The Truth of Magic

Chapter 393 Power Rune Staff

Rune Staff of Strength.

A staff that weighs only a few kilograms and is as smooth as black jade. Its top is inlaid with a sparkling mysterious gemstone, and complicated arcane runes are engraved inside it.

The "rune staff" is another form of staff, which allows the caster to consume the spell slots of the same ring spell, and cast the spells inscribed in the rune staff, which is equivalent to expanding the spell slot limit of mages.

For example, the power rune staff worth about 60,000 gold coins in Zhao Xu's hand can use spell slots to cast ice cones, inextinguishable flames, fireballs, spell ineffective barriers, monster hold spells, and levitation spells. Spells, Lightning Bolt, Magic Missile, Enfeeble Ray, Force Wall, and more.

It's just that Zhao Xu has two major means of being a versatile spellcaster and a bizarre seer, so it's not as significant as other spellcasters.

Moreover, to use the rune staff, a "tuning ceremony" must be performed first, and repeated casting of this ceremony will only overwrite the previous one.

So each person can only have one rune staff at a time.

This staff itself can be used as a +2 masterwork wooden stick, and at the same time, it can also allow the user to gain 2-level luck in defense and saving throws, which is equivalent to half of the praise spell.

If it's just a +2 magic stick, there's nothing particularly surprising about it.

It can be treasured in the treasure room, juxtaposed with many artifacts such as Dragon Balls and Vientiane Impermanence Cards, mainly due to its another function.

The staff can use a swift action to consume a first-level spell slot, so that in the next round, the melee attack of this staff can cause double damage, and once it hits a critical strike, it will triple.

This has an extremely critical position for melee output.

Next, Zhao Xu bid farewell to everyone in a hurry. After carrying the brass box, he returned to his tent all the way.

After this turmoil, this fleeing team no longer dared to let people go out to die.

"President, did you recognize this stick?" Vivian said.

Zhao Xu nodded and told all he knew.

It's just that after Vivienne finished listening, she had a mysterious smile on her face, "President, do you know?"

"Um?"

"There are two versions of this power rune staff in the world."

"How to say?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help raising his eyebrows.

It stands to reason that the ones in the treasury should be considered the best, and he didn't see any other versions of the power rune staffs.

Vivian bit her lips lightly, as if she felt that the things in front of her were a little unbelievable.

"Although the power rune scepter is very rare, there are other mages who have successfully made it, but most of those versions are in the form of wooden sticks."

"Only a few are in the form of wooden sticks. There is no difference in power between them and the form of wooden sticks, except that the shape of the weapons is inconsistent."

Wooden sticks and wooden sticks are two types of weapons mastered by a small number of mages. They are all simple weapons and have not yet reached the level of military weapons.

Among them, the stick is often used with one hand, while the stick is used with both hands.

Zhao Xu frowned slightly, "The producer is different?"

"Captain, your reaction is really fast." Vivienne immediately continued, "The sticks are all created by our Lord, because he likes sticks and doesn't like sticks."

At this moment, Zhao Xu looked at the stick in his hand in disbelief.

It seems that Ernest not only made a few "Rune Scepters of Power", but for some reason, one of them was left outside.

During this period, it must have changed hands several times, until it was packaged into a brass treasure box and entered into the mutant scorpion's lair, and it never saw the light of day.

Unexpectedly, it finally fell into his hands again.

"Vivienne, I'm afraid we have to go to that lair to have a look next time." Zhao Xu said seriously.

In a mysterious lair, the treasure chest that was randomly grabbed contains the rune scepter that Ernest once made, which was somewhat beyond his expectations.

"Indeed, that lair is worth exploring."

It stands to reason that most of the magic items held by Arthur's monsters will match their identities.

For those who hold treasures that exceed their own level, the water-filled part in the middle will be squeezed out by more powerful adventurers long ago.

A mutant scorpion with a challenge level of 11 might not be able to attract attention, but paired with a nest with a lot of storage, an adventure team with an average level of 15 will be tempted.

In particular, the mutant scorpion had an ability similar to "any door" that was not found in racial abilities, which made Zhao Xu curious.

It was also fortunate that the mutant scorpion couldn't open the treasure chest and take out the stick to show off, otherwise it wouldn't have survived the day it became a super-giant bug.

"However, the old man said that the adventurers who stole the treasure chest formed a team of their own and went out for a stroll two hours ago. Outsiders didn't know where they were at that time, and..."

The rest of Vivian didn't say any more.

After they killed the super giant mutant scorpion that devoured the adventurer, the digestive capacity of the opponent's stomach was too strong. When everyone cut the scorpion open, only the bones remained inside.

Naturally, the spell of talking with the dead is useless.

"No, Vivian." Zhao Xu gently pointed to the brass treasure chest stacked in the corner.

This thing took up too much space, and it couldn't be easily stuffed in his convenience bag with secondary space, but Zhao Xu brought it back as if picking up junk.

"With this treasure chest, we can use the object location technique to sense similar objects."

Now Zhao Xu has a caster level of level 12, and the scope of his use of this spell is the area within a radius of 300 meters with himself as the center.

It took the adventurers two hours to go back and forth. Even if they didn't have time to explore, they would only be able to walk two or three kilometers at night for an hour.

In this way, his "object location technique" with a diameter of more than half a kilometer, only needs to be used three or four times, and he can completely search for the target in the direction pointed by the old man.

And in the fleeing team at this time, even those who were greedy for profit and wanted to get their hands on the treasures of the lair, under the threat of the mutant scorpions, there were only a few who dared to go.

Even because those adventurers brought back the disaster just now, if they wanted to leave the treasure hunt, they would be stopped by others.

Therefore, in the process of searching for the nest, they are unlikely to encounter interference from other people.

Those who have to deal with it in this way are only those mutant scorpions.

Looking at the smile on Zhao Xu's mouth, Vivian immediately understood what Zhao Xu meant.

"Master, the lair that can support a super giant mutant scorpion, I'm afraid there are not a few other mutant scorpions."

She was a little worried about Zhao Xu's spell endurance.

Arthur's monsters don't line up to die.

So even if Zhao Xu used fireballs to wash the ground, the effect was mediocre. All kinds of mutant scorpions pouring out of their lairs were their headaches.

"Vivienne, mages can also fight protracted battles." Zhao Xu said with a smile.

Energy protection!

In an instant, Zhao Xu cast this three-ring spell, which could only last for more than ten minutes. It was immune to attribute damage, which was just right for the next super magic control ability.

[Adventurer Zhongxia, you cast the second-level spell Blade Cloud (spell lasts), duration: 24 hours (originally 12 rounds)]

[Freely release a blade attack each round, range: 9 meters, attack power level 20 (caster level + intelligence adjustment), damage: 5-11 (1D6+level/3)]

After blessing a saber energy coiled like a phantom mist on his body, Zhao Xu looked straight at the wooden stick in his hand.

In the past, after he was attuned with Chitian Shenshi, he directly held a giant scythe and killed all directions, cutting cavalry like cutting vegetables, as if entering no man's land.

At that time, he had the blessing of nine rings.

Now, relying on the few spell slots he has left, he will stack up to become the number one melee powerhouse in the current player group.

As far as fighters have to improve their own attack power at each level, generally several levels of fighters have several levels of basic attack power.

And because of the sorcerer, Zhao Xu could barely make do with the combat awareness of a third-level attack at level 6. This was also the reason why he was a level 5 fighter in his previous life, so he didn't need to waste time on melee training.

Otherwise, other mages, even if they don't like melee combat and want to increase their number of rings, will still accept basic physical combat training, which is much lower than that of fighters.

When reaching level 20, fighters, barbarians, paladins, and rangers who focus on physical output all have a full level 20 basic attack level.

The secondary outputs of poets, priests, rogues, druids, and monks are around level 15.

As for mages and warlocks, they are only level 10, which is more than enough to bully an ordinary fighter, but compared to fighters of the same level, there is a huge difference without the blessing of spells.

Zhao Xu glanced at the attack power on his character card, occupation level 3, praise level 3 luck, swift acceleration level 1, +2 strength rune staff + level 2.

Add up a total of 9 steps.

It's just that when Zhao Xu created his account, he didn't know that mages could also deal physical output. He chose civilian staff to weaken the second-level attack. At the same time, 8 points of strength not only failed to increase the attack, but also brought a first-level penalty because of his low strength. .

His current real attack output level is only level 6.

Fortunately, his professional ability and spell position are not vegetarian. With all kinds of resources piled up, Zhao Xu also has the ability to change his life against the sky.

If he didn't pile up enough to inevitably break the defense against mutant scorpions, how dare he go to that lair?