My Wife and I Became Sages in Another World
Chapter 368: Alchemists’ New Mix

Chapter 368: Alchemists’ New Mix

After my group of warriors and I got to a small settlement that was taken over by brainwashed soldiers, we made sure that Baelzor didn’t have any of his monster eyes scouting the area.

Luckily, there weren’t any, so we went with the warriors’ idea of attacking them head-on. However, we needed to capture as many of them as possible since they were prime candidates to test our new cures.

The warriors told me that any time they clashed with the brainwashed soldiers, they tried their best not to kill them, but it wasn’t always possible to save themselves along with the soldiers.

Whenever they were accompanied by demons or Accursed Beasts, the warriors couldn’t even think about saving them. Still, I was here now, and I didn’t want to let any of the mind-controlled people die in vain.

The plan was simple—the warriors attacked from the front and clashed with the soldiers while Yoru and I entered from the sky and captured them from behind.

It didn’t take us over five minutes to capture them all. Although, to be fair, I did use powerful wind magic to move around quickly.

After chaining down the soldiers, we noticed that half of the villagers kept working, carrying stones and wood into a cart while the other half stood nervously on the side of the settlement.

The ones who kept working were enslaved villagers who were also brainwashed, so even if we attacked the soldiers around them and liberated them from their duties, the villagers wouldn’t stop working for a second.

The villagers halted their work only when we intervened and physically stopped them. Still, their faces showed no emotion.

We were lucky that we were able to take all those people with us, but I couldn’t help thinking that it was suspicious.

Baelzor didn’t seem like the type of devil who would make these kinds of mistakes, and knowing that he was probably receiving help from Drakzen only made my doubts more prominent.

’Could it be that he sent his forces somewhere else?’ I pondered.

When walking back with the chained soldiers and villagers, we had to stop from time to time since they would try to get violent with us while yanking their chains, making the trip longer than it was.

Nighttime fell upon us, but we didn’t want to set up a camp as many of the brainwashed soldiers were quite uncooperative, so we just kept walking along for hours until reaching the foot of the mountain.

Thankfully, Vespera was already back on The Pit with her group, so she helped me fly all the people to the top—especially the soldiers.

Now, we had twenty-one soldiers and sixteen villagers who were brainwashed inside The Pit, so we took them all to the tenth ring, where we had to keep them chained to a wall so they wouldn’t start attacking everyone around them.

Once we were done setting everyone up, I sent a voice message to Melina, explaining the whole situation to her. However, she didn’t reply, so I thought that she must have been either busy or sleeping.

Then, I sent a message to Reinar and Jen, who had been working on the cure for the brainwashing spell.

Surprisingly, they replied to my message instantly, asking me to go to End Forest quickly to check out their progress, making me use the magic quartz to pay them a quick visit to another continent.

When I appeared inside the treehouse in End Forest, the alchemists were waiting for me and guided me to the workshop, even though I knew exactly where it was, as I had built the entire place.

Reinar and Jen looked like they hadn’t slept a single minute ever since they visited the north. Still, they were enthusiastic about showing me their progress.

The two of them had been working on a potion that mixed the properties of the holy panacea and the MP potion.

After we discovered that the northerners’ immunity stemmed from the MP layer that covered their bodies, the two alchemists got the idea of adding that same effect to the holy panacea.

When we tried the panacea on a brainwashed soldier, it had an effect on them for a brief moment before their minds went blank again, so they believed that something had to be tweaked in order for it to be cleansed entirely.

Jen showed me a potion that was slightly yellow and had a pretty thick consistency for a potion, as it made it look like a vial of cream.

One of the first things they did was create an alternative version of the MP potion, which would send a stream of MP throughout the person’s body to cleanse it from demonic energy, and then it would use that MP to cover them.

In other words, drinking the potion alone could potentially make someone immune to the brainwashing spell, at least for a few minutes.

It also had cleansing properties, but the two alchemists weren’t sure that it was powerful enough to dispel Baelzor’s mind-control.

For the holy panacea, they added an herb that I had never seen before called "brainfood."

Apparently, it was an herb that grew in the jungle of Kalusia, and they were able to get their hands on it after the country was rebuilt.

"Brainfood" was a leaf that jungle beastkins would eat to improve their senses, as it supposedly made someone’s brain more active.

The alchemists thought that if they added brainfood to the holy panacea, they could redirect the healing properties straight to the brain and not the blood, which was its current effect.

Once they had the two new variations of the potions, they mixed them together until they got the perfect ratio, giving it its viscous texture.

Obviously, they hadn’t tested it on anyone yet, so we weren’t even sure if it would work. Nonetheless, I decided to take it with me to try it for them.

"Can we go? I think it’s best for us to see the results in person," Reinar asked.

I nodded. "Get your enchanted coats, then. We are going back right now," I said to the alchemists, who excitedly got ready to get teleported with me back to the freezing north.