The Truth of Magic

208 the land of the god’s punishment (1/3)

Ever since Zhao Xu had gone to Mystra’s legendary library, he had spent most of his nights there.

in the hotel room, he followed the method taught by ling luduo in the library and sprinkled six drops of holy water on the four corners of the bed as an evening gift.

Then, he took out a specially-made blanket from his backpack. Both sides of the blanket were filled with ritualistic magic circles.

then, zhao xu put a mint-flavored candy in his mouth and laid his head on the three magic books he had borrowed. he smelled the faint aroma of paper and ink coming from the incense burner at the foot of his bed and slowly fell asleep.

by the time zhao xu woke up, he had already completed the ritual and his soul had already floated into the ” library of legends ” in the floating city.

this ritual didn’t use much ” holy water “, and it mainly used those specially made mint pills, which could stimulate the spirit in his brain. zhao xu only had a few dozen of them in stock, and each of them was equivalent to a ticket to the legendary library.

as for the ritual circle on the blanket that could be used repeatedly, he had to re-inject his own spirituality every seven or eight times and personally copy it with special materials.

So, every time Zhao Xu went to the library of legends, it was a very expensive trip.

Only when he had high-circle spells in the future could he reach this level with one spell.

recently, whenever zhao xu went to the library, the little girl, lu duo, would constantly step on the bench and take down all the magic books one by one to wipe them clean. she would always hum a song and enjoy doing things that could be solved with one spell.

“You seem to be very happy?” lu duo was holding a copy of dragon wars and was about to put it back when she saw zhao xu’s expression. she couldn’t help but ask, ”

“No, I didn’t,” zhao xu walked over to a shelf that he hadn’t finished looking through earlier in a calm manner.

it’s when I realized that the seeds I’ve unintentionally planted will bloom one day. Naturally, I’m looking forward to it growing.

When Zhao Xu first posted on the forum, he never thought that he would post a second one.

In his mind, he was inclined to let the players use the Lifestone in exchange for experience.

it was better to die once than to say it a thousand times.

This was the toughest principle in Arthur. In reality, Zhao Xu’s post was at most meant to educate some smart people, and most of the other posts wouldn’t leave any of the traps that they had to step into behind.

however, he did not expect that he would become cui lu’s idol with just a few posts.

Zhao Xu knew that most of the people who had been worshiping Him in the past had ulterior motives, and most of them just wanted to interact with him and get more information out of him.

That was why he didn’t agree to any of the friend requests for a studio.

however, cui lu was someone he knew well. she wasn’t the kind of person who would use others on purpose and cling to them.

This meant that she was just admiring the posts that Zhao Xu had shared.

This made Zhao Xu feel a sense of relief in his heart, as if his efforts hadn’t been in vain.

after all, in this day and age, there were too many people who would make bogus accusations after taking advantage of others.

zhao xu, who had dealt with a few cases regarding the division of family property in his previous life, was even more aware of this.

more importantly, he needed a channel to influence cui lu.

That way, he would be able to make use of cui Lu in the upcoming battle of fallen star Lake, which was about to happen in the next week, and reduce the time needed to accumulate.

At the same time, it also pulled Zhang Qi out of the whirlpool of death.

“Hey, zhongxia, why don’t you Continue reading that teleportation ritual?”

When Lu duo saw Zhao Xu put the book back on the shelf, she couldn’t help but get curious. Normally, he would need at least four or five days to finish reading that magic book.

this was also the time limit she had set for the other party to materialize.

zhao xu was able to take out all the books in the legendary library in the main material plane of arthur.

It was by currying favor with Lu duo that he had obtained the authority to materialize magic tomes from her, allowing him to read them in the world of Arthur.

basically, after his soul returned to its place and woke up, the ancient books that he had chosen to borrow would appear by his side. once they expired, they would automatically disappear.

According to Lu duo’s request, Zhao Xu could only borrow up to three books at a time. If the time wasn’t up yet, he would have to sleep on those books during the ritual and then bring them back to return, which would form a one-time destruction.

so, lu duo was very curious as to why zhao xu had given up on all three of those books.

one of the books was about senior demons, and he had come to borrow it last night.

Her gaze followed Zhao Xu’s figure and came to a bookshelf. In the end, her gaze fell on the book that Zhao Xu was reaching for.

Hey, hey, zhongxia, you’re cheating, ” she said angrily. who would especially flip through the answers before the test? ”

“this is a matter between scholars. how can it be called cheating?”

zhao xu gave a perfunctory reply to lu duo’s question and took out the book that was as thick as two fists, ” detailed descriptions of arthur’s 100 great subsidiary demiplanes “.

After a few days of getting along, he could see that the short-statured Lu duo was a soft-hearted person and would not take him seriously.

The core of the floating city’s mages, who were the ” teachers ” who served as researchers and teachers, were mostly eager to line up to enter the half of the secret plane, the ” scavenger beast pit.

Free talents were definitely one of the best deals in Arthur.

even with a mage’s professional abilities, they would only get four metamagic abilities at level 20. the fact that they could only get one metamagic ability every level 5 was simply too long.

however, when they accumulated enough contribution points and queued up, they would find that the only information they had on their target was the simple name ” scavenger beast pit “.

In fact, this might not even be the correct reference.

The fact that this demiplane could allow those who successfully challenged it to obtain the specialty iron will as a reward was already enough to make people go crazy.

it became a secret from then on, and all news was blocked by the floating city.

From then on, they were no longer words, and even the memories in their minds were slowly fading away.

Zhao Xu was reading this book in his hand, ” the demiplane secret realm’s explanation, ” and he felt a sense of emotion as he read through this part of the secret.

No wonder he had never heard of such a magical existence in his previous life.

This was because the secret itself had been affected by magic and was trying to be erased from the minds of humans.

it wasn’t that the half-plane was worth a lot or that it hid some secret treasure, but it had a special characteristic-nothing more than five.

As long as more than five people entered, the demiplane would be disturbed and lose its power for a year and a half.

In order to prevent mages from hearing its legend and using teleportation or other channels to enter, causing the secret plane to lose its effectiveness.

thus, mystra simply started from the source, using the power of legendary spells to slowly cover up the truth of the existence of this half-plane.

In the end, the forces that knew about the existence of this interdimensional space would also get a quota to enter every year.

When he saw this notification that said ” no more than five “, Zhao Xu understood why only three people were allowed to go in at a time. The remaining spot was naturally reserved for the staff member who was going in to save the others.

The interior of the interdimensional space was almost completely out of the floating city’s control.

The kind that could kill someone.

in other words, if the floating city dared to intervene, the participants would naturally not get the real trial and would not be able to awaken the real specialty.

when he thought about this, zhao xu couldn’t help but sigh.

After leaving the temple, lacus had fallen into a deep sleep. It would take at least a week for her to recover from the battle with the pit fiend.

he couldn’t borrow any strength for a while.

he continued to sit and read the details about the half-plane.

This was also why Lu duo had accused him of running away in advance.

under the premise that no one could get any inside information about the demiplane, zhao xu was able to access the legendary library to read up on the information.

but zhao xu had too many things to do. he had to go look for the “third notebook “, pay attention to the battle of fallen star lake, and also search for the things that ancestor andi had brought back.

As a bronze time manager, he had no choice but to reduce the time he spent in the “pit of scavengers.”

But even so, he was still much more comfortable than those novice mages. Most novice mages were still reading and copying spells honestly.

suddenly, zhao xu realized that most of the content in the book was missing. he couldn’t help but look at lu duo and suspect that she was up to something.

“don’t look at me.” at this moment, lu duo turned her head to the side in disdain. ” that’s the limit you can see. ”

When he heard this, Zhao Xu closed the book in his hand.

He had gotten the basic information anyway, so it was worth it to spend a special mint pill to get here.

zhao xu wasn’t stupid enough to argue with lu duo.

he knew that this was a screening test for wang ningwei and asvich, but not for him.

The Association would rather he successfully obtain this ‘iron will’ specialty.

but antonya and reyan didn’t tell him the details of the hole.

When Reyan was in the forest of prophecy, it was obvious that he wanted to help him cheat, but a mysterious external force had intervened.

But now, even Lu duo stopped him from reading.

this meant that knowing the details of the entire “scavenger beast pit” wasn’t beneficial to his awakening.

this also made zhao xu keep on increasing the level of vigilance he had towards that interdimensional space.

Whether it was the description of the risk of death recorded in the ancient books or the fact that the Association seemed unable to exert too much force on the half-plane, he was not afraid of the consequences.

All of this showed that the half-plane wasn’t that simple.

“Zhongxia, I’ll give you a hint.”

at this moment, lu duo seemed to have covered up what she was going to say. she was a little afraid that zhao xu would be angry at her, and she felt a little bad, so she quickly explained, ” “That was the ‘torture ground’ of nainai, the god of death, before she became a God.”

“thump!”

[ adventurer zhongxia, you have come into contact with god’s secret. you have been deafened for three rounds (18 seconds) ]

in an instant, the world fell into peace.