Floating City, Supreme Council of Mages.
The Supreme Council of the Floating City is the highest authority resident at the headquarters of the Mage Association.
Among them, there are only seven fixed members of the Council, namely President Os, Vice President Stormrage, and seven others including Villanther, Renault, Cassius, and Neisser.
Generally speaking, these seven people decide all matters in the entire floating city and even Mystra.
Only when corresponding issues are involved will the corresponding legendary mage be involved.
For example, the Nine Ring Mage can only wait until the joint enlarged meeting is held to vote before he can attend.
The theme of this meeting is Antinoya's recent work report, reporting on some recent developments.
Antinoya usually doesn't get cold from these meetings.
It was rare that she was willing to come and report on her work. The Big Seven listened attentively and specially attended the meeting.
Just then, a clerk knocked on the door and came in.
He walked directly to the chairman's position and handed Chairman Os the latest hour's updates on the Floating City, repeating the work he had done an hour ago.
As for Os, he basically knows all the report information at a glance and is familiar with it. Reading this is more of a routine habit.
Only this time, he stared for a second or two longer.
Just this tiny gap made at least two giants here pay attention.
"Anti Noya, do you need to go to the combat power testing hall for a test later?" President Aos suddenly asked.
It stands to reason that Antinoya does not need to go to the combat power testing hall to join in the fun.
Although the testing hall is also equipped with instruments and equipment required for legendary experiments, most of them are just for the legendary mages to have a common supplementary point.
Emergency means more.
After all, many instruments and devices also have certain maintenance cycles. The experts and alchemists in the floating city are basically operating at full capacity every day.
"How many years have I not done any experiments?" Antinoya frowned.
"Haha, the one-hour report just handed over by the surveillance of the highest palace said that all the testing instruments on the 10th to 14th floors were turned on at the request of your servant." President Ossie smiled.
For them, even if these instruments are carried at full capacity for a month until they are scrapped, that's it.
If Antinoya hadn't happened to be right in front of him, Aos wouldn't even bother to ask.
As soon as the other party finished speaking, Antinoya immediately understood what was going on. She smiled knowingly, "It must be that silly boy Zhong Xia who went to the waste paper pile to tear up a test coupon."
At this time, the seven giants present could not help but shake their heads and smile.
They understood it instantly and asked the testing laboratory to activate all the instruments.
It must have been Zhong Xia who took the coupon and directly told the supervisor to "try them all".
Otherwise, the legendary mages would not hastily consume resources to activate all the equipment on the 10th to 14th floors.
With each higher level, the resources consumed double.
"Chike, go and inform Nocchi and tell him that we allow his research team to borrow all the facilities on the 10th to 14th floors for one day."
Os said to the clerk who came in to report.
Those instruments were turned on, so they were simply put to use.
Chike nodded and turned around to leave when Aos added: "Send a commendation order to the Legend Hall of the Combat Power Test Hall. You can make up the reason yourself."
Clerk Chike's steps froze for a moment, then immediately expressed his understanding, and then continued to walk out of the door.
Chike, who is at the high-level center of the association, receives countless news and rumors every day, making him the most well-informed person.
After his commendation order, he understood that some people's illusions of taking Li Stan's place had to be shattered. ���
After Zhao Xu successfully shot the reinforced skeleton with a crossbow, he was also shocked.
He didn't expect that his damage actually exploded to a relatively high level, and he directly destroyed the blue-lighting skeleton.
Originally, according to Zhao Xu's idea, he planned to just look at the values on the dynamic panel. Who knew that the opponent would be so reluctant to fight.
Level 2 warriors, and even many other professions, may not be able to have 20 HP by level 3.
If Tie Shi met in the canyon north of the Tianduan Mountains that time, he would appear in front of Zhao Xu again.
As long as Zhao Xu is given two rounds of preparation time, he can get a headshot with one shot.
After the first-level spell "Holy Sacrifice" is added to the arrow, it really has the effect of defeating these low-level monsters.
The only price was naturally that Zhao Xu's health was suddenly deducted by 10 points from the original 13 points, leaving only 3 points.
Zhao Xu had no choice but to cast a "Cure Minor Injury" spell on himself immediately, otherwise he would fall unconscious if he was stabbed casually.
At this moment, Zhao Xu also roughly understands his combat power level. With the support of 14 first-level spells, he is far better than other players in terms of damage output and various control skills.
When Zhao Xu went to another testing room, he had already taken off the iron stone on his head.
Among the novice mages on the first level, even those from a mage family, there are not many who carry iron stones.
The cheapest iron stone that does not require breathing costs 4000 GP. With this money, everyone would rather copy a few more first-level spells and buy a few more scrolls.
In order to provide creatures for combat testing, the Combat Test Hall has basically prepared some common evil creatures.
Most of them are summoned like undead creatures and exist in the form of projections.
Once killed, it disappears.
Zhao Xu recalled that during the demon sealing battle in his previous life, their area was mainly attacked by the demon camp.
Therefore, the ones Zhao Xu killed the most were those disgusting evil demons and the like.
Out of familiarity with this kind of creature, Zhao Xu skipped the undead creature area and walked to the hell creature.
The arrangement was the same as before, with their new mage standing on the second floor, while the hell creatures were in the underground pits, and there was also a protective barrier to prevent them from breaking out.
This time Zhao Xu chose the "Lemo" testing room.
There were already several novice mages present who were conducting trials, and when they saw Zhao Xu coming in, they didn't pay much attention to him.
Suddenly, the whole floor shook slightly, and even the protective barrier that isolated the evil spirits seemed to be insignificant.
It wasn't until several seconds later that everything returned to normal.
Facing this scene, the novice mages looked confused and hurriedly ran outside to see what was going on.
Arthur once spread a story that when a mage was testing, the barrier that trapped the demon suddenly disappeared, causing the testing mage to be torn apart.
Although the association later used the resurrection technique to resurrect the mage, the huge psychological shadow left by the other party left the floating city directly.
But Zhao Xu didn't pay much attention. The protective staff was still in his pocket, so there was nothing he could do if a more advanced demon appeared.
Zhao Xu remained unmoved and continued to observe the lemures below.
Just like what he saw in his previous life, as the lowest existence in the devil's camp, these lemure demons are like disgusting meat balls. They have no brains and can only follow the instructions of senior devils.
Although they only have about 10 HP as alien creatures, their skin's defensive capabilities are pretty good, similar to those of ordinary humans wearing armor.
Regarding the major professions, spellcasters such as mages and priests are indeed the professions that have the most contact with demons and devil camps.
This is also the reason why these test rooms are set up on the first floor of the combat test hall.
If Zhao Xu uses the "defeat the enemy first" spell this time, he will be invincible until he encounters a more advanced devil.
The dozen or so lemures outside the field had no intelligence at all and could only keep wandering around. They were unable to block his attack.
But Zhao Xu decided to test his newly acquired abilities.
Zhao Xu met Lin Qi by chance in the library that day, and the other party taught him the ins and outs of piety expertise.
This ability is similar to the dark knowledge of the dossier scholar. Zhao Xu saw a prompt on the dynamic panel on the spot, indicating that he could redeem it.
It's just that he was still stuck in the promotion of the file at the time and didn't pay attention to it.
That message has been quietly locked there.
This time, Zhao Xu opened the news again and checked it.
Intellectual piety is actually a kind of expertise, and the price for obtaining it is to give up the field of knowledge.
The role of the knowledge field is to allow Zhao Xu to use all knowledge as his professional ability.
However, Zhao Xu, as a mage, already possesses this ability. The remaining knowledge field allows him to +1 the caster level when casting prophecy spells, which has limited significance.
After Zhao Xu thought about it for a while, it was actually more cost-effective for him to redeem that ability.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu directly agreed to give up the field of knowledge and obtain the "Knowledge Piety" expertise.
Suddenly, the abilities and domain spells related to the knowledge field disappeared from his priest list.
However, he has already mastered the spells in the dossier scholar's spell list, so there is no loss at all.
After redeeming his abilities, Zhao Xu looked at the lemure in front of him and then at the "Knowledge and Piety" feat on his character card panel.
As alien creatures, lemures correspond to plane knowledge. Zhao Xu directly started to activate his abilities to conduct knowledge tests.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, conducted a knowledge (plane) ability test, the test result = 7+D20 (1-20) = 17, in the 16-20 range, and gained a +2 insight bonus against lemure attacks and damage.]
Faintly, Zhao Xu felt that he seemed to have a deeper understanding of the movement trajectory of the evil demon, and the evil demon was slower in his eyes.
Although it is not as invincible as the invincible effect of "defeating the enemy first" when he gives himself +20 insights in one go.
But this is already an attack bonus of almost 10%, which is equivalent to an increase in his attack power against lemures by 2 levels, and as long as he faces the lemure in front of him, he will always have this effect, not just one blow. That’s all.
Only when a warrior upgrades by 1 level can his attack power be increased by 1 level.
In his previous life, Zhao Xu was stuck due to the increase in warrior's attack power. It took a long time before he could successfully reach level 2.
Later, when he was about to be promoted to a level 3 warrior, because he had already traveled through time, he practiced hard with his two-handed giant sword every day. After thousands of sword attacks, he finally understood the secret of level 3 attacks.
As for the secret of the legendary level 20 attack of a level 20 warrior, what is its power
He also gave himself a "defeat the enemy's opportunity" and then gained a little grasp of it.
It's just that defeating the enemy machine can only give him the basic attack ability of a level 20 warrior in one strike. After one strike, he falls into the mortal world again and becomes worse than a level 1 warrior.
Immediately afterwards, Zhao Xu continued to activate his dark knowledge (tactics) ability against the lemure in front.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, conducted a knowledge (plane) ability appraisal, the appraisal result = 7+D20 (1-20) = 26, exceeding DC15 difficulty by 10 points, the attack against lemures increased by 2 levels, duration 1min, frequency 2/3]
As Zhao Xu expected, the abilities of knowledge piety and dark knowledge perfectly overlapped.
He suddenly gained a level 4 attack power advantage over the lemure.
In an instant, he wiped out the opponent's advantage in natural defensive armor.
Without any hesitation, Zhao Xu directly picked up the light crossbow in his hand and pointed it at the dazed lemure below.
If a warrior wants to increase his level 4 attack, he must either increase his level by 4, increase his strength by 8 points, or equip himself with a +4 magic weapon.
No matter which one, it is not so easy to do.
Zhao Xu pulled the trigger, and the evil demon was instantly wiped out.
It's still 9 o'clock and 12 o'clock tonight.
(End of chapter)