Chapter 81: Are the Church Members So Arrogant Now?

Sunan tossed a bottle of thrice-refined mutant werewolf potion to Warwick. "Mr. Warwick, I don't mind having character. It's what makes this world vibrant and colorful. Whether it's you, Mr. Brom, or Mr. Vasilian, you all have unique personalities."

"This potion, having undergone thrice refinement, can further enhance your undead abilities."

"This will help make your martial arts style more achievable."

"But be cautious."

"The thrice-refined potion involves issues of digestion. Unlike previous potions, this one isn't as easy to digest, and different individuals will process it at different rates. This complexity is unavoidable—the higher the magic, the more intricate its internal magical forces become."

"If it can't be digested, the best outcome is that it doesn't fully take effect. The worst... as long as I control the potion's quality, there shouldn't be any severe consequences."

"I expect that the curse transformation potion I plan to brew as a formal wizard will require relatively high qualifications."

Sunan crushed the heart extraction potion in his left hand, turning his entire left arm a deep red, and approached the defeated church forces, already shattered by Vasilian.

By now, Vasilian and the ghouls had completely routed the infantry, whose faith had collapsed, leaving countless dead and wounded.

As a former priest, Vasilian harbored deep hatred for the church.

Naturally, he wouldn't spare them.

The three veteran storm knights were also slain by Vasilian, and their deaths wouldn't affect the quality of their hearts.

The heart extraction potion was simply a more efficient way to penetrate their bodies and extract their hearts and other organs intact.

However, the knight who had mutated was in a complex state.

His eyes bulged, muscles taut and veiny, transforming him into a grotesque, demonic figure akin to a bodybuilder overdosed on steroids.

His skin took on an unsightly, bluish hue.

Moreover, he swung his sword wildly at the air, roaring incessantly.

"All lies."

"All lies."

"Kill, kill! I'll kill all you impostors."

The heart extraction potion was intended for him, though Sunan planned to observe him further first.

The deranged knight, wielding a short sword, manically hacked at a rock on the lakeshore.

His frenzied state was a spectacle.

Sunan approached him from behind, raising an eyebrow. "I should have anticipated this. When a wizard's mental strength surpasses 20, personal psychological issues can manifest in reality. Without swift mental resolution or bypassing it, one might turn into a wizard madman, possibly similar to the creation of the Black Death Wizard in such experiments."

"What was once a healthy individual, upon significant mental strength enhancement, will inevitably face unique issues."

"So, when knights, whose physiques are bolstered by faith and training, experience faith collapse, they too are prone to problems."

"After all, they are no longer ordinary people."

"Zhiniao, document his condition. File name: Knight Monster No. 1."

"Analyze his physical state."

[Indeed, his body has completely collapsed, rendering him insensitive to pain, granting a temporary power boost, and he's indiscriminately using Storm Sword Prayer.]

[This prayer seems to enhance attack power by 0.7 when striking foes.]

[However, it incurs massive stamina depletion.]

Sunan immediately grasped the situation. "This guy's doubt in the Storm God led to his abandonment, forcing perpetual Storm Prayer."

"Whether this is intentional or accidental remains unknown."

"Truly cruel, Storm God."

Sunan pondered. He had considered developing a werewolf curse transformation potion branch following the storm werewolf route.

But now, tackling this hurdle was imperative, or the entire branch concept might be futile.

The knight madman suddenly turned, glaring at Sunan with crazed eyes, resembling a monster more than ever. "I'll eat you, I'm so hungry."

"Really hungry."

"You must taste good. You smell delicious, better than everyone around."

"I'll eat you. Eating you will sate my hunger."

Sunan arched an eyebrow, realizing the knight had detected his wizardry.

This might be a mechanism set by the Storm God.

When church knights, driven mad by betrayal, encounter a wizard, they instinctively attack.

Thus, even if a knight renounces the church and god, his mind erased, his body remains a tool for the church and god in battle.

Sunan raised his right hand, simultaneously receiving information about the Four Seasons Garden from Werewolf Warrior Brom, transmitted via the new wolf pack effect.

'Lord Sunan, the inside of the Four Seasons Garden feels like another world. It's vast, with many aggressive plants. I encountered a church knight's corpse being chewed by a house-sized man-eating flower.'

'There's lots of empty black mud here. What is this? A garden? We haven't found the church members, cultists, or the Forgotten Ones. They might be elsewhere in the relic, as it's huge.'

'We have no sense of direction here; it's like being in a maze of enormous flowers.'

Sunan raised an eyebrow, realizing the Four Seasons Garden's internal defense mechanism, a maze, was preventing intruders from reaching its core.

It seemed the Forgotten Ones' forced entry triggered this defense mechanism.

The knight madman couldn't reach Sunan because Vasilian intercepted his secondary weapon with the black blade, severing it.

Sunan calmly declared, "The situation is confirmed. Our forces can enter the Four Seasons Garden."

"My order: eliminate all intruders."

"But before that..." Sunan looked at the knight madman desperately trying to reach him, thwarted by Death Knight Vasilian.

Vasilian stood like an insurmountable wall.

Sunan remarked, "Are the church members so arrogant now?"

In the next moment, Sunan partially transformed into a werewolf leader, instantly boosting all physical attributes beyond 3.5.

Yet, his left hand remained red, even as it turned into a crimson claw.

Sunan's left hand pierced the knight madman's chest. The knight paused, dumbfounded, staring at his chest, unable to comprehend the situation.

Sunan had inserted a wolf claw into his body without causing external harm.

His pupils contracted sharply as he realized Sunan's claw grasped his heart.

Without hesitation, Sunan extracted his heart, and the knight madman collapsed, while Sunan examined the heart in his crimson wolf claw, still beating.

This magic allowed the extracted heart to keep beating for three days.

During this time, placing it in a birch sap stabilizing potion would preserve its heartbeat for years to come.

The stabilizing potion acted like a time-slowed zone, isolating the heart from external contact.

Time is the concept arising from changes in all things, so Sunan reasoned that slowing these changes was a form of temporal suspension.

However, he couldn't create a true time-suspension potion with his current magical power, likely achievable only after becoming a formal wizard.

Sunan regarded the knight madman's corpse, declaring, "Why pretend to be beasts before me, church members?"

He noticed the corpse rapidly darkening, decaying, becoming useless. "I see. When faith is destroyed, all life energy flows to the heart."

"Disregarding their followers' lives entirely."

"This suggests the knight madman's heart holds more energy than a typical formal storm knight's heart."

"More valuable."

Sunan placed the heart into a slightly larger birch sap stabilizing potion bottle.

With the lakeshore invaders dealt with, fleeing civilians stood in the nearby woods, expressing gratitude.

Even a few non-Peter Territory civilians pretended to be from Peter Territory, hoping to join and receive Sunan's protection.

Sunan turned to the parted waters, revealing the dried lakebed entrance.

The wizard relic likely held extensive wizard knowledge and even legitimate legacies. Despite having his path, Sunan needed ample data for analysis to elevate himself further.

Currently, his potion system wasn't a true system, merely an alternative magic.

He required more comprehensive wizard knowledge and legacies.

Additionally, the invading bodies within the relic were valuable... resources for Sunan.

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