The Truth of Magic

184 the target altar

at this moment, the middle-aged wizard who had advanced to become a magic guard also had a puzzled expression on his face. he kept looking back and forth between reyan and zhao xu, wondering if this young wizard in front of him had really come up with this theory himself.

it wasn’t reyan who revealed it to him.

At this moment, Zhao Xu’s eyes were already shining even brighter. The entire logical chain of thoughts in his mind was instantly connected.

The dopamine secreted by the successful derivation of the result instantly swept away the feeling of depression he had felt after witnessing the death of the four young men and women.

let’s return to the original question. It’s understandable that the pit fiend didn’t return to Mystra, but why did he attack here and kill four people without leaving any traces? ”

Ordinary people might not be easy to deal with, but with the demons ‘means, even if there were hundreds of people, they could cover up the bodies.

“it’s impossible to guess what choice the chaotic evil demons make, but the order devils have to do this because they have to.”

At this moment, Zhao Xu’s eyes were filled with confidence, and all the other priests and the three magic guards of the floating city were looking at him, waiting for him to continue speaking.

Reyan lowered his head slightly and thought about what Zhao Xu had just said.

“Originally, it could have controlled Andy and used ‘advanced teleportation’ to escape. however, with the existence of these four people and my witness, it was unable to hide its traces and take andy away. In fact, according to my request, they would all go to the church of the goddess, which was extremely dangerous for the demons. And even if we kill those four in secret, one of them is the son of the Secretary of Mystra’s government office, so it will definitely lead to an investigation.”

“So it simply used four people as sacrifices to create a massacre that would be discovered, spreading fear to burst out power to support this ritual that can hide its location. as for choosing a place near the stream, i’m guessing it’s to expand the range of the ritual.”

this also means that the ritual’s absolute coverage is limited. The pit fiend is hidden around this area.

zhao xu said with certainty.

reyan shook his head on purpose. ” that’s not necessarily true. this kind of hidden ritual can only last for a short period of time. as time passes, the power of concealment will eventually disappear, and the pit fiends will no longer be able to block out their “location detection.””

“this will only delay its exposure by ten days to half a month.”

when zhao xu heard this, he laughed.

If he hadn’t noticed that the ritual had a time limit, he might have doubted himself.

however, he had already seen through this from the very beginning, and this would become a strong point of evidence for his speculations.

this means that there must be altars related to the Devils around here.

After Zhao Xu said this, he realized that everyone’s faces were still calm.

at this moment, his state of mind was clear, and he immediately understood.

a similar case had happened at rose cross!

“Pa, pa, PA.” reyan couldn’t help but clap his hands. right now, the way he looked at zhao xu was no longer as carefree as he had been before. he was looking very serious.

dawn era, year 1724. The Prince of the Kass Empire went missing. At that time, it was discovered that the 20 followers who followed him were all killed, and their blood dyed the nearby stream red. That time, it was a pit fiend that used killing as a ritual and hid in an altar nest deep under The Hunting Ground. After that, we had a legendary-mage intervene, and only then were we able to track down the existence of the pit fiends.”

reyan looked at zhao xu with a satisfied expression. ” your performance will be coming to an end for now. leave the rest to me. ”

after he finished speaking, he looked at his subordinates with a heroic expression. ” contact the city guards of mystra. with this stream as the center, search the area within a 20-mile radius. ”

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zhao xu gently took off his vr helmet and rolled over from his bed.

it was almost two or three in the morning, and the power light on zhang qi and chen sinan’s vr helmets was off.

It indicated that they were also asleep, but they didn’t take off their helmets. the other roommate, liu hanqiang, was snoring lightly.

Zhao Xu stood on his tiptoes and quietly walked over to the balcony of the dormitory. He turned on the tap and kept the volume of the water low, then scooped up some clean water to wash his face and wake himself up.

the balcony of the dormitory wasn’t very big. on the left was a sink and the washing machine that zhao xu and the other three had bought together. on the right was the bathroom and the door to the bathroom. the space in the middle was only about three square meters.

zhao xu gently leaned against the stone railing of the balcony and looked through the branches of the banyan tree in front of him. all the lights in the female dormitory across the street had been turned off and it was now completely dark.

Everything in the world was silent.

zhao xu remembered that over the next two days, rose cross would gather their forces and search the entire area.

Even Wang Ningwei’s team of magicians, which had been sent to kill the bandits, would be re-recruited the next day and directly participate in the search for the devil’s altar.

Of course, he didn’t want them to participate in the pursuit of demons. He only wanted them to look for traces of the altar.

zhao xu’s mission also changed to participate in the search.

this was also zhao xu’s suggestion to reyan as a probationary member of the rose cross.

zhao xu really did want to stick to his end of this matter and personally take part in solving it. so, after considering his upcoming guardian mission, he directly suggested reyan to make a change.

Naturally, Reyan also agreed to it.

and zhao xu had unknowingly realized that he had also become an existence that could influence the players when they gave out missions.

Perhaps one day, it would be his turn to give the players a mission.

But then, the mutual understanding that Zhao Xu and Wang Ningwei had worked so hard to build up was all for nothing.

in reality, the new wizards tomorrow wouldn’t know that everything started because zhao xu was helping them to search for any unexpected situations in the area. that was why they had accidentally encountered a demon that had possessed them and killed them, which in turn caused their own missions to be changed.

according to reyan, he could already claim one of the two magical items, the eternal wand and the invisibility ring, based on his discovery.

But the other item would be given to those who found the clue to the altar as a reward.

this saved zhao xu a lot of trouble, and he got his guaranteed income. However, it also meant that he had to seize the initiative in the search team.

the value of the two magic items in zhao xu’s hands were among the top of all the magic items that players had obtained so far.

The only pity was that Devils were Otherworld creatures and were naturally immune to fire elemental damage. Therefore, his ” fireball magic eternal wand ” would be useless if he really encountered one.

zhao xu didn’t need to keep it a secret anymore, so he took out his phone and briefly sent what happened that night to wang ningwei and asvich in the group.

he especially emphasized the cause and effect of the ritual and the strength of the pit fiends.

the next day, rose cross would naturally split them up again. at that time, zhao xu would need the two of them to help him out and help him get the last magic item.

After that, Zhao Xu continued to stand there.

without realizing it, his influence on arthur, especially the city of mystra, had grown.

In the future, Rose Cross would definitely write a brief report on tonight’s incident and secretly send it to the churches and large organizations of good gods to inform them.

Speaking of which, that pit fiend was just unlucky to have met Zhao Xu. Otherwise, he would have gone to Mystra to continue hiding after he had successfully completed the ritual tonight and then secretly developed his forces in hell.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu’s phone started vibrating.

[ashvich: “your experience tonight was a little bizarre. if i knew this would happen, i wouldn’t have gone offline to patrol with you.”]

[Wang Ningwei: Mr. Zhongxia is really great. He’s like an unsung hero who avoided the incident of a devil hiding.]

The two women were both smart people. From Zhao Xu’s short explanation, they could instantly tell how many confrontations he had been through that night.

the fact that they were able to cross the floating city and change their mission was only because of a suggestion from the person in front of them.

In fact, if it was an ordinary person, even if it was a graveyard in the game, they would feel fear just by approaching it.

only a warrior like zhao xu, who had killed undead in his previous life, could be so fearless as he sat by the grave and slowly flipped through the notes he had just gotten.

[asvich: it’s only been a few days. Why is it that the mission you’re participating in is already at the level of saving the world, while we’re only at the level of eliminating bandits?]

[zhongxia: blow lightly.]

[wang ningwei: haha, it’s rare for mr. zhongxia to be so humble.]

Zhao Xu then continued to do business with the two women as usual. After listening to the explanation from the two girls, Zhao Xu finally understood why the two of them didn’t do anything when they ran into the group of gnomes during the day.

it turned out that everyone had the same thought.

however, this matter had already been turned over. the three of them began to carefully discuss the specific plan for tomorrow.

After talking to Reyan for the rest of the night, Zhao Xu looked at the map and started to have a rough idea of where to focus on first. This was also why he needed the two women’s help.

Zhao Xu’s gaze fell on the simple map that he had drawn for the two women. There was a guard tower at the edge of the stream.