Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 138 The Dungeon's Hybrid Army and the Aether Magic Stone

Before Mace Castle, an army from the underworld, shouting and yelling, suddenly launched an attack on the Mace family. They seemed to have a lot of experience dealing with fortresses and were also used to living in the sunlight.

The lizard archers unleashed a volley of arrows at the castle walls.

The fine steel arrows and excellent bows helped them kill many of the city's defenders in the first round.

The drawbridge at Metz Castle, however, had not yet been erected, and merchant caravans still passed by on the drawbridge over their moat.

The lizardmen brandished their weapons and roared.

"Kill! Charge! For the Rye Mistress!"

"We've seized the land of the surface dwellers. They've enjoyed good times on the surface for over two thousand years. Now it's time for our army of dragonborn and drow matriarchs, who have fully evolved underground, to enjoy some good times too!"

"Kill! For food, for roasted rabbit legs, roasted lamb legs, and roasted beef legs, we'll risk our lives!"

"Delicious egg and pea soup, and milk right in front of us! We'll never have to eat those damn gray mushrooms on the ground again! Hooray!"

Su Nan, observing the situation from Wolf Three's perspective, was somewhat speechless upon hearing their words.

How limited must the diets of these underground creatures be to risk their lives for pea soup?

It seems that the food in the underground world must be extremely scarce and monotonous.

The guards at Metz Castle belatedly tried to raise the drawbridge, but it was too late. A lizardman soldier rushed over, killed two militiamen, and took control of the drawbridge gates.

They also stopped the guards at Metz Castle from closing the upper gate.

In fact, if Metz Castle had remained on high alert, with its gates closed and drawbridges retracted, it could have held out for several days thanks to the moat and the castle itself.

But these creatures from the underground world, which suddenly emerged from the ground, were elusive. The surrounding lords had no prior warning of their arrival, and at most knew that many of their people had been killed by some kind of wild creature.

These underground armies march very fast and have amazing endurance, possibly having been drawn from the underground world.

Therefore, their sudden attack caught Metz Castle completely off guard.

This is equivalent to deploying troops directly into the enemy's rear.

The militia of Metz Castle tried to retaliate with crossbows and ballistae on the walls, but by then the minotaurs had already scaled the walls. Their strong bodies allowed them to easily breach the outermost walls and destroy the ballistae on them.

The lizardmen took the opportunity to scale the city walls, attempting to seize the second section of Metz Castle's walls, the inner wall.

Originally, the militia could have retreated to the inner city wall and still defended for a while, but the short-statured goblins from the underworld, with their agility and quickness, had already landed on the inner city wall.

So the goblins and the reptilian lizardmen began a pincer attack, slaughtering the militia.

A hundred miles away in southern Jiangsu, people observed this scene and evaluated the combat capabilities of the underground army.

"The average physical fitness of a lizardman is approximately 1.1 in strength."

"This is actually considered extraordinary power. Even well-trained human militias generally only have a combat strength of around 0.8."

"Maintaining a combat strength of more than 1 is unrealistic."

"These lizardmen are physically stronger than humans on average, but they are definitely not a natural race. They have probably been magically modified by the sorcerers of the underground sect."

Before Su Nan appeared the original version of these lizardmen as deduced by the AI. They were a group of lizardmen whose average height was only half that of an adult human male, and whose physical strength was weaker than that of humans in every aspect.

The lizardmen of today are the result of modifications made by wizards.

Su Nan said, "The physical attributes of those three minotaurs are actually equivalent to those of a formal knight, with an average physical attribute of 3.5. However, according to the AI, their ancestors were not that strong at all, only slightly stronger than ordinary humans."

"These minotaurs are also a race modified by magic. Similarly, those goblins, although their average strength and constitution are only 0.7, are very agile, with an agility value of 1.2 to 1.4, which is much faster than ordinary militiamen. This is partly due to their smaller size. Moreover, because of their smaller size, they can easily pass through various obstacles."

Su Nan speculated that these goblins were originally created by wizards using magic, possibly for tasks such as reconnaissance and assassination.

Speed ​​and strength are not entirely intertwined. For example, the cheetah sacrifices physical strength to enhance its speed in all aspects.

There are many types of muscle fibers, and different muscle fiber structures provide different levels of endurance, speed, and strength.

However, generally speaking, there is a limit to the difference between the speed and strength of an ordinary creature.

Inside Metz Castle, Metz family soldiers were massacred, but the underworld army did not have a completely smooth journey.

Soon, a full-fledged Storm Knight from the Mace family and three Storm Knight squires scaled the city walls, killed several goblins with their knightly swords, and even managed to kill two lizardmen through cooperation.

But Su Nan noticed that the lizardman in charge of leading the force suddenly crushed an octahedral-shaped black crystal in his hand, and a magical fluctuation that Su Nan had never seen before covered the entire city wall.

The soldiers and knights of the Mace family soon discovered in horror that their weapons had all become limp, like strips of paper, and were completely ineffective in killing the enemy. Their armor also softened and then fell off their bodies like noodles.

Having lost their weapons and armor, the soldiers and knights of the Mace family quickly faced a backlash from the underworld's army and were slaughtered one by one.

The lizardmen roared with joy. "We won! We won! Although we encountered some unexpected resistance, the weak ground people are still no match for us!"

"We possess the arcane magic of the great Drow Matron, and we also have Aether ore!"

The Mace family knights watched in despair as they were surrounded and brutally murdered by the lizardmen soldiers.

The Mace family's official knight, a middle-aged man, had been impaled in the chest by three spears thrust into the wall of the Mace family castle by lizardman soldiers. Before dying, coughing up blood, he questioned, "What exactly are you?"

"Where...did you come from...?"

"Why have our weapons and armor suddenly turned into something like noodles... Answer me, Storm God, have you abandoned us? Otherwise, why are we encountering such monsters?"

But the lizardmen ignored him. Their attention was already focused on the humans inside the castle and the food supplies.

They defeated the weak surface people's army.

They can harvest a huge amount of fresh meat.

They can now establish their first foothold on the surface world!

Meanwhile, Su Nan watched the entire battle, and he paid particular attention to two things: the arcane magic of the Drow Matriarch mentioned by the lizardmen, and the ore that the lizardman general crushed.

That ore actually changed the shape of all the Mace family's weapons.

Su Nan asked, "Is it not shapeshifting, but some kind of magic unique to the underworld?"

"However, this kind of magic seems to only change weapons and armor. It can't affect living organisms, so it shouldn't affect the werewolf's claws. I've seen the army of these underground creatures; they are indeed impressive, but that's about it."

"They are essentially a magical army modified by wizards, so of course they have the ability to crush mortals. Besides, they launched a surprise attack. They have something that might be useful to me, and some mysteries. Wolf, capture them all."

"The underworld is very interested in the surface world, but as a wizard of the surface world, I am equally interested in the underworld. It's not certain who will invade whom."

"AI, record the first combat record of the werewolf equipped with the Triumph Claw, file name: Werewolf Legion File No. 37."

In the distance, Wolf King, who had been waiting in the jungle for a long time, let out a wolf howl. At the same time, the other super werewolf messengers and werewolf messengers also began to let out wolf howls one after another, eager for blood.

Meanwhile, through the wolf pack effect, Su Nan received a distress message from the werewolf veteran Blom.

The werewolf veteran, Blom, anxiously requested to speak with Sunan. "Lord Sunan, my master. That good-for-nothing Borgia is currently being interrogated by the elders of the Borgia family and high-ranking clergy of the Achaia district. He's been rendered speechless by the questions. Some clergy are trying to expose him as a fraud by forcing a loophole in his answers through repeated questioning."

"My master, I'm right here beside him, watching his riddled-with-errors answers, and I feel so embarrassed. My master, what should I do?"

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. So that's how it is; but he'd expected this all along. "Blom, don't panic. Give me control of your body."

"Let me help him deal with the Storm Church's interrogation."

Su Nan smiled slightly. "It's just a small matter."

(End of this chapter)