Werewolf wizard

Chapter 158: The Hearthstone Witch's Azure Potion and the True Meaning of a Formal Wizard

Su Nan looked at the scroll and immediately understood why the Petrifying Witch needed someone to help her concoct this potion.

This magic potion, called Azure Potion, is essentially a potion very useful for a wizard's mental state, a potion that every wizard needs when advancing to become a formal wizard.

Its function is to stabilize, condense, and replenish mental strength.

It cannot increase the upper limit of mental strength, but Su Nan noticed from the parchment's description of the Azure Potion's effects that if a wizard takes it before undergoing the Mind Meditation, they can permanently stabilize their mental strength.

It's equivalent to solving the problem of psychological disorders manifesting due to mental strength exceeding that of ordinary people by more than 20 times.

Perhaps, in the orthodox wizarding society of thousands of years ago, there was a way to skip the Mind Meditation, which was to take this simplified mental stability potion.

This mental stability potion is equivalent to being able to treat a wizard's mental illnesses.

‘The wizard apprentices here probably don't rely on themselves to pass the Mind Meditation. A wizard like me, who has passed the Mind Meditation on my own, has fully accepted my own heart, understood my own path, and has a heart as firm as a sword, will naturally not have Mind Meditation problems when advancing to become a formal wizard,’ Su Nan thought.

‘But these ordinary first-class wizard apprentices will also encounter mental illness problems when they advance.’

‘So they must take more advanced potions that treat wizard-specific mental illnesses to cure the potential mental problems that arise from greatly increasing their mental strength.’

‘Perhaps, these wizards will affect the nature of their mental strength when they usually study some very profound magics, causing problems with their minds.’

Moreover, this Hearthstone Witch's Azure Potion has a most important function: breaking the limit of mental strength!

The reason why the limit of a first-class wizard apprentice's mental strength is 100 is because their life level is no longer sufficient for them to continue to grow.

In principle, the limit for a pure-blooded human's soul to improve is 100 times.

This is also the upper limit multiple for the soul quality improvement of many creatures.

The ancient wizarding society once encountered this problem and the entire society was stuck on this problem for decades, but later came up with many solutions, and since then wizards have broken through the upper limit of pure-blooded human mental strength improvement.

Essentially, the difference between a first-ring wizard and a wizard apprentice has strict academic definitions, and the biggest definition among them is: formal wizards have all surpassed the theoretical limit of pure-blooded humans, they are racial transcendents!

Therefore, every formal wizard should be respected.

So, the solution to this in the orthodox wizarding society more than two thousand years ago was to first increase mental strength to 100, and then, by constructing five 0.7-ring magics and one first-ring magic, allow the wizard's mental sea to begin to sublimate through the first-ring magic, and use the method of the magic spring in the wizard tower to break through the barrier of 100 mental strength through the suddenly increased magic power.

To become a racial transcendent.

This is the most basic and fundamental method for wizards to break the upper limit of their mental strength.

For example, some wizards who like the direction of magical modification will modify their bodies when constructing 0.7-ring magic and first-ring magic, so that their bodies have the possibility of breaking through the upper limit of pure-blooded humans.

Wizards of the Shaping School will strengthen their mental sea through six spell models, causing their soul power to undergo qualitative changes, breaking through the upper limit of 100 mental strength.

But besides that, there are other methods.

For example, the Azure Potion on the parchment scroll in front of you is one such method. The soul of a wizard who takes the Azure Potion will develop in the direction of a starlight emitter.

This is a characteristic of astral creatures discovered by the Hearthstone Witch in the past through a large amount of research on astral creatures.

The so-called starlight emitter is a special physique that allows the soul to leave one's body and travel to various places in sleep, and the soul is very strong and difficult to destroy, but will return to one's body when waking up.

Every astral creature has such a talent to some extent, but people in the main material plane who possess this talent are very rare.

But the point is that the Azure Potion can allow the wizard who takes it to partially possess a similar talent, thereby allowing them to break through the limit that human mental strength can only be increased to 100 times at most.

Even this starlight emitter physique is not the most important thing.

The most important thing is that this method can be used to break through a wizard's upper limit of mental strength more safely and with a higher probability of success.

This Hearthstone Witch's Azure Potion is basically no different from a Foundation Establishment Pill.

Su Nan also gained a lot of inspiration from this potion recipe, and even figured out one of the ways to skip the Mind Meditation.

Although this is useless to himself now, it is possible that someone in his own faction will need it in the future.

Su Nan looked at the recipe on the parchment scroll and, sure enough, the text on one of the key ingredients was actually contaminated by something unknown, making it impossible to see what this ingredient was.

Because this ingredient is isolated in the entire Azure Potion recipe, it is even impossible to deduce what this key ingredient is through the other ingredients in the recipe.

The Petrifying Witch asked somewhat anxiously: "How is it? It doesn't matter if you can't concoct it right away."

“It's fine as long as you can figure it out one day.”

“As long as it's successful, I can give you a considerable amount of magic stones afterwards, and you can also gain the friendship of a formal wizard.”

Su Nan glanced at the Petrifying Witch and then at 'World,' sighing inwardly. No wonder 'World' couldn't refine it; she couldn't possibly deduce the missing independent material from the ingredients on this formula.

So, the Petrifying Witch hoped to find a skilled potion alchemist to help her complete the final ingredient in the formula and concoct this magic potion. Without someone like himself possessing a supercomputer, it was basically a pipe dream.

Su Nan secretly said to the supercomputer: 'Supercomputer, try to complete this magic potion formula.'

【Yes, the magic power and mental strength required to refine this formula should not be lower than 80. At the same time, you must construct at least three 0.7-ring magics in your mental sea to enhance the stability and sublimation of your mental sea, because refining this magic potion is predicted to cause a strong impact on your mental sea during the refining process.】

【The difficulty of refining this magic potion is predicted to be at the level of a fourth sublimation.】

【Starting big data calculation for the missing independent material and beginning thought experiments. It is estimated that it will take at least half a year to complete the calculation work.】

【If you can use your Wizard's Hand on Sundays during this process to do some simple real-world tests, the calculation time can be reduced by a third.】

Hmm?

So, mental strength above 80 is the strength of a fourth sublimation. So the 'Justice' Witch is already at the strength of a fourth sublimation, while the Petrifying Witch is even more powerful, at the level of a half-step formal wizard. It is estimated that she may already have more than five 0.7-ring magics.

Su Nan pondered for a moment and said to the Petrifying Witch, "Okay. But I need more than a year to conduct research. Petrifying Witch, you can give me your half set of necromancer inheritance later."

A glimmer of hope appeared in the Petrifying Witch's eyes. "No need, I will directly transmit this magical inheritance to your mind now through mental transmission."

"But remember, you only have the right to use it, not the right to trade it. You cannot use this inheritance for trading."

"As long as you refine the Azure Potion for me once in a year, that's fine. Whether it succeeds or fails, but if it fails, you will pay me magic stones equivalent to 45% of the price of this half set of inheritance."

"But if it succeeds, I will pay you the opportunity for me to take action three times for you after I become a formal wizard, as well as magic stones equivalent to twice the value of this half set of inheritance."

"I think this deal is very fair."

"If possible, we can sign a magic potion contract now. If you are unwilling, then forget it."

Su Nan looked at 'World.' So 'World' had also signed a similar contract.

It's just that 'World' probably lost money in the end.

But actually, it's hard to say it's a loss, because even so, 'World' still made a profit. She just spat out a small portion of the things after the failure.

In essence, the Petrifying Witch set the conditions relatively loosely in order to attract other wizards to concoct the Azure Potion for her.

Su Nan had no reason to refuse. In fact, within half a year, he should be able to deduce the real formula, raise his mental strength to above 80, and construct three or more 0.7-ring magic potion spell models.

And even if he failed, he would only spit out half of the benefits that the Petrifying Witch gave him.

Therefore, Su Nan directly agreed to this free benefit. "Okay, I agree to sign a magic contract with you."

'World' glanced at Su Nan and whispered, "Don't end up like me, losing everything in the end."

"But if there are benefits to be gained, it's definitely worth taking advantage of them. After all, we are the only two potion alchemists here."

"Petrifying Witch, I advise you not to have too high expectations. Even without the Azure Potion, you can try to break through. Isn't it just the upper limit of the human species' mental strength?"

'Chariot' and 'High Priestess', and even 'Justice', looked at Su Nan with some envy.

As expected, a wizard with a skill is popular everywhere.

The Petrifying Witch smiled and took out a magic contract. This kind of magic contract was written on a special paper with magical characters, so that it would form a contract that was binding on both parties.

The Petrifying Witch signed her name. At the same time, Su Nan looked at the contract, made sure there were no hidden clauses and no traps, and then had the supercomputer calculate it to ensure safety before signing his name.

The Petrifying Witch readily gave Su Nan half of the inheritance through mental transmission and said, "Actually, I'm just casting a wide net, hoping to meet a wizard who can help me."

"Anyway, these wizard knowledge inheritances can be copied. It's not a loss for me."

"Knowledge is such a wonderful thing. When other things are shared with others, what you have will decrease."

"But with knowledge, the more you share, the more you will get."

The Petrifying Witch said to everyone, "Okay, the quality of this gathering far exceeds the quality of the gatherings in the past six months. We have finally welcomed another potion alchemist to our gathering. We all have better gains this time, which is great."

"To be able to hold such a grand witch gathering in such a barren era."

"Hehehe, I'm already looking forward to our next gathering."