Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 189 Obtaining the Philosopher's Jade

In the diamond mining area, the powerful magical pressure emanating from the Rye Matriarch, combined with the energy field pressure unique to energy creatures, is creating a mixed pressure that is suppressing all the cave dwellers in the entire diamond mining area.

At least half of the cave dwellers had already fallen into a coma.

The super werewolves all activated their second rage, which helped them offset the combined pressure and allow them to move and fight normally.

At that moment, faced with Su Nan's questioning, the Black Rye Matriarch paused for a moment, then suddenly burst into laughter at Su Nan. "I am a Grand Archmage, as if you've ever seen a Grand Archmage. I am, without a doubt, a Grand Archmage."

"You see, as long as I'm willing."

Arcane lightning storm appeared in the sky, and a lightning storm like a pillar of light fell on the diamond mine, shattering an entire block of raw diamond ore.

The entire diamond mine was bathed in the glow of arcane lightning.

The Rye Matriarch said, "That's something that can be done."

"This is a power that can redefine the order, ensuring that slaves will always be slaves and slave owners will always be slave owners, even after thousands of years, the order will remain unchanged."

"Only a Grand Archmage could achieve such a feat."

As Mrs. Rye glanced at the pile of blueprints that Su Nan had placed in the pavilion in the diamond mine area, she suddenly became curious about what Su Nan, her rival for the past three months, had been doing.

Why would Su Nan rather waste a week ignoring all the signs that she was going to become a Grand Arcanist and hide in the diamond mining area on the southern edge of this underground world?

She reached out and used arcane gravity to summon the blueprints into her hand.

She took it out again and immediately raised her eyebrows. "A wizard's tower?"

"I've heard that the formal wizards among you who correspond to the Grand Archmages have a wizard's tower. So you've been hiding here, wasting a week, just to study the wizard's tower."

"What a foolish decision. I have already become a Grand Archmage without needing such a thing, by borrowing... the power of the Silent World."

"I am the ruler of the 'world,' and whatever I desire will be offered to me automatically."

"Enough. I'm getting bored now." The Black Rye Matriarch tossed the blueprints in her hand aside, scattering them page by page on the ground. Then, with her chin held high, she said to Su Nan in a victorious tone, "Because I have eliminated all the enemies in the Black Rye Underground Region, I am now all alone."

"Sometimes, I think, 'If only some more rivals could appear.' That's when you entered the underworld."

"But now I feel that you're nothing special. I'm bored. Let's just eliminate you and your pack of wolves and insects..."

The Rye Matriarch raised her right hand and uttered a spell.

Suddenly, a Arcane Lightning Storm spell enveloped the top of the diamond mine, aiming to wipe out all creatures in the entire mine.

But just as she did this, suddenly, her expression changed, her movements stiffened, and she turned her head to look at her right arm, only to see that the originally colorful Philosopher's Jade had suddenly turned black.

That black smudge, like a virus, invaded the originally normal Philosopher's Jade.

"What's going on?!" The Rye Matriarch discovered that her mental strength, which had exceeded the limit of 100, was rapidly shrinking.

It's as if she wasn't entirely the owner of the philosopher's precious jade.

Even the philosopher Baoyu was rapidly slipping out of her control.

She was able to break through the mental strength limit of 100 and reach a mental strength of 130 because of the external object, the Philosopher's Jade, which was embedded in her body and soul.

But now, the philosopher Baoyu is refusing to serve her, or at least not completely!

But the philosopher Baoyu was clearly a treasure of the energy world that she created by sacrificing everything she had, everything except herself.

Why wasn't she the master of the philosopher Baoyu?

A black knife plunged into her chest from behind, piercing her heart. At the same time, countless tentacles made of death energy erupted from her heart, wrapping around her body.

"This is..." The Rye Matriarch's pupils suddenly shrank, and she immediately used Arcane Blink to teleport away from the spot.

The one who stabbed her in the back and cast Death Coil on her was the Death Knight Vashrian.

Meanwhile, Vasilian was followed by a group of ghouls, ghost scholars, and skeleton warriors.

Using necromancy on a single corpse killed by the Black Blade is indeed insufficient to summon enough undead troops to aid Vasilian.

However, Vasilyan possesses the Death Pact Transformation ability, allowing him to use a black dagger to pierce the enemy's heart and thus restore his lost death magic.

Thus, Vasilian was able to use necromancy again and again to summon undead armies while slaughtering the lizardman town.

Within a week, he had assembled an army of a thousand undead.

The Rye Matriarch sensed that, as time passed, the Philosopher's Jewel was becoming increasingly resistant to her. "Just like the strange magic within the Philosopher's Jewel... it was you... and you, Sunan Peter, who tampered with it when I created the Philosopher's Jewel."

"But……"

"But you've never set foot in Rye City! When did you do this?!"

Su Nan walked to the scattered ground of the mining area and picked up the blueprints for his own wizard tower design that were lying on the ground. "When? How could you even ask such a question?"

"Rye, I think you yourself have a vague feeling that you've gone down the wrong path. You're not a true Grand Arcanist. In fact, your current state is even worse than before."

"If you hadn't forced your advancement, you would have been stuck at the half-step formal wizard stage due to arcane magic and the drow system. But now, because you forcibly used the technology of the energy world to break through the limits, you have evolved incorrectly."

"So now, you are actually further away from becoming a true, formal wizard."

"You shouldn't have introduced a third force, making your problems even more complicated. Introducing more problems is never the way to solve them."

Su Nan waved the wizard tower blueprints in his hand. "You know the answer in your heart, don't you?"

"You saw the various wizard tower blueprints I hypothesized. You clearly crave this knowledge, but you pretend to be disdainful and scattered my hypothetical wizard tower blueprints on the ground, yet you dare not damage them."

"Because you plan to pick me up and look at me again after you've destroyed me."

The Rye Matriarch flew into a rage. "I am the ruler of this 'world,' I have everything I desire, I possess countless slaves!"

Su Nan sighed. "To be a wizard like you, to go to such lengths, is truly outrageous."

"Have your countless slaves ever helped you in the slightest in the realm of knowledge?"

"By the way, I'm talking to you just to distract you."

At the same time, Rye Matriarch's pupils suddenly contracted, because Warwick and Blom appeared behind her simultaneously, and as she used Arcane Blink to teleport away from her original spot, they each swung their wolf claws at her back with all their might.

Warwick and Blom had activated all their berserk skills, and simultaneously used seven claw skills, two power spells equivalent to 0.8 ring or higher, to hit her back. Most importantly, they injected her with dark energy and an upgraded mixture of vampiric wolfsbane... into her body.

Because of the Rye Mistress's truly terrifying magical pressure, Warwick and Blom's sneak attack only caused moderate damage.

The Rye Queen instantly teleported to a location seventy meters away.

She wanted to run away!

Thirty super werewolf messengers caught up with her, but were collectively repelled by her arcane shockwave, which detonated the arcane energy around them.

But the Rye Matriarch had lost the elegance and swagger she had displayed upon her arrival. Now, her eyes were filled with anxiety, and she was gripped by worry.

"Those werewolves are stronger than I thought. Even if I don't run into any problems, I won't be able to take them down immediately! Their melee combat skills are far too strong, and they're incredibly fast. In the blink of an eye, the next attack is already here."

"Damn it, why is the philosopher Baoyu becoming more and more resistant to me?"

"This is no longer just because the surface wizards did something wrong."

"It's like..."

It's like an adverse reaction has occurred.

The tricks Su Nan played on the philosopher Bao Yu only caused the rejection reaction, which should have occurred later, to happen prematurely.

Su Nan noticed this as well. "By the way, she doesn't have the physical structure of an energy being at all."

"She placed the treasures belonging to energy beings into her drow body."

"A peculiar rejection reaction has occurred!"

Su Nan used a potion-throwing spell to throw a bottle of a new fire potion he had developed over the past week, based on the Aksha's Bullet, the Exploding Bug potion, and the Black and White Flame potion. Its power was roughly equivalent to a 0.9-level Aksha's Vortex potion.

Because it used a 0.7 ring ranged throwing charm, the potion was thrown very quickly and with great accuracy.

As the potion bottle shattered, an extremely hot vortex of fire expanded and exploded from its spot, then began to spin at high speed.

Flame ions scorched the rye matriarch.

At the same time, Warwick bit the Rye Mistress's right shoulder and used Predatory Bite, while Vasilian rushed in front of the Rye Mistress and used Dead Man's Blade.

The rye matriarch was both alarmed and furious. "How dare a mere commoner!"

Arcane lightning bolts struck down from the sky, bombarding Warwick and Vasilian who were attacking her, sending them flying into the air.

At the same time, the Rye Matriarch, barely holding on, quickly chanted a spell, extended her right hand towards Su Nan, and unleashed an arcane missile, attempting to attack him.

But in that instant, Blom, who was in his wild transformation and beast form, suddenly rushed from her right and with a claw... severed the right hand of the Rye Matriarch, which was inlaid with the Philosopher's Jewel.

The rye matriarch's pupils suddenly contracted. "My... philosopher Baoyu."

But at that moment, Warwick had already snatched her arm, ran to Su Nan, and presented her arm, along with the Philosopher's Jade, to Su Nan.

(End of this chapter)