Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 84 The Garden Labyrinth of the Formal Wizard!

Su Nan soon made a new discovery, because next to the blood-stained mushroom, there was a stone tablet as tall as a person.

The stone tablet is in the form of a tombstone, covered with withered vines, and looks like both a road sign and a tombstone.

Perhaps it's a combination of both.

There was a bloody handprint on the tombstone, like a child's bloody handprint.

Su Nan placed his palm on it remotely, compared it, and confirmed that it was the handprint of the little girl next to the coca wizard.

Because she was the only child to enter the wizard's ruins, and her blood contained residual magical power.

But what does it mean that the other party deliberately left their bloodstained handprint on the tombstone?

Just as Su Nan was about to lift the vines covering the tombstone, the old butler Warwick stopped him, saying, "Young master, let me do it."

"This subspace is full of unknowns, and you cannot risk it yourself. It is our duty as servants to explore the right path for you."

Su Nan nodded to him.

Warwick partially transformed and used his wolf claws to tear the vines off the tombstone.

Suddenly, the inscription on the tombstone was revealed.

Su Nan immediately recognized it as an ancient script: "This is the script of the Galatian Kingdom more than two thousand years ago."

"It says that everything of a great pioneer is buried here, but now this great pioneer has grown weary and has finally chosen to rest after years of pursuing the truth."

"The deceased is gone; those who come after should not disturb his eternal rest."

"Now I know the fate of the Oak Wizard." Su Nan thought for a moment and said, "It seems that this formal wizard died, and after his death, he used this former laboratory as his burial site and had his descendants bury him here. I estimate that there are more tombstones like this than just here."

"They're all over the lab."

"Let's go, keep going, and see if we can get out of this maze. Blom is currently exploring another area, so there's no need to meet up for now. Splitting into two teams will be more efficient."

The troops continued to advance, but after about half an hour, Sunan suddenly stopped, and Vasilyan looked at Sunan in confusion.

Vasilyan asked, "Lord Sunan, why are we stopping?"

Su Nan shook his head. "There's no need to go any further. This maze is a trap; if we keep going like this, we'll never get out."

"Mr. Warwick, you must have noticed."

The old butler, Warwick, explained to the puzzled Vasilyan, "Yes, Mr. Vasilyan, the magical plants in this labyrinth have been moving silently."

"Wherever we go, they automatically generate a corresponding maze. In other words, it's a maze we can never escape."

Upon hearing this, Vasilyan immediately summoned his black sword and cleaved down a giant plant with a single strike. "Then cut right through these plants! Just cut straight through!"

But then, he suddenly jumped back, and the broken branch of the rose bush he had cut down, which was as big as a house, took root and sprouted quickly after hitting the ground, and in a very short time, a complete rose bush grew back.

It's as big as a house.

At the same time, the tombstone, which had been hidden behind the rose bushes, was revealed. Su Nan looked at the tombstone and read the inscription: "Intruders, you have defiled the great wizard and disturbed his eternal slumber."

"You will all pay the price."

"Be terrified, for the graves of our great teacher must not be defiled, and our anger will not vanish because of your screams and cries of terror."

"You will all pay the price, in this life and beyond, without exception."

"Unless you obtain three keys to the Tree of Life."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow, seemingly unconcerned about the warning on the tombstone. He didn't care whether it was a school's headquarters, a laboratory, or a cemetery; once he entered, he would plunder the place. Besides, this was his territory, and everything within it belonged to him.

Vasilyan said to Sunan, "Master, the plants here seem to grow rapidly, and it seems impossible to destroy this maze by brute force."

Su Nan said, "This is very likely a defensive maze set up by a formal wizard, so of course it's powerful. But you're wrong. The plant's rapid growth just made it appear as if its growth rate had been accelerated."

"This could easily fool those whose magical skills aren't high enough. But I just saw through the trick."

Vasilyan looked at Sunan, puzzled. "Master?"

Su Nan pointed to the newly grown rose bush and said, "The growth rate of the plants has not been accelerated, but time in this local area has been accelerated."

"The timeline of this maze..."

"Modified by magic."

"I estimate that as long as plants are cut down here, time in the corresponding area will be accelerated, and then the cut-down plants will regrow within this accelerated time zone."

"But if this can be achieved, the flow of time in different areas of this garden maze could very well be different."

Seeing that Vasilyan and the old butler Warwick hadn't reacted yet, Su Nan explained, "What I mean is that time is distorted in this maze."

"For example, if we, the Church, the warlocks, and the Forsaken enter separately, the time difference may seem to be only an hour, but it is very likely that a very long time has passed for the Church, the warlocks, and the Forsaken."

Su Nan said, "Everyone be careful. This Four Seasons Garden is much more difficult to deal with than we imagined. It seems that the Oak Wizard doesn't want anyone to get his relics so easily."

Vasilyan sheathed his black sword. "I see. Lord Sunan, no matter what happens, I will protect you."

Warwick asked, "Young master, what are the three keys mentioned on the stone tablet?"

Su Nan thought for a moment. "It looks like something that can help you escape the maze; it might be some kind of clue. Although I don't know why I'd need a clue."

"If you want the laboratory/cemetery to be completely undisturbed, and even if someone accidentally breaks in, you can trap them in a maze, then there's absolutely no need to give any hints."

Warwick said, "Is it to give their school's apprentices a hint to enter the cemetery and laboratory? That doesn't make sense. Their school's apprentices shouldn't need to go into a maze."

"But let's not talk about that now, Master. Where should we look for the key?"

"Hmm? Master, your two super werewolf messengers seem to have smelled something."

Su Nan immediately looked at Wolf One and Wolf Two. Not only them, but also the eight werewolf deacons, who, with their powerful sense of smell, had bypassed the fragrance of the flowers in the garden and smelled something.

The werewolves howled and ran ahead, with Su Nan and the others immediately following.

They walked through a tall patch of wild grass and found the bodies of the church soldiers in a field overgrown with mushrooms.

These corpses were covered in mushrooms.

Su Nan glanced at it. "It seems that after the Bishop of Achaia led his troops into the garden, all of his soldiers were wiped out. As for the knights, it's hard to say."

"The culprit is... a spore in the air."

"These airborne spores can enter our bodies and then have a fatal effect on our bodies at some point."

Su Nan wasn't too concerned. His werewolf army was incredibly immortal and wouldn't be killed by these spores; at most, they would just be less mobile.

Death Knights were never truly alive.

The golems are completely immune to the spell damage from these fungal spores.

However, he still pondered why only the fungal spores released by the giant mushroom in this area could kill these soldiers.

Since this is a giant ecosystem, there must be mutually restraining niche relationships.

This is the key to a complete ecosystem.

After scanning the surrounding plants, Su Nan suddenly realized that there were no roses as large as the houses that were commonly seen in other parts of the garden.

"It's that kind of rose, the fragrance of that kind of rose, that can neutralize the parasitic spores released by these mushrooms."

Su Nan immediately ordered a werewolf deacon to turn back, pick a petal from a giant rose, and then, relying on its super sense of smell, return to the original spot.

With a slight thought, Su Nan set up the crucible and began to refine rose essential oil from the rose petals.

"Better safe than sorry."

"To prevent any issues with the rose fragrance, I'll first use my potion-making knowledge to refine it and eliminate any potential risks."

……

On the other side of the Four Seasons Garden, the Bishop of the Achaia Diocese of the Church of Storms gritted his teeth as he swept over the massive plants and enormous insects around him.

They've been trapped here for six months!

His soldiers and knights had all died in other parts of this god-given place, leaving him with only three knights of divine favor who were on the verge of extinction.

At the same time, he also had an illegitimate child with him.

During this time, they could only eat the plants in the garden to fill their stomachs, but even so, they had reached their limit.

They had just killed a mantis the size of an elephant together. The bishop was now disheveled and no longer looked smug. He beckoned to his illegitimate son and then gave him the necklace he was wearing.

Borgia looked worried and said softly, "Bishop...Father, what are you doing?"

The bishop coughed a few times. "This is a token of our family's heritage."

"If I can't get out of this wretched place, then our family will depend on you. Borgia, you must make more friends and fewer enemies in the future. That Sunan Peter outside, perhaps you can become his friend."

"This place is different from any other place we've encountered related to wizards before; it's much more dangerous."

"This wretched land of sorcerers, God of Storms, why don't you unleash your thunder and destroy this terrible, sinful place..."

"This place is so sinful, completely different from the life we ​​know."

Borgia looked at the bishop with concern, then comforted him. "Father, we will definitely get out of here."

"It definitely can."

(End of this chapter)