Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 275 The Evolution of the Arcane Swarm

Sunan said to Earl Rost, "You can use these salons to collect more unusual and ancient items. I'm very interested in them."

"Don't worry."

"As long as I'm still in Stormwind Keep, you can hold any salon you want, the royal family can't do anything about it."

These words immediately struck a chord with all the artists in the salon. After all, not everyone could say such a thing, and many would only be ridiculed if they did. But Su Nan's words here were so convincing.

Earl Rost replied excitedly, "Yes, Lord Sunan."

Su Nan saw Count Tuval, who was attending the salon, walking towards him.

Count Tuvar invited him to visit the Tuvar family, and after thinking about it, Su Nan agreed.

The Tuvar family has cast a net, and now it's finally time to reel it in.

On the way to the Tuval family, Su Nan saw from the carriage that, due to the legalization of various gray areas by the royal family, prostitutes were now directly pulling men into rooms on the streets.

A moneylender would hold up a sign and search for his customers on the street. People who went to moneylenders were usually either gamblers or people facing financial crisis, but once these people lent money at high interest rates, their situation would only get worse.

This is also why the Storm Church previously prohibited usury.

Just by riding through the streets in the carriage, Su Nan witnessed two fights and a theft.

It must be said that the energy world is extremely capable of creating conflict and undermining morality and law.

They intend to turn Stormwind Keep into a corrupt city.

Let all morality and law become nothing.

As Su Nan passed by the street bulletin board, he saw that the royal guards were posting notices again.

The notice stated that the law prohibits accusing anyone of being a thief, robber, or using any other insulting term on the street.

As a civilized city, Stormwind Keep should become more inclusive. Thieves, robbers, and prostitutes should all find a place in this city and should not be discriminated against.

At the same time, any acts of infidelity, theft, robbery, deception, or usurpation should not be condemned.

However, a line of small print was written below the order: "As of now, the law still exists, so please abide by the law."

Su Nan glanced at the notice and was speechless, as was the soldier who posted it.

It seems that the energy world is quite hostile to law and morality, believing that these are the ways in which the material world establishes order.

However, given the characteristics of that energy world, as long as the energy is strong, one's status will be high, and there is indeed no need for laws or morality to maintain stability.

'This city is becoming increasingly chaotic, but underground…' Su Nan thought. 'Underground, it's gradually transforming into another insect capital.'

At this very moment, underground, the first branch of the arcane swarm that arrived has already increased its swarm size to over 30,000 within a week.

Large numbers of cannon fodder scarabs are attacking the warlock group inside the sewers.

At this time, small tremors would occasionally occur on the street, which were actually the arcane swarm fighting against the warlocks.

Within the Stormwind Keep sewer system, a large number of cultists are holding a ritual.

Suddenly, they realized that the area above the sewer seemed to be collapsing.

Then, they saw the swarm of insects engulf them like a tide. These ordinary cultists had no chance to resist and were overwhelmed by the shield-shaped scarabs.

The shield-shaped scarabs are still engulfing the cultists heading towards other underground waterways.

A three-star warlock used the Fire of Wrath and the Earth of Foolishness to summon a fel-powered lava arrow, which struck the swarm of shield scarabs, instantly killing hundreds of them.

But even more shield scarabs swarmed toward him.

He could only keep using the Wind of Indifference to create tornadoes and clear out all the modified scarabs that approached him.

However, for such a high-level warlock, using power to clear out these cannon fodder worms is a very low-cost-effective task.

The core of swarm tactics lies in using low-level cannon fodder to deplete the enemy's mid-to-high-end forces.

Inside the underground sewers, the various underground temples that the cultists had created were being invaded. Each ritual center was filled with insects.

The cult members screamed in alarm.

"Where did all these bugs come from?"

"These insects... how can they be so ferocious? They eat everything, but warlock spells can kill them on a large scale..."

A series of cold, indifferent winds formed wind serpents, instantly wiping out thousands of shield scarabs.

A five-star sorcerer woman, Rachel Komnenos, emerged from a cult temple in the dimly lit sewers. This sewer cult temple contained numerous artifacts symbolizing the energy world, floating in mid-air.

After clearing away all the insects in the underground sewers she could see, Rachel Komnenos said to the disheveled sorcerers, "You bunch of useless trash, you can't even beat insects now."

"Isn't this simple?"

The next moment, Rachel Komnenos's arrogant expression turned serious.

She looked back into the crack in the sewer passage and saw lava scarabs crawling out one after another, rushing towards them at high speed before self-destructing.

Rachel Komnenos wields the scythe of indifference.

Thousands of cold, wind-blown darts instantly killed all the scarabs, triggering a series of explosions that destroyed the warlock's hall. "Tch. I need to find out where these swarms came from."

"Could these insects have been released by the Insect Valley School, hidden within Stormwind Keep? But wait, didn't they all escape?"

"Of the three wizarding schools currently in Stormwind Keep, Cursed Valley escaped with the help of Sunan Peter. The Ironheart School, all the wizards of that school, were killed by us, including their first-ring wizards."

"But the Power Symphony School remains. Only a dozen or so second-class and third-class wizard apprentices were killed. They still exist in Stormwind Keep, though we don't know in what form. Could these insects be the ones who released them?"

The next moment, Rachel Komnenos began her frenzied hunt for the arcane swarm along the underground waterways.

Even when faced with a barrage of bone spikes from a hundred bone-spiked cruisers, she was able to form a defensive shield by rotating her scythes, thus withstanding the initial attack from the small force.

He then immediately swung the Cold Wind Scythe, creating dozens of wind projectiles that instantly killed a hundred high-speed cruising insects.

Rachel frowned, looking at the sewer in front of her. The hundreds of 0.5-ring spells that had just hit her had still had some effect on her. Fortunately, there were only a hundred of these insects, so she could still deal with them.

Using Komnenos's super intuition, Rachel located four Arcane Swarm Queens in the sewers. She then used warlock spells to forcefully overwhelm the four Queens' Sentinel Tyrant Swarm and the Queens' 80 mana pressure, unleashing Arcane Missiles.

After killing the four queen insects in succession, Su Nan ordered the remaining insect swarm to lie dormant in the sewers for the time being. Insect swarm battles are rarely aesthetically pleasing anyway, so this was to be expected.

Because the swarm wins by sheer numbers, it doesn't matter if the queen is killed, because there will be Arcane Regeneration, and she will be reborn within an hour.

Su Nan will summon the four queens back in an hour and place them in the underground waterway to rebuild the swarm. Five days later, he will launch another attack on the warlocks…

The cycle repeats endlessly; this is the terrifying aspect of insect swarms with their extraordinary reproductive capacity.

Meanwhile, as the four queen beetles were being reborn, Su Nan ordered Jinx to inject them with the bloodline of the unicorn scarab.

These four queens will possess a weak ability to devour enemies, while Su Nan will utilize the warlocks in the sewers to give the arcane swarm a true devouring ability.

Inside the sewers, Rachel killed the last queen insect. She looked at her hands in confusion. "Why don't I... actually feel like I killed these insects?"

"Aren't these the final queen insects?"

"This time, more than half of the cultists and the sorcerers who were being converted died, which is a significant loss for us."

"However, we eventually managed to deal with the swarm of insects that suddenly attacked us."

A vision of the blind nun appeared beside her. "Those insects contain the magic of Sunan Peter. He's the one who released them!"

"However, hmph, I finally thwarted one of his plans."

(End of this chapter)