Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 66 The Second Deal with the Forsaken

Before a waterfall in a secluded valley on the edge of Frank Territory, the old wizard Guca and his young apprentice are confronting a one-star bloodline sorcerer cultist dressed in a black robe and bearing the inverted pentagram of the High Order.

That one-star bloodline sorcerer was followed by three cultists and five nearby villagers who had been captured by the cultists.

The villagers consist of men, women, and a little girl.

They are now being held hostage by three cult members with knives.

Gu Ke smiled and pointed to a fly in front of him. The fly landed on the tip of his index finger and turned into many tiny black insects, which then re-entered the bandage on his right hand.

"This is the thing that discovered you hiding around me. You've been following me for a week now. It must have been a tough week. Just hiding must have exhausted you, you foolish sorcerers, you're nothing but expendable resources." Guca said, "More than two thousand years ago, we first encountered the energy world, the first enemy that was neither material nor idealistic."

"That time it really caused a lot of damage to our wizarding civilization, but after the initial defeat, various spells targeting the energy world were also developed one by one."

"While we can't completely reverse the situation where your spells are countered, we have plenty of spells that can monitor and sense your approach in advance."

"You're all too impatient. Who said this waterfall would be the entrance to the Four Seasons Garden?"

The one-star bloodline sorcerer cultist was taken aback. He looked at the waterfall, sensing whether there was any hidden magic within it. Upon discovering that there was none, he flew into a rage.

"You dare to play me? You lowly human, I'll make you pay! You're nothing but a human being, what are you so proud of!"

The next moment, he chanted the name of the blind nun, uttered a special incantation to unleash the hidden power within his bloodline, and then a cold wind appeared on the scythe in his hand.

At the same time, this one-star bloodline sorcerer cultist drained the life force of the five villagers behind him as the price for his spell.

This will both enhance his spell-like abilities and increase the number of times he can use them.

The villagers lay on the ground groaning, clutching their ears and staggering about, but their life force was still being drained away. Blood was flowing from all seven orifices of their bodies, from their noses and mouths.

The next moment, both Guca and the little girl were cut in two by the cold wind.

But before the one-star bloodline sorcerer could rejoice for long, he discovered that the figures of Gu Ke and the little girl in the original spot had been replaced by a humanoid cluster of two mosquitoes.

It turned out that what he had cut open was just a swarm of mosquitoes consisting of two mosquitoes.

The next moment, Guca and the little girl appeared behind him.

With his hands behind his back, Gu Ke remained calm and confident. "You're just a one-star bloodline sorcerer, equivalent to a third-tier wizard apprentice. Do you think I'm one of those two earth wizards?"

"My magical and meditation techniques are very well-established, from offensive apprentice-level spells to defensive magic, evasion magic, and detection magic, all of which have been properly passed down."

"Our former school was called 'Insect Valley.' We are people who follow the magical path of our first-ring wizard, Insect Wizard Dawn Johnson. Our spell models and meditation methods are completely different from the earth wizards you have encountered before."

The one-star bloodline sorcerer turned around, intending to continue attacking Gu Ke and his young apprentice with [Cold Wind], but the next moment, he was unable to move.

A fly crawled out of his nostril, and then he discovered that there were countless tiny insects under his skin.

Sometime later, Guca had cast a worm curse on him, causing a large number of worms to appear inside his body.

With a loud bang, a large number of insects tore open the skin on his chest and then gushed out. These flying insects, which were like bees and also as black as ants, enveloped the one-star bloodline sorcerer from the inside out.

Gu Ke raised his left hand, and the flying insects were modifying the body of this one-star bloodline sorcerer. "The wild boar was killed by those two earth wizards. The initial form of my insect spell can copy the killer. I killed you and used the insect spell to copy you out."

The little girl watched this scene with great interest. "So the [Flying Ant Charm] can be used like this! You just distracted him, secretly letting a flying ant crawl into his nostril, and then used the [Secondary Growth Charm] to urge the flying ant to multiply quickly. In less than five minutes, such a large swarm of insects grew inside him."

Gu Ke stroked the little girl's hair. "This is magic passed down from the great insect spell wizard, of course it's powerful."

"Insects hold infinite mysteries. They possess a more intricate physical structure than ordinary animals. With careful study, one can gain powerful magical abilities. These are the words of the Insect Spell Wizard."

"Um?"

Gu Ke caught a glimpse of a wolf in the woods. "Looking for me? What's there to talk about? Forget it, I'll just go."

"After all, I've basically confirmed that the Four Seasons Garden is located in Peter's Territory, and closer to the center. Especially at times like these, it's crucial to keep those two earth wizards in check for now, to prevent them from causing me trouble."

The next moment, Gu Ke and the little girl disappeared from the spot and entered the secret realm.

The corpse of that one-star bloodline sorcerer was also controlled by the flying ant curse and was completely devoured by flying insects specially cultivated by magic.

The three ordinary cult members who survived were all terrified by the coca's merciless killing methods against sorcerers and cult members.

They stood there, bewildered.

There were corpses all around.

As a carriage pulled up, Cheshire rolled down the window and coldly swept her gaze over the three cultists. "You're utterly useless."

"But from the beginning, I knew this would be the outcome. Now I'm pretty sure that the old man already knows the exact location of the Four Seasons Garden."

"Otherwise, he wouldn't have deliberately set a trap and eliminated the people I sent to follow him beforehand. Let's go. There's no point in waiting here any longer. As long as he moves his position within the secret realm, his location in the material world will change accordingly when he leaves the secret realm."

"A troublesome world."

"Sooner or later... we will also invade the secret realm and leave those humans with nowhere to escape."

There was another person inside the carriage, a woman with an even colder voice. "Heh, Cheshire, don't worry. That old man is just a second-class wizard apprentice, only his lineage is complete, which makes him a bit troublesome. With me, a three-star bloodline sorcerer, here, what do you have to be afraid of?"

"Lady Cheshire, after I've accomplished great deeds, you must introduce me to those truly important figures at the top. I've given up the life of a noble family in the Storm Kingdom; I used to be the only daughter of a count."

"People give up the privileges of worldly life and suffer with you people, but they're bound to get some benefits."

……

Within the secret realm, Gu Ke swept his gaze over Su Nan. "What do you want from me? Our time as wizards is very precious."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. "Let's make a deal."

Guca immediately and instinctively refused. "I have nothing left to trade with you."

Su Nan snapped his fingers. "No wonder he's a wizard, so realistic."

"But... I've fought the blind nun directly, and I think you'd be interested in her information. I need you to give me a spell that can make people who speak very slowly, or non-human magical creatures, speak faster, at least to the speed of a normal person."

Do you have such a spell?

Gu Ke initially wanted to refuse, but upon hearing the name of the blind nun, his pupils constricted slightly. How could this earth wizard possibly escape unscathed from a mid-level being in that energy world?

He felt that something seemed off.

But his arrogance prevented him from thinking things through. In his eyes, Su Nan was just a local wizard, how could he be compared to the orthodox wizards of their insect curse school?

Gu Ke frowned. "Why would you need magic that increases speaking speed? Why would you need magic that doesn't increase combat power at all?"

"Okay, this deal is on."

"Our Insect Curse School does indeed have some unorthodox spell models, including the type of magic you mentioned. But I must warn you, I cannot guarantee that you will be satisfied with this magic, after all, it was just a spell researched by a former first-class wizard apprentice of our school for some experimental purpose."

Su Nan originally just wanted to give it a try, but unexpectedly, this guy actually had it.

To prevent any unexpected events during his advancement, he needed this magic, along with the data recently calculated by the AI, to enhance the sacrificial stone golem.

To achieve the goal of [Double Casting] calculated by the AI.

Su Nan said, "Every kind of magic will eventually have its use."

Gu Ke didn't pay much attention to this. He felt that the spell was useless, so he wasn't very wary of the deal. He said to Su Nan, "Tell me, what were the blind nuns you've seen like?"

"I've only ever heard her name from the bloodline sorcerers I've fought."

"Energy beings have a unique characteristic: their names are energy, and their energy is their names. So if you've ever seen the blind nun, you'll definitely associate her name with your mind. Therefore, even though you don't have much magical heritage, as long as you've actually seen her, you can still discern quite a bit about her."

"This could be considered a weakness of energy creatures."

Su Nan said, "The blind nun must have been human before... She told me this herself."

Su Nan didn't pay much attention to Guca's arrogance and his disdain for her.

After all, some contempt comes at a great cost, and I was too lazy to argue with him verbally.

Instead, I should consider how to extract more information about wizards from these two forgotten ones.

(End of this chapter)