant witchcraft, it would be relatively safer near Chen Shuyun.

With nowhere to run and nowhere to hide, he had to decisively choose the best solution.

And his reason for leaping out now was that he had noticed that Chen Shuyun seemed to have her spellcasting abilities weakened due to the last time he adjusted the witchcraft-suppressing red rope for her.

Out of necessity, he had to come forward to help and buy Chen Shuyun some breathing space.

Then, while Chen Shuyun was casting witchcraft to counter the attack, he might use the experience he had previously pondered over—dealing with the impact of spirituality on reality—to overtake on the bend and find a chance to survive!

Luckily, the two sorcerers were indeed crazy enough.

The rabbit-masked sorcerer only knew how to hop on the spot, babbling foolishly, “Oven, oven, oven, kill them all, kill them all…”

And the sorcerer with the raccoon mask in front appeared to be quite chatty, seemingly with a strong desire to express himself.

Unfortunately…

Lin An realized he seemed to be the only one fighting. He suddenly turned his head and was shocked to find Chen Shuyun just standing by, blankly watching him.

The spiritual illusion that manifested beside her, a white python, was hissing at the two sorcerers, yet it seemed to have no effect on her.

Instead, a little squirrel had appeared again at her feet.

The squirrel held its hands together, appearing all fidgety.

“You’ve got to be kidding me…”

Lin An glared at her, “Are you sick or something? Strike back now! Do you want to be killed?”

Chen Shuyun shivered with fright, took a step back, and finally snapped out of it. She awkwardly tugged at the corner of her mouth, showing an apologetic expression.

She quickly raised her hands and waved them, the water that had spilled from the burst pipes began to drift up and rush into the doorway behind her.

“I must save those ordinary people first, they were innocently dragged into this!”

As Chen Shuyun controlled the water flow, she leaned in and whispered, “I’ll put those people in the Water Mirror World inside a water droplet, later I’ll create an opportunity, and you take this droplet and run as fast as you can.”

Lin An frowned, “Can’t you beat them?”

Chen Shuyun’s expression was solemn, “I could have before, but now for some reason, I can’t perform large-scale witchcraft. At most, I can only handle the raccoon-masked one.”

The surroundings grew hotter, with waves of heat steaming up. She had to wipe the sweat from her face and pointed to the rabbit-masked sorcerer hopping about in the distance.

“That person can perform large-scale witchcraft. If nobody holds him back, none of us can escape.”

“Once you’re out of the range of his witchcraft, call my sister as fast as you can and tell her…”

Chen Shuyun bit her lower lip, her eyes filled with sadness, “to hurry over. I have something to tell her before I completely turn into a Sorcerer Zombie.”

Boom~
Like floodgates being opened, countless streams of water burst out from the yoga studio building, submerging Lin An and Chen Shuyun. Along their path forward, the water transformed into blades, sweeping away the Troublesome Insect, and surged towards the two crazed sorcerers.

The cool flow of water washed away the sweltering heat from the oven, and Lin An felt as though he had entered a world of droplets, a river of water unlike the stream from a showerhead.

Lin An wasn’t soaked, he could feel droplets lightly pattering against his skin, bouncing off, and rushing towards the front.

In the world of droplets, Chen Shuyun gently extended her hand, cradling a water droplet in her palm, within which one could faintly see many unconscious figures.

With a light wave of her hand, the water droplet landed on the back of Lin An’s hand, adhering firmly to it, seemingly impossible to shake off.

“You hand them over to your sister, and she will take care of everything else.”

As she spoke, a pair of pale, slender hands appeared in mid-air, tearing apart the sky to reveal a world enveloped in a tumult of dark gold mist, where a Dark Gold Statue kneeled among the jagged rocks.

Chen Shuyun gazed deeply at Lin An, her voice soft and frail yet extraordinarily grave, “I am really sorry for what happened before, but I might not be able to compensate you.”

With that, she sighed and without another glance at Lin An, she turned and walked in the direction of the water flow.

With each step, her complexion grew paler.

With each step, the Dark Gold Statue in the sky howled more fiercely, struggling to break free from the restraints of the rope, inching towards standing up to completely rip apart the red threads binding it.

Her expression was so resolute.

Resolute as if she were ready to face death.

And then…

Lin An abruptly grabbed her collar, causing her to stagger, and she turned back to look at him with some perplexity.

“Is this the only trick you keep playing back and forth?”

Lin An looked at Chen Shuyun incredulously, “Break free and turn into a Sorcerer Zombie, and try to kill the enemy before you become one? That’s it? Don’t you know plenty of witchcraft?”

Chen Shuyun stared blankly at him and nodded dumbly, “Yes.”

“Yes, my foot!” Lin An exhaled deeply; he could imagine how insane Chen Xinmi would become if Chen Shuyun died, especially since these two mad Wild Sorcerers were originally here to kill him. If her sister found out, he would likely be implicated as well.

“Don’t you have any desire to live?”

“Aren’t wizards creatures of emotion and desire? Huh? Why do you look as devoid of desire as the Witch-hunting Knights you talk about?”

Letting Chen Shuyun turn into a Sorcerer Zombie was clearly not the best solution.

If they had to resort to such extremes, Lin An felt it would be better to draw the Witch-hunting Knights using an enhanced ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes,’ then have Chen Shuyun take him to hide inside the droplet. That would be a bit more reliable.

Still, this was not the ideal solution, but rather a backup plan at best.

Lin An wanted to live, and to live well, without arousing the suspicion of the Witch-hunting Knights, so as not to give them any chance to catch him exposed.

“How do you know there’s no hope if you don’t try everything possible?” Lin An glared forcefully at this woman, hoping she would snap out of it, as both male wizards were crazy, and Chen Shuyun seemed to be a bit off in the head too.

Did she…

Have a tendency towards self-destruction?

“If you say you can beat the little raccoon mask, then go ahead and handle it first, got it?”

Fortunately, Chen Shuyun finally nodded earnestly, “Okay!”

“Good!”

Lin An released her collar, patted her shoulder, “Go for it, I’ll buy you some time.”

Go, find your way!

“Huh?” Chen Shuyun looked at Lin An in confusion, but he had already rushed forward with decisive action.

‘Sky Drifter Eyes’ constantly hovered in the sky, observing the world outside the oven, closely watching if the battle here would attract any Witch-hunting Knights.

It also monitored every corner of the oven-like environment.

The rabbit-masked Wild Sorcerer seemed to be engrossed in a strange emotion, hopping around in place, and even as the water flow lacerated his body with multiple cuts, he simply kept hopping in place.

Lin An chose not to disturb his spirit at this moment, letting him continue.

Almost using his hands and feet together, he swiftly wove through the water currents, like a black cat, rapidly reaching the spirit of the raccoon-masked Wild Sorcerer in three bounds.

“Smack~!”

Take this heavy fist!

The rope swung high, like a massive hammer, and smashed heavily onto the puppet’s long nose.

“Ah~~”
Behind the shield formed by countless Moths blocking the water, the raccoon-masked Wild Sorcerer, who laughed maniacally shouting ‘useless, useless,’ suddenly let out a cry of pain.

His face as if had been struck hard by a hammer, blood flying, spurted from the witchcraft-generated mask. (Referencing the secret mask witchcraft, Chapter 60)
Bam~
His witchcraft collapsed for lack of support, and the Moths vanished into nothingness.

Chen Shuyun didn’t know how Lin An did it, but she finally exhibited the power a strong witch should have, rapidly controlling the water to form a huge water blade that slashed at the raccoon-masked Wild Sorcerer.

The water blade was incredibly sharp, instantly piercing through the sorcerer’s body, and blood gushed from the fissure stretching from his head to his belly.