Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 69 The Wizard's Path and Dual Casting

In the secret realm, within the inner world of oneself, on the path of the wizard, the black fireball worms that were about to strike Su Nan were neutralized by Su Nan's double fireball worm attack.

The orange-red fireball and the black fireball merged together and disappeared completely.

Su Nan said to the being hidden in the darkness, "I borrowed a golem from reality, such as my angel statue soldier number 1, and connected it with the wolf pack so that it could chant the same spell at the same time as me."

"In this way, it's as if I'm reciting the spell twice at the same time. You can also think of Angel Statue No. 1 as my mouth double."

"I call this method of casting spells double casting."

The voice from the darkness grew impatient. "Stop testing me. I know all your thoughts, I understand all your magic, and I knew you'd use such petty tricks from the very beginning."

"I am you, but you are not me, Sunan Peter, do you understand?!"

In the darkness, a gray version of Sunan Peter, devoid of any color, walks above the emptiness of his soul, heading towards himself.

Although Su Nan had expected it, her expression still turned serious as she watched him approach.

This is practically another version of myself.

But he is more violent and cruel, and his magic is full of malice. You have to use the trick of double incantation to counteract his magic.

It was as if it were his own instinct, the malice within him.

It is precisely because these things begin to rebel that one's magical power and magical strength begin to decline.

No wonder that even more than two thousand years ago, when wizarding civilization was at its most prosperous in this land, most wizards would choose to skip the Mind Cultivation and use secret methods to forcibly subdue their minds and replicate the magical path of their mentors.

Stop the genuine pursuit of truth.

But Su Nan felt it was still necessary for him to practice mental meditation, otherwise he would only be an engineer using magical tools, rather than a scientist—a wizard—exploring the truth of the world.

Although engineers can be very capable, since I've had the opportunity to come into contact with magic in this lifetime, I might as well go a step further and explore the secrets of the highest level of magic.

Su Nan looked at Hui Nan and said, "If you are a part of my heart, then why is it that I, as the subject of self-awareness, can only walk on the path of a wizard, while you can walk above the empty abyss of my heart without fear of falling?"

Is there some secret behind this?

The gray-clad version of Su Nan revealed a disdainful smile. "Ridiculous. You seemed to relax slightly the moment you saw me. Did you feel relieved because the enemy was no longer unknown and could be solved through analysis?"

"How ridiculous."

"We are from different dimensions."

"I am what truly makes you powerful, but every time I try to help you further pursue your interests and instincts, why do you stop me from going any further?"

Are you afraid of this abyss of the soul?

"Hahaha, how ridiculous."

"A person dwells in their own inner world, yet fears being swallowed by its own abyss, forced to walk pitifully down that stifling path. I ask you, why don't you retreat? Why are you so determined to become a wizard?"

Gray Sunan looked at Sunan with disdain and waved his hand, saying, "If you need great power, taking the path of a knight shouldn't be too difficult for you now."

"By solving a few simple problems, we can deceive the Lord of Storms."

"If you were to extract the essence of blood from the corpses of those bloodline sorcerers and become a sorcerer yourself... it wouldn't be too difficult for you, would it?"

"So, what is the reason you're walking down that road?"

Hui Nan sneered. "You could use werewolf potions to turn half the people in your territory into werewolves. Even if most of them die, become crippled, or go insane because of your crude use of magic, and you can't control so many werewolves, and the whole world will be destroyed, what does that have to do with you?"

"I ask you, when two entities possess identical magical powers, understandings of magic, and spell formulas, how will their magical powers determine a victor?"

Su Nan frowned; he hadn't expected the wizard's mental problems to have escalated to this point.

Indeed, a normal person is mentally healthy, but when a wizard increases mental power by 20 times, psychological problems that ordinary people would not be able to resolve and would disappear in an instant will also be amplified to the present extent.

Su Nan chanted the spell to summon a secondary fireball worm.

At the same time, the angel statue in front of the fountain at the entrance of Peterhof Castle also began chanting incantations and walking around while chanting them.

Each step made a loud noise.

Warwick, the werewolf butler, had already evacuated the crowd and sealed off the castle. In addition, the three major forces in the vicinity of the territory were all focused on the entrance to the Four Seasons Garden, so not many people noticed the anomaly of the angel statue at the moment.

Only a small number of the maids and servants in the castle saw it, but they already knew a little about the inside story. After the head maid, Pera, gave them a few words of reprimand and guidance, they all went back to work and completely forgot what they had seen.

These servants had served the Peter family for many years, even generations, and had long since developed a high degree of loyalty.

Inside the secret realm, Hui Nan saw Su Nan chanting the spell again and suddenly laughed. "Let me ask you another question: do you think I can use a dual spell?"

"Fine, I'll just tell you the answer."

"The wolf pack effect and the golem servants—you have them, and so do I."

The next moment, he chanted the incantation to summon a minor fireball worm, and he did so even faster than Su Nan.

A huge fireball, like a black sun, appeared between Su Nan and Hui Nan.

At the same time, a bull-shaped obsidian statue at the entrance of Peter's Castle in the material plane began chanting the incantation that Graynan was chanting.

This is clearly double casting.

The head maid, Pera, stood at the doorway, gazing at the bull-headed statue chanting incantations, and murmured to herself, "I hope Lord Sunan has a smooth journey ahead."

"You are the backbone of our territory, no... of all of us, the pillar of everyone's home in the castle. As long as you are here, this peaceful and warm little home will remain. Lord Sunan, I wish you all the best."

Meanwhile, in the secret realm, Vasilyan walked across the wilderness, looking at the Guardian of Or and pressing him for an answer: "Where is Lord Sunan? I need to help him."

"Tell me, where is the adult?"

The Guardian of Or ignored Vasilian's threat and instead looked at the spot where Su Nan had disappeared in the secret realm. Or was also worried, but when he was worried, he would remain silent.

More than two thousand years ago, any wizard who could pass the test of the Heart Zen through their own efforts, as long as they did not die young, could eventually become a formal wizard!

But precisely because of this, very few wizards can truly pass the test on their own.

Throughout the entire history of the Gray Soil Cemetery School, there are no more than three people like this.

Therefore, some people proposed a seemingly absurd but actually reasonable idea: a mature magical civilization should allow wizards to delay their exposure to mind-body techniques and focus solely on studying magic and the physical world.

Because those who can achieve the state of mind through meditation are geniuses among geniuses, but such theoretical geniuses are too few and far between.

For magical civilization to be passed down, it still needs some technical geniuses to put it into practice.

Moreover, the theoretical reserves of the magical civilization at that time were sufficient for those technical geniuses to combine and explore existing theories to create powerful magic.

However, the wizarding society that upheld this philosophy later encountered an enemy they had never faced before—the world of energy.

Orl said worriedly, "Lord Sunan, I hope you can overcome your own hurdle. For a genius like you, the most terrifying enemy is probably yourself."

"No, perhaps the more talented a person is, the more terrifying it is for them to practice Zen meditation."

"Because you have too high expectations of yourself, you become extremely angry when you see your own flaws."

"Lord Su Nan, you must make your heart understand that you are its master."

You must succeed!

……

Inside the secret realm, Su Nan's expression changed slightly.

He had long anticipated that his enemy would be a certain character within his own mind, so he made arrangements in advance, allowing the golem outside his inner world to act as his cheat code in this battle within his inner world.

But he never expected that he would actually seize control of his external arrangements from within his own inner world.

There's nothing I can do; the other person is myself.

(End of this chapter)