I Might As Well Quit This Lousy Wizard Profession-Chapter 222 - 196 Night of the Hunt (5) The Figure on the Back

Chapter 222: 196 Night of the Hunt (5) The Figure on the Back

Chapter 222: 196 Night of the Hunt (5) The Figure on the Back

The wizard, whose Witchcraft Spirituality (Dark Gold Statue) was under attack, reacted extremely fast. He instantaneously broke away from a joint spell and raised his right hand towards Lin An in the air.

That hand made a grasping motion towards Lin An.

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A bolt of lightning quickly extended up from his arm, surging upward to form an electrical cage that wrapped around Lin An.

With a bend of his arm, the wizard performed a pulling motion, causing the electrical cage to tighten as streaks of lightning struck Lin An’s body.

The power of witchcraft was so terrifying that, in just an instant, Lin An’s whole body began to tremble uncontrollably from the shock.

The searing force burned purplish wounds through his black and white fur, quickly penetrating the fur and searing the flesh beneath.

Blood spattered, and the peculiar scent of roasted meat mixed with the smell of burned hair created a bizarre aroma.

The power of the lightning penetrated Lin An’s body, making him feel as if his whole being was becoming numb and losing strength.

But he had a unique kind of tenacity, a resilience born from the vigour of life.

The red cord was tightly wrapped around his beast claws and the neck of the Dark Gold Statue, and his gaping maw clamped firmly onto half of the statue’s head, refusing to let go.

The Dark Gold Statue let out a piercing wail, and despite having arms, it seemed to lack human spirit or instinct and did not attack Lin An.

Lin An shook his head slightly, dazed. Thanks to the profound pain, he was able to endure the agony caused by the electrical burns, maintaining a sliver of clarity in his mind.

Then, a unique light began to emanate from his fangs, the glow of the ‘Skinning Knife Skill’s’ power.

It was miraculous. What should have been the effect of a large cat gnawing on a chew stick now felt as smooth as biting through tofu, as he bit off half of the Dark Gold Statue’s head in one go.

At the moment of the bite, explosive force was unleashed. This was the method taught by Zhuang, and with gentle chewing, a network of cracks spread across half of the Dark Gold Statue’s head.

Throwing his head back, he swallowed it whole.

The terrible sting of pain began eroding Lin An’s nerves, accompanied by the wounds from the electrical burns, causing Lin An to grow increasingly angry.

“Roar~~~”

He let out another roar and gnawed at the other half of the head.

The power of the Skinning Knife Skill surged!

In just an instant, the huge headless Dark Gold Statue fell down. It appeared to have lost all ability to move, yet it did not crumble despite the absence of its head.

Gurgle~

Lin An lifted his head to swallow the other half of the head he had chewed up, enduring the agony and quickly concentrating all his attention on the ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes’.

He soon realized the crux of the problem.

At this moment, the strongest fighter here should have been Zhuang, but Zhuang had not made the greatest contribution.

What Lin An should do now…

His gaze flashed as he struggled to lift his forelimb, the electrical binding growing ever tighter. He felt as if the soles of his feet were about to be burned through, with his bones emitting a terrible piercing pain.

But still, he did his best to raise his paw, slowly, very slowly, stepping forward.

Pop~

Spatial translocation.

He appeared in mid-air once more, right above the towering, dark-robed wizard who was carrying the Caidai Witch, casting the Illusion Bubble Witchcraft with the Dark Gold Statue.

He bit down towards its head in an instant.

Boom~

A streak of lightning suddenly shot towards him, piercing his body in an instant.

Lin An didn’t dodge. Instead, he bit down harder, and crunch, half of the dark gold head was in his mouth.

Under the vision of the ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes,’ he had already noticed the wizard who was releasing the lightning, holding up one hand high, clutching a bow made of electric light, his right hand pulling back the bowstring, releasing a highly condensed electric light arrow at him.

Clearly, this wizard knew that the pulling force produced by the lightning was not enough to affect him, but the damage from the lightning was real.

Lin An weighed the pros and cons and chose to endure the attack of this force.

His choice was right.

That streak of lightning truly pierced through his body, but it didn’t cause him much harm, at most it was a numbness in the torso.

Clearly, that wizard had lost the Witchcraft Spirituality of the Dark Gold Statue, and the effectiveness of his witchcraft had weakened to the extreme.

In other words, when Lin An gathered his own Witchcraft Spirituality and made that Dark Gold Statue complete, perhaps his casting ability could leap to a new level.

But all that would be considered later.

Lin An swallowed the head of the Dark Gold Statue with a couple more bites. Unable to bear the intense stinging pain and the injuries to his body any longer, he fell from mid-air.

In an instant, he sensed three more wizards breaking away from their joint spell casting, already preparing to cast witchcraft against him.

Pop~

Spatial translocation.

He left the battlefield once again, appearing on a thirty-story high-rise building, three hundred meters away, turning back to look from afar.

His efforts had been very effective.

Zhuang once again captured the wizard capable of casting Illusion Bubbles. This time, the bubbles didn’t burst when he was grabbed, and in an instant, Zhuang pulled the Caidai Witch over with the ribbons.

Zhuang then swung the other hand, smacking down with the great hammer!

Splat~

The wizard even exploded into chunks of flesh and blood, spraying out in a fan shape.

Strangely enough, it was as if someone was reinforcing Zhuang’s obsession, and now that his obsession with rescuing his son had faded, Zhuang sobered up again.

He looked around, saw his unconscious son in his hands, cursed under his breath, and, with a fierce swing of his hammer, charged towards one of the directions he assessed as vulnerable.

“Huff~”

Lin An, gasping for breath, reverted to human form, slumping inside the parapet of the high-rise, feeling as if his entire body was drenched with sweat in just a short time.

He felt the intense stinging pain inside his body and the suffering caused by the great damage his beast form had received from the Zou Yu Transformation, his entire body involuntarily tensing and convulsing.

“He…he…”

He clenched his teeth and gasped for air, trembling as he lifted his hand, a wolf head ring appearing on his finger. With a slight shake, he took out a potion bottle filled with blue-purple starlight potion.

Body Repair Spiritual Liquid!

A gift from Mr. Liu, who was one with nature. (117)

If it had been an injury on his own body, he might have sought out Doctor Zhang for treatment, but he had no choice but to figure out how to treat the wounds suffered by the black cat or the Zou Yu transformation beast on his own.

He lifted his other hand, seeking to pry off the cork of the vial, but his arm, trembling from the intense pain, wouldn’t respond at all.

Finally, his face turning fierce, he shifted back into the body of the Zou Yu beast in an instant, grabbed the potion bottle from the ground with his mouth, and bit down!

Wait!

He hesitated, momentarily disengaging from the ferocity that had surfaced due to pain and urgency, and chose to gently use just a smidgen of strength with his teeth.

Skinning Knife Skill!

In an instant, the glass bottle filled with the potion cracked neatly along a line, and the liquid poured into his gaping maw.

Shaking his head, he drained the last of the secret potion from the bottle, casually spitting it onto the ground. Lin An’s mouth issued a sound akin to the roar of a sports car engine as he gasped for breath, waiting for the secret medicine to repair his body.

The effects of this secret medicine were incredibly powerful. Chen Xinmi had recovered completely even after slicing off half of his own body, not to mention Lin An’s own which was only half-cooked by lightning.

Itchy, his entire body itched.

Painful, his entire body was in pain.

Lin An felt a myriad of sensations coursing through his body and couldn’t help but shift his attention back to the battlefield.

Under the scope of ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes,’ he could see Zhuang, carrying the Lottery Wizard, was about to escape the range of the collective spell cast by the other witches.

As half of the witches broke away from the combine spell casting to confront Zhuang, the speed at which they eroded and refined Zhuang drastically slowed down.

But through the vision of the Spirit Eye, Lin An could still see countless banyan tree aerial roots penetrating Zhuang’s body, continuously affecting him.

He could imagine just how uncomfortable Zhuang must be feeling right now.

Lin An himself had barely endured a short time of erosion and it was already nearly unbearable for him; evidently, it was a method of forced conversion of a clone by Mr. Liu.

Although Zhuang could not perceive the Spirit Eye, he could still sense some of the situation. He looked around in desperation, letting out a slight sigh.

Mr. Cao and Mr. Zhang were not in Shenhou City at the moment. The kind of half-Purgatory World state he had initiated was difficult for others to detect unless they happened to pass by.

Damn his delicate control skills, which made this half-open state of Purgatory World all too concealed.

So concealed that even other Witch-hunting Knights failed to notice—it was impressive, but now it had become a self-inflicted trap.

And somehow, these Dark Sorcerers had used some methods to force him to maintain this control over Purgatory World involuntarily.

He looked down at the Caidai Witch in his hand and sighed, “Kid, it’s me who’s hurt you!”

He was despicable, having had his way with that witch, fathering such a child, but he could never overcome the barrier in his heart to acknowledge the child.

Now…

He feared he would never have the chance to tell the child that he was his father.

That was just as well; the child had always longed for him to appear when he was young, but over time, he had gradually stopped thinking about his father. Perhaps he had adapted to living without a father, and there was no need for such a man as himself to appear before him.

“Don’t worry, I’ll get you out, you’ll be okay!”

He sighed, hauled the Caidai Witch onto his back, just as the Caidai Witch had once carried his daughter on his back.

“I’ll stake my life on it, but I’ll make sure you’re safe!”

This was what Zhuang, as a father, owed him.

Zhuang clenched the great hammer in his hand forcefully, his face surprisingly breaking into a radiant smile he had never shown before, “Come on, you scum!”

Lin An gritted his teeth and endured the pain and itching, constantly adjusting his state, ready to jump back into the fray and save Zhuang at any moment.

Time, he needed just a bit more time!

“…”

Wait!

Where was Mr. Liu?

On such an important hunt, would Mr. Liu not be present?

When they were chasing after the Lottery Wizard, Mr. Liu had taken action personally! And now, having successfully lured out Zhuang with the Lottery Wizard, Mr. Liu would certainly not be absent!

Lin An narrowed his eyes, as ‘Sky-Scanning Eyes’ scanned the surroundings quickly, looking for Mr. Liu’s figure.

He found it soon enough.

On…

Zhuang’s back!

The Caidai Witch, who appeared to be leaning weakly against Zhuang’s back, had the colorful bandages on his face fall away, revealing the sleazy face of Mr. Liu.

Mr. Liu’s mouth curled into a faint grin, as all the colorful bandages fell off his body, revealing densely twisted, writhing banyan tree aerial roots underneath.

These roots were burrowing one by one into Zhuang’s body!

What was most critical was that, by some unknown means, Zhuang seemed utterly unaware of it.

He even reached back to adjust, as if he was afraid his son might fall off his back.

“Damn!”

Lin An stepped forward, intending to rush over, but stumbled, nearly falling from the top of the thirty-story building.

Time, he needed time.

Lin An suddenly stiffened, something was very wrong; he realized his emotions had been affected by the aerial roots that had penetrated his body, and he couldn’t think straight.

What was most important at this time should be to call for reinforcements!

He turned back into human form, took out his phone from his pocket, and dialed his boss’s number, “There’s trouble!”