Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 78 The Art of On-the-Spot Combat Belonging to Potions

"Ah!!" The one-star bloodline sorcerer screamed in agony. Most of the civilians who were fleeing looked back and found that the evil being who had previously preyed on them was now just like them before, with his life force and bloodline essence intertwined, and had been completely extracted into Su Nan's hands.

He himself was reduced to a corpse within those short three minutes of extraction.

Many of the wives and relatives of ordinary people in Peter's territory had died at the hands of these cultists. Now that they had avenged their great grievance, they ran away with excited, grateful and joyful eyes.

Their lord truly protected them.

Some even recalled that when the Bulgars invaded the edge of Peter's territory last time, villagers had already seen those brutal Bulgar spies appearing on the edge of the territory, gathering information.

But the next day, these Bulgars vanished like snow melting in spring.

Only now do they belatedly realize that they have been protected all along.

The one protecting them was not the ethereal god of storms, but the lord standing before them.

They remembered that after becoming lord, Su Nan had implemented internal reforms, reduced corruption, cut back on exorbitant taxes, and improved their quality of life.

Someone called out softly, "Glory belongs to Lord Su Nan."

Then, as these people fled, they kept shouting this phrase, which even infected the people around them who were not from Peter's territory, and they also started shouting this phrase.

Of course, it's also possible that they simply want to infiltrate Peter's territory.

They never wanted to return to their original territory.

Even if they manage to escape alive this time, they will still be exploited by the lords and nobles, have their money confiscated by the soldiers, and work every day, only able to pray that the lords and soldiers will not target them. For this, they will have to go to the Church of the Storm God and be extorted by those priests again.

They didn't have a choice before.

Because all lords were like that, the serfs on the lord's estate had no right to leave the estate; if they tried to escape, they would be hunted down and killed by the soldiers.

But now, they felt they had a lord who could truly protect them.

They were even willing to give up their status as free farmers in their original territories to become serfs in the southern Jiangsu region!

A free man in the legal sense is no match for a serf in the territory of a benevolent lord.

Meanwhile, Su Nan took a bottle of birch sap stabilizing potion from Wolf Two. He opened the bottle with one hand and placed a red, pill-like sphere—a condensation of blood essence—from his left palm into it.

Stabilizing agents can preserve many things without affecting their medicinal properties or causing them to lose some of their energy over time.

Su Nan shook the potion and added birch sap, the bloodline essence of a one-star warlock, to stabilize it. He said, "This technology has been developed very successfully, with almost no waste of any bloodline essence."

"It seems that I wasted at least 50% when I extracted the blood essence from that sorcerer last time."

"However, this technique could be improved even further. I only wanted to extract his blood essence, not his life force, but his blood essence and his life force were so deeply intertwined that I couldn't extract it separately. I think that when the energy creatures of that energy world extract the blood power of these sorcerers, they probably kill them as well."

"Never mind. We'll talk about this later; we don't have a solution right now."

"With the essence of this bloodline sorcerer, I can try to refine a special version of the potion that increases mental strength by 3."

I had already had the AI ​​quickly calculate it. The changes weren't that significant to begin with. Because of the existence of the Mental Enhancement +2 Special Edition Potion, it only took an hour for the AI ​​to calculate the recipe for the Mental Enhancement +3 Special Edition Potion based on the Mental Enhancement +3 Potion that had already been calculated.

A werewolf messenger came carrying a cauldron.

Su Nan glanced at the crucible, and energy particles in the air automatically gathered around it. Wind magic made the crucible float slowly in mid-air, earth magic and water magic calmed and cleansed the crucible, and fire magic began to preheat the crucible.

As a wizard specializing in potion-making, Su Nan is now preparing to use the materials he just acquired to brew potions directly on the battlefield. At the same time, he drinks a potion that enhances his mental strength by 2 to improve his condition.

Then, he took out the materials he needed from the carriage that had been dragged over by the two obsidian bull statues.

[A mixture of licorice, ginseng, jujube seed, centipeda minima, white fungus, mint, and pig brain, etc...]

After repeated adjustments to the heat and time, a pot of azure-blue potion was finally made.

Next, Su Nan poured in the birch sap and blood essence.

The magical power of birch sap is very stable and it almost never reacts magically with other materials, so Su Nan didn't mind pouring it in directly.

However, he wouldn't have dared to do that before; this was only possible because of advancements in potion-making technology.

On the shore of Lake West Virginia, another one-star bloodline sorcerer witnessed his companion having all his bloodline essence and life force extracted by Su Nan. Then, the sorcerer actually used his companion's bloodline essence to start concocting potions!

What kind of behavior is this?!

He was so frightened that his legs went weak, and he even tried to take half a step, but he lost his balance and sat down on the lake shore.

The strange noise made Su Nan look up at him, which terrified the cultist so much that he developed PTSD.

The cultist scrambled to his feet and fled in the opposite direction from where Su Nan was standing.

He wanted to escape.

Even if it meant failing the mission and being hunted down by higher-ranking warlocks and energy creature lords, he would still run away.

Because the wizard lord in front of us is not human!

How could he be human!

How could he be a native!

He's definitely not indigenous; he's terrifying.

Seeing that the old butler Warwick had chased after him, Su Nan didn't pay any attention and focused his attention on the mental power +3 enhancement potion he was refining.

Seven minutes later, the potion that enhanced mental strength by 3 was completed. Su Nan poured the potion from the crucible into ten glass bottles.

"Did it take two extra minutes to brew because it's a new potion? Once you get the hang of it, it should only take five minutes."

Su Nan picked up a bottle of a potion that boosted mental strength by +3 and drank it down in one gulp.

Instantly, all the sunlight around was distorted and converged towards Su Nan, dimming the surrounding light.

Sunlight transforms into photons, and photons transform into high-energy energy, which is then emitted into the soul of Su Nan.

Su Nan was enveloped in a golden-blue glow.

This technique, which directly increases spiritual power and improves physical constitution at the soul level, is only possible by combining magical power with the power of the energy world.

It's likely that the original wizarding civilization wouldn't have had such an effective potion for enhancing mental power.

According to the Guardians of Or, the wizarding civilization of more than two thousand years ago had never found a way to truly subdue the creatures of the energy world.

They used other methods to win the war, and then chose to leave when the magical tide receded.

There was no time to truly understand the beings in the energy world.

Your normal mental strength has increased by 1 point, bringing your normal mental strength to 26.

Your general physical fitness level has improved by 0.5, currently standing at 2.

Su Nan was extremely satisfied. The bloodline power of a one-star sorcerer, as the catalyst for the latest mental enhancement potion, could instantly increase his mental energy by so much.

However, based on the information about wizards that the AI ​​has obtained, it is speculated that the gap between a formal wizard and a first-class wizard apprentice is far greater than the gap between a first-class wizard apprentice and a second-class wizard apprentice.

(End of this chapter)