Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 245 Focusing on the Town of the Dead and the Essence of the Magical Contract

Su Nan looked at the lightning wizard Elvis, who had said he would be responsible for providing the contract portion of the gathering.

Elvis then took a gold coin from his pocket; it appeared to be a Sicilian coin. "This is a cursed coin. If someone throws this coin, it will bring about an outcome opposite to what that person desires."

"For example, if someone wants the portrait side of a gold coin to be facing up, then the portrait side of the coin will definitely be facing down and the pattern side facing up."

Su Nan looked at Elvis with a puzzled expression. What did this have to do with the magic contract?

Elvis smiled and said to Sunan and the petrifying witch, "Using this gold coin as the core, we can create a formal wizard-level contract."

Su Nan asked, "What do you mean?"

A wizard was explaining magic, and everyone pricked up their ears, eager to listen. Even a few words from a qualified wizard about their understanding of magic would be of great benefit to these wizarding apprentices.

Elvis smiled and said to Su Nan, "Actually, a magic contract is essentially a curse. Everyone agrees to accept the same curse, and when someone breaks a certain agreement, that's the condition for the curse to take effect."

"The petrifying witch should know that the core of a typical magical contract is a curse spell."

"But ordinary curse magic has many loopholes, such as the ability to transfer the curse to a scarecrow, so that the curse can be transferred to the scarecrow instead of the caster. Therefore, formal wizard-level magic contracts use magical items to strengthen the curse magic, and then the contract can be formed."

Elvis's voice suddenly lowered. "Even so, if you want to find a loophole, it's not impossible."

Su Nan understood. "So, use this gold coin as the core of the curse magic. When someone tries to break the contract, this cursed gold coin will try to reverse the outcome, thus creating an even stronger curse on the breacher."

"That is, a secondary reinforcement of the curse. This method is used to strengthen the magical contract."

Elvis's eyes lit up. "It's so convenient talking to smart people. That's just how it works."

Elvis pinned the gold coin to a contract and showed it to the Petrifying Witch and Sunan: "This is a blank magic contract. The three of us can discuss it, formulate the contract rules, and then have everyone sign it."

"Then, the three of us will infuse this contract with three different curse spells, which, combined with this cursed gold coin, will form a powerful magical contract."

Su Nan nodded and then began to discuss with the two of them.

The first rule is that no one may attack, provoke, or verbally abuse others during the assembly.

Secondly, no deception is allowed during the gathering, such as presenting counterfeit or substandard magical resources.

Occasional exaggerated effects or incorrect effect descriptions are not included.

Secondly, while members of the rally may have conflicts in real life, they should try to avoid life-or-death battles unless the other side makes the first fatal move.

After a series of rules were established, the Storm Gathering, which served as the foundation of the wizarding organization's regulations, was completed—the Storm Gathering Magical Contract.

This contract still has many loopholes, and it's easy to break it with a little effort.

However, this magical contract only served to reinforce the existing order. The real authority over order rested with the three first-ring wizards, including Su Nan.

The petrification witch stepped forward, placed her palm on the contract, and chanted a spell, casting a first-level petrification curse into it.

Su Nan poured a bottle of century-old sleeping potion onto the magical contract.

Elvis said to Sunan and the petrifying witch, "I really envy wizards like you who are skilled in curse magic. I'm different."

"I can only cast one level 0.7 Lightning Curse spell. You don't mind, do you? After all, we Evocation School are good at face-to-face magical bombardment. I'm really not good at this curse spell."

Su Nan and the petrifying witch naturally didn't mind this at all.

Having a petrification curse and a sleeping curse of level one is actually enough.

Elvis held the magic contract and recited a spell.

Then, a bolt of lightning flashed from the magic contract itself.

Next, Su Nan had all the members of the wizard gathering sign their names on the contract.

If someone writes down a false name, the contract will not respond, so every wizard must write down their real name.

After the last person, the "Hermit" witch, wrote her name on the contract, Elvis handed the magic contract to Su Nan for safekeeping, since Su Nan was now the leader of the wizarding gathering.

This magical contract should be placed in the hands of the leader.

In this way, this loose, temporary gathering of wizards became a proper wizarding organization.

Su Nan then temporarily handed the magic contract to the Petrifying Witch. "I may not be able to attend the next few gatherings, so I would like to trouble the Petrifying Witch to have the wizards who want to join the gatherings sign their names on this."

The petrifying witch smiled and accepted it. "Okay, I'll return it to you after I've finished recording it."

Su Nan then looked at the "Justice" witch, who seemed unwell. She hadn't said much all day and had remained silent.

"Justice, didn't you buy a lot of Life Essence Potions from me? Why are you in such a bad state now, even worse than the last time I saw you?"

The witch of justice spoke with a deep weariness. "Moon, I received some magical enhancements in the Land of Leaps, and then a few days ago I entered the necromancer town on Corfu Island again."

"I wanted to challenge that town. I fought that skeletal dragon, but unfortunately, I was still no match for it. The rules of that town are too complicated."

"I never imagined I'd get so caught up in this."

Su Nan's eyes lit up when he heard about the skeletal dragon, since he was currently lacking the spine of a high-level dragon-like undead.

Moreover, he is now a formal wizard, while the original owner of the undead town was at most a first-level wizard.

Even if he were to resurrect now and stand before me to curse me with black magic, I might not succeed, let alone in a town of the dead that he left behind.

The Five Ascensions Tree Guardian Potion requires the spine of a high-level dragon-like undead, but at this point in time, such high-level dragon-like undead are relatively rare.

I'm thinking about where to look.

It would be great if I could take over that town of the dead.

Within the realm of gatherings.

The "Justice" witch regretted, "If only I hadn't investigated the anomaly of that statue's shadow in the first place. If I hadn't noticed the anomaly in the statue's shadow on Corfu, perhaps I wouldn't be in all this trouble now."

"We can also use the resources traded at this gathering to go even further."

The "Justice" witch said, "The master of that undead town seems to be a senior first-circle wizard. I found quite a few fragments of his research materials in his town."

"I saw him preparing to create a lich, but he never went back after that, and I don't know if he succeeded."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow; it sounded like he needed to go to that town of the dead.

Su Nan glanced at the Lightning Wizard and the Petrifying Witch. The two seemed to be interested as well, but ultimately remained silent.

It's probably because the Lightning Wizard and the Petrifying Witch are two different schools of magic: one is the Emanationist school that focuses on magical cannons, and the other is the Curse Magic school.

This town of the dead is in a different direction from theirs, so they are in a state of mind where they can choose whether or not to explore it.

It's also possible that they felt they would be eyeing this town of the dead, and therefore didn't want to go there.

Su Nan suddenly said to the "Justice" witch, "I can go to that undead town with you. But after it's done, the undead town will belong to me."

"And everything inside belongs to me. Can you accept these conditions?"

Justice was stunned, then she was struck by a huge surprise.

This is a first-ring wizard traveling with her.

Is there anything more reassuring than this?

Without any hesitation, "Justice" knew that to take the next step, she needed to get rid of that damned ghost town and its curses.

Otherwise, she can't do anything.

"Justice" said to Su Nan, "Of course, Moon. And since you've accompanied me, I feel I must pay you something."

"This is my way of showing respect to first-ring wizards."

Su Nan might not care about this, but as a mere first-class wizard apprentice with magical pressure, she couldn't afford to be indifferent to these things.

"Justice" thought for a moment and said, "During an adventure, I obtained a first-level fire magic scroll called 'Great Firestorm.' I originally planned to use it to exchange for some magical resources. But now..."

"I want to give you this scroll as a deal."

Su Nan nodded. He had no reason to refuse, and fire magic was currently his main offensive consumable potion.

I am indeed interested in this first-circle Evocation school's Great Firestorm spell model.

(End of this chapter)