I Am Also An Extraordinary Creature
Chapter 62 - 60 Performance is Really Weak_1

Chapter 62: Chapter 60 Performance is Really Weak_1

Could someone like myself, who just inserted himself midway, really be accepted so easily? It’s not simply because I and Raymond are considered "the same kind," it’s more likely because the upcoming assignment is very dangerous. He and Raymond might be the same kind, but they are not old acquaintances.

He came from Hazy City, while Zheng Yichen was uncertain about Raymond’s origins; neither of them had inquired about such matters. However, the fact that Raymond could identify his identity through his attire and the equipment he carried meant that the world he came from must be a modern one, at least where firearms and bulletproof vests existed.

"Don’t worry about it. The Captain always makes decisions like this," John said to Zheng Yichen. "You have a very strong foundation; you’ve made significant progress in just a few days."

"It’s mainly because it feels too quick. I just arrived and already reached this stage, which really surprised me." Zheng Yichen said thoughtfully.

John smiled, took out a wine skin, and took a swig. "You were brought in by the Captain, so being arranged like this is definitely fine. But if it were one of those soft and feeble guys, we’d definitely have complaints."

John’s words made the others smile as well; is the topic among muscular men this simple?

Zheng Yichen didn’t mind joining the upcoming training—in fact, he was eager. He was anxious to improve his combat skills, make up for his shortcomings, and then continue to develop his mastered stabbing technique. While compensating for his weaknesses, he also made sure to enhance his strengths.

During the training period, Zheng Yichen learned about their next task: They were going to clean out a vampire nest, near which there were also dangerous wild animals like bears under the vampires’ sway.

"People bitten by vampires won’t turn into vampires; those who die will become walking corpses, and those who don’t will gradually lose their sanity and become frenzied. Some vampires also know some powerful spells," the Forest Witch said as she watched the passersby outside the window, having spent the time in the inn with Katrina.

They didn’t go out much; before she wasn’t a companion, and now that she was, the Forest Witch began to teach Katrina witchcraft knowledge she could pick up, including the crafting of objects and the mixing of Magic Potions. Katrina’s magic was learned from her mother.

Her mother was a witch hidden within society, but she died early, not passing all of her knowledge onto Katrina; some of things Katrina started to learn on her own from the spellbooks she obtained from her mother.

"The kind of spell you mentioned, is it a Fireball?"

"..." The Forest Witch silently glanced at Zheng Yichen. If possible, she too wished to cast Fireball. Being able to do so would mean that, as a witch, she could further influence the environment: "It’s a vile spell that affects weak-willed individuals, plunging them into terror, and some vampires can control ordinary humans with spells."

So it was still a type of auxiliary magic.

Zheng Yichen nodded.

"When the action starts, Katrina, draw some refuge magic on me."

"If you can provide me with enough materials beforehand, I can concoct some suitable Magic Potions for you," the Forest Witch suggested.

"Forget it. Aren’t you afraid of having people knock on the door if you make Magic Potions?" Zheng Yichen glanced around the environment. Making Magic Potions in this sort of place, with just the fumes and smell alone, could lead to nearby people reporting them, followed by the arrival of the church authorities, and then Zheng Yichen would have to fight it out with them... ending up with a wanted poster, charged with harboring a witch," he said.

"Then some other materials could work too; I can mix a potion that allows patterns to stay on the body for a long time," she said.

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"I’m learning this," Katrina said instantly, referring to the potion. Ever since she had drawn a magic array formation on Zheng Yichen’s body last time, she had wanted to improve in this area. Drawing a magic array formation on the ground was too static; drawing it on a person’s body was much more flexible.

Although the movement of a person’s muscles could affect the stability of the magic array formation, thereby reducing the power of the refuge magic, she was currently trying to solve this problem. To deal with it, making the magic array formation larger could lead to deformation due to the stretching of the skin by the body’s movements and muscle activity, so reducing the size of the magic array formation could avoid this issue to some extent.

However, if the magic array formation was made smaller, its effect would be weakened. She was planning to start with the materials used to draw the magic array formation, using some special materials to help enhance the power of the reduced magic array formation.

The Forest Witch thought she had a good idea but told her that such research would be extremely difficult, and it might take years or even over a decade to yield results. On one hand, the nature of magic itself was difficult to understand and master, and on the other hand, they, the witches, couldn’t openly conduct this research.

Otherwise, if the witches were free to conduct research meetings to exchange ideas and complement each other’s strengths and weaknesses, the progress of magic would be very fast.

But in reality, if the witches were to actually organize some sort of meeting, it would only result in them being rounded up and wiped out. Witches in this world couldn’t even ride broomsticks to fly.

"Katrina’s Blessing Magic can remove the effects of the spells cast by vampires."

"Then why not make it into a scroll?" Zheng Yichen thought of a common setting used in novels.

"A scroll?" Katrina looked troubled and explained the problems with doing so to Zheng Yichen.

It wasn’t that they couldn’t make scrolls, but the scrolls they produced had very poor shelf life. Once made, the scrolls were in an activated state and couldn’t be preserved for very long, just like amulets and other such items, unless using very special materials.

For instance, the essence of the Tree of Death branches. The Forest Witch could use such branches to create very special amulets and the sword sheath that Zheng Yichen used. The sword sheath could seal the side effects of the Sword of Hell, and the amulets, well, they could make it easier to attract Undead and were effective all year round.

In other cases, items like scrolls were hard to use as mosquito coils, where you light them when needed and extinguish them when not. Once made, these items would be like mosquito coils that couldn’t be extinguished, continuously effective until their power ran out. It would be better to just draw directly on an individual’s body.

Katrina’s magic was positive, drawn on the body without bringing extra effects or erosion to the person.

This world’s magic power... truly damned weak!

Zheng Yichen once again made such an evaluation in his heart.

"Sigh—You learn very quickly, but what you lack is enough training," John sighed on the training field, sparring with Zheng Yichen over the past few days had made him realize anew how incomparable Zheng Yichen’s physique was to others.

A few days were not enough to improve Zheng Yichen’s combat skills significantly, but they were enough to avoid the embarrassment of having to fight with instinctive punches when empty-handed. Moreover, the foes they were to face were not humans; what Zheng Yichen had learned now was sufficiently adequate.

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