Werewolf wizard.

Chapter 85 Dominant Species Determinism

In the mushroom forest, Warwick was thinking hard about where the three keys to the Ancient Tree of Life were. "Young Master, you don't seem to be in a hurry at all."

"If we are trapped here for a long time, we will be very passive."

Of course, Sunan would not be in a hurry, because for a potion wizard to enter the laboratory and cemetery of a formal botany wizard would be like a dragon swimming in the ocean.

Sunan has even used the plant information currently collected and entered to allow the intelligent brain to reversely deduce several potion formulas of the difficulty of a second-class wizard apprentice.

However, they were all auxiliary potion recipes that were useless to him now, so Su Nan did not immediately set up the crucible and start refining these potions.

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

It was a great deal that I entered this maze by myself.

Sunan even wanted to stay here forever.

Perhaps even the creator of this maze, the Oak Wizard, had never thought that his ruins would attract a potion wizard. The maze he set up to protect his wizard tower and tomb is helping this potion wizard grow rapidly.

Sunan said to Warwick and Vasilian, "I now almost understand the idea behind the design of this maze."

“Although I don’t know why the Oak Wizard gave me a hint 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 theory, plants and fungi are producers and decomposers. This entire ecosystem actually represents the magical path of the Oak Wizard!”

At this time, Vasily and Warwick already felt like they were listening to a foreign language.

Does this reveal the Oak Wizard's magical path?

Sunan said to himself: "The Oak Wizard emphasized the importance of plants as producers, and believed that plants are the most important in an ecosystem. So you can see that the sunlight here is produced by plants, and the water source is also produced by some plants."

"Fungi, these mushrooms, are responsible for the decomposition."

"And what is another important existence that sustains the ecosystem? Consumers who eat the producers!"

“That is, the insects in this garden.”

"These insects are necessary because they eat these plants and limit the number of plants, preventing them from growing too much and requiring more and more energy, causing the entire ecosystem to collapse."

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

Warwick and Vasilian were completely confused. Their current situation was not much better than that of the werewolf messenger and werewolf deacon transformed from the hound.

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

Sunan said: "Because the Oak Wizard hates consumers - insects and animals. 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 ones."

"As an official wizard, Oak Wizard should understand one thing - the survival of an ecosystem depends on the dominant species."

"What this means is that the stability of an ecosystem depends on the top predators in the ecosystem, the organisms at the top of the food chain. Therefore, dominant species should be the most important part of the ecosystem."

Sunan glanced at them and explained, "For example, we are a werewolf group, so let's use wolves as an example."

"On the grassland, there is a group of sheep, a group of wolves, and grass. But if the wolves disappear, the sheep will grow excessively, eat up all the grass, and then 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 until there are too few of them, and the wolves will die if they can't catch any food, until the wolf population is reduced to a certain number, allowing the sheep population to grow again."

Sunan said: "Therefore, the dominant species determines the fate of this world, and the strong will decide everything. The Oak Wizard knows this, but he is stubborn. His magic path is rooted in producers - plants, so he completely resists consumers, even though there must be consumers in this laboratory."

"He just reversed the relationship between dominant and disadvantaged species."

"In the entire maze ecosystem, only insects have an abnormal status, so I can infer that the key should be among the insects."

"In my opinion, to leave this maze, we need to kill a specific group of insects that feed on certain plants and see if we can find the key from their corpses."

Although Warwick and Vasily did not understand the whole process, they understood Sunan's last few words. It turned out that the key had to be found among the insect swarm.

Warwick muttered, "If the Forsaken, the cultists, and the Church have been trapped in the maze for a long, long time, and the young master solved the puzzle in less than an hour..."

"Doesn't this mean that they are somewhat..."

"Ahem..." Sunan shook his head. "This is originally a maze set up by a wizard. It's normal that warlocks and the church can't see it. They can't imitate the thinking of wizards to think about problems."

"But..." Sunan felt something was wrong. "The setting of this maze is just like the Oak Wizard selecting his apprentice."

"See if there are people who can understand his path of magic."

Warwick smiled and said, "My young master, perhaps this is really the test that the wizard set up to select apprentices before his death. You will definitely pass it."

Sunan shook his head, he already had his own path.

Besides, I can guess the Oak Wizard's magical path and his magical philosophy, but I really can't agree with it.

No wonder he remained a first-ring wizard his entire life.

This weird magic theory is completely contrary to the truth.

Su Nan suddenly understood.

This is why the Oak Wizard created the Four Seasons Garden - he wanted to simulate the ecology here and find an ecological world dominated by producers, or even an ecological world with only producers and no consumers.

But as it stands now, the Oak Wizard didn't seem to find this thing until he died.

……

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

Rachel Komnenos raised her sickle and continued to destroy all the broccoli around her with the wind of indifference and kill the ladybugs.

"Damn it, damn it. Three months have passed. Three months have been wasted! 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 official wizard really that big? I don't believe it, I don't believe it! I want to fight my way out!"

The cold wind formed one small tornado after another, rushing through the broccoli garden.

The sickle in the hand of the green-haired Rachel Komnenos simultaneously showed the fire of anger, the water of evil, the earth of stupidity, and the wind of indifference.

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

A one-star bloodline mage and a two-star bloodline mage who were hiding nearby were both shocked at this moment.

The two-star bloodline sorcerer said in horror: "Lord Komnenos, don't use that spell in a place like this at this time. We will all die!"

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

Rachel Komnenos wanted to sneer and scold him, asking him how he dared to call a three-star blood mage a comrade-in-arms like him, a piece of trash?

But suddenly, she looked somewhere, and the body of a ladybug with golden spots that she had chopped to death split apart in mid-air, and then a small golden key fell from its body.

Rachel Komnenos immediately stopped casting spells, put away her hands, and landed lightly on the ground. Then she walked over curiously and picked up the golden key that had fallen on the ground. "I've been chopping for three months, and finally got something interesting."

"interesting."

"This wizard's relic is the most interesting and powerful I have ever seen."

"As expected, it is the remains of a First Ring wizard."

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

"If you want to get out, you must collect a certain number of keys. Although I don't know how many there are, it doesn't matter. At most, I can spend another three months to cut out those keys. Once you have a goal, the rest is just a matter of time."

"This maze can no longer hold me back."

(End of this chapter)