Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 21, First Ghost Series Potion

Maple Leaf Town, Town Council Hall.

Maple Leaf Town was no longer as prosperous as it had been six months ago.

The authoritarianism and Gus Pasha's brutality destroyed the relaxed business environment here.

Merchants were extremely cautious every day, and they would not bring caravans here again if it weren't for the fact that the commercial center could not be changed in the short term.

Because of Gus Pasha's rule, taxes were levied arbitrarily, and law enforcement officers robbed merchants at will.

Therefore, the once bustling street in front of the Maple Leaf Town Council Hall is now deserted, and both merchants and customers are silent, not daring to make a sound.

So as not to disturb the knights in the town council hall.

But inside the town council hall, Gus Pasha, Mayor Shockart, and a group of guards and knights-servants also fell silent.

A silent anger permeated the town council hall.

Gus Pasha stroked the pale face of his brother Valen's corpse, his eyes filled with deep rage. When he lifted the white sheet covering Valen's chest and saw that Valen's heart had been ripped out, he crushed the tabletop of the wooden table beside him.

"Yesterday, I sent Warren with men to hunt down those fugitives. This morning, their bodies were dumped at the town gate."

"My brother's body couldn't even be preserved intact. His heart was gone, and his body was covered in wounds from what appeared to be a huge animal. Who did this?"

The Church of Storms claims that only if the body remains intact after death can the dead enter the kingdom of the Storm God; otherwise, they will not be able to receive the Storm God's salvation, and their souls will only be able to enter the Crimson Hell after death.

This is also why Gus Pasha was furious.

Mayor Shockart reminded him, "Lord Pasha, my son also died at the hands of this monster."

The next moment, he was speechless, because Gus Pasha's scarlet eyes were staring at him, as if he were about to devour him.

Gus Pasha said, enunciating each word clearly, "My brother's life is far greater than that of your good-for-nothing son!"

After being rebuked like that, Mayor Shawkat's face turned red with anger. He wanted to get angry, but he was horrified to find that there were hardly any familiar faces left in the town council hall.

He's been sidelined!

The militia captain was originally his last confidant.

Last night, the militia captain also died along with Warren, which means that he has completely lost control of Maple Leaf Town.

A soldier pushed open the door to the town council hall and quickly ran to Gus Pasha, saying, "Sir, we have found out."

"Yesterday, those fugitives all fled to the territory of Baron Sunan."

Gus Pasha looked somewhat taken aback. "What did you say? They didn't flee to Sir Mair Baragan's territory, but instead fled to that brat's territory?"

"If that's the case, then..."

Mayor Shockart's eyes lit up, filled with hatred, and he said, "Ah, I knew it."

"The mastermind behind this is the Baron."

"My son, I will avenge you."

Gus Pasha looked somewhat lost. Five and a half years ago, Su Nan was just an ordinary eleven-year-old boy. Back then, he could have killed that little baron with just one finger.

But now, why does the other party seem so unfathomable?

The fact that the other party killed his own brother Valen proves that he has the ability to fight against elite knight squires, but how is that possible?

For the past five years, his territory and Maple Leaf Town have been openly and covertly weakening the true master of this territory, preventing Su Nan from recruiting enough military forces to unify this baronial domain.

Not only them, but even the other two official knights, and even Sir Mair Baragan, who had always been at odds with him, were openly and secretly preventing Sunan from contacting the outside world.

But right under their noses, the young baron had already grown to this extent.

Where exactly did he recruit these people from?

Where did he get his power from?!

Over the years, he had only heard that the young baron liked some useless miscellaneous books, but this was obviously a waste of time and energy, so he never really cared about it and let the young baron trade for all sorts of books.

Moreover, he had his spies inspect those books, and there were hardly any books on knightly combat techniques or military engineering.

Gus Pasha was a typical Storm Knight, a roughneck. He obviously couldn't have imagined that Su Nan could deduce the existence of wizards from a pile of miscellaneous books and ancient texts, and even deduce the potion recipes.

He was far too pragmatic. If something didn't seem to immediately increase his combat power, or was even slightly abstract, he would consider it useless and then ignore it.

Gus Pasha suddenly remembered something, grabbed the priest by the collar, and dragged him in front of Valen's corpse. "Aren't you the priest?"

"If my brother really was killed by a monster, what do you think we should do to deal with that monster?"

Although Gus Pasha always felt that the other party was playing some kind of trick and that there was no real monster, he was still forced to seek advice from the skinny priest he used to look down on under the continuous strange blows from Su Nan.

But the pastor clearly didn't understand the situation either.

He stammered, "Perhaps...perhaps the holy water of the Storm God would work. According to religious scriptures, the Storm God controls storms and rain, and holy water blessed by the Storm God possesses special power that can drive away evil."

"Lord Guts Pasha... perhaps you could give it a try. There's a lot of blessed holy water in the town's church. Applying that holy water to your weapons might subdue those monsters. If those monsters really exist."

"Then let's do it this way. Hopefully, this water blessed by you priests will actually work. But even if it doesn't work, it's fine, as long as my soldiers believe that the holy water is effective." Gus Pasha always felt that Sunan was just playing tricks and attacking the morale of his army.

He pondered for a moment and said, "Summon Sir Harun."

"I will make this little baron pay the price tomorrow."

"Originally, I would have spared his life out of respect for his father. I would have given him enough money to leave here and go to Stormwind Keep, the capital city, to live the life of an ordinary person."

"But since he dared to make things like this, he can't blame me."

Knight Harlan was originally the third official knight in the domain of Baron Peter.

But two years ago, he was defeated by Gus Pasha and semi-submitted to him.

If Gus Pasha becomes the new Baron, he will also appoint the Knight of Harun as his vassal.

Soon, evening arrived.

Maple Leaf Town originally had no curfew, as it was a nearby commercial center. However, Gus Pasha was managing Maple Leaf Town using the same approach he used to manage the Knights Territory, so all the checkpoints in Maple Leaf Town were sealed off by his soldiers.

Meanwhile, Knight Harlan, with fifty infantrymen, entered Maple Leaf Town, as Gus Pasha was preparing to lead a large force to the Peter family's castle early the next morning.

A complete showdown.

but……

Tonight is a full moon night. A full moon, like a silver plate, hangs in the night sky, obscuring all the stars and illuminating the night.

At that moment, at the Maple Leaf Town tollbooth, a soldier wielding a short sword was knocked to the ground by a massive werewolf messenger before he could react, his head smashed into a pulp.

Sunan, along with Warwick, Pera, and even Robert, appeared on the high ground next to Maple Leaf Town.

The old butler, Warwick, said, "Young master, I have been waiting for this day for a long time."

"The old baron will be very happy."

"Hmm. No need to wait until tomorrow. Today, I will ensure my enemies don't see tomorrow's sun." Su Nan glanced at Warwick and mentally told the AI: 'Start recording wolf pack combat data.'

Previously, he obtained the special Knight's Heart from Valen, which caused the AI's progress in calculating the Ghost Potion recipe to increase by 37%, while also increasing the progress of the Super Werewolf Potion by 10% and increasing the progress of calculating the Mental Enhancement Potion +2 by 4%.

In this way, he directly completed all the calculation progress of the Ghost Potion, the calculation progress of the Mental Enhancement Potion +2 became 41%, and the calculation progress of the Super Werewolf Potion was 18%.

This means that if one could obtain the heart of a formal knight, it would be of immense benefit, allowing one to deduce more powerful and numerous potions.

In addition, the town library in Maple Leaf Town is a learning center for scholars in the area, and obtaining information there would be very useful to me.

This gave him a considerable incentive to reclaim Maple Leaf Town.

Su Nan picked up a violet-colored potion bottle tucked into his waistband. This was his first Ghost series potion—Ghost Knight Apprentice.

Its main ingredients are 50 grams of tissue from a knight's apprentice's heart, as well as ashes from the cemetery and locust tree blossoms growing in the cemetery.

Aside from the Knight Apprentice's Heart, which is difficult to obtain and requires a slightly larger quantity, the other materials are quite common. Therefore, I spent the entire day making the first Ghost series potion.

The Ghost Knight Apprentice is as difficult to manufacture as a second-class wizard apprentice, but the potion formula has been optimized by the AI, and the core principle it uses is actually the same as that of the Or Guardian, an artificially modified soul.

(End of this chapter)