Werewolf wizard

Chapter 2 Death Knight Potion Project

Storm Kingdom, Year 57, Autumn.

During this time, Su Nan recorded all the books in the Maple Leaf Town Library and, in a month, regained control of Maple Leaf Town.

He did not disband the town council. After all, in the Storm Kingdom, any town with a little money had its own town council.

As long as Maple Leaf Town handed over taxes to him every year.

The old butler, Warwick, calculated Maple Leaf Town's income over the past decade, believing that if taxed at the normal tenth of commercial tax, Maple Leaf Town could bring Su Nan at least 1000 gold coins each year.

If he wanted to squeeze Maple Leaf Town dry, he could completely multiply this value several times through some short-sighted operations.

Meanwhile, in this month, Su Nan tried his best to restore the trade scale that Maple Leaf Town had lost in the past half year, especially during the rule of Guss Pasha.

However, it wouldn't be possible to fully recover in a short time.

To recover, it would take at least half a year or more.

The three major guild leaders of Maple Leaf Town, the Weavers' Guild, the Furriers' Guild, and the Carpenters' Guild, all re-pledged their allegiance to Su Nan.

At the same time, the lords and people of Guss Pasha and Harlan Knight's territories, upon learning of their defeat and Su Nan's re-declaration of the entire territory, immediately surrendered and, along with five villages, wanted to return to their so-called 'correct' allegiance.

Harlan had no children.

But Guss Pasha had a bunch of lovers, who bore him a bunch of children. According to the old butler's investigation, even Guss Pasha himself couldn't be sure if they were his bloodline.

Perhaps some were simply the children of those lovers, mixed with sand and mud, with other men.

Su Nan had no concerns about Guss Pasha's descendants. It was fine to deal with them or not. Anyway, as time passed, as he reverse-engineered more of the wizard's things, he would become more and more powerful.

He didn't need to worry about the ants' revenge.

But the old butler, Warwick, insisted on dealing with these people to ensure safety. As for how to deal with them, Su Nan didn't care.

His focus was still on researching new potions and improving his mental strength.

Also, to try to find wizards.

After Su Nan discovered the possibility of descendants of wizards in the mortal world in the Maple Leaf Town Library, he ordered his subordinates to pay attention to those who lived strangely and in remote environments within his territory. Those people might be the so-called wizard families.

Although this action felt like buying a lottery ticket.

Su Nan felt that it was still worth trying. Maybe he could find the descendants of those wizards among the crowd.

In the attic of the Peter Family Castle, Su Nan threw a frog into the cauldron, and the liquid inside immediately boiled.

Within 10 seconds, Su Nan quickly threw a white chrysanthemum and a handful of grave ash into it, and then, after a minute, poured the brewed potion into the prepared glass bottle.

The second potion in the Wraith series, Wraith: Summon Frog, was ready.

After the last actual combat, Su Nan had the AI devote its computing power to the Wraith series of potions, reducing attack power and increasing defensive capabilities. Wraith: Frog was the product of this idea.

By crushing the potion, one could summon a frog wraith. By completely abandoning attack ability, it would constantly try to pounce on enemies, provoking them, forcing them to attack it to prevent being knocked down.

This kind of wraith frog would have very high damage resistance and would be very practical in battle. When facing enemies, it could assist him, making his enemies unable to use their means and becoming very frustrated.

Su Nan also tried to create some non-highly condensed soul constructs, that is, to make the wraiths summoned by the potions ordinary ghosts.

But he found that ordinary ghosts had no combat power at all.

Or rather, ordinary ghosts couldn't cause any physical harm to living people, only scare them. Even mental damage was very limited.

After experimenting, Su Nan found that ordinary ghosts were almost harmless to people under non-specific conditions.

Thinking about it, it made sense. After all, ghosts didn't even have bodies, so they were definitely not as powerful as ordinary people.

This proved that the Wraith of the Order Guardians was the correct path.

So, in this month, he had the AI calculate two Wraith potions.

They were the Wraith: Summon Frog potion and the Wraith: Summon Wolf potion.

Su Nan cleaned the cauldron and then started brewing again. The process was similar to the previous refining of the Wraith: Summon Frog potion, except that a live frog was replaced with a wolf's canine tooth.

A minute later, Su Nan poured the potion into three glass bottles.

These two potions actually only had the refining difficulty of a third-level wizard apprentice.

The focus of Su Nan's AI computing power was actually on the fourth potion in the Wraith series—by analyzing the heart of a Storm Knight, trying to use the magic of highly concentrated soul fragments, and the new necromantic magic-related scattered information obtained from the Maple Leaf Town Library, to calculate a new permanent Wraith Knight potion.

The wraith knight summoned by this potion would have the complete strength of a formal knight, and at the same time, would have the new necromantic magic characteristic [Soul Return] obtained by reverse-engineering the information obtained from the library.

Su Nan tentatively named this potion Wraith: Death Knight.

This potion could only be refined by a second-level wizard apprentice.

Similarly, the formula would be perfected under the optimization of the AI.

It was just that the current calculation progress was only 76% for the time being.

In this month, Su Nan's mental strength also changed from 10.2 to 10.5, and his mana was also at 10.5.

The progress was slightly slow.

Fortunately, the calculation progress of the Mental Strength Enhancement Potion +2 had reached 99% and would be completed in the next few days.

With the new Mental Strength Enhancement Potion, his mental strength improvement speed would accelerate again.

At the same time, the calculation progress of the Super Werewolf Potion had also reached 98%.

The information in the Maple Leaf Town Library had increased the calculation progress of these two potions and the Wraith series potions a lot.

Moreover, Su Nan also discovered in the Maple Leaf Town Library, through the AI, a spell called [Stiffening Technique] hidden in the books. Unfortunately, the AI found that the record of this spell was full of errors and omissions, making it impossible to learn and use.

Even this Stiffening Technique might just be forcibly fabricated by descendants who knew some things.

But through reverse-engineering, Su Nan obtained a potion formula called [One-Legged Stiff Demon Potion].

He had also refined three bottles of it this month.

This potion could make one leg of the enemy stiff, making it impossible to run and walk normally, and could only hop.

Su Nan felt that perhaps this thing would also be quite useful in battle.

Lunch time arrived, and Su Nan had his servants reject several waves of invitations from the guilds and wealthy merchants of Maple Leaf Town, as well as the lower-level nobles of the two knight territories, to his banquets.

During this time, although Su Nan refused invitations every day and stayed out of sight, the panicked lower-level nobles and wealthy merchants in the territory only thought that Su Nan was very angry with them, so they always tried to invite Su Nan to grace their banquets with his presence.

Sometimes, Su Nan was thinking, maybe he should go once, so that some people could feel at ease.

In the castle's living room, the old butler, Warwick, walked quickly towards Su Nan with a letter. "Lord Su Nan, I didn't expect the Pasha family to be so muddled-headed as to have correspondence with Duke Salonika Latin."

"This guy actually defected to Duke Salonika Latin. Duke Salonika Latin wants to use Guss Pasha to control Maple Leaf Town, one of the most important commercial arteries in the western territory of the Storm Kingdom."

"Lord Su Nan, Duke Salonika Latin is the most powerful vassal in the Storm Kingdom, and he has always been disobedient to the royal family."

"Look, this is the correspondence I found between them. Perhaps the Duke has already realized that Guss Pasha has been killed by us."

Su Nan casually took the pile of letters.

After all, the Duchy of Salonika Latin was relatively far away from him, so he didn't need to care too much.

The Storm Kingdom had its own feudal order. The Duke couldn't openly attack him. He couldn't declare war on a lord in the same country, completely disregarding the royal family's face and the views of other lords on him.

At least that was the case now.

Moreover, the Duke also had his own enemies, whether it was the royal family or the nomadic chieftains north of the Storm Kingdom.

Besides, he was just thinking about who to find for new practical tests.

If the Duke wanted to seek trouble, then he had no objections.

After Su Nan took these letters, he rubbed his forehead, but recently he always felt that he seemed to have overlooked something.

… …

Next to the Peter Baron Territory, in a rural village on the edge of the even more barren Simon Baron Territory, the door of an ordinary farmer's house was knocked.

The male owner of this farmhouse hurriedly went to open the door, but found that there was nothing outside.

There was no one at all.

But before he could be surprised, a voice came from behind him, that is, inside the house.

"I came from a very far place to find someone. I want to find Baron Peter's son, he should be named Su Nan Peter, do you know him? He owes me something. His father stole something from my house, and no one has returned it to me yet."

A cold feeling spread from the male farmer's back.

"It seems you don't know him."