Wizards: Starting as a Potions Master!

Chapter 362 Mental Power 709

In Peter's main city, Sunan ordered the Arcane Swarm to immediately dispatch one thousand high-speed cruising insects, one queen insect, and ten thousand cannon fodder scarabs to enter and observe the situation in the newly discovered underground domain.

The Rye Matriarch was eager to try her current power.

"Master, shall I get off?"

Su Nan frowned. "It's too fast."

The rye matriarch asked, "Master, what's too fast?"

Su Nan glanced at her and then said, "I mean, the swarm of insects below is dying too fast."

"The swarm has only been in that tunnel for an hour, and it has already suffered heavy casualties. Most of the swarm is dead."

"Deeper underground, it was completely dark, without a trace of light. The moment the swarm entered, it was hunted down by a mysterious creature."

As soon as Su Nan finished speaking, a beam of arcane light shot out from the entrance. It was the light of arcane rebirth, indicating that the Queen of Insects who entered the new underground domain an hour earlier had also died.

Su Nan pondered, "They hunted down an entire Zerg unit in just one hour. And they didn't even show themselves the whole time, so I had no idea who the enemy was."

"Rye, are you sure you want to go down?"

The rye matriarch was sweating profusely.

Su Nan said, "I was just joking. In that case, we can explore this place after I've allowed the swarm to undergo seven ascensions."

Using the second-ring arcane leap ring, Su Nan arrived at the entrance to the middle underground realm, a kilometer away. At the same time, he crushed three bottles of Path of Exile potions and then used a magic enhancement charm to amplify the power of the Path of Exile potions, forming a Path of Exile seal at the entrance and temporarily sealing the place off.

Su Nan glanced at the Arcane Intuition Ring on his right index finger and saw that the yellow aura on the ring had turned into a green aura.

This proves that the seal is effective.

The Black Rye Matriarch quickly used her Blood Arcane Leap to catch up, panting as she said, "Lord Su Nan, I... I think I might know what the enemy in this unknown middle-level underground domain is."

"I've heard that the Drow are not the only arcane race. Therefore, the unknown enemies in the middle underground are likely other arcane races created by the Underground Wizarding Alliance."

Su Nan nodded. "If that's the case, then that's perfect. The Arcane Swarm will eventually become the most powerful arcane race."

"The stronger the enemy, the more robust the swarm I cultivate will grow."

After ordering the Five-Headed Insects to build a new insect swarm base here, they were tasked with guarding the underground passages beneath Peter's main city.

……

In the darkness of the middle underground realm, two female arcanists, with snake tails for lower bodies and human upper bodies, wielding brass wands, are meeting.

"Today, for some reason, some insects came down from the upper, extremely cold underground realm. Those insects were quite powerful, but unfortunately, most of them couldn't use arcane magic. Only the largest queen insect knew some simple arcane magic. I spent some time today killing them all."

"However, there's a problem. I can sense that the black hole creature our queen planted in that frigid underground region has died. It was probably killed by those insects."

The other, the serpent-tailed arcanist, was slightly astonished. "It's hard to believe that such troublesome beings as black hole creatures could actually be killed by human hands. It turns out that besides the Queen, there are others who can do this."

"Could it be that the extremely cold underground region above has been taken over by those insects? Then we must organize a Naga hunting team and go to that extremely cold underground region where the incident occurred as soon as possible to slaughter those insects."

"Furthermore, we need to check the situation in the other extremely cold underground regions where we planted black hole creatures. Hopefully, nothing serious has happened, otherwise our underground Naga kingdom will have to move to other underground regions again."

"Gale Quirk, we'll split up. I'll go inform the Queen, and you'll lead the dragons to explore up there."

Gail Quick was a little reluctant. "But it's too cold up there, and too bright."

"I wish we could change jobs."

"I really don't know what kind of creatures can survive up there, where it's so cold, only in the twenties Celsius. I feel like it's a barren wasteland."

"Alright, I'll take charge then. I'll go up to the frigid underground region and investigate the situation."

With a flick of her wrist, a magical bow combining arcane energy and fire magic appeared in her hand.

She shot an arrow into the sky, instantly illuminating the sky above the Naga Underworld. Arcane energy enhanced the fire magic's ability to coalesce, shape, and so on. Thus, the arrow transformed into a phoenix firebird in the sky—a magical arrow used to summon dragons.

Then, from another direction in the Naga underground realm, a roar came, causing countless bats and beasts in the darkness to flee in terror.

From afar came the roar of a dragon.

Gail Quick laughed and said, "But it's too cold up there, so I'll just take a quick look. If there's no problem, I'll come back."

"That's just a barren wasteland. So I don't think there will be any major problems."

Another female Naga arcanist added, "That's true. There aren't even any first-circle arcanists up there, but here, while first-circle arcanists are fewer, we have quite a few. The Queen is even a second-circle arcanist."

"I don't think there will be any major problems."

……

After leaving the Rye Underground Domain, Su Nan originally wanted to visit his relative Julia, but after learning from Pera that Julia had recently gone on a long trip to collect a certain material, Su Nan had to give up the idea.

Pera said to Sunan, "Miss Julia developed magical pressure half a month ago. I guess she did it to break through to the first-ring wizard level as soon as possible."

Su Nan raised an eyebrow. "So fast?"

Pera covered her mouth and laughed, "It's mainly because you gave her a lot of resources."

"Miss Julia often said that she only realized how good you were to her after she became a wizard."

Su Nan nodded slightly.

Julia received more potion resources from herself than anyone else in the Storm Gathering.

After all, they're family.

Seeing her rapid progress, Su Nan even planned to send her to the Werewolf Empire to help him train some potion-making students.

He told Pera, "I'm going on a trip soon. If Julia comes back, let her know I need to see her."

Pera gave a wry smile. "Young master, you've only just returned, and you're already leaving again. Mr. Warwick hasn't been back for a long time either. Alas, it seems only Mr. Robert and I will remain in this castle, waiting for your return."

"But there's nothing we can do about it..."

"You young people are indeed different from us."

……

Su Nan boarded the carriage, intending to travel through the port of Count Peter's territory to the other side of the sea, the Anatolian Peninsula, to meet the Rubber Witch and search for the materials to make the Second Ring Death Knight Potion and the Second Ring Sunmark Potion.

Meanwhile, Su Nan sat in the carriage and drank the Abyss Concentration Elixir, which was refined from the spiritual essence of the Abaddon Locust Demon. His entire body was enveloped in powerful life energy, which then began to transform into mental power.

Your current mental strength is 670, and your current mental strength is 700.

Su Nan nodded slightly. The spirituality of an Abaddon locust demon had increased his mental strength by more than thirty points.

Su Nan drank another bottle of potion, this time the Abyss Concentration Potion made by the Mirror Demon.

I had experimented with the Mirror Demon before and found that its replication ability has an upper limit. It is impossible to completely replicate the Golden Werewolf Hunter in full power, let alone my own further enhanced power.

Su Nan's entire body was once again enveloped in the power of the abyss.

Your current mental strength is 705. Your current mental strength is 709.

Su Nan nodded slightly. The Ten-Faced Mirror Demon's spirituality was indeed not as strong as the Abaddon Locust Demon's; it was just that its mechanism was more powerful. Therefore, the potions made with the Mirror Demon did not provide such a significant boost.

After becoming a second-circle wizard, it becomes extremely difficult to improve one's mental strength. When using the Cauldron of All Souls meditation method, the rate of improvement in mental strength is even slower.

It can be said that the most important issue for a second-circle wizard is not even the limit of mental strength, but rather the issue of improving mental strength.

A second-circle wizard seems to have raised their energy level too high, to the point of mental power, making it extremely difficult to raise it further.

(End of this chapter)