Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 190 Capturing the Rye Matriarch

Su Nan took the Philosopher's Jade from her arm, and the Black Rye Mistress let out a wail.

Having lost the philosopher's jade, her spiritual power plummeted back to its original normal value of 100.

Moreover, she also lost her right arm.

Actually, although she took the wrong path, her strength was indeed extraordinary; she could even use first-circle magic.

However, her flaws are simply too great.

It's just an increase in power, nothing more.

However, because the loopholes were too large, Su Nan felt that the current threat level posed by the Rye Mistress was even less than when she was still a half-step formal wizard and had not used the Philosopher's Jewel.

If the Rye Matriarch remained in that state, with her profound magical power and mastery of dozens of arcane spells, he himself might even have a mishap if he wasn't careful.

However, this rye matriarch, who has now completely gone astray, is no longer a significant threat to him.

After all, taking a step doesn't necessarily mean progress; it could also mean regression.

After losing the Philosopher's Jewel, the energy field belonging to an energy being disappeared from the Rye Mistress's body, and her magical pressure dropped to the level of a normal first-class wizard apprentice.

Moreover, due to the immense chaos her soul had suffered, it had even regressed from a half-step formal wizard to the limit of a first-class wizard apprentice.

Her magical pressure is now being suppressed by Su Nan's magical pressure.

"Damn it, hate it, despicable! Give me back what belongs to me!" The Rye Matriarch was extremely angry. In that instant, she went mad and charged at Su Nan without regard for anything else. In a flash, the arcane magic in her hands flew, from Arcane Missiles, Arcane Shock, Arcane Intimidation to Arcane Barrier, driving Warwick and Vasilyian back.

She rushed towards Su Nan, but her pupils suddenly shrank as another bottle of Aksha's Vortex Potion was thrown at her.

She was instantly blasted away by the vortex of flames, her four layers of arcane shield shattered, and her magnificent robes were reduced to charred fragments. Only her undergarments, which seemed to be made of a special mithril material, were not completely destroyed.

"Cough cough cough..." The Rye Matriarch got up, and suddenly an arcane prophetic light flashed before her eyes, reminding her that danger was imminent.

She looked up and saw that it was Blom's wolf claws coming down towards her head. She quickly rolled on the ground and narrowly avoided the blow.

The ground where she had been standing had been shattered by Blom's claw, creating a crater and sending debris flying.

When the Rye Matriarch tried to stand up, she suddenly found that she could not move her body, and large areas of her body had turned black.

The body hair on her body began to grow abnormally.

The wolfsbane worked.

The former slave-owning queen is now in such dire straits.

The Queen of Rye moved very slowly due to the effects of wolfsbane.

Moreover, Su Nan threw three bottles of sleeping potion at her, which meant she was hit with a sleeping spell three times in a row.

Her mental energy began to stagnate, and she could no longer use her magic.

At the same time, Blom, Warwick's wolf claws, and Vasilyan's black knife were placed against her neck.

If she dares to move even slightly, she will be beheaded.

Su Nan walked up to her and said with a smile, "Alright, now you are my slave."

Su Nan forcibly placed a specially made collar, containing the Akasha Vortex Potion and crafted from still iron, around her neck.

Rye mother, captured successfully.

Only then did the Black Rye Matriarch belatedly realize that she had been captured by Su Nan. Her body was now immobilized due to the wolf poison, and her mental energy was reduced to less than 20% due to the three sleeping spells.

Moreover, she carries a threatening, lurking fire magic around her neck, which, if slightly activated, will explode at her neck.

The rye matriarch seemed to realize something.

Now it's her turn to become a slave?

Her dream of becoming a great arcanist turned out to be nothing but a dream.

She has now sacrificed the entire army of the main city of Rye, and she herself has been captured.

Who can save her?

The Rye Matriarch looked at her daughter, the Arcane Mage, with a hateful gaze.

When she was powerful, she paid no attention to this daughter; now, in her weakened state, she begins to feel heartache.

Oh, and she also has a son who leads an army abroad.

Oh, right, she still has hope.

Su Nan shattered her last hope.

Su Nan said to Jinx, the Queen of Insects, "Let's devour that arcane mage."

"As long as you devour that arcanist and obtain his arcane magical energy, Jinx, you will have completely completed the main framework of the Swarm's four ascension evolutions."

"Arcane magic is the key to the Zerg's evolution into an arcane race."

"I've also captured the Rye Mistress. Now, all we need to do is conduct some experiments with her, and we'll be able to obtain the complete arcane magic system."

……

The Insect Capital was originally an ordinary lizardman town.

At this moment, in the heart of the Insect Capital, one after another, massive new Tyrant Scarabs, each as large as a small car, appeared.

There are at least fifty.

These are all insect swarms that have undergone four sublimations, combining all previous evolutions to form the latest Tyrant Scarab.

Their backs are formed by semi-circular scarab wings, creating a semi-circular hard shell.

Thirty layers of chitinous scarab shells appeared on their bodies. They had human-like limbs and exaggerated muscle structures, but their limbs were all covered by black chitinous shells.

On their foreheads appeared huge horns, like those of rhinoceros beetles.

Like a lord's crown.

This means that they are the result of the evolution of the insect swarm, and are the swarm's greatest weapon.

Each Tyrant Scarab possesses the ability to kill a Storm Knight on its own, as well as the ability to single-handedly kill a Drow Warrior.

When they are combined, even an arcane mage cannot escape unscathed.

Meanwhile, 500 bone-spiky worms were also found here.

These spiky beetles evolved from the spiky scarab beetle, but are much larger, about the size of an adult.

Moreover, they retained the semi-circular scarab shell on their backs, but apart from that, they became covered in armor-like spikes all over their bodies, and their lower bodies moved in a snake-tail-like manner using these spikes.

These bone-spurting worms are a swarm of worms that have undergone four stages of sublimation, and are worms in the middle level.

They can launch bone spikes remotely from the ground. Although the intensity of a single shot is only 0.1 ring, the problem is that each bone spike high-shooter can launch ten bone spikes per second and stores thirty bone spikes inside, which can all be replenished by eating soil within a day.

In other words, this batch of bone-spurting high-shooting insects can launch a total of 15,000 bone spurs with a diameter of 0.1 rings within three seconds.

This is equivalent to the spells of 15,000 third-class wizard apprentices.

Even if a 0.1-ring spell is insignificant, its sheer number poses a threat to ordinary first-class wizard apprentices, or even first-class wizard apprentices who experience magical pressure.

Then came the continuous modification of scarabs, and the emergence of various subspecies of scarabs.

The Tyrant Scarab—the Bone-Spiked High-Shot Scarab—is currently the core force of the Zerg swarm, while the subspecies of Scarab, primarily composed of modified Scarabs, are cannon fodder.

The main components of the cannon fodder force are the modified scarab force, the tunnel scarab force, and the shield scarab force.

In terms of capabilities, the cannon fodder troops haven't seen much improvement; their only improvement is in their reproductive capacity.

The core forces saw the greatest improvement in strength.

Hatching the Bone Spikes requires a considerable amount of time and energy, while the Tyrant Scarab requires even more.

The greatest strength of the Zerg swarm lies in its sheer numbers, making its cannon fodder units and elite units equally important.

The primary reason for creating elite forces is to prevent enemies from directly attacking the Zerg hive core. Therefore, it is necessary to produce elite Zerg swarms that aggregate the results of evolution.

The Tyrant Scarab, while already surpassing ordinary werewolves and even approaching the level of super werewolves, has demonstrated combat power exceeding that of super werewolves, even without considering their immortality.

But this is normal.

Because this is, after all, a swarm that has undergone four ascensions, and a werewolf that has undergone four ascensions is already a shadow werewolf.

Right now, these swarms of insects have invaded the remaining five thousand lizardmen army.

Only then did the person on the roof feel a chill run down their spine; they realized it was a trap.

The next moment, his arm was torn off by Jinx, the Queen of Insects, using a swarm of Tyrant Scarabs.

Then, Queen Jinx stretched out her insect limbs and ate the limbs on the roof.

Instantly, Jinx came into contact with arcane energy.

Jinx was extremely excited.

It finally obtained this energy.

Jinx had previously discovered that arcane energy produces a special reaction with mutated worm mothers that accidentally emerge from the swarm.

Now that it has obtained this energy, all the worm queens have indeed begun to show abnormal reactions.

From the roof, one could hear a series of drum-like sounds, as if something was crawling out of the bodies of those worm mothers!

(End of this chapter)