The Truth of Magic

Chapter 21 Copying Spells

But when Zhao Xu really started to learn that knowledge, he found that he was still thinking a little easier.

There are so many mage players in the whole game, and the record for the fastest server opening is that it took seven days to graduate, and it is not without reason.

It's like letting a junior high school student learn advanced mathematics directly, it's not impossible, but it will be difficult.

The content that high school students learn is not much compared to universities, but they still study it repeatedly for three years, just to be able to intuitively respond to various changing forms of questions during the college entrance examination.

The time of the college entrance examination is not enough for people to think carefully, so everyone advocates the sea of ​​questions tactics, exchanging experience for the compression of thinking time.

The same goes for spells.

Those models and various spell poses need to be integrated into his instinct.

After studying for the past few days, Zhao Xu already knew about casting spells. In fact, most of the work was done in the hour when the daily spells were determined.

The actual casting of a spell is equivalent to a process of driving a car. The spell itself, that is, the vehicle, has already been built and placed there.

But for this process, everyone still needs to work hard.

The mage can't always go to the book to see how to say the spell when it comes to the end, it will only make the opponent laugh out loud.

It's just that Zhao Xu also has a headache looking at the spells of various syllables.

However, Zhao Xu's progress did not completely slow down. According to Antinoya's progress, this kind of thing would have to undergo several rounds of consolidation.

So he basically finished reading the two volumes of models and spells by the fifth day, and then started to get in touch with zero-level spells.

"The spell books of our mages are all arcane texts. They have a common set, but each mage needs to process it himself, so I will give you a spell book directly, and you have to perform 'spell identification' Only after passing the test can it change into its real appearance and read."

In Antinoya's words, the translation means that the spell books are all encrypted, and you must have the key to translate the plain text.

Spell recognition is one of Arthur's character skills, and it needs to be cast and practiced just like scouting and motive detection.

Zhao Xu hasn't gone to the later stage of spell recognition, so it doesn't matter.

"You can read these spells now, that's because this set of "Level-0 Trick Book" is specially set up, or when the owner of the spell book allows you to read it, you don't need to perform 'spell recognition'."

"And through the zero-level spell 'Reading Magic', we mages can also read spell books that others have not deliberately set traps without hindrance."

Zhao Xu nodded as well. In short, the "reading magic" spell was a master key.

From this point of view, the arcane text is not encrypted by mages on purpose, but because of its own complexity, it is encrypted by outsiders, so mages specially developed a cracking spell.

That is to say, guarding against outsiders is not against mages.

"But you have to remember that the spell book is the foundation of every mage. Except for the spell 'reading magic', which can be prepared without a spell book, for any other spells, a mage must have a spell book with copied spells before he can prepare spells. , thus casting spells."

Antinoya said this very slowly and solemnly.

Zhao Xu had heard in his previous life that mages often copied spells and went bankrupt. He couldn't help asking curiously, "Teacher, is there any price for copying spells?"

Antinoya handed Zhao Xu a book.

After Zhao Xu received it, he opened it up and took a look. Although they were all thick and large covers, the inside of the book was completely blank. He estimated that there were about a hundred pages, because they were all parchment paper. , so it looks quite thick.

He looked at Antinoya in a daze, not knowing what it meant.

"After you spend a whole day studying the spells, you can copy the spells into your own spell book. You need to copy a few pages for several levels of spells, and one page for zero-level spells."

Zhao Xu frowned when he heard it. It would take a day to study each spell. The problem is that in 100 pages, only 11 spells of the ninth level can be copied. Really brought a lot of spell books.

"Moreover, the cost of transcribing each page is 100GP. But you new mages have taken care of it. The association will pay for all your zero-level spells and three first-level spells. You don't have to worry about that."

Zhao Xu had heard of this expensive price, but he didn't expect it to be so ridiculously expensive.

"Teacher, who is this money going to?"

"No, no one will charge this money, it's just the cost of material loss. The spell books used for copying, the special quill pen, the ink for special consumption, and the incense for creating the environment, on average, copy a 100-page book The spell book costs about 10,000GP, so we accept 100GP per page."

"If you don't spend these, how can you make the spells you copied spiritual and available for casting."

When Zhao Xu heard this, he could only sigh with emotion that mages are poor and mages are miserable.

Special requirements No wonder no one thought of printing spell books in previous lives.

How can a person whose family background is not strong enough afford to burn such money.

"This is the case for memorizing spells or copying from scrolls. If you directly copy someone else's spell book, because you can learn from it, the time and copying costs will be halved, as long as 50GP/page, this is also calculated result."

When Zhao Xu heard this, he immediately regained his spirits.

It's just that he doesn't have to guess, he can feel that there must be a smiling expression under Antinoya's cloak, waiting to see his jokes.

If you want to watch an online drama by yourself, you have to pay for membership.

This guy who eats, if someone lends you a book, even if the time is halved, it also means that he can't prepare the spells in that book during that time.

Copying your own spell book, that is also 50GP per page, no one will be so boring unless it is a last resort.

Antinoya didn't delay too long, and explained to him directly: "The current spell book borrowing fee is calculated at 50 gp per level. For some rare spells, you need to pay more or even not pass them on."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu nodded. The borrowing fee was exactly equal to the cost saved by copying spell books.

That is to say, if a person borrows spell books to copy spells, the cost is 100 gp per level of spells.

"So, now you have to decide your two paths."

"The first way is this book in my hand." As he spoke, he didn't know where Antinoya took it out. It was an iron cover with a silver border and a lock. It was about 30cm x 15cm long and 15cm thick. It was also a 15CM book that flew into his hand.

"This is the Goddess's blessing book, a strange thing. When it was made, it was for spiritual reasons, so you don't need to pay for the transcription materials. A 1,000-page book costs 12,500 GP, but it is more difficult to buy, because mages I want them all."

Looking at the unremarkable cover of this book, Zhao Xu never expected that there would be such a fetish that could reduce the price of copying to almost one-tenth.

As long as there is such a rare item, the average cost of transcribing materials per page can be reduced to 12.5gp, which is very advantageous compared to the original 100gp or the 50gp for duplicating spell books.

As for the difficulty of buying, it was an outsider. He managed to get close to such a big organization, so he naturally had internal purchasing channels.

This is probably what everyone calls privilege.

However, Zhao Xu was not too excited at this time, because he noticed that Antinoya mentioned two paths.

"The other way is for you to activate the specialty of 'Wisdom Spellcaster'."

"From then on, all your spells are copied in your own heart, and you no longer need a spell book."

At this moment, Zhao Xu's heart couldn't help but beat. He had started the path of a mage, and the powerful expertise of this organization finally beckoned to him.