The Truth of Magic

Chapter 289 The Road Lich

Even if Zhao Xu didn't look in the mirror, he knew how weird the process of casting the spell was just now.

This is one of the eight major factions of arcane arts, the characteristics of the undead faction.

Zhao Xu just finished casting the three-ring arcane "Crown of the Graveyard" is an hour-level spell that can last for a full five hours.

During this time, every minute, he could rely on this "crown" to cast a one-ring spell "Command Spell" on "undead creatures".

The first-ring spell "command" was originally only used against living creatures. As long as the save is not passed, you can order the opponent to perform the "come", "throw", "fall", "run away" within 1 round. ", "Stop" and other simple instructions.

Zhao Xu was even able to rely on his "dispelling undead creatures" priest ability to consume dispel times to increase the difficulty of spell immunity.

And he can terminate this spell at any time, in exchange for the improvement when he uses "dispelling undead creatures".

In the past, Zhao Xu didn't use many "death" spells, but now that he was here, especially considering that he still had a "legendary necromancer" in his hand, he would not be able to avoid the application of this aspect.

At this time, Zhao Xu already had the ability to simply "command" the resentful souls from the outside world, as long as the other party had no immunity and resistance.

This is the same thing as spell immunity and spell resistance. Even if it is the most common first-level spell, even if Zhao Xu is facing a "legendary" level existence, as long as the opponent has no "exemption" and spell resistance and "resistance" success , then it will also be manipulated by his "command technique" effect.

This is also the reason why mages need to fortify layers in the later stage.

After completing this spell, Zhao Xu, who was wearing a crown of white bones, had a gloomy demeanor, but he didn't care, and went straight back to the second floor.

Next, he had to look for "Wang Ningwei" and "Aiswig".

Neither the fourth ring's "biological positioning" nor the eighth ring's "perception of location" could be used by Zhao Xu now.

However, Zhao Xu had used the "object location technique" to find the transmission key in the corpse square.

He doesn't have to look for people, he can also use the "object location technique" of the second ring to search for the items he has contacted with Wang Ningwei and Esweich.

The only flaw is that the "creature positioning technique" can affect the entire boundary, but the "object positioning technique" has a limited range of action.

With Zhao Xu as the center, the radius is about 120 meters. On this basis, each level expands by 12 meters.

So he was finally able to locate objects within a full radius of 180 meters, covering an area of ​​nearly 140,000 square meters, which is equivalent to thousands of three-bedroom and one-living rooms, and the area is enough to cover more than ten football fields.

It's just that this is still not enough for the entire "Land of the Sleepers".

So Zhao Xu looked at the clock tower in the center of the city, where the highest position could overlook the entire city.

There, when he casts the spell "Track Dance", he can locate their direction and their specific state.

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

In this way, combined with the "item positioning technique", the location can basically be determined 100%.

So he was equivalent to using two second-ring spells to barely realize the effect of the fourth-ring spell "biological positioning" within the scope of a city.

When Zhao Xu saw the "Amber Coffin" floating in the sky that day, he knew that he needed the help of Wang Ningwei and Aisweixi.

During this period of time, the other party has been in this half-plane, and the content of the information he has experienced is all he needs to know. Even everything he saw after death was an experience he needed to refer to.

Not to mention that the wisdom possessed by the other party can be regarded as a good existence in Arthur.

For him, the extraordinary divine power of the "Lord of the Undead" combined with Lux's artifact transformation, doomed him to only have one chance to go all out, so his entire plan must be complete.

At this time, the fluctuations in the outside world gradually calmed down, and the restless undead creatures began to move forward slowly, no longer running desperately like before.

"Lax, what's the number of that tower in the city?" Zhao Xu asked.

"There is no number. Generally speaking, those that are less than low-level threats are not included in the number. It is estimated that one tenth of this city is such an unnumbered building." Lacus said.

Zhao Xu nodded, and then rolled down on the balcony on the second floor.

I originally thought that in this city, every building is a safe haven where you can escape, but now that you think about it, at least 90% of them are reminders.

This is especially true for those "middle" and "high" grade houses.

Although Anta City is made up of Arthur's various "haunted houses", the street layout itself is quite clear.

After entering the city, Zhao Xu found that the number of skeletons and zombies on the street began to increase.

Those skeletons were nothing more than fragments of the rotten armor they were wearing when they were killed, and most of them without mental abilities followed the last order they received, patrolling the streets where they were stationed.

In fact, the ordinary "command spell" is a "coercion" element spell of the confusion control system, which is immune to the characteristics of undead creatures just like the "hypnotism" brought about by the muttering of "wraith".

But Zhao Xu's "Crown of the Graveyard" was based on his camp, driving the divine energy to force the opponent to act, so it skipped the restriction of immunity.

Although Zhao Xu had the characteristics of an undead creature, if he dared to break into some guarded positions without authorization, he would still be counterattacked by those skeletons.

At that time, he needed to use the "Crown of the Graveyard" to drive the "Command Spell" to pull these undead creatures away.

On the street, Zhao Xu also began to see all kinds of skeletons.

In addition to the human skeleton, he even saw the cloud giant's skeleton. The other party was squatting in front of a house, the red light in his head was staring at the front, and he was holding a giant axe in his hand.

However, the cloud giant was still a monster with a challenge level of at least level 11 in front of him. After death, he was transformed into a skeleton, and the challenge level dropped to level 7.

The challenge level of a skeleton is determined by its Hit Dice, and the Hit Dice brought by the profession will be lost accordingly, so even if the Legendary Warrior turns into a skeleton, it is still a 1HD skeleton.

The cloud giant skeleton that Zhao Xu passed by had a challenge level of 7 because it had 17 hd dice, and the 20 hd capped skeleton was only challenge level 8.

More than 20HD cannot be transformed into a skeleton. Therefore, among the skeleton dragons, there are only 19 HD youth skeleton red dragons, and the higher adult red dragons have 22 HD life dice, so they cannot be transformed into skeletons.

However, Zhao Xu had improved his "religious knowledge" at this time, and also retrieved another species of "bone dragon" that he had seen before.

As a template similar to the "skeleton", the "bone dragon" template itself can only be applied to dragons. Even the ancient dragon can be transformed into a "bone dragon" after death, and the challenge level of the bone dragon is only half of that of a living body.

So a young red dragon has a challenge level of 10, and the skeleton template has 8 levels according to the life dice, but the bone dragon template has only 5 levels left.

At this time, Zhao Xu was walking on the street, constantly identifying various skeleton creatures, such as chimeras, two-headed giants, and troll versions of skeletons.

Although they have different shapes and sizes, they are all basically skeleton structures, retaining only a few characteristics of the original race.

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

Zhao Xu, who owns the Necromancer Staff, can play a qualified "Necromancer" as a cameo.

Even when he was 6th level and possessed the "manipulate dead corpse" spell, which is also a three-ring arcane spell, he was able to transform corpses into skeletons.

However, the number of HD created cannot exceed twice his casting level.

With Zhao Xu's power, if he really picked up a 10HD two-headed giant corpse, he could use "manipulate the dead body" to transform it into a "two-headed giant skeleton", and the other party would obey him.

However, no matter how powerful the necromancer is, the total HD of undead creatures manipulated by spells cannot exceed 4 times the level of the caster.

So Zhao Xu could only control a single 10hd skeleton soldier with a total of 20hd at a level 5 dossier, that is, a maximum of 20 1hd skeleton soldiers.

Originally, the part controlled by the priest's "rebuke and command undead creatures" ability was not included in the limit of 4 times the casting level, but Zhao Xu was a priest of the good god, and he could only destroy but not order.

Even because he was a good priest, he couldn't cast the spell with evil elements such as "manipulating dead bodies". It is also relying on the "Dossier Scholars" who have no taboos to skip this restriction.

But if Zhao Xu really wanted to be a good necromancer, he still had to rely on his "legendary necromancer staff".

That staff that can make that nine-ring mage regard it as a treasure, after all, has its own merits.

The six rings "Death Circle" and "Arouse High Undead" attached to it were both spells that could create undead creatures, and they were regarded as level 27 spellcasters when they were cast, allowing Zhao Xu to control the entire 108 hd undead army.

Even if it is a young skeleton red dragon, he can bring a total of 5 of them.

Just as Zhao Xu was thinking about the future plan of the undead army, he was moving towards the bell tower ahead.

Suddenly, an undead creature with skinny muscles clinging to its bones floated past Zhao Xu.

It only has empty eye sockets, and the eyeballs have long since decayed and disappeared, replaced by crimson needle-like rays of light from inside, and the dark purple robes on its body have also become tattered, hanging on the body like broken pieces.

[Adventurer Zhong Xia, you are immune to "fear aura" due to the characteristics of undead creatures. 】

However, Zhao Xu didn't feel lucky when he saw this news. He still kept his normal pace, and at the same time, he kept thinking about the countermeasures in his mind.

Because what he met in front of him was a "lich"!

The first prerequisite for becoming a lich is a level 11 mage or priest or above.

That is to say, he met a spellcaster who could cast six-ring spells. If the other party prepared a "spell invalidation barrier", then his three-ring spells would be useless.

Zhao Xu also didn't expect that he would encounter some of the most dangerous undead creatures in this town on the outskirts of the town.

However, he still maintained his composure, pretending that nothing had happened, and after the lich drifted away from him, he continued to walk forward.

"Wait, what kind of undead creature are you? Why can't I see it?"

Suddenly the lich stopped Zhao Xu, and its hoarse and cold voice rang in Zhao Xu's ears.