Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 136 Rye Underground City and the Drow Matriarch

In the jungle beside the trade route between Amorod Village and Maple Leaf Town, Su Nan looked at the huge rock that the two one-eyed ogres were pointing at.

A goblin-like creature said in a simple-minded manner, "My lord, that's the passage we crawled out of."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. "You even know how to hide the passage with stones."

The cannibal said in a simple-minded manner, "It was the Rye Mistress who ordered us to do this. Anyone who dares not to will be severely punished."

"My lord."

"Don't eat us. Our flesh is coarse and doesn't taste good at all. Someone of your status should eat tender, delicious meat, like Spider-Man's child... *slurp*"

Su Nan glanced at them, then whispered a spell. Instantly, all the wild grass beside the rock grew out sharply, turning into blades of grass that pierced into the boulder.

Instantly, the stone was sliced ​​apart bit by bit by these wild grasses and steel swords.

Three minutes later, the boulder blocking the entrance to the underground world passage had been cut open. Su Nan walked over, looked down at the so-called underground world passage, and found that the passage was an opening about the height of an adult in diameter, and the inside was relatively smooth.

But just as he looked down, a creature resembling a hybrid of a spider and a lobster, covered in a hard, gray, spiky shell, leaped toward his face, only to be blocked by the mage shield surrounding Su Nan.

At the same time, the surrounding wild grass and steel swords pierced the body of this strange underground insect, instantly turning it into a pile of fragments.

The one-eyed ogre screamed in alarm.

"That lord is also an arcane mage, right? He must be an arcane mage, otherwise why would he have an arcane mage as his subordinate?"

"He can cast spells like the Rye Matriarch. The Rye Matriarch can summon a vast expanse of spider silk with just a wave of her hand, and that silk can turn into soldiers to kill enemies, which is especially terrifying. The silk wraps around the enemy and forms a cocoon. When the person emerges from the cocoon, he becomes as thin as a sheet of paper. But his body is still made of flesh and blood, and that paper figure can talk and live for a while longer."

"So there are so many arcane mages on the surface... This is terrifying. If we had known, we wouldn't have come up here. We should have stayed in the wilderness of Rye City and lived as savages..."

Su Nan glanced at the two one-eyed ogres.

Summoning spider silk is nothing special; turning spider silk into soldiers is a Transfiguration magic. But since he can control spider silk, he might be a wizard from the Insect Curse school.

It's just that if you turn a person into something as thin as paper, this paper person can still live for a while. What kind of trick is this?

Could it be a magical direction that neither I nor the Oak Wizard understand?

But if you turn a person into someone as thin as paper, they can still live for a while and still speak, but their body is not transformed into paper by the shapeshifting technique.

Based on Su Nan's current understanding of magic, he cannot think of a way to do it.

This magic seems to go a bit beyond the scope of Transfiguration.

And there's another problem.

Su Nan suddenly realized that, if what the ogres said was true, then this Rye Matriarch had actually maintained her spellcasting ability for a long time before the magical tide arrived.

This is unreasonable.

In the underworld, some magic might remain, but just like a small puddle can't produce big fish, two thousand years ago, when magical resources were scarce, even in the underworld, someone who could cast a mage's hand would be considered a genius among geniuses.

Therefore, there must be something she doesn't know that causes the Rye Matriarch of the Underworld to still have sufficient spellcasting abilities.

This may be related to their change of name from "Wizard" to "Arcanist".

Su Nan was somewhat looking forward to meeting this so-called "Mother Rye".

She should possess more than one type of magic that she has never encountered before.

Seeing Lord Sunan being attacked by insects in the tunnel, Vasilyan condensed his black blade and aimed it at the two one-eyed ogres.

The two one-eyed ogres then belatedly realized what was happening and shook their heads repeatedly. "No, no, we didn't expect there to be a cave worm at the entrance of the passage."

"Really, really."

"We dare not lie to the arcanists..."

"Those are burrow worms kept by the Drow Matron. The Drow Matron would have her capital city's army carry these burrow worms that spit out special spider silk, and use them as weapons."

"It must be the army of the main city of Rye—the Matriarch's official troops—that have arrived on the ground."

Sunan gestured to Vasilyan with his eyes not to kill the two one-eyed ogres, then picked up the glandular tissue from the insects he had killed earlier.

There are some white threads inside this glandular tissue.

I just used the "All Grasses and Trees Are Soldiers" spell, which turned the wild grass into steel grass swords and destroyed the entire body of the burrowing insect. However, the spider silk-like threads inside this gland were completely unharmed.

Su Nan could also see traces of magical modification on these burrowing insects.

So, did the wizards who entered the underground world to escape the receding tide of magic modify a group of creatures underground?

Su Nan looked at the entrance of the passage and used the [Spell of All Grass and Trees as Soldiers] to summon many grass swords, which completely blocked the exit of the passage like sharp blades. They grew inward for tens of meters and would actively attack any creature that tried to pass through the passage.

In this way, for the time being, no creatures from the underworld will crawl out of this passage and enter their territory.

But we also need to send people into this passage to find out exactly how many underground passages the underworld has dug out in Peter's territory, like earthworms.

Then choose to occupy or destroy the underground passage.

Otherwise, their territory will continue to be attacked by creatures from the underworld.

Moreover, when I'm conducting magical experiments, it would be troublesome if these enemies suddenly emerged from the underground passages, bypassed my werewolf pack, and attacked my castle.

Su Nan was somewhat worried that the passage under Peter's leadership would be used by the Supreme Order.

However, he quickly came up with a good solution.

I could actually send Jinx's Scarab army into the underground tunnels to inspect this network of tunnels.

"The underworld might hold unique magical resources. The magic described by these two ogres alone is enough to make me want to explore it." Su Nan turned to the two ogres and said, "I can spare your lives. But you may escape death, but you will certainly face punishment."

"In the name of the lord, I hereby announce your punishment as payment for destroying houses within my territory, trampling many plants, and even hunting some animals within my territory without my permission. This is also illegal."

Su Nan said, "Therefore, the two of you will serve me and become my porters. Also, from today onwards, you will only be able to eat vegetarian food."

Sunan planned to have Solon make a metal collar so that he could put a bottle of Exploding Bug Potion inside, and then add a little of his own magic power to the Exploding Bug Potion, so that he could detonate the Exploding Bug Potion at any time.

Then put this metal collar on the two ogres.

A simple slave collar was thus completed.

Upon hearing that they wouldn't be eaten by Su Nan, the two ogres were overjoyed. As for becoming Su Nan's porters?

These savages from the underground capital of Rye were of low status and were constantly being ordered around by the Drow matriarch, her Drow warrior guards, and the officers of the capital. So it made no difference to them where they served.

As for vegetarianism, cannibals can actually live on anything they eat, making them omnivores; it's just that they feel uncomfortable if they don't eat meat.

(End of this chapter)