The Truth of Magic

229 Chance encounter with/classmate

when zhao xu walked out of the wizard association, he immediately turned invisible and went to a corner to put on a disguise.

When Zhao Xu reappeared, he was already a priest wearing slatted heavy armor. There was even a Holy emblem of the goddess of magic pinned to his chest.

zhao xu’s slatted armor was naturally something that he had conjured.

Otherwise, although the armor would not affect his divine spells, he was also a second-circle wizard. The failure rate of his arcane spells would soar to as high as 40%.

The weapon in Zhao Xu’s hand was a giant scythe, which attracted the attention of quite a few people.

sisylvana’s natural weapon was a wooden club, and her priests usually used the same weapon as the gods. they rarely used such special weapons.

zhao xu followed the rumors and walked towards the public square in the middle of the street where the players were having their pledge ceremony.

in fact, when the players were carrying out missions around the starfall lake, they would have conflicts with the local mines from time to time.

therefore, this time, it had been a long time.

zhao xu was also holding the giant scythe in his hand as he rushed over, trying to get used to it as soon as possible.

as a warrior in his previous life, zhao xu was good at using all sorts of military weapons, and the scythe was one of them.

At the same time, it was also a two-handed close combat weapon like the giant sword.

According to the battle skills that Arthur had compiled over the years and after he used the character stats system to quantify them, the damage curve of the scythe in Zhao Xu’s hand was about 2d4 (2-8), and the average person would expect to deal around 5HP in one hit.

This damage feature was not outstanding, but there was a unique skill in Arthur’s battle skill inheritance.

when one’s attack was at a high level, it could trigger a combat skill like “heavy strike,” which could cause massive damage.

however, the difficulty of triggering it with different weapons was not exactly the same.

the giant scythe in zhao xu’s hand would only be activated when he got a near-perfect rating from the system, which was the highest rating of level 20 between level 1 to 20.

But once it was activated under the threat of heavy strike, it would deal four times the damage, which was equivalent to Zhao Xu dealing 20HP of damage without stacking anything.

It could be said that once a low-level player was hit by his [ heavy strike ], they would definitely fall to the ground and die.

however, no matter what zhao xu thought ...

He had to solve one of the prerequisites, which was that he had not actually mastered this weapon.

for example, the wizard and cleric class training would only provide enough spirituality for a ” light weapon “, but for a ” military weapon ” like a giant scythe, if zhao xu wanted to reach the ” expert ” level, he would have to use a specialty instead.

The reason why war priests didn’t have this problem was that they would choose the bloodshed land. In that field, in addition to allowing them to be good at the special weapons of gods, they could also get the additional specialty of ” Weapon Specialization.

It was a pity that sisylvana’s weapon of choice was a wooden stick.

this wooden stick was something that his mage, priest, and archivist classes were all good at.

triple proficiency didn’t need to be stacked at all.

However, Zhao Xu was a spellcaster who had mastered all Level 1 and Level 2 spells.

he himself had all kinds of possibilities.

once, zhao xu had used the scholar’s touch to quickly finish reading a book in the library and then used this ability as a search tool.

the corresponding move for the civil and martial arts was the master’s touch.

This Level 1 wizard minute-level spell could allow him to ” become proficient ” in a certain weapon for a short period of time.

as for the disadvantage, it was that zhao xu had to prepare to use some spells before the battle started.

only then would he be able to burst out with that moment of brilliance.

Zhao Xu had already followed the crowd and arrived at the public square.

at the front of the square stood the stone statues of the first 13 founders of the northern alliance.

they were originally a group of adventurers. later, after the team members completed the feat of slaying a dragon and successfully killed the demon general’s clone in the abyss, they became famous in arthur for a time.

in the end, this group settled in the north and relied on their reputation to form the northern alliance. the entire force continued for hundreds of years.

why, at this moment, is there such an ugly thing as ‘slave trafficking’!

A simple stage had been set up in front of the statues in the square, and a poet. In the poet. Was a poet. In an impassioned tone, he was complaining about the sins of the Starfall Lake.

Following that, the adventurer team that had seen the mine owners and slave traders at Starfall Lake also walked up to the stage and began to tell the players who gathered below what had happened.

at this time, in addition to the players who had come to support the scene, many citizens of winter city had stopped here to watch the lecture on the stage.

At this time, the priest of the goddess of fortune, a small girl with a delicate appearance, was giving a speech on the stage. She used her slightly sobbing voice to describe the tragic state of the slave in the underground pit that they had found.

there weren’t many adjectives to describe it. it was just a simple description that directly outlined the fact that the slaves had no food to eat. even the eyes that looked at them didn’t have the strength to despair, only numbness.

as the participants stepped onto the stage one by one, the atmosphere of the entire square reached another peak.

Zhao Xu had already heard about this in his previous life, so he was actually a lot calmer at this moment.

at this time, he also experienced the power of the various skills after stacking them up. it even affected how he observed the world.

at least, while he was listening to the speech, his ” observation ” skill was automatically activated. like an ai, it constantly analyzed and reminded him of the various expressions of the speakers.

They could predict the next step even before the speakers spoke.

and zhao xu actually knew what the cleric lady was saying even better than these people.

after the players were killed by the guards of the mine owners, the slaves that they had seen were all killed.

it was eliminating the last trace of him.

this was the cruelest truth in arthur. only powerful professionals had the right to breathe and control their own fate.

As for the level 1 commoners who had no abilities, they could only move along with the crowd.

even the residents of arthur who had stopped in their tracks were mostly ordinary level 1 civilians. even if they gritted their teeth when they heard this, they would not do anything.

a few of their children had gone missing, so they could only go home and hand over the money to the earth adventurers on the stage.

He asked them to find their child.

after all, the adventurers in arthur were the minority.

only zhao xu and the others who were the first batch of players to enter the game were the average adventurers.

To be Frank, they were much luckier than the other people on earth who had not entered the game.

they were much luckier and stronger than many of the commoners in arthur, who had an average of 10 points in attributes.

But just like that, Zhao Xu realized that he had seen a cruel fact with the help of his automatic detection spell.

the players present were really poor, so poor that he almost thought that his spells had failed.

only a few players were wearing magic equipment.

At a glance, the total amount was not even as much as what he had on him, let alone its value. It was not even as expensive as the starry cloak he was wearing.

Many of the Warriors could only wear slightly broken light armor and hold machetes in their hands as they stood below the stage and listened.

after a warrior’s training, they could wear ‘heavy armor’ with higher defense. from slatted armor, which had at least a tier 6 defense, to ‘full body armor’, which had a tier 8 helmet bonus.

he didn’t wear it, naturally because he was poor.

it was at this moment that zhao xu noticed that just the slatted armor that he had conjured was only worth 200 gold coins, and he was already considered the most outstanding player in the entire game.

He also remembered that the level 1 wizard, rainy night, only had a few bottles of minor healing potions on him.

Zhao Xu suddenly let out a deep sigh.

In his previous life, as the security officer of fallen star Lake, he would go to the monument on the lake’s surface every year to hold a public sacrifice.

that was why he was so sure that the outbreak had been brought forward by three days.

At that time, he had found it strange that the guards of the mine owners were of the same level as the players, and were only slightly more elite.

Even if the mine owner had a few third and fourth-circle mages to support them, they couldn’t split themselves up. How could the players be suppressed from the start?

In the end, they had to use human lives to fill in the gap before they could conquer the mine owners ‘tough city.

suddenly, zhao xu, who had the complete advantage of being able to use his detect skill, felt someone approaching him.

zhao xu’s arm was slightly pressed against the giant scythe as he was on guard against any possible battle that might happen.

Then, he heard someone calling him from behind. Xu-GE? ”

but zhao xu was already prepared for this, so he didn’t turn around and admit to what he had done.

there were still many passersby around him.

as the footsteps got closer, zhao xu felt someone pat him on the shoulder.

he then turned around with a surprised expression.

the person standing in front of zhao xu was zhang qi.

behind him stood a few of his classmates who played games with him.

the other female students in zhao xu’s class who were also playing games didn’t come close. they just stood in a corner a little further away.

this included cui lu and the others. everyone had no classes today, so they had logged into the game earlier. at this moment, they were all attracted to the game.

“oh, i’m sorry. i’ve got the wrong person. i was wondering why my classmate, who should have been in the floating city, suddenly appeared here.”

zhang qi quickly apologized.

zhao xu also just noticed that the man only had a set of leather armor that cost 10 gold coins, and he probably spent all his money on other things.

“It’s nothing,” Zhao Xu replied simply.

at this moment, he had changed his height and facial expression, so zhang qi naturally couldn’t tell.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu’s eyes focused and he looked to his left.

a rising fireball was flying towards a nearby place.

Was he targeting him?

it was wrong!

It was a set-up.

Zhao Xu immediately reacted and rushed over.