Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 361 The Blood Pointer

Five days later, at Peterhof Castle.

A blood-red pointer appeared in front of Su Nan. This blood-red pointer slowly rotated and moved in the void, and it contained Su Nan's personal spiritual qualities.

Three days ago, Su Nan had already implanted the Arcane Bloodline Potion into his Vampire Marquis virtual machine, granting his Vampire Marquis arcane magic abilities.

Meanwhile, Su Nan spent five days designing the blood indicator.

Su Nan raised his right hand and gently touched the blood pointer floating in mid-air. The blood pointer disappeared.

Then, each of the seven blood rings swirling around his right hand simultaneously produced a blood pointer.

The Blood Pointer is a tool that Su Nan specifically used to simplify Blood Arcane Magic, allowing ordinary high-ranking vampires to master and cast Blood Arcane Magic more quickly.

Su Nan used the Blood Arcane Missiles, and as a result, the pointers on the seven blood rings on his right hand began to rotate, becoming simpler and clearer than before, pointing to the Blood Arcane spell he was about to cast.

Furthermore, the seven Blood Arcane Missiles have built-in tracking capabilities and can freely rotate and fly in mid-air above the laboratory.

The blood ring with its blood pointer possesses the ability to track spirits and launch tracking attacks with all its blood arcane magic.

Su Nan snapped his fingers, and instantly a wind spell appeared in mid-air above the laboratory. Seven Blood Arcane Missiles immediately followed and chased after the wind spell.

Although Su Nan was controlling both types of magic, he could also use this opportunity to test the tracking ability of the Blood Arcane Magic.

The two spells chased each other in the sky above the laboratory, and just as they were about to collide, Su Nan canceled both spells at the same time.

After all, this is in their own laboratory, and it wouldn't be good if they actually collided and damaged some equipment.

Seeing this, Rye, the matriarch who was acting as an assistant, said to Su Nan, "Master, your research has been successful."

"This is truly a genius design; only someone like you could have come up with it."

Su Nan didn't speak, but pointed at the void, and a blood-red pointer appeared in front of the Black Wheat Matriarch.

The Rye Matriarch first bowed to Su Nan, and then touched the blood-red pointer floating in mid-air with her finger. In an instant, the blood-red pointer entered her body and appeared on the five blood rings on her right hand.

Five blood rings represent a vampire viscount, while seven blood rings represent a vampire marquis.

Each blood ring represents a sublimation of the essence of life.

The Rye Matriarch is now completely resigned to her fate, only preparing to follow Su Nan and learn the magic he has researched.

The Rye Matriarch enthusiastically experimented with the three Blood Arcane spells that Su Nan had developed so far: Blood Arcane Drain, Blood Arcane Missiles, and Blood Arcane Leap.

Upon seeing this, Su Nan couldn't help but cough.

The rye matriarch stopped abruptly, bowed her head, and asked Su Nan, "Master, what are your orders?"

Su Nan said indifferently, "It's nothing. I just wanted to remind you. What I need is an assistant, not just combat power. With your combat strength, you can't help me much."

"The reason I chose you as the first special vampire is because I value your past pursuit of becoming a Grand Archmage. Although you failed that time, your desire and pursuit of becoming a formal wizard still remain fresh in my memory."

The rye matriarch trembled. "Master...I...I..."

"I think I made a mistake back then. I angered you and harmed all my subordinates at the time. I sacrificed everything, but ended up going down the wrong path."

"After that, I was heartbroken."

Su Nan rotated the two rings on his right index and middle fingers and threw the two rings—the Arcane Leap Ring and the Arcane Superintuition Ring—into two different bottles of potions.

Both rings contain first-level spells, which are already struggling to keep up with my combat abilities.

Fortunately, during the two weeks I spent researching Blood Arcane Magic, I modified the spell models for two spells. Now, by putting them into an Aether Enhancement Potion made from Aether Ore, I should be able to barely enhance them to the second-circle level.

However, this is the limit.

These two rings probably can't be upgraded anymore.

Su Nan looked at the kneeling Rye Matriarch and said, "On the path of exploration, it is inevitable to make mistakes and go astray. Although that failure was painful, I believe that you never gave up your desire to pursue even one link."

"Now that I have bestowed upon you a ring of power, you should cherish it. My time is limited, and I cannot devote it entirely to the study of blood arcane magic."

"Therefore, as my assistant and a true Archmage, you should devote more effort to researching Blood Arcane Magic, instead of simply waiting for my research results. Rye, you are now an Archmage too."

"Even if you try your best, you can't keep up with my research speed. But every step you take forward will bring tangible rewards, and sooner or later, some of those rewards will be research results that will also be useful to me."

The Rye Mistress's pupils dilated slightly. "I am now a Grand Archmage. Yes, I am now a Grand Archmage."

"This humble servant...must have her own research."

She remembered those countless days in the past, her longing for becoming a Grand Arcanist and all her efforts, and suddenly she seemed to have rediscovered some of her original aspirations.

The rye matriarch looked up at Su Nan, then bowed her head and said, "Thank you, Master. I have indeed forgotten... my past ideals and goals during this time."

"I'm no longer myself."

Su Nan grasped the slave collar around her neck and removed it.

The rye matriarch looked at Su Nan with slight confusion and whispered, "Master?"

Su Nan said indifferently, "It's nothing, you don't need it anymore."

In fact, the moment Rye Matriarch became a vampire, she had already recognized her ancestry and was extremely loyal to herself, even more so than ordinary vampires.

In that case, whether or not one wears such a slave collar is of little significance.

The rye matriarch said respectfully to Su Nan, "Even without the collar, I will always be your slave."

"It will never change."

"Master, rest assured, in the days when you are not in Peter Castle and the Underground, I will continue your research and help you to develop a more complete Blood Arcane Magic system."

Su Nan nodded. "I will indeed be leaving Peterhof Castle soon."

Su Nan used a single-target injection spell to inject the vampire count's potion into the Rye Mistress's body. The Rye Mistress had long been loyal to him and needed no further testing.

He used the Ring of Myrcart to absorb the entropy increase from the Rye Matriarch, and after an hour, he transformed her into a vampire count with a magic pressure of 600, reaching the limit of a first-ring wizard!

The original Vampire Count's magic pressure was only 500, but Su Nan is now at the second level. The Vampire Count's potion he made with the sap of the golden tree and wolfsbane has been enhanced.

Su Nan said to the Rye Matriarch, who was joyfully adapting to her newfound power, "Come with me. I'm going to take care of the last problem in the Underworld."

……

Rye Underground, Peter's Main City.

Sunan and the Black Wheat Matriarch looked at the black hole creature in the deep pit below Peter's main city.

At this point, the black hole creature was badly damaged and was no longer a complete sphere; instead, its edges were riddled with holes.

But arcane gravity remains powerful.

At this moment, facing Su Nan and the Black Wheat Mother, the black hole creature seemed to become very nervous, releasing even more powerful arcane gravitational waves that sucked in more stones, wood, and other things.

Under Su Nan's orders, the Rye Mistress used Blood Magic Drain on the black hole creature, while the Arcane Swarm continued to charge towards it. Additionally, three Black Hole Queens released opposing gravitational forces, forming an anti-gravity triangle that restrained the black hole creature.

The black hole creatures and beasts that had terrified the underground rye region for millennia finally could no longer bear it and felt the threat of death.

Constant restlessness.

It continuously releases gravitational shockwaves outwards, attempting to break away the swarm of insects and the rye matriarch.

But the Rye Matriarch jumped directly into the black hole creature, while the magic power absorbed by her blood magic flowed continuously from the creature's wounds, which had been caused by the swarm of insects.

The blood flowing from its wounds was all black.

"Buzz~"

The black hole creature let out a mournful cry. It wanted to kill the Rye Mistress, but as an arcane vampire, the Rye Mistress was both resistant to arcane magic and immortal.

Even more deadly is the Blood Magic Drain, which is constantly draining its mana.

Su Nan is now a second-ring wizard, so he can tell that this black hole creature is still a first-ring creature. However, its size is particularly large, and therefore, its magical energy source is inexplicably large.

In other words, its magical power has a mass of only 600 spiritual power, but may have a quantity of more than 1000 spiritual power.

This being was indeed invincible to the former Rye Matriarch and the arcane sorcerers.

Even after Su Nan became a first-ring wizard, he couldn't solve this problem.

But with Su Nan's current perspective, he doesn't even need to take action himself; he can simply let the Black Wheat Matriarch handle it.

About a day later, in the crater below Peter's capital, the black hole creature let out another mournful cry. Then, the arcane gravity around it disappeared, revealing its scarred, black, fleshy body. The arcane swarm immediately rushed over and covered its body, intending to devour it completely.

The Rye Matriarch jumped up from among them, panting and exhausted, but her voice was filled with sighs.

"Master. I used to believe that the black hole creatures of the Rye Underground Domain were invincible."

"In the end, to my surprise, I was the one who killed it with my own hands."

"Perhaps that's the beauty of magic; with magic, nothing is impossible."

Su Nan nodded, while staring at the spot where the black hole creature had fallen. "I see. No wonder the swarm couldn't find the entrance to the other underground realms."

"The entrance was actually in the crater where the black hole creature was located."

Rye Matriarch paused for a moment, then followed Su Nan's gaze to the deep pit where the black hole creature had fallen. They saw a huge opening at the bottom of the pit, from which high-temperature gas was constantly being emitted, and strange magical power was being released.

That was clearly a different kind of magic from another underground realm.

(End of this chapter)