The Truth of Magic

Chapter 661 Countermeasures and Tactics

It had to be said that Zhao Xu's "retarded spell" was not the priority method in magical warfare, and even in this scene, being able to pass through the "magic invalidation barrier" without any obstacles was its greatest use.

"Mentally retarded spell" itself belongs to the "coercion" spell in the confusion control system, which has the effect of affecting the mind, and belongs to the ranks that are extremely easy to be targeted.

If the other party had cast a minute-level "protection against kindness" or a ten-minute level "anti-goodness circle" in advance, they would be immune to Zhao Xu's spell directly.

However, Zhao Xu couldn't see through the specific situation of the opponent, but there was no problem with the magical aura emanating from the surrounding environment.

He was pretty sure that there was no such thing as an "anti-good/chaos circle" for his alignment.

Once the "mentally handicapped technique" hits the opponent and makes the opponent fail the save, the result of the intelligence and charm brought down to 1 is completely an excess benefit.

A mage who has almost lost his intelligence means that he can no longer cast spells, understand language, or communicate. He can only rely on instinct to know who is a teammate and whose actions he should follow.

More importantly, removing the curse, a spell that powerfully removes negative states in the third ring, cannot alleviate the effect of the "mentally handicapped spell", and at least requires the healing spell of the sixth ring to work.

Although this spell itself is aimed at the will, and the mage is the leader of high will, but the "mentally retarded spell" naturally has a negative effect of reducing the mage warlock by 4 levels.

Therefore, when encountering a group of mages, starting with "chain casting" combined with "mentally retarded spells" can often kill a group of low-level mages and avoid the possibility of ants killing elephants.

The thinking in Zhao Xu's mind was very clear.

An opponent whose spell saving difficulty is terribly high, but the defensive card "Spell Invalidation Barrier" first, which means that the opponent's "counseling" and "stable" characteristics are already obvious.

In this way, the characteristics of waiting for him from the other party's leisure and waiting for work, and the characteristics of defilement scholars have a large number of "magic slots" because of their high depravity value.

In the eyes of this deformed man, he himself was more expendable than Zhao Xu, so he was not afraid to fight a protracted war with him.

However, Zhao Xu, who has the "potential point", is the most capable of fighting a protracted war, and he can be called an immortal existence!

As for the means of damage to other attributes, considering that the opponent is a tainted scholar who is born to face the means of blood super magic, there must be enough countermeasures.

So Zhao Xu tried this first.

Only a mage who can't think can be said to have removed the last trace of danger.

Even if Zhao Xu had the "power of iron heart" that could relieve all negative states in the world, he couldn't think of how to use it when he lost his intelligence.

This is the horror of hitting the "IQ" to the bottom, disintegrating all possibilities of counterattack, and no matter how explosive the seed is, it will be a fart.

However, the polluting scholar on the opposite side made the same movements as Zhao Xu, and waved the "power staff" tightly in his hand even more dazzlingly.

The moment Zhao Xu's "mentally handicapped technique" took shape.

Counterspell!

Zhao Xu suddenly realized that the energy of the "mentally handicapped technique" in his hand had dissipated, like autumn leaves withering.

Is there really no immune coercion effect?

Zhao Xu couldn't help but have great doubts in his mind.

He handed over the "mentally handicapped technique" first, which was essentially a "feint attack", and it was still the level of knocking off the poker table.

At the highest level, he was able to cast five-ring spells, and there were only a few of them. Using this trick right away undoubtedly gave people the "illusion" of being absolutely desperate.

The words "After I hit these three axes, I will kill myself if I can't kill you" were typed on the public screen.

Who would have guessed.

The opponent actually used the "simplest" "counter-magic"?

Counterspell is the first lesson for mages in the apprenticeship stage, and it can be said that the effect is really extraordinary.

This is also an insurance method for many people to beat up one person in a mage battle.

For example, three-on-one is essentially six spells against two spells per round (standard action + instant).

In the ranks of six spells, "two for two" can be achieved by relying on "counter-spell". In this way, six-to-two spells become four-to-zero spells.

This is also the reason why the Mage Association rarely misses when it captures the hostile mages who are on the side of the rebellion.

Just a few targeted mages who specialize in the feat chain with counterspell can definitely beat these mages who have never seen the world to the point of crying and howling, deeply self-doubting.

An existence like Antinoya who mastered the "legendary counterspell" feat could counter spells countless times per round with that feat.

That is to say, as long as she has enough spell slots, she can even cancel the spells of hundreds of mages at the same time in one round.

The means of countering spells was also Zhao Xu's biggest weakness at the moment.

Facing a group of mages, he is no match for four hands with two fists, which is also the key reason why he needs to use the "Red Jade Guard" later.

But the deformed man in front of him is obviously single-handed?

You must know that the essence of counterspell is to use one spell to counteract another spell.

If you want to use magic counters to perfection, you have to learn one of the "proficient in counterspells" feats, and you can counter spells with higher-level spells of the same faction.

Otherwise, how could they just prepare exactly the same spells.

It's just that even if the opponent's magic power is far superior to that of ordinary mages, it will not be the right way to win by "counter-spell".

In the case of the same spell, the opponent keeps using the method of defilement to target themselves, and the benefits are higher.

If a higher ring number is used, then it will only be a disadvantage for the opponent.

Just as Zhao Xu was thinking in confusion, he suddenly discovered that the "magic energy" he had just defeated had recondensed.

And that powerful energy points to the target, which is himself!

Gusu Murong?

Turning stars?

At this moment, Zhao Xu was in a daze for a moment and then suddenly realized.

No wonder the opponent wasted a fifth-ring or higher spell to target him.

Archmage professional ability!

High-level arcane ability, the "counter-spell control" can only be learned at the cost of the seven-ring spell slot!

After an archmage possessing this ability counters a spell, the spell will be affected as if being affected by the "spell reversal" spell of the seventh ring, and bounce back to the opponent.

Completely unreasonable means!

In an instant, Zhao Xu's "spiritual barrier" recovered from the "crazy whisper" directly blocked his own "mentally handicapped technique".

Even dodging is useless, there are a series of spells such as "anti-evil magic circle" and "mercy of the martyr" behind him, all of which can shield him from this spell.

Compared with the point of spell reversal, the information that the other party might be an archmage made Zhao Xu's scalp tingle even more.

This means that the other party is likely to be a "Mage of Seven Rings".

After Qihuan has mastered the "Limited Wishing Technique", this spell, which consumes much less life energy than the Nine-ringed "Wishing Technique", can also create many extraordinary effects.

It is often the key to reversing the victory.

For example, if an ordinary civilian faces a part-time ten-level ranger whose level is close to a legendary "troll hunter", he only needs to hold a "+1 beheading sword" (beheading value +5).

Under the protection of the "Limited Wishing Technique", he will be able to hit the next blow regardless of the defense level of the opponent. Coupled with the threat of heavy blow brought by "Song of Sorrow", it will surely succeed, even the troll hunter will still be beheaded mercilessly.

This is also the existence value of the immune instant death effect.

So in the face of a seven-ringed mage, Zhao Xu had no way of predicting the possibility of the other party.

It's just that he is still confused.

If the opponent is really seven-ringed, why waste energy with the "power staff", just use a six-ringed "Spell Invalidation Barrier" with bare hands.

Not to mention that the other party could also use Qihuan's "Spell Reversal" just now, which would definitely make him cast a trap.

Just as Zhao Xu was thinking like this, a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind.

wrong.

Is Qihuan doubtful?

But the effect of the opponent's seemingly reversed spell was exposed a little.

The other party can't see clearly his details, otherwise it will be clear that he is not afraid of "retarded skills" at all.

At this time, the deformed man who had completed the counterspell looked at Zhao Xu with even more ferocious and crazy eyes.

His pupils were already covered with bloodshot eyes, but they were extremely dark black, as if tiny earthworms had burrowed through them.

At the same time, the decaying aura emanating from the other party's body from the cemetery was even stronger, and the one who gave him this feeling last time was a demigod mummy.

"Who the hell are you?"

Zhao Xu couldn't help asking back.

Taking advantage of the gap between the breath-adjusting body spell fluctuations, Zhao Xu also asked this question.

Even if he messed up the opponent's thinking even slightly, he would have made money.

In the mage battle, every minute and every cent needs him to deduct the details.

"You already know."

The pollution scholar opposite opened his mouth and smiled. At this time, his teeth were full of rotten and rusted copper and iron, and he could not see half of them at all.

Even while he was speaking, he couldn't help swallowing the blood that spewed out of his lungs due to his violent movements.

Is this still alive?

Zhao Xu couldn't help but wonder how terrifying the other party's "focus" level was, and it was rare enough to be able to cast spells in this state.

"Little prey, now it's my turn to act."

The deformed tainted mage sneered, his eyes flickering with utter madness.

Still can't see through.

Zhao Xu couldn't help shaking his head. If that's the case, let's wait again.

He continued to wave the "instant scepter" in his hand to activate its remaining power.

As Zhao Xu, who has the "Instant Spell" specialty, he can undoubtedly match this specialty with the spell, and then turn it into an instant spell, that is, "Standard Action" becomes "Swift."

Thus, two spells are cast in one round.

However, his "super magic control" takes more time and completely conflicts with "instant magic".

Therefore, if he wanted instant casting, he could only honestly improve the third-level spell, that is, use the fifth-level spell slot to instantly cast the second-level spell.

This is still relying on the level 3 ability of his Super Magic Spellcaster Super Magic Master, so that the enchanting effect can be reduced by one ring, otherwise it can only be cast by one ring instantly.

Therefore, the high-level super-magic scepter in his hand, which is made of pure metal and can instantly cast a nine-ring spell every day, is still in full use.

This time, Zhao Xu just waved the "scepter", and with the "instant cast" effect, his spell also completed the final compression.

From syllables to gestures to material, the whole movement is done in one go.

At this moment, Zhao Xu finally felt the effect of the "Howard convenience bag" that Antinoya gave him.

Whatever he wants, as long as he reaches into the side pocket, he can touch whatever he wants.

Otherwise, the clay, crystal, glass, or small ore balls needed for a "mentally handicapped spell" may not be able to be pulled out after a few minutes in his backpack.

As for the mage who made treasure bags for the robes and made them look like a gang of beggars, although each pocket contained the corresponding spell materials, when they really fought, they just wanted to go to which pocket to get things, and No matter how much the portion is, it will make people scramble.

So at this moment, when Zhao Xu took out a very neatly cut gemstone, it was smooth and smooth, without any gaps.

Five ring spells——

"Lingbi!"

Accompanied by a steady and swirling white-green sphere that looked like countless painful souls surrounded Zhao Xu.

On the side facing the outside world, there was an incomparably deep sigh, which seemed to be howling in pain, piercing deep into his heart.

Any creature that faces the Lingbi and fails its Will save will suffer a mental breakdown for the next 1-4 rounds and then flee wildly.

And any living thing that dares to touch the surface of the jade will suffer 1-10 points of damage due to the disturbance of vitality, and if it dares to cross the surface of the jade, it will also receive a negative level.

What is even more exaggerated is that this wall surface exists in a semi-material opaque form, which can provide a full concealment effect.

And most importantly, it can block magic effects.

Includes all spell-like and supernatural abilities.

That is to say, only when the opponent enters the sphere can the spell take effect.

Unfortunately, the opponent was also hiding in the sphere of the "Spell Invalidation Barrier" at this time, and neither sphere could move.

The other party's spells could no longer penetrate Zhao Xu's "Ling Bi", not even the Nine Rings, unless the Ling Bi was removed first.

But Zhao Xu's five-ring spell was able to cross the barrier.

Zhao Xu used this spell to throw stones at a deeper level to ask for directions!

Like the three threats in basketball, the breakthrough direction is determined by the opponent's next response.

As for the polluting scholar on the opposite side, at this moment, his body only shook a little, showing a thoughtful expression.

As Zhao Xu expected, the other party also put a layer of advanced flashing on himself.

Instantly obtain four effects: 50% invalidation of physical attacks, 50% invalidation of single-target spells, 50% damage of area attacks, and 100% dodge of attacks in preparation actions.

Of course, in terms of being able to hit Zhao Xu in the spirit world, none of these failures existed.

In this regard, Zhao Xu continued to cast spells with ease.

The five-ring spell "Stealing!"

Steal the opponent's spells for your own use.

Finally, this step made the deformed man change color, and he also directly adopted new methods——

"Disarm the magic!"

The deformed man immediately roared loudly!

Isn't it the sixth ring "advanced dispelling magic"?

At this moment, Zhao Xu's high hanging heart finally let go.

Immediately, he showed a confident look.

In essence, the "caster level" of both parties is what will resolve the magic competition!

In this regard, he would never lose to anyone, not even the Nine Ring Mage!