Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 270 Mental Strength Reaches 400

Due to the significant impact of the previous battle, Su Nan quickly led the wolf pack and retreated together with the people of Insect Curse Valley.

Inside a house in the outer city of Stormwind Keep, the Insect Curse Wizard sat across from Su Nan and said, "Those warlocks seem to have collaborated with a high-ranking figure in the royal palace. They not only confirmed the location of our Insect Curse Valley, but also attacked us at night."

"Furthermore, they've even gotten the Storm Royal Family to issue a warrant for our arrest. This way, even the Storm Church will help them target our Cursed Valley."

Su Nan then told him about the "door".

The old wizard of the Insect Curse frowned and sighed. "It was the same before. 'Gates' from that world appeared one after another on our land, followed by vast armies from the energy world."

"Those 'doors' can even be combined to form something called a 'curtain.' And once a 'curtain' is created, the magic in each region will be corrupted."

"The magical power will be greatly reduced."

"The curtain will split the world, making it impossible for different regions to communicate with each other. Only specific levels can enter each region. For example, a certain region can only have wizard apprentices, and a certain region requires a first-ring wizard or higher to enter, but a second-ring wizard cannot enter. Once it develops to this stage, it means that the energy world will launch a full-scale attack on us, and high-level energy beings will descend upon our world."

"The curtain is a fundamental characteristic of that energy world. If it reaches this stage, it means that that energy world has already deeply invaded our world."

"In the past, at the worst point, there wasn't even a single intact human city left. The whole world seemed to have been sacked."

The old sorcerer, shrouded in insect curses, sighed, "The energy world will not allow governments, nations, religions, or anything bearing the traces of civilization to exist here. They want us to revert to primitive society, to live in isolation, to lose our civilization, to degenerate into primitive humans, and then they will reshape our world and us, turning us into their army."

"I originally thought that as long as I chose to sleep, I could avoid the energy world and directly enjoy the fruits of victory when I woke up in the future. But it turned out that we wizards who stayed in this world are facing the fate of the energy world alone."

The old worm-cursing wizard glanced at his remaining thirty-odd worm-cursing school apprentices and shook his head at Su Nan, saying, "Yes, I am a coward."

"In the past, when the war was at its most brutal, I dared not go to the battlefield, because even a first-ring wizard was cannon fodder who could die at any moment. Magic had been corrupted."

"I dared not go up. I could only find a deserted corner, leave behind my legacy, and then hide in the subspace secret realm, sealing myself away."

"I am an escapist."

"It's just a pity that after running away for so long, I still have to face all of this in the end. And this time, it's even worse than the last time."

Su Nan listened quietly as he recounted his past, things that were also very valuable to her.

Su Nan didn't dwell on the question of whether or not to run away, but instead asked him, "Where should your school of thought go next?"

The old wizard with the curse said, "I am preparing to leave Stormwind Keep with my school. Otherwise, we will face a double whammy from those warlocks and the Church of Storms."

"Sunan Wizard, you'd better stay away from this place of trouble."

"Previously, there were some wizards in Stormwind Keep, even a few first-ring wizards. After all, this is the capital of the Storm Kingdom, a prosperous commercial city. But now, those wizards have also chosen to leave."

Su Nan nodded. It was within his expectations that the Insect Curse Valley would choose to leave.

But staying here will bring me continuous benefits.

Moreover, if the energy world is allowed to continue its actions unchecked, the situation will only worsen over time. Those wizards who chose to leave clearly made the wrong decision.

They choose to temporarily ignore the world of energy, believing it's none of their business. But the result will be the same as what the old wizard with the curse faced: as you run away, the number of wizards around you will gradually decrease, until finally you're left to face the problem alone.

Therefore, Su Nan believes that when facing problems, one should not avoid them but confront them directly, because the more problems are solved, the more concessions the problems will make to you.

Su Nan drank the tenth bottle of sorcerer's blood that had been refined that day, raising his mental power to 400.

Originally, it would have been impossible for him to drink so much potion in an instant.

It will take at least some time for the effects of these potions to subside.

However, because Su Nan had obtained the Ring of Myrcart from Vasilian beforehand, he could dump all the chaos caused by rapidly increasing his mental strength limit onto it.

This makes it possible to continuously drink potions to increase the upper limit.

Of course, Su Nan still noticed that his magic power was out of balance. If he continued to drink like this, there might still be problems beyond chaos, causing his magic power to become out of his control.

Therefore, although Su Nan increased the number of potions he could drink in a short period of time, there was still an upper limit to the number of potions he could digest in a short period of time.

It's just that the Ring of Myrcart makes this potential level exceptionally high.

Seeing this, the insect-cursing wizard couldn't help but smile wryly. "For a great potion-making wizard like you, someone who can use sorcerers as ingredients for alchemy, it seems that staying in this capital city is indeed more beneficial for you."

"But I'm old, and my personality is inherently weak, so I dare not stay in this place any longer."

The insect-cursing wizard glanced longingly at the empty bottle of the Warlock's Blood Potion that Su Nan had taken, and said, "If I could, I would like to buy one too."

"I don't know, do you want to trade with magic stones or magic resources?"

When the Insect Curse Wizard led his school of wizards and apprentices in retreat, he took the warp with him, so he now possesses the entire school's wealth and is considered a wealthy old man.

This is why Su Nan invited him to join the Storm Gathering.

Don't let this old man's recent recovery fool you; he's weaker than before, but he still possesses a considerable amount of wealth and magical resources.

Su Nan thought for a moment and said, "Does your school have a kind of insect called the scarab beetle?"

The old wizard, wielding the Insect Curse, laughed proudly. "That's right. It's a variety we've carefully cultivated. Vera and Coca told you, didn't they?"

"Hehehe, but the scarabs they possess are only at the apprentice level. I have first-ring level scarabs, but there aren't many of them right now, so they can't form a fighting force. Otherwise, how could I have been bullied by that warlock kid just now?"

The old wizard opened his palm, revealing a scarab beetle resembling a rhinoceros beetle lying quietly in his hand. "This is a rhinoceros beetle capable of devouring a first-level spell."

"Moreover, this one-horned scarab can acquire some of the characteristics of its opponent by devouring it."

"However, its ability in this area is not very strong at present; there are only signs of it."

Su Nan's eyes flickered slightly. "In exchange for ten of these one-horned scarabs and a model of the insect spell that controls them, I'll give you a bottle of Warlock's Blood Potion."

"What do you think?"

Su Nan's motivation was nothing more than this unicorn scarab, which could devour a first-level magic and possessed a faint magical property of inheriting food through consumption.

By giving this subtle trait to the Arcane Swarm, its rapid reproduction and generation will amplify it. In this way, your own Arcane Swarm will also possess this trait.

The insect-cursing wizard thought for a moment, then gritted his teeth and nodded. "Alright, we can make the exchange."

(End of this chapter)