Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 179 Invention: [Magic Pressure Shell]

Su Nan quickly checked the information he had received from the Shadow Wizard in his mind.

He had the AI ​​quickly verify its internal logic, and after finding no major problems, he left with the wolf pack and the female arcanist Song Zhong.

The Shadow Wizard, witnessing this, chuckled. "Still don't trust me? What a cautious lad."

"That's true."

"After all, I have the mindset of a first-ring wizard, so it's a good thing that they're being cautious towards me."

At that time, Su Nan had already discovered the main city of Hei Mai through the wolf pack effect, and had also discovered the insect swarm town that he had set up.

A large army of lizardmen has gathered in the insectoid town.

Several drow warriors were also lurking around the town, ready to attack at any moment. Su Nan didn't pay much attention and directly ordered the swarm of insects in the town to begin a counterattack.

Meanwhile, in this caveman mining area, Su Nan began to use the information given to him by the Shadow Wizard to deduce the recipe for the four werewolf ascensions.

At the same time, he had six super werewolf messengers prepare crucibles and other materials for him.

Song Zhong looked at Su Nan, who was sitting in front of the crucible and deep in thought, and was somewhat puzzled.

Then she looked at Warwick and Blom. "What are our surface-dwelling masters doing? Isn't this the time to either run or attack?"

"We'd better escape the underground world quickly... what if my mother finds out where we are..."

Blom was somewhat speechless. "We are different from you. We are not slaves. We are loyal to our master... well, it's complicated. I'm not good with words, but simply put, you can think of us as a family."

Warwick made a quiet gesture to her. "Don't disturb our master. From now on, find something simple to do. What our little master does is the most important thing to us."

"We will stay here and protect him."

Su Nan, standing in front of the crucible, began to have the AI ​​categorize the solutions to the magic pressure problem summarized by the Shadow Wizard.

He discovered that the Shadow Wizard had proposed a total of seventeen solutions and spent a hundred years gradually rejecting all of them.

Finally, before being drawn into the war, he was certain that the most likely method to succeed was—[to introduce a powerful arcane source from the outside and infuse it into the body of an ordinary creature, thereby forcibly generating magical pressure within its body.]

A successful example of this approach is the Shadow Spider race, one of the most powerful monster races in the wilderness of the main city of Rye, as mentioned by the female arcanist Song Zhong.

It was a spider that lived in the stone forest, one that even arcane sorcerers could die if they encountered it.

This is one of the reasons why the wilderness outside the underground capital city has become extremely dangerous.

However, the Shadow Spider race still cannot be considered a success.

The Shadow Wizard's so-called transplantation of powerful arcane energy from the outside actually uses the arcane bloodline within the drow's body.

Therefore, the Shadow Spider race has always had a conflict over arcane bloodlines, and arcane bloodlines are themselves a way to enhance mental power.

The Shadow Wizard understood that this method still utilized the bloodline of a powerful creature and indirectly improved mental strength, thus bypassing the problem of magical pressure.

There's no solution at all; it's a problem in this direction.

If the goal is simply to modify creatures with powerful magic, then wizards in higher-level conjuration schools specializing in creature modification already possess a plethora of powerful magical spell formulas for modifying creatures.

The Shadow Wizard understood that the truly valuable solution was a direct resolution of the [magic pressure problem]!

If the Shadow Wizard were still alive, he planned to try to extract aether energy and infuse it into living beings, using this method to transform ordinary creatures into magical beings at the first-class wizard apprentice level.

But Su Nan had the AI ​​perform a simulation.

This is the wrong path.

[External high-intensity magical energy cannot exist continuously within a living being's body. Based on current information, even if the Shadow Wizard were alive, if he continued to try this approach, he would not be able to truly solve the magical pressure problem even after more than a hundred years.]

Based on current data and big data analysis, this appears to be a dead end.

[External high-intensity magical energy can only temporarily generate magical pressure within a living being's body. The body's inherent limits remain largely unchanged; no matter how much energy is added, it's like a balloon being temporarily filled with gas. As soon as the pressure is released, the gas inside the balloon will escape.]

However, this knowledge can be combined with Demonic Blood Charging to enhance the Demonic Blood Charging ability of werewolves who have undergone four ascensions.

At the same time, the AI ​​provided feedback to Southern Jiangsu—

However, the Shadow Wizard's second experimental approach, conducted in the tenth year of his experiments, was correct.

[This aligns with the currently calculated direction of the fourth-stage werewolf potion recipe.]

But he has data from thirty years of experiments.

With this data, we can now obtain the werewolf potion recipe for four levels of ascension.

His second experimental approach was to guide a large amount of magical energy into the soul of a living organism, causing a mutation in the soul and allowing the body to automatically adapt to the strengthened soul, thereby increasing the body's upper limit for absorbing magical energy.

[By utilizing the body's ability to adapt to the soul, a creature with powerful physical abilities is created, without excessive development in the realm of magic, thereby reducing production costs.]

[And in this process, the problem of demonic pressure was overcome.]

[Although the Shadow Wizard guessed the right path, during his thirty years of experiments, he discovered that creatures modified in this way experienced a continuous, passive increase in mental power.]

He mistakenly believed that this was still using mental power to generate magical pressure, and wrongly concluded that this path was hopeless.

Furthermore, he believed that this method wouldn't allow him to break through to a level of 80 in mental strength because living beings lack meditation techniques. However, if he were to use meditation, he would end up on the same path as a wizard.

There has been no fundamental breakthrough.

In his final year, when he was close to success, he abandoned this research direction.

Based on current data analysis, it is highly likely that in another five years, he will be able to create a new type of melee-based species with extremely powerful physical capabilities, which will abandon the use of magic.

If that's the case, he should have discovered a new direction for magical modification and made a name for himself before the wizarding wars in the underworld.

Your research perfectly complements his research area, filling in the gaps in his work.

Based on all the data, thought experiments have revealed that by continuously channeling a single type of magical energy into the soul of a living organism through a specific energy-infusion ritual, and then simultaneously channeling that same type of magical energy into its physical body, the upper limit of that organism's physical functions can be simultaneously increased.

Furthermore, specific incantations and shape-elemental ethers can cause the object's physical life level to leap beyond 80 points of spiritual power, producing a high-density state of body similar to magical pressure—a magical pressure shell.

[A werewolf who obtains the Magic Pressure Shell will essentially possess Magic Pressure and can pursue the path of converting Magic Pressure into a permanent defensive force field. In this way, even the path to the fifth ascension will be free of any fundamental obstacles.]

The concept of the Demonic Suppression Shell is partly inspired by our research on energy-based life forms.

Su Nan sighed. "Sometimes, perseverance is just that difficult."

"As long as you persevere, you will succeed, but perseverance itself is the hardest part. More than 30 years of failed experiments put immense psychological pressure on the Shadow Wizard, so he mistakenly thought that this direction was not working and changed his experimental approach."

"As a result, I missed the opportunity to discover it."

Su Nan said, "It's also possible that the Shadow Wizards haven't studied energy creatures much. Actually, if you think about it carefully, the energy shells of energy creatures are a natural source of inspiration!"

Su Nan thought to himself, "AI, list out the werewolf potion recipe for the fourth stage of refinement. This recipe will be named Shadow Werewolf."

"I'll see if I can refine it in this mine."

With the Shadow Werewolf having undergone four ascensions, he felt much more confident in dealing with the Rye Matriarch of the Underworld.

Yes. According to the current concept, infusing different types of single magical energy will result in different magical pressure shells.

What kind of magical energy should be infused?

Su Nan thought to himself, "AI, calculate which magical energy is most compatible with werewolves."

Yes. Considering the werewolf's physique, melee abilities, and magical characteristics, the most suitable energy to infuse it is dark magic energy.

[During this process, etheric energy must also be infused.]

The next most suitable is power magic.

[Recommended: Infuse both dark magic energy and power magic energy to create a dual magic pressure shell of dark magic and power magic.]

[The Shadow Werewolf is created with ultra-high density muscle tissue, ultra-high density bone tissue, ultra-high physical strength, and a wolf-like body imbued with dark energy attacks.]

[The next level of recommendation is the ordinary Dark Energy Magic Suppression Shell and the ordinary Power Energy Magic Suppression Shell.]

[Another top-tier recommendation is either the Dark Energy Magic Suppression Shell or the Fire Energy Magic Suppression Shell.]

Su Nan nodded. "Then let's choose the dual magic pressure shell of physical and dark energy."

'Calculate the formula.'

Yes, the following is the Shadow Werewolf potion recipe. This werewolf upgrade is associated with a waning crescent moon.

In Su Nan's inner world, the phenomenon of the full moon being swallowed by darkness and a crescent moon appearing suddenly appeared.

(End of this chapter)