Wizard's Potion

Chapter 18

"Nicely done!"

Li Mu gave a satisfied thumbs-up in praise.

The Werewolf Wizard, who had lifted the Illusionary Body Curse behind Snape, dropped to one knee before Li Mu, his face alight with fervor.

His master's praise was the greatest honor he could receive.

Without his master, he never would have been able to cast such a powerful Illusionary Body Curse.

And he certainly could never have taken down the famous Snape in an instant. These changes were all thanks to his master.

The Werewolf Wizard stood up, cast the Illusionary Body Curse again, left the guest room, and waited outside the door for orders.

Li Mu had both expected and been surprised by the Werewolf Wizard's transformation.

First, he had killed the Werewolf Wizard in a head-on fight, then resurrected him and taken control of his life and death. Next, he had returned the Werewolf Wizard's wand and made sure it had plenty of Spark Energy stored in it ahead of time, allowing him to wield the greatly enhanced Kindling Wand until its energy ran out.

This had inspired awe in the Werewolf Wizard. Then Li Mu had talked him into believing in the grand dream of conquering the world.

Finally, the Werewolf Wizard had seen the tens of millions of Gold Galleons and witnessed Li Mu's ability to enhance a wand with a casual gesture.

The Werewolf Wizard had been won over completely, going from a wolf to a lapdog in an instant.

This was Li Mu's first time taking on a subordinate, and he didn't have much experience.

Still, this combination of rewards, threats, and lofty ideals seemed to be working. After all, even Voldemort, the Second Dark Lord—a deranged, ugly lunatic—had managed to gather a group of fanatically loyal followers. Surely Li Mu, with Gold Galleons in one hand and a cudgel in the other, could do at least as well as that ugly bastard?

But compared to Voldemort, Li Mu knew all too well that he still lacked the ability to control his subordinates' lives and deaths.

Not everyone was as easy to fool as the Werewolf Wizard. It was nearly impossible to make some wizards with strong wills stay loyal. In those cases, he would have to learn from Voldemort and take control of their lives and deaths to make them obey and serve him.

If someone wasn't afraid of death and stood against him, then he would have to root them out completely.

The Spark World didn't believe in racial equality. Spark Academy taught the principle of Human Race supremacy. Good-looking, useful, and not-too-threatening Alien Races could be subdued as vassals. The ugly, useless, dangerous aliens were the enemies of humanity.

Li Mu activated the Super Iron Skin Charm and reached for the Resurrection Ring.

The single-use Petrification Curse attached to it was instantly blocked by the Super Iron Skin Charm.

Li Mu took out a bucket of water and dropped the Resurrection Ring into it. The improved Life and Death Water smeared on the ring could make someone pass out instantly through skin contact. After being diluted in a full bucket of water and rinsed for a while, it was finally cleaned off.

After putting the Resurrection Ring back on, Li Mu looked down at Snape with pity.

Snape's plan had been sound. If he couldn't use the Resurrection Ring himself, he could control its owner and force him to use it.

Unfortunately, he had picked the wrong opponent. The Resurrection Ring was a Spark Artifact that had already fused and resonated with the Origin HuoZhong. It stored Spark Energy imbued with Li Mu's mind. Strictly speaking, it was like an extension of his eyes.

Its field of vision was limited, and it could only see a small area around its surface.

But Li Mu knew everything Snape had done to the Resurrection Ring over the past two days, from beginning to end.

Li Mu stood and walked over to Snape. He took a knife from the Supply Bay and stabbed him straight in the eye.

The blade pierced his eye and entered his brain, killing him instantly before he could fight back.

The Resurrection Ring's power enveloped the body. Resurrecting Snape would certainly consume a great deal of HuoZhong Source Power, but being able to control his life and death would put an end to the problem once and for all. If Li Mu hadn't been unsure he could defeat Snape the last time they met, he wouldn't have needed to use the Resurrection Ring to buy time.

Snape was bathed in flames and came back to life.

Seeing the flames still fading from his body, he immediately understood that he had been resurrected just like the Werewolf Wizard.

The moment he felt murderous intent toward the mysterious man before him, he felt his life slipping away and grew terribly weak.

His murderous intent faded, and his life stopped draining at once.

Snape immediately understood that the Mysterious Person now controlled whether he lived or died. Until he found a way to escape that control, he would have to obey the Mysterious Person just as he had once obeyed Voldemort while working undercover. Only then could Lily be brought back to life.

"Take a look at these."

Li Mu tossed over a pile of documents.

Snape silently picked them up. Before long, he was engrossed in them.

The documents contained in-depth analyses of various Magic Plants, with new names assigned to their different components. Many Magic Plants contained components that were similar or identical, and extracting those components could provide substitutes for Magic Plants that had gone extinct.

With these documents, he was even confident he could revolutionize Potions.

Snape spent several hours reading. Only at the end did he reach the recipes for Wizard Potions.

At last, he understood why the Mysterious Person had sought him out.

With these documents, recreating the long-lost Wizard Potions was possible.

If Wizard Potions could be produced in large quantities, a new generation of first-generation Pureblood Wizards could emerge. That would send shock waves through the entire Wizarding World. There was only so much to go around, and the arrival of a new generation of first-generation Pureblood Wizards could only mean war to redistribute the spoils.

Though he understood all this, after wrestling with himself again and again, Snape still couldn't refuse.

The most he could do was secretly notify Dumbledore and tell him to prepare.

The entire Wizarding World would soon face an existence more terrifying than Voldemort.

The extinct Magic Plants offered for a high price by a Diagon Alley apothecary had finally been collected after some time.

They all came from ancient Pure-blood families. Their ancestors had become wizards thanks to Wizard Potions, so they had naturally gathered the ingredients needed to make them. But some of the Magic Plants had such demanding survival requirements that they gradually went extinct, cutting off the supply.

The few remaining specimens had become treasured family heirlooms.

By now, many Pure-blood families had diluted their Wizard Bloodline. Some had even lost their wealth and fallen into poverty. Exchanging Magic Plant specimens they could no longer use for a large sum of Gold Galleons was naturally a win-win for everyone.

As soon as he got his hands on the Magic Plants, Li Mu used the Medical Bay to analyze their components.

In less than half a month, Snape had found substitute ingredients and brewed the first bottle of Wizard Potion.

In fact, as long as the ingredients were available, making Wizard Potions wasn't very difficult.

After all, Wizard Potions had been created before wizards even existed. In theory, they were potions ordinary people could brew, born of the extraordinary ingenuity that emerged as ancient humans faced the threat of various Magical Creatures.

The moment Li Mu received the finished Wizard Potion, the Sacrifice Seed in the Sacrifice Chamber stirred to life once more.

It was obvious that the Sacrifice Seed recognized Wizard Potions as a new offering.

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