Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 147 The Rapidly Developing Scarab Swarm! Three New Subspecies Emerge!

Two weeks later, in the underground world.

The main city of Rye is located in an outpost below the passage of Baron Peter's territory. The army of the superior races belonging to the main city is stationed here, where they have set up barracks, built furnaces, and forged steel weapons.

The army at this outpost is led by male drow warriors on the mountain.

There is only one main direction for the main city of Rye to be dug to the surface, but thanks to the extensive tunnel system, there are several exits leading to the surface.

This male Drow warrior, known as the Mountain Warrior, is responsible for all surface exits leading to the Thracian Military District.

As a Drow warrior from the main city of Rye, and a male member of the Drow, an arcane race, he did not inherit the talent to become an arcane mage, but he still knew a few basic arcane spells.

These rudimentary arcane arts were enough to make him a magic swordsman.

He commands this force, and if he can successfully establish a stronghold on the surface, he can enhance his status in the main city of Rye and his family status within the Matriarch's family.

He could then gain the favor of Lady Rose, the origin of the great arcanists, who had lived for over two thousand years and was almost indistinguishable from a god.

Even... if he gains enough favor, he might even receive a reward from the Archmage Lady Rose, enhancing his talent in arcane magic and truly becoming an arcane mage.

This is the lifelong dream of a member of their arcane race.

What could be more cruel than watching your loved ones naturally awaken their talent for arcane magic as they grow up, while you yourself can only become a mediocre drow warrior?

Recently, however, the mountain has noticed that the previously successful surface invasion plan has suddenly been thwarted.

First, a few days ago, he sent three lizardman armies to the ground. Two of them succeeded and established preliminary strongholds on the surface, but one of them never returned.

Secondly, his goblin scouts kept reporting to him that the entrance to the passage to the surface that they had painstakingly dug had been deliberately filled in.

On Mount Drow Warriors, it was initially thought that the human lords of the Storm Kingdom on the surface had become aware of their presence and were putting up a stubborn resistance.

But he didn't pay much attention to it.

The reason is that, relying on a complex and vast underground system, once surface armies enter the underground, they become disoriented, as if entering a maze, unable to even find their way. But they can attack the surface world from all directions.

But soon, on Mount Drow Warriors, he discovered that the problem was more serious than he had imagined.

He had already successfully established two strongholds on the surface, but the reinforcements he sent to support those two strongholds all mysteriously died in the underground tunnels.

As a result, the two strongholds were besieged by the Storm Riders without any support for a long time and were forced to abandon them.

Then, an even more serious situation arose: throughout the complex underground tunnel system, reports came that labor corps and scattered monster races were being attacked by unknown entities.

The other side seemed to be more adapted to underground life than they were.

They are gradually shrinking the space they have to move around in the underground passage.

Drow are all wheat-colored with ears that are longer than average. They also have violet runes on their skin, which are natural birthmarks. The more talented an arcane mage is, the more runes they will have.

Some highly talented Drow can even hide these runes, with the violet runes only appearing when they cast spells.

Ordinary drow warriors like those on the mountain only have half a violet rune on their wheat-colored skin on their chests, proving that they are just ordinary drow.

"By the great Archmage Lady Rose," Yamashiro said, slamming his hand on the table in fury as he stared at the map of the underground tunnels drawn on animal hide. "There's absolutely no pattern to this."

"This is definitely not human marching speed. Judging from the location and speed at which they attacked us in the underground tunnels, the attackers were definitely not surface humans."

"Those surface humans are not much different from those weak, cave-dwelling, degenerate people; they are definitely no match for us."

"What exactly attacked us? It didn't leave a single survivor, not even a single corpse. Isn't this efficiency in killing too high? Even in the dangerous wilderness of the underground world, this has never happened before."

"Even if someone dies, there should still be some remains of the body."

Beside him on the mountain stood a female lizardman covered in fiery red metallic scales. She stuck out her tongue and said, "Drow Warrior, please don't worry. As long as we, the superior race of the Earth-Walking Lizardmen, fight, we will definitely clear the obstacles."

The female fire-red lizardwoman said, "I suggest you use a large number of slaves as bait to lure those unknown armies, and then you can lead your army to surround them."

"We can definitely wipe them out."

The Drow Warrior thought for a moment and said, "That's the only way."

"We must act quickly, or I will be replaced by the Rye Matriarch."

"The schemes and tricks of those surface-dwelling humans have come to an end. Now, I'm going to get serious."

"I will definitely find this army."

at the same time.

What the Drow warriors and the upper-class races of the dungeon did not expect was that the one attacking them was never an army.

Instead, it was a swarm of insects placed in the underground passage by people from southern Jiangsu.

Now, Su Nan has turned the battlefield where the swarm of insects battles the monsters of the underworld into a laboratory site.

Now, the entire underground passageway in Peter's territory is filled with modified scarabs. In fact, Sunan has lifted the ban on the reproduction of the modified scarab queens, allowing them to reproduce freely in the underground world.

For the two reasons mentioned above, the number of the second-generation scarab army in southern Jiangsu has grown very rapidly, and in just two weeks, it has gone through six generations!

It is precisely because of this that the insectoid army is advancing rapidly, and Su Nan once again uses magic potions to modify the scarabs.

In addition to the magma scarabs that can breathe fire and explode, the scarab swarm now includes three new subspecies: the tank scarab, the node scarab, and the bone spur scarab.

The node scarab is used to command excessively large swarms of scarabs. The node-type scarab is slightly smaller than the normal scarab.

The Tank Scarab, on the other hand, gave up its ability to fly, becoming as large as a horse-drawn carriage. It can be at the forefront, serving as a shield or a tunnel excavator.

The bone-spiky scarab is a scarab beetle whose entire body is covered in bone spiky spikes, enabling it to launch ranged attacks.

Seeing the success of the underground battlefield experiment and the rapid generation of the scarab swarm, Su Nan continued to allow the scarab swarm to reproduce in the underground tunnels.

Anyway, according to Su Nan's estimate, those underground creatures should be able to defeat this level of insect swarm with some effort.

There is no need to worry about the swarm growing too large.

Moreover, if the fighting continues, the swarm can continue to adjust and gradually improve to the level of three sublimations.

Su Nan plans to borrow the army from the underworld and develop a hive, then integrate the hive consciousness into the wolf pack effect.

In this way, these massive insect hives can draw upon their own magic power during battle, continuously providing them with a reserve of magic power.

However, this is still just a concept for now.

Because scarabs have an extremely high reproductive rate and are prone to mutation, potions are merely an auxiliary tool. Su Nan only used a special potion to help the swarm stabilize its mutation pathways after noticing some positive mutation trends.

So Su Nan didn't know whether or not the insect hive consciousness could mutate, or how long it would take.

Before attending the witches' gathering, Su Nan took Vasilian with him and then looked back at the territory's surface. "Let those underworld people work hard for a while."

"The size of the swarm also needs to be controlled; it all depends on their efforts."

"I hope they won't let me down."

Vasilyan said, "I think they won't disappoint you, otherwise they would be too weak. With this level of strength, they dare to invade the surface."

Su Nan nodded. "Thanks to my research on injecting potions with insect swarms during this time, I've made progress on the first 0.7-level potion spell. The spell model is basically complete."

"It's called the [Remote Potion Injection Spell]."

(End of this chapter)