The Truth of Magic

Chapter 398

At this time, Zhao Xu gestured telepathically to Vivienne, and she nodded immediately, took out a handful of gold coins from her arms and stuffed them into the arms of the two guiding players.

"Your reward." Vivienne said coldly.

After that, she raised the holy avenger in her hand again and flew towards Zhao Xu in front of her.

Now her goal had become to help Zhao Xu get those brass treasure boxes.

"Brother, are we still keeping up?" the ranger Jianyu asked in confusion.

In the entire flat nest, looking up, there are countless mutant scorpions densely packed, and some positions can no longer fit, so they can only be stacked in a staggered manner.

These mutated scorpions seemed to have received mysterious instructions, and drilled into the most central lair from the countless corridors of this labyrinthine cave.

If it weren't for Zhao Xu and Vivian's ability to fly, it would have taken them more than half an hour to squeeze through the hole where the scorpion escaped.

"We're retreating through other ports. This is beyond our ability to intervene." The soldier Beiguo held up the gold coin purse in his hand. There are probably no less than fifty gold coins in it, which is enough for them to harvest tonight.

"only?"

Ranger Jianyu looked at Zhao Xu who was killing at the entrance of the cave, and couldn't help showing envious eyes, "We might be able to follow them."

"A little bit of ambition, okay? We players want to be with the big players among the players. If you join the NPC now, you will be looked down upon." The soldier Bei Guoyi said righteously.

"One day, our player mages will be as powerful as this NPC mage."

The soldier's eyes seemed to be ignited with a raging light.

As for Zhao Xu at this time, he kept waving his wooden stick wildly.

Because his Fearless, Rhino Charge, and Staff each deal double damage, Zhao Xu also saved one of his spell slots and no longer activated the ability of the rune staff because he didn't deliberately encounter a giant monster.

Just relying on the two abilities of Fearless and Rhinoceros, he has already caused himself to damage as high as 60 HP in one blow, so he can see whoever he sees in seconds.

The only requirement is that he must rely on the charge ability to activate.

With Zhao Xu's own flying ability, he was like a steel warrior, constantly rampaging at the entrance of the cave.

Wherever he went, there were huge sticks waving, the speed was not fast, but there were many shadows, and there must be gains.

Slowly, the corpses of the mutant scorpions at the entrance of the cave began to gather together.

And these mutant scorpions, even if they are reborn as humans, it is difficult to understand why the mysterious man in front of him who is not very good at swinging the club, and whose speed is similar to ordinary people -

They were actually able to slaughter their mutant scorpions so easily.

There are many fighters in the world who have dropped ten benefits, but it is definitely the first time for a mage with 8 powers like Zhao Xu to fight in close combat.

For all players, the only means of stacking damage is their own strength and weapon enchantment, and further up is the special ability of the paladin's "Evil Breaking Slash".

It's not like Zhao Xu, who triples or quadruples the damage every time he attacks.

Ordinary people only perform perfectly in normal times to cut out the "critical strike" damage that is close to the peak, that's only twice, only the legendary scythe can barely quadruple.

Unlike the man in front of him, it seems that the sword comes with four times the critical strike, abruptly turning Arthur's world, where soldiers are struggling to survive, into "True Arthur Warriors".

Even if Zhao Xu triggers a critical strike himself, it can double the damage, reaching five times the peak 100 hp.

"I'm here." Vivienne also sprinted over in the tide of scorpions flying all over the sky.

Her body was already stained with the juice that was sprayed after killing insects, and she was no different from Zhao Xu.

Zhao Xu looked around. The ultra-small mutant scorpion, which was still coming out of the ground, wrapped itself around his thigh without paying attention.

The speed at which they spewed out completely exceeded the speed at which the two of them strangled.

Even if Zhao Xu freely activated the sword energy of the "blade cloud" on his body to kill, it would not help at all.

Even among the mutant scorpions that attacked, there were always some that could attack Zhao Xu's weak point by chance, and successfully broke through the barrier of his mage armor, breaking through the defense.

But in the end, Zhao Xu's star cloak inspired the meteor glow to block it smoothly.

"Enter the entrance of the cave." Zhao Xu shouted.

After confirming the brass treasure box and successfully picking it up, his goal has begun to change, and it is no longer simply wanting to fight to the death to obtain life energy.

As Zhao Xu's figure broke into the deep passage, he suddenly found that there was a turbid atmosphere inside, and a dense wave of scorpions spread all over every corner of the passage.

If you are allergic to insects, you will faint when you see this scene.

Only Vivian, who was born in an abyss with worse environmental conditions, was able to hack and kill without any scruples like Zhao Xu.

After that, Zhao Xu aroused his own sword energy every round, and kept rushing forward.

At the same time, he hammered every mutant scorpion blocking the road to death with his own wooden stick until the whole corridor was filled with that stench.

It was also the first time that Zhao Xu discovered that repeated slashing by a machine would make his hands numb even when he was not a machine.

Halfway through, he caught up with the mutant scorpion's speed and successfully intercepted the second brass treasure chest.

Barely reinvigorating his morale, he continued to kill towards the end of the passage.

"President, I'm afraid this is not the way to go?"

Vivian shook her head, shaking the sweat from her hair.

For some reason in this winter season, the heat erupting from the veins of the earth is much higher than before, making them all sweat profusely.

"Um."

Zhao Xu also sighed. At this moment, he had already felt the numbness in his hands, and if he went down, it would be a tingling sensation.

"In this position, I'm afraid the fireball technique won't be able to clean up much." Vivian helped Zhao Xu analyze it.

The fireball technique with a radius of 6 meters only cleared the 12-meter corridor, and the entire circular area of ​​action was basically wasted.

"Don't worry."

Zhao Xu said in relief that he was also out of breath at the moment, with one hand leaning on the wall and the other leaning on his knee, not caring that his hands were covered with the sticky juice from the burst insects.

For other mages, when learning spells, they have to choose carefully. Generally, spells with the same function will not be learned repeatedly.

Because transcribing spells is too expensive, the borrowing fee alone is 50 gold coins per page, and three pages for third-ring spells, that is, 150 gold coins for copying a third-ring spell is in vain.

Not to mention there is also an ink loss fee for transcription.

Because at the beginning he blessed too many spell slots for melee combat, even if he could combine two second-level spells to become a third-level spell, he was still struggling at this moment.

This also made him look forward to it, when he reached level 9.

If Zhao Xu's combat power at level 1 was 1, then his combat power at level 6 was 10 now.

And at level 9, he has potential points and unlimited spell slots, and his combat power is 1000.

At that point, even if he had fought against Master Nine Rings, he still had the confidence.

In an instant, after Zhao Xu had cleared the passage, after he stopped, countless small mutant scorpions appeared in front of him, filling his field of vision.

Those mutant scorpions above the size had already felt the terrifying threat of the wooden stick after Zhao Xu's sprint, and began to run away from him.

At the same time, he continued to command countless small mutant scorpions to pile up into a wall to block his way forward.

Although Zhao Xu was so killed that he felt that he was almost at the energy bottleneck, but now he was in a state where his strength had just been exhausted, and he was completely exhausted.

The surrounding mutant scorpions rushed towards him frantically, trying to hit him with death claws and attack him with tail stabs.

Then he was stopped by the armor and the star cloak with difficulty.

"President, step back first." Vivienne said in a low voice at this time, and now her mithril armor was also broken at some weak joints, relying on these breakages to successfully attack her.

It was only a slight injury, and she immediately healed herself with the holy healing ability of the paladin.

On the contrary, Zhao Xu, a priest who was born with healing spells, hadn't successfully used healing spells a few times since the server was opened for four months.

Contrary to the fact that 80 to 90 percent of the spell slots of ordinary priests are spent on healing spells.

"No, no need."

Zhao Xu glanced at his spell slot, gritted his teeth and looked at the army of mutant scorpions in front of him like a black cloud overwhelming the city.

"I'm going to start clearing the road, and then we'll fly over there immediately. If we spend any more time here, we'll just be blocked," Zhao Xu warned.

He also didn't expect that the mutant scorpion females in this lair were so prolific that they forcibly blocked their way with an army of scorpions.

"Okay." Vivienne nodded solemnly.

Suddenly, the sand above Zhao Xu's head cracked, and a whole nest of ultra-small and small mutant scorpions dumped directly on him.

It wrapped around him like a curtain of insect clothes, and even turned and swelled on his body.

Vivian's eyes widened instantly, and she hurriedly swung the long sword in her hand, but she couldn't swing it down.

She knew that Zhao Xu was fine at the moment, but once the other party lost consciousness or fell into a helpless state, the army of mutant scorpions in front of her could easily kill him immediately.

Zhao Xu, on the other hand, seemed to have lost all his strength like an old man, struggling to lift his arms that had been attached to many scorpions.

His middle finger barely passed through the swarm of mutant scorpions that wrapped him, and it was exposed like this, pointing to the tunnel ahead that was blocked by the swarm of insects.

"Lightning beam."

Lightning flashes surged from the fingertips, and azure blue arcs soared to the sky and penetrated the two realms.

A long whip-shaped lightning bolt nearly thirty to forty meters pierced through the void and reached the other shore.

The gold, silver, copper, and lead in all the ores along the way were instantly melted, and all obstacles were smashed to the end.

The tunnel, which was still airtight just now, was cleared out in an instant with a 40-meter-long passage.

The mutated scorpions that were alive and kicking died in pieces under the lightning beam with a damage range of 10-60 (10D6), and they couldn't even leave the slightest ability to struggle.

They couldn't even do the most basic twitching, so they were lost in place and became corpses, leaving scorched scars where lightning passed by.

"fly."

Zhao Xu rushed forward.

At the next blocked place, another "lightning beam" pierced through the front, illuminating the entire dark passage.

Until the end, Zhao Xu rushed forward with all his strength.

The moonlight shone faintly on his tired but determined face. .

Luhua condensed frost, pouring on his robe and cloak, which was stained with mutant scorpion juice and had become shapeless.

Zhao Xu would never be able to get rid of this nausea if he didn't take a shower four or five times when he went back.

But at this moment, Vivienne immediately raised the long sword that shone coldly under the moonlight, and stood in front of him.

She looked at the cavalry hunting in front of her, and regarded death as home.

On the sloping ground in front of the entrance of the cave, there is a cavalry unit in heavy armor, headed by two young men in the same attire.

Surrounding them crouched were the super-large, giant and even super-giant mutant scorpions that had escaped at first, and other sized scorpions densely occupied the entire hill.

Seeing the leader of the mutant scorpions bow their heads and knees obediently towards the two young men in the front, Zhao Xu immediately understood that this underground lair was actually owned by the owner.

That is, the treasure box of his way was placed by the family power behind the young man.

"How dare you take the treasure box that our family put here without authorization, and you two thieves still haven't handed them back." One of the young leaders with a pale face and a hint of arrogance shouted angrily.

"No, just kill them, just take them from the corpse. They have already touched the family secrets, so they can only die." Another young man with a resolute face said.

He waved his hand directly, and suddenly the cavalry all over the mountains and plains rushed towards them.