Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 135 The Ogre with Signs of Magical Modification

The southern Jiangsu province swept over the villagers of Amorod village, a village that was extremely poor due to its geographical location and relied almost entirely on farming for a living.

The villagers of Amolod Village refused to give up on Amolod Village, so they never left.

The villagers here are very conservative, simple, and kind. Even six years ago, when I was going through the most difficult time, they did not betray me.

If you recruit werewolf warriors here, with just a little training, you can select those whose primary emotion is loyalty to you, and that loyalty will be amplified tenfold.

Amolod Village appears to be a potential village of werewolf warriors.

Having a large number of werewolf warriors will strengthen your werewolf pack, and your legion and combat power will also increase as a result.

Keep in mind that even though my current mental strength is 60, because of the strength of the werewolf pack (including other units that have been incorporated into the wolf pack effect), I can concentrate my magic power and increase my current magic power by more than 15.

The werewolf pack can be considered a prototype of their own alternative wizard tower, and it also serves to amplify their magic and coordinate with their spellcasting.

However, we can talk about these things later.

He still needs to observe the village's level of loyalty to him.

Before Su Nan left, the village chief and many villagers of Amorod Village told him that they felt somewhat guilty towards their lord.

These simple villagers believe—

Amolod Village has no money at all; they contribute too little to the territory. Sunan recently exempted them from taxes, but they still want to contribute to the territory.

After leaving Amorod village.

Su Nan temporarily focused his attention on the two one-eyed ogres that Vasilian had captured.

I want to figure out where they came from.

Was that underground world created by some wizards from the mainstream wizarding society at that time?

According to the Oak Wizard's own magical book, the wizarding world devised a wide variety of methods to address the increasingly severe phenomenon of the receding magical tide.

While the most common approach is to simply leave, some wizards have devised various unconventional methods to deal with the receding magical tide.

For example, the petrifying witch petrifies herself.

Some wizards have also suggested digging into the underground world.

Furthermore, Su Nan discovered that these two one-eyed ogres showed signs of magical alteration. Although these two one-eyed ogres were likely born naturally, Su Nan could still discern traces of magic residue on them.

These cannibals are probably not the original cannibals.

They have undergone relatively significant modifications by underground wizards to achieve their current strength.

This means that the underworld definitely contains the work of those wizards from the mainstream wizarding society who advocated hiding deep underground and using the remaining magic to survive temporarily.

It's just unclear whether they created an underground world or transformed an existing underground cavity into one.

Sunan smiled at Vasilyan and said, "Vasilyan, do you know what's the most interesting part of magic?"

Vasilyan bowed to Sunan and solemnly said, "This subordinate was unaware."

"Your subordinate is ignorant."

Vasilyan looked at Sunan with some curiosity. After being deceived by the church for more than sixty years, he had lost interest in many things and didn't even want to be human anymore, but he was still full of curiosity about magic.

Su Nan explained, "One of the most interesting things about magic is that it can always remain on the object to which the spell is cast in various forms and ways."

Su Nan's fingers touched the skin of a one-eyed ogre, extracting a bit of the magic power remaining from the dozens of modification spells on the one-eyed ogre's body.

Instantly, the wisp of pink magic turned into a light mist, drifting onto Su Nan's fingertip.

"Look, Vasilyan. This is the transformative magic that remains within their bodies. It exists in the form of the bloodline within these ogres."

At this moment, the AI ​​had already reverse-engineered the original normal form of the two ogres.

Two emaciated, but three-meter-tall, cannibalistic creatures with two pairs of eyes appeared before Su Nan.

The calculated original ogres should differ slightly from those before the modifications, but they should have had at least four eyes. This is because they retained a form of plant magic similar to that of oak wizards, which enhanced their combat abilities by merging their four eyes into a single, enormous eye. It's somewhat similar to the oak wizards' niche-specific life-transfer magic, but there are differences.

Su Nan looked at the emaciated cannibal in his mind, then at the two fat, one-eyed cannibals in front of him. Well, the difference was too great.

Vasilyan only half understood, and then, with some curiosity, he asked Sunan, "Lord Sunan, could you teach me that meditation method of the Words of the Dead?"

Su Nan glanced at it in surprise. "Okay."

Vasilyan has a death pact with himself. Therefore, he can only be loyal to himself and obey his own commands.

Furthermore, he had used a loyalty mechanism similar to that of werewolves on him, so when he was transformed into a death knight, his loyalty to him would increase tenfold.

In addition, the existence of the wolf pack effect also allows Su Nan to keep an eye on Vasilyan's thoughts at all times, so Su Nan doesn't have much to guard against him.

Moreover, the Words of the Dead meditation technique is merely an ordinary, even somewhat low-level, meditation method. However, if Vasilyan could learn it, it would provide a boost to his combat abilities.

First, he will improve his understanding of the magic of death, rather than using the spells he has been given through potions as if he were using superpowers.

Secondly, his manipulation of death magic will be more precise, and he can even slightly improve upon the base of 20 points of mental strength and 20 points of mana.

But Su Nan didn't hold out much hope. Although the Death Knight certainly possessed some wizarding talent, the extent of it varied from person to person. It was very likely that he wouldn't even be able to learn to the level of a first-class wizard apprentice.

Therefore, Vasilyan's studies are unlikely to significantly improve his combat strength as indicated by his stats.

But it's hard to say, because Su Nan is unsure of Vasilyan's talent.

This is similar to opening a blind box.

Death Knight potions can only increase his affinity for death and frost magic; his basic talent level still depends on Vashrian himself.

Su Nan immediately used the wolf pack effect to pass on the meditation method of the Words of the Dead. "Once the meditation method of the Words of the Dead is completed, you will often hear the words of the dead in your ears, but don't worry, once you master it, those voices will disappear."

"The Whisper of the Dead meditation technique can enhance the effects of death magic. Most importantly, it enhances necromancy spells within death magic."

"So you're a good match for me. I have many enemies now, Vasilyan. I look forward to seeing how you perform."

Vasilyan immediately knelt on one knee before Sunan. "Yes, my master. I will always be the sharpest sword in your hand."

"Vasilian, I am willing to destroy any enemy that stands in your way. Like a storm of vengeance, I will sweep across the sky."

Su Nan looked at the two one-eyed ogres. Now, he dragged the two one-eyed ogres to a secluded, deserted jungle, preparing to interrogate them thoroughly.

Sunan ordered Vasilyan to set up a torture rack for interrogation on the spot.

To everyone's surprise, when Su Nan looked at them, the two one-eyed ogres sat on the ground and burst into tears.

"Waaaaah, we're doomed! That drow matriarch-like arcanist is going to eat us alive!"

"Huh? How did you figure that out?"

"Every time we eat people, don't we find a secluded jungle, build a fire, and start roasting the meat? Look, they've even got the fire going, the arcanists are going to eat us! Waaaaah..."

"Oh no, then we're going to turn into food! Waaaaaah..."

Su Nan wasn't going to tolerate them. "Shut up."

Vasilyan immediately looked at the two clumsy one-eyed ogres, and his crimson gaze met the single eye of each of the two ogres.

The two one-eyed ogres were so frightened that they dared not cry out. But tears still streamed from their enormous single eyes, falling to the ground with a soft patter.

Su Nan said to them, "I have a few questions for you, and perhaps they can help you reduce your sentence. First, where did you come from to the surface? Why do you speak the common language of the mainland? Did you learn it on the surface?"

Su Nan summoned Wolf Three, the mutated werewolf butler who had been hiding in the shadows all along.

Wolf Three's super hearing allows him to tell whether someone is lying just by the speed of their heartbeat.

Wolf Three's super sense of smell can also detect signs of deception from the hormones they secrete.

The two one-eyed cannibals immediately rushed to answer Su Nan, seemingly genuinely afraid that Su Nan would eat them.

"We are the savages of the underground city of Rye, and we are all servants of the Rye Mistress."

"Yes, yes, fifty-eight years ago, we savages began to migrate. The Rye Matriarch said that the surface was warm enough now, and we could move back. She also said that our main city was among the closest to the surface, so we spent forty years digging from underground to the surface. However, we dug many holes..."

"We learned the Common Language by feeding us spiders... The mistress said that if we didn't speak the Common Language, we would be illiterate."

"We'd only been here a short while, and hadn't even eaten a few people before you arrested us..."

Su Nan seemed to be deep in thought.

Fifty-eight years ago, wasn't that the time when the Eastern Empire was divided and occupied by the founding knights of the Storm Kingdom and the Platinum Republic?

Yes.

The so-called Rye Matriarch of the underground capital city must also be a wizard, or someone related to wizards. Therefore, after she sensed that the magical tide was beginning to return, she began to order her subordinates to dig a passage to the surface.

This took a long time, so they dug for fifty-eight years before they finally began to move on the surface.

These are probably just the first pioneers from the underworld.

The inhabitants of the underworld definitely have a strong desire to conquer the surface world. After all, Su Nan had already realized from the behavior of the two cannibals that the underworld was an extremely resource-scarce world where people could even eat each other.

The inhabitants of that underground world must be eager to move up immediately.

This will likely lead to another huge dispute.

However, it doesn't really concern me much. By the time their main force arrives, I should already be a formal wizard, or even a wizard of a higher ring.

However, the scattered underground inhabitants appearing in his territory right now are a nuisance to him.

This kind of trouble must be brought under control and made manageable.

Su Nan looked at the two ogres. These two ogres were probably creatures from other dimensions that the wizard had captured and modified to look like this.

I don't know if they were meant to be used as guards or for hard labor.

However, these two big goofballs could be put to good use. Keeping them around to do manual labor and move heavy objects might not be a bad idea.

I also need to study the magical modifications they've made.

(End of this chapter)