Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 223 Unraveling the final question of the trial!

In another corner of the trials of the Path of Knowledge, the Electric Ring Witch finally killed the last orc in a valley, a stronghold of one hundred orcs.

She also had many wounds on her body.

In particular, there was a deep wound on her left arm, a result of being slashed by an axe—the price she paid for destroying the orc stronghold.

Her face was filled with terror, because although she had used many methods to finally get rid of the half-bottle of magic potion that Su Nan had injected into her, she had only lost about fifty years of her lifespan and her overall physical functions had declined, but her mental strength had reached 100.

Although she has become weaker, she hasn't been drastically reduced, at least not for the time being.

She spent two days destroying the orc stronghold, using various methods such as luring the orcs away from the stronghold, ambushing lone orcs, and suddenly entering the stronghold to launch a sneak attack. Finally, she wiped out all the orcs in the stronghold.

However, she had already depleted half of her magical power and suffered multiple injuries.

Then, she obtained a Lightning Bolt that broke the limit.

Is this trial ground really that difficult?

The Electric Ring Witch sat on the ground, looking at the still ferocious-looking orc corpses around her, and panted heavily, "I've used every trick in the book to deal with the orcs in this stronghold."

"Is this trial really that difficult?"

"Then who can pass?"

"Ancestors, why did you set up such difficult trials to prevent me from obtaining resources? If I had five Limit-Breaking Lightning Bolts, five artificial souls, and several bottles of Grimm's Water, I could directly break through the limits of my soul!"

"He will inevitably become a formal wizard."

She stood up and began to think about what she should do now. She had almost crashed her car after wiping out an orc stronghold.

She was already feeling apprehensive about taking down another one.

The Electric Ring Witch shifted the blame for the excessive difficulty of passing this trial onto Su Nan and the Petrifying Witch. "It's all that bitch's fault for inviting those two wizards. They're both disgusting. If it weren't for them, I'd still have three wizard apprentices at my beck and call."

"If I had three wizard apprentices to command, and I hunted down two or three orc strongholds to gather some limit-breaking lightning, and poured all the resources into myself, I could also succeed."

The electric ring witch glanced at the surrounding corpses, then walked to the totem lying beside one of them, stomped on it, and crushed it before turning and leaving. "I can only try again to destroy one more orc stronghold."

"Why are these orc strongholds so insanely strong? I just can't understand it. If these orc warriors are this powerful, how can our school's wizards hunt them down so easily?"

"Why can't we lower the individual combat stats of these orc warriors!"

"Forget it. There's still plenty of time. I'll grind it out in the trials, even if it means it has to be tough."

……

On the other side of the trial of the Path of Knowledge, the petrifying witch pretends to be a lost old human and deliberately waits at a place where an orc priest and his orc army are bound to return from raiding. She then invites the orcs into her home under the pretext that there is clean water for them to drink.

These orcs, panting from their looting, had no intention of patiently waiting for the petrifying witch to walk shakily and bring them water in small bowls.

They pushed the petrified witch aside, then picked up the water jar in her house and began gulping it down.

As a result, this group of orcs was completely wiped out.

The orc priests and orc troops collapsed to the ground, clutching their aching stomachs. Only then did they realize that the water vat contained no clean water at all, but rather black water teeming with maggots.

At the same time, they discovered that even the stone houses were fake, all illusions, and that they were now in an open field.

The orc shaman said resentfully, "You despicable old witch, you don't even dare to fight us head-on..."

"We're not happy about losing. It's not that we can't beat you, it's just that we're not as cunning as you..."

The petrifying witch chuckled. "If I were to confront you orcs head-on, my old bones certainly wouldn't hold up. I might actually be captured and eaten by you."

"But who told you to fall into my trap?"

"For you more than two thousand years ago, were intrigue and scheming a disgrace? But this is how I survive."

"Or to put it another way, to me, isn't it just another kind of despicable thing for you young and strong people to attack an old man like me?"

After the orcs died, the petrifying witch looked at the Limitless Lightning that had suddenly appeared in her hand and smiled. "Although setting a trap made the harvesting slow, it didn't consume much mana to eliminate these hundred orcs."

She looked at the ball of lightning in her hand with intense longing. "This is really something."

"Time to find the next orc stronghold. But not one that's too smart. I need to set a trap for a stupid orc stronghold and then avoid being hunted by those orcs."

"The individual strength of this historical orc tribe is incredibly high. The enemies I've encountered before have all been skilled in mid- to long-range magic. I've rarely seen enemies who excel in melee combat. If we were to fight head-on, I'd definitely die at their hands."

"The Thunder Ring School has gone to great lengths to allow their descendants to relive the brutality of the battlefield more than two thousand years ago. I just wonder if their descendants will be able to appreciate the painstaking cultivation of their ancestors."

The petrifying witch walked up the hillside of the valley and said, "I must hurry."

……

At the orc headquarters fortress, Su Nan said to Elvis, "There are at least two thousand orc warriors in this orc fortress. Among them, dozens of orc shamans are as strong as first-class wizard apprentices with magical pressure, and there are even more than a dozen shamans who are equivalent to half-step formal wizards."

"I often fight warlocks, so I know them well."

"Moreover, the orc groups within this orc fortress likely have different weaknesses depending on their classification. These weaknesses are not only tricky but also numerous. It's an extremely difficult problem to solve. Even I, without observing for at least a month, might fail if I rashly attempt to solve it."

Elvis raised an eyebrow when he heard that Su Nan frequently clashed with the sorcerer group, but he was genuinely anxious and said to Su Nan, "Don't you think you're being too risky and aggressive right now? Let's get out of here quickly, observe for a month, and then try to solve the final problem of this trial."

"You've only solved puzzles at the level of 100, 200, and 300 orc strongholds. There are still puzzles at the levels of 500, 800, and 1000 orc strongholds in between."

"You jumped too fast."

Su Nan looked at Elvis. "Elvis, your understanding of this secret realm... is too high, so high that it's as if you are one of the examiners who set the questions for this secret realm."

Elvis's brow twitched, and he waved his hand, saying, "This is, after all, a secret realm of our school, so I know a lot about it..."

Su Nan pointed to the Archaeopteryx dinosaur totem of god-tier quality on the ground of the main tent, "But I have solved the final question behind this trial path."

"Although I haven't figured out yet why my magic power wasn't amplified by the secret realm while I was there, I've figured out something else."

"I have discovered a major flaw in the orc totem system."

"That's right. The orc totem system seems ingenious, but in reality, it borrows two external forces in succession instead of developing their own power. This makes their power extremely easy for outsiders to take away. Tools like 'totems' are inherently easy to steal."

"I have a universal formula to solve all the problems on this path of trials!"

Elvis gave him a look that said, "Are you kidding me?"

Sunan then ordered Blom to pick up the wooden stick in front of the bronze bell in the main hall, transform into a shadow werewolf, and then strike the bronze bell with all his might using the wooden stick.

*Clang!*

Immediately, the bells, representing the High Shaman, summoned all orc warriors and orc shamans, demanding that they prepare for battle at once, resounded throughout the orc fortress.

This was originally an orc fortress, used to assemble armies or to signal an enemy invasion with a bell.

But now Sunan has let Blom knock directly.

Elvis was nearly going crazy. "Sunan, what are you doing? All the orcs are converging in this direction!"

"The moment they see you and me, they will realize that it wasn't the great shaman who summoned them, but the enemy."

Su Nan said, "That would be even better. I need a large number of shamans, and at the same time, I need to borrow the power of the warlock's bloodline to command hundreds of totem spirits to attack me. In that instant, I will destroy this entire orc fortress."

Elvis retorted angrily, "Sunan Peter, our Thunder Ring Trials are not tools for you to play around with."

"Even if you don't cherish your own life, you should at least cherish the magical resources our school used to create this historical battlefield sandbox using the Flashback Charm and the Connection to the Secret Realm!"

(End of this chapter)