Werewolf wizard

Chapter 9: Wolfsbane Potion

Summer had arrived in the Barony of Peter.

Five months had passed. Su Nan, through sending werewolf messengers and having Warwick and Pella raid caravans in Maple Leaf Town, had gathered all the materials he needed to brew the potion.

In the attic, he added the last ingredient, vervain, to the cauldron, and immediately, a green poisonous substance appeared within.

Among the seven ingredients for this Wolfsbane Potion, the most important and expensive was wolfsbane, which was rarely cultivated in the estates within the Storm Kingdom.

The other six ingredients were just common weeds.

Finally, he added a gold coin.

Su Nan poured the brewed Wolfsbane Potion into five glass bottles and placed them in the storage cabinet in the attic.

They were placed alongside the three bottles of Advanced Werewolf Curse Transformation Potion, five bottles of Steel Claw Potion, ten bottles of Sleepy Bug Potion, and seven bottles of Mental Power Enhancement Potion (+1).

The main ingredient of the Steel Claw Potion was the claws of an animal called the Iron-Eating Leopard, found within the Storm Kingdom. The rest were just five common minerals.

Finally, he added 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 the potion recipes it deduced were the best quality for the same level of brewing difficulty…

Brewing ten bottles of Sleepy Bug Potion, five bottles of Steel Claw Potion, five bottles of Wolfsbane Potion, and the Mental Power Enhancement (+1) potions over these five months allowed Su Nan to convert four units of mental power into mana.

At the same time, his mental power increased by 1 during these five months.

As a result, his mental power reached 9.8, and his mana reached 6.8.

"Wolfsbane Potion requires vervain, Steel Claw Potion requires the claws of Iron-Eating Leopards, and the Mental Power Enhancement Potion now needs licorice and ginseng the most. I need to store a large amount of these materials. The others are easy to obtain, but vervain, licorice, and ginseng all need to be planted in large quantities, requiring a lot of resources. Moreover, there's no precedent for artificially breeding Iron-Eating Leopards."

Su Nan increasingly felt that becoming a wizard required a large amount of resources. "The ingredients for the Sleepy Bug Potion are relatively simple, but crickets are seasonal insects. I need to invest in a cricket farm separately. Or, while there are many crickets in the summer, I should quickly collect enough, dry them, and store them."

"Crickets, these seemingly cheap things, are actually more difficult to obtain in non-autumn and summer seasons than the materials needed for other potions."

"It's just that collecting so many crickets will cost money again."

Su Nan now felt that without enough subordinates and territory, it was really difficult to ensure his research.

He was only dealing with relatively basic things in the world of wizards.

Moreover, the AI's logical deduction had omitted an unknown amount of resource consumption. From this perspective, the resources required to cultivate a wizard were incredibly vast.

No wonder the wizards chose to leave this barren land after the magical tides receded more than two thousand years ago.

Su Nan asked, "Are there any special things to note about the Wolfsbane Potion and Steel Claw Potion?"

[There are no special things to note about the Steel Claw Potion, but the Wolfsbane Potion uses a large amount of vervain. Wolfsbane is associated with vervain, which strengthens the toxicity of the wolfsbane, but it also makes vervain an antidote to werewolf toxins.]

[Solution 1: Use a method of mixing toxins, allowing the werewolf to apply other toxins to their claws, turning the toxin into a mixed toxin, which will weaken the effect of vervain.]

[Solution 2: Upgrade the Wolfsbane Potion recipe to create Wolfsbane Potion (+1), but please note that the Wolfsbane Potion is based on the current Werewolf Curse Transformation Potion, so the Werewolf Curse Transformation Potion must be upgraded first before the Wolfsbane Potion can be upgraded.]

[Currently, there is a severe lack of information, and there is no possibility of upgrading the Werewolf Curse Transformation Potion.]

Su Nan also knew that the different types of Werewolf Curse Transformation Potions were just individual enhancements in different functional areas.

It was not an all-around upgrade.

It was like the Mental Power Enhancement Potion; after upgrading the recipe, a ginseng would be added as the main ingredient, which would more than double the efficiency of strengthening one's mental power.

Su Nan temporarily set aside the Wolfsbane Potion. He definitely wanted his two hounds and the butler and head maid to use the Wolfsbane Potion and Steel Claw Potion.

Werewolves who didn't use these two potions were like blank-slate werewolves.

The potions he added were equivalent to adding skill slots to them.

This was a helpless move because he couldn't upgrade the Werewolf Curse Transformation Potion for the time being, due to a lack of understanding of the wizarding world.

Moreover, Su Nan suspected that the higher the level of the potion, the more precious the materials required would be.

The brewing difficulty would also be higher.

Even if he could obtain higher-level potion recipes, he wouldn't have the conditions and ability to brew them.

After cleaning the cauldron, Su Nan added clean water to it and relit the match.

After five months, he had gathered all the materials for the Hand of Sacrifice Potion.

Su Nan said, "Enter auxiliary operation mode."

In the next moment, all his small muscles and all his nerves became easily controllable under the AI's auxiliary operation.

Su Nan put on his black snakeskin gloves.

Because most of the materials used to brew the Hand of Sacrifice Potion were highly poisonous.

In terms of difficulty, this potion was also the most difficult of the nine potions he currently mastered.

Su Nan said, "List again the predicted difficulties in brewing the Hand of Sacrifice Potion."

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

[Solution: Wear gloves and be extra careful.]

[Difficulty 2: The reaction of this potion is too intense, and the extracted magic power may be dangerous. The brewing process may involve phenomena including explosions, toxic clouds, and illusions.]

[Solution: Operate carefully through the auxiliary control mode, ensuring that there are no more than two minor errors.]

[Difficulty 3: Brewing this potion may trigger more destructive magic power. According to predictions, although it seems counterintuitive, brewing the original version of this potion requires the brewer to consume five years of lifespan. The optimized recipe only requires consuming about a week of lifespan.]

[Solution: Due to insufficient data, there is currently no solution.]

Su Nan raised his eyebrows, which meant that this potion was very dangerous.

But using this potion would give his left hand powerful telekinesis.

What he currently lacked most was a means to protect himself.

The werewolf version of the potion and human body virtual machine that the AI was tailoring for him had not yet been calculated and designed.

The progress was only at 83% now.

Therefore, it was worth brewing this potion to obtain his first spell!

Su Nan took a deep breath and then began the brewing process with millisecond-level precision under the auxiliary operation mode.

First, it was belladonna, then foxglove, then mistletoe, and then, after the seventh boil of the water, he added… 10 grams of elderflower powder.

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

The liquid inside the entire cauldron seemed to ignite.

Su Nan saw a hallucination, a scene of a person being thrown into a fire pit. The person struggled in the fire pit and then completely turned into ashes.

His wails were so real that it seemed like the person was right in front of him.

But Su Nan was not affected by any of this mental pollution.

It was as if a voice appeared beside Su Nan's ear, 'Evil calls to evil, violence calls to violence, illegitimate means call to illegitimate means. You will only call to evil by using evil methods.'

'Do you think you are on the right path?'

'Evil will only call to evil, you will only call to us, we have always been the same.'

"AI, this hallucination seems to be more logical than the hallucination from the Werewolf Curse Transformation Potion."

Su Nan's hand movements were not affected in the slightest. He was very calm, as if he were a truly cold wizard, rejecting all mental pollution from affecting him.

This caused the potion in his hand to not be affected in the slightest.

It was of excellent quality.

[Insufficient data, unable to analyze. But from the current data, magic power is very subjective, which means that it is difficult to destroy and difficult to change. The same magic power may evoke a certain memory, which is transmitted to you through the magic power.]

[This kind of thing is usually just meaningless mental pollution. It may be the experiences of the person who proposed the potion recipe, or the wizards or magical creatures related to this potion. This is just a meaningless mental burden for brewing potions.]

[Detected that your mental power is rapidly converting into mana.]

[The mana converted by this method seems to be stained with the characteristics of the brewed potion.]