The Truth of Magic

Chapter 156 Back to the past (12)

"That's fine. Put on these shoes first." Antinoya said.

Advance payment of rewards?

Zhao Xu couldn't help but guess how difficult the test was.

However, he was still quick with his hands and feet, and immediately put the pair of dark red leather high teleportation boots on his feet first, and they were indeed very comfortable, fitting directly to his feet.

Now he can be regarded as a person with three magic equipment.

There were more than a dozen equipment parts in his body, at least the two grids of cloak and boots Zhao Xu was equipped with magic equipment.

Compared with the vast majority of players now, he is extremely rich.

"Mentor, what's the content of the test?" Zhao Xu said, patting the dust off his body.

"Find the Molin stele, and come back and tell me after you remember what's on it," Antinoya said softly.

Monument of Morin?

Zhao Xu secretly wondered if there was any Morin stele near Mystra?

He immediately tried to use the knowledge skill check, but found that it failed completely.

"Where is it from?" Zhao Xu asked.

"You'll know when you cross to the vicinity of the stele later." Antinoya looked at Zhao Xu with a smile.

"Travel?"

"That's right, travel back to the Age of Darkness."

Zhao Xu's heart sank immediately.

The Age of Darkness, before the Mages Association would only refer to that period—before the establishment of magical civilization.

This is to let him cross the river of history and go back thousands of years ago?

"That's right, I'll use legendary spells to send you back to that era." Antinoya said, "Don't worry, official mages haven't appeared much at that time, those second-level spells you master now, return to that era." At that time, it would not be too much to say that it was invincible.”

"No, mentor, the main reason is that it's so easy to travel back to the past?" Zhao Xu already had some bad associations.

Doesn't that mean that the legendary mage can go back to the past and tamper with history?

"It's not easy, and it requires high requirements. Like me, I can't go back easily, because the time channel can't carry my power. Only a few creatures such as the time dragon can go back."

"But don't think about how you can tamper with the past, it's not that easy. As for why you will know after you become legendary." Antinoya said.

"Okay then." Zhao Xu asked with some doubts, "Then how do I get back?"

"Just shout my name," Antinoya said.

Although Zhao Xu didn't think it was very reliable, he nodded honestly.

If it was really the age when magic was still in ignorance, then he would go back to the past, relying on the equipment on his body, he really didn't have to worry too much.

"Teacher, shouldn't you give me some more equipment?" Zhao Xu also raised the price with a cheeky face at this time.

"Oh, I'll give you the artifact, but you may not be able to take it with you," Antinoya said.

Immediately, a huge magic ritual array emerged on the ground of the spell battle room, and the countless arcane characters outlined on the ground were directly activated, spreading out to the edge in a star shape.

At this time, Antinoya also started to chant the spell. Every syllable fell, and Zhao Xu's ears were like thunder.

In an instant, streaks of purple electricity began to emerge from the magic circle on the ground, continuously ejected into the air, and slowly condensed into a ball of lightning.

The innermost center of the sphere was already hot enough to emit light smoke, and the outer circle began to flash with a blue light circle.

In an instant, the ball lightning seemed to be torn apart abruptly, with a hole in the center.

"Come in." Antinoya's tone was still calm, but a little hurried.

Zhao Xu hurriedly ran towards the ball lightning, and when he was about to approach, a strong gravitational force emerged from the junction of space and time, distorting Zhao Xu's entire body, and then slowly shrinking until it disappeared. "

Zhao Xu looked at the dry and cracked ground under his feet and fell into thought.

The heat waves in the air kept gushing over, as if a huge furnace was buried under the ground, constantly scorching the pedestrians on the ground.

Zhao Xu looked up and saw that the trees in the distance were all scorched and withered by the heat wave, and the entire elm forest was completely withered and dead.

"Endure the environment." Zhao Xu cast a first-level spell on himself.

This spell can keep him normal in the environment of -45 to 60 degrees Celsius, preventing him from being frostbitten or being damaged by heat waves.

The scorching heat wave was dissipated immediately, and Zhao Xu's surroundings seemed to have a constant temperature environment, and the scorching air he inhaled into his lungs felt better.

Looking at the land in front of him, Zhao Xu couldn't help but get a headache.

Where did he have to find the stele Antinoya wanted?

[Adventurer Zhong Xia, you are under a long-range attack, and the effect of the star cloak is activated. 】

Zhao Xu felt his shoulders sink, as if a force had hit him.

He looked back suddenly, and found that three soldiers in leather armor were pointing at him with simple bows and arrows.

It's just that they all showed a look of surprise on their faces, as if they couldn't believe it.

At this time, in front of Zhao Xu, there was an arrow that had been broken into two sections, which was obviously destroyed by his cloak.

He was attacked?

Zhao Xu didn't expect him to relax his guard so much that he didn't realize that he was being attacked.

Perhaps when he teleported and appeared here at the beginning, these three people had already lurked around, and waited until he had just cast a spell before attacking him rashly.

"Who are you?" Zhao Xu asked.

Just the leader shouted, "Run, this wizard is very strong."

Immediately afterwards, the three hurriedly fled towards the depths of the forest.

Zhao Xu watched the three disappearing figures and did not try to catch up.

In the borderline age when magic civilization emerged, is magic a kind of taboo that people fear?

Even scared to the point of trying to attack him as soon as he saw him.

Faced with this situation, Zhao Xu didn't think too much about it, and directly cast the first-level magic "earth vein detection".

After three full rounds, Zhao Xu put down the small magnet in his hand.

A green aura emanated from his fingertips, and then burrowed into the ground.

Gradually, a drawn map began to appear in his mind, from the village to the ruins, sketched out in his mind bit by bit, gradually taking shape.

Zhao Xu looked at the map in his mind with a radius of nearly a hundred kilometers, which basically covered the general situation around him.

Thanks to the druid's fourth-level magic, which was only a first-level level with the ranger, Zhao Xu was able to obtain such detailed information in this unfamiliar place.

Zhao Xu looked at the location of a village on the map and thought to himself that even if the villagers were afraid of their sorcerers, he would have to come and ask.

After all, he couldn't find any stone monuments on the entire map.

Considering that the village was not far from here, Zhao Xu walked over honestly, and he didn't dare to waste any more spell slots.

Just walking on the road, he felt more and more that this land seemed to be dead.

There is no display of vitality at all.

The heat wave that came from nowhere and scorched the living beings had completely destroyed all life that had not yet grown up.

Not to mention trying to plant crops, pouring a bowl of water on the dry ground will only evaporate immediately.

After Zhao Xu had been walking for more than half an hour, he slowly approached the nearest village.

Out of prudence, he still cast the first-level spell "Disguise" on himself.

This simple illusion can change him into different styles from clothing to body shape, and even change his appearance and become taller or shorter.

Zhao Xu's original sorcerer's attire was really eye-catching, and he immediately turned into a traveler.

But when Zhao Xu approached the village, he found that there was no sound in the whole village.

He stepped in warily, usually preparing a spell.

A few days ago, he wouldn't have dared to poke his head in alone without fully pulling out his spells.

As the saying goes, troublesome people come out of poor mountains and bad waters.

It's too much to shoot him to death just because of the three people I met by chance, even because he is a spellcaster.

But now, Zhao Xu had a star cloak that was immune to ordinary weapons.

In the case of intentional fighting or unintentional, he does still have a bit of fighting power. It is not possible that magic weapons were still common before this magical age, right?

It's just that the village in front of me is terribly quiet, as if no one has ever existed, let alone the barking of chickens and dogs.

Even the doors of several wooden houses near the entrance of the village were opened.

Zhao Xu tried to walk into an empty room to search, and found that some of the belongings that were convenient to take away had been emptied, and most of the rest were heavy wooden furniture that could not be moved.

It's like fleeing.

"Is anyone there?" Zhao Xu tried to shout.

The "invisibility technique" on his body is ready to go at any time.

Once something is wrong, he casts spells immediately, and then takes advantage of the chaos to leave the battle.

As long as the villagers didn't react fast enough to find paint or flour and sprinkle him all over, they wouldn't be able to see him again.

Next, after Zhao Xu found three or four more houses, he was basically sure that all the people in this village had fled.

Zhao Xu held a letter in his hand, which was written to his son by a fleeing father, telling him that his family would flee to the Molin stele in the mountains.

The priest told the people in their village that only by going there to make a sacrifice can they be forgiven by Vulcan.

Only in this way can the curse of this land be forgiven.

Zhao Xu pinched the letter in his hand and couldn't help but fell into deep thought.

In the later era, the elemental gods basically disappeared completely.

Even the prince of the fire element with a high enough seniority would only dare to hide in the four-element plane honestly.

In the face of the summons of the mages, if you call, you will come and if you call, you will go.

Also in this dark age, the elemental gods can still be regarded as the overlord.

Zhao Xu put the letter back on the table after reading it, waiting for his real master to arrive.

Then he withdrew and walked towards the mountain behind the village.

However, he felt a heavy heart, because there was an oracle of Vulcan written in the letter——

Kill all wizards.