Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 252 A Treasure That Can Break Through to the Second Ring

Before the axe could even hit Su Nan, it shattered under Su Nan's demonic pressure.

It turned into a pile of rusty fragments and fell to the ground.

Su Nan looked at Gaius and discovered that he actually possessed the power of a Great Knight, so his true identity was actually a Skeleton Great Knight.

His wife, Gaia, is also a skeleton knight.

All the skeletons in this town of the dead are at least knights or squires, including the two skeleton servants of the Gaius family.

Sunan looked at the slave girl Tita, who still looked terrified and was still alive, except that she had an iron chain around her neck, which bound her to Gaius's house.

The slave girl Tita screamed at Sunan and Mary, "How did you get into the deep town?"

"You all need to get out of here immediately."

"The mirror is a passage. As long as you find the mirror, you can leave the deep town and return to the shallow town. As long as you stay in the shallow town, all the townspeople will be very friendly."

"You must get out of here! These people in this deep-seated town are all monsters. They'll kill you! Run!"

The slave girl Tita's words came to an abrupt halt, because Su Nan waved his hand at Gaius and his skeleton knight couple, and in an instant, all four skeleton knights in the room were sliced ​​in two by a bolt of lightning that Su Nan shot from his palm.

At the same time, Su Nan stretched out his right hand towards Gaius's house, and a dark purple magic energy shot out like lightning, instantly destroying the dozens of skeleton knights surrounding his house.

Su Nan raised an eyebrow, clearly annoyed. "Playing tricks on me is utterly foolish."

"Vasilian, lead the knights and clear the way. Destroy any skeletons that dare to block our path."

"Mary, take this slave girl away. She must be a key figure."

Mary took out a bronze dagger, enchanted it with dark energy, and cut off the chains on Tita's body that had been reinforced by death magic.

Mary watched Su Nan walk out the door, feeling a sense of "he's so reliable."

She entered the town eleven times, yet she never discovered its true nature.

I have never been inside this so-called deep town.

Su Nan, on his first visit to this town, immediately found this place.

For Mary, it was like the exhilarating feeling of a newbie being guided by a veteran.

With Su Nan's help, how could she possibly be afraid of breaking the curse?!

The Death Knights led the way; even ordinary Death Knights possessed the strength of a second-class wizard apprentice, far surpassing that of ordinary knights.

Therefore, wherever the ten death knights' black blades passed, all the skeletons and undead were cut down.

A gigantic skull, crowned with a crown, noticed the Death Knights escorting Su Nan forward on the street.

It suddenly leaped in front of Su Nan, exuding a profound deathly aura.

The Skeleton King, whose mental strength was at least 90, said to Su Nan, "You audacious outsiders, how dare you do as you please in the necromancer's town!"

"Death will come upon you. I am the Skeleton King! I will kill you."

"Bone Strengthening Technique!"

"Joint Revitalization Therapy!"

"The Iron Bones Curse!"

With a wave of his hand, he strengthened thirty skeleton knight servants with a series of death spells, and then ordered the skeleton knight servants to attack the death knights guarding Su Nan.

The Skull Sea is about to take shape.

But in the next moment, the skull crown on his head was suddenly cut in two, and his white bone skull crown fell onto the brick ground of the town and shattered into several pieces.

At the same time, the thirty skeleton knight servants on the street in front of him, enhanced by necromancy, were all neatly sliced ​​in an instant, their soul flames extinguished.

Suddenly, Vasilyan made his move, using his mental energy of 140 to fully concentrate the black blade that had been upgraded to the first ring level, instantly slicing all the skeleton knight servants in half at the waist. The invisible sword wind of death energy even severed the crown on the head of the Skeleton King.

The Skeleton King, the undead lord, looked at Vasilian with a terrified expression.

At this moment, Vasilyan released a first-ring level death energy, making it realize that Vasilyan was a being of a higher level than itself, neither alive nor dead.

The Skeleton King cried out in terror, "This... how come these outsiders are so powerful? This is... this is..."

"This is a higher-level undead lord than me, so his master must be a very powerful necromancer."

The next moment, the Skeleton King actually knelt down before Su Nan. "Great necromancer, I have been trapped in this world, unable to leave. I have long wanted to leave, please take me away."

"Please let me join your ranks as well."

Su Nan looked at him. It seemed that this Skeleton King was indeed a newly born high-level undead in this undead town in more than two thousand years.

Clearly, this high-density land of the dead is constantly absorbing souls from outside Corfu, thus turning it into a land of the dead that is breeding poisonous creatures.

This Skeleton King was one of the strongest among them, so its mental strength can reach 90.

Because in this intense involution, it must have already devoured the soul fire of many other undead.

Mary looked at the Skeleton King who suddenly knelt down speechlessly. Every night after she entered this town, she was beaten up by various undead creatures, but she never received such treatment as an undead lord bowing down to her.

Mary looked towards Sunan.

However, it is quite normal for undead creatures to willingly submit to powerful necromancers.

On the street, Su Nan didn't immediately respond to the Skeleton King's request, but instead asked, "How did you raise your mental strength to 90? Have you studied meditation techniques?"

The Skeleton King shook his head in confusion and said, "I don't think I've ever learned it. I was originally just an ordinary skeleton in a dead town. I was in a daze and didn't have much self-awareness. But in my daze, out of instinct, I devoured a lot of the soul fire of my kind. Suddenly one day, I developed a consciousness similar to that of an animal. I started to actively devour the soul fire of my kind, and then I began to have consciousness."

"I started to think proactively."

"I've thought about a lot of things. I've found quite a bit of information that the necromancer left in the town, so I've learned a lot, even some spell models left behind by that necromancer, which are the three spells I just cast. But after each spell, I have to keep consuming the soul fire of my own kind, otherwise I can't recover my mana at all."

"That's it, my master."

The Skeleton King knelt on the ground, with soul fire flickering in his skull's eye sockets.

Clearly, the Skeleton King harbors a deep reverence for the necromancer who indirectly imparted knowledge to him.

So when it saw that the outsider was actually a necromancer and had even higher-ranking necromancer subordinates, it immediately lost all hatred for the living and instead became very eager to become Su Nan's necromancer subordinate.

Su Nan sized up the Skeleton King. It seemed that the Skeleton King had increased his spiritual power to this level by devouring the soul fire of his own kind.

That's normal.

All roads lead to Rome.

Enhancing mental strength isn't limited to meditation alone, but meditation is the easiest path to take.

For example, the Skeleton King in front of us recovers its spiritual power by devouring the soul fire of its own kind. In this process, it wastes far too many magical resources. Moreover, in this way, it will never have the chance to break through the limits of its soul and become a first-ring creature.

However, this guy seems to be a naturally formed, intelligent, high-level undead. He is an anomaly that happened to emerge during the long history of the undead town, so Su Nan did have the idea of ​​taking him in.

Su Nan said, "Alright. Then I'll accept you. Open your soul fire and let me imprint my soul mark on you."

This is a common method used by necromancers to subdue the undead.

Immediately, the Skeleton King unleashed its soul fire upon Su Nan, allowing Su Nan's magic power to enter its core area. Clearly, the Skeleton King itself was also terrified.

This is tantamount to him willingly placing his own neck on Su Nan's sword.

Therefore, even the Skeleton King's own skeletal body was trembling.

However, after Su Nan branded it and resealed its soul fire, the Skeleton King felt relieved, because Su Nan had no intention of killing it.

Just as the Skeleton King was about to speak, a roar suddenly came from the sky from the skeletal dragon.

Su Nan looked up at the sky and saw a skeletal dragon flying towards him.

Clearly, the skeletal dragon is the master of this undead town, and the high-level undead creatures it creates and controls are also its target this time.

Upon discovering him, the skeletal dragon immediately attacked, clearly without any room for maneuver.

Unlike the Skeleton King, who is a native undead, it doesn't actually know the necromancer Brutus. So when it saw how powerful Su Nan was, it surrendered immediately.

The reason he attacked Mary before was simply because of his hatred for the living.

And that skeletal dragon, its duty is probably to clear out those who trespass into the town of the dead.

Amidst the dilapidated buildings of the collapsed town, a middle-aged man suddenly poked his head out from a street corner. Dressed in the attire of an old-time nobleman, he anxiously said to Su Nan and the others, "Outsider."

"I am Mayor Anthony."

"That mad skeleton dragon will attack us. You must come with me quickly. I'll take you to a safe place, an absolutely safe place, a place that the skeletal dragon can't get into."

"Come with me quickly."

"Outsider, believe me, I am not your enemy, I am your friend. This undead town is controlled by the necromancer Brutus, and he is our enemy."

When Mary heard the name Mayor Anthony, a strange look flashed in her eyes. In the surface town, the Gaius couple, who were very hospitable to them, said that Mayor Anthony did not welcome outsiders. But in the deep town, this Mayor Anthony seemed to be very welcoming to them.

Will the personalities of all the residents of both the deep and surface towns be reversed?

Su Nan looked at Mayor Anthony.

Mayor Anthony looked anxious and said to Sunan, Mary and the others, "What are you waiting for? Come with me now, hurry up, hurry up!"

Su Nan laughed and said to Mayor Anthony, "I think our enemy is you."

"Now I finally know what happened in this town."

"The true killer of the necromancer Brutus, the first-circle wizard... Mr. Anthony."

Mayor Anthony suddenly fell silent.

At the same time, Su Nan pointed to the skeletal dragon in the sky and said, "That dragon is the guardian of this town. The only person who would guard against that dragon's attacks like us is you, who are also an intruder."

"Am I right?"

Mayor Anthony's face darkened, and he began to curse angrily.

"Damn it, damn it. Nothing is going my way, it's like everyone is against me. All I want is that treasure, all I want is to improve my aptitude and become a second-circle wizard, what did I do wrong!"

"I originally intended to use you to help me find that wizard's tower. Even if I die, I will find that treasure, the one that Brutus hid and refused to give me even in death."

"That's a treasure that can grant someone the potential to become a second-circle wizard!"

"We've all ended up like this because of that treasure."

Su Nan said, "So you want to take revenge on him. You turned him into a useless drunkard at the entrance of the town, and turned his wife into a female slave in his own ghost town, making his former best friend her master and abuse her every day."

Anthony's eyes widened. "How did you guess?"

Su Nan said, "That's not hard to guess. Since this town has been invaded, and you've exposed yourself."

"Since you are the mayor of that town, you can naturally guess the identities of the other two special individuals: the female slave Tia and the lazy man at the village entrance."

"You've made these two people, though living in the same town, feel worlds apart. You've chained Tia to Gaius's house, while you've affected Brutus's memory, leaving him drunk every day at the town gate, unaware of who he's waiting for."

Am I right?

Mayor Anthony glared at Su Nan, his face extremely gloomy, his gaze filled with resentment.

Su Nan looked at him and said, "And now you're thinking that you're already dead, and you can't possibly be a match for a living first-ring wizard."

"You're thinking about how you can turn things around."

"You're devising another lie, and you want me to believe it, but honestly, with your intelligence, it's not quite enough."

Mayor Anthony flew into a rage. "Why do you always seem to know what I'm thinking?!"

Su Nan looked at the Arcane Intuition Ring on his hand.

At this moment, the brass ring flashed with magical light.

Arcane intuition is not a form of divination, so it's impossible to directly guess the whole truth about this town. However, it can help one find clues more quickly during deduction and intuitively guess the most likely facts.

Moreover, after Anthony became a ghost, his thoughts and ideas became easier to guess. After all, ghosts have no physical body to protect them, and they are more easily predicted by supernatural intuition.

If he were alive, his permanent defensive field should have been able to interfere with my Arcane Intuition Ring, preventing me from so easily guessing his thoughts based on my intuition.

But the most important thing is that this guy exposed himself, which makes him easy to predict.

Sunan said to Vasilyan, "Bring him here. I need to know what this treasure he's talking about, the one that can help him break through to become a second-circle wizard, is all about."

Vasilyan said, "Yes."

Mayor Anthony cried out, "How dare you! I...I...that skeletal dragon is coming to attack you, you out-of-town wizard, aren't you going to do anything?"

(End of this chapter)