Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 182 Is it worth it to pursue becoming a full-fledged wizard at all costs?

With the Rye Matriarch wielding the Staff of Serent, the entire Rye Domain was transformed into her leek field.

All the energy of countless slave soldiers who died in the war and whom she had marked beforehand converged on her palace like a comet.

The energy of these comets returning to Earth rips through the eternal night sky below, creating a spectacular scene.

The Rye Matriarch looked at the Silent Commander beside her, intending to show him the magnificence of the 'world' she ruled.

Look at these lives, using all their strength just to please me.

Look, at her command, all the slaves in the entire Rye region will dedicate their lives to her.

The Silent Commander saw that the Rye Matriarch had not harvested the surface world, but instead harvested her own world, but he only showed a look of amusement.

In any case, his mission was simply to represent the energy world and invade the underground world.

No matter where the wizards hide, even if they huddle deep underground like turtles, their energy world will follow them relentlessly.

【Rye, I remind you, with so little soul, you cannot forge a philosopher's gem.】

You need a larger-scale war.

You need to find an even more powerful enemy.

The Rye Matriarch frowned. "Wizards have invaded my 'world.' I sense they have killed my children. I will send all my arcanists, along with the armies of the superior races and all my lowly slaves, to find them."

"Whether it's the death of my troops or the deaths of those wizards by my army."

"The energy of these units I have marked at the moment of their death will be absorbed by this Staff of Serent."

"In other words, whether we win or lose this war, I will ultimately benefit."

"Although I feel somewhat sorry for my descendants and family, as long as I can become a Grand Archmage, the family can be rebuilt at any time, and the city-state can be rebuilt at any time."

"I must sacrifice everything in my 'world,' everything, in order to become—a Grand Arcane Mage. I cannot stop at the level of an Arcane Mage."

"I will offer up everything as a sacrifice."

"Even if it's using the technology of your energy world!"

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Inside the diamond mine, Su Nan only had time to extract the magic potion using the bloodline essence. He extracted about fifty green dragon lizardmen and refined five bottles of green dragon bloodline, which he then gave to Jinx to drink.

The remaining fifty green dragon lizardmen and the arcane mage Tokugawa had all their energy forcibly extracted.

Blom and Warwick both turned serious upon seeing this.

Judging from the flow of magical power, Su Nan said, "It seems that this war is a ceremony that the Rye Mistress prepared for herself to advance to the rank of Grand Archmage."

"Her army bears the mark of slavery that she branded."

"So when her slaves die, the energy returns to the Rye Mistress. If a slave she has marked is killed, our energy will also be gathered into her hands. This technology has characteristics of the energy world."

"It seems that an energy world has intervened in the underground world. That's somewhat expected."

"Moreover, this energy world should not belong to the faction of the blind king."

Through the AI ​​analysis, Su Nan discovered that the spell used by the other party, which gathered all energy, although it had the shadow of that energy world, was still somewhat different from the faction of the blind king.

In other words, this could be another faction within that energy world.

Matsunaka watched in horror as her brother died a gruesome death, his body now reduced to a skeletal skeleton. "This power...it's like Mother's feeling."

"Mother, does that mean we're not from the same family?"

"Why must you drain our power, even from us?"

"Mother, why! Why is this happening!"

"Is advancing to the rank of Archmage really that important to you? You already have everything. You've become the master of this world, standing above all life in the Rye Underground. What more could you possibly want? To sacrifice your family just to... become an Archmage?"

A look of confusion crossed Song Zhong's eyes. "Why?"

Warwick and Blom looked at her with some sympathy.

What a tragedy of human relationships.

So it seems that the Rye family, who rule this underground world, isn't as wonderful as it appears.

Su Nan walked past her. "Let's go, there's nothing to stay here for now."

"We have no rivals ahead of us."

"The rye matriarch's little schemes are nothing special."

"By the way, my arcane slave. You just asked why the master of this world must become a formal wizard. Is there a reason for that?"

"That's utter nonsense. Because the pursuit of truth is never-ending."

"Your mother, though cruel, is someone I can understand."

Matsunaka knelt beside Tokugawa's corpse, tears streaming down his face, and asked, "Are all arcane sorcerers... wizards like this?"

Su Nan frowned and said, "I don't think that advancing to become a formal wizard requires such...excessive effort; it's too unseemly."

"Advancing to become a full-fledged wizard requires one's own efforts, not external forces."

"Warwick, keep the aetherite and diamond mines running, and arrange for the cavemen and grey dwarves to transport the ores we need to the surface."

"Jinx, keep the swarm expanding."

"Maintain the scale of the war against the lizardmen-dominated army of the underworld. Don't be afraid to lose."

"If we quietly develop a few more hives, we can raise another Zerg army within a week. I want to turn the Rye Underground into a giant Zerg hive."

"Also, you all take these Shadow Werewolf Potions."

Su Nan distributed the remaining three bottles of Shadow Werewolf Potion to Warwick, Wolf One, and Wolf Two.

He decided to refine some more Shadow Werewolf Potions, at least to transform Wolf Three, the mutated werewolf butler, into a Shadow Werewolf as well.

At the same time, now that the magic pressure problem has been solved, I can use the same technology to upgrade the sacrificial stone into a high-level sacrificial stone golem.

Moreover, he has now obtained a large amount of ether and diamond mines.

With a little more still iron ore, all golems and castles can be upgraded.

Using the aetherite, I can refine three kinds of mental power enhancement potions, and soon I will be able to raise my mental power to 100.

That is, the maximum limit to which the human soul can increase its strength!

The limits of pure-blooded humans!

Su Nan pondered. "We must be wary of the Rye Matriarch's side, although I don't believe that relying on the technology of the energy world is enough to truly become a formal wizard."

"Should we call directly? Wait a minute..."

"Her act of absorbing the energy of the soldiers who died in the entire Rye Underground was actually a weakness she created herself."

"As long as we seize this weakness, this war will always be under my control. There's no need to risk a direct attack on Rye City. We should wait until the Swarm has completed its fourth Ascension and the Death Knights have also completed their fourth Ascension before launching an attack."

Su Nan immediately asked Song Zhong for the exact location of the Still Iron Mine in the Rye Underground Domain. Then he had Worry overcome the Shadow Werewolf Potion, and his body gradually developed a magical pressure shell. He then ordered Worry to go to that mine and occupy it immediately, and ordered Brom to capture the scattered dungeon slaves around it.

The formal plundering of the underground world's resources has begun!

(End of this chapter)