Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 79 The Knight Madman

In other words, the mental strength data standard for becoming a formal wizard, although not yet speculated, may be frighteningly high.

It's definitely not mental strength level 30 anymore.

It may require more than 50 mental strength.

Therefore, in order to improve his mental strength as quickly as possible, Su Nan needs to obtain more sorcerer's blood essence to refine into magic potions. In this way, he can quickly improve his mental strength and reduce the time required for him to become a formal wizard.

The church knights and soldiers standing nearby were stunned when they saw Su Nan radiating light from his entire body.

Because their religion tells them that mortals cannot possess any supernatural powers.

Therefore, previous accusations against wizards and witches were either ignored or both the accused and the accuser were killed.

But now, what is happening before their eyes is causing them to have a mental breakdown.

Because of their fear of Vasilyan, they even began to waver in their faith.

Su Nan put away the crucible and had Wolf carry it in his mouth. Then he closed the carriage door and had the two obsidian bull statues follow him.

These two statues were prepared by Su Nan to deal with the Forgotten Ones.

Although it wouldn't be a life-or-death struggle with warlocks, since wizards are intelligent, Su Nan still had to be prepared for things to turn out badly, which meant he would have to fight two Forsaken directly.

Then, Su Nan looked towards the battlefield near the Death Knight Vasilyan. "Vasilyan, haven't you dealt with those few scoundrels yet?"

Vasilyang blocked the three knight's swords that were slashing at him. "I'm sorry, sir. I wanted to play a little longer."

"But since you've urged me..."

"Then there's not much need for that."

Then, he twisted the direction of his sword, causing the swords of the three church knights attacking him to be deflected, and then swung his sword again, cutting the three fine steel two-handed knight swords in two with a single stroke.

At the same time, a church knight had already circled around behind him, roaring to bolster his courage as he slashed fiercely at Vasilien while casting Storm Prayer.

"Before the storm arrives, I swear to the god of storms that I will slay all your enemies and uphold the name of the storm."

"Monster Knight, this is the Storm Sword Prayer, a move only a Church Knight can wield! You will die! You will absolutely perish from this attack..."

*Click*

The moment Vasilyan turned around, he reversed his grip on the black blade and slashed horizontally at the steel sword in the hands of the Storm Knight behind him like a whirlwind.

The steel sword in the opponent's hand was cut in half at the waist. At the same time, the chest plate of the Storm Knight's plate armor was also cleaved open by the black blade. Death energy and frost energy, along with physical damage, struck him simultaneously.

The death energy transformed into a thick black mist, which remained at the broken parts of his breastplate and the wound on his chest. Frost covered the area and seeped in through the wound, allowing the icy energy to invade his body, causing his blood to lose its temperature and his body temperature to drop drastically.

Vasilyan looked at the Storm Rider who had ambushed him from behind and said, "I let you get behind me not because you're fast enough, but because I wanted to give you hope."

"To give you hope, and then to shatter it cruelly—that is despair."

"For a desperate person, the most hateful thing is not that there is no hope at all, but that someone gives you hope and then suddenly tells you that hope is a lie."

"Do you feel my despair now, knight of the church?"

The knight looked up in horror and saw Vasilyan standing on his broken sword, preventing him from drawing it, and Vasilyan bowing down to him, his eyes, glowing crimson from within his dark armor, drawing ever closer.

"Ah!" Affected by the fear spell and due to the collapse of his own faith, the knight abandoned his two-handed knight's sword.

For a knight, his weapon is his second life; for church clergy, this sacred knight's sword is proof of his faith.

But at this moment, facing the death knight Vasilyan who was coming right up to him, he was terrified and abandoned his broken sword, hiding to the side in a state of shock.

Vasilyan turned to look behind him, drew his secondary weapon, and continued to attack the three knights who were charging at him, along with a shield phalanx of elite church soldiers who were closing in on him.

He laughed mockingly at them. "Have you really seen heaven?"

"Then I'll show you just how ridiculous this so-called heaven really is. Don't hate me; I'm just showing you the truth. But the truth is never necessarily what you want to see."

"Only lies can keep people forever trapped in sweet fantasies."

"The truth is never pleasant."

Vasilyan struck again, severing the off-hand weapons of the three veteran storm knights, leaving them somewhat bewildered.

Because their weapons had all been shattered by Vasilyan.

Are they supposed to go up and fight bare-handed, facing that terrifying black knight's sword and the dreadful death knight?

Vasilyan kicked a veteran storm knight, sending him crashing into the advancing shield phalanx of soldiers, knocking down the front of the infantry and affecting the following infantry.

In close combat, having a good weapon is crucial.

Vasilian's overall stats are only 1 higher than these veteran Church Storm Knights. Although he can completely suppress them, it's not as terrifying as what he's doing now: cutting one of their weapons in half and then crushing them.

The black sword, as a magical weapon paired with the Death Knight, is extremely powerful.

While the infantry formation was staggering, Vasilyan waved to the front, and a storm of death energy enveloped them.

During the previous battle, he had already killed more than a dozen infantrymen with his black blade.

At this moment, he used the Ghoul's Proof on the infantrymen he had killed with his black blade.

This was originally a spell that Su Nan planned to enhance later to fully realize the Death Knight's combat style. However, the current Death Knight's combat style and potion technology are far from being as mature as werewolf potions.

The summoned ghouls are weak in combat, with almost all their stats at 0.5, which is about the level of an average person.

The number 1 represents the average data of an average male human being at his peak physical condition after physical training has reached its limit. Therefore, the data of most ordinary people is far from reaching 1.

But at this moment, Vasilian's act of summoning ghouls and resurrecting the soldiers he had killed undoubtedly caused the faith of these church knights to begin to crumble.

The infantrymen stared blankly as the ghouls rose up beside them.

Some were terrified, some were confused, some were doubtful, some broke down, some screamed, and some even attacked themselves or the ghouls.

However, the ghouls are already dead, not even the neither-living nor-dead, but merely puppets manipulated by magic, their souls temporarily trapped within their bodies.

The difference between them and robots is not significant; they have very little self-awareness, only a tiny bit.

Death inevitably takes something away. Even the death pact negotiated between Su Nan and death itself required the resurrected Vasilian to pay a price, not to mention the necromancy magic that Vasilian mastered after taking the Death Knight potion.

Ghouls don't feel pain, but knights and soldiers do.

According to the doctrines of the church, their souls would go to heaven after they died, so why... why are those who died in battle being resurrected by the sorcery of wizards?

Some ghouls even utter their last words, or private information known only to themselves and their close comrades.

At this moment, everyone's faith is about to collapse.

The souls of their comrades are indeed still on this land; they have not gone to the heavens of the Storm God.

The knight who had been terrified by Vasilian collapsed to his knees in vain, supporting himself with his hands.

His long-held beliefs have crumbled.

If going to heaven is a lie, then how many lies are there in the classics?

Is the God of Storms a lie?

"Ah!" As the knight began to doubt the existence of the Storm God, his body began to convulse, contorting like an epileptic patient.

His knight companion shouted angrily, "What are you doing? Don't doubt the God of Storms!"

"Our bodies are too deeply integrated with the power of the Storm God. Ordinary knights are fine, but for those of us who have gone too far in the way of the knight, once we have doubts... we will be distorted and turn into knight monsters."

"If we just kill that monster in front of us, our faith will be restored. Before this monster appeared, we never doubted our faith. We only started to doubt it after it appeared."

"So as long as we kill him, everything will go back to the way it was before, unchanged, without any surprises or anything beyond our understanding."

Su Nan glanced at the church knight who had said those words.

It turns out this is a giant baby.

He actually needed faith to help him keep life in one moment, never changing, with neither new things nor old things disappearing.

It's likely that most people in the Storm Church, and other churches, share this view.

They never accept anything new.

He never expected that the Storm Knight, who was deeply committed to the way of chivalry, would experience a physical mutation once his faith completely collapsed.

Sunan said to Vasilyan, "Spare the life of that mutated knight. I want to see what happens in the end."

"You can kill the rest."

(End of this chapter)