Werewolf wizard

In the mushroom forest, Warwick was pondering where the three keys to the Ancient Tree of Life could be. "Little Master, you seem to be in no hurry at all."

"If we are trapped here for too long, we will be at a disadvantage."

Su Nan, of course, was not worried. The reason was that a potion wizard entering the laboratory and tomb of a formal botany wizard was like a dragon swimming in the sea.

Su Nan had even used the information of the plants he had collected and recorded to deduce several potion formulas with a difficulty level of a second-class wizard apprentice.

It was just that these auxiliary potion formulas were of no use to him now, so Su Nan did not immediately set up the cauldron and start refining them.

There were still higher-level insects and magical plants in this maze, so it was entirely possible to find more formulas.

Entering this maze was simply a windfall for him.

Even the creator of this maze, the Oak Wizard, probably never imagined that his remains would attract a potion wizard. The maze he set up to protect his wizard tower and tomb was helping this potion wizard grow rapidly.

Su Nan said to Warwick and Vasilian, "I have almost understood the design idea of this maze now."

"Although I don't know why the Oak Wizard gave hints to solve this maze, the entire Four Seasons Garden is a huge ecological bottle, forming an ecological chain that is very different from the outside world. In principle, plants and fungi are producers and decomposers, and this entire ecosystem actually represents the Oak Wizard's magical path!"

At this time, Vasilian and Warwick already felt like they were listening to a heavenly book.

He could see the Oak Wizard's magical path from this?

Su Nan said to himself, "The Oak Wizard emphasized the importance of plants as producers, believing that the most important thing in an ecosystem is plants. So you see, the sunlight here is produced by plants, and the water source is also produced by some plants."

"Fungi, that is, these mushrooms, are responsible for decomposition."

"And what is the other important existence that maintains the ecosystem? It is the consumers who eat the producers!"

"That is, the insects in this garden."

"These insects limit the number of plants by eating them, preventing the plants from growing too much and requiring more and more energy, which would lead to the collapse of the entire ecosystem. Therefore, insects are necessary."

"But why did the Oak Wizard reverse the food chain of the original insects and animals?"

Warwick and Vasilian were completely dumbfounded. Their situation was not much better than the werewolf messengers and werewolf deacons transformed from hounds.

Warwick awkwardly took over Su Nan's words, "So... so?"

Su Nan said, "Because the Oak Wizard hates consumers—insects, animals, and so on. But because an ecosystem must have decomposers, consumers, and producers, sunlight, water, and land, he must allow consumers to appear in this ecosystem. Therefore, he introduced insects and refused to let normal consumer animals become the dominant species."

"The Oak Wizard, as a formal wizard, should understand one thing—the dominant species determines the continuation of an ecology."

"The meaning is that the stability of an ecology depends on the top predators in this ecology, the creatures at the top of the food chain. So the dominant species should be the most important part of the ecosystem."

Su Nan glanced at them and explained, "For example, we are the Werewolf Clan, so let's use wolves as an example."

"On the grassland, there are a group of sheep, a group of wolves, and grass. But if the wolves disappear, the sheep will grow excessively, eating up the grass, and then the sheep will become extinct. So in this model, the number of wolves suppresses the number of sheep. If there are too many wolves, the sheep will be eaten to a number that is too small, and the wolves will not be able to catch food and will also die, until the wolf pack is reduced to a certain number, allowing the sheep to grow again."

Su Nan said, "Therefore, the dominant species determines the fate of this world, and the powerful will determine everything. The Oak Wizard knows this, but he is stubbornly stubborn. His magical path is rooted in producers—plants, so he completely resists consumers, even if there must be consumers in this laboratory."

"He reversed the relationship between the dominant species and the weak species."

"In the entire ecosystem of the maze, only the status of insects is very abnormal, so I can speculate that the key should be among the insects."

"In my opinion, to leave this maze, we must hunt down specific insect groups that eat certain plants and see if we can find the key from their corpses."

Although Warwick and Vasilian did not understand the process, they understood Su Nan's last few words. It turned out that the key was to be found in the insect groups.

Warwick muttered, "If the Forgotten and the Cultists, and the Church, have been trapped in the maze for a very, very long time, then the Little Master only took less than an hour to solve the puzzle..."

"Doesn't this mean that they are a bit..."

"Cough cough cough..."

Su Nan shook his head. "This was originally a maze set up by a wizard. It is normal for warlocks and the Church not to be able to see it. They simply cannot imitate the thinking of wizards to think about problems."

"But..." Su Nan felt something was wrong. "The setting of this maze is simply like the Oak Wizard is choosing his own apprentice."

"See who can understand his magical path."

Warwick smiled and said, "Little Master, perhaps this is really the assessment of selecting an apprentice set up by that wizard before his death. Then you will definitely pass."

Su Nan shook his head. He already had his own path.

Moreover, he could guess the Oak Wizard's magical path and his magical philosophy, but he really couldn't agree with it.

No wonder he stayed at the level of a first-ring wizard for his entire life.

Such a awkward magical theory is completely contrary to the truth.

Su Nan suddenly understood.

This is the reason why the Oak Wizard created the Four Seasons Garden—he wanted to simulate ecology here, looking for an ecological world dominated by producers, or even one that only has producers and no consumers.

But judging from the current situation, the Oak Wizard did not seem to have found this kind of thing until his death.

...

On the other side of the Four Seasons Garden, in a broccoli vegetable garden where each broccoli is as big as a car, there are many ladybugs the size of bicycles on these broccoli.

Rachel Comynen raised her sickle and kept destroying all the broccoli around her and killing the ladybugs with the Wind of Apathy.

"Damn it, damn it. Three months have passed. Three months have been wasted in vain! We are still wandering in this damn wizard's maze. I am a three-star bloodline warlock equivalent to a first-class wizard apprentice!"

"Is the gap between me and this so-called formal wizard really that big! I don't believe it, I don't believe it! I want to kill my way out!"

The Wind of Apathy formed one small tornado after another, rampaging in the broccoli vegetable garden.

The sickle in the hand of the green-haired Rachel Comynen simultaneously appeared with the Fire of Wrath, the Water of Chaotic Evil, and the Earth of Foolishness, plus the Wind of Apathy.

Four special elements belonging to the energy world gathered on a sickle.

A one-star bloodline warlock and a two-star bloodline warlock hiding aside were all startled at this moment.

The two-star bloodline warlock said in horror: "Lord Comynen, absolutely do not use that spell in this kind of place, at this time. We will all die!"

"Lord Comynen! We are too close to you, Lord Comynen, we are comrades..."

Rachel Comynen originally wanted to sneer and reprimand him, asking him how he dared to call a three-star bloodline warlock a comrade of his waste?

But suddenly, she looked at a certain place. The corpse of a golden speckled ladybug that she had killed split open in mid-air, and then a small golden key fell from its corpse.

Rachel Comynen immediately stopped casting spells, restrained her hand, and lightly landed back on the ground, then curiously walked over and picked up the golden key that fell on the ground. "I chopped for three months, and finally got something interesting."

"Interesting."

"This wizard's remains are the most interesting and most powerful I have ever seen."

"It is worthy of being the remains of a first-ring wizard."

"It seems that there will be other keys in these insects."

"To get out, you must collect a certain number of keys. Although I don't know how many, it doesn't matter. At worst, I will spend another three months chopping out those keys. With a goal, the rest is just time."

"This maze can no longer trap me."