Werewolf wizard

Chapter 7: Obtaining Two New Potion Recipes

Maple Leaf Town, the location of the Town Council.

Originally, Baron Old Peter obtained a loan of 30,000 gold coins from the royal family to build this town, so the entire town's architecture was specially planned.

All are red brick and white walls.

On this ancient land, stands such a town of red brick and white walls, hence the town was named Maple Leaf Town.

It's just that Baron Old Peter didn't expect that as the Storm Kingdom's king faced the call of the Bulgarian Butcher from the north, he would die in that war, and with his death, Maple Leaf Town also became independent.

At this time, the mayor of Maple Leaf Town, Shokat, looked at the two corpses carried in on stretchers with a livid face.

One was his son's.

The other was the leader of the robber gang, a Law Knight squire.

The captain of the Town Council's militia team, Donnett, said with regret: "Mayor, when we arrived, the entire bandit stronghold had been burned to the ground. That's the situation. Please accept my condolences. May the Storm God bless you, I..."

He couldn't continue.

Because Mayor Shokat was staring at him, filled with hatred. "This is my only son, and I'm almost fifty this year. How do you expect me to accept this with condolences?"

"If I pray to the Storm God, will my son come back to life?"

Mayor Shokat realized his slip of the tongue, and although there weren't many people in the Town Council hall at the moment, the town's church priest was still here, so he coughed and suppressed his grief, explaining.

"I don't mean any disrespect to the Storm God. I mean, I want to know, who killed my son?"

"What weapons did they use?"

"Are all the robbers dead?"

The militia captain said with a stiff neck: "The situation is also strange. Your son... the bodies of the robbers all have marks of some kind of animal claws."

"There are also bite marks."

"It looks like wolf claws and teeth, but if we compare the size of the claw marks and teeth marks, then these wolves seem too big."

"Moreover, can a pack of wolves really wipe out a bandit stronghold?"

Mayor Shokat widened his eyes in disbelief, his muscles tensing. "Are you saying that the one who killed my only son wasn't even a person, just a group of animals from who knows where?"

"I can't even find an object for revenge?"

"Captain."

The town's priest walked to the two corpses, looking at the wounds on the bodies with suspicion. "If you say wolves can kill ordinary people, I believe it."

"But you say wolves can kill this Law Knight squire. I don't believe it."

The militia captain said: "Then, Father, can you tell me who did it?"

The priest pursed his lips; he had no clue either.

Mayor Shokat's mind worked quickly. "It's also possible that someone used a weapon like wolf claws."

"Let's deduce from the results, who would kill that group of robbers?"

"Who would deliberately kill my son?"

"Those who have grudges with us won't have grudges with the robbers, and those who have grudges with the robbers won't have grudges with us."

"The only one who has grudges with both the robbers and us... is that Peter the Younger Baron?"

Hearing the mayor's speculation, both the priest and the militia captain rolled their eyes.

Mayor Shokat also took a half step back, quickly denying his own idea. "But that's not right either. Where would that half-grown kid get such great ability?"

"No, I don't care. Anyway, anyone related to my son's death, even if it's just a little bit, must pay the price."

"Regardless of whether the baron is innocent, I will take revenge on him."

"Just you wait! I will find the murderer who killed my son sooner or later!"

The militia captain and the priest exchanged a look, both maintaining their rationality, not reminding the irrational mayor at this time.

Maple Leaf Town belongs to the Town Council, and the Town Council is not the mayor's one-man show.

Previously, in order to resist the young baron and the three knights, everyone elected the mayor, but if it's for the mayor's personal revenge, it's uncertain whether the heads of the major guilds in Maple Leaf Town will continue to support him.

But both of them tacitly didn't say this out loud.

If the mayor is so stupid that he can't even see this, then Maple Leaf Town really needs to change a mayor.

The militia captain continued to look at the two corpses, and when he saw the horrific claw marks and the terrified expressions on the two bodies, his shoulders couldn't help but tremble.

Is this really the result of normal combat?

What exactly did these two see before they died?

Storm God above, he must be thinking nonsense, besides, there are many churches in the town.

There is even a district church led by a main priest, which can radiate to the surrounding scattered human settlements, as well as churches in some backward territories' villages.

With the main priest present, there shouldn't be any supernatural things.

......

In the attic at the highest point of Baron Peter's castle, Su Nan was very satisfied. Now, his mental strength, after taking the mental strength enhancement potion, had reached 8.8.

Although he didn't have the orthodox methods of wizards to increase his mental strength, he had found another way to forge a crooked path by dosing himself with potions.

Su Nan said: "Brain, check the reason why my mental strength is increasing faster. Is the potion's effect enhanced for me?"

"Unexpected situation occurred during the design of the potion formula. Werewolves seem to be able to slightly increase their strength in killing, and through the pack effect, you shared the mana they gained from increasing their abilities when killing, thus driving your mental strength to increase as well."

"According to speculation, the problem may be that the full moon moonlight was used as the last ingredient when designing the potion. Associating werewolves with the full moon moonlight caused a special situation to occur."

"Currently, there is insufficient data, and it is temporarily unknown where the upper limit of the werewolf's ability to improve through killing lies, but the improvement is very weak, and there are signs of speed decay, so the impact is not very large."

Su Nan nodded.

But as the terminal of the pack effect, he was enjoying the mana shared when the entire pack improved their abilities, so in just one night, he improved his mental strength by 0.1.

The Brain speculated that the mental strength of wizards was at least above 10, and now he was already at 8.8.

Su Nan said: "What about the task I gave you before, to accelerate the deduction of a potion formula that can further improve my mental strength? What's the progress?"

"Mental Strength Enhancement Potion Formula Upgrade (+1) Project, progress: 97%"

"Originally, the progress was only 40%. Important information was obtained from the book materials collected last night, and rapid breakthroughs were made."

Su Nan raised his eyebrows.

Last night, they took back a large amount of grain that the villagers had been robbed of by the bandits, and by the way, they also plundered the bandits' inventory in reverse.

The harvest alone reached 300 gold coins, which made the old butler and the head maid very happy.

At the same time, he also obtained a batch of ancient books that the bandits had plundered from an ancient church.

These ancient books were not written in common language, but in some kind of ancient script.

But the Brain had already cracked similar ancient scripts, so it quickly deciphered the contents of this batch of books and scanned them.

But unexpectedly, the content in this batch of books was so useful.

Su Nan said: "Besides that, what other information related to wizards have we obtained?"

From that batch of ancient books, I obtained some information that seemed to be related to wizards. From those books (a total of seventy-three), I analyzed and pieced together two complete and usable magic potions, and eliminated seven trap-type potion recipes.

At the same time, after excluding a large amount of useless and misleading information, I obtained a hidden piece, similar to a diary written by a wizard, from which I deduced that even wizards have strengths and weaknesses.

According to the current available information, it can be inferred that there are different levels among wizards. Before becoming a formal wizard, there are Third-Class Wizard Apprentices, Second-Class Wizard Apprentices, and First-Class Wizard Apprentices.

Moreover, there seems to be a special magic potion required between a First-Class Wizard Apprentice and a formal wizard. According to speculation, this ritual should be a very scarce resource in the wizarding world.

Su Nan raised his eyebrows. "Then, a mental strength of 10 or more is equivalent to a Third-Class Wizard Apprentice, or a formal wizard?"

Currently, it is impossible to speculate. Because there is a severe lack of relevant information, any deduction will be distorted. In the most ideal situation, it is very likely that a mental strength of 10 is just the minimum standard of mental strength for a Third-Class Wizard Apprentice.

Considering the comprehensive situation, this analysis is very likely to be completely wrong, overestimating the mental strength of the wizards.

Su Nan understood.

However, it seems that I have no way to judge my current strength relative to a real wizard.

I didn't expect that exterminating a bandit stronghold would bring me such a great harvest.

But that's also true.

Those bandits travel north and south, and in the long time of robbery, they may have robbed some things related to wizards.

But they have neither the knowledge nor the ability to interpret those books.

To find one or two truly useful things from millions of words.

Su Nan said: "What are the two magic potion recipes that were analyzed?"

[1, Sleepy Bug Potion.]

[2, Hand of Sacrifice Potion.]

[1, Only about half of the original Sleepy Bug Potion was obtained. Because it was too incomplete, only the remaining half could be deduced through context and related content. Because there were relevant experimental records of the Sleepy Bug Potion, the original potion recipe was quickly reverse-engineered and some effects were optimized.]

[The expected effect of this potion is to throw the potion bottle, creating a certain insect swarm-like potion mist that penetrates into the enemy's nose, causing the enemy to experience about five minutes of moderate sleep.]

[There are only five simple materials: 10 grams of kudzu grass, 5 grams of lavender, 3 grams of willow leaves, one silver coin, and one cricket.]

[It can be added to water, and the magic power can be extracted by specific heating, and it can be transformed into a Sleepy Bug Potion through your magic power and specific spells.]

[The preparation of this potion requires a magic power foundation, estimated to require one unit of magic power, but you now have three units of magic power.]

Su Nan raised his eyebrows. Collecting the other materials is only slightly cumbersome. Willow leaves, kudzu grass, crickets, etc., can always be found if you go to the forest in this rural place.

No wonder wizards in fairy tales like to wander around in uninhabited wilderness.

Only that silver coin, that is really using money to make magic potions.

It seems that making magic potions really requires a lot of resources.

Then, Maple Leaf Town, I really need to take it down.

Su Nan asked strangely: "The mental strength enhancement potion and the werewolf curse potion did not require magic power. Why does this Sleepy Bug Potion need it?"

[There is a serious lack of information, the reason is unknown, but it is necessary from the existing information.]

[Speculation 1: The previous two were not immediate offensive potions.]

[Speculation 2: The Sleepy Bug Potion is a negative status potion, completely opposite to the previous two potions.]

Su Nan thought for a while and stopped dwelling on this issue.

He is now severely lacking in information. Anyway, he already knows that by refining certain powerful potions, his mental strength will also be converted into magic power.

Although he doesn't have any meditation methods or spell models, he can still see the door to wizardry through this evil and unorthodox method.

[The second potion, Hand of Sacrifice. This potion recipe is well preserved, but the refining method is too difficult. Therefore, after a lot of deduction, the refining method was simplified and the necessity of a child sacrifice was removed.]

[After proper optimization, it can be predicted that the potion itself has been strengthened instead.]

[The reason why such a quick deduction can be made is because there is also experimental data on this potion in the books you obtained from the bandits. Strangely, the recipe obtained through reverse deduction seems to be closer to the original recipe of this potion. This potion recipe seems to have been modified, but the power has not been enhanced. Instead, it has been weakened during the modification, the function has become strange, and the refining difficulty and cost have increased.]

[You can soak three bottles of Hand of Sacrifice on your left hand, and soak them on your left hand every night for three nights.]

[You can get a left hand that can use telekinesis.]

[The more severely you are injured, the more powerful this telekinesis will be.]

[There are nine kinds of materials needed——]

[A set of herbs: 1, Belladonna; 2, Foxglove; 3, Elderflower powder; 4, Mistletoe.]

[A set of minerals: 1, Malachite; 2, Lapis Lazuli; 3, Hematite; 4, Labradorite.]

[Ten gold coins.]

Seeing that ten gold coins were needed, Su Nan was stunned for a moment. "Why does the Hand of Sacrifice potion need to use so many gold coins?"

[From the current information and situation, the number of gold coins used is not related to the strength of the potion.]

[This is related to the design of the potion itself, and also to the function to be achieved.]

Su Nan nodded.

Both of these potions are particularly useful, and it is best to refine them in a short period of time.

It's just that these materials are too mixed, and the people in my castle and that village may not be able to collect them all.

With so many materials, someone must be sent to the market in the nearby commercial town of Maple Leaf Town to buy them all at once.

The Sleepy Bug Potion can be used as an alternative attack method for myself and my wolf subordinates, and it should be very useful. It is a rigid demand.

The Hand of Sacrifice potion can improve my single combat ability. Although I haven't found witchcraft, I can barely replace it with potions.

At the same time, the smart brain is still using most of its computing power to upgrade the mental strength enhancement potion, the Iron Claw potion, and the wolf poison potion.

Su Nan plans to wait for the smart brain to finish deducing the recipes before going to the Maple Leaf Town market to collect all the potions at once.

Moreover, since the mental strength enhancement potion can be upgraded (+1) recipe, and there are levels among wizards, it is conceivable that there must also be level differences in potions.

The werewolf curse potion series should also need to be upgraded in the future.

Su Nan looked at the two hunting dogs squatting next to the attic and sleeping, whistled, and then ordered: "You go to the commercial road near Maple Leaf Town at night and attack all the Maple Leaf Town caravans."

"Take protecting yourself and avoiding being seen as the primary goal."

I don't have the energy to directly manage Maple Leaf Town for the time being, but as the price for them letting the bandits attack my village, let the two werewolf messengers teach them a lesson first.

At the same time, Su Nan looked at the window and said: "Smart brain, what is the wizard's diary that was obtained? Can we know from it whether there are still wizards in this world?"

"Have those wizards all died, or left, or are they hiding in some corner of this world?!"