Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 219 Three Different Trials

The Land of Leap, within a Secret Realm.

The wizarding apprentices of the Thunder Ring screamed and frantically cast spells on themselves, trying to break the spell.

However, the combination of Su Nan's and the petrifying witch's double curse was too powerful, and their bodies and minds were simultaneously undergoing "petrification" and "sleep".

This rendered all their magic powerless.

Su Nan and the Petrifying Witch looked at the "Justice" Witch, who was wearing a cloak and holding a brass short sword. The brass short sword was wrapped with dark energy, which was like lightning. Each flash of the dark energy released a powerful tearing energy.

This is significantly different from the dark energy system of the underground world.

The "Justice" witch withdrew her magic and put the brass dagger back into her sleeve. She smiled wryly at the petrifying witch and Su Nan, "I really envy you two. You're both skilled in curse magic that can set traps."

"I don't have any special talent for magic in this area."

"So when I encountered danger, I had no choice but to engage in hand-to-hand combat. Fortunately, you have already taken care of the enemy, otherwise I would have had to fight with a short sword."

The petrifying witch smiled and said, "I also envy witches who are good at direct combat. Unlike me, all my magic is only for setting traps; I rarely have any magic that allows me to fight people directly."

"Perhaps, in this secret realm, I will need to rely on 'Justice' and 'The Moon' to protect me."

"Speaking of which, 'Moon' truly lives up to his reputation as a necromancer. Your curse magic is quite interesting and has broadened my horizons."

"You actually used 'sleep,' a curse that doesn't cause much harm, to lower the conditions for cursing others. Wizards skilled in curse magic usually try to constantly increase the effectiveness of their curses. Ideally, they want to be able to curse an enemy of the same level to death with just a glance. But you took a different approach and focused on lowering the conditions for cursing."

Su Nan replied briefly, "It's probably because I don't rely on curse magic for damage; I only use it as a support spell."

The petrifying witch laughed, "You finally give me the feeling that you're a necromancer."

Clearly, she regarded the Sleeping Curse as a sub-direction of the spiritual school—a curse focused on negative energy.

She just misunderstood.

Su Nan looked at the brass dagger of "Justice". Pure copper is a high-quality material for conducting magic, while pure silver is a high-quality material for conducting divine authority and has the effect of restraining the flow of magic.

So although brass is soft, it becomes a different story if it is enchanted with powerful dark energy magic.

There are copper mines in the underground world, so if you have the chance, you can also make a set of brass weapons.

Su Nan noticed the anomaly and turned around at the same time as the Petrifying Witch, looking at the Electric Ring Witch among the wizards of the Thunder Ring. She was the only Thunder Ring wizard with a mental strength of 99, while the mental strength of the other Thunder Ring wizard apprentices was generally only in the early 80s.

The electric ring witch bit off the tip of her tongue and then spat out the blood from it onto the ground, quickly forming a ring pattern of three lightning bolts.

Then, her mental energy began to transform into lightning.

Her soul and body began to transform into a bolt of lightning.

This is the secret spell of the Thunder Ring—the body is electrified.

This was originally a first-circle spell, but she carried the Thunder Ring Necklace, which lowered the casting requirements; she only needed to draw a magic circle on the ground before using it.

However, her entire body was now petrified and put into a deep sleep. With no other choice, she could only fight to the death, biting off the tip of her tongue and using the blood from it to draw a lightning-infused magic circle on the ground.

The petrifying witch's expression changed. "No! Don't let her escape!"

The Electric Ring Witch transformed into a bolt of lightning and headed towards the canyon road behind the "Path to Knowledge" sign among the three stone tablets. At the same time, she roared at Su Nan and the others, "I admit defeat this time."

"I never expected that they would invite three troublesome wizards."

"But don't get cocky. Once I become a full-fledged wizard in this leaping land, I'll settle accounts with you. You can just wait to die."

"This leapfrog place was specially created for the students of our school. What we gain here will certainly be greater than what you outsiders do."

Su Nan immediately used a remote injection spell to inject a bottle of mental self-destruct +2 magic potion into her lightning elemental body.

The Spirit Self-Destruction Potion is a secondary potion to the Life Essence Concentration Potion. If it is not taken in conjunction with the Life Essence Potion, a terrifying situation will occur where the life essence is continuously converted into the upper limit of mental power.

Injecting a potion into a body that has been transformed into a lightning element is indeed a rather difficult task.

However, when using the remote injection spell, Su Nan used one-third of a first-level single-target potent injection spell. Utilizing the potent injection spell's effect, he found the connection between the lightning element and his potion, forcibly injecting at least half a bottle of the potion into the electric ring witch, who had transformed into a thunderstorm.

This is a secondary potion that can even work for formal wizards, a Life Essence Concentration +2 potion.

Sure enough, remaining in the thunderstorm state and not in a hurry to escape, the Electric Ring Witch, lingering at the canyon entrance, suddenly screamed. "My mental power has reached its limit? No… my life force is…"

"Earth Wizard, what have you done to me?!"

"My spiritual power is constantly diminishing due to the limits of my soul; this kind of growth is completely useless to me. My life force is rapidly decreasing. Damn it, you just wait."

"I shouldn't have tricked that bitch on purpose. I didn't expect her to be so naive and incompetent, yet the wizards she invited were all disgusting!"

The electric ring witch was terrified, fearing that Su Nan and the others might use some strange magic that could harm her in her thunderstorm form, so she immediately fled.

They disappeared into the canyon road.

Su Nan looked at the path she had chosen—the path of seeking knowledge?

If I remember correctly, the purpose of the Electric Ring Witch coming to this secret realm was to use it to become a formal wizard. Therefore, her choice may mean that the resources for becoming a formal wizard in this secret realm are in the "Path of Knowledge" among the three paths.

Su Nan raised an eyebrow and said to her fellow attendees, "She got away."

"If she really becomes a formal wizard, then that will indeed be difficult to handle."

The petrifying witch smiled and said, "It's alright. The electric ring witch's character flaw is that she's too arrogant."

"My friend, the alchemist Camilla, died trying to break through to become a formal wizard. She's a witch with less than a hundred points of mental strength... her chances of becoming a formal wizard are too small."

"Even if her school's ancestors left her with good resources, she might not be able to make good use of them, and they might even harm her instead."

"Becoming a formal wizard is like a thousand troops crossing a single-plank bridge. For ordinary people like us, it's not so easy to become a formal wizard."

The petrifying witch gave Su Nan a special look. "Of course, some people are born to be different; you are the darlings of magic."

Su Nan glanced at her but didn't say anything.

Clearly, the petrifying witch considered herself a magical genius.

It's likely that the potion I brought out during the transaction at the gathering left such a shocking impression on her.

The next moment, the three wizards of the Thunder Ring cried out in alarm.

"Don't kill me...don't kill me, let's talk this out..."

"Yes...we know quite a bit about this secret realm, please don't kill us..."

Su Nan saw that "Justice" had already placed a brass dagger to the necks of the three wizard apprentices, preparing to kill them.

Su Nan said, "Wait a minute, justice. Killing them won't do us any good, except for venting our anger."

"Keeping them around will be more useful to us."

"Furthermore, I'm not sure what would happen if I killed a wizard apprentice who had learned the Thunder Ring meditation method and spell model in this Thunder Ring secret realm."

The petrifying witch clearly also believed that the Land of Leap Forward was her best chance to become a formal wizard, so she was very cautious and immediately supported Su Nan's point of view. "Yes, 'The Moon' is right."

"Killing these three useless people won't do us any good. We're all wizards; let's not let emotions cloud our judgment. On the contrary, since there are three paths here, and it's the Thunder Ring's secret realm, we can use the Thunder Ring's wizard apprentices for experiments and extract information from them."

The petrified witch, who had always appeared as a kind old grandmother, suddenly revealed a dark expression. "Let's use these guys as our test subjects."

Justice sheathed his brass dagger and said, "Fine, whatever you want."

"I'll do whatever you say."

Su Nan walked up to the three wizard apprentices with the Thunder Rings. At this moment, all three of them had turned to stone from the neck down, but strangely, their heads were still made of flesh and blood.

Moreover, their mental energy had all fallen into a deep sleep.

It cannot be called at all.

In other words, they were turned into mortals by Su Nan, and into half-stone statues with only one head left by the petrifying witch.

Su Nan asked, "I'll give you a chance to live."

"What do the three choices within this secret realm truly mean?"

"You should have realized it by now, the petrification curse of the petrification witch doesn't use magic to maintain your state as stone statues, but rather turns you completely into stone statues."

"If you turn completely into stone statues, you'll die. You'll become just another ordinary stone statue in this secret realm."

"Perhaps your descendants will see your statues after entering the Land of Leapfrog."

The three wizard apprentices were clearly terrified by Su Nan's description. They imagined the descendants of the school seeing their statues in the secret realm, and their faces turned pale.

It's not just that it's dead, it's turned into a clown statue for people to admire.

(End of this chapter)