Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 175 I want to see the underground escapist wizard!

In the pavilion in the mine, Su Nan said to the female arcanist Song Zhong, "Tell me more in detail what resources are available in the underground world area where the main city of Rye is located, what important areas are there, how many troops are there, and how many arcanists as powerful as you are."

Su Nan thought for a moment and asked, "By the way, are there still wizards in the underworld? If so, do you know where they are?"

The reason I asked this question was that I really needed the data and information from the research findings of the underground escapist wizards.

The reason is that I encountered a serious problem when I was improving the werewolf.

This problem may be the same one that the Oak Wizard's diary recorded more than two thousand years ago, which is why the werewolves, who were wiped out by the energy world more than two thousand years ago, were so weak.

[Unable to possess magical pressure!]

This is a very serious problem.

Because the path taken by orthodox wizarding societies at least two thousand years ago was to increase their soul power by 80 times and then transform ordinary mental radiation pressure into magical pressure.

This is a further step. When one finally becomes a formal wizard, magical pressure will combine with defensive spell models to form a constant defensive array that protects oneself, further enhancing one's life level and thus gaining spiritual power and magical power, with the possibility of going even further.

The Oak Wizard didn't have this constant defensive formation (first-level constant defensive magic) before because his mental strength had been depleted over two thousand years and he had randomly chosen possessions, resulting in his mental strength being less than 80.

The problem with werewolves is that they are a melee race that relies almost entirely on physical combat skills, using magical energy and fire magic as their very blood to fight...

Their spiritual power is not high, which makes it difficult for them to follow the path of wizards and break through to the fourth level of sublimation.

The AI ​​is also working on a solution to this problem.

The lack of magical pressure is the most crucial issue.

Because in the process of ascending to a higher level of life, magical pressure is like giving a new body to a higher level of life, which is a way for orthodox wizarding society to further improve.

Although Su Nan can also enable werewolves to practice meditation.

But firstly, not every werewolf has the talent for meditation.

Secondly, this means the werewolf has gone astray.

The path to spiritual transcendence was severed; halfway there, it connected with the path of the wizard.

The werewolf is currently the most complete product of his potion system, so if he can't solve the problem of the werewolf's four ascensions, it means that his potion system will be stuck here.

Su Nan believed that throughout the centuries, there might have been wizard apprentices who followed the same path as him, but perhaps they, like him, got stuck at this juncture and then chose to give up.

After all, if mental energy radiation cannot be converted into magical pressure, then the body will be too weak to advance to the next level.

Su Nan originally wanted to capture some energy creatures and study their bodies to see if he could find a solution.

But there are actually better options.

Su Nan looked at his female arcane slave, Song Zhong, in front of him.

The underground escapist wizards all follow the path of biological modification within the school of sorcery; they treat the underground world as their vast experimental ground.

Deeper into the underground world, there exist even more dangerous creatures they left behind.

If I could obtain the experimental data from the underground escapist wizards, it would be equivalent to directly acquiring their research data from at least a thousand years ago!

Even if the underground escapist wizards are utterly useless, their information will definitely be of some help to me.

Song Zhong felt uneasy under Su Nan's gaze, but she was even more surprised by something else. "You... Master of the Surface People, how did you know I had information about the wizards? I didn't tell anyone this..."

She looked terrified.

Information about wizards is an absolute taboo in this underworld. Even if she is an arcanist, she cannot utter the word "wizard" or have any connection with wizards.

There were arcanists in the past who sympathized with and tried to understand wizards, but they were all cruelly killed by the arcanists in the arcanist community.

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. He had only noticed that Su Nan had seen Su Nan's expression of recollection and unease when Su Nan mentioned that the ancestors of the Drow were humans, so he guessed that Su Nan might know something.

Surprisingly, she actually did have information about wizards in the underworld.

I was lucky; I didn't capture the wrong slave.

Su Nan said, "You're a slave to wizards now, so what do you have to be afraid of your arcanist kin?"

Matsunaka pursed his lips bitterly. "That's true. Master of the surface world, six months ago, in the diamond mines of the underground world, I discovered a magical image left behind by a sorcerer, bewitching people... no, attempting to convey a message to us."

"I was hesitant about whether to tell my mother."

"But before I could think it through, it fell into your hands."

Matsunaka recalled for a moment. "The underground world where Rye City is located is the upper level of the underground world, but the distance between the lower and upper levels is far, and there are only a few fixed passages. In addition, the weather here is cold, so creatures from the lower levels generally don't come here."

"They can't stand the cold weather here."

"We call this a temperature gradient."

"The closer you get to the depths of the underground world, the higher the temperature will be. The temperature in the middle level of the underground world should be over 100 degrees Celsius!"

"Originally, there were several main cities in this upper underground world, but my mother, after years of war, spent a hundred years unifying this area."

"My mother is over 150 years old."

"Therefore, we are currently the only underground capital city that has launched an attack on the surface. Because we are closest to the surface, we are also the most likely to feel the arrival of the magical tide."

Matsunaka said, "The Rye Underground Region, that's the name of this place..."

"The main food source for the Rye Underground Domain is the volcanoes of this underground world. Some of these volcanoes were even artificial volcanoes summoned by my mother using powerful arcane magic to draw the flow of the mantle beneath the earth."

"The heat generated by these volcanoes continuously supplies our staple food crop, the red milk volcano mushroom. This mushroom has a very high yield; with enough heat, it can produce a whole field of mushrooms within a week."

"The more advanced food in the underground world, the food of arcanists, is a kind of better-tasting mushroom... Milk-cap mushroom and Black Tiger Paw mushroom, those are delicious mushrooms that can only grow in volcanoes."

Blom sensed something was off. "Wait, do you only eat mushrooms in the underworld?"

Matsunaka looked at Blom with a slightly confused expression. "What else?"

"For the creatures of the underworld, being able to eat three meals a day of Black Tiger Paw Mushrooms and Milk Mushrooms is already a great luxury. Those are foods that only arcanists can eat."

Blom looked at Sunan and Warwick.

At that moment, the three exchanged glances and then looked at the female arcanist, Song Zhong, who was still savoring the delicious taste of the two 'precious' mushrooms.

The three of them finally understood why the underground army of Rye City was so desperate to attack the surface world...

Song Zhong continued to recall. "The most important resource points in the Black Wheat Domain are two ether mines, five still iron mines, seventeen iron mines, eight copper mines, one diamond mine, one gold mine, one diamond mine, two silver mines, one jade mine, one sapphire mine, and two ruby ​​veins."

"And the mushroom cultivation area of ​​the thirty-one underground volcanoes I mentioned earlier."

"Apart from Rye City, there are no other cities here. All the cities were demolished by Mother, and the city walls of those cities were moved back to Rye City as the city walls of Rye City."

"Apart from the main city of Rye, the rest of this area is full of scattered villages and towns, and there are a lot of monsters in the wild. The most dangerous of these monsters are those left behind by wizards."

"The size of the Rye Field should be about the same as the Southern Thrace Military District on your surface."

Su Nan nodded.

In this light, the underground world truly lives up to its reputation as a natural metal world. Just the Rye Domain alone has so many mineral veins, as well as the Static Iron and Aetherite veins that are unique to the underground world.

Most importantly, there are also gold, silver, and diamond mines, as well as ruby ​​and sapphire veins.

This is really...

If we can discover it ourselves, it's practically like helping the Storm Kingdom colonize a new continent.

Peter will lead a continuous stream of expensive metals to the surface, potentially even driving down the price of gold in the other nations of the Earth Order, causing inflation...

It's like the Spanish Empire in its previous life, which caused inflation in Europe.

However, although the Spanish royal family gained enormous wealth as a result, they squandered it all by using the gold to purchase large quantities of goods from other countries, thus helping those countries develop their industries...

However, as long as I use gold to develop the industry and agriculture of my own territory, it doesn't matter.

Moreover, his magical research consumes a lot of money every day!

If I could take over this rye region, all my worldly financial problems would be solved, and Maple Leaf City would receive a large amount of funds, potentially becoming even more powerful than the Othello family before.

Su Nan felt like he was being outmaneuvered. While the Othello family was running around on the surface oceans, struggling for a tiny bit of foreign gold coins, he was discovering a "new continent" underground.

The old butler, Warwick, also realized that if Peter possessed this wealth, he could become not only an earl, but also a duke, or even something more.

The only difference is whether southern Jiangsu wants to or not.

They absolutely must get their hands on this rye field!

Through the wolf pack effect, Su Nan discovered that Jinx had commanded the Zerg swarm to attack a lizardman town. After wiping out all the lizardmen in the town, Jinx began to use it as her Zerg hive, ordering many scarab queens to lay eggs, spread fungal carpet, and begin the next round of evolution.

Su Nan needs the insect swarm because the insect swarm is also a race without high mental strength. Therefore, Su Nan wants to see if the large-scale reproduction and generation of the scarab swarm, and its evolution, can give them a new direction for evolution through sheer numbers, thus providing him with a solution to the problem of werewolves lacking magic pressure.

If successful, it will be a major step forward for the potion system!

If he can't even solve a simple magic pressure problem, Su Nan thinks he should give up on the potion system.

Su Nan said to Song Zhong, "Now I'm removing some of the seals on you, allowing you to walk, but you can't use magic. Don't try anything funny. If I find any signs of betrayal, I'll kill you immediately and detonate the slave collar around your neck."

"I want you to take me to that diamond mine."

"I want to meet the sorcerers of the underground escapist sect."

Speaking of which, if there were diamond mines, it seems possible to create diamond golems.

(End of this chapter)