The Truth of Magic

Chapter 35 Strange Foresight

"This, isn't this amazing?" Zhao Xu couldn't believe it.

"It's not that miraculous, but it's the price of two specialties." Antinoya explained.

Zhao Xu nodded. Arthur had some powerful specialties, which had pre-requisite specialties and even professional level requirements.

This is also the reason why many players are helpless in the later stage. Unless they are specially re-customized, who knows.

Basically, most of those who can meet the requirements of the specialty happen to have this pre-feature, so they are satisfied.

Free choice of spells, the meaning is even greater.

After the mages have more spells, do a good job of intelligence work before doing the task, then the spell arrangement of the day can basically be aimed at most of the situations on the scene.

It's just that I am afraid of what happens in everything, and if I can't cast spells that can solve the problem, it often stumps a large number of mages.

If you prepare a scroll, the scroll will cost money.

Unlike spell slots, which can't be exhausted every day, the rest can't be discounted.

Once Zhao Xu could cast spells freely, he would basically be free.

Like warlocks, they can cast spells spontaneously and release the spells they master at will. The price is that they can only learn a few spells at each level, and it is difficult to learn more.

There are tens of hundreds of spells at each level, and six or seven spells can't cover it. This is why Arthur praises the master more and less worships the more charming master.

"Teacher, I'll learn." Zhao Xu didn't even ask for specific details, but directly raised his expectations.

"Don't worry, I'll talk to you first."

"The specialty that can cast spells freely is called 'Strange Foresight', but the prerequisite for choosing him is the specialty of 'Spell Familiarity'."

Immediately afterwards, Antinoya began to describe the details of the two specialties.

The specialty content also appeared directly on Zhao Xu's character card panel for his convenience.

This is also one of the benefits of becoming a level 1 professional.

[Specialty: Familiarity with spells

Prerequisite: Wizard 1st level

Benefit: Each time you choose this feat, you can choose a number of spells known equal to your Intelligence modifier. Thereafter, these spells can be prepared without a spellbook. 】

Zhao Xu's expertise sounded really weak, but it was equivalent to some spells that could be prepared without a spell book, engraved in his heart just like him.

However, as a wise spellcaster, he was born to be able to prepare spells without spell books.

Thinking of this, Zhao Xu could only shake his head, saying that it was flattering.

[Specialty: Strange Foresight

Prerequisites: Intelligence 17, spell familiarity.

Effect: When preparing to memorize spells per day, you can reserve spell slots equal to your Intelligence modifier.

1. As a standard action, one of the reserved spell slots can be used to cast any spell with which the spell is familiar and not higher than the level of the spell slot.

2. As a full-round action, you can use a reserved spell slot to cast any spell you know up to the level of the spell slot, but the caster level of the spell is reduced by 2. 】

Looking at this specialty, Zhao Xu was secretly startled. There are restrictions, but they are all acceptable.

With an intelligence adjustment of 3 points, he can leave 3 spell slots, that is, he has 3 chances to cast spells freely.

To deal with emergencies, the initial stage is enough.

The only limitation of this feat is the casting time.

For those who are familiar with spells, he can cast spells faster (standard action).

Without the spell mastery option, it takes 6 seconds to cast the spell (a full-round action).

After half a month of training, Zhao Xu already knew all kinds of basic mage knowledge.

The casting time of general spells is fixed in several ways: swift action (instantaneous), standard action, full-round action (6 seconds), and the rest are longer.

Arthur distinguishes time in rounds (6 seconds).

The reason for this setting is due to the inclusion of various factors, one of which is a little.

That is, the caster can only cast one 'standard' + one 'swift' spell, or one 'full round' spell in each round.

The mirage spell that Antinoya released before probably used this bizarre seer's ability.

In one round, she was casting spells for 6 seconds.

Otherwise, Antinoya wouldn't have had enough to eat and nothing to do to prepare this illusion.

Even if you go against the sky, you have to follow this rule honestly.

Generally, a mage can only release one or two spells within 6 seconds, and everyone knows this when fighting.

There will not be dozens of spells with a quick casting time thrown out like a machine gun.

Otherwise, there is no need to fight this fight, and we will kneel down and beg for mercy first.

Casting time is a "standard action" depending on one's level. Generally, there is not much difference, mostly a few seconds. If you are familiar with it, you can compress it a little bit, depending on your level.

And the casting time is a "swift action", that is, it is thrown out instantly, but generally it is expensive to release a swift spell.

So like their low-level mages, they often just cast a "standard action" spell in one round to finish the job.

These are all off topic.

The real problem was that Zhao Xu didn't have 17 intelligence.

He saved 3 purchase points for other attributes, and his intelligence was only 16 points.

At this moment, Zhao Xu could only look at Antinoya in embarrassment, as if to help.

Antinoya also knew that he didn't have 17 points of intelligence, and the apprentice badge that Zhao Xu had fantasized about back then proved that he didn't have any.

"Now I know, 17 points of intelligence is also useful. Although compared with 16 points of intelligence, there will not be a little more spell slots, and the difficulty of saving throws will not increase by a little bit, but it can become a hindrance."

Listening to Antinoya's complaints, Zhao Xu, an uncle who had lived thirty years in his previous life, naturally licked his face and asked for advice.

Although the old mage would respectfully call Antinoya a teacher, Antinoya said before that she had received the ninth-level spell of "Time Without Trace", and the growth of her mental appearance was maintained at the same level as before.

It's not rejuvenation, but locking in the state at that time.

So over the years, her experience has increased, but her mind is still very young, and there will be no traces of that kind of time.

Otherwise, if it was really an old lady, he wouldn't be able to hold back her face.

"You now have two paths."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu just wanted to complain. He was always given two ways, but in reality there was only one way, but it was better than no way.

"One way is that you wait until level 4 to improve the intelligence attribute, and then master this ability after level 6 has a new level of expertise."

Hearing this, Zhao Xu shook his head, the gap period across level 5 was too long.

He is not the protagonist of the novel, and the adventures are all arranged by the author, and the spells that are naturally prepared can be used.

Seeing Zhao Xu's reaction, Antinoya continued directly.

"Another option. Forget it. I'll be at a disadvantage. I promised you to release the immortal spell of 'Eternal Eternity' once as a reward for joining our organization."

"Now you can use it for a 'wish', and I'll help you increase the intrinsic bonus of intelligence by 1 point."

PS1: There is one more chapter to follow.

PS2: The ones in [] brackets are the official version that players will see. It is definitely not so colloquial. It doesn’t matter if you don’t understand it. It doesn’t matter if you skip it. It’s just for those who want to read carefully.