The Truth of Magic

187 chapter 186-something that doesn’t exist

To be honest, the violent rats weren’t very strong. As long as they wore armor or cast a Wizard armor spell, with the power of the violent rats ‘attacks, they would only have a 50 – 50 chance of actually hitting Zhao Xu.

not to mention, the star cloak on zhao xu’s body was enough to make him immune to the bite attacks of the berserk rats.

Unless it was a race that was born with a weapon that could be considered a magical weapon, the cloak that Zhao Xu was wearing made him immune to normal weapons, which was equivalent to making him immune to the monsters ‘natural weapons.

Naturally, they wouldn’t be able to do anything to Zhao Xu.

This was the power of the seventh-level spell, starry cloak.

This was also the reason why Zhao Xu dared to walk in front of them without any fear.

zhao xu observed the berserk rat that was almost a meter long and looked extremely large to the outside.

This kind of animal with an average of about 5HP could only be considered a small creature, about the size of a Goblin. Under the blessing of the four magic bullets just now, the berserk rat died on the spot.

he didn’t even experience the most basic process of dying.

it was a pity that the rats were despised. if it had been a wild boar, zhao xu could have made use of the meat and sold it for money, from the meat to the fangs.

“Do you guys recognize this animal?” Zhao Xu said as he looked at the two women. All he got in return was the two of them shaking their heads in shock.

zhao xu didn’t think that he would ask about the weak points of the two girls ‘knowledge.

However, this was also reasonable. There was a limit to geniuses.

Just the knowledge of mysticism and other kinds of knowledge was extremely complex. No matter how talented he was, he would not be able to understand everything in a month.

this is a berserk rat, an omnivorous scavenger. It usually only attacks to protect its nest territory. It probably thinks that we’ve offended its territory by entering this tower.

Zhao Xu tried to push the ” Golem goggles ” on the bridge of his nose. the biggest risk is that once you’re bitten and if you don’t have strong resistance, after one to three days of incubation, you’ll suffer 1 to 3 points of agility damage and damage to your Constitution.

when team maple leaf encountered the ghost, they couldn’t resist the ghost’s supernatural power and their team suffered attribute damage. they had to rely on natural recovery to recover, but their combat power must have been reduced during that time.

at this moment, ashvich finally stood up with a lingering fear. he pulled at wang ningwei, who was also squatting on the ground in an unsightly posture.

“This berserk rat’s size isn’t big enough to pass through the crack in the wooden door.” Ashvich regained his calm and analyzed.

wang ningwei was also observing the ground condition of the first floor of the guard tower, wondering if she should use a hidden detection door to search.

there was no food in the sentry tower, so it was impossible for this violent rat to have grown fat when it came in when it was young. the vines on the wall also showed no signs of being eaten.

As for the debris on the ground of the wooden door, it also meant that it wasn’t caused by ordinary rats, but by the ferocious rats in front of him.

Therefore, this might indicate that there was a mysterious passage in the Sentry tower that the berserk rats could enter.

zhao xu looked at the two girls and couldn’t help but laugh.

as expected, once a smart person lacked basic information, it was easy for them to think astray.

“This berserk rat’s climbing skill has a bonus of nearly 11 levels.” Zhao Xu said simply.

the berserk rats ‘agility wasn’t high, but they had the racial talent of climbing. moreover, their climbing was very stable. as long as they could climb up, they would basically not miss.

at this moment, the two women came to a realization.

in fact, they had also noticed the window-sized hole on the second floor, which was just enough for the violent rat to pass through. however, they had not expected that its heavy body would be able to climb up by force.

“i found this notebook in the sand.” at this moment, zhao xu took out his notebook from his pocket. the scream from earlier had interrupted him.

Now that he had confirmed that the berserk rats were dead, he returned to the main topic.

at this moment, the two girls ‘faces turned red, but they immediately started to look at the black leather notebook in zhao xu’s hands. there was also a band that was tied tightly to the cover.

Zhao Xu let go of the bandage and then gently turned it over.

However, the pages in the notebook were already tattered and had turned into many small pieces of paper that did not stick together. Even the words on them were blurred.

“captain, how long ago was that story?” Wang Ningwei asked with some confusion.

Zhao Xu furrowed his eyebrows a little and tried to recall. Then he said in a suspicious tone, ” it should be around four hundred years.

At this moment, ashvich interjected, “I just did a search, and the knowledge skill failed. But I’ve read the thousand-year history of Mystra’s capital. Can you tell me the name of the army camp or general? i might have some impression of it. ”

the southern flag Army. The commander’s name seems to be swite Ryles. zhao xu said.

Ashvich nodded slightly. that was indeed 400 years ago. According to the history of Mystra’s heraldry, the swite family had crossed the broken Sky mountains 500 years ago and moved here. Their descendants were still living in Mystra. “Mystra, on the other hand, issued a law 300 years ago to prohibit any external Army Corps from being stationed within a 300-mile radius.”

ashvich immediately compressed the time between 500 and 300 years ago, which matched what zhao xu said about 400 years ago.

Zhao Xu quickly used his own knowledge (noble and Royal families) to search for the name of this family, but he realized that he had failed.

If that was the case, the other party must have really relied on his powerful memory to know about this matter.

however, this was only because zhao xu didn’t try to solve it on purpose. otherwise, he could have used it with the spells he had learned before, or wang ningwei’s book that could increase the results of knowledge checks three times a day.

they could still rely on their knowledge skills to retrieve the results.

This was also the reason why the knowledge skill was one of the strongest skills in Arthur. It represented a powerful intelligence work.

zhao xu started to analyze the materials used to build this building. the fact that it had been able to last for 400 years without being damaged meant that the quality of this tower was indeed very high.

Something was wrong.

When he saw the familiar things, Zhao Xu’s expression changed. He looked at the two girls and said, ” “this guard tower definitely couldn’t have been abandoned for 400 years.”

Zhao Xu then pointed at the spiral staircase and said, ” this red-tinted brick baking technique was invented by the master craftsman, nafol, 200 years ago. How could it appear in a building from 400 years ago? ”

The two women couldn’t help but look at Zhao Xu in surprise. He knew when the architectural style had been created, and he was still able to do it.

however, to even know the crafting time of a brick was a little beyond bizarre.

unless you were a craftsman (brick-making) or a specialist (brick research), it was unlikely that you would understand the history of bricks.

it couldn’t be that the man in front of him had raised his knowledge (architecture and engineering) to level 10 and above, and he had to rely on the major classification of knowledge to search for it.

But they would never have guessed that after Zhao Xu transmigrated in his previous life, he had used his power and influence to get his parents to monopolize a “brick factory” in the small town.

back then, zhao xu had to go to a big town to drink with his friends to get the red brick baking technique back, and he had to beg them to spare him a few times before he could get it back.

He naturally had a deep impression of this.

at this moment, the two women were also seriously looking at the spiral staircase leading to the second floor.

If what Zhao Xu said was true, then there were only two possible explanations.

The first possibility was that the stairs had been repaired.

The other possibility was that this Sentry tower was not the same one from 500 years ago.

At this moment, the three of them all thought of these two possibilities and looked at each other.

when they were in the forest of prophecy, everyone was still skeptical, so they were fine with the strange phenomenon.

however, this was a real guard tower, and yet there was such a strange and illogical scene.

Who would deliberately spend a hundred years to put on such a disguise?

when he saw that the two girls were panting slightly nervously, zhao xu, as the team leader, said, ” “let’s go to the top floor and make sure there are no outsiders in the tower.”

At first, they did not search first, because the door was very small, and they felt that the possibility of someone being here was not high. They just did not expect that a violent rat would climb in through the window on the second floor.

after they decided on their plan, zhao xu continued to lead the way and the two women followed behind him.

the guard tower had a total of five floors, and this military facility was different from private buildings. the spiral staircases were not equipped with handguards, so the three of them could only walk against the wall.

the next few levels didn’t seem to be too different.

the second floor was the place for meetings. there was a collapsed conference table there, which had also been gnawed to pieces by the berserk rats.

The third floor was the resting place for sentries and officers, and the fourth floor was the weapons room. Some weapon racks were still there, but the valuable weapons had long been emptied.

Only the two stone stools used for training had not been picked up and were still piled in the corner.

Zhao Xu didn’t think too much about it and continued to lead the two girls to the fifth floor, which was also the highest level of the guard tower.

zhao xu walked up the stairs and his field of vision suddenly became extremely wide. the entire view of the paramita wilderness fell into his eyes.

when the sentry tower was built, it was mainly for security purposes, so the view from the fifth floor was completely unobstructed.

Above them was a canopy made of wooden frames. It was previously used to block out the sun and rain, but it had long since collapsed. Only some wood chips remained on the ground, as well as half a wooden pillar on the surrounding low walls.

Even the lookout post on the wooden roof that could continue to climb up had disappeared.

“those berserk rats can’t possibly eat wood dregs, right?” ashvich said as he looked at the few pieces of wood left on the ground.

“this stone block is a little strange.” wang ningwei said as she stood in the middle. there was a one-meter tall stone-like object in front of her.

the two of them immediately walked forward and found that there was a vertical stone cone on the surface of the stone block.

At this time, the morning sun was quite good, shining on the stone cone. The shadow of the tip of the cone covered a part of the number, which was the number ten written in the common language.

It indicated that it was ten O ‘clock.

Ningwei, this is a sundial. It depends on the fact that the sun is at different positions in the sky at different times. From this, we can determine the time based on the shadow-” ashvich’s voice stopped abruptly.

zhao xu looked at the sundial with a serious expression.

he raised his head and the sun was shining on his face, making him feel warm.

but zhao xu felt a chill down his spine.

there used to be a wooden roof with a high lookout post above, so the sun couldn’t shine down at all.

Why build such a sundial?