Werewolf wizard

As for the Petrifying Witch, she probably used magic to truly turn herself into stone, which allowed her to survive in this era without magic for over two thousand years, and used this method to prevent herself from aging.

At least, it could delay her aging as much as possible.

At the same time, she set up a counter-spell to the petrification magic in advance.

This counter-spell would not work when the magic tide receded, but when the magic tide came again, it would gain support from the magic tide and thus work, undoing the curse magic that turned her into stone.

This way, she could return.

Su Nan first learned about counter-spells from a magic book in the Oak Wizard's private library.

The so-called counter-spell is a spell that can break the effects of one's own magic curse.

Many curse magics have counter-spells.

This way, if a wizard curses the wrong person, or doesn't want to continue cursing that person, they can use a counter-spell to undo the curse.

It won't cause an irreversible situation.

According to the Oak Wizard's notes in that book, the reason why counter-spells appeared in the wizarding world is because, more than two thousand years ago, a Second Circle Witch who was good at curses was fighting a First Circle Wizard when she was actually trapped by the opponent and cursed herself, directly cursing herself to death.

This incident was publicized by the First Circle Wizard as his own achievement and honor, and he naturally received praise.

But at that time, the wizards in the wizarding world who followed the curse magic path were greatly shocked by this, so they began to focus on the development of counter-spells.

They didn't want the situation of cursing oneself to death to happen again.

Su Nan thought to himself, "In the case of the magic tide receding, if you only use magic to turn into temporary stone, as the magic tide recedes, the magic effect will be canceled. After the magic that maintains this person's transformation into stone disappears, this person will return to being human."

"Therefore, the Petrifying Witch must have used magic that could truly turn herself into irreversible stone, and set up a counter-spell in advance, waiting for the possible return of the magic tide, and then using the counter-spell to restore herself."

"I admire her for coming up with this method."

Su Nan knew that this method was not as wonderful as it seemed.

The danger in this was like walking a tightrope. If she took one wrong step, the Petrifying Witch would truly turn herself into eternal stone, and she probably couldn't even be sure whether the counter-spell would still work after the passage of time.

If she were dug out during this process, she would probably be regarded as a real stone forever.

Her approach was essentially killing herself once and then resurrecting herself.

It's just that the way she killed herself was a curse magic that could be broken by a counter-spell.

In other words, she used a way to kill herself that could possibly be reversed, killing herself once.

Completely turning into stone and being magically maintained as stone are two different concepts, things of different levels.

Su Nan could probably understand why the Petrifying Witch would do such a risky thing.

What is the concept of the magic tide receding? It's probably like the water in a pond drying up during a drought.

The larger the fish in the pond, the more unable it is to continue to survive.

The more barren the land with sparse magic, the more it becomes unable to allow senior First Class Wizard Apprentices with powerful magic, close to First Circle Wizards, to survive.

The Petrifying Witch didn't want to gradually lose her magic and die mediocrely, and be abandoned in this land without magic.

At that time, she must have put herself in a life-or-death situation, using all her wisdom and magical resources to design such a mechanism to petrify herself.

Half-step Formal Wizard?

It seems that this very ambitious old witch is now very close to becoming a Formal Wizard.

After resurrecting after more than two thousand years, her mind has not been affected by this at all, she doesn't feel discouraged, and still wants to complete her magic path and become a Formal Wizard.

Moreover, this wizard market is very useful to me.

I can completely use the overproduced low-level magic potions to exchange for higher-level magic resources.

So as to be more in line with the orthodox wizarding world.

Su Nan tapped the table with his fingers, and began to think about what kind of benefits this wizard gathering could bring him.

"Lionel, the information you brought me is very good. I am willing to offer 20 Storm Gold Coins, what do you think?"

"If you have similar information in the future, or your merchant friends have it, you can also come to me, but remember, it must be as substantial as yours."

The merchant Lionel looked at Su Nan with joy, never expecting that this lord would not only believe his story, which sounded like he had a mental illness, but also gave him 20 Storm Gold Coins.

You know, this is just a piece of information, not an actual item.

The merchant Lionel bowed to Su Nan and expressed his gratitude: "Generous and trustworthy lord, your reputation makes me feel that the commercial trade of Maple Leaf Town is so reliable."

"In the future, I will truthfully tell my merchant friends about your reputation and your wealth."

"Moreover, there is now turmoil in Samori, and it can no longer bear the function of a commercial town. In the future, my friends and I will probably move our trade routes to Maple Leaf Town."

Su Nan showed a look of doubt. "What happened in Samori? I remember that the Bulgars didn't go there, and the Platinum Republic and our king still have an agreement."

"The Platinum Republic is responsible for helping us protect the coast and resist pirates."

"As a price for them to obtain trade privileges in the Storm Kingdom."

"Samori is not in danger of being attacked by pirates either."

The merchant Lionel said to Su Nan: "Lord Su Nan, you are in the city of Samori and the north of the Samori Territory, so you don't know about the riots yet. We ran over from the Samori Earl Territory."

"A huge riot has occurred in the city of Samori."

"We merchants don't know the real reason for the riot. We only know that it was caused by the Earl of Samori's own mismanagement. The family finances had problems, so he learned from the bankers of the Republic and created a family bank…"

Su Nan was speechless.

Family bank?

Then I don't need to listen to know what will happen. This kind of family bank is better called legal robbery.

Small banks that get a lot of money will only spend it recklessly, and the result is that they can't pay back the depositors' money at all.

Lionel said: "The Samori Family Bank stored the money of many people in Samori City, but now this money cannot be withdrawn due to the Earl of Samori's mismanagement. The Earl of Samori formulated a law, forcibly stipulating that the Samori family does not have to repay the money after the family bank goes bankrupt."

"Then, the city of Samori rioted. Some followers of the God of Law took the opportunity to shout slogans to restore the Eastern Empire and drive away the Storm Knight Lords."

"And it caused a large number of civilians to follow."

"More than ninety-five percent of the population of Samori still maintains their faith in the God of Law…"

"What made the situation even more out of control was that the next day, a Storm Knight squire died in the city of Samori."

"The Earl suspected it was caused by the rioters, so he began to let the army massacre the troublemakers."

The merchant Lionel said to Su Nan: "So now merchants don't dare to approach Samori City anymore, and can only head towards the surrounding small commercial towns."

"We can only look for new, stable commercial trading markets."

Su Nan raised his eyebrows.

He sensed a conspiracy in this.

How could a normal civilian riot kill a knight squire? Someone must be fueling the flames.

As for who it was, Su Nan could guess with his eyes closed.

Those people from the Supreme Order would cause trouble near their own territory, and they would definitely cause trouble in other places at the same time.

Now, the reason why my territory and the nearby territories seem to be very orderly is just because that little bitch, the Blind Nun, has never beaten me a few times.