Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 117 The Wizard's Hand, Potions, and Sundays

Over the next two weeks, Su Nan quickly digested the harvest in the Four Seasons Garden while preparing to refine the Great Tree Guardian Potion.

Warwick, Blom, Vasilyan, and Mario gradually returned to the castle and began to oversee the daily operations of Peter's territory.

Especially Mario and the gargoyles, otherwise everyone who comes to the castle will wonder why the angel statue in front of the castle fountain and the gargoyle statues on the castle roof always disappear and then suddenly reappear the next day...

Disappearing and coming like that can easily confuse others.

Meanwhile, during this period, Su Nan also increased his mental strength to 37 by drinking a special version of the potion that increases mental strength by 3 every day.

The effects of the +3 Mental Strength Enhancement Special Edition potion began to decline, so Su Nan started refining the +4 Mental Strength Enhancement potion and the Life Essence Concentration potion.

The core ingredients for the +4 Mental Strength Enhancement potion are licorice, ginseng, jujube seed, and black tea leaves.

With the Spirit Enhancement Potion +4 and the Life Essence Concentration Potion, it is expected that the high-speed increase in the spiritual power of Su Nan will continue, at least to 60.

Because of the significant difference in mental strength between a formal wizard and a first-class wizard apprentice, Su Nan could only devote more computing power to deriving the formula for a magic potion that could better increase mental strength.

Within these two weeks, Su Nan also learned the basics of the Mage Shield, a spell that creates a simple, multi-functional magical shield around the body by chanting incantations.

Because it is a multi-functional magic shield, its strength is not high, and the defensive power it can provide to wizards is very limited.

But it was the starting point for many subsequent defensive spells.

Su Nan also learned the Mage's Hand spell, which is very similar to the Sacrifice Hand spell. It is a simplified version of the Sacrifice Hand spell, or rather, the original version.

The Mage's Hand spell can create a telekinetic hand to help you pick up things or throw something in a certain direction.

But the strength is very low.

So it's basically considered a life-related spell.

During this period, Su Nan also learned a lot of common knowledge about the wizarding world.

For example, in the wizarding world more than two thousand years ago, a third-class wizarding apprentice should have learned five simple and practical spells as soon as they entered the magical world—

Magic Shield, Mage's Hand, Cleanse, Magic Concealment, and Light.

These are basically the life skills of a wizard.

The Wizard's Hand allows a wizard to pick up a material without touching it, thus ensuring their safety.

Light spells can provide illumination in the dark, and Cleanse spells can keep a wizard's body clean.

Concealing magical power is something every wizard apprentice learns early in their career. It helps them hide their magical abilities and prevents others from easily seeing through their secrets.

However, Su Nan only learned this skill instinctively after becoming a first-class wizard apprentice and possessing the precise control over magic that a first-class wizard apprentice has.

Anyway, the order is all wrong.

That's why the coca wizard among the Forgotten Ones could tell at first glance that he was an earth wizard without any lineage.

More than two thousand years ago, third-class wizard apprentices would first learn these five introductory but very practical spells before they would begin learning the school's introductory spells.

As it turned out, I had completely gotten it backwards.

At the same time, Su Nan also learned about the ranks of wizards from more than two thousand years ago, from three levels of wizard apprentices to formal wizards (first-ring wizards), then second-ring wizards, third-ring wizards, fourth-ring wizards, fifth-ring wizards, and sixth-ring wizards.

More than two thousand years ago, sixth-ring wizards were the pinnacle of the wizarding world.

However, it is said that at the time, there were already rumors that a sixth-circle wizard had found the path to becoming a seventh-circle wizard.

Therefore, it is unknown whether, more than two thousand years later, in the mainstream wizarding world, sixth-ring wizards will still be the pinnacle of wizarding.

In addition, Su Nan also learned the [Tree of Life Meditation] and the beginner-level third-tier apprentice spell [Wild Grass Entanglement] from the Oak Wizard magic system.

He will use the fastest speed to raise the Insect Jade Meditation Method and the Tree of Life Meditation Method to the level that a first-class wizard apprentice should be at.

Logically speaking, establishing a new meditation rune system requires a significant amount of mental energy.

Other wizards also want to learn more meditation techniques, but they lack the resources and time.

However, Su Nan has a series of mental power enhancement potions and life essence concentration potions that can quickly replenish his mental power, so it doesn't matter if he learns a few more meditation techniques. He can also learn by analogy, broaden his knowledge, and improve his magical foundation.

Taking this opportunity, they found their own path.

On the third floor of the Oak Wizard Tower, Su Nan set up a cauldron, ignited a flame beneath it with his gaze, and then added a clump of spider silk, a mulberry leaf, a piece of plaster, 1 gram of rosemary powder, 1 gram of agave powder, a drop of blood containing his own magic, and then three gold coins.

Then Su Nan took a half step back and used the Mage's Hand spell five times on the boiling potion in the cauldron. Instantly, five invisible mage's hands smashed into the boiling potion, were enveloped by the potion, and had their magic power absorbed by it.

The potion in the cauldron captured and absorbed the magic he had released, meaning that he had materialized his psychic hand, or rather, given his psychic hand a physical body.

Then, the potion in the crucible stopped boiling and began to solidify.

Su Nan quickly lifted the crucible and poured out the semi-solidified potion inside.

These materials, resembling plaster but with a flesh-colored potion resembling a human hand, fell to the ground and slowly transformed into the shape of a human hand. Then, even the skin and nails gradually emerged.

The potion liquid transformed into a right hand with only a wrist.

Su Nan used magic to write the words "Sunday" on its right wrist.

[Sunday] Possessing some of his own qualities, a permanent manifestation of his own psychic hand, he was born with knowledge. Using his thumb, little finger, and ring finger as support, he raised his index and ring fingers and made a "V" sign to himself.

Su Nan thought for a moment and decided that he should give his telekinetic hand some face, so he gave it a thumbs up to show his appreciation.

This is communication between palms!

This materialized psychic hand is the [Mage's Hand Potion] that Su Nan recently had the AI ​​calculate based on the Mage's Hand spell model and the Sacrifice Stone magic.

Originally, the Wizard's Hand was simply a basic life-related spell used by wizards to enter the magical world, and almost every wizard knew how to use it.

But Su Nan happens to need a few assistants to refine magic potions recently.

He was too lazy to refine low-level potions himself.

So he had the AI ​​create a task for him to develop familiars that could completely obey his commands and concoct cheap potions of simple difficulty, based on the spell model of the Mage's Hand.

He also instructed his old butler Warwick to give Solon a task: to create two life-sized stone statues, which would become his assistants in moving odds and ends in his potion-making room.

But golems are ultimately not capable of handling overly detailed tasks.

Combat is fine, but crafting potions is such a delicate task that the cumbersome golems have a hard time doing well; it requires a very high level of intelligence.

Therefore, Su Nan refined this Mutant Mage's Hand, which possesses some of his own characteristics. The Mutant Mage's Hand has enough precision to create one or more versions of himself, using magic to record the potion inside the Mutant Mage's Hand in advance.

Of course, it can currently only independently brew potions for third-class wizard apprentices, and handle some of the more delicate tasks for itself while brewing potions.

But it can greatly free up your hands and prevent you from doing many repetitive and simple tasks.

The Mutant Mage's Hand can be considered a wizard's pet.

Sunan renamed it Wizard's Hand and gave it the name Sunday.

This means that if necessary in the future, Su Nan can refine a few more Wizard Hands to increase the production rate of low-level potions.

(End of this chapter)