Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 167: A Formal Declaration of War Against the Drow!

In the temporary outpost three thousand meters underground in the territory of Baron Peter, the drow woman Xue Shang, leading her two hundred blue dragon lizardmen, five hundred ordinary lizardmen, and thousands of dungeon slave races, took over this outpost.

Meanwhile, the female drow on the snow also took control of the drow warriors on the mountain.

The dungeon stronghold was located in a grand hall that resembled a prison.

On the snow, the female drow used a knife to repeatedly cut into a surface human she had abducted from another region. The surface human could only utter simple groans.

It's basically in a state of half-dead or half-alive.

The drow woman on the snow glanced disdainfully at the farmer on the surface and said, "Recently, we've had a very good harvest in that country on the surface."

"A steady stream of new slaves was brought down from above. The economy of the main city of Rye was on the verge of collapse, but thanks to these new slaves, our slave economy has been revitalized."

"We're even selling surface human slaves to other underground capitals and other arcane families in exchange for higher-quality aether. You know, slaves have always been the lifeblood of the dungeons, which is why the Matriarch wants us to attack the surface. Not just that black hole, but the one beneath our capital... it needs slaves too."

"So, on the mountain, what was your reason for fabricating the idea that surface insects would invade us, and even leading troops to resist me before I took over the stronghold, trying to escape into the underground world, making me waste more than half a month on you?"

The drow warrior looked at her nephew with disdain. Drow are naturally drawn to strength, because in the terrifying underworld, only the strong survive, and the weak are destined to be slaves.

"I have indeed lost some soldiers during this period. But they are just a bunch of slave soldiers anyway, so the death of a few doesn't matter."

"I'll give you a chance, a chance to live."

The female drow warrior, Xue Shang, tossed a dagger in front of the drow warrior Shan Shang, saying, "Use this dagger to plunge into the heart of this surface human and kill him. Prove to me with your blood that you are still a drow warrior who will obey orders without hesitation and stop at nothing to achieve your goals!"

"Let him go."

The two strong blue dragon lizardman generals immediately released their grip on the mountain.

Drow are born with physical skills equivalent to those of a full-fledged knight; once they reach adulthood, they generally have stats of 3 or higher.

This race is a naturally strong race.

The drow have always been the ruling race in the underworld. They are few in number, but every drow has the potential to become an arcane mage.

Even if they don't become arcane mages, they can still become the arcane mages' guards, the drow warriors.

To the Drow warrior's utter surprise, the moment her nephew was released, he immediately cried out, "If you're going to kill me, then kill me now. Otherwise, don't lock me up in this dungeon; it's been invaded by the Zerg."

"Either let me go, or kill me right now."

"You don't want to face the swarm."

"You're too arrogant. You haven't even noticed how terrifying they are. Those guys eat everything, they can devour...everything..."

"I don't want to be eaten by them!"

"Never lock me up in this dungeon outpost. I've had enough of seeing them. Snow..."

The drow warrior, Xue Shang, was startled by the madness on the mountain, but after recovering, she looked at the mountain with disgust. "What new way of surviving is this? Guards, lock this piece of trash in the dungeon."

"We Drow warriors have no fear."

"You good-for-nothing..."

Suddenly, a blue dragon lizardman leader rushed into the dungeon's main hall, knelt before the drow warrior Xue, and reported, "Master, the thirty blue dragon lizardmen we sent to explore the surface have disappeared!"

The drow warrior, Xue Shang, immediately took two steps forward. "What?! Thirty high-ranking races have vanished all at once?"

"Those blue dragon lizardmen can all use the freezing vomiting technique."

"Those are superior races capable of using spell-like abilities, completely different from the lower-level ordinary reptilian people."

Are you sure?

The blue dragon lizardman leader knelt on the ground, his head pressed tightly against the earth. "Where they disappeared, there was a lot of blood, but the corpses were gone."

The drow warrior, Xue Shang, blinked. "What do they need the corpses for? Could it be that, like us, they need to throw the corpses into the fragments of the etheric black hole to slow down its expansion?"

"You bunch of useless trash."

"Pass down my order: execute two hundred cavemen immediately and hang them outside the dungeon stronghold. Tell all slave soldiers that if any soldier dares not to fight, they will all die like those cavemen."

The blue dragon lizardman leader was so frightened that his tail almost fell off.

There was no other way; in this slave-owning city-state, only a few drows were considered human, while the other species were merely their slaves.

When they're in a good mood, killing a few people in the street is no big deal.

With a single sentence, one could command thousands of slaves to commit suicide; if they didn't, their entire clan would be exterminated.

This cruel underworld has always forced them to endure this, and if anyone can't bear it anymore, they can only suffer as it is.

Who told you you weren't born with the right birth skills? You weren't born a Drow.

Yukami hadn't recovered from her anger. "Oh right, execute the ten surface humans we captured, then figure out a way to plant them on the surface..."

Suddenly, a cold voice echoed from the main hall of the underground stronghold. "No need."

"You have no chance."

The female drow warrior was startled and drew her weapon from behind her back, aiming it at Sunan and Warwick, who had suddenly appeared in the main hall.

Warwick said to Sunan, "Young master, should we kill them while we're at it? Or capture them and experiment on them?"

Su Nan smiled and said, "I think there should be more drow in the underworld. These two drow warriors can be used by my swarm to level up."

"I hope the swarm will undergo its fourth sublimation as soon as possible."

Upon hearing the word "swarm," Shan Shang's eyes widened as he looked at Su Nan. "You are the one controlling those swarms."

Are there such powerful beings on Earth?

Su Nan completely ignored him and said to Warwick, "I'd rather capture the Rye Mistress, dissect her body directly, and observe her bloodline and the flow of arcane magic. I already have some guesses about arcane magic."

"If we study her physical structure, we should be able to analyze the truth about arcane magic."

Warwick bowed to Sunan. "That was my fault for meddling."

On the nearby mountain and snow, many lizardman slaves stared wide-eyed, unable to believe that these two surface dwellers were discussing in front of them how to experiment on the Rye Mistress after capturing her.

At that moment, these slave races felt their worldview was about to collapse.

Xue Shang gritted her teeth. "Arrogant surface dweller, how did you get to the underground? How dare you blaspheme the supreme Mistress? The Mistress is our master, our slave owner. You…"

Su Nan looked at Xue Shang and said, "Although there aren't many people, several of my subjects have gone missing on the ground, which I assume you captured. First, hand them over immediately. Second, the sky, the surface, and the ground of my territory all belong to me. Therefore, your main city of Hei Mai must immediately relocate, swear never to infringe upon my territorial rights again, and provide me with appropriate compensation."

"Otherwise, we will go to war."

Xue Shang's pupils dilated, and after a long silence, he uttered, "Absurd."

Su Nan said nonchalantly, "Then let's declare war."

He was originally looking for Jinx, but little did he know that Jinx had already fought her way into the world 8,000 meters underground within the past month.

So when Su Nan passed by this stronghold, he heard that the Drow warrior Xue Shang was going to plant ten human corpses on his own territory as a warning.

I really gave her too much credit.

The reason they are still alive is not because they are strong, but because they are kind-hearted and want to use them to level up their insects.

But now that they've gotten too big for their britches, let's just shut them down.

Su Nan glanced around, and immediately the entire underground stronghold erupted in a deafening chirping sound—the roar of the insect swarm that had undergone three sublimations.

Su Nan didn't even glance at them, and simply took Warwick and left.

Drow warriors are nothing more than inferior products of second-rate wizard apprentices, not even proper wizard apprentices. I have absolutely no interest in these inferior drow, or rather, failed experiments of wizards.

Xue Shang roared, "Halt! This is the main hall of the dungeon stronghold in my Rye City! Surface people, do you think you can come and go as you please?! Attack!"

Upon hearing the slave master's command, the four blue dragon lizardmen pounced on Su Nan. However, before they could even get within five meters of Su Nan, a powerful magical pressure suddenly descended upon them, causing the four blue dragon lizardmen to kneel on the ground in agony.

"I feel so awful, I can't breathe..."

"He... ah... my heart feels like it's being crushed by a heavy object, what's happening...?"

This is a phenomenon that occurred in southern Jiangsu after his mental strength broke through 80—his mental strength became completely materialized!

This is the result of the human soul increasing its spiritual power eighty times.

Materialized mental energy can radiate magical pressure outwards, which is an upgraded version of mental energy radiation.

The original mental energy radiation pressure would only cause abnormal mental states in people with low mental energy.

It will not cause them any actual physical harm.

The upgradeable version of Magic Pressure is different.

The magical pressure that Su Nan actively released could cause ordinary people to suffer physical harm when they approached a first-class wizard apprentice whose magic power was materialized, due to the large difference in their mental strength and magical power.

Unless supported by immense physical abilities (at least at the level of a super werewolf messenger), these blue dragon lizardmen's physical abilities are insufficient to offset this damage.

The four blue dragon lizardmen collapsed to the ground in agony, their chests pierced by the roots of four underground plants.

Upon witnessing this scene, the drow warrior on the snow was terrified, his teeth chattering. "It's the destroyer of the world... the wizard..."

(End of this chapter)