The wizard era begins with the alchemist wizard

Chapter 126: The Relics of the Mother Insect God

Richard took the bone pointer with some curiosity and placed it flat on his palm.

The white bone pointer trembled slightly, and the direction of the pointer pointed to the same direction again.

"The curse spell is truly magical." Richard exclaimed, returned the bone pointer to Ellie, then came to the alchemical golem and put the golem back into the secret realm.

This thing can't dig a tunnel.

Following the instructions of the bone pointer, Richard and his companion went down the tunnel.

Along the way, Richard kept seeing traces of the black crystal worm's movements.

This allowed Richard to confirm that there was nothing wrong with the direction of the bone pointer.

The deeper you go into the underground insect nest, the warmer and more humid the environment becomes, and the denser the surrounding fungi become. Many of the tunnels ahead are covered by fungi, and must be explored with mental power to be found.

This slowed down their pursuit considerably.

Fortunately, this environment also makes the traces left by the insects more obvious. Even after the spell wears off, Richard can still rely on the remaining traces to continue tracking.

A month later.

boom!
With a muffled sound, a small purple fireball blasted away the fungi blocking the tunnel.

At this moment, Richard and the other man had reached the middle level of the insect nest. At this level, the surrounding environment was not only warmer and more humid, but even the magic power in the air had increased significantly. Moreover, in the magic power, Richard could also feel a surge of vitality.

This vitality made the fungi even stronger. The mycelium of any fungus was very tough, forcing Richard and the others to use magic to clear a path.

Moreover, this vitality made Richard's cells somewhat excited, and the fighting impulse continued to impact Richard's mind.

Richard could conclude that creatures living in this level of the hive would become very aggressive.

At least that's the case for level one creatures.

"The rules of this world are really strange. The temperature gets higher as you go down, but the concentration of water elements keeps rising."

Ellie had a faint flame burning on her body, keeping herself dry.

The fire elemental bloodline she had fused with made her feel very uncomfortable with the rising water element around her.
Entering the tunnel, Richard discovered that the fungi they had blasted away were growing at a tiny but visible speed.

It won't be long before these fungi block the tunnel again.

"We have to act quickly. These fungi, combined with the surrounding environment, have terrifying vitality."

At the end of the tunnel was a cave where several black crystal worms were resting, some of them were injured.

Richard peered into the cave through the cracks between the fungi:

"It seems that the situation of these bugs is not very good. These injured bugs have fallen behind."

Several of the insects were in very bad condition, with green mucus constantly dripping from the wounds on their bodies, corroding holes in the luminous moss on the ground.

The acidic body fluids of these bugs can effectively corrode fungi, and Richard is able to track them mostly by relying on these corrosion marks.

"Shall we do it?" Ellie seemed eager to try.

The irritating environment and the lengthy chase made her eager to vent.

"hold on."

Richard suppressed the urge to fight in his body and used his mental power to communicate with Ulysses to explore the way forward.

"Gah, exploring the way again."

Ulises flapped his wings and turned into a black lightning, rushing straight towards several injured bugs.

"what!"

The injured insects' mouthparts make sharp popping sounds.

Several of the insects were warrior insects, and they had seen the methods of wizards. The black creature in front of them was definitely not a native creature of the insect nest, so the result was very clear.

"There are monsters!"

No matter how badly injured they were, the warrior bugs stood up from the ground, their upper blade arms flashing with a sharp edge.

These insects were once well-known experts in the insect nest. They had both good strength and luck, otherwise they would not have survived the Black Bone Plains.

But facing these skilled warrior bugs, Richard showed a sneer on his face.

As the most common combat insect in the hive, the warrior insect's strength can be described in one word - balanced.

The warrior worm's physique, energy, and body structure are very balanced, and it has ways to deal with any situation.

But balance has a similar derogatory word - mediocrity.

The mediocre statistics of the Samurai Bugs mean that they can only be effective on large battlefields. In small-scale battles or single-person battles, mediocre statistics mean they are vulnerable.

Richard flashed and instantly appeared in front of a warrior bug.

The fighting impulse caused by the environment these days made him very uncomfortable, and when he encountered such an opportunity, he naturally wanted to vent.

"Monster! Die!"

The two warrior bugs swung their sword arms at Richard, and the sharp blades brought up a sharp sword wind and went straight to Richard's torso.

If he was hit, Richard would at least... break a layer of skin.

Although Richard's training of the adaptive body focused on elemental damage, he also conducted training to adapt to physical damage. Cutting damage below energy level 150 could not even scratch Richard's skin.

The warrior insects in front of him were all injured, and the power of their blade arms barely reached the three hundred energy level. Richard's physique was not low, and his body itself could resist a certain degree of attack, plus he had a layer of black scales on his body.

For many reasons, the attacks of these samurai insects seemed like a joke to Richard.

Richard withstood the blow from the warrior bug and raised his staff with a fierce smile, then whizzed down.

A warrior bug's body collapsed when it was hit by a stick, its shell and muscles exploded, and green slime splattered everywhere.

Ellie also waved her staff at this moment, and a purple fireball condensed at the tip of the staff. The terrifying temperature even raised the temperature of the entire cave. She waved her hand casually, and the fireball fell like a meteor, and the three warrior bugs that were unable to dodge were blown into charcoal.

Seeing this, the remaining warrior insects panicked and ran towards the tunnel.

They were already a defeated army, and had long been afraid of wizards. Now they saw their companions being killed like melons and vegetables, and the courage in their hearts disappeared instantly.

But how could Richard let them go?

Richard held the staff and smashed the bugs one by one like playing whack-a-mole, and green slime splashed all over the cave.

Finally, Richard slowly walked to the last bug.

He took out a soul scroll and said slowly:

"Surrender, or die."

The only remaining warrior bug took the contract, his double blade arms trembled continuously, and a name appeared on the soul contract.

The fear of death crushed his last bit of dignity.

……

After the contract was signed, Ellie came to Richard and asked curiously:

"Why did you take it as a slave? This bug is already disabled. It's not worth wasting a soul contract."

Richard took out a bottle of life potion and sprinkled it on the warrior bug's wound to prevent this guy from dying quickly.

"Can you understand what these bugs are saying?"

Ellie was stunned, then she understood Richard's intention.

"You're going to torture it."

"It's not torture." Richard squatted in front of the warrior bug, "It's questioning. I'm its master, I don't need to torture it.

After that, he asked the warrior bug, "Bug, tell me, what is the purpose of your trip to the upper insect nest this time?"

"We...we..." The warrior worm seemed to want to struggle, but Richard's gradually cold gaze finally made it give up the idea.

"We went to the upper insect nest to retrieve the divine weapons given by the sacrifice and a treasure left by the mother insect god."

"The Mother Insect God's legacy!" Richard was shocked and immediately asked, "What is the Mother Insect God's legacy?"

As the master of the world, the Queen Insect God must be involved in something that is not simple.

The warrior insect slowly spoke: "The relics of the Mother Insect God are treasures bestowed by the Mother Insect God to the thirty-six mother insects in the past. Most of these treasures were taken out during the war, and only the blood of the insect god is still hidden in the upper insect nest.

The priest who led us got the news by chance, and led us to take the risk to sneak into the upper hive to retrieve it."

"You found out by chance? You are not insects from this insect country?"

The warrior bug shook its tentacles: "Yes, we are bugs from the prosperous bug kingdom."

"So how strong is your team of bugs?"

"Most of them are one-star warrior bugs, and the priest is two-star, but its upper insect nest was severely injured by you."

Richard nodded, understanding the situation.

"What happened to you sealing that wizard?"

"Wizard?" The warrior worm was a little confused by the title, but it quickly realized that it was Lawrence.

"We have to go through the mushroom field to return to the lush insect kingdom. The wizard is our sacrifice to the mushroom field."

……

In a cave dozens of kilometers away from Richard, a group of black crystal worms were resting.

A month's journey left these black crystal insects exhausted.

They removed the fungus from the transport worm, each of them took a few strands, and then put them in their mouthparts and began to chew.

Although they can maintain their daily activities by absorbing magic power, the life-active substances in the warrior fungus can quickly relieve their fatigue.

Among this group of warrior insects, a sacrificial insect dressed in silk sat quietly, the black crystal on its forehead constantly flashing faint starlight.

All the insects present could feel the disharmony within the sacrificial insect.

An alien energy is constantly destroying its body, while the star power of the sacrificial insect is constantly fighting against this energy.

Soon, the sacrificial insect stretched out its tentacles and opened its huge eyes, revealing a tired look.

The alien energy was rootless water after all, and the starlight power of the sacrificial insect suppressed it briefly.

"Priest, do we still need to continue?" asked a warrior insect leader wearing black metal armor.

Among the samurai bugs, the black metal armor represents that it is the best among the one-star samurai bugs and a future star that is about to step into the two-star samurai bug category.

"Continue," the sacrificial insect stood up, "the longer we stay here, the more danger the Queen Insect God's relics will be in. The two groups of monsters are still chasing us, we must hurry."

After saying that, it opened its mouth and emerged from a ball of starlight, and Lawrence, who turned into a shadow, was like amber.

"I hope the natural spirits of the mushroom land will like the creatures from another world."

(End of this chapter)