Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 291 The Golden Road: Gathering Luck!

Su Nan and the others left the farmhouse and, not far away, saw a road paved with golden bricks running through the countryside and villages. Beside the road was a wooden sign that read: "The Golden Road."

The ancient Golden Road, the glorious path to the Golden City, means you are about to gamble your luck for a chance to reach the Golden Tree. Moving forward means the possibility of going even further. Along the Golden Road, you can obtain precious Golden Blood and achieve a sublimation of your life level.

Su Nan looked at the road and saw that it stretched forward and had many branches, all of which led to the distant Golden City.

Su Nan discovered that the Golden Road contained powerful black magic, or rather, the entire Golden Road was essentially composed of one black magic spell after another, and the blood shed by countless powerful figures over the past thousand years had strengthened this Golden Road.

This means that the power of this golden road has far exceeded what the Golden Wizard himself could control.

Su Nan said, "I knew it..."

"The design of this golden sub-plane must include conflict and strife. This is because the golden wizard will harvest all living beings through death and reincarnation. This is a path for the strong in this sub-plane and the strong from the outside world who are attracted here, specifically designed to harvest the luck and lifespan of these strong individuals."

Mary, the "Justice" witch, frowned and asked, "Shall we leave?"

Su Nan thought for a moment. "Let's observe first and see if we can enter the Golden City through other methods."

"Although I think it's unlikely. This golden path is clearly a core part of this altered plane."

Su Nan looked at the two statues beside the Golden Road: one was a statue of a real dragon, and the other was a 1.2-meter-tall statue of a golden wizard.

Su Nan frowned at this.

……

On the other side of the Golden City, 1.2 meters tall Grel was surrounded by five tall and beautiful women, as well as twenty-three wizard apprentices from the Golden School.

Grel frowned as he looked at the golden giant challenging him. Then he stretched out his right hand, and in an instant, a golden spike pierced through the giant's body, killing him.

"My ancestor, the Golden Wizard, I am your most gifted offspring. You summoned me here using the family's ancestral staff, but you... require me to also walk this golden path to reach the Golden City and inherit your legacy."

"Tch, what a hassle. I don't understand your purpose in making these arrangements. I should be your only heir."

Five beautiful women surrounded him, singing and dancing, constantly talking and saying that they all admired him, which made the short man, Grel, burst into laughter.

Grel laughed and said, "Never mind, it's just a little trouble. Everything in this Golden City originally belonged to me."

The golden giant's soul flew out of his body, and he felt somewhat sad.

"I... am going to be downgraded. In my next life, will I be reborn as an ordinary human? No..."

Most of his luck ended up in Grel's hands, while a small portion mysteriously vanished into thin air, though Grel didn't seem to care much about it.

Grel said, "In that case, I will gather all the luck from the Golden Path. This can be considered a blessing from my ancestors. If I have this much luck, I will definitely be able to become a second-circle wizard in the future."

As someone who became a first-ring wizard at the age of thirty, Grel had absolute confidence in his talent.

The five beautiful women beside him immediately joined in praising him.

"If it were Grel, she could definitely do it!"

"Grel is the best person."

……

Su Nan spent the entire day outside the Golden Road, while he sent Wolf One, Wolf Two, Wolf Three, along with Vasilyan and Warwick, to various parts of this small plane to find other ways to reach the Golden City.

As a result, apart from a few small-scale conflicts within the plane, there were basically no significant outcomes.

The next day, everyone returned to the starting point, that small village.

After a full day of observation, Su Nan even dismantled a section of the Golden Road to examine the cursed spells within.

Mary is discussing with Warwick and others.

Mary said, "I heard in a place called Windmill Village not far away that there is another way to enter the Golden City. It is that sometimes some golden giant nobles leave the city and go outside to marry and find golden brides."

"The Golden Bride might be the only way to enter the Golden City besides the Golden Road. But it's still easier than taking the Golden Road."

Mary said, "The Golden Road is too dangerous."

Warwick nodded in agreement. "Miss Palaiolo, thank you for your suggestion. I personally agree. Your exploration experience is indeed very rich; you found a way to enter the City of Gold besides the Golden Road in just one day."

Mary laughed and said, "Not at all, Mr. Warwick, I just happened to be passing through Windmill Village."

"It seems that in this usury sub-dimension, marriage is the only way to quickly change one's status and position in the cycle of reincarnation."

Vasilyan, who had been listening quietly from the side, suddenly turned to look at Sunan.

At that moment, Su Nan had already stood up. "No need. That method would require a long wait, and even if we used shapeshifting magic to turn ourselves into beautiful women, it would still be difficult to ascertain the aesthetics and preferences of the golden nobles in Golden City."

"That method would take too long."

"Let's just take the Golden Road directly."

Mary had her doubts. After all, she wasn't Su Nan's subordinate, but merely a business partner and friend. "But if we take the Golden Path, wouldn't we be willingly placing ourselves on the path of the Golden Wizard's black magic?"

Su Nan raised his index finger, indicating, "I originally thought it was a dangerous method too. But after studying the black magic that makes up the Golden Path all day, I suddenly discovered that this path is actually fair to everyone."

Everyone fell silent, listening to what Su Nan would say next.

Su Nan said, "The winner of this path gains all the luck within it, while the loser loses everything. In other words, as long as we keep winning, we can actually use this mechanism to accumulate enough luck within ourselves. Besides, this path is meant to harvest the losers, because the winners enter the Golden City, and the Golden City is where the Golden Wizard harvests the truly strong."

"because……"

Su Nan walked onto the Golden Road and said to everyone, "Walking onto the Golden Road is not dangerous for us. Moreover, by studying the black magic of this road, I found a small loophole in the magic of the Golden Road built by the Golden Wizard."

Su Nan used the Niche Reversal Spell to summon a Queen of the Arcane Swarm that had undergone six Ascensions, and entered the Golden Path.

As soon as the Queen appeared, she immediately built a burrowing structure on the Golden Road and began to hatch scarab larvae within it, which were then transformed into cannon fodder scarab units.

Su Nan had the Queen of Insects kill a modified scarab beetle, and as expected, the modified scarab beetle's fate was not transferred.

Su Nan addressed everyone who had entered the Golden Path, saying, "The luck of the swarm I created resides entirely in the will of the hive. The death of an individual does not transfer the luck; in other words, the swarm as a whole can be regarded as a separate individual."

"But each death on the Golden Path triggers a luck transfer mechanism, arranging for the creature to regenerate as a lower-level being on the Golden Path. If the number of swarm deaths exceeds a certain threshold, and the luck doesn't transfer, then the entire Golden Path's luck will be depleted..."

"Because the death of an individual insect does not contribute to luck, but the death of an individual will lead to rebirth on the Golden Path, and rebirth requires luck. In the end, the Golden Path may collapse entirely over time."

Su Nan lowered his head and began to think. "This should be considered a scam."

(End of this chapter)