Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 188 You've Become a Grand Arcanist?

The city of insects.

With two waves of arcane magic bombardment, a strange worm was born from a large number of insect eggs. This worm was about three meters long when it was born, and then it would quickly grow to more than one hundred meters long by devouring soil.

It became a milky-white worm with segments.

This is because the scarab beetle, facing a barrage of magic, naturally degenerated from its original carapace into the larval form of an insect—a worm.

The more primitive and simple the structure, the stronger its vitality.

In order for the swarm to survive, the abnormal reproductive capacity and swarm consciousness combined to cause all the modified scarab queens to degenerate into worms, thus ensuring the survival of the swarm.

The first priority for the insect swarm is to survive.

Instead of launching a counterattack.

After the arcane mage used arcane missiles to blast away all the insectoids blocking his way, he was stunned when he saw the worm in front of him.

He looked at the worm with a sense of foreboding. "This is a worm I've never encountered before."

Above the arcane mage's house, a burst of magical light appeared before their eyes; it was arcane magic: Arcane Prophecy.

This arcane prophecy, compared to Rachel Komnenos's super intuition, is relatively minor and limited, but it was just enough to remind him.

Immediately afterwards, the person on the roof gave orders to the hundreds of fire dragon lizardmen, instructing them to breathe fire at the giant worm.

The entire worm began to disintegrate once again amidst the lizardmen's fiery vomit and the arcane lightning falling from the sky.

The worm let out a cry of longing and fury for life.

This yearning resonated with the entire insect swarm, and the insect swarm's resonance also resonated with the wolf pack.

At the same time, the hive consciousness began searching for any way to keep the worm queen alive, and then it found the wolf pack effect, which included wolves with immortality.

Su Nan received a request from the insect hive consciousness.

Therefore, Su Nan, inside the Diamond Tunnel, granted the Hive Consciousness the authority to transfer werewolf magic.

Su Nan never expected that the insect hive consciousness would actually set its sights on the wolves' immortality.

Amidst the raging flames, the arcane mage watched as the worm gradually ceased moving, and felt a sense of relief.

He led his troops deeper into the Insect Capital.

The three-headed Tyrant Scarabs stood in front of the troops on the roof, but in the next moment, an arcane comet smashed them into mincemeat.

The person on the roof was greatly excited. "Mother's magic is getting more and more powerful."

"Let's go, we've already entered the inner city."

"I want to see what exactly these insects are protecting at their core."

The battlefield to conquer the Insect Capital was slow due to the relentless attacks of the scarab swarms, even with the arcane mage personally leading the team.

But half a day later, all the troops and slaves from Black Rye City rushed towards the Insect Capital.

Of course, Jinx also summoned back all the Zerg swarms that had been developing in the underworld over the past three months.

Meanwhile, within half a day, countless fleshy structures resembling houses were destroyed one by one by the lizardmen.

Tyrant Scarabs, Magma Scarabs, Lord Scarabs... countless insects were slaughtered.

Similarly, the lizardmen army also suffered countless deaths.

Even with the arcane magic support of the Rye Matriarch, the Lizardman army could not quickly break through the core of the swarm, which was between the third and fourth Ascensions. The Lizardman army was dying every moment, while the swarm was hatching large numbers of new scarabs every moment.

Of course, throughout this process, the Rye Matriarch was constantly drawing energy from the entire battlefield.

This surprised even the Rye Madam.

Even she hadn't anticipated that the swarm would be so resilient, despite how insignificant the individual insects were to her.

However, her powerful fertility and her mobilization capacity to sacrifice everything to protect the core of the Insect City are even greater than her slave army.

Her slave army has seen a large number of deserters.

Because the war was just too brutal.

The seemingly impressive army of 100,000 men, faced with such an overwhelming and terrifying Zerg enemy, were all looking for an opportunity to escape as time went by.

Even so, the overall situation of the war was what she wanted to see. The energy from the 100,000 slave soldiers and the large number of dead and wounded insect swarms would help her complete the Philosopher's Jewel.

Of course, because the energy gathered was so enormous, even the Rye Matriarch did not notice that the entire army of ghouls, skeleton warriors, and ghost scholars summoned by the Death Knight Vashjian had already slaughtered many lizardman towns in the underworld.

This energy, corrupted by Vasilien's death magic, also entered her Philosopher's Jewel.

A week later, the heavily wounded arcane mage, Wu Shang, finally led his remaining legion of less than five thousand lizardmen to the heart of the Insect Capital.

At that time, the entire Insect Capital was filled with corpses and remains.

Most of the lizardmen soldiers looked at Jinx, who was at the heart of the swarm, with fear, disgust, and dread.

On the arcane mage's roof, watching several hundred-meter-long worms protecting Jinx with their own flesh, he breathed a sigh of relief. "So, those worms were protecting this queen."

"If we kill this queen, I think the underworld will be free from the swarm's crisis."

A beam of arcane energy descended from the sky, striking Jinx in front of her and blasting more than a dozen worms away.

That was an arcane comet, but compared to a week ago, this arcane comet was many times more powerful.

This clearly shows how much the Rye Matriarch profited from this war!

The arcane mage shouted from the rooftop, "Kill that queen! Slaves, charge! These disgusting swarms must be wiped out!"

"Their threat and potential are enormous!"

At the same time, the Mistress of Rye, located in the main city of Rye, suddenly took the completed Philosopher's Jewel from her Serenity Scepter.

This so-called philosopher's precious jade is like a pearl, but it emits five-colored light throughout, like a dream.

Like the most beautiful gemstone.

The Rye Matriarch removed it and embedded it directly into the flesh of her right arm.

Instantly, streaks of multicolored veins crawled up her arms, and powerful energy surged through her soul.

The silent commander bowed slightly to her as a sign of respect and said telepathically, "Congratulations."

"Rye Matriarch".

"You have completed the Philosopher's Orb. You are the ultimate winner of this war, and you have become a Grand Archmage! You are about to possess the enhanced energy shell—the Energy Shell Field—that only warlocks equivalent to first-circle wizards have, and it is at least taking shape."

The Rye Matriarch burst into laughter, almost maniacal. "Hahahaha, is this the power I gained by sacrificing everything I had?"

"Thanks to those bugs. I never imagined they were so powerful and so prolific. I originally thought I'd have to kill at least those surface wizards, or even go up to the surface, to complete the Philosopher's Pearl, but now it seems that's unnecessary!"

"This is the power that enables one to set the rules, to be the master of all slaves, to stand at the pinnacle of the underworld. Lady Rose's realm—Grand Archmage."

"However, the first thing to solve is..."

The Rye Matriarch used a series of arcane blinks to travel directly to the diamond mine in the Rye Underground.

That is, the location of southern Jiangsu.

Inside the palace, the Silent Commander thought to himself, "Looks like he's a difficult fellow to manage. He's already disobeying my orders after just completing the Philosopher's Orb."

……

In the diamond mine, Su Nan learned from his conversation with the Shadow Wizard that different types of wizard towers require different amounts of resources.

However, a true wizard's tower must be extremely resource-intensive.

The only difference is that different schools of wizard towers consume resources in different ways.

The three most important structures in the Wizard's Tower are the Magic Source, the Magic Amplification Structure (Magic Cannon), and the Magic Permanent Field.

The others can be added or modified later, but the three units mentioned above have strict manufacturing methods.

At the same time, Su Nan noticed a powerful magical force that she had never encountered before descending from the sky. In an instant, its powerful magical pressure descended upon the entire diamond mine area and suppressed the magical pressure that Su Nan unconsciously exerted.

Thirty super werewolf messengers were also forced to kneel on the ground.

Blom and Warwick had no choice but to transform into shadow werewolves to counter the other's magical pressure.

Even before she arrived, her demonic pressure had already caused many cave dwellers to faint.

The Rye Mother's boastful and excited tone echoed in the diamond mine: "Surface wizards, do you think I don't know where you are?"

"Those were all my plans."

"I need to use the swarms you control, those highly prolific swarms, to help me advance."

"Hahahaha... I've won now. I've become a Grand Arcanist."

"And you, my shameful daughter. I will never forgive your betrayal."

Songzhong looked in horror at the Rye Matriarch, who appeared in the center of the diamond mine, dressed in a gorgeous silk robe that trailed on the ground.

The Rye Matriarch wore a simple yet elegant crown, with a pair of mysterious black gemstone earrings hanging from her earlobes. She wore a fist-sized emerald necklace inlaid with gold and diamonds, and her gorgeous fringed dress was adorned with many jewels.

Incredibly gorgeous.

Like a queen.

The Rye Matriarch looked at Su Nan and the others with a smug expression. "Be terrified, wizards, this is the majesty of a Grand Arcane Mage."

"We submit to the Queen!"

"Look, I am the Grand Arcanist!"

Su Nan looked her up and down, a look of disappointment in his eyes. "Are you kidding me?"

"I never expected the matriarch of Rye City to be such a joker. With your level of skill, what kind of great arcanist are you?"

"Although your mental strength has reached 130, which seems to be a breakthrough, I know very well that your life level has not changed at all."

"You forcibly increase your mental strength with external aids, but the limit of your mental strength is still 100."

"Furthermore, you haven't developed a permanent defensive force field spell like a formal wizard."

"Rye Madam, your joke has gone too far."

"You're not a Grand Arcanist at all!"

Meanwhile, on the other side, in the heart of the Insect City, Jinx had become a colossal creature, standing over ten meters tall.

At the same time, she still maintains the shape of a perfect golden sphere.

She opened her insect eyes and looked at the arcane mage in front of her, saying, "I've been waiting for you, waiting for you to come to me on your own."

"You seem to think you've won the final victory. But in fact, the exact opposite is happening right now."

(End of this chapter)