The Truth of Magic

Chapter 28 Awakening Hall

He didn't explain too much to Zhang Qi until the next day when Zhao Xu logged into the game by himself.

He also didn't tell Zhang Qi that he had completed the zero-level spell transcription, which was equivalent to becoming the first sequence of player mages.

According to Zhang Qi's big mouth, knowing that he has made this progress, he has already yelled to the whole class to know, so that he can slap all the pretenders in the face.

The only thing Zhao Xu did was pat Zhang Qi on the shoulder and tell him to have fun.

The resurrection stone was the tuition fee paid by the players to Arthur. No matter how good Zhao Xu thought, Zhang Qi still had to pay it honestly.

The next day, when Zhao Xu went online, Antinoya arrived on time as usual.

It seems that yesterday's sudden disappearance is just a very special idiosyncratic situation.

At this time, Zhao Xu had already selected the three first-level spells he had chosen: protection from evil, colorful spray, and magic missile.

When Antinoya saw Zhao Xu's choice, she smiled slightly and said, "The price/performance ratio is good, and you players are quite discerning."

That's right, zero-level spells and first-level spells, which players can choose to learn, have long been put on the forum for discussion.

It's okay for a mage to learn all zero-level spells, but everyone can only learn three first-level spells, and after learning, they will get additional level-1 spells according to their intelligence adjustment value.

Then how to obtain the second-level spells later is up to the mages themselves.

This also led to the fact that Arthur's first-level spells would not be a secret in the future, but starting from the second level, the list of spells provided by the forum began to be missing, and some even only knew the approximate name, and the specific effect was completely unknown.

Analyzing the strength of various zero-level spells and first-level spells has also become one of the fun offline for the vast number of quasi-mages who cannot copy zero-level spells.

Looking at Antinoya's expression now, the powerful spells recognized by the forum that he picked now are not that bad.

"I have prepared scrolls for these first-level spells, and you can just copy those scrolls later."

After all, Antinoya took out three scrolls out of thin air and gave them to him.

Zhao Xu took it and touched it. It was all the high-grade leather paper, the same as the one he had come into contact with in his previous life.

The scroll is 20cm long by 30cm. Both ends of the paper are fixed with slender strips, and then rolled inward, just like the imperial decree of a costume drama, but the scroll itself records all magic words. Once the scroll is used to cast spells After that, those words will disappear without a trace.

A scroll can transcribe one spell or multiple spells, up to six.

"Teacher, why did you give me a scroll instead of a spell book?" Zhao Xu asked strangely.

The scroll itself is a kind of spare spell slot, allowing players to use it directly to cast spells without consuming spell slots.

If a player theoretically has a large number of scrolls, then he is a humanoid self-propelled cannon with infinite battery life.

Unlike the early one-hit men like mages.

It's just that a mage can completely copy spells from a spell book, instead of having to copy spells from a scroll.

Even if a first-level scroll only costs 25 gp, it is cheaper than the cost of copying, but it is not as good as a free spell book.

"It's just a few gold coins. I have to find spell books for you. It's too much effort. Just use these scrolls." Antinoya said indifferently.

After listening, Zhao Xu could only accept it silently.

Money is an uncle, not to mention the person in front of him who can make 25,000 gold coins empty-handed.

"Before you transcribe these scrolls, let me give you some advice."

Zhao Xu quickly pricked up his ears and listened carefully to the instructions of the preacher. In his previous life, he was an academician who gave basic courses to undergraduates like them.

"There are no useless spells, only useless mages."

"That's bullshit, forget it."

Before Zhao Xu fully consumed the subtlety of the previous sentence, he was shocked by the latter sentence.

Although he really wanted to say something about you, he still thought about the deep meaning of Antinoya's words.

"Some spells are researched by junk mages to take up space, and they are inherently weak. And our mages just want to find the most powerful and suitable ones for our own style from the amount of spells that day."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu could only nod honestly, then walked back to his desk, applied those irritating plasters, and began to copy the spells in the same way as the gourd painting.

Compared with the one-stop copying of the zero-level spells before, in order to avoid the risk of spell accidents, everyone studied the first-level spells step by step and honestly for 24 hours.

After two days of information on the first graduated mage, many people have already inquired about it.

The other party is also the kind of existence who has been a child prodigy since he was a child, and he is born with the ability to never forget.

But even so, in order to pursue the first record, the other party gave up the additional first-level spell given by the intelligence adjustment value.

Zhao Xu himself didn't pursue any speed. For him, it was naturally best to take one step at a time.

Everyone didn't know that the training academy was Arthur's biggest comfort zone.

He wished he could stay there forever.

A character's level 1 specialty is not a professional prerequisite, so some players are not eager to determine their specialty right away, but plan to decide according to their needs during the adventure.

Zhao Xu was different. He would never step out of Mystra's gate until he had finished learning the four powerful specialties.

For the next whole week, Zhao Xu carried out the big project of transcribing first-level spells every day.

It's just that after he finished copying, there was no miraculous vision from heaven that is unique to the protagonist template.

Later, Zhao Xu asked Antinoya about the gossip, and confirmed that there might not be any abnormalities when mages develop spells, let alone simply copy and learn some other people's spells.

At this time, various talented players who chose mages also began to appear second and third to complete the training.

It wasn't until the end of the second week of the server that Zhao Xu just finished learning all his free first-level spells.

At this time, the number of level 1 mages in the player is also worth more than a hundred.

Zhao Xu had 3 points of intelligence adjustment, and the Mage Association gave him three free and spell transcriptions.

This time, he sought Antinoya's opinion, and based on the other party's suggestion, he chose Mage Armor, Weakness Ray, and Apparatus.

The first two high-end spells are okay to say, but the latter one is the kind of magic that cannot be passed on.

That is to say, this kind of spell is not in the learnable list of other players. Only Zhao Xu, who has a personal tutor, can get it from the other player's collection.

According to Antinoya, this spell can be regarded as a disguised displacement spell under certain circumstances.

In the end, the list of spells in Zhao Xu's mind reached a stable state, at least until he got money to copy new spells or upgrade them.

Zero-Level Spells: Increase Resistance, Acid Splash, Detect Poison, Detect Magic, Read Magic, Daze, Dancing Lights, Flash, Light, Freezing Ray, Ghost Sound, Smite Undead, Touch of Fatigue , Mage Hand, Restoration, Message, Switch, Arcane Mark, Prestige

1st-Level Spells: Protection from Evil, Prismatic Spray, Magic Missile, Mage Armor, Ray of Enfeeblement, Apparatus

This is just a level 1 sorcerer who has mastered 25 spells. It is no wonder that the sorcerer profession in his previous life was not flattering at all.

"Are you ready?" Antinoya said after watching the text on the last "Transfer" scroll disappear.

"Preparing for what?" Zhao Xu was at a loss.

"Take you to awaken and become a mage."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu's feeling of numbness and exhaustion for a week suddenly disappeared, and it finally came.

"Mentor, let's go, I have nothing to clean up."

Zhao Xu stood up quickly. He was a lonely, poor man with no possessions.

Even the spell books that mages would desperately bring with them when they were on fire, he remembered them in his heart.

Seeing that Antinoya didn't turn his back to open the door of the dormitory, Zhao Xu thought he was waiting for him to make a move, so he hurried to open the door first.

Suddenly Antinoya's body flashed past.

In an instant, Antinoya appeared in front of Zhao Xu, and then a snow-white arm stretched out from the cuff of her robe, grabbing Zhao Xu's collar directly.

Level 4 arcane arbitrary door!

Without any posture, just a spell can make the target teleport anywhere within the range of the spell. His Displacement is a weakened cubic version of this spell.

But before Zhao Xu had time to think about it, he felt that after he was caught by the collar, his whole body suddenly became more involved.

Zhao Xu was no stranger to this feeling, it was exactly what he felt when he passed through the portal.

He felt that he could resist the spell's effect on him.

But what he was facing was his mentor, and if he really wanted to kill himself in seconds, it didn't need to be so complicated. When a fireball came over, there would be no Zhao Xu left.

So Zhao Xu put down his resistance and followed the guidance of the spell.

If you want to hug your thigh these days, just hug it honestly, don't always think about it.

Immediately, in an unremarkable bedroom in the Floating Void City, two figures, a man and a woman, turned into white light and disappeared.

After Zhao Xu came back from a trance.

He found himself standing in a theater-like lobby.

At the very front is a throne-like silver seat, constantly glowing with metallic luster.

At the same time, the throne was surrounded by magic inscriptions that were directly carved on it. Even after Zhao Xu had learned magic for a few days, he was still confused.

At the back of the lobby, stepped seats were arranged in sequence. If it weren't for the more open and bright surroundings, Zhao Xu would have thought he had gone to some luxurious movie theater.

There are already many people sitting on the soft seats on the stairs, and the first half of the seats are full.

"Mentor, this is?"

"Mage Awakening Ceremony." Antinoya explained.

"The entire Mystra and these floating cities are protected by legendary spells, which have restrictions on outsiders. If your identities are not infused into this legendary spell, then you new mages will not be able to successfully cast spells in Mystra .”

"So the awakening ceremonies in other towns are very simple. If there is a new mage, one will be awakened. But because Mystra wants to modify the mysia, she has to perform the 'Mage Awakening Ceremony' regularly every month,"

It was only then that Zhao Xu realized that among the people sitting here with feelings, was Mystra's mage output for a month.

He counted, at least hundreds of thousands, too many for a month.

"Mentor, your Floating Void City is really productive." Zhao Xu praised.

"It's not you, but us." Antinoya corrected, "Actually, there are not so many at ordinary times. It's because the player mage is also rushing in once, so there are so many."

Only then did Zhao Xu come to his senses. The forum had all the information about the top ten mages, but none of them came from Mystra, the holy capital of magic.

It stands to reason that the most talented players in magic should be assigned here, except for his special talents who come in through the back door.

Only now do I know that the players of Mystra have to wait until the myth locks are uniformly modified every month to perform the ceremony. Naturally, everything is in vain.

At this time, Zhao Xu also noticed that there were already many novice mages sitting on the seats waiting for their turns to go up to the awakening ceremony, talking quietly to the two uninvited guests.

The people present here all came over to gather step by step honestly, it didn't look like the two of them just teleported over like this.

Showing something special is a little too much.

Zhao Xu barely recognized the group of players on the left side by relying on the characteristics of the players' clothing.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu's pupils widened a little.

He saw a beautiful girl with a calm expression and a serious face sitting in the first row.

Wang Ningwei!

When Arthur crossed over, she was the highest-level mage among the players, and she also took advantage of the trend to become one of the top leaders of the Earth forces.

It turned out that her novice mage training place was Mystra.

It is in this Arcane Gate, in this Floating Void City.

A few years after traveling, Arthur faced the invasion of the abyss and hell, and the earth forces sent missions to visit the Northern Alliance, trying to allow the other side to jointly protect the earth's civilians.

Zhao Xu was working as a guard in the Northern Alliance at the time. Because of Zhao Xu, his family had already been included in the scope of asylum, and they were arranged in a town near the rear. Who knew that Zhao Xu would be stolen by the black dragon when he went out later? .

It was also because of that mission that Zhao Xu had the opportunity to witness this heavenly girl.

It's just that his identity at that time was just a guard of the Northern Alliance headquarters, at best he was out of the category of ordinary soldiers, and he was considered a higher-level guard.

As for the other party, not to mention the halo blessing brought by the leaders who traveled across the earth, the status of the senior mage alone is enough to become the guest of honor of the lords of the northern cities.

The current Wang Ningwei doesn't have the detached temperament that he saw in the future, honed after long training. He is just an ordinary player, sitting below and waiting to be awakened on stage.

Zhao Xu suddenly remembered the legend he heard in his previous life. Wang Ningwei awakened to become a level 1 mage on the 20th day, and later became an example for the majority of new mages to comfort him.

He now knows the inside story of why it took so long.

It’s just that today, the server has only been opened for 15 days, so where did the 5 days go?

Could it be that the rumors added it deliberately in order to exaggerate that Wang Ningwei came first?

After all, more than 100 people can still be squeezed in 15 days.

"Mentor, how many days ago was the last time?" Zhao Xu asked in a low voice.

"25 days." Antinoya said.

"Didn't it be a good month?"

"I still eat three meals on time every day, can't I only eat two?"

Hearing Antinoya's nonsense, Zhao Xu said unhappily, "Teacher, an outsider like me knows how to change legendary spells so casually."

Rules are called rules because they are difficult to change.

"Oh, why not?" Antinoya seemed to have grasped the point of Zhao Xu's question only now.

But Zhao Xu already knew that she did it on purpose.