Werewolf wizard

Chapter 147: Rapid Development of the Scarab Swarm! Three New Subspecies Emerge!

Two weeks later, in the underground world.

Beneath Peter's Barony, in an outpost of Black Rye Main City's domain, elite troops loyal to the city were stationed, constructing barracks, building forges, and crafting iron weapons.

This outpost's army was led by a male Drow warrior named Shan Shang.

Black Rye Main City had only one main tunnel leading to the surface, but relied on an intricate network of tunnels that branched out into several surface exits.

The male Drow warrior named Shan Shang was responsible for all surface exits in the Seres military region.

As a Drow warrior of Black Rye Main City, a male member of the arcane race of Drow, he did not inherit the talent to become an arcanist, but he still knew a few rudimentary arcane spells.

These basic arcane abilities were enough to support him in becoming a magic swordsman.

He commanded this troop, and if he could successfully establish a stronghold on the surface, it would elevate his position in Black Rye Main City and improve his family's status within the Matron Mother's household.

He could then gain favor with the great arcanist, Lady Rose, who had lived for over two thousand years and was almost indistinguishable from a god.

Perhaps… if he gained enough favor, he might even receive a reward from the Great Arcanist Lady Rose, enhancing his own arcane magic talent and truly becoming an arcanist.

This was the lifelong dream of every member born into the arcanist race.

What could be more cruel than watching your relatives awaken and naturally learn arcane magic as they came of age, while you yourself were destined to become a mediocre Drow warrior?

However, recently, Shan Shang noticed that the previously successful surface invasion plan had suddenly encountered obstacles.

First, a few days ago, he sent three lizardfolk armies to the surface, two of which successfully established preliminary strongholds, but one had never returned.

Secondly, his goblin scouts constantly reported that the entrances to the surface tunnels they had painstakingly dug were being artificially filled in.

The Drow warrior Shan Shang initially believed that the human lord of the Storm Kingdom on the surface had noticed their presence and was putting up a last-ditch resistance.

But he didn't pay much attention to it.

The reason was that, relying on the complex and vast underground system, surface armies would be disoriented and lost once they entered the underground, unable to even find their location. But they could attack the surface world from all directions.

But soon, the Drow warrior Shan Shang realized that the problem was more serious than he had imagined.

Because he had already successfully established two strongholds on the surface, but the reinforcements he sent to support those two strongholds had all mysteriously died within the underground tunnels.

As a result, the two strongholds were besieged by Storm Knights without reinforcements for a long time and were forced to abandon them.

Then, a more serious situation arose: reports came from all over the complex underground tunnel system that labor troops and scattered monster race units were being attacked by unknown entities.

The enemy seemed to be even more adapted to underground life than they were.

They were gradually compressing the space in which they could operate within the underground tunnels.

Drow all have wheat-colored skin, ears that are longer than average, and some violet runes on their skin. These are all natural birthmarks, and the stronger the arcanist talent, the more runes there are.

Some Drow with very high talent can even hide these runes, and the violet runes on their bodies only appear when casting spells.

Ordinary Drow warriors like Shan Shang only have half a violet rune on the wheat-colored skin of their chest, proving that he is just an ordinary Drow.

"Great Great Arcanist Lady Rose is above." Shan Shang looked at the map of the underground tunnels drawn on animal skin on the table, and slammed his hand on the table in anger. "This is simply irregular."

"This is definitely not the marching speed of humans. Judging from the positions and speed at which they attacked us in the underground tunnels, the attackers are definitely not surface humans."

"Those surface humans are not much different from those weak cave-dwelling degenerates and are definitely not our opponents."

"What exactly is attacking us? They didn't even leave us a single survivor, and not even a corpse was left behind. Isn't this killing efficiency too high? Even in the dangerous wilderness of the underground world, this has never happened before."

"Even if someone dies, they should leave a little bit of a corpse."

Beside Shan Shang stood a female lizardfolk with fiery red metal scales all over her body. The female lizardfolk stuck out her tongue and said, "Drow Warrior, don't worry. As long as we, the superior race of earth-walking dragon lizardfolk, go into battle, we will definitely clear the obstacles."

The female fiery red lizardfolk said, "I suggest you use a large number of slaves as bait to attract those unknown armies, and then you can lead the army to surround them."

"We will definitely be able to eliminate them."

The Drow warrior Shan Shang thought for a while and said, "That's the only way."

"We must take action as soon as possible, otherwise I will be replaced by the Black Rye Matron Mother."

"The schemes and tricks of those surface humans can only go so far. Next, I will get serious."

"I will definitely find this army."

At the same time.

What the Drow warrior and the superior races of the underground city did not expect was that it was never an army that was attacking them.

But the swarm that Su Nan placed in the underground tunnels.

Now, Su Nan has regarded the battlefield where the swarm fought with the monsters in the underground world as a laboratory site.

Now, Peter's territory, the entire underground tunnel, is covered with modified scarabs, and Su Nan has even lifted the breeding ban on the modified scarab mother insects, allowing them to breed freely in the underground world.

Because of these two reasons, the number of Su Nan's twice-sublimated scarab army has increased very rapidly, and it has even changed six generations in these two weeks!

Because of this, the swarm army is rapidly improving, and Su Nan is using magic potions to modify the scarabs again.

Now, in addition to the lava scarabs that can spit fire and self-destruct, three new subspecies have appeared in the scarab swarm: the Tank Scarab, the Node Scarab, and the Bone Spike Scarab.

The Node Scarab is used to command the excessively large scarab swarm. Node-type scarabs are slightly smaller than normal scarabs.

The Tank Scarab has abandoned its flying ability and become as large as a carriage. It can charge to the front and act as a shield, and can also be used as a tunnel excavator.

The Bone Spike Scarab has grown bone spurs all over its body, which can provide ranged attacks.

Seeing that the underground battlefield experiment was so successful and that the swarm's iteration speed was so fast, Su Nan continued to let the swarm breed in the underground tunnels.

Anyway, according to Su Nan's estimation, the creatures in the underground world can still defeat this level of swarm if they work hard enough.

He doesn't need to worry about the swarm expanding too much.

Moreover, if they continue to fight like this, the swarm can continue to adjust and gradually improve to the level of three sublimations.

Su Nan is preparing to use the army of the underground world to develop a swarm nest and integrate the swarm consciousness into the wolf pack effect.

In this way, these large numbers of swarm nests can be used by him to draw magic power at will during battle, continuously providing him with reserve magic power.

However, this is still just an idea for the time being.

Because the scarabs have a very large reproductive capacity and are prone to mutations, magic potions are only auxiliary tools. Su Nan noticed that there were some good mutation tendencies, so he used special magic potions to help the swarm stabilize the mutation paths.

So Su Nan doesn't know how long it will take to mutate the swarm nest consciousness.

Before Su Nan prepared to attend the Witch Gathering, he brought Vasiliian and looked back at the ground of the territory. "Let those people in the underground world work hard for a while."

"The number of the swarm also needs to be controlled, so it all depends on their efforts."

"I hope they don't disappoint me."

Vasiliian said, "I think they shouldn't disappoint you, otherwise they would be too weak. They dare to invade the surface at this level."

Su Nan nodded. "Thanks to my research on injecting a large number of magic potions into the swarm during this period, I have some ideas for the first 0.7-ring spell in potionology, and the spell model is basically complete."

"It's called [Potion Remote Injection Spell]."