The Truth of Magic

Chapter 229 Encountering Classmates by Occasion (25)

When Zhao Xu walked out of the Mage Association, he went straight to a corner invisibly and disguised himself.

When Zhao Xu reappeared, he was already a priest wearing heavy armor and strips, with a holy emblem of the goddess of magic pinned directly to his chest.

Zhao Xu's plank armor was naturally his illusion.

Otherwise, although this armor won't affect divine spells, but he is also a second-ring mage, the failure rate of arcane spells will soar to as high as 40%.

The weapon in Zhao Xu's hand was a huge scythe, which attracted the attention of many passers-by.

Because Sisylvina's natural weapon is a wooden club, her priests usually use the same weapons as the gods, and they rarely use this special weapon ingeniously.

At this time, Zhao Xu followed everyone's rumors and walked to the civic center square in the center of the stroll street, where the players' swearing-in meeting was being held.

In fact, when the players performed tasks around the "Falling Star Lake", they had conflicts with the local mines from time to time

, so this time it was also a long-standing grudge.

On the way, Zhao Xu was also holding the scythe in his hand, trying to get familiar with its usage as soon as possible.

As a warrior in his previous life, Zhao Xu was good at various military weapons, and the giant scythe was one of them.

It is also a two-handed melee weapon like the greatsword.

According to the inheritance of combat martial arts sorted out by Arthur over the years, and then quantified through the character card system, the damage curve of the scythe in Zhao Xu's hand is about 2D4 (2-8) damage, and the general expectation is about 5HP damage per hit.

This damage characteristic is not outstanding, but in the inheritance of Arthur's combat skills, there is a certain skill.

That is, when the level of attack is extremely high, it can trigger the combat technique of "heavy blow" that causes huge damage.

However, the triggering difficulty of different weapons is not exactly the same.

The scythe in Zhao Xu's hand can only be triggered when he has a system evaluation that is close to perfect, that is, the highest evaluation of the 20th grade in the 1-20th grade evaluation.

But once it is triggered and threatened by a heavy blow, it will directly deal 4 times the damage, which is equivalent to Zhao Xu's 20 hp damage if he hits nothing and does not superimpose anything.

It can be said that once a low-level player is hit by him, he will definitely fall to the ground and die.

However, no matter what Zhao Xu thought.

He has to solve a prerequisite, that is, he does not actually have this weapon.

Vocational training such as mages and priests only provided enough spirituality for "light weapons", but for "military weapons" such as giant scythes, Zhao Xu had to replace them with specialties if he wanted to be "good at" .

The reason why War Priests don't have this problem is because they will choose the War Domain, which not only allows them to be good at the special weapons of the gods, but also gives them the "Weapon Specialization" specialty.

It's a pity that the weapon Sisylvina is good at is the wooden club.

This stick, he is good at the professional abilities of mage, priest, and archivist.

Triple proficiency, there is no need to superimpose at all.

However, as a spellcaster, Zhao Xu had mastered all the spells of the first and second rings.

He himself has all kinds of possibilities.

Once, Zhao Xu used the "Scholar's Touch" to quickly read a book in the library, and then relied on this ability as a search tool.

And one piece of literature and one weapon corresponds to - "The Touch of the Master".

This minute-level spell of the mage's first ring can make him "proficient" in a certain weapon in a short period of time.

The downside, of course, was that Zhao Xu had to prepare to use some spells before going to war.

Only then can the brilliance of that moment erupt.

At this time, Zhao Xu had already followed the flow of people to the Civic Square.

At the front of the square stands the stone sculptures of the first thirteen founders of the Northern Alliance.

They were originally a combination of adventurers. Later, after the team members completed the feat of slaying the dragon and successfully killed the clone of the demon lord in the abyss, Arthur became famous for a while.

In the end, this team settled here in the Northland, and relied on their reputation to form the Northern Alliance, and then the whole force lasted for hundreds of years.

"Why, at this moment, there will always be such ugly things as 'slave trade'!"

A crude stage was purposely set up in front of the statue in the square, and a poet in gorgeous costumes was accusing the crime of "Falling Star Lake" in an impassioned tone.

Immediately afterwards, the team of adventurers who saw the mine owners and slave traders in "Falling Star Lake" also stepped up to the stage one by one, and began to tell the story to the more and more players gathered below.

At this time, apart from the players who came here specially to support the scene, many citizens of Winter City stopped here, watching the narration on the stage.

At this time, the priest of Goddess of Luck was speaking on the stage, a pretty and somewhat short girl. She used her crying voice to describe the tragic conditions of the slaves in the underground pit they found.

There are not too many adjectives, just a very simple line drawing, which directly outlines that the slaves are hungry, and even looking at them, there is no strength of despair, only numbness.

As each person involved came to the stage, the atmosphere of the entire square reached another peak.

Zhao Xu, who had heard this historical material in his previous life, was actually much calmer now.

At this time, he also experienced the power of various skills piled up, and even affected how he observed the world.

At least when he was listening to the speech, his "sense words and emotions" skill was activated automatically, like an intelligent AI, constantly analyzing and reminding him of the details of the speaker's expression.

Even before the speaker utters his voice, he can guess the next step.

As for what the pastor lady said, Zhao Xu actually knew better than these people.

After the players were strangled by the guards of the mine owners and came back, all the slaves they witnessed had been killed.

Eliminating the last traces.

This is Arthur's cruelest truth. Only powerful professionals have the right to breathe and control their own destiny.

And level 1 civilians without any ability can only surge with the flow of people.

Even the residents of Arthur who stopped at this time were mostly ordinary level 1 civilians, even if they were gnashing their teeth just the same.

The few lost children of their own could only go home and take out coins and hand them over to the earth adventurers on the stage.

Please let them find their children.

Arthur's adventurers are, after all, a minority.

Only Zhao Xu and the others who were the first players to enter the game were the per capita adventurers.

To put it bluntly, they are much luckier than other earthlings who have not entered the game.

They are even luckier and stronger than Arthur's many civilians, all of whom have an average attribute of 10 points.

Just like that, Zhao Xu realized that he saw a cruel fact under the blessing of his "detection magic" that took effect automatically.

The players present were really poor, so poor that he almost thought his spell had failed.

Few players wear magic equipment.

Looking at it at a glance, the sum is not as much as what he has on him, let alone the value, it is not as expensive as the star cloak on him.

Even many soldiers could only wear some broken light armor, hold machetes in their hands, and stop and listen under the stage.

After the fighters have graduated from training, they can wear "heavy armor" with higher defense, starting from plank armor, which has at least level 6 defense, to "full body armor" with an armor bonus of level 8.

Not wearing it, naturally because of poverty.

Only then did Zhao Xu notice that the slatted armor that he transformed into only 200 gold coins was already considered outstanding among the players present.

He also remembered that the level 1 mage "Shower Night" only had a few bottles of potions for "healing minor injuries" all over his body.

Zhao Xu suddenly sighed deeply.

In his previous life, as the sheriff of "Falling Star Lake", he would go to the monument on the lake every year to hold public sacrifices.

That's why he was able to be so sure that this outbreak was three days earlier.

At that time, he used to wonder why the guard soldiers of the mine owners were actually of a similar level to the players, or even elite.

Even if the mine owner still has a few mages from the third and fourth rings to support them, but after all, they have no skills at all, so how could the player be beaten layer by layer in the first place.

In the end, it was necessary to forcefully fill in human lives to conquer the strong city of the mine owners.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu, who had completely beaten everyone present with his investigative skills, felt someone approaching him.

Zhao Xu pressed his arm slightly on the scythe, guarding against possible battles

Immediately afterwards, he heard a call behind him - "Brother Xu?"

However, Zhao Xu, who was prepared in his heart, did not turn his head back.

At this time, there were still many passers-by by his side.

As the footsteps approached, Zhao Xu felt his shoulder being tapped.

He just turned around, with a surprised look on his face.

It was Zhang Qi who stood in front of Zhao Xu at this time.

Behind him stood several people who were playing games together in the class.

However, several female students in Zhao Xu's class who also played games did not approach, but stood in a corner farther away.

Including Cui Lu and others, everyone has no class today, so naturally they logged in to the game earlier, and they were all attracted here at this time.

"Oh, I'm sorry. I recognized the wrong person, and I wondered why my classmate should be in Floating Void City, why he suddenly appeared here."

At this moment, Zhang Qi quickly apologized and gestured.

Zhao Xu also noticed that the other party only had a leather armor of 10 gold coins all over his body, so he probably spent everything else.

"It's nothing." Zhao Xu replied simply.

At this time, he had changed from his height to his facial expression, so Zhang Qi couldn't tell.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu's eyes narrowed, and he looked towards his left.

A rising fireball is flying towards somewhere nearby.

Against him?

wrong!

It's framed.

Zhao Xu reacted instantly, and rushed over with a stride.