When Zhao Xu was carried back to the floating city of Mystra by Antinoya, he still couldn't forget the legacy of the Naitl Dynasty.
At this time, Zhao Xu also used the first-level spell "Magic Aura" to cover up the aura on his star cloak.
When not worn, the Star Cloak looks like an ordinary cloak, which is more in line with Zhao Xu's requirements.
So he used the spell "Magic Aura" to cover up the magic aura naturally emitted by magic items.
In this way, others cannot tell that this "Star Cloak" is a magic item using detection magic.
Even after the cloak was put on, the shining light like the starry sky was covered up. Unless others used "appraisal techniques" or other methods, they would not be able to see through that Zhao Xu was wearing an expensive magic item.
The spell "Magic Aura" is linked to the caster's level based on days, so Zhao Xu can cast it once with the Ioun Stone for up to 4 days.
After Zhao Xu arrived at the seventh floor of the Floating City, Antinoya performed an awakening ceremony for his item demon pet.
The process is similar to the previous awakening rituals such as obtaining Dragon Language and Wisdom Heart Spellcaster.
However, after Antinoya awakened him, he was notified to attend an emergency meeting of the floating city's high-level officials, leaving Zhao Xu alone to study the 'Item Demon Pet' instruction manual.
As an item magic pet that may accompany him for a lifetime, Zhao Xu carefully read the instructions and kept thinking about the details.
After Zhao Xu chose the "Intelligent Spellcaster" ability, he went to the forum to check the abilities of his magic pet.
He also read many books about familiars, among which the most mentioned one was that familiars and mages were one and the same.
The wizard can also benefit from the chosen familiar. For example, a wizard who chooses a toad familiar can gain an additional 3 points of health, which is even comparable to a "Strong" feat in the early stages.
A mage who chooses a lizard familiar can gain a +3 improvement in climbing skills.
Of course, many players now like to choose a crow so that the other party can talk to them.
More importantly, as long as the familiar is around, the mage can additionally enjoy the +2 bonus of the "Alertness" feat to detect and listen.
Even if you choose a falcon familiar, you can further increase the detection and listening skill by +3 bonus in a bright environment. Adding the alertness expertise is a 5-point improvement.
In the early stages, level 1 rogues and rangers only have full detection and listening skills at level 4.
Therefore, Zhao Xu very much suspected that both Wang Ningwei and Eswig had given up their magic pets. Otherwise, if they had taken out their magic pets at that time, they would have been able to continue to improve the effectiveness of the investigation network.
In this way, they may be able to surpass all players in the two abilities of detection and listening.
This is also the scary thing about mages. With the support of spells, their skill effects exceed those of rogues who are born with 8 professional skill points.
You must know that at least half of the rogue's rice depends on his skills.
But now this kind of power is only available to a few mages like Zhao Xu who have learned almost all first-level spells.
Zhao Xu carefully felt the star cloak on his body. After the ceremony, he did feel that he was connected with the other person.
Zhao Xu also began to control the ability of the item magic pet according to the instructions.
Compared with ordinary familiars, item familiars are more powerful because they can provide feedback.
It is equivalent to a hen that actively lays eggs for its owner, rather than a four-legged gold-eating beast.
After Zhao Xu reached level 3, he received 4 skill points (3 intelligence, 1 human reward), and the remaining professional skill points would have to wait until he officially obtained the professional level.
He first tentatively controlled the three skill points in his mind and poured them into the "Star Cloak".
Immediately, the Star Cloak began to react, constantly separating Zhao Xu's skill points, trying to integrate with his whole body.
After about half an hour, Zhao Xu noticed changes in his character card panel.
His remaining available skill points have become 1 point.
But there is an additional line below: [Item Demon Pet Skill Points: 4]
When Zhao Xu saw this, he let out a breath and finally succeeded.
Item familiars are powerful because after they digest the skill points, they can increase the skill points by one-third and then feed them back to the owner.
As long as Zhao Xu dares to take the risk and invest all his skill points, he will have one-third more skill points than people with the same conditions in the future.
This is a big improvement considering the embarrassment of skill points in the mage profession itself.
The mage only has 2 professional skill points per level. If he didn't rely on intelligence to win, he wouldn't even have the points to invest in knowledge skills. Unlike the Archivist, spellcasters have at least 4 professional skill points per level.
The only problem is that these 4 skill points are attached to the cloak. If Zhao Xu is separated from the cloak for too long or the cloak is damaged, he will be extremely passive.
But it's just passive.
Others may have lost those invested skill points since then.
Zhao Xu can ask Antinoya to perform a prayer spell on him to recover.
This is also the reason why Antinoya arranged an item magic pet for him.
After seeing that he had 4 skill points, Zhao Xu was not in a hurry to allocate them. His "Kung Fu" skill was a black hole that swallowed up skill points, and he could use up as many as he had.
It's just that for the time being, he doesn't have the time to practice hiding coins or twisting the rope. In his previous life, he had seen a rogue with only a few levels of Sleight of Hand skills, being able to use a sharp double-sided blade on four fingers. Turning over and over.
Next, Zhao Xu looked again at the second ability of the "Item Demon Pet"—returning vitality.
Zhao Xu thought about it before investing his energy.
There have always been different opinions on the form in which experience values exist.
The character card panel only quantifies various skill levels, health points, and defense levels for them.
There is no such thing as an experience value progress bar.
Therefore, it has been difficult for everyone to control when they will be able to upgrade.
If you can see a prompt such as Math Experience +1 behind you when you are studying, then many people will study hard.
Because learning becomes something where you can see immediate gains, just like upgrading and fighting monsters in the game.
The item familiar can invest something similar to experience points, thereby feeding back more experience points.
Although this is a bit useless for Zhao Xu, who upgraded quickly and didn't know why he upgraded inexplicably.
But mosquito meat is still meat no matter how small it is. After thinking about it, Zhao Xu followed the manual and started meditating.
He slowly imagined that he would infuse the vitality of his body into the cloak.
In the corner of the originally quiet room, the three stoves burning Ningshen incense suddenly shook, and the smoke was lingering.
Threads of light began to appear all over Zhao Xu's body, slowly injecting into the cloak like vitality.
After ten minutes, Zhao Xu woke up suddenly.
He noticed that his body seemed to be a lot weaker, and the level 3 numbers and health numbers on the character card panel began to shake.
"You won't lose level, right?"
Zhao Xu suddenly remembered his friend who had been kissed by a succubus. Because the other party couldn't break away from the succubus' kiss, every sweet price was reduced by one level.
Just when Zhao Xu felt that his level was almost unstable and about to drop, a stream of heat suddenly came from the cloak and poured into Zhao Xu's body continuously.
It wasn't until half a quarter of an hour later that Zhao Xu felt that he had received far more energy than the energy he paid.
This also allowed him to verify what the manual said, that having the "Item Demon Pet" expertise was equivalent to an additional experience bonus of about 10%.
If Arthur has a membership, the experience bonus ability of the item familiar can be regarded as a member benefit.
At this point, Zhao Xu also stood up and dusted himself off.
The item familiar also has the ability to put it into a spell slot, and then feedback it to him by reducing it by two levels.
That is, Zhao Xu invests in a level 2 spell slot. From now on, the level 2 spell slot will be attached to the item familiar, and he will also have feedback from an additional level 0 spell slot.
It's just that he doesn't have a level 2 spell slot yet, so he can only give up first.
As for the remaining abilities of the item familiar, such as intelligence, communication and even various powers, they will have to wait until he upgrades in the future.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu couldn't help but pull off his cloak and bring it closer to him.
This cloak is now considered the most precious magic item in his possession.
After making sure that he had mastered the item magic pet ability, Zhao Xu logged off and returned to the real world. ���
When Zhao Xu went offline again this time, he found that Zhang Qi was video chatting with his girlfriend, a daily activity of abusing dogs.
Although Zhao Xu only went online for more than two hours after eating, he got a magic item worth 130,000 gold coins and also mastered a powerful expertise.
But he felt like a long time had passed.
Now that he was offline, after temporarily suppressing the excitement of getting the equipment, Ernest's legendary story began to linger in his mind.
At that time, he was in a certain natural acuity, and there was no need to ask Antinoya again about the follow-up and who the person being guarded was.
But Zhao Xu was certain that the legendary Ernest's secret treasure had always remained legendary and had not been obtained by any god.
Zhao Xu read the "Road to the Arcane" that Antinoya gave him.
He knew very well that the gods of Ernest's time and the gods of today did not overlap by more than one hand.
Thinking about it this way, gods can be considered a high-risk profession.
Zhao Xu climbed out of bed after thinking about it, opened his phone and looked at it. In the QQ group, Wang Ningwei and Eswig also chatted with each other hundreds of times.
The topic has begun to cover some details about Arthur to daily dressing and even two-dimensional topics, which gives Zhao Xu a headache.
"Baby, that mission in Falling Star Lake is too dangerous, you'd better not go." At this time, Zhang Qi said to his girlfriend on the other side of the video.
Then Zhang Qi began to analyze the surrounding environment of Falling Star Lake with his girlfriend.
Falling Star Lake is a key base near Winter City.
As long as the characters in the university town were born in Winter City, most of them have gone to Falling Star Lake to experience fighting monsters, and a supply point has also begun to develop there.
Listening to Zhang Qi's succinct analysis, Zhao Xu was surprised that Zhang Qi in his previous life had handed over all the remaining four resurrection stones in Falling Star Lake, knowing the danger.
As the first large-scale battle launched by Arthuri players, the Battle of Falling Star Lake is of great significance.
This is also the reason why Zhao Xu's major university league will play a decisive role in the future.
"Okay, okay, I'll accompany you to get the permit then." After hearing his girlfriend acting coquettishly, Zhang Qi quickly consoled her.
Zhao Xu looked at Zhang Qi's back and recalled the care and help Zhang Qi had given to his family in his previous life.
(End of chapter)