I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession-Chapter 39 - Why do you have to force me

Chapter 39: Why do you have to force me?

Chapter 39: Why do you have to force me?

The Witch-hunting Knight, Professor Cao, made use of high-caliber firearms, while Witch Chen Xinmi preferred to operate monitors and telescopes. When these transcendent forces utilized scientific gadgets, it always gave Lin An a sense of the absurd.

But it seemed reasonably plausible.

Even those with transcendent powers surely weren’t limited to using only those powers.

When Lin An was in high school, he worked part-time at a movie theater as a janitor and managed to see some movies with particularly amazing special effects.

The one that left the deepest impression on him was about the struggle between vampires and werewolves.

The vampires were okay, actually knowing to use blood bags for transfusions and mercury bullets in firearms, but those werewolves appeared particularly foolish.

They only knew how to fight with teeth and claws.

Like beasts!

Despite their strength to single-handedly lift a Gatling gun, and their ability to wear the thickest modern alloy armor while still moving as swiftly as the wind…

But then again…

That might be too disgusting, like cheating.

Lin An now felt disgusted—you have transcendent powers and yet are adept at using high-tech gadgets, do you want to fly or something?

He glanced at the grey wolf and then turned to the black cat, “Are you two looking at me? Why are you watching me?”

He clearly hadn’t done anything!

He was clearly in a completely innocent position in this game of hunting and being hunted!

Who had he provoked?

The black cat moved closer to him behaving very well, resting its head on his knees, and meowing softly, “Mr. Liu thinks you’re an obstruction, and she (Chen Xinmi) believes that you were recommended by Lu Dexian (the young boss) to Professor Cao and then came into contact with the Witches’ Assembly, potentially being a spy sent by the Witch Hunter Knights.”

Wow.

Astounding wow.

Could you not exaggerate the story?

Lin An wanted to explain, but no one gave him the chance, and he felt deeply aggrieved. Silent for a moment, he habitually scratched Miao Miao’s chin and asked with some confusion, “She? You refer to Chen Xinmi as ‘she’?”

The black cat purred contentedly for a while before answering, “She is me, and I am her, but she is not just me, and I am not just her.”

Great.

Lin An was totally confused now; it seemed that the relationship between a spirit essence and the individual was not so simple.

Miao Miao seemed eager to explain, twitched its ears, and meowed again, “You can think of me as a part of her subconscious. People’s behavior is influenced by the subconscious, but it’s not entirely driven by it.”

It looked up at Lin An, “This concept is wrong, but you should understand if I put it that way.”

“Considering how well we get along meow, in theory, she should feel especially close to you. But she’s a person blinded by hatred, with a firm resolve to accomplish something, so any feelings of closeness will be purposely suppressed by her.”

“Besides, I’m not her subconscious. I am her spirit essence.”

Magically, Lin An actually understood.

He recalled the feeling that Chen Xinmi’s dark gold statue had given him, an anxious restlessness wrapped in aloofness, while the black cat only conveyed restlessness.

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But understanding was one thing, it didn’t seem to help the situation.

Lin An pursed his lips and looked at the black cat with a serious expression, “What do you plan to do to me?”

Just then, the grey wolf, which had been glaring with bared teeth, couldn’t stand it any longer and pounced forward, opening its massive, fanged mouth and its sharp claws sparkling in the sunlight.

Then, it was flung away by an easy swat from the black cat, crashing into a wall with a pitiful yelp like a dog.

The grey wolf’s ghostly eyes glared coldly at the black cat before stumbling and curling up in a corner, still staring intently at Lin An with its green glowing eyes.

Meow~

—Mr. Liu wants her to kill you, but she doesn’t want to do that. She’s always been wary of the ulterior-motived Mr. Liu. Also, because of the ‘Wizards’ mutual secrecy pact’, she can’t reveal to Mr. Liu that your identity is a wizard, so there’s no way to explain that she wants to use you to find the whereabouts of other Witch Hunter Knights besides Professor Cao.

“Mr. Liu? Why do you call him Mr. Liu?”

Meow~

—Because he is her paternal uncle.

“???”

Mr. Liu is Chen Xinmi’s paternal uncle?

So he’s Chen Xinmi’s father’s cousin?

It seems…

Mr. Liu has been an underling of the leader of the Antler Witch Hunter Knights, Lu Tingyu (the young boss’s father), for a very long time, right?

So you wizards place a spy within the Witch Hunter Knights and then suspect that everyone is also sending spies to your wizards?

Lin An had more questions, but the black cat and the grey wolf turned into a wisp of smoke and vanished, evidently Chen Xinmi and Mr. Liu in the building across the street had turned their attention away from him.

Lin An exhaled, and put down the phone that he had just been holding up to his ear as a facade.

Great, more inexplicable pressure, now with murderous intent from Mr. Liu.

An obstruction?

Lin An had no interest in finding out why he had become an obstruction to Mr. Liu, but if the other party wanted to kill him, then he could hardly be expected to be polite in return.

There wasn’t much he could do to prepare for these unfathomable crises.

The only thing he could think of was to absorb some spirit essence, so that he at least had the ability to flee if nothing else.

The Eye of Spirituality, Sky Drifter Eyes—these two abilities, combined with ways to enhance mental capacity, could at least be of some help to him.

As for where to find spirit essence to absorb…

Lin An thought that Mr. Liu’s Grey Wolf Spirituality was quite nice.

Lin An didn’t know if Professor Cao would teach him some techniques on how to skin and debone a Sorcerer Zombie, and he actually could practice on this Grey Wolf.

Maybe he would even understand more about the magical thing that was spirit essence because of it.

How great.

Lin An’s shy and delicate face, accustomed to maintaining composure in front of strange and bizarre hallucinations, looked a bit dull.

But at this moment, his gaze was so intense, filled with the intent to kill.

What impact would the death of a person’s spirit essence have on them?

Maybe he would know the answer soon.

Lin An felt that he was actually a very kind person, having grown up in an orphanage, fighting for the right to survive with others, yet not becoming somewhat unscrupulous like some of his peers.

When he went to pick up bottles with a bag of feed, and saw someone’s wallet fall out of their pocket, he didn’t greedily claim it as his own but kindly reminded the person instead.

That was actually pretty stupid of him; he almost didn’t gather enough for his tuition and living expenses that summer.

But at least he felt like behaving this way made him seem more human.

But…

“Why must I be driven to this…”

Lin An muttered under his breath, looking down with a sense of powerlessness.

The old man with the Multi-Handed Frog spirit essence was right; as long as he crossed the line, he could actually live quite comfortably. But if he could start over, he might still choose not to cross that line.

There was no particular reason, he just didn’t want to.

People live with that little bit of persistence that belongs to themselves.

Even if such persistence doesn’t bring any benefits, even if others find it somewhat foolish.

The posts of the yoga blogger Yunshu Yunjuan were really useful; Lin An calmed his breathing and adjusted his mindset, quickly moving on from his gloomy state of mind.

If you cannot change something, once you have made a decision, stop thinking about it.

Focusing on what you can do is the correct way to keep moving forward.

Professor Cao had given Lin An a lot of books, but he only brought two to the office, and now that he had finished reading both, Lin An’s task was to refocus his energy on the model of the green shield.

Indeed, Lin An’s judgment was not wrong.

Zhou Xiaoxiao’s spirit essence was indeed more suitable for this kind of mental work than Chen Xinmi’s spirit essence. When he tried to let these spirit essences assist him, the feeling that he had been unable to find suddenly became clear.

It turned out that the green shade of the frog’s head and green shield, which he had never been able to get right, was actually a blend of several shades of green.

It consisted of a number of irregular green patches, each with its own shade, roughly categorized into five types and stacked on top of each other.

Like five shades of green scales forming a group, then swirling around the forehead area in this spiraling pattern to create a layered effect.

In the end, as if they had been worn smooth by time, these scales merged completely into one piece.

To achieve this effect, it was clear that the company’s software was not the best way to adjust the model.

Lin An thought about it and opened Photoshop.

Compared to complex modeling software, this graphic and image processing software had a much lower learning curve for him. At least he could quickly learn how to use it by following online tutorials and replicate the results.

Well, it was just a bit simpler, but it was still somewhat difficult for him.

For example, he could not draw those irregular green patches with the tricky Pen tool, and he eventually lazily found some open-source rhombus vector graphics online.

Filling the rhombus with color, adjusting by memory and feeling, he then copied five colored rhombus shapes and pasted the layer over the remaining rhombus shapes.

Merge.

Then he created a gray-green mask and adjusted its transparency.

“Hiss~”

Lin An blinked, looking at the green image on the computer, and felt strangely as if it was alive, moving somehow.

It was as if he had thought of something, closing his eyes once again and allowing himself to sink into that indistinct realm.

Chen Xin’s dark gold spirit essence blood…

Zhou Xiaoxiao’s amber spirit essence mucus…

The incomplete black cat painting…

The image of a deer jumping down from among the rocks and flowers…

And…

A newly added green image.

He swallowed, his fingers releasing the mouse as if they had been electrified, as if he had touched something terrifying.

Yet his eyes, when opened, couldn’t bear to move away from the green image on the screen.

“An, it’s time to clock out!”

The young boss walked straight in, “Praise your boss, I’m driving you home today! Hey, I’ve got a designer appointment to renovate Mr. Cao’s villa, it’s on my way.”

“Eh, why aren’t you talking?”

The young boss walked over, saw Lin An staring blankly at the computer screen, and couldn’t help but look at the screen as well.

“Hiss~”

He gasped, “Wow~ this thing looks a bit scary, doesn’t it!”

“It’s just… just…” the young boss gestured, “How bizarre, isn’t this just green?”

Lin An forced a smile, “Maybe I shouldn’t have made it so realistic, better to delete it.”

Just as he was about to touch the mouse, the young boss grabbed his hand, “Wait, wait! This thing looks intense, keep it, keep it, hey don’t be foolish!”