Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 238 The Key to Advancing to Second-Ring Wizard

Five days later, in the laboratory of Peter Castle on the surface.

Su Nan was quite satisfied with the performance of the Rye Mistress in his laboratory. With her as free labor, he was able to make potions even faster.

Su Nan not only made twenty bottles of Fire Demon's Wrath to store, but also made a first-level potion called "Hundred-Year Sleeping Potion".

This is the Sleeping Potion series, a corresponding first-stage version of the Sleeping Charm.

This is a curse-type magical potion. Once a wizard is afflicted with it, he will fall into a deep sleep for at least a hundred years. It can even bypass the permanent defensive field of a first-ring wizard and have an effect on them.

Inside the Oak Wizard Tower on the first floor, Su Nan was reading the Oak Wizard's diary.

The Oak Wizard was once a senior first-circle wizard, so reading his diary allows us to understand the problems he encountered later in his first-circle wizarding journey, and what it would take to become a second-circle wizard.

Although even the Oak Wizard himself didn't know how to become a second-circle wizard.

According to the Oak Wizard's diary—

Once a person becomes a formal wizard, his soul and body are no longer the same as those of an ordinary human.

Because at this point, what truly constitutes the outer shell of the body and soul is the permanent defensive force field of a first-ring wizard.

Therefore, as long as the strength of the permanent defensive force field continues to increase, the soul strength of a formal wizard will increase, and the upper limit of a formal wizard's mental power will also continue to increase.

Ancient wizarding societies once believed that first-ring wizards possessed unlimited evolutionary potential.

However, the fact that second-circle and third-circle wizards still exist today indicates that the mainstream wizarding society later discovered that first-circle wizards also have a limit to their mental strength, and devised a solution, allowing them to break through and become second-circle wizards.

Su Nan looked at the diary entries about the soul limit of a first-ring wizard that the Oak Wizard had discovered.

Although the Oak Wizard himself probably hasn't reached that limit yet.

However, as his mental strength improved, he vaguely sensed that the rate of improvement was slowing down, and he was gradually approaching the limit of a first-ring wizard.

Su Nan looked at the last few pages of the diary and read aloud: "If the strength of a formal wizard's permanent defensive field can really keep increasing, then of course it will cause the upper limit of the soul to keep increasing forever."

"But that's impossible."

"I gradually discovered that the so-called permanent defensive field is just that the magical power consumed by a first-ring wizard to maintain his defensive magic is far less than his daily magic recovery rate."

"But I discovered that for a first-ring wizard to continue advancing, they need to increase their mental strength, and to increase their mental strength, they need to enhance their soul strength, which in turn requires continuously increasing the strength of their permanent defensive field."

"However, once the strength of the permanent defensive field is increased to a certain level, the consumption will exceed the recovery, and the permanent defensive field will cause magic system chaos when it reaches a certain strength, making it impossible to increase it again."

"My mentor once described this state: his defensive field strength had reached its limit, and he could no longer increase the permanent defensive field by constructing runes and enhancing magic."

He believed that as the defensive force field increased, a chaotic phenomenon would occur. It was this chaos that caused first-ring wizards to reach their mental limits.

Su Nan looked down at the bottom of the diary and found that this was the last page. "So, the mental limit of a first-ring wizard is due to that kind of chaos, and the principle is different from the soul limit of a wizard apprentice."

"However, they all reached the upper limit of mental power enhancement."

"It seems that in the ancient wizarding society, every time a new wizarding level was discovered, it was a breakthrough in the limits of the wizarding civilization at that time."

"They kept breaking through, eventually even producing fifth-ring wizards, and in the end, there was even a possibility of advancing to sixth-ring wizards."

"I wonder how many rings there are in the current orthodox wizarding society."

Su Nan looked at the diary, repeatedly reading what the Oak Wizard had mentioned about how, when strengthening the permanent defensive field, that kind of chaos would gradually appear and then become stronger and stronger.

In the end, the strength of the permanent defensive field could not be increased at all, because if it were increased, the chaos would be amplified to the point of destroying the entire runic structure of the permanent defensive field.

This description made Su Nan feel that it was somewhat like entropy increase.

In an isolated system, without the introduction of new resources, the system will only move towards chaos.

Like a new appliance, it will only get worse with use, not better.

Entropy increases with increasing energy levels, and this tendency also increases.

Could it be that the soul limit encountered by first-ring wizards is actually a problem of entropy increase?

Su Nan was curious about how the wizards back then solved the entropy increase problem, broke through to become second-circle wizards, and took another step forward in magical civilization.

Unfortunately, even after searching through all of the Oak Wizard's collection of books, Su Nan still couldn't find the answer.

The Oak Wizard hadn't even reached the mental limit of a first-ring wizard. If he hadn't had a teacher who had reached the mental limit of a first-ring wizard, he probably wouldn't even know these things.

Therefore, it would be difficult for Su Nan to deduce the approximate value of a first-ring wizard's mental strength based on his records.

Inside the Oak Wizard's Tower, Su Nan sighed. "I've exhausted the Oak Wizard's resource advantages. Even if he were to resurrect himself, he wouldn't be able to answer this question."

"I need to find new sources of magical heritage."

"It's time to set out and search for the magical legacy of that Golden Wizard and the Ocean Witch."

"But before that, I have three things to take care of."

The first thing to do is to build a model for an offensive first-level potion spell.

The second thing is to rejoin the witches' gathering and invite the Lightning Wizard to work with the Petrifying Witch to rebuild the gathering and establish a stable channel for magical transactions.

There are only three days left until the end of the month, and a new wizarding gathering will be held.

I imagine that the group of friends will have mixed feelings this time because there are three more official wizards at the gathering.

The third thing is to go to Stormwind Keep and retrieve the legacy of the Deep Blue Wizard.

Thinking of Stormwind Keep, Su Nan frowned.

Just days earlier, the royal family announced that their King of Bari had fought his way back from the Bulgars on his own.

This seems very strange.

Barry himself clearly does not have that ability at all.

But what really puzzled Su Nan was that, according to rumors, after Barry returned to the palace, he seemed to have become a different person. Just one day after his return, he killed two court nobles who had angered him with their disrespectful words.

Su Nan tapped the table. Combining this with the sudden surge of energy from the Energy World in the Storm Kingdom's air a few days ago, he was almost certain that this was another conspiracy by the Energy World.

"Perfect timing. I need to go to Stormwind Keep to retrieve the legacy of the Blue Wizard. Besides... I'm really annoyed by the vampires acting like sycophants in the Energy World. I want to make that blind king voluntarily cede the vampire clan to me."

He couldn't let the vampires be on the enemy's side; that would be too dangerous.

Su Nan closed the Oak Wizard's notebook. "It's time to launch a proactive attack on the energy world. Otherwise, if we keep taking the hits, people will think I'm a good-natured person. At least we need to force them to abandon the vampire race."

"Furthermore, the relics of the Golden Wizard are also near Stormwind Keep. I need to find a way to break through to the second level of wizardry, so I can go there and take a look."

The Bulgarian region is located north of the Stormwind Fortress region, and the two are connected.

Of course, the search for new underground worlds must not stop.

Wizard towers also have different levels.

There are two certain conditions for breaking through to the second circle of wizarding:

First, one needs to be able to construct second-circle magic, so one also needs to master a certain number of first-circle spells in order to gradually study the second-circle spells of the corresponding magical path.

Second, the first-ring wizard tower needs to be upgraded to a second-ring wizard tower.

(End of this chapter)