The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 122 Underground World (Part )

Slemu is a planter in Hive Isen.

He has been living in this dark and damp underground biome since he was born.

He grew up eating moss, sang among mushrooms as big as giant trees, ran in tunnels, and swam in underground pools. He lived a very free life.

Occasionally, he would fantasize about the world outside the insect nest, but in the mouth of the sacrificial insect, although there was only endless yellow sand outside the insect nest, there was also an extremely bright starry sky.

Slimu has always wanted to see what the real starry sky looks like.

That might be more beautiful than the star mushrooms dotted among the dim mosses.

More than a month ago, the sacrificial insect he knew left the underground insect nest.

The sacrificial insect said that the Queen Insect God had sent down an oracle, ordering all the insects in the insect kingdom to go to the surface to meet the enemies from outer space.

Slemu had seen the abilities of the sacrificial insects: fire, thunder, and bright starlight. These things could easily kill the most terrifying demon spiders underground.

In the face of such a powerful force, Slemu believed that this would be a one-sided war.

In the near future, he will listen to the sacrificial worm talk about the enemies he met on the surface, brag about his great achievements, and the brilliant starry sky.

But a month ago, Slemu suddenly felt a sense of sadness.

The sadness almost overwhelmed his thinking organs and made him unable to move for several days. Even his favorite mushrooms could not make him move at all.

Slemu didn't know what this sadness meant, and after the sadness faded, he went back to his daily work.

Each insect in the Black Crystal Zerg has its own responsibilities. Slemu is a planting insect, so his task is planting. Billions of insects consume a lot of food every day, and most of this food is fungi grown by planting insects.

Slemu never felt that his status was lowly, or rather, the entire Black Crystal Swarm did not have the concept of lowly.

They all have the same queen, and what they do is just the allocation of the queen.

Today, Slemu continues to cultivate fungi in the cave as usual.

The black underground soil contained moisture and tiny fungi. Slemu spat into the soil, and the slightly acidic saliva instantly killed the remaining fungi in the soil.

Then he took out some white fungi from the shell on his chest and threw them into the cleaned soil.

This is his favorite kind of fungus, called samurai fungus. This fungus is usually used exclusively for samurai insects, but as a plant insect he can occasionally try some.

The mushroom tastes quite good. Every time I eat it, I feel a lot stronger.

One, two, three...

Soon he had the entire cave planted.

But just as he was about to go to the next cave to continue farming, a subtle sound traveled along his limbs and into his auditory organs.

Something was approaching, and the footsteps were very heavy, completely different from the footsteps of the black crystal worm.

And the owner of the footsteps was rapidly approaching the cave where he was.

"Could it be that the enemy on the ground shot us down?"

A flash of fear flashed through Slemu's mind.

As a planting insect, his body structure is not suitable for fighting. When encountering danger, they usually hide behind the sacrificial insects and warrior insects.

"Hide!"

Slemu made a split-second decision.

He quickly ran to the edge of the cave, dug a hole with his front legs, and buried most of his body in it. He grabbed a few handfuls of moss and mud and covered his body with the part that remained on the surface.

Relying on its own camouflage color, Slemu almost blends into the environment.

boom!
Three strange creatures entered the cave.

These creatures were short in stature and wore silk fabrics that were only worn by sacrificial insects. Slemu was shocked to discover that these creatures had no shells and their tender flesh was in direct contact with the outside world.

"Aren't they afraid of being attacked?"

Slimu thought to himself.

Soon, Slemu saw the faces of the three creatures.

What a horrible look it is.

Their heads are huge, but their eyes are pitifully small. What can such small eyes see? In the hive, creatures either have no eyes or have very large eyes. And they don't have tentacles on their heads. Instead, they have something like fluff. Are they degenerate tentacles? What can such small tentacles do? It's a bit stupid to use such small tentacles to listen to sounds.

After watching for a long time, Slemu felt that these creatures were really ugly. Even the ugliest insects in the hive were a hundred times more beautiful than them.

Their sounds are transmitted through the ground to the limbs and then to the hearing organs of Slemu.

They seemed to be talking about something.

Then, the group of creatures dug out the fungus he had just planted from the soil, and one even threw it into a mouth-like place to taste it.

Oh my god, how come these creatures eat everything?

Slemu watched quietly in the corner. Although he had great opinions about these creatures, their strength made him dare not make any move at all.

These creatures exude the aura that only appears when sacrificial insects fight.

Slemu watched as one of the creatures dug out the fungus he had just grown from the ground. His heart ached every time he dug one out.

What a great strain of bacteria! If it continues to grow, we will definitely have a good harvest.

But before Slemu could feel sad for long, Richard, who had dug out all the fungus, came to him and pulled it out of the ground. As soon as they came in, they used their mental power to find it.

"What is this insect called in the classification system? Planting insects?"

"Let me see... this is a plantworm."

Richard looked at the plant worm in his hand, which was more than one meter long and was constantly struggling, and felt a little surprised.

He tasted the bacteria just now and found that there was a kind of life-active substance in it. Long-term consumption can promote the development of the body and accelerate evolution.

Now that he has found the insects that grow them, maybe he will be able to grow the fungus himself in the future.

"How do I use the slave seal..."

Richard was holding the slave seal issued by the headquarters. This magic suit was engraved with the slave mark spell of the Soul School. This spell was developed by the great wizard of Stockholm and was specially designed for creatures below level one. As long as the slave mark was stamped on them, the enslaved creatures would naturally obey the wizard's orders.

Therefore, no matter which great wizard goes on a plane expedition, this kind of magic armor will be distributed in large quantities to capture low-level alien slaves.

Richard injected magic power into the seal, and then covered the plant worm with it. The next moment, Slemu's thinking organs felt dizzy, and he no longer looked at the creature in front of him with disgust as before.

"What did they do to me?" Slimu thought in horror.

Richard loosened his hand, took out a warrior fungus strain and communicated with Slemu using his mental power.

"Alien, tell me how many of these seeds you have left."

"Alien?" Slemu could clearly feel the discrimination in this word. He wanted to question and curse, but when the words came to his lips, they all turned into answers to the questions.

"There's still a bag of samurai mushroom seeds."

"Where are they?"

"Put it...put it..."

Slemu instinctively resisted giving an answer, as that would lead these creatures to their settlement, but the more he resisted, the more pain his body felt.

This pain does not come from the body, but from the soul.

Due to the effect of the slave mark, it is now equivalent to splitting into two personalities, one is the alien slave Slemu, and the other is the black crystal insect Slemu.

They fought for leadership of the body in Slemu's thinking organ, biting each other like two wild beasts.

In the end...the alien slave Slemu won, or rather, the alien slave won.

The black crystal insect race Slemu has turned into spiritual residue. Even if the slave mark is removed, it can't come back.

"They are in our settlement."

Richard nodded with satisfaction. The slave mark was very effective. Seeing Slemu's painful look just now, he was about to get rid of this bug.

"Very good, take us there."

"It's...master."

……

The environment of the underground insect nest becomes more humid and hotter the deeper you go, just like a hot spring in a crater.

On the way to the Black Crystal Zerg settlement, Richard passed by several caves planted by the Black Crystal Zerg and encountered many planted insects.

All these insects became Richard's slaves.

Due to the huge number of plant insects, their value was only one magic stone each when they were acquired by the Great Wizard of the Black Tower. Ellie and Lawrence did not value such a small amount of magic stones.

In these caves, Richard saw many strange creatures and collected many biological specimens.

As a wizard, being curious about the world is an essential quality.

Among them, a fungus called sacrificial fungus grown by the insects surprised all three wizards.

As the exclusive food of sacrificial insects, this fungus has the effect of stimulating the growth of mental power and restoring soul injuries. Although this effect is very weak, it is enough to surprise several wizards, especially Richard.

Ulysses' soul injury requires a large amount of soul crystals to recover, and the price of soul crystals is quite expensive. If this fungus can be used to recover Ulysses' injuries, it will undoubtedly save Richard a lot of magic stones.

Following the tunnel, the three wizards soon arrived at the black crystal worm settlement mentioned by Slemu.

This settlement is located in a fairly large cave. The floor of the cave is covered with many huge blue glowing fungi. Below them is a layer of glowing moss that looks like fluff. Swarms of black crystal insects walk among the giant fungi, and their limbs make slight frictions as they scratch the moss. From time to time, they also make bursts of low chirps.

The whole cave looks hazy and eerie.

Lawrence swung his staff, and a pitch-black bat emerged from his shadow.

This is a shadow creature that Lawrence contracted from the shadow plane. Its ability to hide in the shadows makes it very suitable for sneak attacks.

The shadow bat transformed into a dark shadow and entered the settlement, and soon returned to Lawrence's shadow.

"There are no warrior bugs, nor sacrificial bugs." Lawrence told the news brought by the bats.

"No? Looks like we're lucky." Richard said with some surprise.

As the black crystal swarm retreated, quite a number of insects entered the hive and fought guerrilla warfare with the wizards, but the hive was so huge that there must be places that these defeated troops did not touch.

If you come across these places, it's no different from picking up money on the ground.

"But the shadow bat also brought a strange message..." Lawrence said hesitantly, "It said there are a few strange creatures among these insects."

(End of this chapter)