The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 121 Underground World (I)

After about a month of construction, the floating city fortress has been initially completed, and various alchemical weapons have been initially deployed. If there is another war in the Black Bone Plains now, ten thousand white wizards can easily win the war with these alchemical weapons.

When entering the 500-meter range of the floating city, an alarm suddenly sounded from Richard's crystal ball.

"Alert, alert, no one is allowed to fly in the floating city's airspace without notification."

As soon as the voice ended, Richard saw several white wizards flying to the ground, holding magic wands in their hands.

"Who is it? Where's your flight permit?"

Seeing this, Richard quickly explained:

"Sorry, I've been away for the past month and didn't know about this rule."

Several white wizards used their mental power to scan Richard's body, and after confirming that he was a wizard, they said:

"Flight control is in place over the floating city. No wizard may fly without a flight report. Please cooperate."

Richard didn't say much and immediately fell to the ground.

Walking from the ground into the floating city fortress, Richard met many dark wizards like him. Unlike white wizards, black wizards prefer to study alone, which also leads to them being somewhat out of touch with the news.

Many dark wizards had gathered in the floating city fortress, and Richard saw Ellie inside at a glance.

"Ellie." Richard walked up to her and asked quietly, "What's the situation with this gathering? Are we distributing infiltration missions?"

Ellie's mentor Susanna also participated in the war and was a member of the command center. She was much more informed than Richard.

"It's considered an infiltration." Ellie replied, "Our frontal battlefield is progressing very smoothly. According to the division of power in this world, we have already captured two insect countries.

But these insects not only have their nests on the ground, they also have very complex cave structures underground. Some insects hide inside and keep harassing us.

The terrain of the dungeon is not suitable for deploying the white wizard army, so the task of cleaning up these bugs falls to us black wizards."

Richard nodded. He already understood the general situation of this mission.

Dark wizards are individually powerful and more flexible in combat, so this mission is indeed suitable for them.

Ellie glanced at the wand in Richard's hand and touched it curiously.

"Where's your greatsword? Why did you replace it with a staff without even a head?"

The head of a staff is usually the core of the staff. A good head can enhance the power of spells even if it is not engraved with runes. The lava gem wand that Ellie used when she was an apprentice is a typical example.

"The big sword is not suitable for dealing with these bugs, so I changed it into a staff and added some runes. As for the staff head..." Richard scratched his head helplessly, "I don't have much materials on hand, so I can only make do with it."

"Change the greatsword into a staff!?" Ellie exclaimed, "You alchemists are too shameless. If the magic equipment doesn't fit, you can change it after leaving the battlefield."

As she said this, Ellie took out her magic wand with a sour look on her face. There were many signs of repair on the wand, but because the wizard who repaired it was not skilled in craftsmanship, many cuts left by warrior bugs could still be seen on the wand.

"Do you think my wand can be strengthened?"

"Enhance?" Richard took the staff and looked at it. This staff was a gift from Ellie's mentor Susanna after she became a wizard. The flame crystal on the head of the staff combined with the rune array can enhance the power of fire element spells to level 100.

This staff is combined with Ellie's already impressive attainments in energy-shaping magic. Her most common fireball spell has reached level 700. If she uses cursed fire, the power of her spells can even soar to level 1,500, and it is group damage.

Unlike Richard's Heart of Annihilation, it can only be used as a single-target spell.

So in the previous battle, Ellie had been used as a turret and protected by several dark wizards.

"With my level, the only way to enhance it is to change the materials."

"Okay." Ellie took back the staff with some disappointment.

As dark wizards gathered from all directions of the Black Bone Plains, the command from the command center was finally delivered.

In the communication crystal ball, the cold voice of the command center kept assigning tasks to the dark wizards present. The black wizards who received the tasks received the corresponding props from the logistics wizards according to the requirements of the tasks.

During this month, the logistics wizards of the floating city conducted a lot of research on the black crystal insects and designed many props targeting the black crystal insects.

The purpose of the dark wizard's mission this time is not only to clear the insects from the underground insect nest, but also to test these props.

Richard's mission was to clear out the bugs in the underground hive and explore the terrain of the hive as much as possible.

Ellie's mission is the same as his, and the mission location is also Insect Nest No. 1.

Following the instructions of the mission, they received an alchemical tool from the logistics wizard, which included a masking potion to conceal their own scent, a developing crystal ball that could emit probing sound waves, a reusable slave seal, and a magic pocket to store slaves.

According to the headquarters, there are many non-combat insects in the underground insect nest, and the Black Tower wizard is temporarily purchasing unlimited quantities of these insects. The price ranges from one magic stone to one hundred magic stones per insect, depending on the type.

While collecting the props, Richard and his companions unexpectedly met a familiar wizard.

"Lawrence, which insect nest did you clean?" Richard greeted familiarly.

As a teammate who had fought together, Richard was very clear about Lawrence's strength. In a narrow space like the underground insect nest, the power of his shadow spell would definitely be greatly increased. Lawrence looked at Richard, and a stiff smile appeared on his expressionless face.

As a necromancer, Lawrence transformed himself into a zombie-like living dead. At this moment, he was very happy to have a smile on his face.

"Number One Hive, what about you guys?"

"Also number one."

"Together for now?"

"agree."

……

Insect Nest No. 1 is located one hundred kilometers south of the Black Bone Plain. Before coming to this insect nest, Richard always thought it was a mountain range.

When we got near the insect nest, we found that the nest, which was as majestic as a mountain, was covered with holes. These holes were usually the entrances and exits for the black crystal insect swarm to enter and exit the nest. Now many of them had been destroyed by the white wizard's spell.

"Is this insect nest number one?" Richard looked at the huge creature in front of him and couldn't help but exclaimed.

"It's so big! It's incredible that these bugs can build such a big nest." Ellie also exclaimed.

As a rookie wizard participating in a plane war for the first time, everything in front of him was so new.

"It's really spectacular." said the old wizard Lawrence lightly.

He had experienced two plane wars and seen many different sights. Although the insect nest in front of him was spectacular, he was more concerned about the situation inside.

For such a huge insect nest, its underground network structure must be complex. To the Black Crystal Zerg, these complex network structures are nothing more than their own yard, but to wizards, these network structures are traps waiting to eat people at any time.

"let's go."

Richard used his crystal ball to capture the spectacular scene before him, and then found an entrance to the insect nest.

The building material of the insect nest is very strange, a kind of red sand mixed with plant roots. This material has a considerable degree of strength. Richard tested it and found that it would take at least 50 energy levels to destroy it.

"This building material is quite good. I think the White Wizard Corps will like it." Richard collected a piece of sand and said lightly.

This thing also has certain research value. You can study it when you have free time to broaden your knowledge.

A mature wizard must have a huge reserve of knowledge.

Going down along the passage of the insect nest, the environment of the nest becomes more humid, and even moss-like plants appear on the surrounding sandy cave walls.

This is completely different from the relatively dry surface environment of the hive world.

According to the wizard's current observations, the surface of the insect nest world is very dry and cold, with large amounts of wasteland and desert, and only a few large rivers with relatively dense vegetation around them.

But if we extrapolate based on the bugs that appeared in this war, there should be nearly one billion low-level bugs in this world as a basic population.

If it were only based on the density of plants on the ground, this world would never be able to support so many black crystal insect swarms.

Therefore, the command center believes that most of the food sources of the black crystal insect swarm are in the underground insect nests, or in other words, the underground insect nests are the main part of this world. If these black wizards can successfully eliminate the insects, they will be sent to the unoccupied insect nests to carry out destruction behind enemy lines.

The network structure inside the hive was very complicated, with all the similar-looking forks in the road making people confused. If they were not careful, they would end up going around in circles. Furthermore, due to the special structure of the hive, Richard and his companions did not dare to use magic to clear a path easily, for fear of causing a chain reaction that would bury them as well.

Fortunately, the command center had distributed a microwave detection and developing crystal ball in advance. This crystal ball can use an ultrasonic wave that is inaudible to the human ear to detect the surrounding terrain. In the complex underground system of the insect nest, this crystal ball is crucial.

Otherwise, wizards without special means will just get lost in the crypt.

As they entered the underground insect nest, the scene before them instantly shocked them.

They were now in a relatively wide underground cave, the walls of which were covered with pale blue luminous mosses. Between these mosses, even brighter luminous mushrooms were scattered like stars in the night sky.

Richard took a deep breath. The temperature of the cave was significantly higher than that of the surface. The air had a slightly moist and sweet smell, as if he was walking in a forest after rain.

"The spore content in the air is significantly higher than on the surface, so be prepared for poisoning," Richard warned.

"Well, the concentration of water elements in the space is relatively high. There should be underground water veins nearby." Ellie also added.

The elemental bloodline she fused with was the fire element. She felt very uncomfortable in this environment where the water element was relatively dense.

Lawrence took out the developing crystal ball distributed by the logistics wizard. After activating it, a sound wave inaudible to human ears emanated from the crystal ball. After a moment, the crystal ball projected an image, which contained the nearby web structure.

"Ellie, you guessed wrong. There is no underground water vein around here." Lawrence looked at the image, "If there is an underground water vein nearby, this image will be affected. This water element is probably caused by the special rules of this world. You must pay attention to this later.

The special rules of these other worlds often lead to many scenes that do not conform to the common sense of our wizarding world."

After saying that, he pointed to a larger hole in the image with a small dot in it.

"There's a cave here, and I think there's a bug in there."

(End of this chapter)