Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 40 Sacrificial Stone Curse Transformation Potion

Springtime in the 58th year of the Storm Kingdom.

After obtaining the parchment scroll from the chieftain of Epirus, Su Nan immediately spent half a month analyzing the contents related to polymorphism, and then another half a month deduce the recipes for the Sacrifice Stone Potion series.

Meanwhile, within this month, his mental strength and magical power reached 15, making him a senior second-class wizard apprentice.

The estimated progress of the Mental Strength Enhancement +3 potion has reached 11%.

Five more werewolf deacons have been added to the territory.

In this way, the territory will have one werewolf warrior, two high-ranking werewolves, thirty-two werewolf messengers, and ten werewolf deacons.

In total, there are forty-five werewolf members.

The werewolf group is stronger than ever before, with a pack of more than forty werewolves, which also represents the amplification of the wolf pack effect.

Because each werewolf can enjoy the shared benefits of the pack's magic, the pack's combat power is definitely not just the sum of the strength of forty-odd werewolves, but rather an effect where 1+1 is greater than 2.

The wolf pack will secretly guard their territory, making Peter Territory their habitat.

Su Nan, who possesses the entire wolf pack, has more than just his individual 15 points of magic power. He can draw upon the magic power of the entire wolf pack to unleash a level exceeding 15 points of magic power.

The AI ​​calculated that if he were to use the entire wolf pack's magic power now, he could easily increase his own magic power to 18-19 in a short period of time.

This proves that developing wolf pack groups can also be very beneficial to oneself.

A wolf pack is like an extra vessel for one's own mana, or a kind of alternative wizard tower.

Inside the castle attic, the AI ​​pointed out three possible directions for Su Nan to develop the curse of the sacrificial stone into a magic potion.

The Stone Elixir is a transmutation potion recipe obtained from the relics of the chieftain of the Epirus region.

Based on the descriptions found in those relics, the AI ​​concluded that shapeshifting could alter the motion properties of objects, thus granting movement capabilities to statues that were originally immobile.

But the nameless chieftain's magic was just a simple transformation spell; the stone golems he controlled were not real living beings.

The AI, drawing on the "connection" principle from the werewolf curse transformation potion and combining it with transmutation, developed the Stone Curse Transformation series of potions. This potion can truly transform an ordinary statue into a living being by placing a "Stone" into its cavity.

Having statue soldiers is also a very meaningful thing for southern Jiangsu.

This will further enhance Su Nan's magical power.

[Option 1: The Stone Offering series of potions forms a magical connection with a high mountain, granting the stone statues an indestructible body. You can then obtain a series of powerful stone golems.]

[Option Two: Create a magical connection between the Sacrifice Stone series of potions and a swamp. This will allow you to create a series of swamp golems, whose combat strength may not be ideal.]

[Option Three: The Sacrifice Stone series of potions creates a magical connection between your castle and the castle itself, allowing you to obtain a series of statue soldiers associated with the castle concept. In this option, because the castle is not merely a natural phenomenon but also a human creation, the statue soldiers will have greater potential for modification and combination.]

Mountains and swamps cannot be easily altered, therefore they can only be represented by stone figures and mud figures from the swamp.

However, after being linked to the castle, the statues created by transforming potions with sacrificial stone curses are essentially 'mechanical lifeforms' cursed by sacrificial stone magic, composed of stone, bricks, or other building materials, and their materials can be changed at will.

[For example, in the future, materials such as steel, granite, obsidian, or lava could be incorporated into its body components.]

[If more magical materials can be obtained, more stone soldiers with different structures and surface materials can be obtained by upgrading the main structure of the castle and changing the materials of the statues.]

After thinking for a moment, Su Nan decided to choose option three.

Option three is obviously less stable in terms of lower limit compared to the first two options, but has a higher upper limit, making it more conducive to nurturing talent.

Secondly, there are no high mountains or swamps near my territory.

This thing is different from the moon. If you establish a magical connection with these things, you also have to be wary of enemies who might tamper with these places.

On the contrary, the castle is now their main base.

In the future, I can further strengthen the castle.

Moreover, in this way, the stone golems he created with magic potions are essentially part of the castle, and could even be considered a unique kind of castle elf.

Perhaps, turning the entire castle into a giant stone statue in the future would be a good possibility.

That way, I can take the castle with me wherever I go.

Su Nan chose option three, and the AI ​​immediately provided the recipe for converting the curse of the sacrificial stone into a magic potion.

This recipe is almost entirely composed of minerals.

7 grams of river pebbles, 5 grams of ordinary gravel from the road, 1 gram of black soil, 1 gram of brass, 1 gram of lead, a piece of hematite ore, a piece of marble, a small amount of diamond powder, and 1 gram of realgar and orpiment.

Soul fragments from 2 adult units.

A brick from a castle that is over ten years old; the older the brick, the better the effect.

The Peter family's castle was built fifty years ago and perfectly meets this requirement.

Finally, there are the same five gold coins, though they may vary from one another.

The formulas developed by AI and Su Nan have one consistent characteristic: they like to use gold coins, a metal with trading properties, to enhance the potion's power.

The recipe for the cursed stone potion is extremely difficult to craft.

Because there are a lot of metallic minerals inside, some magic power is needed to melt these metals and stones in the crucible to make them into a potion.

If Su Nan's magical power and mental strength hadn't reached 15, he would have had some difficulty refining this potion.

In the castle's attic, in the darkness, Su Nan placed a brick dismantled from the castle's oldest building into a crucible.

Next, he added water, along with the aforementioned metals and minerals. Under his precise control of his magic, pieces of metal and minerals turned into liquid and melted in the crucible.

Each piece of metal must be added to the crucible at precise one-minute intervals.

Otherwise, it will fail.

Similarly, the biggest test for Su Nan is that he must use his magic to completely dissolve the metal with the potion within one minute, otherwise the refining will still fail.

In other words, starting with this kind of potion, a hard requirement for magical power has emerged.

If one's magical power is insufficient, even the requirements for refining cannot be met.

In the darkness, all the liquid inside the crucible evaporated. The melted metal and ore also disappeared, leaving only a single drop of pale green, viscous liquid in the crucible, emitting a faint glow in the night.

This is the potion that can bring stones to life, the Stone Curse Transformation Elixir.

The difficulty of its crafting is already considered extremely high among second-class wizard apprentices.

Su Nan poured the drop of pale green liquid from the crucible into a glass bottle, then took the bottle and walked to a statue that he had ordered the stonemason to make in the attic.

This is a three-meter-tall stone statue, carved from a single piece of marble. Its body is somewhat round and appears slightly bulky and strong. Anyway, Su Nan thought that even if the stone man was slow, he could just roll on the ground, so it didn't matter. In fact, it could increase its defensive capabilities.

After all, I was already that heavy, so losing weight wouldn't be very effective.

The stone figure is humanoid in shape.

At the same time, there is a pair of wings on its back, which are essentially used to balance the center of gravity, just like an animal's tail.

The stone statue is too heavy. If it is to walk and run, the weight needs to be redistributed constantly. The best way is to give it wings or a tail.

Su Nan was designed with wings, and wings, compared to tails, are better at attacking all surrounding enemies when surrounded, creating a wide-range spinning slash.

So, Su Nan gave the blueprint to the old stonemason in charge of the carving and his apprentices. The old stonemason thought it was a statue of a sacred storm god's angel, so he put in a lot of effort to carve the statue to be majestic, holy, tall and mighty, like a powerful angel giant.

Every detail strives to reflect his piety towards the god of storms and his loyalty to Sunan.

But he didn't know that Su Nan asked him to carve this statue in order to use a sacrificial stone curse to transform it into a magic potion.

They transformed this lifeless statue into their own sacrificial sentry post.

Su Nan placed the glass bottle containing a drop of the Sacrifice Stone Curse Transformation Potion into the hollow cavity of the stone statue's chest.

Unlike any potion before.

The Stone Curse Transformation Potion is not taken directly.

Even stone men cannot consume it directly.

Instead, the potion is placed inside its body, and then the potion bottle will function as a battery and integrated circuit board, combining with the core of the statue to become the core of the sacrificial stone. Through transformation and magical connection with the castle, it will be given mobility and life.

Essentially, this stone golem will be a golem life form.

It can also be called a sacrificial stone golem.

(End of this chapter)