Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 191 Arcane Insects!

The city of insects.

The massive worm bodies that had been surrounding Queen Jinx were now lifeless, lying dead on the ground.

Or rather, it is the final stage of the life of these scarab beetle mothers and their larvae that has ended, followed by their life stage as adults!

A crack appeared on the back of these worm queens, and then a brain-shaped worm with powerful arcane energy radiation pressure flew out from it.

The tail of these insects is followed by a reproductive gland.

During this war, the scarab swarm evolved by combining the node creatures that were originally in charge of command with the scarab queen that was originally in charge of production, thus creating the new type of node swarm.

Su Nan named her the Node Queen, and in the Wolf Pack Effect, she elevated Jinx's title to Queen of the Swarm.

After all, they had now defeated the main city of Rye.

The original swarm of insects has now practically dominated the Rye Underground.

Moreover, the queens of these insect swarms were all floating in mid-air using arcane energy.

Over the past three months, the Hive Consciousness has learned the Arcane Meditation Technique of the Arcane Mage, as well as the corresponding spell models—[Arcane Missile], [Arcane Shockwave], [Arcane Levitation], [Arcane Prophecy], and [Arcane Shield], as well as [Arcane Blink] and [Arcane Rebirth]—from the Arcane Mage Song Zhong.

A total of seven arcane spells were acquired.

Of course, in essence, it is not the queens that cast this arcane spell to regenerate, but the hive consciousness, which is the true subject of the swarm.

Essentially, the entire swarm is a single organism.

A special collective consciousness where the quality of mental energy reaches the upper limit of 100, but the quantity of mental energy has exceeded 100.

This shared consciousness, taking advantage of its presence within the werewolf pack, combined werewolf magic with arcane magic to create a special spell called [Arcane Rebirth].

Ironically, this spell was actually the first one that Su Nan's side could call a first-level spell.

This spell allows the Queen, a creature that floats in the sky and resembles a brain, to hatch and regenerate again through the Queen's Tower, a hive structure, after being killed by an enemy.

In this way, one can be reborn within an hour of being killed by returning to the Zerg hive's royal throne to incubate!

The cost of resurrection is extremely low.

However, it cannot be used to resurrect normal creatures; it can only be used to resurrect the Queen, who is essentially part of the Hive's consciousness.

This spell is essentially exploiting a bug.

Each individual insect in the swarm is part of the hive consciousness.

This makes it possible for the hive consciousness to use arcane magic to allow a part of itself to heal at an accelerated rate.

Through the combination of the swarm's unique characteristics with the werewolf pack and arcane magic, this one-ring arcane magic, cast by the hive consciousness, was formed!

In this way, the queen insect, who is responsible for the reproductive and intelligence systems within the swarm, becomes very difficult to kill normally.

Unless Jinx can be directly eliminated, the core of the Hive consciousness can be destroyed.

This swarm of insects naturally developed in response to the magical bombardment of the Rye Mistress.

It fully satisfied the insectoid instinct, the desire to survive at all costs.

Looking up at the thirty-odd queen insects floating in the sky, the arcanist was filled with fear.

He realized that the queens of insects were all continuously casting arcane magic that only a first-class wizard apprentice could cast.

He didn't know that the ones who were actually casting the arcane levitation spell were not the queens, but the hive consciousness. Although these queens, who had acquired arcane bloodlines and each had about 17-18 mental strength, could indeed be considered arcane sorcerers.

However, compared to the original three great arcane masters of Blackwheat City: Matsunaka, Tokugawa, and Yagami, they are definitely much weaker individually.

After all, the three great arcane masters were all at the level of first-class wizard apprentices.

The problem is that there are simply too many queens in front of us.

There were so many that it almost gave me a sense of shattered worldview. When did arcanists become so numerous?

Every arcane mage is a ruler of the underworld.

The quantity is scarce.

Being an arcanist is a great achievement in itself.

But now, the swarm of insects that Su Nan cultivated has shattered his beliefs; these are merely species that Su Nan created using magic...

It's incredible that they were able to achieve such a level of skill.

This even caused signs of a mental breakdown on the roof.

Enraged, the people on the roof used a mixture of arcane and dark magic, Shadow Arcane Missiles, to attack Jinx and the insect queens.

At that time, his remaining Red Dragon Lizardman army had been completely wiped out by the Tyrant Scarabs—Bone Spike Shooters—Cannon Fodder Scarab Swarm.

Meanwhile, on the rooftop, driven by a mad urge to perish together, they launched a preemptive attack on the queen insects.

The next moment, his eyes widened. He saw all thirty insect queens float in front of Jinx at the same time and cast an arcane barrier.

The arcane barriers combined to form a powerful arcane shield.

They blocked his seven Shadow Arcane Missiles.

At the same time, Jinx has now acquired the bloodline of an arcane mage, and she can also cast arcane magic. With a flick of her insect limbs, an arcane shockwave instantly appeared.

A shockwave sent the irrational rooftop crew flying.

Next, Jinx and the Bug Queens used Arcane Missiles together.

The arcane missiles flying everywhere left the rooftop in a mess, shattering all his arcane shields and breaking many of his bones, leaving him lying on the ground unable to move.

Essentially, the arcane mage is fighting against the hive consciousness.

He was fighting an arcanist whose stats were nearly identical to his mother, the Rye Mistress, without the Philosopher's Jewel.

The only advantage the Rye Mistress has is her extensive experience with spell models.

At that moment, amidst a pile of lizardman corpses and blood in the Insect Capital, on the arcane mage's roof, facing Jinx floating in mid-air and standing before him, he roared:

"For thousands of years, arcane mages have been the ruling race in the underworld. Their numbers are extremely small, and the name of every arcane mage is worthy of being recorded in history."

I don't believe it.

"I don't believe you can create arcane so easily!"

Floating in mid-air, Jinx spoke at the same time as all the Zerg Queens; it was the Hive consciousness speaking to her.

"Evolution is a never-ending process."

"We are never satisfied."

"We will continue to evolve, constantly absorbing new technological advancements. We want everything, we want all, we will evolve forever!"

"Our master has given our race a new name, as proof that we have completely replaced the drow and become the new arcane race."

"From this day forward, we are the Arcane Insects!"

The hive consciousness was sensed on the roof—a distorted, all-consuming will to evolve. "Monster, monster."

"You are terrible monsters."

"You will destroy this world!"

Arcane light appeared before his eyes, a warning from his spell. Through the arcane light, he saw a terrifying scene of countless insects devouring their enemies.

At this moment, the rooftop finally understood what kind of enemy he was facing!

The next moment, his head was completely devoured by Jinx.

Su Nan used the wolf pack effect to prevent Jinx from completely swallowing the corpse on the roof.

The arcane bloodline of the swarm was extracted and refined by Su Nan from the corpse of the already deceased Tokugawa and from the two drow warriors he captured.

Su Nan refined the essence of the arcane bloodline into an arcane bloodline transplant potion and gave it to the insect swarm.

Once the swarm consumes another dose of the high-concentration arcane bloodline, it will meet the conditions for digesting the potion and fully activate the arcane power it gained from the transplanted arcane bloodline potion.

The process of crafting the Arcane Bloodline Transplantation Potion is not technically difficult.

After all, among the experimental records the Shadow Wizard gave him were records of transplanting arcane bloodlines into the inside of ordinary spiders.

Therefore, Su Nan can make this potion directly without the need for the AI ​​to calculate the formula.

However, the corpses of arcane mages and experimental subjects are indeed too rare, and it would be a waste for Jinx to eat them directly.

(End of this chapter)