Werewolf wizard

Chapter 145: Two Methods to Increase Mental Strength and Speed

In the attic of the castle, Su Nan looked at the cauldron in front of him. This was a pot of Life Essence Concentration Potion, already completely refined.

Next, Su Nan placed the Aether Stone he had obtained from the underground world into it.

In just a moment, the Aether Stone melted into the potion like ice meeting a raging flame.

A unique energy was released from the Aether Stone, a magical energy that Su Nan had never encountered on the surface.

Su Nan poured the potion mixed with the Aether Stone into a glass bottle and drank it all in one gulp. Instantly, he gained a large amount of life essence. Every cell felt extremely comfortable, filled with an excessive amount of life energy, which then transformed into Su Nan's mental strength limit.

【Your mental strength limit has increased by 1. Your current mental strength is 61.02.】

Su Nan raised his eyebrows and looked at the two remaining Aether Stones. This stone could actually enhance the effects of the potion he refined.

It should be the effect of the special magical element that only exists in the underground world.

This element should be called the Aether Element.

Independent of the four major elements of earth, water, fire, and wind, it is an element called Aether.

This element can not only change the shape of objects and creatures but also enhance the effects of his two mental strength-enhancing potions.

Su Nan said, "There are still two more."

"Each can increase my mental strength by 2 points."

"But since even a Lizardman chieftain in the underground world can hold five Aether Stones, it means there are a large number of Aether ore veins in the underground world. Although Aether Stones are not abundant, they are not very rare either."

"It seems I must try to enter the underground world. There, I can find the natural ore of the fifth element I need: the Aether Element."

Su Nan used the second Aether Stone as a raw material and quickly refined a pot of mental strength enhancement +4 potion. Then, he drank it, increasing his mental strength by another point.

Now, his mental strength is 62.02.

At the same time, Su Nan looked at the ground of the castle beneath his feet. Because there were now over a hundred Sacrificial Stone Golem lives, the castle and the golems complemented each other, and his castle was also stained with the feedback from so many Sacrificial Stone Golems.

Now, the castle had gradually begun to have some characteristics of life.

At the same time, Su Nan discovered that Sacrificial Stone magic would absorb scattered soul fragments from the air to fill the inside of the golems, giving them life and soul.

This led to Peter Castle gradually developing the ability to automatically gather scattered soul fragments from the air.

This speed of absorbing soul fragments was still increasing as he built more golems.

As a result, Peter Castle became a 【Spiritually Dense Land】 in a sense.

Practicing meditation techniques in this spiritually dense land would become much faster, and learning meditation techniques could also increase mental strength. So, this was Su Nan's second method to increase the speed of mental strength growth.

If this continued, the soul energy gathered in Peter Castle would become more and more abundant, making the soul energy here heavier and heavier.

This was an unexpected gain for Su Nan.

As the number and quality of his golems increased, he didn't know what Peter Castle would be fed back into.

This could be considered a magical transformation he had unintentionally completed on Peter Castle.

Su Nan walked down from the castle and went to the location where Vassilyan lived on the third floor. He entered Vassilyan's room, and Vassilyan emerged from his meditation.

To Su Nan's surprise, the Death Knight Vassilyan had a talent for meditation techniques. He had already mastered the basics of the "Words of the Dead" meditation technique in the past few days. At the same time, due to the 【Spiritually Dense Land】, it also accelerated his speed of practicing meditation techniques.

Su Nan scanned Vassilyan and found that his mental strength and mana had reached the level of 20.5. The extra 0.5 mental strength was the result of his own practice.

Su Nan asked Vassilyan, "It seems you are very suitable for learning the 'Words of the Dead' meditation technique. Drink this potion."

Vassilyan took the potion Su Nan threw over and drank it all in one gulp.

Su Nan said, "This is the 'Specter Scholar's Command Potion'. It can grant you the ability to summon a Specter Scholar from the corpses killed by the Black Blade."

"The Specter Scholar doesn't have many abilities, but when the Specter Scholar passes through the opponent's body, it can freeze the opponent into an ice block, and then the Specter Scholar disappears."

"This is the last piece of the 'Death Three Summons' skill series."

In this way, Vassilyan could summon ghosts, skeletons, and zombies (ghouls) from the bodies of enemies killed by the Black Blade.

At the same time, this was a pre-designed combination skill.

When the Death Knight possesses all three additional abilities at the same time, the three magics will combine with each other to form a conjugate magic combination.

At the same time, it will increase the summoning quantity of these three necromantic magics. In this way, when Vassilyan uses the 'Centurion Skeleton's Command', he can summon four skeleton warriors from one corpse; when using the 'Specter Scholar's Command', he can summon two Specter Scholars from one corpse; when using the 'Ghoul's Testimony', he can transform two ghouls at once.

Vassilyan said to Su Nan, "Thank you for granting me new power, my master."

Su Nan nodded. "Follow me to the dungeon. I want to personally interrogate those monsters from the underground world."

… …

In the dungeon, the monster armies of the underground world, who were long accustomed to capturing and being captured, had all entered a state of giving up.

How active they were when attacking the surface world, how much they are giving up now.

After all, in the underground world, it is very common for defeated armies to be treated as various slaves and sold everywhere.

Sometimes, they would be used as gladiators in the arena. Sometimes, they would become soldiers again. Of course, sometimes, they would become slave laborers mining in the mines.

In the prison cell, as Su Nan led Vassilyan into it, the Gray Dwarves, Lizardmen, Minotaurs, and Goblins all looked over and stared at Vassilyan in horror.

Su Nan walked to the Lizardman General's cell and asked the Lizardman General, who was chained to the wall, "Alright, we finally meet in person."

"So, I want to ask you a few questions."

The Lizardman General's pupils shrank instantly. From Su Nan's tone, he could tell that the arcanist who had spoken to him before was very likely the young man in front of him.

It turned out that he had not even directly seen Su Nan before.

However, the Lizardman General quickly figured it out. That's right, how could a creature of his level have met an arcanist directly before?

"Great Arcanist, please speak…" The Lizardman General did not resist in any way, nor did he have any reason to resist. The underground world adopted a slave system. Although the method of obtaining an army was very simple, slaves had no loyalty or honor to speak of.

Now that he had been captured by Su Nan, this Lizardman General naturally had no need to keep any secrets.

Su Nan asked, "Describe what the underground world is like. How many wizards do you have? Are there countries and religions?"

The Lizardman General shook his head. "Great Arcanist, we have no countries, no regimes. The underground world only has slave-owning main cities. We have no religion either. We only obey the Matriarch of each main city."

"As for wizards…"

A trace of deep-seated fear flashed in the Lizardman General's eyes. "Great Arcanist, why do you mention those harbingers of doom, the source of destruction—the most evil wizards in the world?"

Su Nan raised his eyebrows in confusion.

Arcanists clearly evolved from wizards.

Yet this Lizardman was so afraid of wizards, it seemed that something must have happened in the underground world that the original batch of wizards could not control.