"Your knowledge (mystery) skill bonus itself is 4 points less than mine. Add in the 5 points of performance bonus from reading, and the gap is 9 points." Yingmo looked at Zhao Xu and said.
"I have 19 points of skill bonus, plus 8 points of source feedback, a total of 27 points failed."
Generally, a player's skill bonus is a combination of level superposition and adjustment of corresponding attributes. For example, knowledge corresponds to intelligence attributes.
Zhao Xu's knowledge (mystery) level is 1 level lower than Ying's, and his intelligence adjustment is 3 points lower, so his knowledge (mystery) bonus is 4 points lower than Ying's, only 7 points.
After Ying finished stacking his skills, he reached a peak of 19 points, and just like that he failed.
This is why she is full of doubts about Zhao Xu trying again.
"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 urgently: "Are they all skills?"
She immediately asked the key to the problem.
Zhao Xu nodded and admitted this.
Facing these players who are bound to become high-level mages in the future, there is no point in lying now, because everyone is not an ordinary person.
"I knew it, I knew it." Even though Ying was usually extremely confident and proud, he couldn't help but stamp his legs at this moment.
"I almost looked through all the spell books, trying to find a powerful spell for this skill, but I couldn't find it. I thought it was written in a mage novel."
As soon as Ying finished speaking, she couldn't help but stare at Zhao Xu, but words like "Little brother, please teach me this spell", she couldn't say it at all due to her character.
After Ying took a deep breath to calm down his emotions, he asked tentatively: "After improving the caster's effect, how much bonus can be increased?"
Zhao Xu looked at the figure who had been a little excited since seeing this spell, and said: "Initially 4 points, then add 1 point for every 2 caster levels."
If Zhao Xu has a level 10 caster level, then this spell can increase his skill level by nearly 9 points of performance bonus, which has already crushed 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 borrow Ying to copy it after discussion, I can pay the loan fee for Ying. .”
After seeing what Lu said, Ying was about to say no, but Lu waved his hand to stop him, "Don't worry, you can pay for it with the gold coins in that paper bag and wallet, I'll just take care of it first."
Zhao Xu never expected that Lu and Ying's relationship would get so good.
He could only wonder why he didn't see a rich young lady taking care of him.
However, after hearing that Zhao Xu was confident, Ying still handed Zhao Xu the "intelligence scarf" she was wearing before.
The moment Zhao Xu took over the "intelligence scarf", he was indeed a little touched.
As long as he wears this thing for 24 hours, the attributes provided by the equipment will take effect, so his intelligence can be considered saved.
After Zhao Xu put on his intelligence turban, he immediately began to perform the "Song of Knowledge".
The casting time of Song of Knowledge is one of the few spells that lasts longer than one round. It is not as long as the previous appraisal spell, which lasted one hour, but it still takes one minute.
So Zhao Xu looked at the long mantras in his mind 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 the luck bonus that makes everything right, nor is it the environment bonus that has something to help with corrections.
Performance bonus, for Zhao Xu, greatly improves his personal performance level.
He even felt strongly confident that he would pass this appraisal perfectly.
Zhao Xu was all focused on the stone slab, and his knowledge (mystery) skill bonus was now as high as 15 points.
However, Zhao Xu knew that he was not enough.
He needs stronger power to help him break through the predicament at hand.
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 they will be lost if they are not used after the expiration date, so before level 9, he regarded this ability as air.
But now, the last remaining potential points began to be transformed into Zhao Xu's help according to Zhao Xu's wishes.
The potential point is the power of the hero.
Whenever heroes run rampant in the world and can explode with power that ordinary people cannot reach, they all use extraordinary potential.
In an instant, Zhao Xu noticed that his knowledge (mystery) bonus soared from 15 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 constantly.
The final number will be the help that Zhao Xu can get from the source of knowledge.
The dice suddenly stopped, the pace of rotation stopped abruptly, and a cruel 1 headed towards the top.
Zhao Xu's knowledge (mysterious) skill is 19 points, plus this 1 point of help from the source is nearly 20 points.
But it is far from enough to overcome the cognitive barrier of this stone tablet and successfully communicate with the source.
Zhao Xu's face darkened, and the final result of the communication had not yet come out.
But at this critical moment, he knew that he had basically failed.
Yiying's 19 points, plus the dice's 8 points, failed to reach 27 points, so Zhao Xu's 20 points naturally didn't need to be thought about.
At this moment, Zhao Xu looked at the dice that had fallen to the ground calmly and no longer changed.
A mage can reverse fate.
Strictly speaking, it is magic that can reverse fate.
"Work together now!"
Zhao Xu suddenly released this mysterious spell again.
This first-level arcane spell only required intuitive reaction. Zhao Xu used his versatile spellcaster to consume two zero-level spell slots and successfully released it in an instant.
Suddenly the originally calm dice started to twist again.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, re-take knowledge (mystery test) = 19+1D20=19+11=30 points, pass DC30 difficulty, and the test is successful.]
The dice fell again, but this time the value on it was 11.
Zhao Xu's knowledge (mystery) test result was 30 points, and he crossed the 30-story barrier and successfully communicated with the source of knowledge directly.
Suddenly, the mysterious symbols on the stone tablet began to form in front of his eyes, gradually turning into content that he could understand.
"This is a spell that can be used three times."
"Either you can protect yourself once, or you can save a living being, or you can reach the other side once."
After Zhao Xu finished praying those words, a mysterious halo of light suddenly appeared all over his body.
He couldn't help but look confused. Did he use it just once
Suddenly, the cracks in the stone tablet spread all over the surrounding area and became densely packed, and countless auras of death began to spurt out from inside.
Zhao Xu immediately wanted to tell the two women to hide.
But after the stone tablet exploded, an evil force that seemed to spew out from the abyss and purgatory, mixed with the destructive light of death and terror, exploded instantly.
An entire hundred meters of area was destroyed.
It wasn't until the black light dissipated that Zhao Xu regained his vision.
He looked up and saw that the already extremely desolate cliffs had become extremely dead.
The ground seemed to have been plowed with countless ravines.
The thorn forest closest to them was covered in 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 looming. This was a sign that they were about to go to the Creation Temple.
Zhao Xu walked over quickly, and when Ying and Lu fell to the ground, their faces were revealed.
But Zhao Xu looked at the scene of the fragrance disappearing and the jade dying, as if recalling the past.
His fists were clenched tightly!
"Save one and move on."
"Life is all about making choices. This is the cruel world of mages."
Leian's familiar voice came again, but this time it was different, it echoed directly in the entire space.
"Of course, you can also leave that one chance of resurrection and choose to go alone. In this way, you will be born with one more chance of resurrection than others in the future."
"This is the real reward of this trial."
"Take action, there are still choices that will 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.
In front of him, after the stone tablet exploded, a looming floating bridge appeared above the broken abyss.
According to the last content of the inscription and Leian's words.
That spell gave him three chances, and he had already used the first one to protect himself.
One of them must be used to activate the floating bridge to gain true power.
And the remaining time, he can use it to save one of the two women.
He could even give up and leave the spell directly as an additional chance for resurrection in the future.
Zhao Xu took a deep breath.
He looked at the blood-red sky and mocked: "Fuck you, only children make choices, I want to save them all!"
After that, he activated the spell twice in a row.
Two rays of sacred light emitted directly from the mark on his arm and fell into the bodies of the two women.
The two women's bodies, which were about to dissipate, condensed again and transformed into entities.
After a while, Lu and Ying 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, you have to go back." Zhao Xu smiled while squatting and looking at the two women lying in an indecent posture.
Only then did Lu and Ying notice that their hoods had fallen away, completely letting Zhao Xu see their true colors.
And Ying looked at Zhao Xu with a hint of strangeness, then she stood up and walked to the place where the stone tablet exploded, where half of the stone tablet still remained.
After Zhao Xu obtained the spell, the real words were revealed on it.
"You should go there by yourself." Shadow whispered.
"Although we were unconscious, we still vaguely knew what happened before we died. I didn't expect Mr. Feng to be so kind." Lu bowed slightly and thanked Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu had no intention of telling the two women what happened, but the two women's IQs were enough for them to figure out the truth on their own.
"But we can't get through it now. The mission must have failed." Zhao Xu knew Lei An's style and would not leave any cunning loopholes for them to exploit.
"Mr. Feng, not necessarily." Su Lu said with a gentle smile.
"That's right." Ying said while looking at the faint floating bridge in front of him.
"But before we go there, I'm afraid we have to introduce ourselves one more time."
At this time, Lu walked over and pulled Ying over, stood side by side in front of Zhao Xu, and introduced herself, "Wang Ningwei, level 2 mage."
Yingze curled his lips and said, "Aiswig, a level 2 mage."
Zhao Xu scratched his head, "Zhongxia, 2, hmm? Level 3 mage?"
(End of chapter)