Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 25 The Hidden Family of Wizards in the Mortal Realm

Tonight is destined to be a sleepless night.

Sunan ordered the old butler Warwick to go to the town council hall immediately to take over the administration of Maple Leaf Town, and at the same time ordered Robert to lead a group of people to appease the townspeople who were unaware of the situation.

At the same time, he ordered his head maid, Pera, to arrest the former mayor of Maple Leaf Town, and summoned all the guild leaders and wealthy merchants of the town council back to Maple Leaf Town.

Tomorrow morning, Su Nan, in his capacity as Baron Peter, will issue a decree to the entire Maple Leaf Town, lifting all the unreasonable and coercive decrees issued by Gus Pasha over the past few months and restoring the town's original commercial order.

Maple Leaf Town is like a golden goose that lays golden eggs.

Therefore, Sunan does not intend to interfere with it; it simply wants to take it back into its own hands.

Places like Maple Leaf Town are destined to be managed only through commercial means and incentive-based approaches. Directly using administrative orders to forcefully control it will only cause this commercial hub of the development zone to gradually wither and lose its vitality.

Su Nan will not make the same mistakes as someone like Gus Pasha, who is obsessed with violence.

As Su Nan walked across the battlefield, he ordered twelve werewolf messengers and two ghost knight attendants to begin extinguishing the fire and prevent it from spreading further.

Meanwhile, he began collecting the experimental materials he needed on the battlefield, starting with the hearts of Gus Pasha and Knight Harun, which was a great haul.

Formal Storm Knights are the core of the Storm Kingdom's knightly feudal lord system. They are few in number, and almost every one of them possesses territory and an army, so their hearts cannot be collected at all times.

Secondly, there was the heart of a knight's squire from the Harlen family, and the hearts of two knight's squires from the Gus Pasha family.

In this way, he possessed the hearts of three squires and two knights.

With these, the calculation speed for new potions in the Super Werewolf Potion and Ghost series will be faster.

In addition, Su Nan went to the library in Maple Leaf Town.

By this time, the library guard had already fled out of fear, but Su Nan didn't care. He entered the library and began to browse through the numerous books in Maple Leaf Town.

It's worth mentioning that there are actually some scholars in the Maple Leaf Town library, who are spending the whole night copying the books they need.

The library in Maple Leaf Town is also the largest library in the vicinity, which attracts many scholars to Baron Peter's territory just to study and consult ancient books.

Back then, the original owner's father, Baron Peter, originally planned to use his newly built Maple Leaf Town as the core to continue expanding his territory outward, acquiring more baronies, and upgrading Baron Peter's territory to an earldom.

Unfortunately, he later went to the battlefield, and upon his return, he died under some kind of strange curse.

All of this has gone down the drain.

Because the Storm Kingdom was established by the Storm Knights fifty-seven years ago on the remnants of the Eastern Empire, its feudal hierarchy was not as complete.

The five-rank system of duke, marquis, earl, viscount, and baron did not come into being.

Or rather, this five-tiered system is relatively well-established only in the Holy United Empire of the West, due to various historical reasons, and may not be the case in other places.

Generally speaking, the title of viscount is rare, and the title of marquis is also rare. A viscount is the deputy of an earl, while a marquis, for some reason, is a border guard appointed by the king.

Moreover, in the Holy United Empire, there are more than a dozen different types of earls, making the nobility system quite complex.

The current feudal lord hierarchy in the Storm Kingdom is relatively simple. There aren't many special titles that have emerged due to historical reasons; it's simply Baron – Earl – Duke – King.

Inside the Maple Leaf Town Library, Su Nan was constantly flipping through ancient books on the shelves. He read very quickly, and the AI ​​was rapidly recording the information.

Many scholars are turning their attention to southern Jiangsu.

Because Su Nan entered the library still covered in blood, his clothes clashed with the atmosphere of the library, but he had a strange aura about him.

It was as if he was destined to be a learned and wise scholar.

Su Nan seemed to emanate a mysterious attraction at all times, an attraction like a vortex, constantly drawing their attention.

These scholars were unaware that this was because Su Nan's mental strength had exceeded 10 at this moment, and such strong mental strength naturally attracted these scholars with sensitive personalities.

Moreover, in a sense, wizards are also a kind of scholar.

A scholar boldly approached Su Nan, carrying a glass kerosene lamp, and said, "Hello, sir. I am Edward Yordanov, a scholar from the Royal Academy of Stormwind Keep. When I returned to my hometown, I unexpectedly discovered this beautiful place, Maple Leaf Town, and this library built by the visionary former lord."

"May I ask what... happened outside?"

Su Nan ignored him.

Instead, he looked down and quickly flipped through the ancient book in his hands.

This made Edward somewhat embarrassed, not because he felt that Su Nan was ignoring him, but because he felt that disturbing Su Nan, who was reading so intently, was a rude act.

He was genuinely worried about what was happening outside. Although the screams and roars had subsided and the firelight outside was gradually dying down, Su Nan's blood-soaked entrance into the library made him anxious and compelled him to ask questions.

Su Nan finally finished reading the book and put it back on the bookshelf.

He looked at the scholar, Edward, and gestured for him to be quiet. "Don't worry, everything is fine."

"I am Sunan Peter, lord of the Peter Barondom and Maple Leaf Town."

"This is just a simple suppression of a rebellion. It won't affect you, and you'll be safer in the future. And I hope I won't be disturbed anymore. You come to the library wanting a good experience and to acquire more knowledge."

"Welcome to Maple Leaf Town."

After saying that, Su Nan turned around and walked to another bookshelf, because he had already quickly finished reading the books on the previous bookshelf.

Ed Yodanonov was somewhat dumbfounded.

So, southern Jiangsu has just experienced a war.

But he had never seen a lord who, after finishing a battle, would first come to the library to look for books.

Moreover, he hates it when others disturb him while he's reading.

It seems that this lord of southern Jiangsu has a deeper passion for books than many scholars.

This made Edward very curious about Sunan.

On the other hand, Su Nan estimated that it would take him several days to collect all the books in this large library.

"My guess was correct. My father knew the power of knowledge, so he collected a large number of books during his lifetime, and probably also obtained a lot of books from the Peter family line. The Peter family seems to be quite powerful in the Holy United Empire."

"I actually found some more clues about wizards on the bookshelf."

In the bookshelf that Su Nan had just collected, he found a few torn pages tucked inside a dictionary. The torn pages recorded a seemingly absurd story—a strange thing happened on the land of the Holy United Empire, 150 years ago.

A boy drowned in the river while playing in it.

His family was devastated, but just as they were about to bury the boy according to the customs of the Church of Storms, an old woman suddenly stopped them, examined the boy closely, and told them that the boy was not dead.

She told them that she was a descendant of an ancient wizard left behind on earth, and that she was a member of a wizarding family.

The boy's soul was stolen by a vengeful spirit in the river. Only by eliminating the vengeful spirit can the boy be resurrected.

In the end, the boy was resurrected.

But when the family wanted to find the old woman and repay her, they found that they could not find her at all, and the old woman's original residence had become a long-abandoned ruin.

This sounds like an absurd story, but after extensive research, the scholars who collected these fragments believe it may be a true story.

He believed that the old woman must have been afraid of being exposed, so she moved away overnight and used witchcraft to disguise her original address.

Furthermore, he believed that these wizarding families must have some kind of mission to remain in the mortal realm.

However, his collection aroused the suspicion of the Storm Church authorities at the time, so most of his collection was burned, and only a few were managed to be hidden by him.

Su Nan pondered, "Could it be that even on this land, there are descendants of wizards, hiding in the mortal realm, existing as families, generation after generation?"

"But what is the mission of these wizards' descendants? To help the wizards fight against the Papacy? To monitor something? Or is it that the scholar has misunderstood?"

(End of this chapter)