Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 120 Scarab: The Sunmark Potion and the Scarab Mother

In Solon's carving room, Sunan said to Solon, "Your bow and arrow design is indeed excellent. I can have you produce it and try it out later."

"But before that, you need to forge me a perfect steel gargoyle and ten bronze gargoyles that can be slightly smaller, and then carve forty plaster gargoyles that were carved before."

"Also, add this functional structure to the gargoyle's throat. Design it however you like, just get it done."

Su Nan handed him a diagram she had drawn herself, showing the throat mechanism for holding the Black and White Flame Potion and the Exploding Bug Potion.

Solon's expression gradually became serious. He listened to Su Nan's speech while taking notes of Su Nan's requests.

For Solon, Sunan was probably the last patron who believed in him and employed him after his reputation was ruined.

Therefore, he cannot let Su Nan down.

Otherwise, he would miss his last chance.

Even if he were a painter of exceptional talent, his achievements would be limited without sufficient financial support.

He wanted to return to the Republic of Ambrose, the artist capital of the Boot Peninsula and the headquarters of the Church of the Fire God, with great fame, so he needed Sunan's praise and more financial support.

Solon said to Sunan, "Yes, my respected master."

"I've remembered all your requests. I didn't expect you'd need such a large number of gargoyles to decorate the castle. I can see you have a very high standard of art."

"You are truly an enlightened lord. Especially at such a young age, your vision is so exceptional, surpassing those artistically challenged viscounts who are ignorant of their own limitations. Especially that Viscount Ambrose!"

Su Nan nodded. It wasn't that he had high artistic taste, but rather that he had a particular interest in the gargoyle air force.

In this way, his air force can now rely on flying gargoyle units;

The land forces include golems, werewolves, and death knights;

The underground and cannon fodder will have scarab-themed potions in the future.

A week ago, Su Nan had already drunk the mutated werewolf potion and used magic to pierce his own heart to digest the potion's effects.

The mutated werewolf leader's super-sensory ability is [Super Brain].

The "Super Brain" can enhance the werewolf leader's control over the wolf pack by more than ten times, thus allowing the wolf pack effect centered on Su Nan to gain greater room for upgrade.

The AI ​​spent a week reprogramming the Wolf Pack Effect. The updated Wolf Pack Effect can now be perfectly integrated with future Gargoyle aerial legions, Scarab underground troops, and so on...

After bidding farewell to Solon, Su Nan returned to the subspace at the bottom of the lake, the Garden of the Four Seasons.

He walked into the calamus swamp in the garden maze, where there were already twenty-one normal-sized scarabs and five scarabs the size of a basketball.

The twenty-one normal-sized scarabs were the scarabs that the coca wizard, representing the Valley of Curses, traded with him.

Perhaps out of gratitude, before parting ways, the coca wizard gave him, in addition to the brass ring, a female beetle that could mate with ordinary scarabs to produce scarab eggs.

This female beetle doesn't look much different from the scarab beetle, except that it has a plump, milky-white reproductive nest at its rear end, which can incubate scarab beetle eggs.

Su Nan then used the AI ​​to combine the magical power of the Oak Wizard to amplify insects and plants with his own existing data, successfully enlarging the size of these ferocious insects that devoured magic proportionally.

In this way, these ferocious scarabs will be able to devour magic faster and withstand more damage. Su Nan also enhanced their burrowing ability.

The spells that control these ordinary scarabs and modify them are the 0.5-level spell, "Scarab Control Spell," which Su Nan had the AI ​​analyze in reverse through the Insect Jade Meditation Method.

He feeds the scarab queen once a day with the scarab sun mark potion he developed, which gradually modifies the scarab queen's body, enabling her to stably produce modified scarabs the size of basketballs.

Over the past two weeks, the eggs laid by the female scarab beetle were initially all dead, but some gradually began to survive, and now about half of the modified scarab beetle eggs have begun to hatch normally.

The Scarab Sunmark Potion is a potion that gradually transforms the entire insectoid race. However, this potion is based on the special effect of using the full moon to connect with humans and create werewolves. It boldly reverse-engineers the idea that by connecting insects with the sun, the scarabs will gain powerful reproductive abilities.

【fertility】!

It is the key to the reproduction of the insect population and the selection of varieties, as well as the targeted breeding of varieties. It is because its own scarab mother beetle has acquired strong reproductive capacity that it can produce several generations of scarab beetles in just two weeks, and finally produce a stable modified variety.

"Hiss~" In the calamus garden, the scarab queen continued to grow under the influence of the Sun Mark potion, becoming the size of a bicycle.

Its body has changed from its original flat shape to a round shape similar to the sun, and even its wings have sun-shaped patterns.

As a scarab mother that had been raised by Su Nan since its larval stage, seeing Su Nan was like seeing its own father. The scarab mother raised its limbs to Su Nan to express its welcome and proudly showed him its species.

Meanwhile, the wolf pack, in its communication with each other, continuously sent joyful messages to southern Jiangsu.

The intelligence of a female scarab beetle is currently equivalent to that of an 8- to 9-year-old human.

Currently, Su Nan controls the scarabs in three ways: first, by using a 0.5-ring scarab control spell; second, through the command of the wolf pack; and third, through the hormonal connection between the scarab queen and all her offspring.

Su Nan poured the golden-red sun mark potion into the mother beetle's mouthparts. Instantly, the mother beetle's entire body turned golden and radiant, becoming extremely beautiful. At the same time, her body began to weaken, continuing to mutate towards the next round of evolution.

The scarabs cultivated by Su Nan using the Sun Mark potion all looked beautiful. First, the scarabs' originally grayish-gold bodies turned completely golden, just like the color of gold. Second, the scarabs' limbs were no longer grayish-grey, but instead looked very smooth and clean, like the surface of a mirror.

These ace insects of the Insect Curse Valley, after being combined with Su Nan's own magic and the magic of the Oak Wizard, have achieved even greater prowess.

Of course, this is also thanks to the powerful calculation ability of the AI.

Su Nan saw that ten healthy modified scarabs had hatched from the eggs laid by the scarab mother today.

"Indeed, their powerful reproductive ability makes it very easy for them to mutate into usable combat units. Although these modified scarabs have average physical attributes, even a single one can pose a threat to an ordinary knight's squire. Once I have fully modified them and stabilized their production, they can become a powerful cannon fodder army of mine."

"Moreover, these scarabs inherited a grazing magic, the ability to devour everything..."

Sunan conducted an experiment and found that these scarabs can eat anything, including gold, silver, iron, and sulfuric acid.

There is only one thing you cannot eat: something that contains the sorcerer's energy.

Last time, I only fed them some food that smelled of warlock energy, and it poisoned five scarabs on the spot.

If I hadn't soaked them in the magical spring water of the Fountain of Life in time, I'm afraid that a quarter of my very precious experimental materials would have been lost immediately.

Therefore, if an enemy uses special methods to manipulate his scarabs, Su Nan also has a way to deal with the swarm of scarabs he has modified. All he needs is a bottle of black and white flame potion containing sorcerer energy to blow them up.

However, Su Nan didn't care, since this was just training a cannon fodder army.

Moreover, given the scarab's powerful reproductive capacity, it might be possible to breed a subspecies of scarab that is not afraid of sorcerer energy but is afraid of magical power.

Moreover, the scarab army, which can even devour magic, was... too powerful when fighting in the Wizarding Civil War.

Su Nan sighed, "Speaking of which, I really have to thank the Guca Wizard for giving me another copy of the scarab information and the scarab queen before he left. He gave me all the information that the Insect Curse Valley had kept hidden away. Otherwise, I wouldn't have been able to cultivate the precursor to an insectoid army in such a short time."

Su Nan stroked the smooth head of the scarab queen and said, "From now on, I'll call you Jinx."

Jinx happily raised her insect limbs, though she was eager to give birth to the next generation of scarabs.

It wasn't that Su Nan was exploiting her.

It was the insect's genes that made Jinx so eager to produce the next generation.

For ordinary insects, sexual maturity means impending death. If they don't take advantage of their limited time to reproduce, they may miss the opportunity and die before completing their reproductive task.

It is this strong desire for childbirth that is the biggest reason why southern Jiangsu can associate it with the sun.

Su Nan once tried to connect a gargoyle to the sun, and the gargoyle was burned on the spot.

Of course, it's also possible that there's insufficient information, or that Su Nan's magical power is temporarily insufficient to link the sun and the golem together.

(End of this chapter)