Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 359 The Assassination of the Pure White Council

Three days later, in the underground laboratory of Rye, the Rye Matriarch emerged from the blood coffin. She wore a black dress, and five semi-transparent blood rings were wrapped around her body.

A blood ring rotated around her arm; with each rotation, the blood-red runes would combine and then disintegrate, repeating this cycle.

The Rye Matriarch looked at her hands in disbelief and said, "This power is truly incredible."

She teleported from one side of the laboratory to the other in the blink of an eye, moving at incredible speed.

As a first-level creature, the vampire viscount possesses a speed of 50, a speed that far surpasses that of a legendary storm knight of the same level. Although, in Su Nan's eyes now, it's nothing more than a snail's pace.

The Rye Matriarch attempted to use her preferred magic, Arcane Missiles, but the next moment, she realized that she could not cast spells.

Rye Matriarch immediately tried casting Arcane Prophecy, Arcane Blink, and Arcane Shield, but each time she cast a spell, the five runic blood rings surrounding her arm would emit a peculiar flash.

Then, her spell failed.

The rye matriarch paused for a moment, but she didn't care too much. She didn't have high requirements; one ring would suffice.

It doesn't matter what part it is, as long as it's part of the chain.

It's like the requirements for a mediocre student are very low compared to those for a top student.

Moreover, after Su Nan's later adjustments, the vampire viscount's potion, once created, had a magic pressure of 200, which was even more powerful than the previous vampire viscount.

While the maximum speed hasn't changed much, other physical attributes have been greatly improved.

The Rye Matriarch could sense that she could now easily kill her, the one who was once an arcane sorcerer.

The arcane magic she had previously mastered, which was like magic tricks, was insufficient to even break through the body and magical pressure of this powerful first-level vampire.

So, although the rye matriarch was puzzled for a moment, she quickly became less concerned about it.

However, she quickly realized something and immediately knelt down before Su Nan. As a vampire viscount, she felt Su Nan's power even more.

Before, she was like an ant, able to see the mountains but unable to discern their height. Now, she was a mouse, yet she felt the mountains before her even more lofty.

"Great master, thank you for granting me power and the opportunity to become your slave."

The rye matriarch sincerely said, "Thank you."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow.

Because of the unique slave culture of the underworld, even becoming a slave to the strong requires special opportunities. Therefore, the rye matriarch before her was genuinely grateful to herself.

Su Nan glanced at her arm; he had been observing her without making a sound.

In my opinion, the fact that the Rye Mistress failed to cast spells several times just now does not mean that she is incapable of casting spells. In fact, she came close to succeeding several times.

But for some reason, her spell failed.

Su Nan asked the AI ​​to check the condition of the rye matriarch.

Yes, the vampire before us possesses two energies. It is anticipated that your potion design allows the vampire viscount's power to coexist peacefully with her arcane bloodline, but during the transformation, the two forces merged, forming a new power.

The new magical power caused her original arcane magic to fail.

The five blood-red rings on her arm are presumably a sign that she has reached the first level of special magical energy.

Su Nan understood; this meant that his experiment could be considered a success.

He simply needed to modify arcane magic to suit the vampire version and create a new spell model.

Su Nan said to Hei Mai, "Starting today, accompany me on a set of experiments. Hold out your hand."

Rye Madam obediently extended her left hand.

Su Nan extracted a vial of blood from her left wrist; he needed to carefully observe the changes in her arcane bloodline.

An hour later, Su Nan handed the newly rebuilt and upgraded Arcane Missiles model to the Rye Matriarch and personally watched her cast it.

However, the Rye Mistress failed again this time. The five blood rings swirling around her right arm reacted even more violently this time, doubling in size. Then, the Rye Mistress's magic failed once more.

Inside the laboratory, the Rye Matriarch finally began to worry. She feared that, unable to use magic, she would distance herself from Su Nan's laboratory and from Su Nan himself.

She apologized to Su Nan, "I'm sorry, Master. Please give me another chance. I'm sure I can succeed this time... I..."

Su Nan stopped her, saying, "No need. I know the problem isn't with you. Come back in six hours."

Upon hearing Su Nan's order, the rye matriarch could only silently leave the laboratory.

Su Nan, meanwhile, sat in a chair in the laboratory and began to ponder deeply.

He stared at the blood sample of the Rye Mistress before him, channeling his magic into it, and the blood instantly boiled. Then, a mixture of arcane energy and blood magic separated from the blood.

"Did I misjudge the characteristics of this new type of magical energy?"

Su Nan realized that this new type of blood magic was absorbing his mana, deconstructing his mana, and enhancing the mana in his blood.

"AI, name this magic [Blood Arcane Magic]."

"I'll be spending some time researching blood arcane magic. I also need to dedicate some of my energy to helping Mr. Warwick refine the werewolf's unique energy flow system that he discovered."

"Let's go back to Peterhof Castle first."

A week later, after a period of research, Su Nan confirmed that Blood Arcane Magic has the ability to naturally absorb the magic power of others, analyze that magic power, utilize and absorb magic power, and decipher magic power.

Su Nan immediately realized that the special magical power he had unintentionally created by fusing arcane magic and blood magic was definitely not simple.

If properly developed, this could definitely be a spell system that gives both yourself and your vampires many more trump cards.

Inside the Peterhof Castle laboratory.

In front of Su Nan were bottles and jars of blood.

Through thousands of tests, Su Nan discovered that in Blood Arcane Magic, blood contact is the fastest way to absorb and analyze the opponent's magic power, followed by magical contact. Without magical contact, it is impossible to absorb the opponent's magic power.

Moreover, if it's just magical contact, the efficiency will be very low, but as long as there is blood contact, the efficiency will become extremely high.

Based on this characteristic, Su Nan constructed a test version of a first-level spell called "Blood Missile".

Su Nan picked up a bottle of Rye Matriarch's blood and began to construct a blood arcane spell. Five blood rings appeared on his wrist, and then, in an instant, the blood rings began to vibrate violently.

Su Nan narrowed his eyes. The moment to determine his week's results had arrived. After a brief period of violent tremors, the five translucent blood rings suddenly tripled in size. Then, countless runes on the blood rings began to light up and then go out.

The five blood rings began to return to normal.

Then, time markings appeared on the five blood rings, roughly like the time markings of a clock, with twelve marks. Each blood ring rotated independently, then released powerful energy, and five blood-red arcane missiles appeared in front of Su Nan.

Looking at the Blood Arcane Missiles, Su Nan pondered, "It's a success. Blood magic, combined with arcane magic, has become extremely complex to manipulate. The rune changes in the spell model have transformed into five different rotations of blood rings, each with twelve markings."

"Therefore, the number of blood rings a vampire possesses determines the upper limit of the complexity of a spell model and the upper limit of the spell's power."

"That's probably why the Rye Mistress couldn't complete the spell. There's an extra step involved in converting the spell model into a rotating blood ring."

Su Nan suddenly looked at a shadow beside his lab window and asked, "Did the Pure White Wizard send you here?"

"You've been in my lab for a whole day and night. You don't think I didn't know, do you?"

After Su Nan finished speaking, the windows of the castle attic in the laboratory remained unchanged, as if Su Nan were talking to thin air.

Su Nan smiled, not really caring, and then released the magical pressure of a second-circle wizard.

A powerful magical pressure descended, and the shadow beside the window suddenly opened up slightly. Then, the shadow of a wizard flashed past the window, and a look of fear appeared on the wizard's face.

"It's actually a second-circle wizard..."

"The magic he uses is also very strange..."

Facing his shadowy back, Su Nan transformed into a vampire marquis and took out a vial of Rye Matriarch's blood. Using the magic power within the blood, he used the second blood arcane spell he had researched, [Blood Magic Absorption].

An extremely complex array of magical runes appeared in front of Su Nan's right hand, with five blood rings rotating around each other. Then, Su Nan's magic power captured the wizard of the Shadow School (Pure White School). The wizard's blood mixed with his magic power flowed back towards Su Nan.

The Shadow Assassin wizard of the Pure White School looked terrified. "No...you discovered me all along, didn't you? You kept me alive to experiment on your new spells!"

"No……"

"Second Ring Wizard, this is a misunderstanding, I..."

"Wait... how do you know I'm from the Pure White School? Unless the Shadow Sword Wizard is really in your hands..."

Su Nan immediately understood why the Pure White School had sought him out a second time.

It's likely that the Pure White Wizard couldn't find the Shadow Sword Wizard's whereabouts for a long time, but then returned to the Prime Material Plane. They found the Shadow Sword Wizard's spiritual aura on him, so they sent people to spy on him.

The Pure White School had no idea that they were no longer first-circle wizards, but second-circle wizards.

What they didn't expect was that their recent magical research required a wizard at the peak of the first-ring wizard level to serve as a test subject.

Su Nan sensed that the other party was trying to resist him, but the speed at which the other party's mana was being absorbed exceeded the speed at which he was recovering his mana, as well as the amount of mana he himself was consuming by using spells.

Therefore, the opponent had no way to escape his [Blood Magic Drain] technique, which was only at the first stage of development.

(End of this chapter)