The Truth of Magic

Chapter 177 Dark Shadows in the Night

When Zhao Xu followed, the whole journey was peaceful.

It wasn't until night fell, when the three blood moons slowly rose, that everyone could no longer travel, that they stayed and set up camp.

This time, most of the novice mages sent by the Floating Void City to exterminate the robbers had never traveled far before.

The legends about Arthur in the wild are basically based on the experience of the forum and the descriptions of other Arthur mages.

This time it was hard to come out, so everyone shoveled out an open space, piled stones into the shape of a stove, and then lit the dead branches and leaves picked up around with flint, and a warm bonfire suddenly appeared in front of everyone.

Even if two players had something to do and went offline early, the remaining 18 people were still too dense, so everyone was divided into two groups, each sitting around a bonfire.

When the players gathered in front of the bonfire, they chatted about their own knowledge, from the mysterious behind-the-scenes giants in the floating city to the mystery of the entire game, talking about everything.

"Hey, it's a pity that we were born in a remote place, and we couldn't gather with the big troops. We didn't come out until today." A novice mage complained.

"Don't think so, maybe if you weren't born in Mystra, you haven't been able to become a mage yet."

"Impossible." The person at the beginning retorted.

"Who says it's impossible? Look at the conditions that Mystra has provided for you. Even the Mage Academy in a big town can't match it. It's just that the various lecture coupons and test coupons are too much. I hope that one day I can't use them all up." coupon."

"Tell me, what is a powerful mage like?" Jiang Shan, who was standing in a corner, interjected.

"According to the speech I attended that time, those high-level spells are very powerful. It can't be said to destroy the world, but it is more than enough to block ten with one."

Said one of the more active players, Sartre.

"One against ten, it's fine for other ordinary players to say that. You have been in Mystra for so long, and you still only have this kind of insight?" Another person retorted immediately.

Luo Lei, who was relatively silent just now, also said: "According to what I know about those high-level mages, I'm afraid you can turn the ten up."

"twenty?"

"One hundred." Luo Lei said seriously.

Immediately, several other novice mages looked at him in surprise. After all, no matter how you look at it, those first-level spells in their hands can't shake the sky.

Even if it is the more brilliant "Colorful Jet", it is not a trick that will try everything.

Zhao Xu, who was also squatting in the corner, looked at the mages chatting strangely.

Even the first-level mages who graduated from Mystra, the holy city of magic, do not have a clear understanding of the future strength of their profession, let alone other cities. No wonder there are so few magicians.

Now the players and Arthur's local adventurers do not have a high degree of overlap in adventure missions, so there are not many high-level mages that you have seen.

Even when I saw those mages throwing spells that would destroy the world, I just thought it was a special effect unique to npc.

"One against a hundred." A player mage wearing a blue robe said enviously, "TC really allows their game, does it reach this level?"

"Will fighters and barbarians not protest? Even if it is really difficult to practice mages at the beginning."

"Heh, tc can still manage so much. You can see so many protest posts on the forum. In particular, there are some cases that clearly violate the protection of online games, such as the cases where players are captured and slaughtered like prisoners. Some people delete the game to protest, but tc has not come out to respond Pass."

"It seems that this game is not represented by their family."

"It's true what you said, especially this game's buyout system, which only relies on re-purchasing accounts to create high-talented characters to make money, is indeed contrary to tc's usual style."

"So guess, are we actually in a real world?" Eswig, who was sitting next to Wang Ningwei, suddenly said this.

Immediately, the bonfire was filled with cheerful smiles, and the people at the other bonfire couldn't help but look over to see what was going on.

"Furthermore, the power of a mage is not just about throwing out one or two spells, which can kill with high efficiency."

Suddenly Eswig said seriously, "You haven't found out that Arthur's character card system, life value, skill bonus, attack order, and immunity level all make this game itself dominated by numerical values."

"So, once the mage reaches a certain level in the spell position, he can stack these values ​​to an unimaginable level. At that time, there will be a scene in traditional online games. A high-level player lets a low-level player attack, but relying on his own Numerical attributes, the scene where the advanced player never loses blood."

At this time, Zhao Xu couldn't help but nodded when he heard what Eswich said, and finally he was a little bit right.

It's a pity that it's just a little bit.

Sure enough, the geniuses of the era are still limited by the imagination of this era.

Perhaps Eswig knows that mages have other expansions, especially the strategically important spells of flying and invisibility.

But Eswig certainly didn't expect that there was such a spell as "Speedy Burst" in the world.

And there is also "Wings of Asylum", which avoids an attack, which is equivalent to a conceptual defense spell.

As far as defense alone is concerned, warriors are still struggling to pursue stronger armor, while mages have surpassed "numerical defense" and reached the point of "conceptual defense".

Then after chatting for more than an hour, someone finally needed to go offline, and Wang Ningwei took the opportunity to suggest that everyone go offline together, and wait until tomorrow to go online again.

At this time, everyone lost the interest in setting up tents to spend the night in the wild, so they followed Wang Ningwei's suggestion and went offline.

After Zhao Xu sighed, he stood up.

Although after dawn, basically there would be no greater risk, but Zhao Xu felt that it was best for him to go out and explore the surroundings for this group of novices who didn't know how to patrol to eliminate risks before going offline.

Antinoya only asked that he could only act when these novice mages were unable to resist the robbers. He did not say that he could not act until he encountered the robbers.

Speaking of which, Zhao Xu protected the mission target to reach the mission location smoothly, and helped them clean up the nearby Xiaoxiao, which was not considered a mission for them.

Zhao Xu walked to the campfire at this moment, looked at the stone that was still burning even though it was extinguished, and couldn't help shaking his head.

Just now, most people went offline by the bonfire without even thinking about it.

It's not impossible, at least this pile of bonfires has to be eradicated.

Otherwise, the two bonfires are still warm, and there is no one around, as long as someone passes by, or has been observing in secret just now, they will know that some players from Earth have gone offline.

If he had the intention to calculate in his mind, as long as there were two more people, he could make a large trap around this area.

Then when these people go online the next day, they will fall into these traps one by one.

Only a few of Wang Ningwei and Aisweixi can subconsciously stand far apart, and the accident will not be a one-off.

But now that Zhao Xu exists, the problem is not so big. As long as he finds a good place to go offline, and go online tomorrow morning to guard this area, there will be basically no accidents.

At this time, beside the tree-lined path, the entire sky has been shrouded in thick black night. Without a torch, it is impossible to see the details a few meters away.

In the night sky, there were one or two animal howls from time to time.

Zhao Xu didn't think much of it, and took out some black gemstone powder from his backpack. This is the powder he scraped off when he helped Antinoya round the black gemstone beads.

Black gemstone powder can't be sold for much, but it is the spell material of the first-level arcane "Eye of Ebony".

Zhao Xu took the gemstone powder and gently pressed it on his forehead. Feeling the coolness from the powder, he began to chant spells.

Suddenly, his forehead became hot, and the original powder disappeared, transforming into pure energy and seeping into Zhao Xu's eyes.

The next moment, Zhao Xu opened his eyes again, and he directly obtained "dark vision".

"The Ebony Eye" could not expand Zhao Xu's vision, but it could allow him to see through the darkness, even the darkness created by magic.

If he had learned this spell at the beginning, then the darkness spell released by Master Ryan would not be able to block his sight.

The scene beside the tree-lined road became gray and white, making Zhao Xu clearly visible and able to see the specific outlines of trees and grass.

Zhao Xu could only do this. Otherwise, with the blessing of invisibility, if he holds the torch, the light source of the torch will be invisible, but the light will not. Others will see a ball of bright light moving, and those who don't know will be scared to death.

Ordinary people, walking in this wild jungle, will feel hairy even if they are very brave.

However, Zhao Xu was blessed with invisibility. For other creatures, an invisible creature like him was a more terrifying existence.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu noticed a shadow flashing by a bush, even if he had dark vision, it was difficult to catch it accurately.

Zhao Xu immediately took out the "Fireball Eternal Magic Wand". Anyway, it was fired twice a day, and it expired if not used.

He used it all tonight and didn't feel bad at all.

Including his spell slots.

Zhao Xu tightened the star cloak on his body and touched the amulet on his chest, reconfirming the functions and effects of the equipment.

Step by step, he slowly approached the shadow.