Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 10: The Twelve-Headed Werewolf Messenger!

In the forest, a carriage travels along a muddy path.

The coachman was a middle-aged man who was very talkative. He said to the people in the carriage, "Oh, sir from the big city. I heard you're going to the Hagia Sophia."

"Hehehe, once you get to Maple Leaf Town, you'll be able to find a caravan and travel there with a reliable one."

"Don't worry, I know this area very well. I'll take you there. Just go straight past that castle and you'll reach Maple Leaf Town. I heard that castle belongs to a baron..."

Suddenly, a cold woman's voice rang out from inside the carriage. "Wait, we're not going that way. We'll go around it and head towards Maple Leaf Town in a different direction."

The coachman hesitated for a moment, then kindly advised, "If we don't take this road and instead take another one, we might encounter bandits. There are bandits in Peter's territory."

"And why doesn't the master go that way...?"

The woman inside the carriage muttered to herself, "Fool. Can't you see? Can't you see the evil force lurking above that castle?"

"What an evil power. How did he manage to bypass the Storm God's sheepdogs and return to this land ahead of time to begin development?"

"I think it's better for me to avoid it."

"I don't know who they are, and I can't tell their skill level just by looking at them from a distance. But to be so brazen at this time and in this place... I hope it won't interfere with the mission my ancestors gave me."

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In the attic of Baron Peter's castle.

After the final elderberry powder was added, the potion inside the crucible suddenly began to rotate automatically, creating a small vortex.

Following a specific order, Su Nan threw four types of ore—malachite, lapis lazuli, hematite, and labradorite—into the vortex, where they quickly melted inside the potion.

Finally, three seconds after the ore had completely melted into the liquid in the crucible, he tossed ten gold coins into the crucible.

Just like a transaction, the ten gold coins disappeared into the cauldron, and in their place, the potion inside the cauldron turned into a large clump of gel-like substance.

The hallucinations in Su Nan's ears disappeared.

At the same time, as the potion was completed, the magical energy that had been stirred up in the air gradually subsided.

Su Nan poured the gel-like potion into three glass bottles.

"AI, how's the potion's completion?"

[The quality is perfect, but due to limited equipment, the influence of external factors was not isolated. Therefore, within the predicted range, the quality can only be described as perfect.]

[You made not a single, even minor, mistake during this operation.]

[Your mental energy has been completely converted into mana. Your current mana value is 9.8. You are very close to the predicted mana and mental energy levels of a wizard, but the effect of the current Mental Energy Enhancement Potion (+1) is starting to diminish. It is recommended to allocate your mental energy to upgrading the Mental Energy Enhancement Potion (+2).]

The experimental records related to witchcraft that you obtained from the bandits will help upgrade your Mental Enhancement Potion (+2), making it possible to continue upgrading the Mental Enhancement Potion project.

Su Nan raised an eyebrow.

However, he currently lacks sufficient information about wizards.

This may require a lot of computing power, or even the process of elimination, to list out potion recipes and then, through thought experiments, repeatedly try to find better mental enhancement potions.

This is equivalent to starting from scratch and deducing the wizard civilization.

Of course, this is an exaggeration.

Because he still obtained a lot of information related to wizards.

I remember the library in Maple Leaf Town; it was the largest library in the surrounding territory, and I was very interested in that library.

Because he lacks a proper lineage of wizards, his path to becoming a wizard has almost entirely been taken through unorthodox means.

Once Maple Leaf Town is reclaimed, the library's collection will be available, potentially allowing you to decipher more potion recipes.

Su Nan opened one of the glass bottles and poured it onto the back of his left hand. Immediately, Su Nan felt a burning sensation on the back of his left hand, as if his palm had touched hot water.

According to the instructions, he needs to use the Sacrifice Hand potion once a day for three consecutive days, each time for at least twelve hours, in order to complete the modification of his left hand.

Su Nan raised his left hand, looked at it, and found that the gelatinous potion of the sacrificial hand adhered to his skin after touching it.

It's like double-sided tape stuck to your palm; it won't fall off unless you force it off.

Therefore, it does not affect one's movement.

After thinking for a moment, Su Nan took four bottles of Steel Claw potion, four bottles of Wolfsbane potion, and four bottles of Sleepyhead potion and left the attic, heading to the study in the castle. He stopped a maid carrying a silver tray who was heading to the kitchen in the castle corridor.

"Go and fetch the butler and the head maid."

Although the maid's job was in the kitchen, since the lord had made a request, she naturally didn't mind acting as a temporary errand girl.

In the study.

At Su Nan's command, the two hunting dogs transformed into werewolf messengers in broad daylight, and drank the wolfsbane potion and the steel claw potion.

Their claws quickly developed a metallic sheen, demonstrating the steel-like hardness of their wolf claws.

At the same time, Su Nan ordered two werewolf messengers to attack a rooster that was prepared in advance in the study and was in an iron cage.

After the werewolf messenger scratched the rooster, the rooster immediately went berserk, frantically scratching and biting the other roosters in the cage.

Watching the three roosters fight each other, causing chaos and confusion.

Pera's eyes widened. "Oh, this wolfsbane is so potent that it can make them kill each other."

The old butler, Warwick, was intrigued. "Young master, this should also work on humans, right?"

Su Nan nodded and handed the two potions to Pella and Warwick respectively. "This will make our territory's military strength even stronger."

After drinking the potion, Warwick, the old butler, and Pera, the head maid, felt the changes within their bodies.

They felt stronger.

This wasn't an illusion; the two additional potions made their dark magic even more powerful.

Su Nan glanced at them and, judging from his current trajectory, realized that if he really entered the world of wizards, he would be consuming enormous resources every day.

Taking these old men with him to explore the wizarding world in the future would be a good option, as it would be like one person achieving enlightenment and all their relatives and friends benefiting from it.

The old butler, Warwick, said, "Young master, I see those people from Maple Leaf Town are making contact with three independent, officially recognized knights. When should we make our move against them?"

"These ridiculous guys are trying to make up for their losses by seizing our interests. How laughable."

Su Nan thought for a moment and said, "Even a lion uses its full strength to hunt a rabbit."

"I'll wait a few more days. At least I need to acquire the Hand of Psychic Power first."

"And I need to create more werewolf messengers."

The cost of creating a werewolf courier is very low.

So Su Nan had already asked Warwick to get another fifteen half-grown hounds, and spent the previous five months raising them from puppies to build their loyalty.

After eliminating five hounds that were clearly rebellious, the remaining ten could all be used to create werewolf messengers.

The two wolves from before can become the lead dogs of this pack of werewolves' messengers.

With twelve werewolf messengers at his disposal, he could probably crush any resistance that Maple Leaf Town might attempt.

Therefore, there is no need to rush.

Moreover, in order to prevent the enemy from using decapitation tactics in the upcoming battle, Su Nan decided to increase his own strength before formally punishing Maple Leaf Town.

(End of this chapter)