Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 4 Werewolf Messenger

At Pera's insistence, Sunan had no choice but to give her a potion as well, transforming her into a werewolf.

In this way, the AI ​​can obtain more data.

After the head maid transformed into a werewolf, she instantly regained her youth. Although she was over sixty years old, she looked like she was only in her thirties.

This made Pera smile all day long, and because of her womanly nature, she started to dress herself up again, even making some of the maids envious.

The maids inside the castle kept pressing the head maid for details about how she had managed to regain her beauty.

This is extremely damaging to women.

In this way, the two most important management positions in his manor, the butler and the head maid, would all be werewolves.

Having collected more data, the AI ​​began to accelerate the development of related drugs and started developing a special leader-type werewolf curse conversion drug for Su Nan.

That's right, in order to improve his combat power, Su Nan planned to take the magic potion himself.

After all, simply transforming into a werewolf grants stats close to those of a regular knight.

It saves countless hours of hard work that a proper knight would have to put in through constant training.

However, the AI ​​does not understand wizard civilization or wizards.

Therefore, in order to prevent werewolf genes from affecting the wizard's magic, the AI ​​used biomass robotics technology to create a "human virtual machine block" in the spinal cord of Su Nan.

The AI ​​will confine the magic generated by the potion it takes to this human virtual machine module.

In this way, he himself would still be a completely pure-blooded human.

However, due to the human virtual machine, it can be activated at any time to transform into a werewolf ruler.

This allows for the most efficient use of one's werewolf army.

As for the traitors in Maple Leaf Town, Su Nan has no plans to eliminate them for the time being.

After all, Maple Leaf Town was a major commercial center in the area and was relatively wealthy, able to afford wandering knights and knights' squires, as well as a large number of militia.

So Su Nan planned to continue researching potions, strengthen his territory, and wait until the werewolf army was truly ready for battle before settling scores with those damned rebellious capitalists for hiring their employees to beat up the old butler Warwick.

half a month later.

In the attic of the castle tower at Peter Manor, Su Nan once again concocted a variant of the werewolf curse conversion potion.

He stood in front of the crucible and poured the green-gold potion from inside into two glass bottles.

This is a new potion formula that the AI ​​deduced over a week based on previous experimental data.

It is a werewolf curse conversion potion (messenger version) used to create low-level werewolves.

Su Nan turned around and fed the two bottles of potion to the two hunting dogs. Immediately, the two obedient dogs bared their teeth and looked as if they were in great pain.

Their limbs began to lengthen, their pupils turned into golden circles, their body shape began to resemble that of humans, and their hind limbs rapidly became incredibly developed, enabling them to stand and walk on two hind legs.

Su Nan felt that his two loyal hunting dogs had also established some kind of connection with him and were observing him in a fawning manner.

Su Nan said, "AI, collect experimental data."

[As per your request, the werewolf messenger is a potion intended for non-humans.]

The werewolf messenger will not affect the user's intelligence, but the user must be a dog.

[It is speculated that those who take the drug will transform into werewolves, slightly smaller and more agile than humans, and will actually have their intelligence increased by 30 points. This would bring the werewolf messenger's intelligence close to that of a 12- or 13-year-old human.]

Based on the current situation, the situation largely aligns with previous assumptions.

We have a fairly thorough understanding of the properties of the werewolf curse conversion potion.

Because werewolves (messengers) have relatively low intelligence, they are more loyal to the pack and fearless in the face of death.

Su Nan said, "Let me see the specific data of the werewolf (messenger)."

Su Nan's left eye was suddenly flooded with a torrent of data composed of countless grids and numbers—

Werewolf Messenger

Age: 3

【Strength: 1.5】

【Speed: 2.5】

[Physical Fitness: 1.5]

[Racial Skill 1: Reduces Normal Damage]

[Racial Skill 2: Super-Fast Self-Healing]

Weaknesses: Fire, Silver

[Flaw: His low intelligence meant he needed to be commanded by the wolf pack.]

Su Nan patted the heads of the two German Shepherds and stroked them. Immediately, the two miniature werewolves wagged their tails and purred contentedly.

There's no way around it; even if he turned into a werewolf, he wouldn't seem to change his dog-like habits.

Judging from the stats alone, the Messenger version of the werewolf has almost half the stats of the high-level werewolf, except that its agility is 0.5 higher than that of the high-level werewolf.

However, the advantage is that they are obedient and the cost is relatively low.

As Su Nan turned to clean up the crucible, he discovered that a werewolf was lying on the ground, rolling around, and exposing its belly to him.

Su Nan was speechless.

"Wolf One, Wolf Two, revert to your dog form. Your current appearance isn't suitable for acting cute."

Instantly, the two werewolves lying on the ground, exposing their bellies to Su Nan, transformed back into two dogs. They leaped up from the ground, began to lick Su Nan's trouser legs with their tongues out.

Su Nan said, "The dog's shape is more pleasing to the eye."

"The Advanced Werewolf Wisdom Potion costs about five gold coins per bottle, while the Werewolf Messenger Potion only costs one gold coin per bottle. Furthermore, the Advanced Werewolf Potion requires a human to take it, while the Messenger Potion only requires a dog."

"In a sense, this reduces the cost for me to build an army of werewolves."

In refining the werewolf curse conversion potion, Su Nan converted one point of his spiritual power into magic power.

In this way, 3 points of his mental energy have been converted into magical energy.

Currently, my mental strength has reached 8.7, and I have converted 3 units of mana. Unfortunately, my physical constitution, strength, and speed are still 1, and there has been no significant change.

This is also why Su Nan wanted to take the werewolf curse transformation potion to gain powerful melee combat abilities and survivability.

When Su Nan stepped out of the attic, accompanied by two hunting dogs, and entered the bluestone corridor of the castle, the old butler Warwick trotted towards him with a powerful stride.

Warwick said to Su Nan, "Young master, trouble is brewing."

The old butler, Warwick, had changed from his usual gloomy demeanor. He kept saying "there's trouble," but his expression betrayed a restless eagerness.

Su Nan asked curiously, "What happened? Has the royal family come to collect the debt again? Or has the town council of Maple Leaf Town sent someone?"

Warwick said, "Our village was attacked by bandits."

"As you know, our territory has been unprotected for a long time since the old baron passed away. For seven years, bandits have occupied the main trade routes leading to Baron Peter's territory."

"But the three knights who were originally loyal to us and the Maple Leaf Town Council stood by and watched those bandits cut off our way, because they were afraid that we could easily contact the outside world and get help from outside."

"Those damned bandits, they even specialize in plundering nearby villages. In the past, our village was the easiest target for them."

"Just yesterday, they plundered our village again. Lord Sunan, look, there's a representative of the suffering victims standing outside our castle. She wants our help; she says that yesterday those bandits not only plundered the village, but also kidnapped her newborn brother."

"I think it's baby trafficking."

"Sir, should we fight back against the bandits?"

Looking down through the stone window on the castle, Su Nan indeed saw a somewhat timid and frightened girl standing on the grass below the castle.

She looked tired and anxious, her face showing signs of exhaustion from worry.

When Su Nan looked down at her, the girl quickly lowered her head, not daring to look Su Nan in the eye.

After all, in this era, it was illegal for commoners to simply look directly at nobles.

Moreover, this is her lord.

In this era, the lord was their king to the people.

The territory has a court that serves the lord, soldiers who maintain order and arrest criminals, and the lord can control the judiciary, legislation, and law enforcement, and has the power to collect taxes and establish an army.

In essence, under the feudal system, lords were like mini-kings, possessing unlimited power to retaliate when their territories were invaded.

In particular, the Storm Kingdom, to which Baron Peter's territory belongs, is a nation with a lifespan of less than a hundred years.

The territory of this country is built on the land of a conquered two-thousand-year-old empire that has collapsed.

Their fathers were knights from the west who, after defeating the regime of an ancient pagan empire, transplanted a Storm Kingdom onto the corpse of that empire.

This made the various lords more independent.

The king of the Storm Kingdom is essentially just an alliance leader among the lords.

It's not even the most powerful one.

Outside the castle, a light rain suddenly began to fall, making the girl waiting below even colder, as her thin clothes were hardly enough to protect her from the cold and dampness.

Sunan said to the old butler Warwick, "Let that villager into the castle, and have Lady Pera (the head maid) give her a clean maid's dress."

The old butler, Warwick, hesitated for a moment before saying, "Your orders are the law in this castle."

"But young master, that woman is a heretic. Her family are villagers who believe in the God of Law. According to the unspoken rules among nobles, villagers who believe in the God of Law cannot set foot in the castle of the Storm God's representative (the nobles)."

"Letting her into the castle seems... beneath your dignity."

Su Nan said, "In my eyes, she is just a pitiful subject who needs my protection. No matter what her faith is, as long as she is loyal to my territory, it doesn't matter."

Su Nan recalled a famous declaration from the Venetian maritime empire of his previous life, and said, "Baron Peter's rule comes first, faith second."

Old butler Warwick paused for a moment, then remembered that their castle was practically infested with werewolves, and Su Nan had even mastered the art of potion-making. Why were they still insisting on religious differences?

Why discriminate against villagers who believe in the God of Law?

They're almost becoming atheists.

Warwick, the old butler, chuckled, "Indeed. Then I'll hurry down and get that poor little girl some comfortable clothes."

"The people of Amorod village have suffered enough."

Su Nan said, "Give me a map of those bandit strongholds. You and the head maid get ready. I need to test the werewolves' combat data."

Su Nan originally wanted to test the combat data of the advanced werewolf and werewolf messenger.

After all, no matter how good your theories and panel data are, they still need to be verified in actual combat.

The AI ​​also needs to record relevant real-world data in order to more accurately estimate the strength of different werewolves and to better design different types of werewolves.

Only by having their own werewolf army can they possess greater combat power.

Warwick, the old butler, shuddered. His pupils turned into golden rings, and he revealed his fangs.

Werewolves crave killing.

For the past two weeks, the old steward Warwick had been patiently watching the enemies continue to run rampant on Baron Peter's territory.

Prepare to witness them slowly march toward their doom.

……

On the edge of Baron Peter's territory, bandits occupied a high ground.

This highland is located among hills, and there are also large groves of forest nearby.

This allowed bandits to easily use the complex terrain to fight back when attacked by it.

After all, on the battlefield, the side that occupies the high ground will undoubtedly gain a huge advantage.

For example, if your cavalry charges from the plains to the highlands, their combat effectiveness will be greatly reduced.

For example, the accuracy, range, and power of your archers shooting from a high place are definitely different from shooting from a plain onto a high place.

Outside the bandits' stronghold, there were many wooden walls, armed with knives, and bandits with bows and crossbows.

It is now dusk.

Having once again plundered food and valuables, these bandits, who made their living by robbery, lit many torches in their stronghold before nightfall, preparing to enjoy the food they had stolen from the villagers the day before.

Rabbits and fat pigs that the villagers would normally be reluctant to slaughter were led out of their houses and carelessly butchered by the bandits, who then began to steam, boil, or roast them in a very wasteful manner.

Sunan, Warwick, the head maid, and two hounds hid in the woods, observing everything.

In fact, the more complex the terrain, the more advantageous it is for werewolves.

Werewolves, with their agility and exceptional survivability, are highly advantageous in close-quarters combat.

In the thicket, werewolves, with their enhanced senses, especially their sense of smell, can easily discern the location, speed, and direction of an enemy's movement.

If it gets dark later, then it will be the werewolves' domain.

According to the AI's deductions, werewolves generally possess powerful night vision abilities.

This seems to be because when the werewolf curse conversion potion was made, werewolves were linked to the full moon on a magical level, which resulted in each werewolf almost having solidified Night Vision.

At this moment, by the campfire in the center of the bandit stronghold, a burly man with an exceptionally large build and extraordinary talent, standing two meters tall, sat on a tree stump as the leader of this stronghold. He addressed a thin man dressed in clean clothes and resembling a merchant, saying, "Go back and tell your town council that you wanted me to deliberately provoke the baron and plunder his village. I did it."

"But if you want me to attack that castle directly, then your offer is not enough."

"You should at least give me three times the amount of supplies you promised me each month."

"Otherwise, only a fool would attack that castle."

"That baron... I'm not afraid of children, but the castle's defenses are still quite troublesome. Maintaining the current situation is fine for me, anyway, my stronghold's terrain is so complex, easy to defend and difficult to attack."

"Besides, if I kill this kid baron, I'll have a hard time finding another territory that's so easy to control."

"It would be very troublesome for me if the kingdom were to grant the territory to a new baron, or if the knights of those knightly territories were to become the new baron."

(End of this chapter)