Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 322 Soul Contract and Summoned Beasts

Su Nan quickly gained the attention of the priests of the Awakening Temple, and soon the boys who failed to awaken in the Awakening Temple were disbanded.

Of the thirty-odd people, only three remained.

The priests began to tell them the history of summoners.

A temple priest said, "Ten thousand years ago, our ancestors suddenly unearthed a special kind of stone in the ground. The evil thoughts of those who touched this stone would form all sorts of monsters, and these monsters could be sealed inside the stone."

"We call these monsters phantom beasts."

"The attacks of weaker phantom beasts are mostly mental, while stronger phantom beasts can cause physical damage. We summoners can connect our mental energy with the monsters within these stone tablets, and thus we can summon the monsters within the stone tablets."

"Even after a summoner dies, they can be transformed into a phantom monster within the stone tablet."

"Over time, although there were originally some countries in this world, they all made way for the temples. Currently, there are seven major temples in this world, and each temple has a top-tier mythical beast, known as the Mythical Beast God."

"These temples also take pride in worshipping these mythical beast gods."

Su Nan asked in confusion, "Offerings?"

Priest Uru gave Su Nan a meaningful look, signaling him not to say anything more to avoid causing unnecessary trouble.

However, the temple priest showed no dissatisfaction, and instead said to Su Nan, "Yes, it is an offering. The phantom beast and the summoner will grow together."

"As the mythical beasts receive offerings from the temple, they will grow stronger and stronger until they become mythical beast gods."

"A summoner who possesses a Phantom Beast God will become the most important and core High Priest of the Temple."

The priest continued, "Summoners are divided into seven tiers: Tier 1, Tier 2, Tier 3, Tier 4, Tier 5, Tier 6, and Tier 7."

"At each tier, the summoner will have one opportunity to form a contract with a phantom beast."

"As for the Phantom Beast God, at least a fifth-level summoner is required to establish a contract."

The temple priest said, "Alright, you may begin establishing a mental connection with the first phantom beast."

"This is the method for establishing it. Once it is successfully established, you will be first-tier summoners of our Phoenix Temple and can become apprentice priests."

"Furthermore, each trainee priest can be assigned to a corresponding regional temple to become a local enforcer. Each of our regional temples is the maintainer of order in a region."

Su Nan also received a method for establishing a contract. He glanced at it and saw that it involved forming a soul contract with a stone slab, which he could easily establish himself.

This kind of thing wasn't a big burden for someone like me who was at the limit of a first-ring wizard.

However, this kind of soul contract is too rudimentary.

Compared to the meditation methods of the wizarding civilization, it's a joke.

Su Nan had the AI ​​slightly optimize the summoner's soul contract structure. After obtaining the soul contract, the AI ​​suddenly reacted—

[The progress of the Secret Realm Dust Potion has increased by 45%, currently standing at 58%!]

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. These past few days, his progress on the Secret Realm Dust Potion had only reached 13%. But he hadn't expected that after he made contact with this soul contract, it would immediately increase by such a large margin.

Su Nan inwardly asked the AI ​​the reason.

The AI ​​says—

[By obtaining a soul pact, a new path has been discovered. It is possible to form a soul pact with a secret realm and then transfer entropy increases to that realm.]

Contact with different civilizations, even relatively primitive ones, can provide inspiration from their unique development paths.

Su Nan nodded, agreeing wholeheartedly.

Su Nan completed the establishment of the soul contract in his sea of ​​consciousness in a very short time. This thing was originally simple and did not require much time to construct.

At this moment, he and the other two summoner apprentices were already preparing to search for summoned beasts in the Temple of Awakening.

Su Nan closed his eyes and began to release his spiritual qualities, searching for a summonable beast that could resonate with them.

As a result, all the stone slabs in the main hall began to vibrate.

Su Nan frowned. Most of the stone slabs in the Phoenix Temple were made of birds, so he finally chose a Firebird stone slab that looked reasonably strong.

Instantly, its own mental characteristic mark appeared on the Firebird Stone Slab. At the same time, the Firebird Stone Slab, which was originally gray and colorless, suddenly burst into a bright red flame.

The flames on the firebird slab were outlined and transformed into a firebird with its head held high.

The power of the firebird entered his soul contract, turning the soul contract within his sea of ​​consciousness into a ball of flame.

The firebird shared its power with itself.

But... with such a small amount of power, Su Nan raised an eyebrow, as if it were nothing at all.

That firebird was only at the level of a second-class wizard apprentice.

The four priests inside the temple had already begun clapping; they seemed extremely excited and were discussing in hushed tones.

That's an extremely rare quality stone slab, the best stone slab for the first-tier summoning stage.

[I'm so envious; his talent is truly remarkable. It seems that as long as we take him to headquarters for the final priesthood initiation ceremony, we can receive our rewards.]

Su Nan glanced at them.

Very good, these natives are now capable of leading me into the headquarters of the Phoenix Temple.

It seems that one must undergo a period of ideological education before being ordained as a priest.

Also.

Otherwise, the Phoenix Temple in this indigenous plane would be training summoners for free.

The temple priest coughed and said, "Everyone has successfully linked their first summoned beast, right? A summoner's first summoned beast almost determines everything, so the rarer and more powerful the initial summoned beast, the greater its potential."

He glanced at Su Nan. "But you must put away your pride. We temple priests take pride in upholding the temple."

"Summoned beasts are manifestations of human malice, so if your willpower is insufficient, you will be devoured by the summoned beasts and killed by the stone tablet."

"On the contrary, the stronger your willpower, the more you can tame summoned beasts. Once you tame them, you can use your willpower to strengthen them in return."

"More than half of those mythical beast gods became mythical beast gods because they became the summoned beasts of powerful summoners."

"Therefore, willpower is the most crucial thing for us summoners."

The temple priest said, "We summoners may lack talent, but we must never have a weak will."

"We call upon courage to resist fear."

"Alright, let's go."

In the afternoon, Su Nan boarded a carriage with them and followed the caravan to the headquarters of the Phoenix Temple.

Su Nan was happy to see this happen, and during the process, he pestered the priests with many questions, thus gaining a general understanding of the common knowledge of this world.

Inside the carriage, Su Nan was alone with Priest Uru. Because of his "talent," he received exceptional treatment and did not have to squeeze into a carriage with the apprentices. Instead, he could ride with Priest Uru in a carriage with soft, high-quality wool blankets.

Su Nan asked Priest Uru, "Mr. Uru, so you're saying that the Phoenix Temple headquarters contains the largest inheritance temple, which may even contain the Beast God and the method to establish a contract with the Beast God?"

Su Nan was almost certain that if he could obtain the soul contract details related to the Illusionary Beast God, he could significantly accelerate the progress of his Secret Realm Dust Elixir.

He already had a second-ring wizard tower, and not just one, but he was just missing second-ring spell models.

But the AI ​​has already done the deductions, and with the Golden Black Magic and the Death Scythe potion system, as well as all the second-circle spell model information, and knowing the characteristics of second-circle magic, which is ultimate magic, I can completely build second-circle spell models.

Even that good-for-nothing Golden Wizard could build one, let alone myself.

And the place that Sunan Peter chose to become a second-circle wizard was... the city where the Phoenix Temple headquarters was located.

Inside the carriage, Father Uru thought that Sunan was simply interested in big cities and the headquarters of the Phoenix Temple. He said excitedly, "Of course, the Phoenix Temple headquarters has everything."

"That's the largest city in the world."

"Don't get confused when you get there, kid."

"The Phoenix Temple headquarters is the largest Summoning Beast Slab Temple, so it has everything."

Father Uru said, "By the way, a few days ago, the Xuanwu Temple issued a warning to the entire world, saying that their seventh-tier summoners sensed a power from outside the world that attacked our world a total of seven times."

"I don't know if it's true or not."

"What do you mean by 'outside the world'? Isn't 'outside the world' just a void? They used their most powerful Phantom Beast God to enter the void before, searching for a long time, trying to find any creature other than us, but they found nothing."

"I suspect that the Xuanwu Temple is overthinking it."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. It seemed that this flat world was now in a period where they could realize that their own world was not unique, and they were able to temporarily leave the boundary of the plane and enter the void.

However, because they lacked a second-ring wizard tower, they couldn't even travel short distances in the void, so they probably hadn't discovered other planes.

Therefore, they still believe that they are the only civilization in the entire void.

Su Nan thought for a moment and realized that if the Prime Material Plane hadn't been created by the overlap of planes between nature and the void, and had plane passages, the wizarding civilization might have also fallen into this misconception for a period of time.

However, according to the records of the wizarding heritage he obtained, the orthodox wizarding society should have realized long ago that it was not the only civilization and had undertaken interdimensional travel.

Just as Su Nan was about to say something, he suddenly raised his eyebrows and said to Priest Uru, "Priest Uru, I want to ask you a question."

Priest Uru raised an eyebrow in displeasure. "Do I look unserious? You should call me Your Excellency, I am a third-rank priest."

Su Nan didn't pay attention and instead asked, "Does our temple... have some mortal enemies?"

Priest Uru was taken aback.

The next moment, the carriage was knocked over by something. A huge black bull smashed the carriage that Su Nan was sitting in into two pieces, and Su Nan raised his eyebrows.

Outside the carriage, a voice was shouting. "Hahaha, I heard that your Phoenix Temple branch has recently acquired another genius who actually contracted a firebird."

"If our Bull Demon Temple were to kill him, wouldn't your Phoenix Temple be heartbroken for a long time? Hahaha!"

(End of this chapter)