Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 1 Baron Peter's Domain

Storm Kingdom, Peter's Territory.

The ancient castle was covered in dust and overgrown with ivy.

An arrow flew from a bow and landed on a wolf that was running swiftly through the jungle.

Two German Shepherd-like hunting dogs beside Su Nan quickly chased after the injured wolf, relentlessly biting and scratching it from behind to exhaust its strength.

About fifteen minutes later, the two hunting dogs returned to Su Nan, carrying the wolf's carcass in their mouths.

The 16-year-old young baron, Su Nan, wore leather armor, rode on the back of a white-browed warhorse, carried arrows, wore black gloves, and held a powerful bow. He was the one who had just shot an arrow at the galloping wolf.

He was followed by six soldiers, who were only wearing cloth armor and carrying some farm tools as weapons.

His squire, a knight of about thirty years old, knelt down, slit the wolf's throat with a finely crafted dagger, and collected the wolf's blood in a wooden bucket.

The knight's squire, puzzled, asked, "My lord, what do you need wolf blood for? Can it really cure the old steward?"

"Don't worry, the ingredients for the potion have been gathered." Su Nan replied succinctly.

In this way, all the materials for the werewolf curse potion have been collected.

I can only hope that the list of ingredients for the drug that the AI ​​deduced based on the incomplete information is valid.

However, there was no other way; he could only try anything as a last resort and treat his loyal old steward.

Su Nan mentally commanded the super AI brain that had merged with him to reanalyze the data in front of him—

Southern Jiangsu

Age: 16

【Strength: 1】

【Speed: 1】

[Physical Fitness: 1]

【Mental Power: 8.5】

[For an average adult male, all stats are compressed to 1. Based on the records of 36,111 books related to "magic" and "wizarding" currently stored, it can be inferred that the minimum mental standard for a wizard is 10.]

Su Nan raised his eyebrows. In fact, he had already transmigrated five years ago.

When he transmigrated, he was an eleven-year-old child.

At that time, the original Baron Peter of this territory, who was also his father, was summoned to participate in the war by the Kingdom of Storms.

But when he returned, he was carried back on a stretcher.

Baron Peter did not die from enemy swords, but his body was covered in strange sores, and he kept saying that his troops had accidentally entered an ancient tomb, and that whoever stole the tomb's treasure, as well as his descendants, would be cursed and would not live to adulthood.

The baron died under these bizarre circumstances.

It left behind a mess.

Originally, Peter's territory consisted of a slightly wealthy commercial town, Maple Leaf Town, seven villages, a large manor, and three subordinate knightly territories.

It is a relatively powerful territory even among baronies.

But after the death of Baron Peter, a full knight, and the eleven-year-old Sunan's succession to the title of baron, the entire territory fell apart.

The three lords of the knightly territories no longer actually recognize the new Baron Peter—Sunan—as their lord. Although they are still nominally part of the baronies, they have become independent in practice.

The council of Maple Leaf Town, of course, also chose independence.

Because it was clear that southern Jiangsu at the time did not have sufficient military capability to protect the wealth of Maple Leaf Town, Maple Leaf Town stopped paying taxes to southern Jiangsu.

Instead, they hired their own mercenaries, organized their own militia, and protected themselves.

The knights also plundered the six richest villages, leaving only the poorest and most loyal village of Amorod.

Su Nan was speechless to discover that all he had left was an ancestral manor, a poor village, three nominal knightly territories, and a nominal commercial town.

However, although the three knightly lords and Maple Leaf Town became independent, they left the debts on their own shoulders.

Back then, in order to establish a major commercial town in the pioneering area and bring wealth to his territory, Baron Peter borrowed about 30,000 gold coins from the royal family.

Therefore, although Maple Leaf Town is effectively independent, in the eyes of the Storm Kingdom's royal family, Maple Leaf Town still belongs to Baron Peter's territory, so they will only come to them to collect debts.

Warwick, Warwick's loyal old butler, had to travel to Maple Leaf Town because the royal tax collectors had come several times to collect the debt, hoping that the town council would take the initiative to repay the loan.

Who knew that the Maple Leaf Town council would hire a bunch of scoundrels to beat up the old butler.

The poor old steward lay seriously injured on his bed in his own manor castle, cared for by maids every day, his life hanging by a thread.

Su Nan originally wanted to believe in the Storm God, the chief deity of the Storm Church, the state religion of the Storm Kingdom, and then embark on the path of a Storm Knight.

However, due to the excessive atheistic education he received in his previous life, he could only regard the Storm God (if he really existed) as a higher life form.

Therefore, it is difficult to philosophize or theologize it, and to love the god of storms as one's own father.

However, in this world, the knight profession requires faith first, and then through years of training, the blessing of special elixirs, and most importantly, the tempering of faith, one can gradually strengthen their body and become a formal knight.

According to the AI ​​chip's prediction, the standard strength of a formal knight should be 3, the standard speed should be 3, and the standard physique should be 3, which means that they are three times stronger than an average adult male in all aspects.

This is an astonishing number.

After all, if you are 20% stronger than others, you can achieve an absolute crushing effect and become a brave and skilled warrior.

Moreover, his physical fitness is all-around excellent, and he is three times stronger than the average adult male.

It's fair to say that every official knight in this world is a mini-Captain America.

This also resulted in the feudal forces in this world being extremely powerful.

After all, as the core of the feudal system, the knights were far more powerful than in the Middle Ages of the previous world, which is why this world remained in the medieval stage for a long time.

If I become a full knight, I might be able to restore the divided Baron Peter's domain, but the problem is that I can't walk the path of knighthood.

At this time, Su Nan set his sights on the legends of so-called wizards mentioned in the ancient books in his father's library.

According to ancient records, regardless of whether wizards actually exist or not, at least in legends, wizards in this world are mostly atheists.

This is very compatible with my personality.

So, he used the super AI chip he brought with him when he traveled through time to scan relevant books and collect information on wizards, hoping to find those wizards.

Although no real wizards were found, the super AI deduced some possible magic potion recipes from clues in these books. Over the past five years, it has scanned local plants, animals, minerals, traditional culture, and other materials to try to complete some of the deduced magic potion recipes.

Su Nan had the servants bring out a bottle of azure blue magic potion that was placed in a wooden box.

The medicine inside the glass bottle even shimmered with specks of blue light, as dazzling as the starry sky, as if a galaxy were rotating within it.

Su Nan opened the medicine and drank it down in one gulp.

This is the first potion I've deduced over the past five years using super AI from various miscellaneous books: the Mental Enhancement Potion.

For the past two years, he has been drinking a bottle of this medicine every day.

This resulted in his mental strength being continuously enhanced, reaching a level 7.5 times that of the average person's mental strength.

The super artificial intelligence AI is the cheat code he brought with him when he traveled through time.

In reality, I was transported here by lightning.

That day, I was living on the 27th floor, and during a stormy thunderstorm, I was playing Europa Universalis 40K on the balcony. After completing the technology level (mechanical ascension), I obtained a [Central Intelligence Chip] that could control the entire human interstellar society.

As it happened, a bolt of lightning struck, and he was transported through time.

For some unknown reason, this chip actually merged with itself and materialized from the game, becoming a real central AI chip with powerful functions.

Of course, the chip has many external interfaces and must be paired with a planetary-level device to become an intelligent control chip at the center of the galaxy.

We currently do not have enough resources to manufacture computing power expansion devices for chips.

Nevertheless, the AI ​​still had enough computing power to collect information on the flora and fauna of Baron Peter's territory, and even the entire Mediterranean frontier, and to deduce some clues about the wizards from the chaotic collection of books.

For example, taking mental enhancement drugs every day has brought me some benefits. My mental strength has become very strong, making it easier to concentrate and notice small details that I hadn't noticed before.

They can even sense basic emotions from others, such as sadness or anger.

After obtaining the wolf's blood, Su Nan said to Robert, the knight squire beside him, "Let's go back to the castle."

"I will not let the old butler's grudge go unavenged. After five years of lying low, I have gained enough strength to protect myself."

Most importantly, territory and such can be discussed separately.

But he also wanted to become an extraordinary being, a wizard, one of those wizards in stories and tales who toyed with death and manipulated life and death.

The path of a knight has a limited upper limit. Even if one becomes a so-called legendary knight, it only means living a few decades longer than an ordinary person.

For ordinary knights and knights, lifespan is even shorter than that of ordinary people, since prolonged high-intensity combat and training are very taxing on the body.

Even just to maintain his exaggerated muscles, he needs to consume a lot of energy every moment.

The Storm Church also constantly preaches that believers should not resist death, because after death they can go to the kingdom of the Storm God.

But for Su Nan, an atheist, saying something was worse than saying nothing at all.

Even if it were true, what could someone like me do in God's kingdom? Be a pet singing hymns for the God of Storms?

On the contrary, it's the wizards...

Su Nan once read a travelogue that described a wizard who had lived for five hundred years. His lifespan was coming to an end, but he was unable to break through his cultivation level and reach a higher level.

So, on his deathbed, he transformed himself into a lich.

He can walk in this world again and enjoy its beauty.

Su Nan said to his soldiers, who were dressed in shabby cloth armor, "Let's return to the castle."

The two hunting dogs immediately stopped gnawing on the wolf's remaining body and took the initiative to walk to the front of the group, leading the way through the jungle.

(End of this chapter)