The Truth of Magic

134 stacking power (1/3)

floating city, the highest mage council.

The floating city’s Supreme Council was the highest authority that was permanently stationed at the wizard Association’s headquarters.

Among them, there were only seven fixed members in the Council. They were President oss, Vice President Stormrage, velancer, Renault, Cassius, and Nesser.

Generally speaking, it was these seven who decided all matters in the floating city and even Mystra.

Only when it came to the corresponding issues would the corresponding legendary-mages be allowed to participate.

For example, ninth-circle sorcerers could only attend the joint Conference for voting.

the main topic of this meeting was antonya’s recent work debriefing and report on some of the recent developments.

Antonya didn’t really like these kinds of meetings.

It was rare that she was willing to come to report on her work. The seven big shots listened very seriously and specially projected their projections to attend.

just then, a clerk knocked on the door and entered.

He went straight to the Chairman’s seat and handed President oss the latest update of the floating city, repeating the work from an hour ago.

as for oz, he basically memorized all the reports with just a glance. reading this was more of a routine habit.

only this time, he stared for a second or two longer.

Just this small difference had caught the attention of at least two of the Giants present.

Antonya, do you need to go to the combat strength testing hall later for a test? ” President oss suddenly asked.

Logically speaking, Antonya didn’t even need to go to the combat strength testing hall to join in the fun.

Although the test Hall was also equipped with the necessary equipment for legendary-level experiments, most of them were just for the legendary Wizards to have a public supply point.

It was more meaningful to deal with an emergency.

after all, many instruments and devices had to be maintained for a certain period of time. the experts and alchemists in the floating city were basically running at full capacity every day.

“How many years has it been since I last did an experiment?” antonya furrowed her eyebrows.

hehe, in the one-hour report sent by the surveillance camera of the highest Hall, it said that all the testing equipment from the 10th to 14th floor has been activated at the request of your servant. president oss said with a smile.

to them, even if these instruments were to be carried at full capacity until they were scrapped in a month, it was nothing.

If it wasn’t for the fact that Antonya was right in front of him, he wouldn’t even have bothered to ask.

as soon as the man finished speaking, antonya immediately understood what was going on. she smiled knowingly and said, “it must be that stupid zhongxia. he went to the pile of waste paper and tore a test voucher.”

at this moment, the seven powerhouses present couldn’t help but shake their heads and laugh.

they immediately understood and would ask the testing hall to activate all the equipment.

it must be zhongxia who took the voucher and told the supervisor to “give it a try.”

Otherwise, the legendary Masters would not have rashly consumed resources to activate all the equipment from the 10th to 14th floor.

with each level, the resources consumed would double.

Tschick, go and inform Nochi. Tell him that we allow his research project to borrow all the facilities on the 10th to 14th floors for a day.

Oz said to the Secretary who came in to report.

since the equipment was already activated, he might as well make use of them.

TSCH nodded and was about to leave when oz added, ” “issue an order of commendation to the combat strength testing hall and the hall of legends. you can make up your own reason.”

The clerk, Tschick, paused for a moment, then immediately expressed his understanding and continued walking out.

Tschick, who was in the center of the Association’s higher-ups, could receive countless news and rumors every day, making him the most well-informed person.

After receiving such an order of commendation, he knew that some people’s fantasies of replacing li Stan’s position would be shattered.

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after zhao xu successfully shot through that strengthened skeleton with his crossbow, he was shocked.

he didn’t expect his damage to be so high, directly destroying the skeleton that was glowing with blue light.

According to Zhao Xu’s original plan, he just wanted to look at the numbers on the status panel and that would be enough. Who knew that the other party would be so weak?

a level 2 warrior and many other professions might not even have 20 hp when they reached level 3.

if tie shi, who he had met in the canyon north of the broken sky mountain range, appeared in front of zhao xu again ...

as long as zhao xu was given two rounds of preparation time, he would be able to get a headshot as well.

after holy sacrifice, a level 1 spell, was added to the arrow, it was indeed able to kill any low-level monster it saw.

the only price to pay was that 10 points of zhao xu’s health points were suddenly deducted from his original 13 points, leaving him with only 3 points.

Zhao Xu had no choice but to immediately cast a healing light spell on himself. Otherwise, he would have been knocked unconscious if he had been stabbed by a knife.

at this moment, zhao xu had a rough idea of his own combat power. with the support of 14 level 1 spells, he was far more capable of dealing damage and using all sorts of crowd control skills than the other players.

when zhao xu went to another test room, he had already taken off the aen stone on top of his head.

The novice mages on the first floor, even if they were from a mage family, did not have many with them.

The cheapest ain stone that could allow one to not breathe cost 4000 gold pieces. With this money, everyone would rather copy a few more level 1 spells and buy a few more scrolls.

In order to provide combat tests for creatures, the combat test Hall basically prepared all the common evil creatures.

Most of them were summoned like the undead creatures and existed in the form of projections.

once they were killed, they would disappear.

zhao xu remembered that in the anti-demon war in his previous life, their area was mostly attacked by the devil camp.

That was why Zhao Xu killed most of the low-level demons and little devils.

because he was very familiar with these creatures, zhao xu skipped over the undead and went over to the hell creatures.

The arrangement was the same as before. The new mages stood on the second floor, while the hell creatures stayed in the pit underground. At the same time, there was a layer of protective barrier to prevent the other party from breaking out.

Zhao Xu picked the underlings ‘testing room this time.

there were already a few new wizards who were doing their trials there, and when they saw zhao xu come in, they didn’t pay him much attention.

Suddenly, the entire floor trembled slightly, and even the protective barrier that kept the lemures away seemed to have disappeared.

It was only after a few seconds that everything returned to normal.

Seeing this, the novice mages were at a loss and quickly ran outside to see what was going on.

there was once a story in arthur that when a wizard was testing, the barrier that trapped the demon suddenly disappeared, causing the wizard to be torn to pieces.

Even though the Association had managed to revive the mage with a resurrection spell, the mage had been traumatized and left the floating city.

but zhao xu didn’t pay much attention to it. he still had that protective magic staff in his pocket, so if a high-level demon really did appear, he wouldn’t be completely out of options.

Zhao Xu didn’t do anything and continued to observe the underlings below.

Just like what he had seen in his previous life, as the lowest existence in the devil camp, these inferior demons were like disgusting meatballs. They had no brains and could only follow the instructions of the high-level Devils.

although they only had around 10 hp as otherworld creatures, their skin’s defense was not bad, and they were similar to ordinary armored humans.

Mages and priests were indeed the classes that came into contact with demons and devils the most.

This was also the reason why the first floor of the battle test Hall had these test rooms.

If Zhao Xu used the spell “counter the enemy’s advance” this time, then he would be able to do anything he wanted before he ran into any higher level demons.

The ten or so unintelligent inferior demons that could only wander around could not even withstand a single blow from him.

but zhao xu decided that he had to test out his new ability.

zhao xu had run into qi lin in the library that day, and qi lin had explained the ins and outs of the [devotion] skill to him.

this sort of ability was similar to the dark knowledge of an archivist, and zhao xu saw a notification on his status panel right away that he could exchange for it.

It was just that he was still stuck at the advancement of dossiers at that time and didn’t pay attention to it.

that message had also been locked on there quietly.

This time, Zhao Xu opened the post again to check.

devotion of knowledge was actually a specialty. the price of obtaining it was to make him give up the field of knowledge.

And the knowledge domain’s purpose was to allow Zhao Xu to use all of the knowledge he had as an ability for his class.

As a wizard, Zhao Xu already had this ability, so even though the knowledge domain could allow him to increase his spellcaster level by one when he cast divination spells, it didn’t mean much to him.

Zhao Xu thought about it for a while and decided that it would actually be more worth it for him to exchange for that ability.

When he thought about this, Zhao Xu immediately agreed to give up on the knowledge domain and get the mastery of knowledge piety.

in an instant, the knowledge domain abilities and domain spells in his priest list disappeared.

however, he had already mastered the spells in the archivist’s spell list, so he had no loss.

after he exchanged for the ability, zhao xu looked at the underlings in front of him and then at the devout knowledge in his character stats.

the underlings were creatures from another world, so their corresponding knowledge was plane knowledge. zhao xu immediately activated his ability and went through a knowledge check.

[ adventurer zhongxia has undergone knowledge (plane) ability appraisal. check result =7+D20 (1-20)=17. within the range of 16-20, you have received +2 insight into attacks and damage dealt to inferior demons. ]

zhao xu could vaguely feel that he had a better understanding of the underlings ‘movements now, and the underlings seemed to be slower in his eyes.

although it couldn’t be compared to the invincible effect of +20 insight that he had gained by applying ” counter the enemy’s initiative ” on himself.

however, this was almost a 10% attack bonus, which was equivalent to his attack power against inferior demons increasing by two ranks. as long as he faced the inferior demons in front of him, he would have this effect constantly, not just one attack.

for warriors, every time they leveled up, they would only be able to increase their attack power by one stage.

in his previous life, zhao xu had been stuck at increasing his attack power as a warrior, and it had taken him a long time to reach level 2.

later, when he was about to advance to a level 3 warrior, because he had already transmigrated, he practiced hard with the two-handed greatsword every day. after thousands of swings, he finally understood the profound meaning of the third rank attack.

As for the legendary profound meaning of a level 20 warrior’s level 20 attack, how powerful was it?

he had only managed to grasp a tiny bit of it after casting counter-enemy’s initiative on himself.

however, the jinxes could only allow him to have the basic attack power of a level 20 warrior in one strike. after that, he would fall back to the mortal world and become even worse than a level 1 warrior.

Then, Zhao Xu continued to use his dark knowledge (tactical) ability on the underlings in front of him.

[adventurer zhongxia has performed knowledge (plane) ability appraisal. appraisal result: 7 + d20 (1 – 20)= 26. difficulty level above dc 15 by 10 points. attack against underlings increased by 2 ranks. duration: 1 minute. number of times: 2/3]

Just as Zhao Xu had expected, the devout knowledge and the dark knowledge combined together perfectly.

compared to the underlings, he had gained the advantage of a 4th rank attack.

he instantly wiped out his opponent’s natural defense and armor advantage.

without any hesitation, zhao xu picked up the light crossbow in his hand and pointed it at the confused underlings below.

if a warrior wanted to increase his tier 4 attack, he had to either increase his level by 4, increase his strength by 8, or equip a +4 magic weapon.

no matter which one it was, it wasn’t that easy to do.

Zhao Xu pulled the trigger, and the underlings turned into ashes.