The Truth of Magic

Chapter 396 Skewer

Seeing the life energy attaching to himself, this completely visualized behavior made Zhao Xu unable to bear the thought of "spawning monsters" for the first time.

"Let me do it."

Zhao Xu deliberately piled up a high amount of melee physical output for himself, after all, in order to kill those giant mutant scorpions one by one.

"You want to use spells?"

The paladin Vivienne had already raised her sword and was about to sprint. These level 14 armor monsters might be difficult for others, but she could basically kill them with one blow.

It's just that, as a succubus, she took the route of seduction and didn't have much expertise in melee combat.

For example, high-end rounds are useless and can only be used in low-end rounds to abuse dishes such as "following the trend" and "powerful chopping". Naturally, she has no practice, and the efficiency of spawning monsters is not enough.

The small mutant scorpions in front of them, with a maximum health value of only ten or so points, probably gathered together in a certain pit at the beginning, and only appeared together after being disturbed. Naturally, it was not worth Zhao Xu's use of fireball to clear the field.

Why bother to kill a chicken with a sledgehammer.

Compared with the devils who have flame immunity, the devils are born with only 10 points of fire resistance, and they are very familiar with the famous "fireball technique" of mages.

Even after Ms. May's training, she also learned that senior mages can combine fireball with various sacred abilities, and finally hit a "fireball" that can break through flame immunity.

"That's right." After Zhao Xu finished speaking, he rushed forward, but the movement of his hands did not stop.

Watching the enemy fly over, the mountain of small mutant scorpions squirmed towards Zhao Xu like a fountain.

Small in size, they are more than one meter long, and their speed is no slower than ordinary people.

Relying on his perfect mobility, Zhao Xu made a sudden stop in a sprint just before he dived past the scorpions. While sweeping parallel in the air, he had just finished chanting the mysterious spell in his mouth.

In an instant, a cone-shaped scorching flame sprayed out from his hand, as if spraying pesticides, covering all the small mutant scorpions with a reach of five meters.

The hot and high-temperature flames swept everything on the spot, wrapping them like a coir raincoat.

These unspeakable mutated scorpions could only hiss in pain, and struggled to roll over in the flames until they curled up like burnt shrimp.

A simple one-ring spell by Zhao Xu killed nearly a hundred small mutant scorpions.

At this time, in a hidden corner not far from the corridor, a small hole was quietly drilled on the fluffy sand that arched into a hill, and a few eyes wandered out of it.

"Brother, this is the legendary fireball technique? So fierce? Just kill all these scorpions." It was a Ranger player who spoke.

In the beginning, they followed the first pair of adventurers who came into the cave, grabbed a treasure chest and disturbed the mutant scorpions, then they separated at a fork.

In the end, after a lot of trouble, the two also fled here, but they found that the surrounding holes were guarded by mutated scorpions, so they could only bury themselves in the soil, waiting for the mutated scorpions to disperse, so that they could go back to hunt for treasures .

Another warrior player called Big Brother shook his head, "I know this spell, it's the burning hand of the first ring."

"How is it possible?" The ranger exclaimed instantly, almost unable to suppress the volume of his voice.

It is no secret to the majority of players that the mage's first ring of spells. For example, the colorful spray is easy to use, and the sleep technique is barely passable, and everyone knows it.

It's just that it's hard for them to recognize a spell when they see a flame.

This fighter player still barely judged by relying on his knowledge of the last mage account.

"How can the Burning Hand have this kind of damage?" It's not like the ranger players haven't seen other level 1 mages release the Burning Hand.

Damage spells can be said to be a popular choice for novice mages who don't know Arthur in the early stages of the game.

Fire damage can be said to be a typical type of damage in traditional online games, so many new mages choose "Burning Hand" for the initial free spell selection, and a small number of people choose "Magic Missile".

However, when it comes to actual combat, the 1-4 (1D4) damage of the Burning Hand has left countless people in despair.

Not to mention, this spell can also perform reflection saving throws, and once passed, the damage will be halved.

As for the players, as low-level mages, the difficulty of exempting them is not high.

Once, a player cast this spell on a chicken. As a result, under the sea of ​​flames sprayed by a flamethrower, the chicken was only a little burnt in feathers, and it flew away smoothly.

In this example, the one-ring damage spell "Burning Hand" was successfully put on the player's blacklist.

That's why the ranger players were so surprised.

"The damage of this spell increases with the level of the caster, each level is 1-4 (1D4) damage, the opponent can fly, it must be a level 5 mage, and it has also reached the upper limit of the damage cap of 5-20 (5D4) ) damage." Warrior player explained.

"I'll go, the level 5 mage is so fierce, he can turn this spell into a magic."

A spell with one ring can only cause 1-4 damage in range, which is rubbish, but if it can cause 4-20 damage, that's another story. Even a group of civilians can be burned to death with this amount of damage.

But the ranger immediately reacted, "No, although this is 5 layers of 1-4 damage superposition, the average damage will tend to the most central expected damage, but this mutant scorpion did not escape, is it too exaggerated? "

Only then did the warrior player frowned, "It means that those mutant scorpions have no immunity, and the damage is real. Where is the perverted mage here? It's so terrifying, it should be more than level 5, grandma, if I knew it, I wouldn't delete the account gone."

"Hey, big brother, it's not too late for you to play mages now." The ranger player comforted him, and he felt a little pity that the other party gave up because the mages were too rubbish in the early stage.

At this time, Zhao Xu, who was at the center of the topic, checked the small mutant scorpions that had fallen on the ground and smelled slightly burnt, and frowned silently.

As an insect creature, spells that affect the mind are naturally ineffective.

So he used the "Burning Hand" first-level spell. Under his 28 intelligence, even if it was a first-level spell, the difficulty of saving it was still as high as 20 (10 + 1st level + 9 intelligence).

In this way, these clumsy mutant scorpions with 0-level reflection saves, unless they are very talented, don't even think about dodging half of the damage.

It's a pity that the challenge level of one of them is only one-half level, there are hundreds of them, and there is not much life energy piled up for Zhao Xu.

He couldn't help but evaluate, if he cleared this lair, the accumulation of life energy he got would be enough for him to meet the needs of level 7.

But Zhao Xu thought about it and let it go. He really shouldn't be too greedy.

At this time, Vivienne also flew over and glanced at the dead mutant scorpions all over the ground.

In fact, the power of these mutated scorpions was equivalent to a goblin squad of dozens of people. If they encountered a group of more than ten soldiers in an ordinary town, they would suffer heavy casualties.

Only when Zhao Xu's output reached the point where he could slap the opponent to death with a slap, could he solve it with ease.

Even if Vivienne, whose challenge level was over level 10, was to deal with it, she would still have to face the attacks of the transforming scorpions, hacking to death one by one while being bitten.

"Let's go." Zhao Xu ordered.

"These mutant scorpions are too sensitive." He was a little surprised.

"Obviously we are flying, and we don't have the pressure of wings flapping to the ground. How can they still sense it and gather an army in an instant."

Most insect creatures have the ability of "tremor perception". Within the range of action, as long as there are creatures walking on the ground, this ability can locate the position where the creature touches the ground.

So you can easily identify the enemy's position without even meeting, so the invisibility ability is also somewhat restrained by it. If Zhao Xu was willing, the three-ring spell "Tremor Perception" with the same name could also help him achieve this effect.

But Vivian shook her head. She raised the sharp long sword in her hand and pointed it at a mound that was not stepped on firmly, "Because those mutant scorpions are here to catch these two people."

Only then did Zhao Xu realize that there was someone below, and he said coldly, "Who is it?"

It's just that the lower part seemed to think that they were just asking fraudulently, and ignored them at all.

Zhao Xu smiled and aimed directly at the mound, taking aim at a distance of one step.

"Boom."

There was an explosion in an instant.

"Hey, hero, it's me." The two people who were hiding in the soil immediately crawled out.

Both the player fighter and the ranger honestly raised their hands to show their innocence.

In addition to the previous intimidation by spells, the two just looked at a stone in front of them, and were cut open by an invisible sword energy.

This kind of power scares the two of them in an instant. If they don't come out and surrender, they will be separated.

"Are you players who fled from Lucca city to the Northern Alliance?" Zhao Xu asked looking at their poor attire.

The ranger carried a short bow with low power, and the number of arrows in his quiver was less than twenty, which seemed to be too much for supplies.

And the warrior can only wear ordinary inlaid leather armor, and what he holds is also a cheap machete, not a warrior's sharp weapon, a two-handed giant sword worth fifty gold coins. Playing with this equipment four months after the server was opened, it can be considered miserable.

"Yes, yes, Mr. Master, you also ran for your life, oh, didn't you move?"

The leading warrior player Beiguo asked in favor.

"We're here to join in the fun," Zhao Xu said.

Speaking of flying in the air, he couldn't help thinking, "So, you are the adventurers who snatched these mutant scorpion treasure chests before?"

"Ah?" The soldier's eyes widened, but he didn't expect to be exposed in an instant.

It's just that Zhao Xu didn't bother to explain. He now held all the power rune staffs in the treasure chest that the other party had snatched.