Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 149 The Origin of Hive Consciousness and Creep

Inside the underground passage.

*Click*

Inside the passageway where a large number of slaves had gathered, five types of modified scarabs emerged from the earthen walls when the tunnel suddenly broke apart.

These scarabs surged like a tide, layer upon layer, and were exceptionally ferocious. Each scarab was somewhat round, with a golden carapace that resembled a small sun.

The scarab beetle in the Cursed Valley is now completely different from the original one.

They eat everything.

Whether it's living things, steel, or magic!

The large number of slaves in the underground city were immediately covered by these scarabs.

Hiding on the mountain of the Drow warriors in another passage, he witnessed this scene. His eyes widened. Only then did he realize that the army that had been crisscrossing the passage and constantly attacking him was not some surface human force.

It wasn't even a military unit.

Rather, it is these scarab beetle swarms.

At this moment, the three hundred slaves from the underworld gathered in the passage were powerless to resist and were overwhelmed by the massive swarm of insects.

The Drow Warriors on the mountain were somewhat bewildered. "What are these things? Even in the wilderness where Rye City is located, there are no insects this ferocious."

"Is the Earth's surface far more hostile than we imagine, teeming with similar ferocious insects?"

"No wonder our troops didn't leave behind any corpses before; they ate them all."

"If the surface world is so terrible, then... is there any point in us going up there?"

"I feel like these insects are terrifying, threatening creatures that only exist in the deep underground world."

The Drow Warrior on the mountain swallowed hard. "My God, if these insects on the surface get through the tunnels and into the underground layer where Rye City is located, then our city will be... will be in big trouble."

"Molly Wood, you lead the Fire Dragon Lizardmen troops up there and stop those insects."

The fire-dragon lizardwoman cried out in displeasure. "Me? My lord, you want me to take people up there?"

The drow warrior drew his drow katana from the mountain. "What else? And it's not that I'm sending you; those horde of hordes of worms have already devoured those useless slaves and are now eyeing us."

"My God. Is the natural world on Earth really this terrible? How can these insects exist in nature?"

The fire dragon female lizardwoman looked up and was horrified to find that the scarab swarm had spotted them, and many of the modified scarabs were already flying toward them.

The fire dragon lizardmen immediately grabbed their weapons and attacked the insects.

They are the direct troops of the arcane mages, beings who have been modified by the arcane mage, and therefore can use some spell-like abilities.

At this moment, fifty fire dragon lizardmen breathed flames at the modified scarabs in front of them, and instantly, cone-shaped flames covered the sky above the swarm.

Many scarabs could not withstand the intense heat of the flames and collapsed to the ground.

The tank scarab ran to the front of the underground passage, trying to withstand the flames and vomit of the fire dragon lizard people, but it was still burned by the flames.

The insect swarm suffered heavy casualties!

The modified scarab swarm seems extremely angry.

Something is being born within the swarm.

Sitting in a carriage on the road, Su Nan sensed, through the reactions of these scarabs that had adopted the wolf pack effect, the direction that was about to evolve due to collective anger.

Su Nan raised an eyebrow and stroked the heads of Wolf One and Wolf Two, who were inside the carriage, baring their teeth and howling at the enemy who wasn't there, infected by the scarabs' anger.

Su Nan said, "Alright, alright, quiet down."

"It seems that the scarab's hive consciousness can be cultivated. The experiment is going even more smoothly than I expected."

"Because of the damage the underworld's army inflicted on my scarab swarm, the super-reproducing scarab swarm has begun to move in the direction I predicted."

"Speaking of which, the Drow have done a pretty good job. Well then, keep up the good work and raise the Zerg swarm for me."

Inside the underground passage, just as the Drow Warrior on the mountain was about to smile with satisfaction, he saw a group of scarabs covered in ferocious bone spikes arrive in front of the swarm, braving the flames spewed by the fire dragon lizardmen, and begin firing bone spikes at the lizardman troops.

Instantly, many fire dragon lizardmen had bone spurs pierce their throats.

One by one, the fire dragon lizardmen fell to the ground.

The Drow Warriors on the mountain had grim expressions. These fire dragon lizardmen were precious Black Rye City soldiers who could only be created through the magical transformations of arcane mages.

Every death is one less.

I thought that at least one or two people would die on the surface, but who knew that countless people would die underground.

At the same time, the lava scarabs climbed to the top of the passage, spewing lava flows downwards, and some even self-destructed, killing one fire dragon lizardman after another.

At the same time, the modified scarabs swarmed into the midst of the fire dragon lizardmen army, beginning another wave of devouring.

Half an hour later, the drow warrior, wielding his enchanted dark energy katana, together with his lover, utterly destroyed the entire scarab swarm.

But his army was almost wiped out, with only a few fire dragon lizardmen remaining alive.

The defeated modified scarab swarm, under Su Nan's control, temporarily left and then began to develop anew.

An ambush by the Drow warriors in the underworld wiped out his own forces, as well as most of the forces recently spawned by the Zerg swarm.

But the problem is that the most terrifying thing about the swarm is that they are linked to the sun by Su Nan and have a powerful reproductive capacity that Su Nan has magically modified.

This is something the Drow warriors are unable to realize because their knowledge is limited.

Otherwise, he would soon realize that even in the deeper underground world, the swarm is an overrated magical creation with enormous potential.

This proves just how powerful the magic of the wizard behind these insects is, and how ingenious the hidden tricks he has devised are.

He will realize how foolish it was to place the entrance to the surface in its current location.

Just one day later, believing they had won the war and that the surface people's conspiracy was over, and that they could safely reach the surface world, the Drow Warriors, who had gathered their remaining lizardman troops on the mountain, led their forces to the underground tunnels in the area of ​​yesterday's battlefield when suddenly, a curse was heard.

Because now, the same swarms of insects as yesterday have reappeared inside these passages. Although the number is not as large, at least a hundred modified scarabs have gathered.

Moreover, their appearance seems to have changed somewhat.

On the mountain of the Drow Warriors, it suddenly became clear that the swarm of insects blocking his path to the surface was not a group of monsters that could be easily overcome, but a powerful obstacle.

With his abilities, can he fight his way out of this swarm of insects?

Or perhaps this swarm of insects won't follow their route and directly attack the dungeon?

Meanwhile, in southern Jiangsu, a hundred miles away, they have already entered the territory of Earl Samori and seen the dilapidated villages within the territory, along with beggars, bandits, and the army of the mad Storm Lord.

Su Nan began to ponder. "It has now been proven that all the races in the underworld have been modified by wizards."

"In other words, the main research direction of those underground refugees was probably the summoning school, or the monster modification school within the sorcery school."

"Moreover, the so-called superior races in the underground capital should be a monster army that has been successfully modified."

"But that drow warrior used a spell enchanted with dark energy once, with a strength roughly equivalent to that of a second-class wizard apprentice. His mental strength was also 4, several times stronger than that of an ordinary human."

"However, he was already panting heavily after using the spell only once. He was likely just a servant monster with spellcasting abilities created by a wizard."

"So here's the question: are the so-called arcane mages of the underworld today also a caster race created by wizards? It's just that the wizards of the past went too far and were betrayed by these arcane mages—or rather, the drow."

"Or rather, arcane magic truly is a new category of magic. The affairs of the underworld are far more complex and peculiar than I anticipated."

"After all, this underground world was created by a group of wizards. It seems that only by actually going down there can we find out the truth."

Su Nan decided that he would actually go underground in the future to figure out these issues and find the veins of ether ore, which would allow him to steadily improve his mental strength.

Ideally, we should capture a few more drow warriors, and even take the drow matriarch, Rye Matriarch, into our hands. That way, we can find out a lot of things, and we can also study so-called arcane magic.

In addition, because their swarm devoured the glowing moss placed in the tunnels of the underground world, some of the queen beetles in their swarm began to secrete a special fungal substance.

On this fungus, the movement speed, attack speed, and aggressiveness of scarab swarms will increase again.

Su Nan decided that when he returned, he would use a magic potion to stabilize the ability of some of the queen insects in the swarm to secrete these special fungal substances.

Now, let that drow warrior help me iterate the swarm. If they're not capable enough, I'll have to push the swarm deeper underground to protect the surface and for my experiments.

This is no longer a defensive move, but an active intrusion.

However, just as the underground can invade the surface, the surface can also invade the underground.

Gaining some additional territory and controlling a distorted wizarding society would be a good thing for him.

That abnormally developed underground wizarding society must have had a lot of information about wizards, but it was completely incomparable to the orthodox wizarding society.

Meanwhile, in the Earldom of Samori, a refugee, clutching a little girl, weakly pounded on his carriage. "Please, sir, give my daughter some food."

"Sir, please, have mercy on us!"

"We haven't eaten for three days."

"grown ups……"

Vasilyan had already condensed the Black Blade, after all, his primary duty was to protect Su Nan, not anything else. If any enemies had infiltrated among these refugees, that would be his greatest dereliction of duty.

But Sunan stopped him, saying, "Vasilian, just give them some food."

"Also, all of you can head north towards Peter's territory. The order there is stable, and as long as you're willing to work, you'll always find a way to survive."

Population is also a form of wealth.

There is no economy without a population.

The Earl of Samori didn't care about these people, so he might as well take them for himself.

The refugees outside the carriage immediately felt grateful to Su Nan and began to discuss whether they should really head north to find a place where they could live.

Su Nan raised an eyebrow, not expecting the Samori Earldom to have reached this level.

It's worth noting that the Earldom of Samori likely also has entrances to the underworld, and the main city of Rye will similarly invade this area.

Although it was unknown whether the sudden invasion of the Storm Kingdom by the underworld was related to the High Order, Su Nan sensed that the High Order seemed to genuinely want to completely destroy the Storm Kingdom.

(End of this chapter)