The Truth of Magic

Chapter 22 The Disappearing Spell Book

Hearing that there was no need to copy the spell book anymore, Zhao Xu's mind had already begun to make up his mind.

For mages to copy spells, the first difficulty lies in whether they can find the spells to copy, and the second is paying for the loss of copying.

But he leaned against Antinoya and borrowed it cheekily. Even if the other party took the money, he would probably give him a discount. Then his main difficulty was the loss of spell copying.

Now that this specialty is actually saved for him, he has no worries at all.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu nodded and said, "Mentor, I choose this specialty."

Antinoya was a little taken aback when she heard him say that. After thinking for a while, she said, "Well, I'll—"

"Huh? Mentor?" Zhao Xu was especially surprised when he saw the other party stop suddenly.

"Um, sorry, I just retrieved my memory. I found that after the cataclysm, the wise spellcaster has changed from a specialty to a professional characteristic. Obviously, it was still a specialty when I learned it."

Zhao Xu's eyebrows twitched slightly. The professional characteristics are something that anyone who works in this profession will have.

But there are also some optional class characteristics.

The way to choose these professional characteristics is to give up some original professional characteristics as a price.

At this time, Antinoya had already explained to him: "According to the new requirements, the price of the professional characteristic of 'Wisdom Spellcaster' is to give up the two professional characteristics of copying scrolls and summoning magic pets."

"Mentor, are these two professional characteristics important?"

Zhao Xu didn't know much about the inside story of these sorcerers, but it didn't stop him from asking for advice.

"Summoning a pet, if you don't follow the trend of a pet, it's not a big problem to give up. And we originally planned to arrange another specialty for you, so it's not a pity to give up."

"As for the professional feature of copying scrolls, it is still very important for mages. Scrolls can replace the spell slots of mages, preventing mages from mastering spells, but not being able to release them temporarily because they have no preparations for corresponding spells."

"So in the face of some uncommon special situations, it is unrealistic for mages to prepare spells every day, so they always prepare scrolls."

Hearing Antinoya's explanation, Zhao Xu lowered his head and calculated that if he gave up, it would mean that he would have to buy scrolls in the future instead of producing some himself.

"Of course, if you're willing to spend a feat, you can also use the way of feat learning to master the ability of 'transcribing scrolls'."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu's thoughts slowly came back.

The professional ability of copying scrolls is also a specialty that can be learned, which is not surprising to him. Otherwise, priests do not have this professional ability. Where would the magic scrolls on the market come from.

It wasn't created by spending a priest who specializes in learning to transcribe scrolls.

Or to put it this way, level 1 mages will be given the "Transcription Scroll" feat for free.

Only in this case, the price of the wise spellcaster is clear.

The price of a feat and the ability to summon familiars.

Summoning a magic pet, a unique ability of mages and warlocks, is also worth a specialty.

What happened to this catastrophe? It actually drove up the price of abilities.

In the past, the price tag of one specialty now has to pay for two specialties.

"Also, after choosing the ability of the wise spellcaster, although you don't need to consume materials to transcribe, you still have to pay a similar price to stimulate the spirit."

Zhao Xu's face turned bitter on the spot.

Delay until the last moment and say, isn't this teasing him?

"Teacher, who else is going to awaken this ability like this?" Zhao Xu said word by word.

He doesn't need to go into details, it's all very obvious.

He copied the spell into his own memory.

Naturally, he couldn't provide the spell book for others to copy, and he couldn't receive the loan fee.

That's all, the problem is, just now Antinoya told him the "blessing book", something that mages dream of.

If he casts spells with wisdom, he can't enjoy the fee of 12.5 gp per page. Instead, it became the original price of 50 gp per page for copying other people's spell books.

The price has quadrupled out of thin air.

If the wisdom casters are all 12.5 gp per page, then he also recognizes it.

"Don't you think it's cool not to have to bring a spell book?" Antinoya said, her tone full of the feeling that a full man doesn't know a hungry man is hungry.

"To prepare spells every day, I have to take out one spell book after another. It's very tiring. Not to mention that this thing has a load, even with a dimension bag, it's annoying."

Hearing these words, Zhao Xu finally stabilized his mood.

A mage needs a spell book to prepare spells, so the spell book is indeed the key to the mage.

He was raided in the middle of the night, and had to run away grabbing the spell book.

Players have to carry those books on their backs before they get the cheapest 2500GP dimensional bag.

It's just a dimensional bag, the cheapest one can be two hundred catties, and an ordinary spell book weighing two or three catties is more than enough to hold dozens of books.

"Teacher, why don't you forget it." Zhao Xu said after considering it.

If you are tired, you will be tired, money is still important.

"Yes, anyway, this ability can only be selected at level 1, so you can change it before you complete the training."

Hearing what Antinoya said, Zhao Xu felt a little confused again.

Sometimes, there is no choice, but you can go straight all the way.

After he has some choices that other players don't have to choose, he will struggle a lot.

It's just that Zhao Xu suddenly thought that Antinoya said that "Wisdom Spellcaster" was a specialty when she learned it, so it just cost less than Zhao Xu to be able to summon magic pets.

That is to say, Antinoya spent 50 gp per page to record spells.

People's legendary mages all choose this way, so they can't choose randomly, right?

"Mentor, did you choose this one for other reasons?" Zhao Xu continued to ask for advice.

However, Antinoya was still very happy to explain Zhao Xu's doubts, "Well, the route I took at the time was to fight, and I definitely didn't want to leave a weakness like a spell book."

"Besides, you actually have an advantage. If you go to level 2 to work as a 'document scholar', copying scrolls is also one of the professional characteristics of a dossier scholar."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu almost slapped his thigh.

No matter how I heard it, it felt like Antinoya was deliberately teasing him, without saying it first.

A specialty is expensive.

He chose the human race, and only then gave a bonus feat.

Zhao Xu could only grit his teeth and say, "Mentor, then I should choose this replacement ability."

Zhao Xu made the deal by using the ability to summon magic pets for an ability that would cost more but didn't use spell books.

"That's fine, someone will bring the awakening method of this ability later."

Zhao Xu glanced around the room. Except for the incense slowly rising in the corner, there was nothing unusual about the medieval-style furniture.

He knew that Antinoya had installed an alarm spell, but there was no way anyone would be listening.

"What are you thinking about? I cast a telepathic spell instantly. With your current spell recognition ability, you can tell that I am casting a spell?"

Antinoya chuckled.

Zhao Xu could only smile with embarrassment, but he began to think about the future in his heart.

After learning this ability, at least he has no weakness in the spell book, and he will not be blinded if the spell book is stolen or destroyed like other mage players.

At least during the hour of preparing the spell, he didn't have to be so afraid of a surprise attack.