The Truth of Magic

Chapter 360 Level Up Spells

During the next journey, the post road itself was well repaired, and the carriage continued to move forward steadily. Zhao Xu and his party stayed in the carriage, which also isolated the snow outside.

Only from time to time, the sound of the horseshoes of the following cavalry can be vaguely heard.

When it was about to approach Shuanglu Town, the whole carriage stopped abruptly and stopped.

This kind of change instantly made everyone in the carriage feel as if they were facing a big enemy, and they all hurriedly held their weapons and prepared to be on guard.

"What's going on?" Zhao Xu immediately asked in a low voice.

"My lord, on the stump in front, there were a few wild wolves surrounded just now. But after we approached, those wild wolves were frightened and ran away, but the horses were also frightened and stopped."

At this time, the groom seemed a little unbelievable. He paused and continued, "It seems that there is a corpse tied to the tree stump, but it looks like a lamb."

"Go and have a look." Zhao Xu keenly sensed something was wrong.

Elliton turned his head suddenly, in his impression, Mr. Zhong Xia never cared about too many messy things.

Just now, I heard people's voices exclaiming, so I participated in Mrs. Betty's matter.

And Zheng Xinyun followed silently. Having received training from a pastor, she had a very clear mind at this moment: "Wolves won't hunt and tie lambs to tree stumps. Moreover, this place is not hilly, so it's strange to have lambs. "

"Is it related to what?" Elleton asked back.

At this time, Zheng Xinyun lowered her head slightly, and her eyes became more serious, "Some kind of sacrifice?"

Suddenly, Mrs. Betty, who was holding her youngest son and didn't want to move, changed her face.

She directly touched the partition of the carriage, and through the coolness of her fingertips, she knew that there were extra steel plates on it, which was very strong.

She gently put down the child she was holding in her arms, and after showing a soft expression, she followed everyone out of the carriage.

Immediately afterwards, she immediately signaled the cavalry who followed this time to keep an eye on the carriage.

After her recruitment and reorganization, in addition to replacing her original nine guards with horses, she specially added three cavalry who are good at defense to follow them.

As for the other cavalry, she arranged for them to go elsewhere.

After getting off the carriage, Zhao Xu found that the place where he temporarily stopped on the post road was a cemetery lined with tombstones further away. He thought this was the place where residents of the nearby Shuanglu town buried their relatives.

After the death of Arthur's residents, after all, a small number of people chose to be cremated, and most of them would choose to be buried in the ground.

It's just that "manipulating dead bodies", the three-ring magic and four-ring arcane magic, is so famous that Zhao Xu alone can use it now.

He can directly transform the bones or corpses of dead creatures into skeletons or zombies, and will also accept his orders.

This is also the key spell for necromancers to form an undead army.

A spell like Zhao Xu's evoking high-level undead was just creating powerful undead creatures. He was still able to drive the opponent by relying on the necromancer staff combined with the fragments of the godhead.

Therefore, most people who choose to bury in the ground will consider avoiding the risk of the corpse being transformed into an undead creature in the future.

In the end, most civilians will choose to be buried in the designated area divided by the church.

At this moment, Zhao Xu walked up to the corpse of the lamb that had been disembowelled and gnawed badly, and observed it carefully.

After a while, several other people came closer and observed together.

The other cavalrymen were in charge of keeping an eye on the surroundings and guarding the carriage. Chuck, who was more experienced in charge of Mrs. Betty's safety, also came over and observed together.

Zhao Xu paid attention to this bearded level 1 fighter at first, but he didn't worry too much about it.

"Can you see it?" Zhao Xu asked standing beside the rotten lamb corpse with flies flying on it.

After Mrs. Betty saw it, she couldn't help feeling dizzy in her mind. After finally standing still, she quickly covered her mouth and nose with her sleeve.

Elton, who had experienced a huge trauma, didn't have any psychological barriers at this time, so he went directly to Zhao Xu, even took out a glove and put it on, and poked the wound of the disemboweled lamb.

Zheng Xinyun mostly stayed in the church these days, and this was the first time he saw such a bloody scene. Although he didn't faint, his head was still a little numb.

After slowly holding her breath, she also squatted down and leaned against Zhao Xu to observe.

Zhao Xu nodded silently to the performance of the two of them.

The reason for Arthur's authenticity is that when players first come into contact with corpses, especially those of humans, they will feel physically uncomfortable.

Generally, medical students can adapt without barriers, and others often need some psychological adjustment.

Even after the time travel, many players realized that this was a real world, so they didn't dare to cut down when fighting with people, and hesitated for a while, and there were also examples of being killed by people in the end.

"It seems to be two injuries." After watching the different shapes of the wound, Elleton deduced his own conclusion.

It just so happened that he also practiced the structure of the human body in the instructor's course, and he was no stranger to this.

"That's right." Zhao Xu confirmed.

"Someone should have tied this lamb to this tree stump." Elton pointed to the thick hemp rope that was strangling the lamb's neck, and it was specially tied with knots that became tighter as it struggled.

The other end of the hemp rope was fixed to a dead tree stump that was only half a person tall.

"The deadlock was deliberately tied, which means that it is not a temporary fix at all. It is completely planned to just put this lamb here and let it be slaughtered." Zhao Xu added analysis.

"So this lamb was preyed immediately, and we just saw the lamb carcass after the wolves left, which is actually the second predation." Zheng Xinyun also reacted, "Is it because of the sacrifice? That's why we chose it. around the cemetery."

At this time, she was also fully awake.

Even if she was new to the game, she understood that Arthur's involvement in ritual sacrifices was never a trivial matter.

"On the contrary."

At this moment, Zhao Xu stood up, his eyes passed over the tombstones on the small mounds, and his eyes went beyond the end to the silent valley farther away.

"The cemetery itself is blessed by divine magic. Like the 'Holy Consecration' of the second ring, it blesses an area with positive energy so that it cannot transform into undead creatures. The disadvantage is that it can only last for two hours per level, and The scope is limited."

"As for the fifth ring's holy house technique, in addition to being used to solidify spells such as 'detection magic', 'assistance technique', and 'death barrier', it can also prevent an area from being transformed. There are undead creatures, but this kind is only common in the cemetery of nobles."

"Considering the issue of cost and area, most of the cemeteries of civilians are blessed with similar rituals. The disadvantage is that it may not be able to completely avoid transformation into undead creatures, but the difficulty of transformation will increase sharply, and the coverage can be very wide. .”

As Zhao Xu said, he turned his head and looked at the rest of the people, "So the other party didn't want the lamb that was bitten to death to be abnormal, so they deliberately picked it near the cemetery. Otherwise, there would be intact trees farther away, and it would not be easy to bind the lamb there. break free."

After Zhao Xu's analysis, his team members nodded, while Mrs. Betty agreed with a stiff smile.

Zhao Xu was stunned when he saw this scene.

It was just that when he gave Mrs. Betty the "hint technique" in the first place, it was to reduce the rebellious mood of the other party who had just heard the "old witch".

So the spell he arranged was of the "trigger" type. Only after Mrs. Betty arrived in Shuanglu town, the thoughts revealed by Zhao Xu would germinate under the influence of the hint technique.

Even within the 12-hour duration of the spell, if they didn't reach Frost Dew Town, the hint spell would fail directly.

Therefore, this connection had already made Zhao Xu suspicious of the old hag.

"Captain, there is a dilapidated hut nearby, but we didn't go in and search it." At this time, two cavalry patrolling nearby returned to report.

"Mrs. Betty, I'm afraid we have to go and investigate. Your people can stay here and just send a signal if there is a problem." Zhao Xu said kindly at this time, but his expression was very playful.

Mrs. Betty shook her head, "No, let's go there together. It is our honor to cooperate with you, Mr. Pastor."

"Let's go together, Mrs. Betty." Zhao Xu really needed information from the other party at a critical time, so he invited him directly.

No one in the room dared to question Zhao Xu's meddling.

In fact, when a pastor finds out about such an incident involving evil sacrifices, if he doesn't pay attention or investigate, then he is a fake pastor.

Zhao Xu's behavior seemed extremely reasonable in the eyes of everyone. Because this is no longer a simple case of lamb being eaten.

"I'll go first, you follow." After thinking about it, Zhao Xu still ordered.

At this time, he estimated the situation, and it happened that this place was not far from Shuanglu Town, so he directly started casting spells on himself.

"Energy protection!"

As a ball of light reflected into Zhao Xu's body, it directly made him immune to the attribute damage caused by the subsequent use of the "super magic control" ability.

It's just that he didn't continue to rush to cast spells next, he needed to wait for the arrival of a key specialty.

He stared directly at his character card panel silently.

When he was promoted to level 6, he got the character level bonus feat that he could get every time the multiple level was 3.

Before the level 5 mage metamagic feat, he chose "durable spell", and the "iron will" feat was exchanged for "instant spell".

But this time, he directly chose the lowest level of difficulty for the level 6 specialization. Basically, everyone can master it without any threshold, and only use the costly "spell upgrade".

After reading the classics taught by this specialty in the carriage, combined with the characteristics that he used to simulate this specialty with potential points.

Everything was just as Zhao Xu expected. Before he arrived in Shuanglu Town, this reminder came to his mind.

[Adventurer Zhong Xia, you have obtained the 'Spell Upgrade' feat (level 6 character feat). 】