Werewolf wizard

Chapter 12: First Battle with the Hand of Sacrifice

Su Nan slowly raised his left hand. With a mental strength of 9.8, his base telekinetic power was 1.6, slightly stronger than the werewolf messenger's strength.

However, the power of the Hand of Sacrifice lies in its ability to exchange life force for telekinetic power.

Moreover, it's not a one-to-one exchange; it's using the degree of injury to gain several times the equivalent telekinetic power.

The AI even speculated that if it were an irreversible injury, the telekinetic power gained could be extremely exaggerated.

In other words, this Hand of Sacrifice potion was originally intended for use by the suicide soldiers of a certain wizard organization, a very unconventional potion.

But after the AI's extensive data-driven formula deduction, it has been improved.

Su Nan raised his hand and left a handprint on the massive wooden door of the warehouse from a distance of four meters. Then, the warehouse door was pushed open.

The moment the warehouse door was fully opened, a black figure rushed out from inside. He was incredibly fast, thrusting a dagger towards the back of the wooden door.

But he didn't expect that there would be no one behind the wooden door.

So, his dagger struck empty air, directly piercing into the gap between the bluestone bricks.

"How is this possible?" The middle-aged knight attendant, wearing chainmail and leather boots, with a beard, looked shocked. "There's no one behind the door?!"

His movements were very fast, and his attacks were ruthless.

The instant he attacked, he had already placed his hand on the wooden door, sensing the force point of the person pushing the door from behind, and then calculated the approximate height of the opponent. Therefore, as soon as he attacked, he aimed for the opponent's throat.

He intended to kill with one strike.

But the only problem was that there was no one behind the wooden door.

The middle-aged knight attendant's expression changed drastically. He was about to get up and escape through the castle window.

After all, his mission this time was just to investigate, and there was no need to fight to the death.

But he soon realized that his throat felt as if it was being held by a pair of invisible hands, and these hands were very strong.

With his many years as a Skaven knight attendant, he couldn't break free.

The middle-aged knight attendant was lifted into the air and dragged into the depths of the warehouse by an invisible force.

"AI, give me that person's data and record this battle," Su Nan thought, hoping to better deduce the potion formulas by recording actual combat.

He walked into the warehouse and used telekinesis to close the heavy warehouse door.

At the same time, Su Nan felt that, due to the werewolf effect, the other werewolves in the territory had sensed that he was fighting and were rushing over.

This saved him a lot of trouble.

The AI quickly gave him the opponent's data panel.

【Strength: 1.4】

【Speed: 1.8】

【Constitution: 1.4】

【Although his agility is higher than his other attributes, the instantaneous burst of power he generated during the fight with you just now could reach at least 2 or more. However, he clearly showed fatigue afterward and was directly dragged into the warehouse by you with a force equivalent to 1.6, unable to resist.】

【He is neither a Law Knight nor a Storm Knight.】

After being dragged into the depths of the warehouse, the middle-aged knight attendant held his dagger, carefully staring at Su Nan in front of him. "I know you. You are the young Baron of this territory."

"Damn it, I thought this was just a simple task."

"I just needed to sneak into this castle and do some investigation. I didn't expect that you really know witchcraft."

"This is hell."

"You weak nobles spend all day researching those ridiculous ancient books. Did you really research something?"

As he spoke, he waved his dagger, wanting to attack Su Nan again, but Su Nan reached out and grabbed him. His left leg felt as if it was grabbed by a huge force. He fell to the ground, heavily, and the dagger in his hand flew out.

Su Nan used telekinesis to grab the dagger, which landed in his hand.

The family crest on the dagger showed that this person was clearly a vassal of the Gothard Pasha knight family.

Nobiliary heraldry is a very large and complex course.

Each coat of arms represents the family's past and present glory.

As the Baron of the Peter Barony, Su Nan naturally knew what the Gothard Pasha knight family's coat of arms looked like.

After the knight attendant fell, Su Nan kept waving his left hand, turning his telekinesis into fists, punching the opponent's face again and again.

Because it was telekinesis, the opponent was basically unable to defend.

And when the middle-aged knight attendant wanted to rush towards him to counterattack, Su Nan would calmly retreat and use telekinesis to grab the opponent's left or right leg, causing the opponent to fall instead.

After five minutes of this torment, the middle-aged knight attendant had been continuously punched with a force of 1.6 for five minutes, and his constitution was only 1.4.

He squatted on the ground, bruised and swollen, constantly panting, temporarily losing his ability to resist.

Su Nan used telekinesis to suppress his body. From just now until now, he had only used half of his mental strength.

So, the Hand of Sacrifice in its normal state can basically suppress this kind of not-too-strong, mid-level knight attendant.

If the Hand of Sacrifice can cooperate with the werewolf physique to open combination skills, I am afraid that even a stronger knight attendant will not be able to duel with him.

Moreover, for mortals, witchcraft is too strange and hard to defend against.

Su Nan said coldly: "Gothard Pasha, why did you send you to my castle? And what god do you believe in?"

The other party was clearly not a believer of the God of Law or the God of Storm.

However, in this world, in addition to the major orthodox gods, there are also some more niche local gods or unorthodox evil gods.

Worshiping these gods can also lead to the path of the knight.

It's just that it certainly won't be as good as the God of Storm, who is doing so well in the Storm Kingdom.

The cultivation progress of a knight attendant who believes in an evil god will inevitably be much slower than that of a knight attendant of an orthodox god.

Moreover, it is likely to pay many unnecessary prices.

Su Nan didn't expect that Gothard Pasha, the official Storm Knight in his territory, would actually take in a knight attendant of an evil god.

"I... I am a believer of the Great Horned Rat," the middle-aged knight attendant squatted on the ground, panting, bruised and swollen, and said: "The mayor of Maple Leaf Town found Lord Gothard Pasha and sought military protection."

"Lord Gothard Pasha agreed."

"The mayor of Maple Leaf Town suspects that you are the mastermind behind the recent attacks on caravans. Although Lord Gothard Pasha doesn't believe it, under the mayor's several strong requests, he still asked me to investigate you."

"But Lord Gothard Pasha didn't expect that you really know witchcraft..."

"Could it be that you really attacked the caravan!"

Fear flashed in this person's eyes.

After all, after many years of efforts by the church, wizards have changed from blasphemers at the beginning to the image of the ultimate villains. Under the church's constant intimidation, the image of wizards is very close to the devil of hell.

Anyway, anything bad can be blamed on them.

For example, famine, plague, or if someone's family gives birth to a chicken with four pairs of wings, it can be said to be a wizard's curse.

So, after discovering that Su Nan knew witchcraft and that he had been defeated so strangely, he was very afraid of Su Nan.

Su Nan raised his eyebrows. Gus Pasha had actually intervened in the affairs of Maple Leaf Town.

This meant that if he were to attack Maple Leaf Town, he would have to be prepared to deal with one or more formal knights.

But the problem was that all the data for a formal knight was 3.

Currently, the highest attribute of the werewolves transformed by his werewolf series of potions was only 2.

With such a large gap in basic attributes, fighting would be very difficult.

It would be like an elementary school student fighting a strong man.

Although his werewolves were connected to the full moon in a clever way during their creation, granting them immortality.

But to be honest, the church in this world was not to be trifled with.

A formal Storm Knight might have special abilities, you never know.

Therefore, if Gus Pasha intervened in this matter, he really had to carefully consider how to continue improving his werewolf army and his own strength.

For example, to break through the 10 mark as soon as possible with his mental strength and magic power.

The Zhinan had previously speculated that reaching 10 in mental strength was an important stage on the path of a wizard.

It was just that there was a serious lack of information, and he didn't know the specific meaning of this stage.

While Su Nan was thinking, the corner of his eye caught a glimpse of a cold light under the clothes of the middle-aged knight attendant. He raised his left hand and waved it gently, as if making a gesture of slapping someone.

The small crossbow that the middle-aged knight attendant took out of his arms changed its firing direction, from firing towards Su Nan to firing towards his own throat.

The middle-aged knight attendant had already pulled the trigger, and obviously could not stop. He looked in horror as he killed himself.

The corpse sat on the ground, its head drooping weakly.

The death was very strange.

This was the power of the Hand of Sacrifice.

Su Nan said to the old butler Warwick outside the warehouse door: "Old Warwick, please help dispose of the body."

Warwick said with some panic: "Young master, are you injured? I smell blood."

Su Nan smiled and said: "Then you should be able to smell that it is the enemy's blood."

"Don't worry, I'm not injured."

However, he really should improve his body's basic qualities.

During the battle just now, he was really worried that the knight attendant would rush to his side.

Su Nan thought: 'Zhinan, how is the werewolf leader potion coming along?'

【The calculation progress of the Werewolf Leader Potion has reached 99% and will be completed soon.】

The old butler Warwick quickly disposed of the body and stripped off his chain mail.

This kind of chain mail was still relatively expensive.

Whether it was sold or used as spoils of war to reward vassals, it was quite practical.

After solving this assassin, Su Nan spent another week refining the Werewolf Messenger potion, and used it on ten Werewolf Messengers at once.

In this way, he once again obtained ten Werewolf Messengers without adding Werewolf Venom Potion and Steel Claw Potion.

At the same time, Su Nan's mental strength and magic power officially reached 9.9.

But after reaching 9.9, whether it was mental strength or magic power, the growth was very slow. Su Nan took the mental strength enhancement potion + 1 every day, and could feel his mental strength improving.

But he just couldn't break through to 10.

But it didn't matter, he noticed that as he accumulated mental strength enhancement potion + 1 every day, the day he would break through this barrier was getting closer and closer.

Su Nan temporarily ordered the werewolves to stop attacking the caravans of Maple Leaf Town.

After all, now that a formal knight had intervened in this matter, continuing to let the Werewolf Messengers rob caravans would likely lead to them being caught.

It was very likely that he would lose the Werewolf Messengers in vain, and also allow Gus Pasha to learn about the Werewolf Messengers in advance, and might even allow him to discover the weaknesses of the Werewolf Messengers.

After all, the immortality he obtained by connecting the werewolves to the full moon on the level of magic was not perfect.

He also didn't have such powerful potion technology for the time being.

If a werewolf's head was cut off, he would still die.

After completing the expansion of the number of Werewolf Messengers, Su Nan focused on developing the leader-type werewolf potion, and incidentally increased the number of Sleepy Bug potions. This kind of strategic consumable was like bullets and grenades, of course, the more the better.

In battle, it might be the key to a moment of comeback.

Moreover, the number of Werewolf Messengers cannot be expanded for the time being.

As hounds, the intelligence of the Werewolf Messengers themselves was seriously insufficient, and they must be led or supervised by werewolves transformed from humans.

Pella and Warwick had already stated that supervising ten energetic werewolves required them to expend a huge amount of energy every day.

If there were more, they might not be able to control them.

Although these Werewolf Messengers had been strengthened in their loyalty to Su Nan, they were still beasts after all, and often couldn't understand the situation very well, and were also affected by the violent and bloodthirsty nature of werewolves.

If they ran out, they might cause harm to his people.

Of course, if necessary, Su Nan could actually disregard the bottom line and start crazily mass-producing Werewolf Messengers without limit.

After half a month of seemingly calm and uneventful days, a letter of invitation suddenly came from Maple Leaf Town.

It turned out that the trade market in Maple Leaf Town had suddenly suffered a huge destruction.

The guild leaders of Maple Leaf Town unanimously believed that this was the fault of the town chief of Maple Leaf Town, so they sued him to the town council court and invited the three formal knights from Su Nan's territory and Su Nan himself to participate in the court as jurors.

However, Su Nan decisively rejected this invitation, and even didn't let the old butler Warwick and his exclusive lawyer represent him in that court.

First, he had to stay in the territory to research the werewolf leader potion and break through his mental strength to 10, and simply didn't have the time to participate in any court.

Second, this was obviously a Hongmen Banquet.

Besides, the town chief of Maple Leaf Town now had the full support of Knight Gus Pasha. It seemed that this had also caused losses to the interests of many guild leaders in Maple Leaf Town, but they wanted to impeach the town chief by relying on the court. This was too stupid.

Political power comes from the barrel of a gun.

A court without the support of force would only be a joke.

Moreover, this invitation was likely a test for him.

Su Nan looked at the old butler Warwick with some doubt. "However, what exactly happened to the market in Maple Leaf Town?"

The old butler Warwick said: "It seems to be a conspiracy by a cult organization that indiscriminately attacked the market and killed those merchants. Recently, the town chief of Maple Leaf Town has not been having a good time. We just stopped attacking their caravans, and they haven't been happy for a few days before this kind of thing happened again."

"The strangest thing is that I heard that the planner of the terrorist attack in Maple Leaf Town has always said that he has never done such a thing."

"It was done by another person in his body."

"But I think this is very likely just his sophistry."