Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 49 News of the Wizard's Ruins [Four Seasons Garden]

Sunan manipulated Blom to distribute the magic back to the other werewolf messengers. He was about to order the werewolves to clean up the battlefield, sweep up the ruins of the manor, and take the opportunity to loot Baron Frank's wealth, since that guy was still lying in bed unable to move.

However, the cultists on the ground did not appear to be completely dead.

He coughed a few times, spitting out blood. His consciousness was hazy, but he still looked in Blom's direction and tried to speak: "I know who you are. You are that wizard lord."

"I never expected that even with the adult from that world possessing my body, I would still be no match for you. You're truly amazing."

Using Blom's body, Su Nan glanced at the Bulgar man from head to toe. "I see. It's your bloodline that gives you superhuman vitality."

"Actually, you can't say that."

"Your spellcasting ability must come at the cost of consuming your life force. That's why you expended very little mental energy just now, and even though your mental energy isn't high, you were still able to cast such a powerful spell-like spell."

"The reason is that the main parameter for your spellcasting is not mental strength, that's a secondary parameter. The main parameter should be life force."

The cultist coughed up blood and said, "But I'm still going to die. But I have something to say to you, Wizard Lord."

"Cough cough cough... Just now, an adult from that world possessed me and made me see certain things."

"Or rather, the truth. I glimpsed at least a part of that world for a moment, Wizard Lord, you must be very interested in what that world looks like..."

"Ahem... I want to make a deal with you. If you answer one question, I'll describe that world to you and answer any question you have. How about it?"

Southern Jiangsu Province was quite interested in this.

He had always been curious about what the energy world, which was trying to invade the material plane at this moment, was like.

Why is this world so mortal enemies of wizards?

Once you understand them, you can gain the power to find more effective ways to target them.

For wizards, information is probably power.

Su Nan said, "Sure, go ahead and ask."

"But as soon as possible, otherwise I'm afraid you won't be able to hold on and you'll die before I know what I want to know."

The cultist lay helplessly on the ground, like a toy doll being played with by beings from another world, now broken beyond repair.

The beings of another world simply left, leaving him behind.

"Cough cough cough... In the past, I was just an ordinary herdsman on the Bulgarian steppe. My wife died early, but I had two lovely sons."

"I live with my two ten-year-old children."

"We herd livestock, hunt, and even find some areas where we can barely farm to grow some crops. Sometimes I envy the farmers of your Storm Kingdom. They have vast tracts of farmland, and they can easily harvest crops just by sowing seeds."

"My life was happy and wonderful, but one day everything changed."

The cult members lying on the ground had their eyes wide with rage. "They could have saved my two sons; they were right there."

"That day, our tribe's sheep flock was attacked by wolves. My two sons took the sheepdogs and went to try to drive the wolves away, but for some reason, the wolves did not retreat as usual. Instead, they pounced on my two sons who were at the forefront..."

"There are many herders around..."

"But none of them even glanced over there; they were only concerned with protecting their own children and their own sheep."

"I was right there. I could have saved them if only one or two people had come forward to help me. But at that time, no one stepped forward. I didn't dare to go up alone... I really couldn't do anything by myself. Nothing at all. It would have been useless if I had gone up. I could only watch as that wolf king killed my two sons."

"That day... made me realize that everyone in this world is selfish and indifferent. So when that person came before me and showed me that world of equality, I believed in it without hesitation."

"I know that I choose to believe, not because I actually believe that equal world really exists."

"But I truly want to believe that an equal world is real; I believe in myself."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. "Based on my understanding of that world, since you were possessed before, and the Blind Hand entered the Material Plane, your soul should have had one foot in that world. So, having seen that world with your own eyes, are you sure it's real?"

The cult members lying on the ground fell silent.

He felt his life force rapidly draining away, like a clay pot with a hole in the bottom; no matter how much water was inside, it would eventually run out quickly.

The cultist whispered, "I've seen a complete hoax. Everyone is suffering; there isn't a single creature in that world that isn't screaming and wailing."

"Indeed, all living beings suffer equally, and all living beings are in despair equally."

"I've already said it, I only believed that there must be a better place in this world, which is why I believed their nonsense. I brought this on myself. Wizard Lord, I won't beg for your mercy. I've killed many people; I have no choice but to do this."

"I'm asking you, if you encountered two boys in danger, would you save them?"

"Speak up, why aren't you saying anything? Why aren't you answering me?"

Blom impatiently interrupted, "What's the point of answering such a question? You expect my master to answer such a basic question? My answer is... save him if you can, and don't save him if you can't."

"Anyway, I can't bear to watch two brats die in front of me when I have the ability."

"And you're a coward. You won't even go up to save your own child, and you expect others to step up? Are you crazy?"

Su Nan also said in a low voice, "For me, it's just something I do on the spur of the moment. But if it seriously affects me, then forget it."

He added, "Even from the most self-interested perspective, those who like to help their companions are the most likely to gather collective strength and ensure the survival of the group."

"A completely selfish and self-serving race cannot thrive in this world; it will be wiped out by other races in the early stages."

"This world is not as easy to survive as you imagine."

Su Nan paused for a moment, then said, "Judging from your story, if you had been the first to rush out to save your child, others would have been inspired. But you did nothing, you didn't even ask anyone to save your child."

"If you had made different choices back then, your life and outcome would have been completely different."

"In my opinion, the most indifferent person is yourself."

The cultists on the ground suddenly burst into a bloodcurdling laugh, "Hahahaha...hahahaha..."

"So... I was wrong."

"I was really wrong."

"I have lost completely."

"Wizard Lord, I don't know much. I'm just a lowly bloodline sorcerer. What I can tell you is that this world has been invaded by the [Sorcerer Group]. However, the sacred authority of the gods of the celestial order still permeates the air of the various kingdoms of this world. But soon, as those nobles and kings fall in battle and fall into depravity, even the gods will abandon this world."

"And the wizards, for special reasons, may never return to this world."

"What I can tell you is that, as far as I can tell, cognition is the power of wizards."

"Therefore, the church has been suppressing public awareness, brainwashing them, and preventing them from acquiring knowledge..."

"I know that those people, those half-bloods of the sorcerer groups, possess another kind of power to suppress magic—to confuse perception."

"I don't quite understand the underlying principles. I've only heard them say that when people disregard morality, consider common sense as a limitation, and take infidelity and robbery for granted, magic is destroyed to the greatest extent."

"One last thing, cough cough cough... I want to tell you before I die that the blind nun is invading your territory, and it's not just because you offended her."

"From the very beginning, she had to invade. Because near your territory lies the ruins left by the Oak Wizard, a first-ring botanical wizard from over two thousand years ago—the Garden of the Four Seasons."

"It's just hidden; we're still searching for this site. But it's definitely nearby."

"We want to steal this magic and make it our own. Finally, be careful, I've said all I needed to say."

"Someone like me would probably betray whichever side I'm on. Because I always believe there's a better world out there. Hehehe..."

The cultist, having exhausted all his life force, collapsed in the grass in the darkness, no longer breathing.

Su Nan looked at him and sighed, but he quickly cheered up again.

It seems I'm one step closer to finding a wizard.

This is indeed useful information for me.

(End of this chapter)