Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 177 The Reason for the Receding Magical Tide

Su Nan glanced at this so-called thinking of a formal wizard with a strange look. Because of the concern of that old silver coin, the Oak Wizard, Su Nan was filled with vigilance towards all the things left behind by formal wizards that could think for themselves.

Could this way of thinking possibly be able to resurrect someone by possessing the wizard's body?

However, based on my understanding, if a wizard doesn't even have a soul, or even a single fragment of a soul, it's unlikely that he could possess someone else's body and be resurrected.

Su Nan secretly examined the Shadow Wizard's mind and discovered that he was simply using specific magical power to store something resembling a magic circle on the metal wall.

From another perspective, it can be understood that before dying, the Shadow Wizard stored his thought patterns and memories in a magic circle.

Sunan greeted the Shadow Wizard's mind, saying, "I am Sunan Peter."

"It definitely comes from the surface of the earth."

The Shadow Wizard chuckled. "Heh heh, it seems the Rye Matriarch's invasion of the surface angered you, so you followed them and spent decades digging a tunnel to the surface, entering the underground. How about it, the world we created over a thousand years... not bad, huh?"

The Shadow Wizard said with a hint of pride.

If not, he is already dead and is now just a mass of thoughts, not even a wizard's soul. The vast difference between him and Su Nan would probably make him not even give Su Nan a second glance.

But now, the situation is different.

The Shadow Wizard has become amiable and approachable, as if he has lost all his airs.

Su Nan asked, "The world you created? Can you tell me how you died, the origin of this world, and what exactly happened?"

The Shadow Wizard sighed and said softly, "More than two thousand years ago, after we defeated the energy creatures, we discovered a problem. That energy world, whose name we couldn't even speak of, was far too powerful, and their seven kings were all immortal conceptual beings."

"Even if we kill those seven kings, they will be reborn in the deepest part of that energy world at most a hundred years later. There is another problem: after those energy beings die, the energy they carry dissipates and pollutes the prime material plane."

"In turn, it polluted the secret realm."

"This led to the entire prime material plane being contaminated, and then the magical tide receded."

Su Nan suddenly realized. "I thought the receding of the magical tide was a natural, objective phenomenon."

The Shadow Wizard shook his head helplessly and said, "The magical tides do indeed recede naturally, but this is calculated over hundreds of millions of years. According to the original trajectory, it will be at least hundreds of millions of years before the magical tides recede and the earth enters a magic-free era."

"Now I hear the magical tide is rising again. Actually, this statement is problematic, as if the magical tide had actually receded."

"The prime material plane we are in now is like a beach in the ocean of magic. It is only because the mass death of energy beings in our world has overwhelmed our world that the magical tide has receded."

"Otherwise, how could the magical tide be summoned back so easily?"

Su Nan frowned.

Now that powerful energy world has returned, it's like a swarm of locusts.

That's very troublesome.

It seems that the energy world is preparing to fight the prime material plane to the death, determined to wash away the shame of its defeat more than two thousand years ago.

The Shadow Wizard said, "After the magical tide receded, the wizarding organization I belonged to, the Tower of Mutation, did not intend to leave this land because we discovered ether mines underground. This gave us great confidence, and we prepared to create a new magical system to take the organization to the next level."

"The Tower of Mutation has always been based on the idea of ​​using the magic of the Conjuration School to create more powerful magical creatures."

"We also believed at the time that we could rely on the newly discovered fifth element, the ether, to create mages who could adapt to the ebb and flow of magical tides."

Su Nan asked, "So, the drow, the arcane race?"

The female arcanist Song Zhong wanted to argue, but considering that she was now Su Nan's slave, she could only hold back.

She didn't like the rhetoric being exchanged between the two wizards, such as the idea that arcane mages were something created by wizards.

The shadow wizard scoffed. "Arcanists? They dare to challenge me?"

"They're just some failed experiments. If we succeed, the arcane system should at least produce second-circle wizards who can fully adapt to low-magic environments."

"Being able to fully adapt to a magic-free environment is just one of our goals, and we know that it's almost a fantasy."

"However, if we hadn't encountered that conspiracy and rebellion, and had continued our research, we should have been able to create something better than the drow that could adapt to low-magic environments."

Su Nan asked in confusion, "A rebellion?"

The Shadow Wizard said, "Back then, the wizarding organizations that wanted to create the underworld were far more than just our Tower of Mutation."

"But I'm sorry, in order to prevent our Tower of Mutation from having any inheritances, and to prevent the inheritors from being targeted by other wizarding organizations."

"I am bound by the covenant and cannot tell you the names of those wizarding organizations."

"Anyway, there's a first-ring organization, a second-ring organization, and even a third-ring organization."

"These wizarding organizations are either like us, focusing on biological modification within the Conjuration school, or on summoning and raising magical creatures within the Summoning school, or on earth modification within the Evocation school, or even a sub-field of the Nature school, focusing on environmental modification..."

"We were known at the time as the Wizarding League of the Underworld."

"The Drow and arcane magic are a project created jointly by the wizarding alliance of the underworld."

"We decided to create a civilization in the underworld that would rival orthodox wizarding society! That was our initial determination."

"The result was that the ideal was very appealing, but the reality was quite different..."

"But you don't need to worry too much. The deeper underground world goes, the more it becomes a self-contained system, and it doesn't really want to return to the surface."

"This rye domain alone is enough for you to develop."

"Because there were many wizard organizations in the Underworld Wizarding Alliance back then, and to be honest, they were wary of each other. So many underground areas in the Underworld were not connected, and some even deliberately set up barriers to protect themselves from each other, making it difficult for them to communicate smoothly."

"You'll have a hard time finding the entrance to the underground world in other areas."

"Especially that Third Ring organization, they stay in the deepest part of the underground world, conducting some kind of secret research. They completely ignore what's happening in other areas of the underground world."

"You may plunder the resources of this rye underground region as much as you like."

Su Nan nodded.

Indeed, judging from the temperature in which they live, the creatures of the rye underground region may still want to return to the surface.

However, those underground modified races living in temperatures of 100 degrees Celsius or higher would likely view the surface as a frigid and barren land.

The Shadow Wizard continued, "Later, a betrayal occurred involving the drow, arcane mages, and possibly some wizarding organizations within the Alliance."

"As you know, the Drow are not creatures of a low-magic world; at most, they are creatures of a medium-magic world."

"Therefore, the drow, and the arcanists of that time, feared being abandoned by us. So they conducted a dangerous experiment, using large amounts of aetherite and modified creatures to create the [Black Hole Creatures]."

"They are trying to use black hole creatures to summon back the magical tides."

"It seems that it didn't work out, but because of the black hole creatures, the magical energy of the underground world was gathered in one place, so it was possible to barely maintain a relatively neutral magical environment."

"The Wizarding Alliance of the Underworld would certainly have opposed this, deeming it too risky. The subsequent threat posed by the black hole creatures proved that the Alliance's initial concerns were correct."

"Therefore, we had a wizarding war. Alliance? That became a joke."

"But I died in the early stages of the wizarding war in the underworld. So there are many things I don't know about after that."

"After all, as a thought, I can only be trapped here."

The Shadow Wizard lowered his head in deep thought. "I don't know which wizarding organization was so insane back then that they agreed to ally with the arcane mages among the drow and do such a thing."

"Those black hole creatures must constantly devour flesh and blood to avoid going mad, so the underworld maintained a system of slavery."

"The initial reason was simply to have more organisms to feed the [black hole organisms]."

"I only know about the surface area that our wizarding organization is responsible for. So that's all I know."

(End of this chapter)