Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 24 The Power of Combined Potions

Su Nan stepped forward because he realized that the seven werewolf messenger was already exhausted and that continuing the fight might result in casualties.

He has already worn down Guts Pasha with a war of attrition, so there is no need for the werewolf messenger to suffer any losses.

It can be said that Gus Pasha has been forced to reveal his last trump card.

In the burning military camp, Gus Pasha gasped for breath, staring at Sunan. In a daze, he seemed to see the old baron in the younger Sunan.

I see him now, his old master whom he had served since childhood.

Standing before him now was the son of his former master.

Facing his former master, his courage was suppressed, and his violent temper subsided for a moment. He even felt a little guilty and dared not meet Su Nan's gaze.

He said, "Lord Su Nan, I really underestimated you before."

There are seven types of Storm Prayer. However, I am not skilled enough and have only learned two of them.

"The one I just used is [Storm Spirit Prayer], which increases my reaction speed."

"You are very observant."

"Most people would not realize after only witnessing a Storm Prayer once that the Storm Knights' prayers involve using physical strength to increase their speed in exchange for other physical abilities."

"This is a great testament to the Storm God's favor upon us Storm Knights."

"Over the years, I have been wary of you getting information about knights, and I even felt a little smug when I learned that you spend your days studying those useless books."

"I'm overjoyed, I'm happy. I thought you were useless, that you were hopeless, but who knew, it would have been better to let you become a Storm Knight. Maybe things would be different now."

Guts Pasha stared wide-eyed, then maintained his [Storm Spirit Prayer] while raising his two-handed knight's sword to the sky and saying:

"Before the storm arrives, I pray to the god of storms—"

"Grant me a sharp shadow, wings of victory, so that I may advance at the speed of lightning."

"I am willing to defeat every one of your enemies for you."

"This is my second prayer skill, [Shadow of the Storm]! It increases my burst damage!"

He discarded a heavy two-handed knight's sword, then gripped the two-handed knight's sword in his right hand and charged towards Su Nan.

His purpose is obvious.

Those werewolf messengers were too troublesome and there were too many of them for him to handle alone. His only chance was to capture the leader first.

He wants to attack southern Jiangsu.

After all, in his mind, Su Nan was not a knight, and his physical abilities should not be strong.

Amidst the flames, Su Nan curled the corners of his lips, standing motionless as the opponent's knight's sword pierced his heart.

Gus Pasha's pupils suddenly contracted.

Why didn't you try to get away?

The next moment, he sensed something was wrong, tried to draw his knight's sword, and stepped back.

But Su Nan's body suddenly grew larger. Before Gus Pasha attacked, he opened the virtual machine inside his body, transformed himself into a leader-type werewolf, and activated the berserk skill.

Gus Pasha only used an iron sword, so even if he pierced his own heart, he could not kill himself.

The Fury skill requires a certain amount of damage.

What could be more damaging than the damage inflicted by the Storm Rider?

Su Nan grabbed his knight's sword with his wolf claws, preventing him from pulling it out. The injury he had sustained earlier had increased his strength from the werewolf leader's normal level of 2 to 3.

Fury can increase your character's stats by two times.

Therefore, his strength can actually be increased to 4.

Su Nan swung his claws back, striking Gus Pasha in the chest. The steel claws tore through his plate armor and even ripped through his chainmail.

Gus Pasha immediately made a decision, abandoned the knight's sword, prepared to step back, and then went to pick up the knight's sword he had previously discarded.

Actually, this can be considered a tactic.

Having experienced countless battles, he had long anticipated this possibility, and thus threw a knight's sword on the ground in advance.

What he didn't know was that the sword that pierced Su Nan's heart not only enhanced Su Nan's physical abilities, but also used Su Nan's sacrificial hand to exchange injury for psychic power.

Su Nan raised his left wolf claw, and then the two-handed knight's sword on the ground flew into the air and stuck in Gus Pasha's back like a flying sword.

*Clang!*

The plate armor on Gus Pasha's back was smashed into a large crater.

Su Nan's basic telekinetic strength was 1.6. Later, due to the growth of his mental strength, it reached 1.8. However, under severe injury, even his heart was pierced, and his telekinetic strength directly doubled to 3.6.

After all, for most people, a pierced heart would be fatal.

No one can tolerate this kind of self-harm.

Therefore, this blow made Gus Pasha cough up blood.

If Gus Pasha hadn't activated both [Storm Spirit Prayer] and [Storm Shadow Prayer] simultaneously, and had reacted quickly enough to dodge several of Su Nan's follow-up attacks with his wolf claws, he probably would have been killed by Su Nan long ago.

Despite this, he still fled in panic. A dignified knight was beaten so badly.

Before Gus Pasha could come up with a new tactic, Su Nan pulled the knight's sword stuck in his heart with his left hand. Then, to Gus Pasha's astonishment, he used his telekinesis to control the sword and slashed his own chest three times.

Those hideous scars would have killed an ordinary person instantly.

As a result, Su Nan's telekinetic power increased to 4.1, and then Su Nan crushed the two magic potions in his waist pocket.

One of the potions is the Ghost Knight Squire from the Ghost series.

One of the potions is a drowsy potion.

As soon as the Ghost Knight Squire landed on the ground, the potion liquid rapidly evaporated, forming a soul vortex in the air that absorbed the scattered soul energy from the surrounding battlefield and extracted soul fragments from the corpses in the military camp.

Then, a highly condensed ghost knight appeared beside Su Nan, holding a knight's sword with the tip pointed at Gus Pasha.

After the purple drowsy potion fell to the ground, under Su Nan's repeated incantations, the liquid evaporated into purple gas. This purple gas condensed into thousands of tiny insects, which scattered from all directions and then appeared around Gus Pasha. One by one, the tiny insects burrowed into his nasal cavity.

Suddenly, Gus Pasha felt drowsy. His cognitive abilities began to decline, and his reaction time became sluggish. His reaction time, which had been enhanced by prayer, dropped to a level lower than usual.

This was while he was still praying.

If he were to cancel his prayers, his reaction time would likely be reduced to that of an average person.

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. "As expected, the Sleep Potion doesn't work on Storm Knights with a Constitution of 3 or higher. It can't put you to sleep and make you lose at least 60 seconds of memory before you fall asleep."

"But it should still have some effect on you."

If it weren't for the fact that the Sleep Potion couldn't be repeated, Su Nan would have tried throwing a bunch of potions at Guts Pasha.

Sunan ordered his Ghost Knight squire to charge at Guts Pasha in a suicidal manner. One advantage of Ghost Knights is that they are not afraid of death.

Because it is a highly concentrated form of soul energy, it can cause physical damage to living people, but it also suffers physical damage and its body can be broken apart.

However, the Ghostly Potion series, because its core principle is similar to that of the Guardian of Orl, has the biggest feature that it can not only allow Ghostly Knights to perform mental attacks, but also produce physical damage.

At this moment, Gus Pasha faced Sunan, who was wielding two knightly swords that attacked him like flying swords and had also summoned a knight who was like a ghost.

In addition, even the seven werewolf messengers rejoined the battle, preparing to attack from behind. At the same time, he had inhaled the purple potion, making him dizzy and disoriented.

At that moment, he finally felt fear.

Because he had run out of options.

He realized he was about to die, and there was nothing he could do.

In a sense, he was practically courting death.

Gus Pasha finally felt fear; his face twitched. "Sunan...can I surrender?"

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. "As my nominal subordinate, don't embarrass me anymore. I originally thought you wouldn't be afraid of death. Since you've chosen to rebel, you should be prepared to pay the price."

Gus Pasha's face showed a mixture of humiliated anger and fear of death.

The next moment, seven werewolf messengers pounced on him from behind, while two flying swords slammed into his face, and a ghost knight squire slashed at him with his sword.

The Ghost Knight's squire's sword gleamed with an eerie light, a dual attack of mental and physical damage, striking at both the soul and the body.

Three minutes later, Gus Pasha died.

Meanwhile, on the other side, the battlefield of the Harlan Knights was also coming to an end. Butler Warwick and Head Maid Pera, along with five werewolf messengers, besieged the weaker Harlan Knights.

They both activated their rage. Warwick and Pera's stats had reached Strength 4. In addition, there was the harassment from the five werewolf messengers, and they also threw two bottles of Sleepy Potion and one bottle of Ghost Knight Servant Potion at Harlan, summoning Ghost Knight Servant.

Although this ghost knight servant, which had taken the brunt of the damage from the Knight of Harun, was now tattered and almost vanished.

Under the siege of these creatures, the knight Harlen, who had always followed Gus Pasha, was also at his wit's end, and in the end, his heart was ripped out by the old butler Warwick with a vicious claw.

Old butler Warwick looked at the heart in his hand, as if it were a lifetime ago.

But he knew that from then on, the Peter Barondom would never be divided again!

Seeing that the battlefield was basically under control, Su Nan said to the AI, "Analyze the shortcomings of the Ghost Potion."

Yes. The Ghost Knight Squire is experiencing insufficient damage absorption. It originally employed a core principle similar to the Guardian of Orl, designed to allow temporary, modified souls summoned by potions to absorb enemy damage.

However, in actual combat, they were nearly breached by the Storm Knights.

[Improvement Direction 1: Create larger ghost summons to increase damage mitigation by increasing the number of soul fragments gathered.]

[Second Improvement Direction: Abandon offensive capabilities and create a Ghost-themed potion specifically for defense and damage mitigation.]

[Improvement Direction 3: The analysis of a large amount of data from the Storm Prayer provides the possibility that the collected data could be used to allow the Wraiths to pray during combat.]

However, due to insufficient data, it is difficult to achieve this in a short period of time.

This could be considered as a development direction.

Su Nan frowned. Was this some kind of scam against the God of Storms?

(End of this chapter)