Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 146 The Three Evolutionary Hypothesis of Life

Inside the dungeon, Su Nan suddenly realized something and asked, "If that's the case, then do you know your origins?"

The origins of a civilization's culture often reflect how they perceive the world.

At the same time, it may also contain the truth about the origin of the underworld.

The lizardman general became excited, raising the tip of his lizard tail. "Great arcanist, of course I know our origins."

"It's being talked about throughout the entire underworld."

"Life must undergo three evolutions to become perfect life. So the first evolution is when organisms leave the sea and come to land; the second evolution is when organisms leave the treetops and come to the ground."

"The third stage of evolution was when organisms left the earth's surface and went underground!"

"During the great famine, we fled underground and achieved a higher level of life, becoming more advanced than life forms on the surface!"

"But at this moment, terrible wizards... the enemies of the arcane sorcerers, appeared. They wanted to destroy the underworld, destroy us, destroy life. Fortunately, at this time, the Drow Matron and the arcane sorcerers defeated those wizards and protected the underworld."

"Then, the underworld entered an era ruled by arcane mages and drow matriarchs."

Su Nan learned something from the lizard's mouth.

It's likely that the wizards who entered the underworld experienced a major split, with at least one group of wizards, for reasons unknown, wanting to destroy the underworld.

The other wizard stopped them and became what the lizardmen now call an arcane mage.

This may be the truth behind the origin of the underworld.

As for their claim that life evolved three times to become better, it's basically no different from religious belief.

It's all a hoax.

The lizardman general cautiously said to Su Nan, "Great arcanist, the underworld is composed of many vast pits, each containing one or more major cities."

"The closer a main city is to the Earth's core, the more powerful it is."

"In the underground world, only some fungi can glow, so our city is a city of glimmering light."

"There isn't much food there, but there are metal veins everywhere, so the walls of our city are all made of steel."

Su Nan asked, "Then what about ether and still iron?"

The lizardman general honestly replied, "Both of these items were mined from natural mineral veins in the underground world."

"There is a lot of still iron, but there is relatively little ether."

The lizardman general hesitated for a moment, but still took the opportunity to see Su Nan and spoke up, "Great arcanist, please let us serve you. Don't kill us, we are all capable laborers."

After some time of reflection, the lizardman general probably genuinely felt that Su Nan looked down on their fighting capabilities, so he positioned himself as a laborer.

He lowered his head, lay on the ground, trembling, but he didn't hear Su Nan's voice for a long time. When he looked up, he found that Su Nan and Vasilyan had left the dungeon and were walking outside.

In the dungeon passage, Sunan said to Vasilyan, "Arrange for people to install the 130 specially made slave collars that I had the blacksmith make onto the necks of these monster races."

"These slave armies can lead us into the underworld."

The specially made slave collar is made by injecting a small amount of explosive insect magic potion during its manufacture, and it can be detonated with just a thought from Su Nan.

Alternatively, Su Nan could use the wolf pack effect to transfer his magical traits to the wolf pack members, causing them to activate the explosive insect potion within the collar, resulting in an iron collar that could explode.

This is what Su Nan uses to control these underground monsters.

In this way, there's no need to worry about these guys suddenly betraying you.

This kind of collar isn't very effective against powerful individuals, since it's just an iron collar containing only a small amount of explosive insect potion. But for these monsters, it's just enough.

Vasilyan said to Sunan, "My master."

"We guarantee the mission will be completed."

Vasilyan is different from when he was alive. He used to love talking and preaching, but now he is always concise and rarely speaks except when fighting.

Normally, I only focus on learning the meditation method of the Words of the Dead.

The werewolf gang is now like a family, and Su Nan is the head of the family, so Su Nan glanced at Vasilyan and said, "Vasilyan, this time I can take you to the underworld to have some fun."

"To show you a wider world."

Vasilyan wholeheartedly agreed. "My esteemed master, the ability you have bestowed upon me to summon three undead creatures still needs to be tested, and the Underworld would be the perfect place for such testing."

"I never imagined that the Church of Storms could be so ignorant. The world is so vast, yet they ignore the secret realm and the underworld, like ostriches covering their own eyes, pretending that the world will never change."

Su Nan nodded.

However, before he went to the underworld, he had three things to do.

First of all, it's almost the end of the month, and I should be heading to the Earl of Samori's territory to find the gathering of the petrifying witches.

See if we can find more ways to improve our mental strength and obtain more magical resources at the gathering.

Secondly, I need to cultivate an ancient tree guardian in the near future.

Finally, before entering the underground city, he must first put the modified scarabs underground to build a nest.

The next day, Sunan left the Four Seasons Garden with the insect queen Jinx and her swarm, and sent fifty modified golden beetles through the underground passage between Amorod Village and Mays Territory into the underground network beneath Peter Territory.

Su Nan used a 0.5-ring [Control and Modification Scarab Spell] on these insects, ordering them to kill all non-human creatures underground, except for the underground creatures he had enslaved with slave collars.

At the same time, Su Nan didn't let those lizardmen, ogres, and other underground creatures be idle. He ordered these slaves to start filling back all the entrances that appeared to be passages within their territory.

Whatever amount was dug up, it will be filled back up.

Since it was originally dug by these scoundrels, Su Nan had no qualms about making them fill the soil back in day and night.

He only intended to leave this one entrance, which he controlled using the "All Plants and Trees Are Soldiers" spell.

This ensures that the creatures of the underworld will not roam freely within their own territories.

Jinx watched as her swarm of insects slowly crawled into the underground passage and disappeared. She then raised her insect limbs and waved goodbye to her swarm.

However, she didn't have any objections to this. Since the number of insect swarms had increased, it was time to spread the swarms outwards.

Su Nan gave it a new potion, the Sun Mark Magma Scarab Potion, "Drinking this potion will allow you to produce a new type of scarab, so that your swarm will not only have modified scarabs that can fight in melee, but also scarabs that spew magma."

"You can use magical inspiration to decide whether your insect eggs will hatch into modified scarabs or magma scarabs."

Jinx's favorite thing was to grow her swarm, so she immediately took the potion that Su Nan gave her, drank it, and at the same time, her size increased and her appearance became even more beautiful.

In addition to the sun mark, fiery cloud patterns have appeared on the originally golden carapace.

Su Nan nodded in satisfaction.

The scarab army can have more varieties, since their reproduction rate is still increasing.

This makes it even more dangerous for this underground cannon fodder legion to launch attacks.

Perhaps, before long, even coca wizards won't recognize these as the swarms of scarabs they once gave them.

Su Nan planned to let this group of scarab beetles develop naturally underground for a period of time, which would also strengthen the defense of his territory underground.

Meanwhile, in an underground passage in Peter's territory, a small force of thirty green-skinned goblins appeared.

The goblin leader desperately longed for the surface world. "Hurry, hurry! I've heard that the surface world is full of delicious food, and the inhabitants there are all very easy to bully."

"Finally, it's our turn to eat and drink well. I've had enough of the miserable life in the underground city. We were always being bullied."

"We can't enter the main city, and the wilderness is teeming with dangerous and ferocious monsters. We must welcome the beautiful days of the surface world..."

The goblins looked on in confusion. There were fifty scarabs blocking their way, each the size of a basketball. These scarabs had exaggeratedly shiny golden carapaces, wings, and terrifyingly sharp mouthparts. The key thing was that they could eat anything!

At that moment, the scarabs saw the thirty goblins and immediately turned to stare at them as if they were the most delicious food.

The next moment, the scarabs swarmed forward, and one of them flew directly onto a goblin's face, biting it in the face and then began to devour it frantically.

In a matter of moments, the goblin tribe was swallowed up by the swarm of scarabs.

The goblin chieftain howled in terror. "Who said the surface world was easy to bully?"

"Who said life on Earth is easy?!"

"We encountered these monsters before we even reached the surface world. Ugh... what kind of insects are these?"

The goblin leader was horrified to discover that these scarabs were actually eating the iron sword in his hand, one after another. They were even eating his iron sword!

(End of this chapter)