Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 286 The Two Cursed Wizard Families

As Su Nan and his group spoke, the villagers of Grady Village noticed their presence. They all glared at Su Nan and gathered around dangerously.

Moreover, among these villagers, who all looked like tuberculosis patients, there were three who were dressed slightly better, with distinctive family crests on their cuffs. Su Nan sensed a faint magical aura emanating from these people, and one of them was actually a second-class wizard apprentice.

The second-class wizard apprentice looked at Su Nan warily. He felt that this group of people were unfathomable, and he couldn't see through their background at all.

The second-class wizard apprentice asked warily, "This Grady Village is the territory of our two wizarding families. What do you want here?"

"I can see that you are wizards as well. But the Julbell family and the Lox family next door are not to be trifled with. We have the numbers and the power here."

"Everyone step back and don't get into a conflict with them."

The villagers of Grady Village, who were used to running rampant in the mountains, had never heard the Julbell family tell them not to get into conflicts with others before.

Su Nan ignored him and walked to the wellhead, looking down. Sure enough, the wellheads here all led directly to the ruins of the Golden Wizard.

The second-class wizard apprentice of the Julbell family looked nervously at Su Nan, and his pupils suddenly shrank when he saw Su Nan looking directly at the underground passage that the well led to.

"So you really did come looking for the Golden City."

The next moment, he suddenly raised a special stone statue in his hand and pointed it at Su Nan. The statue had many hands and its head was covered with a red cloth.

As the second-class wizard apprentice chanted his curse on Sunan, the Julbell family wizard apprentice suddenly screamed in agony as red rashes began to appear on his exposed skin.

A group of villagers rushed over to surround him and help hold down his hands that were scratching his skin.

"Ah, you mustn't scratch this rash, or the curse will get worse and worse, and eventually you'll die from not being able to breathe, sir."

"Shouldn't the red rash curse be cast on outsiders? Why is it that now it's an adult from a family of sorcerers who has this curse on them?"

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. His magic pressure was 503, yet this mere wizard apprentice with a mental strength of only 10 had actually used a curse on him…

This person is truly fearless.

Although black magic is powerful, it is also extremely easy to backfire. At this moment, the vengeful spirit dared not attack itself, so it attacked its master directly.

This is abbreviated as "uncontrolled black magic".

Su Nan walked over, and the villagers fearfully and passively made way for him. Su Nan squatted down to carefully examine the wizard apprentice and confirmed one thing.

That is, they all bear the curse of the Golden Wizard.

Therefore, the entire village was cursed. They couldn't live to old age because their lifespans were used to pay for the gold of the Golden Wizard.

However, these people weren't subjected to the same level of debt collection as the original owner's father and Baron Taric...

Su Nan swept over the surrounding villagers.

So that's how it is. The earliest ancestors of the two wizarding families must have been cursed, and then they chose some villagers as part of helping them pay off their debts.

In other words, it turned into a system where wizards who borrowed money at exorbitant interest rates then collected exorbitant interest from mortals, forming an entire industry chain.

It is likely that the ancestors of these two wizarding families still hoped to gradually conquer the wizarding ruins, but this was just wishful thinking.

Neither of the ancestors of these two wizarding families had ever become a first-ring wizard, and there was no one in their entire family territory who could withstand their magical pressure.

So how could a mere group of wizard apprentices possibly conquer the ruins of a half-step second-circle wizard, or even a wizard who might possess a portion of the Tower of Reincarnation's legacy?

Therefore, they can only collect a small amount of things each year in the outer areas of the ruins.

Outside the crowd, a large group of wizard apprentices quickly arrived, clearly from two wizarding families. Su Nan directly crushed them with his magical pressure, causing the patriarchs of the two families to change their expressions drastically.

Then, they all looked at Su Nan with respect.

Chief Colbel was a first-class wizard apprentice without magical pressure, and the chief of the Lox family was at a similar level.

The two of them were only in their forties, but they were already very old and needed the support of their younger clansmen to walk normally.

The clan chiefs of the Colbert and Locke families, supported by their clansmen, bowed to Su Nan and looked at his young face with envy.

The patriarch of the Lox family said, "You must be a formal wizard. Your power is terrifying. To be honest, we... can't even begin to explore this secret realm. There's a golden city underground here, filled with treasures, but if we touch anything inside, we'll age as quickly as I have."

"Occasionally, one can also obtain some magical inheritances inside. Our two families have established themselves here in a relationship of both competition and cooperation."

"Now that a qualified wizard has arrived, perhaps you can resolve the tragic fate of our two families."

Amidst the puzzled gazes of his tribesmen, Chief Kolber said to Sunan, "To outsiders, we may seem like two powerful mountain tyrants. But in reality, we are both cursed wretches."

"Everyone, as long as our family leaves these mountains, we will all die of old age within a month."

"Gentlemen, we've lived here generation after generation, researching black magic and searching for relics. Do you really think we're... cough cough cough... that we're truly after gold?"

"When you were in your twenties, you didn't understand. You thought that the gold you could get every day without working was a blessing, and that the black magic was your skill."

"But once you reach forty, you will age rapidly and die within a year or two. We search for the lineage of black magic only to break this curse, and we search for that relic only to find a way to solve this problem for our family."

"Sigh, but we're finding it harder and harder to keep going."

"Even with all the methods we've tried, the members of both our families can only live to the age of forty-three at most."

Chief Kolber swept his dark gaze over the ordinary villagers around him.

These people are the solution their family came up with.

Otherwise, it's estimated that neither of their families would live past twenty-five.

For centuries, their two families have been confined to this place, unable to do anything.

Chief Kolbel lamented to Sunan, "Our ancestors were just two ordinary third-rate wizard apprentices. Perhaps they shouldn't have coveted that gold in the first place. Now... it's made us the only ones being targeted."

Su Nan denied it, saying, "No, you are increasingly unable to satisfy the appetite of that ruin. In fact, some cracks leading to that golden city have already appeared outside these mountains. Others have also fallen into your trap."

"Your place... is at best just an ordinary entrance to the Golden City. The Golden City's appetite goes far beyond that; it is probably trying to replicate your situation elsewhere, and it may have already done so. It's just that your place has been the most successful and has been preserved."

When the head of the Colbert family and the head of the Locke family heard Su Nan's words, their eyes revealed utter despair. It turned out that the efforts of their families generation after generation were nothing more than ants trying to shake a tree!

The next moment, they turned their hopeful gaze to Su Nan and the others.

(End of this chapter)