Werewolf wizard

Chapter 290: Second-Ring Wizard Tower and High-Interest Plane

After Su Nan and the others stepped through the Gate of Reincarnation, they found themselves in an unfamiliar plane.

The land in this plane was very barren, almost entirely stone, with little flora or fauna, sparse trees, and fields full of gravel.

The plants that did exist grew among the gravel.

Along the roads, there were stone statues everywhere of a short man, inscribed with the words "God of Gold."

Mary said to Su Nan, "This is… This isn't the sub-space anymore. This is a… plane. The Golden Wizard actually owns a plane!"

"Although it's just a small plane. I've heard that some of the Forgotten Schools control planes even larger than sub-spaces."

"But I didn't expect a mere wizard's ruin to contain a small plane. It's just that this small plane is far too barren."

Su Nan also noticed that this barrenness wasn't just referring to the land but also to the plane itself. If the five elements that make up a plane—wind, water, fire, earth, and aether—were too scarce, it would cause the plane to be barren in every aspect.

The five elements in this plane were very thin and contained many impurities, so this plane could not possibly be prosperous. Moreover, the magical power here was several times thinner than the current situation in the Prime Material Plane.

Su Nan suddenly felt like he had gone from a pond to a puddle.

The magic here was too thin.

To the point where he couldn't use his full strength here.

Su Nan pointed to a huge golden tree in the distance and said, "It seems that the golden tree over there is the Golden Wizard's wizard tower."

"That wizard tower should be a Second-Ring Wizard Tower. The head-lowering magic originates from that golden tree, creating a fixed, strengthened, and rule-modifying effect on the entire small plane. So that's how it is…"

Having seen a Second-Ring Wizard Tower, Su Nan now understood that the biggest difference between a Second-Ring Wizard Tower and a First-Ring Wizard Tower was the modification of the surrounding environment.

If that were the case, then, by observing a small part, this might also be the difference between a First-Ring Wizard and a Second-Ring Wizard.

If that were the case, then he had a clue about the path to becoming a Second-Ring Wizard.

The huge golden tree that Su Nan was pointing at emitted a captivating golden phantom, and this world had no sun.

Perhaps it was because this small plane couldn't accumulate enough fire and aether elements to create a sun.

Therefore, the light in this plane all came from the light of a Second-Ring Wizard Tower.

The entire plane was only about the size of a prefecture-level city from his previous life.

So they could easily see the boundary of this plane, which was composed of an invisible wall, the color of white clouds and blue sky, like a curtain covering the sky above this plane.

Su Nan speculated that the original edge of the plane should have been a wall of chaotic elements. The current appearance of the plane's edge must have been modified by the Golden Wizard.

Mary asked Su Nan, "Are we going to that Second-Ring Wizard Tower?"

Su Nan said, "There are many scattered settlements in this plane. Let's go take a look at these settlements first. This plane is very likely to have been transformed by the Golden Wizard into a Mandala system world. Moreover, look at the footprints on the ground. Someone has entered this plane within the past month."

Mary, Warwick, and Vasili immediately saw a series of footprints on the ground.

The footprints were of various sizes, so it was estimated that another group of people had entered this Golden City.

Su Nan walked forward five hundred meters and found three families living in wooden houses. When he went inside, he saw that the people living in the three wooden houses were actually humans.

These people were praying to a statue of the Golden Wizard, chanting the name of the God of Gold.

From Su Nan's point of view, the Golden Wizard looked like an ordinary short old man, only about 1.2 meters tall.

Su Nan suspected that he was a dwarf or had dwarf blood.

But the three families were extremely devout to him.

They wore almost no clothes, probably because they lived in extreme poverty, but they still seemed to spend a lot of time every day praying to the Golden Wizard.

When they saw Su Nan and the others enter, the expressions of the farmers in this small golden plane were extremely confused.

But after sizing up Su Nan and the others' clothing, they became extremely enthusiastic, kowtowing to Su Nan and the others, pressing their foreheads to the ground, and then wanting to kiss Su Nan and the others' toes.

Mary immediately took a step back and dodged.

The male head of the farmer's household saw Su Nan and the others and devoutly put his hands together. "Thank you, God of Gold, for allowing us to see such esteemed guests."

"The God of Gold says that we, because of our past misdeeds, can only be poor farmers in this life. But as long as we prostrate ourselves before the esteemed guests and offer gold, we will be blessed, and in the next life, our social class will be better."

"Oh my God, we are so lucky to see esteemed guests in the countryside of the Golden City. Esteemed guests, you must live in the Golden City, and you must live in the core area of the Golden City. The places of residence there are where great philanthropists whose souls have done ten lifetimes of good deeds can be reincarnated."

Su Nan was a little speechless and secretly released magical fluctuations to record the characteristics of this small plane.

Su Nan said to the farmer, "Can you tell me, what has the God of Gold done for you?"

Su Nan was testing the legends circulating about the Golden Wizard in this plane.

Formal wizards, especially half-step Second-Ring wizards like him, possessed very powerful power. In this small plane, they could indeed be said to be god-like beings.

It was likely that upon reaching the Second-Ring Wizard level, one would possess the characteristics of modifying small planes.

And a half-step Second-Ring Wizard like the Golden Wizard already had some of the abilities of a Second-Ring Wizard, so he could also modify the environment of a small plane.

The male head of the farmer's household thought that Su Nan was testing him, and he excitedly said, "The God of Gold created this world and set the rules for this world—kind people will be reincarnated into the Golden City, unkind people will be reincarnated as poor people outside the city, and if they still do evil, then they may not be able to maintain their human form and can only become insects, slimes, and the like, like those golden centipedes, golden slimes…"

Su Nan and Mary exchanged glances. So that's how those special golden creatures outside the Golden Plane came to be.

The male head of the farmer's household said, "I have already memorized all the doctrines of the Golden God's Church. Esteemed golden guests, I will definitely be a better person in my next life!"

"As long as I keep doing good deeds, I can even be reincarnated as those powerful golden noble creatures, become giants, or even become something better than golden giants—the Golden Dragon in the very center of the Golden City…"

Hearing the word "dragon," Mary shook her head and whispered to Su Nan, "Impossible. Even the weakest adult dragon has a strength above the Third Ring."

"With the Golden Wizard's level, he can't come into contact with dragons."

Su Nan looked at Vasili and said, "It may not necessarily be a pure-blooded adult dragon. It may be something similar to a dragon or something related to a dragon."

"My guess was indeed correct."

"This entire plane has been transformed by the Golden Wizard into his Mandala system. The people cursed in the Storm Kingdom and other regions are just a side hustle. And the two cursed wizard families are just unexpected gains. But this small golden plane, a completely transformed plane, is his real base of operations."

"It's just that, as a wizard, to engage in this kind of feudal superstition, promoting himself as a god and collecting the power of faith, is really… unpleasant."

"He should have wanted to use this method to become a Second-Ring Wizard, but now it seems that he has failed. Even if he really wanted to use the divine path to break through, the level of a First-Ring Wizard is still somewhat far from the gods."

Mary also nodded and said, "As a wizard, he leans towards the gods, and not even real gods. He can only deceive mortals here. The scale of this small plane makes it impossible to form even slightly complex higher animals. He must have plundered people from the main material plane and imprisoned them here, forming a small world according to his ideas."

"This should be his laboratory."

Su Nan shook his head slightly. "I don't think it's just that, so I want to do an experiment too."

At that moment, the male farmer, listening to their words, felt that something was wrong, and he became angry. "You are not nobles from the Golden City. How dare you question the Golden God!"

"No, I must kill you!"

Although he said so, his eyes revealed not only anger, but also more excitement and greed. "As long as I kill you and fight for the Golden God, I will become richer in my next life!"

The next moment, he picked up his hoe, but before he could get close to Su Nan and smash the hoe at Su Nan's head, his body exploded.

Su Nan looked at the farmer's body and saw his soul leaving the corpse. At the same time, a spiral reincarnation entrance formed above the wooden house.

"Hahahaha… I can finally become a rich man."

"With money, I can donate to the Golden God's church, and I will be reincarnated better and better!"

The next moment, Su Nan grabbed him with his big hand, restrained his soul, and forcibly interrupted his reincarnation process.

The golden farmer's soul suddenly stopped smiling as if it were stuck.

"What did you do to me?"

Su Nan observed his soul and found a headhunting curse within it. "So that's how it is. The golden wizard is spreading usury headhunting curses outside to collect lifespans, and here he is spreading usury to collect luck."

Among the five apprentice-level headhunting spells that Su Nan had acquired outside, there was the bad luck headhunting spell. After Su Nan observed the bad luck headhunting spell, and then observed the headhunting curse on this soul, he immediately discovered that this was a more advanced bad luck headhunting curse.

In other words, the golden wizard not only wants to collect the power of faith, but also wants to use the Mandala system, supported by headhunting curses, to harvest the luck of the civilians within the entire system and concentrate it on himself.

Su Nan said to Mary, Warwick, and Valerian, "This Mandala system is one that he created himself, a small plane used to break through to the second ring."

"Ultimately, all the luck and faith will flow to him alone."

"The entire plane can be said to be firmly trapped by his usury."

Su Nan imagined a situation where a half-step second-ring wizard, with the tide of magic gradually declining, seeing no hope of breaking through, could only pin his hopes on this kind of evil trick.

Su Nan frowned. "He uses such a huge usury system to deceive the people of a plane, concentrating all the luck on himself. In this system, what he uses as exchange is empty promises and gold."

"His magical path is probably not just thinking that gold can exchange for lifespan, but that using gold can exchange for everything in the death-reincarnation system."

"But what state is he in now?"

"Why did the magic backlash occur?"

Su Nan heard footsteps outside the door and immediately looked towards the door. He saw a first-class wizard apprentice wearing a wizard robe outside the door. His expression looked very surprised that he could encounter outsiders here.

But the next moment, he directly smashed a 0.5-ring magic [Golden Spike] of the Golden School at Su Nan.

Su Nan grabbed the golden spike that was shot at him and instantly transformed into a vampire viscount. He had already created a vampire module in his body using the human body virtual machine, so he drank the vampire viscount potion.

Su Nan crushed the golden spike. The next moment, using the speed of a vampire viscount at this level, which was almost at its limit of 50, he came to the wizard apprentice of the Golden School as if teleporting, grabbed his throat, and lifted him up, saying:

"Who are you? You shouldn't be from this small plane. This small plane can't even support a second-class wizard apprentice."

The magic tide of this small plane is too thin.

So, Su Nan suddenly discovered that vampires have an advantage in fighting in this kind of place. After all, his vampire system doesn't need to rely on magic power to fight.

Although werewolves don't need it much either, they need to rely on the high concentration of magical environment around them when using magic blood charging, boiling blood, bronze blood, and hunting frenzy. After all, when Su Nan created the werewolf series of magic potions, the concentration of the surrounding magical tide environment was still increasing little by little, so he could use the magic in the environment.

Similarly, Su Nan is also preparing to turn on the virtual machine and apply the death knight system to himself as well.

In this way, as his three major magic potion series progress, his basic combat power will also increase at the same time.

In Su Nan's cold hands, the wizard apprentice of the Golden School coughed and said, "I… I, why are there outsiders in the Golden City?"

Su Nan didn't intend to waste time talking to him. He directly used [Hypnosis] to make him tell the reason why he appeared here.

This wizard apprentice, in a daze, muttered to himself. "I… I am a disciple of the Gold Sword Wizard [Gorell]. Gorell is a descendant of the Golden Wizard, and is likely to be the most talented descendant of the Golden Wizard. The Golden Wizard left behind hundreds of descendants with hundreds of mistresses."

"Gorell is the descendant of these offspring."

"Gorell believes that he should inherit everything from the Golden Wizard here."

"So, he entered the Golden City through a family treasure, a golden key staff. He is here to collect the Second Ring Wizard Tower in the Golden City."

Su Nan raised his eyebrows, unexpectedly there would be a first-ring wizard whose goal conflicted with his own.

Warwick asked Su Nan: "Master, what should we do?"

Valerian simply said: "Kill."

Su Nan looked at the two of them. "No need to be so violent, after all, I am very good at communicating with people."

"If the communication is not good… then it's not too late to kill."

The 'righteous' witch, Mary Baleo, raised her eyebrows and showed a funny expression.

Su Nan used the hypnotic ability of the vampire viscount, looked into the wizard apprentice's eyes, and said: "You and I hit it off at first sight, you are impressed by the erudition of the first-ring wizard. You will tell me the golden magic system."

The golden school wizard began to mutter to himself. "The essence of the golden magic school is headhunting magic…"

"Through headhunting, let the other party form a [debt] state, and transform the other party's corpse and soul into a golden creature…"

"In addition, it is to use the energy difference formed by the headhunting magic harvest to manipulate gold and form an attack. The golden school needs to be very rich, so Gorell especially wants wealth. Because he imitated his ancestors and married too many wives, his money is not enough…"

"He needs this golden city, and the most expensive treasure in it, the Second Ring Wizard Tower."

"He has reached a cooperation agreement with a half-step second-ring wizard—the Pure White Wizard. He wants to sell the Golden Wizard's Second Ring Wizard Tower to the Pure White Wizard. In exchange, the Pure White Wizard will hand over all the wealth harvested by the Pure White Wizard Council, as well as the thousand-year wealth accumulated by the Pure White School, and also help him plot against the Platinum Commercial Republic…"

Su Nan was speechless, "Gorell really thinks a lot, so beautiful."

Mary chuckled.

After Su Nan obtained all the relevant inheritance of the Golden Wizard, he hypnotized him again, implanted a trace of his thoughts into the wizard apprentice, and then hypnotized him to make him forget himself and return to Gorell's side.

This trace of thought can allow Su Nan to directly manipulate the wizard apprentice at a critical moment, just like some kind of possession.