Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 162 The Witcher's Multiple Traps

Inside the carriage, Su Nan used the wolf pack effect to contact the wizard's hand on Sunday to begin preparations for brewing the Boiling Potion and the Limitless Claw Potion. This way, once he returned, he wouldn't need to do any more preparation or process the materials; he could start brewing directly.

At the same time, he contacted Pera and asked Solon to start designing a potion bottle the size of an arrowhead, preferably made of iron.

Meanwhile, Vasilyan discovered the Samori family crest on the bodies of the five men he killed, who were disguised as thugs, and on the catapult, as well as a Samori Knight's Shield, a long-standing and famous weapon of the Samori family.

Meanwhile, Wolf Big and Wolf Two ran into the bushes beside the official road.

The bushes here are lush and green, but there are some marks on them, indicating that about three or four people once walked on them.

Wolf One and Wolf Two followed the scent they left behind for a hundred meters, but suddenly they lost track of it. They wandered around in confusion, looking around and howling.

Su Nan raised an eyebrow and said to Vasilyan, who had rushed over, "It seems the blind nun has found some good help. There's at least a 90% chance that it was someone the blind nun hired who did it."

"These people are quite skilled at stealth, and they even have some kind of invisibility technique. They're so good that even the mutated werewolves can't smell them."

I wonder if I can fool the mutated werewolf butler, Wolf Three.

Vasilyan said somberly to Sunan, "My lord, I have carefully examined the bodies of those five soldiers, and I have found that they should all be soldiers."

"Upon my inspection, I discovered that these soldiers had traces of magic on their bodies. I speculate that their consciousness was controlled by magic, which is why they were lying in ambush here and launching an attack on us."

"My master, what should we do with the Samori Knight's Shield, that catapult, and these five corpses?"

This is the benefit of having Vasilian learn meditation. Vasilian was once a focused priest, and now he is a focused wizard.

Furthermore, after learning magic, his understanding of magic improved, which made things much more convenient in many small details.

For example, he discovered that the five people he had just killed were being mind-manipulated.

Su Nan smiled and said, "Ridiculous."

"The person who set this trap must be a complicated person who, no matter what they do, even has to get up in the morning, look in the mirror, and doubt themselves."

"This is a multi-layered trap. It makes me suspect that Count Samori sent soldiers disguised as mobs to attack me with catapults. It also makes Count Samori suspect that I killed five of his soldiers and stole or destroyed one of his family's relatively expensive siege weapons."

"At the same time, they'll use a broken, old-fashioned shield from the Count of Samori family to frame me."

Su Nan looked at the shield in Vasily's hand, which bore the Samori family crest, and was slightly speechless.

Shields are supposed to be newer, right? You don't even know if this thing that's been around for hundreds of years can still be used as a shield.

Vasilyan said, "The person who set this trap is utterly despicable."

Su Nan said, "I have already instructed the Nine-Headed Super Werewolf Deacon and Wolf Three to strengthen the security. It seems we need to speed things up and train the werewolf inspectors."

"Strengthen my monitoring system."

"That blind nun, that little bitch, I don't know where she found such a talent, she's so good at hiding, just like the rat people."

"Vasilian, let's go to the Samori family and return the shield to them. Let them come and get the catapult themselves. While we're at it, we'll collect my payment for returning the shield, and you take those five corpses with you, even though I know the Samori family wasn't responsible."

Su Nan laughed and said, "But since someone has helped me prepare such complete evidence, I'll assume it was them and use it to blackmail this family."

Vasilyan said, "Lord Sunan, I thought you wouldn't offend the Count Samori family."

Su Nan shook his head. "Do you think that if I don't offend the Earl of Samori, this family will treat me kindly? On the contrary, the more assertive I am, the less likely this family will dare to be arrogant towards me."

"Moreover, this family, due to their incompetent and weak rule, caused a rebellion among the people in my territory, which even spread to the surrounding territories. According to Warwick's report, even the people in my territory have begun to have outside thugs secretly contacting them, wanting them to start a riot as well, but my people have reported them in advance."

Sunan said, "The Earl of Samori is so incompetent."

"It disgusts me."

"Now, because of the decrees of Borgia and the Archbishop, my territory was originally separated from the Earl's territory by two baronies, but those two baronies are now nominally my vassals."

"So our family's territory borders theirs."

"I'll use this incident to achieve my goal and hopefully bring this family to its senses."

"I want to make them completely afraid to even think of making any underhanded moves."

The medieval concept of territory was actually closer to the concept of family.

The ruling families are the true entities of this country.

On the contrary, the concept of the nation is subordinate to that of the family.

……

Raphael Fisher, the Witcher, watched this scene unfold from a nearby hilltop as Sunan and his companions made their second choice, returned, and went to find the Samori family.

Raphael, the leader of the witcher family, frowned and said to the girl beside him, another adult man, and an adult woman, "I didn't expect that wizard to be so difficult to scheme against."

"In this way, our pawn in the Samori family is useless. We originally thought that the wizard's arrogance would make him disdain to explain, so we could make the best of a bad situation, let the mortal family and the wizard clash, and then use the identity of the mortal family to attract the attention of the Storm Church, then make this wizard the target of everyone's hatred, and then be strangled by the church and the mortal family together."

"We've always succeeded in doing this."

"Wizards who disdain communicating with mortals and lack social connections are always easy targets for being framed and having the situation gradually escalated."

"But he actually came to my door directly, without giving me any chance to create a misunderstanding."

The Witcher Selena hesitated, "He wouldn't be going to blackmail the Samori family again, would he, using our scheme as a pretext..."

"The way he looks so aggressive makes me think he's..."

Raphael, the leader of the Witcher family, sneered, "You're too young, Selena. What you're saying is absolutely impossible. Wizards are all very proud. They say it's the curse of knowledge."

"Because they know more, they have no patience for ordinary people."

"Although this is an excuse, wizards would never focus their attention on mortals, much less extort them. Even if they need resources, they would find an agent. Therefore, we can easily find their loopholes and sow discord between them and their subordinate forces by living in a life where they do not have direct contact with mortals and are far removed from social connections."

"After all, there's a price to pay for looking at the sky all day instead of the road."

Salina frowned. "This is my first time on a mission to hunt down a wizard. But from what I see, Sunan Peter has a very strong bond with his people. It's nothing like what you described before."

"Even when we pretended to be a rebel army of believers of the God of Law and went to find the civilians in Peter's territory, we were reported before we even took action."

Raphael Fisher, unusually, remained silent.

He has always had a serious prejudice against wizards.

Therefore, even with counterexamples like Su Nan, he was unwilling to face the facts and change his perception.

(End of this chapter)