The Truth of Magic

Chapter 142 My Choice (22)

"Your knowledge (mystery) skill bonus itself is 4 points less than mine. Adding the 5 points of performance bonus gained from reading, it's a 9-point gap." Ying silently looked at Zhao Xu and said.

"My skill bonus of 19 points, plus the result of 8 points of source feedback, a total of 27 points failed."

Generally, the player's skill bonus is the adjustment of the corresponding attribute on the level superposition, such as knowledge, which corresponds to the intelligence attribute.

Zhao Xu's knowledge (mystery) level was 1 level lower than Ying's, and his intelligence adjustment was 3 points less, so his knowledge (mystery) bonus was 4 points less than Ying's, only 7 points.

After Ying finished stacking skills, he reached a peak of 19 points, so he failed.

That's why she was full of doubts about Zhao Xu's attempt.

"I have a spell called'Song of Knowledge', which can give my skills +5 performance." Zhao Xu explained.

Suddenly Ying took a step closer to Zhao Xu, and asked hurriedly, "Is it all the skills?"

She got to the core of the question right away.

Zhao Xu nodded and admitted this.

In the face of these players who are bound to become high-level mages in the future, it is meaningless to lie now, because everyone is not an ordinary person.

"I knew it, I knew it." Even Ying Ying, who was usually extremely confident and proud, couldn't help stamping her legs at this moment.

"I almost searched all the spell books back then, trying to find a powerful spell for this skill, but I couldn't find it. I thought it was written in the mage novel."

As soon as Ying finished speaking, she couldn't help staring at Zhao Xu, but she couldn't say something like "brother, teach me this spell" with her personality.

After taking a deep breath to calm his emotions, Ying tentatively asked: "After increasing the effect of the caster, how much bonus can be increased?"

Zhao Xu glanced at the excited shadow from seeing this spell, and said, "Initially 4 points, after that, add 1 point for every 2 caster levels."

If Zhao Xu had a caster level of level 10, then this spell would increase the skill level by nearly 9 points of performance bonus, which would already overwhelm Ying's advantage over Zhao Xu.

At this time, Lu suddenly said: "Mr. Feng, after you go out, can you evaluate the value of this spell with the person who taught you this spell? If you are willing to use the shadow to copy it after discussing it, I can pay the borrowing fee for the shadow." .”

After seeing what Lu said, Ying was about to say no, but was stopped by Lu with a wave of his hand, "Don't worry, you can just use the gold coins in that paper bag wallet, I'll just put it first."

Zhao Xu didn't expect that Lu and Ying's relationship would be so good.

He could only wonder to himself, why didn't he see a rich young lady who took care of him.

But after hearing that Zhao Xu was sure, Ying still handed Zhao Xu the "Intellectual Turban" she had been wearing before.

The moment Zhao Xu took over the "Intellectual Turban", he was indeed touched.

As long as he wears this thing for 24 hours, the attributes provided by the equipment will take effect, and his intelligence will be saved.

After Zhao Xu put on the intelligence hood, he immediately began to perform the "song of knowledge".

The casting time of Song of Knowledge is one of the few spells that takes more than 1 round. It is not as long as the previous identification spell of one hour, but it still takes one minute.

So Zhao Xu looked at the long mantras in his mind the whole time, and recited them word by word.

Finally, at the moment when the spell is completed.

A new feeling appeared in Zhao Xu's mind.

It's not like luck bonus that will do the right thing, nor is it like environment bonus that has something to help you correct it.

The performance bonus, for Zhao Xu, has greatly improved his personal performance.

He even had strong confidence, thinking that he would pass this appraisal perfectly.

Zhao Xu was focused on the stone slab, and now his knowledge (mystery) skill bonus had reached 15 points.

However, Zhao Xu knew that he was not enough.

He needs a stronger force to help him break through the predicament in front of him.

Suddenly, on Zhao Xu's character card panel, the potential points he gained when he reached level 2 began to surge.

Zhao Xu can only get 5 potential points at each level, and it will be useless if it expires, so before level 9, he treats this ability as air.

But now, according to Zhao Xu's wishes, the last remaining potential point began to be transformed into his help.

Potential points, that is, the power of heroes.

Whenever heroes run amok in the world and can unleash power beyond the reach of ordinary people, they all use extraordinary potential.

In an instant, Zhao Xu noticed his knowledge (mystery) bonus, which soared from 15 points to 19 points under the influence of potential points!

"Check!"

Zhao Xu shouted in his heart.

In an instant, his consciousness began to connect to the source of knowledge.

A twenty-sided dice appeared in Zhao Xu's sea of ​​consciousness, spinning continuously.

The final number will be the help that Zhao Xu can get from the source of knowledge.

The dice stopped suddenly, the pace of rotation stopped abruptly, and a cruel word 1 moved towards the top.

Zhao Xu's knowledge (mysterious) skill was 19 points, plus this 1 point of help from the source, it was nearly 20 points.

But it is far from enough to cover the cognitive barrier of this stele and successfully communicate with the source.

Zhao Xu's face darkened, and the final result of the communication has not yet come out.

But at this critical moment, he knew that he had basically failed.

Yiying's 19 points, plus the 8 points of the dice, failed to reach 27 points, so Zhao Xu's 20 naturally did not need to think too much.

At this moment, Zhao Xu looked at the dice that had landed peacefully and would not change.

A mage can reverse fate.

Strictly speaking, spells can reverse fate.

"Collaborate immediately!"

Zhao Xu suddenly released this mysterious spell again.

This first-level arcane technique only required an intuitive reaction, and Zhao Xu used a multi-talented spellcaster to consume two zero-level spell slots in an instant and successfully released it.

Immediately, the calm dice turned again.

[Adventurer Zhong Xia, re-take the knowledge (mystery check) = 19+1D20=19+11=30 points, pass the DC30 difficulty, and the check is successful. 】

The dice fell again, only this time it read 11.

Zhao Xu's knowledge (mystery) test result was 30 points, he crossed the 30-story barrier, and successfully communicated directly with the source of knowledge.

Immediately, the mysterious symbols on the stele began to form in front of his eyes, gradually turning into something he could understand.

"This is a spell that can be used three times."

"Either shelter yourself once, or save a life once, or reach the other side once."

After Zhao Xu finished praying that passage, a mysterious halo suddenly appeared all over his body.

He couldn't help showing a confused look, did he use it just once?

Suddenly, cracks in the stele spread all over the surrounding area, becoming densely packed, and countless breaths of death began to gushe out from it.

Zhao Xu immediately wanted to tell the two women to avoid them.

It's just that after the stele exploded, an evil force that seemed to spew out from the abyss and purgatory, mixed with the destructive light of death and terror, erupted instantly.

An entire area of ​​100 meters was destroyed.

It wasn't until the black light dissipated that Zhao Xu regained his vision.

He raised his eyes and saw that the already desolate cliffs had become even more dead silent.

The ground seemed to have been plowed into countless ravines.

The thorn forest closest to them was covered by black light, and the outermost thorns were completely corrupted and fell to the ground.

In front of Zhao Xu, the two women had fallen to the ground, and their bodies were already faintly visible. This was a sign that they were about to go to the Temple of Creation.

Zhao Xu hurried over, and when Ying and Lu fell to the ground, their faces were revealed.

But Zhao Xu looked at the scene where the fragrance disappeared and the jade died, as if recalling the past.

His fists are clenched tightly!

"Save one and move on."

"Life is all about making choices, and this is the cruel world of mages."

Lei An's familiar voice came again, but this time it was different, it echoed directly in the entire space.

"Of course, you can also keep that chance of resurrection and choose to go alone. In this way, you will have one more chance of resurrection than others in the future."

"This is the real reward for this trial."

"Let's act, there is still a choice to determine your true destiny."

After Lei An's voice disappeared, the entire cliff fell into silence again, except for Zhao Xu's heavy breathing.

Zhao Xu turned around and looked at the blood moon in the endless depths opposite.

And in front of him, after the stele exploded, a pontoon bridge appeared above the broken abyss.

According to the last content of the inscription and Leian's words.

The spell had granted him three chances, the first of which he had already used to protect himself.

One of them had to be used to activate the pontoon, to gain real power.

And the remaining time, he can use it to revive one of the two women.

He can even give up and leave the spell directly as an additional chance of resurrection in the future.

Zhao Xu took a deep breath.

Looking at the blood-red sky, he mocked: "Fuck you, children make choices, I will save them all!"

After all, he activated the spell twice in a row.

Two holy rays of light shot out directly from the mark on his arm and fell into the bodies of the two women.

The bodies of the two women, which were about to dissipate, condensed again and transformed into entities.

After a while, Lu and Ying also slowly woke up. Although they were still in a dark red world, they finally breathed the air of this world again.

"Get up, the mission failed, I have to go back." Zhao Xu squatted down and looked at the two women lying in an indecent posture and smiled.

Only then did Lu and Ying notice that their hoods had fallen off, completely letting Zhao Xu see their true colors.

And Ying looked at Zhao Xu with a trace of strangeness, then she stood up and walked to the place where the stele was cracked, where half of the stele remained.

After Zhao Xu got the spell, the real words were revealed on it.

"You should go there by yourself." Ying whispered.

"Although we were in a coma, we still vaguely knew what happened before we died. I didn't expect Mr. Feng to be so kind." Lu thanked Zhao Xu with a slight bow.

Zhao Xu didn't intend to tell the two girls what happened, but the IQ of the two girls was enough for them to figure out the truth by themselves.

"But we can't get through it now. The mission should have failed." Zhao Xu knew Leian's style well, and would not leave any slippery loopholes for them to exploit.

"Mr. Feng, not necessarily." Suddenly Lu smiled slightly.

"That's right." Ying said at this time, also staring at the faint pontoon bridge in front of him.

"But before we go, I'm afraid we'll have to introduce ourselves one more time."

At this time, Lu walked over to pull Ying over, stood side by side in front of Zhao Xu, and introduced herself, "Wang Ningwei, a level 2 mage."

Ying curled his lips, "Eswig, a level 2 mage."

Zhao Xu scratched his head, "Zhong Xia, 2, eh? Level 3 mage?"