The Truth of Magic

289 the lich blocking the way

even if zhao xu didn’t look in the mirror, he knew how strange the process of casting the spell just now was.

this was the specialty of the school of necromancy, one of the eight major schools of arcana.

Zhao Xu had just cast a level 3 spell, graveyard’s crown. It was an hour-level spell that could last for a full five hours.

during this time, he could rely on this ” crown ” to cast a level 1 spell ” command ” on the undead creatures every minute.

The level 1 spell ” Command ” was originally only used on living things. As long as the exemption was not passed, the other party could be ordered to execute simple instructions such as ” come over, ” ” throw it away, ” ” fall to the ground, ” ” escape, ” ” stop ” within one round.

In fact, Zhao Xu could even use his ability to dispel undead as a priest to reduce the number of times he could dispel the undead to increase the difficulty of his spells.

Also, he could terminate this spell at any time in exchange for an upgrade when he used ‘dispel undead’.

in the past, zhao xu didn’t use many necromancy spells, but now that he had a legendary necromancer staff in his hands, he couldn’t avoid using them.

zhao xu now had the ability to simply ” order ” any vengeful spirit in the outside world, as long as the other party didn’t have any immunity or resistance.

Spell immunity and spell resistance were just like that. Even if it was the most common Level 1 spell, even if Zhao Xu was facing a legendary existence, as long as the other party didn’t have any immunity or spell resistance and didn’t successfully resist it, then they would still be controlled by his Level 1 spell, command.

This was also the reason why mages had to set up layers of defenses in the later stages.

After he finished casting this spell, Zhao Xu, who was wearing the bone crown, looked a little more sinister. But he didn’t mind it and just went straight back to the second floor.

Next, he had to look for Wang Ningwei and asvich.

whether it was the level 4 ” creature positioning spell ” or the level 8 ” sense position ” spell, none of them were things that zhao xu was currently capable of casting.

however, zhao xu had used the item positioning spell to search for the teleportation key in the corpse square before.

He didn’t have to find anyone. He could also use the second circle item locating spell to search for the items on Wang Ningwei and ashvich.

the only flaw was that the creature positioning spell could be used on the entire realm, but the item positioning spell had a limited range.

With Zhao Xu as the center of the circle, it had a radius of 120 meters. Based on that, it would expand by 12 meters with every level.

therefore, he was finally able to locate the items within a 180-meter radius. the area was nearly 140000 square meters, which was equivalent to thousands of three-bedroom houses and one living room. the area was enough to cover more than ten football fields.

However, it wasn’t enough for the entire land of the sleeping.

so zhao xu looked over at the clock tower in the middle of the city. from the highest point, he could see the entire city.

from there, when he cast the ‘dance of trajectory’ again, he would be able to locate their location and their specific state.

The wide field of view on the clock tower was also a requirement for this spell.

With the item positioning spell, he could be 100% sure of the location.

therefore, it was equivalent to him using two level 2 spells. under the confirmation of the scope of a city, he barely achieved the effect of the level 4 spell, ” creature positioning. ”

when zhao xu saw the amber coffin floating in the sky, he knew that he would need the help of wang ningwei and asvich.

The other party had been in the demiplane all this time, and the information he had experienced was all he needed to know. Even everything he had seen after his death was something he needed to refer to.

not to mention, the intelligence that he possessed was considered extraordinary in arthur.

to him, the lord of the undead’s extraordinary divine power and lux’s divine weapon transformation meant that he only had one chance to risk his life. therefore, his entire plan had to be complete.

At this time, the fluctuations in the outside world gradually calmed down. The originally restless undead creatures began to move forward slowly, no longer fleeing for their lives like before.

“Lacus, what’s the serial number of the tower in the city?” Zhao Xu asked.

“There’s no serial number. Generally speaking, those that aren’t low-level threats aren’t listed in the serial number. I estimate that one-tenth of the city is made up of these buildings without numbers.” said lux.

Zhao Xu nodded and then jumped down from the second-floor balcony.

he had originally thought that every building in this city was a safe haven for escape, but now that he thought about it, it was more than 90% a death warrant.

this was especially true for those ‘middle’ and ‘high’ grade houses.

although anta city was made up of arthur’s ” haunted houses “, the layout of the streets was still clear.

After they entered the city, Zhao Xu noticed that the number of skeletons and zombies on the streets had started to increase.

the skeletons only had pieces of rotten armor on them when they were killed. most of them, who had no intelligence, followed the last order they received and patrolled the streets where they were stationed.

in fact, an ordinary command spell was a bewitching and control-type element spell, ” coercion “. it was similar to the ” hypnotism ” brought about by the murmurs of the wraith, which was immune to the characteristics of the undead.

However, Zhao Xu’s ” Grave’s crown ” was based on his faction, and it used holy power to force the opponent to move, so it skipped the restriction of immunity.

even though zhao xu had the characteristics of an undead creature, if he dared to barge into any of the places that were being guarded, he would still be attacked by the skeletons.

at that time, he needed to use the ” graveyard crown ” to drive the ” command spell ” to lead the undead away.

Zhao Xu started to see all sorts of skeletons on the streets.

In addition to the human skeletons, he even saw the skeleton of a cloud giant. It was squatting in front of a house, and the red light in its head was staring ahead. At the same time, it was holding a giant axe.

However, the cloud giant was at least a level 11 monster before it died. After it was turned into a skeleton, its challenge level dropped to Level 7.

a skeleton’s challenge level was determined by his health dice. as for the health dice that came with his class, they would be lost accordingly. therefore, even if a legendary warrior turned into a skeleton, it would still be a 1HD skeleton.

On the other hand, the cloud giant skeleton that Zhao Xu passed by had a 17HD health dice, so its challenge level was Level 7. The skeleton that had a maximum HP of 20HD was only at level 8.

If it exceeds 20HD, it can not be converted into a skeleton. That was why, among the skeletal Dragons, the highest was a young skeletal dragon with 19HD. The higher adult red Dragons had 22HD health dice, so they could not be converted into skeletons.

But Zhao Xu had just leveled up his ” religious knowledge “, and he was able to retrieve information about another species that he had seen before, the ” Bone Dragon.

As a template similar to ” skeletons, ” the ” Bone Dragon ” template could only be applied to Dragons. Even if an ancient dragon died, it could still be transformed into a ” Bone Dragon “, and the challenge level of a Bone Dragon was only half of that of a living Dragon.

therefore, a young red dragon’s challenge level was level 10. according to the life dice, it was level 8 in the skeleton mode, but he was only level 5 in the bone dragon mode.

at this moment, zhao xu was walking down the street and trying to identify all kinds of skeleton creatures, such as the chimera, the two-headed giant, and the trolls ‘version of skeletons.

although they had different shapes and sizes, they were all basically skeletons, and only retained some of the characteristics of their original race.

At this moment, Zhao Xu was also thinking about his undead army.

zhao xu, who had the necromancer staff, could already be considered a qualified necromancer.

When he reached Level 6, he would be able to turn corpses into skeletons with the Level 4 arcane spell, corpse control, which was also a level 3 divine spell.

however, the number of HD that he could produce could not exceed his spellcasting level by two times.

With Zhao Xu’s power, if he really picked up a 10HD Two-Headed Giant’s corpse, he could use corpse manipulation to turn it into a Two-Headed Giant skeleton, and the other party would follow his orders.

However, no matter how strong the Necromancer was, the total number of HD undead that he controlled with his spells could not exceed four times the spellcaster’s level.

That was why when Zhao Xu’s scroll was at Level 5, he could only control a single 10HD skeleton soldier. With a total of 20HD skeleton soldiers, he could only control 20 1HD skeleton warriors at most.

originally, the parts that a cleric’s ability to command and command undead creatures would be able to control wouldn’t be taken into account for the restriction of four times the spellcasting level. but zhao xu was a cleric of a good god, so he could only destroy them and not command them.

because he was a good priest, he couldn’t even cast a spell with evil elements like ‘corpse manipulation’. it was also thanks to the fact that an archivist had no taboos that he could skip this restriction.

but if zhao xu really wanted to be a good necromancer, he would still have to rely on that legendary necromancer staff of his.

The staff that the ninth-circle sorcerer regarded as a treasure must have something special about it.

the level 6 circle of death and summon greater undead were both spells that could create undead creatures, and when he cast them, he would be seen as a level 27 spellcaster, so he could completely control an undead army of 108HD.

he could even bring five young skeleton red dragons.

just as zhao xu was thinking about his future plans for the undead army, he was walking towards the clock tower in front of him.

Suddenly, an undead creature with a scrawny body that was completely covered in bone armor floated past Zhao Xu.

it only had empty eye sockets. its eyeballs had long decayed and disappeared, replaced by crimson needle-like rays of light. the dark purple robe it wore had also become tattered, hanging on its body like broken pieces.

[ adventurer zhongxia, due to your undead characteristics, you are immune to fear Reiki. ]

but zhao xu didn’t feel any sense of relief when he saw this. he continued to walk at a normal pace, and at the same time, he kept thinking about how to deal with this situation.

It was because he was facing a Lich!

The first requirement to become a Lich was to be a level 11 wizard or priest.

that was to say, he had met a spell caster who could cast level 6 spells. if the other party had prepared a “spell nullifying barrier,” then his level 3 spells would be useless.

zhao xu didn’t expect that he would run into the most dangerous undead creatures in this town even on the outskirts of this town.

however, he still remained calm and pretended that nothing had happened. after the lich floated past him, he continued to walk forward.

“wait, what kind of undead are you? why can’t i tell?”

Suddenly, the Lich called out to Zhao Xu. Its hoarse and cold voice rang out in Zhao Xu’s ears.