Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 239 Creating Mage Units: War Ancient Tree Treants

Inside the Oak Wizard Tower, Su Nan imprinted his spiritual essence onto the sapling of the Tree of Life from the Fountain of Life, and removed the magic of the Oak Wizard that originally filled it. In this way, the Oak Wizard Tower truly became his own.

He already has five wizard towers.

Within what is equivalent to one's own territory, there are five defensive towers.

However, he also needs some people who can operate the wizard towers to help him control them.

Otherwise, it would indeed be impossible for one person to effectively utilize all five wizard towers at the same time.

The spirit tower can be manipulated by Vasilyan;

The Hive Tower can be controlled by Jinx; the Hive Will is special, so she doesn't need to worry about that.

However, Peter Castle, Oak Wizard Tower, and All-Knowing Medicine House Tower would be too extravagant and inefficient for one person to use alone.

Furthermore, if Vasilyan goes out on business with him, the Spirit Tower will be left unattended and will only operate according to the agreed-upon magical design.

Thinking about this, Su Nan began to consider that his Peter family did indeed need some new wizard units.

The werewolf race is all melee fighters, the golems are more responsible for defense and ranged bombardment, the swarm's development direction is too unique, and there is currently only one Death Knight, so it would be good to convert some more.

However, death knights like Vasilyan are relatively rare.

It should be said that the current Death Knights are able to achieve this level of strength because of Vasilian's personal traits and talents.

An ordinary death knight could not possibly have reached the first level of the Glacial Sleep Meditation Technique with his help, like he did.

Sunan left the Oak Wizard Tower and searched for high-quality trees in the Four Seasons Garden.

The first potion of the Great Tree Guardian has been successfully made.

The starting point is four stages of sublimation.

The recipe for the Tree Guardian potion, which has undergone five transformations, has also been calculated by the AI.

However, the main ingredient in the potion recipe for the Five-Ascension Tree Guardian Potion—the [Tree of Knowledge Guardian Potion]—requires a piece of the spine of an undead dragon.

There's not much need for the spiritual essence preserved in this vertebra; in other words, even a piece of dry bone will do, as long as a portion of its spiritual essence is extracted as a symbolic representation.

The problem is, I don't actually have this thing right now.

Su Nan plans to ask everyone at the gathering the next day to see who has it.

The other condition, which seems demanding, requires an oak trunk that is over a thousand years old, but it is actually easy for me to obtain, since I have the Four Seasons Garden.

Due to special circumstances, the Four Seasons Garden has existed for over two thousand years without any human exploitation of its resources.

Actually, this is a rather special case. In the orthodox wizarding society two thousand years ago, the sheer number of wizards would have made all resources scarce.

Su Nan also suddenly realized that the current special situation was both good and bad for him.

This situation has a very low lower limit for me, but a very high upper limit...

The situation where a large amount of resources are piled up on a single wizard, which was originally impossible, is now possible.

If one can create the Ancient Tree of Knowledge, one can use it to cultivate people, protect the Garden of the Four Seasons, preside over the Oak Wizard Tower, and even control many forests in Peter's Territory.

To further enhance their overall control over the territory.

Su Nan stopped in front of a pine forest. He used a ranged throwing spell to make ten bottles of the Fourfold Ascension Tree Guardian series potions—the War Treant Potion—levitate behind him, and at the same time used his telekinesis to open the potions' lids.

Suddenly, strange runes lit up on the trees in the pine forest. These runes were all... the foundation of the oak wizard's magical path, or rather, one of the foundations of the botanical school: the Ogan script.

A script known as the script of trees.

It can draw upon the power of trees to empower wizards, and is the primary method wizards use to create tree beings.

There are 25 symbols in total, divided into four groups, five of which were created to facilitate writing and recording.

Even the Ogum script can be used for divination.

However, neither Su Nan nor the Oak Wizard are particularly good at this.

This is a sub-field of the botanical school, something only wizards specializing in tree prophecy can do. It requires extensive research and a certain special talent.

Otherwise, you could easily turn yourself into a... charlatan.

Su Nan chanted an incantation, and a gust of wind blew through the pine forest, creating a natural rhythm within it.

The leaves of the trees rustled, and the pine forest seemed to come alive at that moment.

The Ogan inscriptions on the pine trees are disappearing one by one. This is because Su Nan is selecting suitable trees to become tree people. After all, even among trees, there are differences in their qualities.

If one lacks the necessary qualifications and is forced to transform into a cultivator, especially starting from the fourth stage of transformation, there is a high risk of failure.

Ultimately, only ten trees in the pine forest within the entire garden maze barely met the requirements.

Sunan said, "In the name of me, Sunan Peter, trees, come alive! Jump, run, talk, sing, fight, and protect all the trees in my territory with your own hands."

"Forest, awaken from your long slumber."

The Tree Guardian series of potions were created by Su Nan after he inherited the legacy of the Oak Wizard.

It can also be considered the last potion series and spells derived from the magical path of the Oak Wizard.

Sunan defines them similarly to golems, as guardians.

However, they are merely guardians of the magic system.

After all, the Organ script is a defensive magic system that leans towards white magic, and the treants derived from the Organ script are basically products of white magic.

It's unlikely to be black magic.

The roles of tree people and guardians are a natural match.

However, in the recipe, Su Nan used a drop of his own blood, which transformed him into the leader of the werewolf hunters, to strengthen his Tree Guardian Treant, enhancing his duties and abilities as a guardian.

In a mystical sense, this strengthens the concept of the tree-guarding tree-man as a protector of the forest and territory.

In this way, the wolf pack will have a group of treant mage guardians.

In the pine forest, sounds like people turning over in their sleep came one after another. One tree-man even sneezed, while others, still wanting to continue sleeping, made a rumbling snoring sound.

However, under the influence of the War Tree Treant's magic potion, it gradually awakened, and its body developed a magical pressure shell.

Then, the demonic pressure shell reversed, enhancing their mental power.

Previously, the reason why Su Nan was unable to produce Treant Guardians for a long time was because he defined Treant Guardians as mage units, which is a more difficult thing than producing melee units.

In fact, it's even more difficult than creating a Death Knight.

When the Death Knight was first converted, he only had 10 points of mental strength, equivalent to a second-class wizard apprentice. But now, the treant guardians he created each start with 80 points of mental strength.

However, after becoming a formal wizard, Su Nan mastered the technology to reverse the magic pressure shell into the upper limit of mental power, which enabled him to create the Treant Guardian Potion.

However, this resulted in the Treant Guardian Potion using the most precious materials of all his potions.

First, the tree-human to be transformed must be at least three hundred years old.

Because a tree must be old enough to transform its ancient years into its magical power and bear the power of nature.

Three hundred years is usually the lifespan of a dynasty, a cycle of civilization's decline and rise. Only trees that have endured such a long period of time can withstand sufficient natural forces.

As mentioned before, because no one has harvested the Four Seasons Garden for two thousand years, it is full of plants with very long life cycles.

Otherwise, it would be very difficult to find such long-lived trees outside.

Secondly, the potion ingredients require the blood of a werewolf hunter, water from the Fountain of Life, leaves from a sapling of the Tree of Life, branches from a 500-year-old oak tree, and the spine of a medium-sized undead.

The weight of a single leaf is just enough to create ten War Tree Treants.

The key is the leaves on the seedling of the Tree of Life; there are only a few leaves in total. Picking too many will affect the development of the seedling itself.

In other words, even for himself now, the War Tree Treants cannot be mass-produced.

The ten mid-level undead spines originated from the death knight Vasilien's transformation of many lizardmen soldiers into undead in the Rye Underground Domain. On that day, most of the undead became traps, plotting against the Rye Matriarch.

However, some undead survived. These surviving undead devoured each other, and gradually some powerful individuals emerged. Su Nan simply took ten vertebrae from medium-sized undead from them.

However, after being exploited like this, there were hardly any powerful figures left among the undead.

Su Nan deliberately allowed the insectoid swarm and the lizardmen and other races of the underworld not to eliminate these undead, because he wanted to see if they could devour each other again and evolve some mid-level undead so that he could harvest another wave of minions.

Because the undead contain soul fire within them, they can easily devour each other's souls, allowing themselves to evolve.

The body structure of the dead is like that of a nut, without a hard outer shell, with the kernel exposed, making it very easy for others to devour it.

Of course, the structure of a Death Knight is different from that of a regular undead.

Soon, ten ancient war trees and tree people appeared.

These ancient war trees have changed from ordinary pine trees. They have two thick trunks that resemble arms, their roots can move, but very slowly, their crowns form a head-like structure, and their trunks have become very thick.

Even if they try to disguise themselves as an ordinary tree in the forest, their massive trunks will still attract attention.

These ancient war trees all bowed to southern Jiangsu, as if they had just awakened from a long slumber, some still half-asleep.

"It feels like we slept for a very, very long time... Now we're awake..."

"I think I started sleeping when I was a sapling."

"I feel like I fell asleep while I was still a seed."

"Now...we're awake."

"Great wizard master, thank you for awakening us ancient tree people. From this day forward, the trees and forests will serve you, and you will become the master of the forest."

"May the forest and nature forever bless you, our wizard master—Sunan Peter."

Su Nan noticed that one pine tree had an accident during the transformation. It couldn't fully digest and withstand the power of the magic potion from the fourth sublimation, and half of its crown exploded.

Su Nan opened a bottle of Life Essence +2 potion, and then used a remote injection spell to inject the Life Essence into its body to help it recover its body that had exploded during the transformation process.

The ancient tree, a creature of war, said gratefully to Su Nan, "Thank you, my master."

"Your magic is truly powerful. Far more powerful than ours."

Su Nan injected it with the magic potion five times in a row before it recovered from the tree spirit's serious injuries. However, the tree spirit was still slightly weaker than the other tree spirits, probably because it had not fully digested and absorbed the magic potion before.

This made Su Nan somewhat concerned, because even the Tree Guardian Potion, which had undergone four ascensions, could have such an accident. If the same thing happened when he made the Tree of Knowledge Potion, which had undergone five ascensions, and transformed the Tree of Knowledge into a Tree Spirit, or even if the Tree Spirit he was about to transform exploded, his losses would be enormous.

The ingredients used in the Treant Guardian series of potions are all quite precious to me now.

Su Nan came up with a solution: before he transforms the ancient tree of knowledge into a person, he should first strictly select a batch of trees, and then choose the best among the best to find the tree with the best potential!

To prevent this from happening again.

(End of this chapter)