Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 9 Wolfsbane Elixir

Summer has arrived in Baron Peter's domain.

Five months had passed by then. Su Nan had gathered all the materials he needed to make potions by sending werewolf messengers and Warwick and Pera to plunder caravans in Maple Leaf Town.

Inside the attic, he added the last potion ingredient, verbena, to the cauldron, and immediately green poison material appeared inside.

Of the seven ingredients in this wolfsbane potion, the most important and most expensive is the wolfsbane herb, which is rarely grown in the Storm Kingdom's manor.

The other six ingredients are just some common wild grasses.

Finally, add a gold coin.

Su Nan poured the refined wolfsbane medicine into five glass bottles and then placed them in a storage cabinet in the attic.

It was placed together with the three bottles of High-Level Werewolf Curse Conversion Potion, five bottles of Steel Claw Potion, ten bottles of Sleepy Potion, and seven bottles of Mental Enhancement Potion (+1).

The main ingredient of the Steel Claw Potion is the claw of an animal called the Iron-Eating Leopard in the Storm Kingdom, and the rest are just five common ores.

Finally, add a gold coin.

Su Nan felt that all the potion recipes deduced by the AI ​​seemed to rely too much on gold coins, but the AI ​​insisted that its deduced potion recipes were the best in quality for the same level of difficulty...

By crafting ten bottles of Sleepy Insect Potion, five bottles of Steel Claw Potion, five bottles of Wolfsbane Potion, and the Mental Strength Enhancement (+1) Potion from the past five months, Su Nan gained four units of mental strength, which were then converted into mana.

Meanwhile, his mental strength increased by 1 during those five months.

As a result, his mental strength reached 9.8 and his magical strength reached 6.8.

"The Wolfsbane Potion requires Verbena, the Steel Claw Potion requires the claws of the Iron-Eating Leopard, and the Mental Enhancement Potion currently needs licorice and ginseng the most. I need to store large quantities of these materials. The others are easy to deal with, but Verbena, licorice, and ginseng all need to be cultivated in large quantities, requiring a lot of resources. Furthermore, there is no precedent for artificially breeding the Iron-Eating Leopard."

Su Nan increasingly felt that becoming a wizard required a lot of resources. "The ingredients for the sleep potion are relatively simple, but crickets are seasonal insects, so I would need to invest in a separate cricket farm. Or I should take advantage of the summer when there are plenty of crickets, quickly collect enough, dry them, and store them."

"Crickets, which seem cheap, are actually harder to obtain outside of autumn and summer than other materials needed for potions."

"But collecting so many crickets will cost money."

Su Nan now feels that without enough subordinates and territory, it is really difficult to guarantee his research.

This is still a relatively basic level of what I'm learning in the wizarding world.

Moreover, the AI's logical deductions omit an unknown amount of resource consumption, so it seems that the resources required to cultivate a wizard are enormous.

No wonder the wizards chose to leave this barren land after the tide of magic receded more than two thousand years ago.

Su Nan asked, "Are there any special precautions to take with the Wolfsbane Potion and the Steel Claw Potion?"

There's nothing particularly noteworthy about the Steel Claw, but the Wolfsbane potion uses a large amount of verbena. This links the Wolfsbane to verbena, increasing its potency but also making verbena the antidote for the werewolf's venom.

[Solution 1: Use a mixed toxin method. Have the werewolf apply other toxins to its claws, creating a mixed toxin that will weaken the effect of verbena.]

[Solution 2: Upgrade the Wolfsbane Potion recipe to craft Wolfsbane Potion (+1). However, please note that Wolfsbane Potion is based on the current Werewolf Curse Conversion Potion, so you must upgrade the Werewolf Curse Conversion Potion first before you can upgrade Wolfsbane Potion.]

[Currently, there is a severe lack of information, making it impossible to upgrade the Werewolf Curse Conversion Potion.]

Su Nan also knew that the different types of werewolf curse conversion potions were simply individual enhancements in different functional areas.

It's not a comprehensive upgrade.

It's like a mental enhancement potion. After the formula is upgraded, a ginseng will be added as the main ingredient, which more than doubles the efficiency of enhancing one's mental strength.

Su Nan temporarily put the wolfsbane potion aside; he was definitely going to have his two hunting dogs, the butler, and the head maid use both the wolfsbane potion and the steel claw potion.

A werewolf who doesn't use these two potions is like a blank werewolf.

Adding potions yourself is equivalent to adding skill slots for them.

This is a helpless measure taken because we currently cannot upgrade the werewolf curse conversion potion due to our limited understanding of the Wizarding World.

Moreover, Su Nan suspected that the higher the potion's grade, the more precious the materials required.

The higher the difficulty of refining, the more difficult it is.

Even if I could obtain a more advanced potion recipe, I wouldn't have the resources or ability to refine it.

After cleaning the crucible, Su Nan added water to it and then relit the match.

After five months, he gathered all the ingredients for the potion of the sacrificial hand.

Su Nan said, "Enter auxiliary operation mode."

The next moment, all his small muscles and nerves became easily controllable with the assistance of the AI.

Su Nan put on his black snakeskin gloves.

Because most of the ingredients used to concoct the Sacrificial Hand potion are highly poisonous.

In terms of difficulty, this potion is the most difficult of the nine potions I currently possess.

Su Nan said, "Let me list again the predicted difficulties in refining the Sacrificial Hand potion."

[Challenge 1: Most of the materials are highly poisonous.]

Solution: Wear gloves and exercise extreme caution.

[Difficulty 2: This potion reacts too violently, and the extracted magic power may be dangerous. The refining process may result in phenomena including explosions, the formation of toxic clouds, and hallucinations.]

[Solution: Use the assisted control mode and operate carefully to ensure that minor errors do not occur more than twice.]

[Difficulty Three: Crafting this potion might unleash even more destructive magical power. According to predictions, although it seems counterintuitive, crafting the original potion requires the crafter to expend five years of their lifespan. The optimized formula only requires about one week of lifespan.]

[Solution: Not available at this time due to insufficient information.]

Su Nan raised an eyebrow, which meant that this potion was dangerous.

However, using this potion can grant one's left hand powerful telekinesis.

What I currently lack most is the means to protect myself.

The werewolf version of the potion and the human virtual machine that the AI ​​tailored for me have not yet been calculated and designed.

The current progress is only 83%.

Therefore, it is worthwhile to brew this potion and acquire your first witchcraft!

Su Nan took a deep breath, and then, in the auxiliary operation mode, began the refining process with millisecond precision.

First, belladonna, then foxglove, then mistletoe, and then after the water boils for the seventh time, add... 10 grams of elderberry powder.

In an instant, the liquid inside the crucible turned black.

The liquid inside the crucible seemed to be burning.

Su Nan saw a vision: a person being thrown into a fire pit, struggling inside before turning to ashes.

His wails were so real, it was as if the person was right in front of you.

But southern Jiangsu was not affected by this spiritual pollution.

It was as if a voice appeared in Su Nan's ear: "Evil calls for evil, violence calls for violence, and unjust means call for unjust means. The only thing you'll summon with evil methods is evil."

Do you really think you're on the right track?

"Evil only calls for evil; you only call for us. We've always been the same."

"AI, this illusion seems more logical than the one from when the werewolf curse was used to convert into a potion."

Su Nan's movements were not affected in the slightest; he remained extremely calm, like a true, cold-blooded wizard, rejecting all mental pollution from influencing him.

This meant that the potion in his hand was completely unaffected.

Excellent quality.

[Insufficient data for analysis. However, based on current information, magic is a highly subjective phenomenon, meaning it is difficult to eliminate or alter. The same magic might evoke certain memories, which can then be transmitted to you through the magic.]

This kind of thing is usually just meaningless mental pollution. It might be something experienced by the person who created the potion recipe, or by the wizards or monsters associated with the potion. It's just a meaningless mental burden for potion brewing.

[Your mental energy is being rapidly converted into mana.]

The magical power generated through this method seems to have acquired the properties of the concocted potions.

(End of this chapter)