Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 140 The Philosopher's Stone and the Interrogation by the Benedictine Religious Council

The lizardman general looked back and found that all his lizardman guards had been killed by the super werewolf messengers.

His head was under the claws of the mutated werewolf Wolf Big, and if Wolf Big wanted to, his head would be gone in the next moment.

The lizardman general knelt down in terror, just as he had when facing the arcane mages and drow matriarchs in the underworld.

He removed his weapons, shield, and headgear, throwing them onto the city wall. "Great arcanist, I surrender."

"Great arcanist, we had absolutely no intention of offending you. I am willing to become your slave..."

"Please don't kill us, we can become your soldiers!"

Unlike the surface world, which practices feudalism, the underground world is predominantly a slave society, and the largest source of slaves is the soldiers of the defeated side.

So the lizardman general, without any psychological pressure, wanted to surrender and become a slave on the side of Su Nan.

After all, these are the rules of the underworld.

Su Nan, controlling Wolf's body, addressed him: "Become my soldier? With your pathetic fighting abilities?"

"Are you worthy?"

"I didn't let my army truly exert its power, otherwise you would have been annihilated the moment you made contact with it."

The lizardman general was pale, his tail drooping to the ground in fear, even showing signs of wanting to cut it off. "We...we are unworthy..."

"We can still be slaves... Great arcanist..."

Su Nan had no intention of continuing this kind of conversation with him, so through Wolf's body, she asked directly, "Is an army like yours the main force of the underground city? Or are you just a ragtag vanguard?"

The lizardman general stammered, "Great arcanist, we... are merely the outer forces of the main city. The truly powerful forces are the Drow warriors directly under the Matriarch and the army composed of the Matriarch's superior races led by the Drow warriors."

"But we will still be useful, please don't kill us. I have three ether ore stones here, which I wish to offer to you, great arcanist."

The lizardman general thought that Su Nan was looking down on their low combat strength, and that they weren't even directly under the command of an arcane mage, so in order to survive, he began to rack his brains for a solution.

Meanwhile, a Mace family knight, impaled on the city wall by three spears, was near death.

But before he died, he saw the army of the underworld that had breached their family castle, and in the next moment, they were instantly destroyed and captured by the werewolf gang.

He closed his eyes willingly. "It's karma; evil deeds will be punished."

"Those werewolves are amazing..."

"The Mace family is finished."

The Mace family was originally an outsider family, and they were always required to suppress the people of Mace territory who believed in the God of Law. Apart from Peter territory, the people of other places who believed in the God of Law were having increasing friction with their Storm Lords.

Now that the Mace family has lost so many family knights, it seems that the next step will be the disintegration of their territory.

Peter's territory, on the other hand, was governed by Su Nan, where there was no oppression of the common people, the administration was efficient and the people's satisfaction was extremely high.

Unlike other storm lords, Su Nan did not take any outrageous measures that discriminated against the people who believed in the God of Law.

Naturally, no conflict broke out between the followers of the God of Law and the followers of the God of Storms within the territory.

Sunan ordered the Wolf Pack to seize all the weapons and armor of the captured underworld soldiers, especially the blue-silver metal equipment and the aether stones, and then escort them to the dungeons of Peter Castle. He also instructed Warwick to arrange for the werewolves to put shackles and torture devices on these underworld monsters.

Su Nan was prepared to interrogate these guys thoroughly to learn about the specifics of the underworld, arcane magic, and special etheric magic.

Su Nan discovered that the three ether stones contained a magical energy that did not exist on the surface of the earth.

This has nothing to do with whether the magical tide recedes or not.

That magical energy seems to be naturally heavier than other magical elements, so it can only appear underground, not on the surface.

This ether stone may be a new type of magic discovered by the wizards who advocated moving underground more than two thousand years ago, after they moved to the underground world. That's why the Oak Wizard never mentioned this kind of magic.

That makes it very worthwhile to study.

For wizards, knowledge is power, and information is the means to obtain power.

From the magic of the etherstone, Su Nan felt that he might be able to find something that could help him become a formal wizard.

After defeating the monster army in the underworld, Su Nan arranged for Warwick to come and clean up the battlefield. At the same time, Su Nan also discovered that Baron Caron Mayes had died in the siege battle.

As a squire of the Mace family, he also charged up the city wall. Perhaps he didn't want to fight to the death, but due to the aether magic, all the weapons and armor of the Mace family were rendered useless. Before he could escape, he was pierced through the heart by several lizardmen soldiers with spears and died.

Sunan ordered the werewolves to collect the bodies of the Mace family knights, and at the same time, he had Warwick send human militia from his territory to take over the castle.

Although he didn't conquer the castle himself, the creatures of the underworld helped him take it down, killed Baron Caron Mace, and wiped out all the soldiers of the Mace family headquarters.

Having gone this far, Su Nan couldn't very well throw away what he had already picked up. Therefore, he ordered the militia to take control of the entire castle and to detain all members of the Mace family, escorting them to Baron Peter's Castle.

Anyway, even if the Storm Lord, the Church, or even the royal family question him, he has his reasons.

It wasn't themselves who slaughtered this fortress, but the creatures of the underworld.

Moreover, the Storm Kingdom is currently preoccupied with its own problems, and the royal family has yet to reach an agreement with the Bulgars on compensation to ransom the captured old King of Storm.

Su Nandu felt that if the Storm Royal Family were smart, they should immediately establish a new king. Otherwise, the Bulgars would be so happy to use the emperor to command the princes, so why would they release their prized old king for a little ransom?

Meanwhile, Su Nan turned his attention to the church in Moria, a city on the Achaean Peninsula, thousands of miles away.

At this moment, on the high platform inside this church, which features the distinctive style of the Storm Church, sit many high-ranking church officials from the Achaia parish.

These clergy members were questioning Borgia, who stood below the church platform, one after another.

"Borgia, you said before that you killed this wizard with a two-handed knight's sword... why are you changing your story now and saying you used a one-and-a-half-handed sword? Have you thought about your wording?"

"Borgia, why are the bishop and all the Church's chosen knights dead, but you are alive? I ask you, are you stronger than the chosen knights? Can you duel a Storm Knight on the spot to prove your claim?"

"Borgia, we are not targeting you personally. It's just that the bishop is dead, and you claim that wizards truly exist. This contradicts the consensus reached by Archbishop Mosilini in the Council of Hagia Sophia, that wizards do not truly exist. We must proceed with the Benedictine Inquisition and interrogate you according to specific procedures."

"But don't worry, if you have truly made a contribution to the church, we will acknowledge your merits."

(End of this chapter)