After seeing the mage fall, Zhao Xu couldn't help but feel nervous.
According to Antinoya's explanation, if there are casualties among these 20 people, his "Invisibility Ring" and "Fireball Eternal Wand" rewards will be cancelled.
At this moment, Zhao Xu could only hope that the arrow would not have a critical hit.
After the player obtains the character level, his health will only reach -10 HP before death. Therefore, without a dozen or twenty damage, it is not enough to kill a level 1 mage instantly.
After that arrow, several arrows and several javelins followed in the forest, attacking the positions of these mage players on the spot.
After reacting, the novice players shouted angrily to retreat on the spot, and also retreated towards the rear.
At this time, nearly twenty orange and even dark red goblins rushed out of the wild trees.
These goblins were only over one meter tall, and most of them held crude javelins or maces in their hands. A few of them were dark gray and carried one-handed shields.
These goblins look slightly different from the green goblins, or goblins, in general fantasy movies, and their eyes are as dim as glass balls.
The last head of these goblins was a hobgoblin. As a cousin of the goblins, he wore a blood-red leather armor with black stripes. The longbow in his hand showed a faint glimmer and was well maintained.
It was obvious that the leading arrow just now was shot by it. The gnome exposed its smelly yellow teeth and shouted: "You guys, kill these mages and steal their equipment."
Facing this urgent scene, the mage players present, especially those with higher physiques standing in the front row, hurriedly put on mage armor for themselves, along with all kinds of toads, weasels, etc. on them. The raven pet also jumped up and down.
It's not that they don't want to cast it in advance during the journey, but that for level 1 mages, their spells can only last for 1 hour without increasing the caster level.
Unlike Zhao Xu, who can last for 6 hours, Zhao Xu even has a level 2 spell slot, which can be paired with the "Spell Delay" feat to make the "Spell Armor" last up to 24 hours.
At this time, Zhao Xu hurriedly brought his horse close to the corner. At the same time, when the arrow hit the player, he had already taken out a piece of butter from his backpack as a spell material.
Zhao Xu cast a "grease technique" directly on the route where the goblins were attacking.
As the chanting of the spell was completed, the wilderness path filled with gravel and dead leaves was immediately covered with a layer of smooth grease.
Immediately, several goblins who were urged to rush over by the leader stumbled over the thick layer of grease and fell heavily.
The next few goblins also fell to the ground.
For a moment, the dozen or so goblins who were still full of energy suddenly stopped. Their pupils looked at the place where their companions fell with fearful expressions, as if there was an invisible strangulation trap there.
Although goblins have 10 points of intelligence similar to that of ordinary humans, they are timid by nature and have never had the instinct to fight in groups. They rely on the intimidation of more powerful creatures to launch attacks in unison.
After seeing this scene, the hobgoblin who was supervising the formation at the rear shouted angrily: "It's the Grease Technique. Rush over and I won't be able to kill you stupid bastards."
As he spoke, the big goblin began to wave the long sword in his hand, as if he wanted to pick up a few goblins and kill them to establish his power.
After receiving this threat, the approaching goblins noticed that the ground in front of them was a three-meter square patch of grease.
After Zhao Xu had just cast the spell, he found that the invisibility spell on his body had not been cancelled, and he was relieved.
It's just a second-level invisibility spell. When you try to cast a spell on an enemy area, the invisibility effect will be canceled.
But Zhao Xu had just cast a spell on the road where the goblins were about to come, and just avoided this.
And the hobgoblin, who only knew the grease technique, only stared at the retreating novice mages ahead, and did not look in the direction of Zhao Xu further away.
Arthur's spell range is divided into several types. Above the contact distance, they are close range, medium range and long range.
Grease is a short-range spell. Its standard casting range is 7.5 meters. Above this, every time the caster level increases by two levels, the distance can be extended by an additional 1.5 meters.
Zhao Xu relied on the level 6 caster level to directly cast spells at a distance of 12 meters. Otherwise, he would have to walk a few meters further to cast the spell.
Otherwise, the distance when he releases the spell can only reach the area where the novice mages are, which means he will kill his friends in reverse.
At this time, except for the few mages in the front row who were hit by javelins during the casting process, causing the spells to fail, the mages in the rear had already reorganized their team.
They followed Wang Ningwei's original arrangement. After being attacked, the middle echelon would cast attack spells first.
At this time, Eswig followed suit, passed over the retreating first row, and directly released a "Colorful Jet" spell.
Suddenly, several goblins were covered in rainbow-like cone-shaped spells and fell to the ground on the spot.
When the mages in the front row who had released the "Mage Armor" spell saw this scene, they also turned their heads and raised their wooden sticks to swing at the fallen goblin.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Xu also made up his mind. He knew that the battle was basically over.
Originally, the combat power of goblins was not as good as that of ordinary level 1 human warriors, and was almost the same as that of mages whose combat power was weak.
The most dangerous wave in the team was naturally when they were mysteriously attacked.
At that time, the goblin group was fighting the mage group, and if they calculated mentally or not, as long as these spellcasters could not successfully release the first wave of spells, they were likely to be directly killed and suffered huge damage.
Zhao Xu released the "greasy technique" to give these novice mages of Mystra a round of reprieve.
As long as they survive the surprise attack and have 40-60 first-level spell slots left, they will naturally be able to wipe out these only 20 goblins.
Thinking of this, Zhao Xu couldn't help but let out a long breath.
He also began to vaguely feel the power of the control spell. Just a 3-meter-square greasy spell could stop these goblins who lacked long-range means after throwing the javelin.
If he had just taken out the spider web as a spell material and used these wild bushes as a fulcrum to cast the "Spider Web Technique", it would have been even harder for these goblins to move. They would have to wait to be attacked by these goblins who were more or less equipped with bows and arrows or "magic missiles". Killed by a mage.
This is also the characteristic of Master Arthur. The spells are powerful enough, but the spell slots are very limited.
Next, as more than half of the goblins were knocked down, even if the big goblin shouted angrily, it could not save the remaining ten or so frightened goblins, who basically fled in all directions.
Wang Ningwei dissuaded the mages who wanted to pursue them, and a group of people turned around and began to clean up the battlefield.
Among them, the maces, leather armors and javelins of the dead goblins were better than nothing gained from this battle.
At this time, Zhao Xu tied the horse farther away and slowly approached it using the invisibility technique.
He was indeed worried about the players who fell to the ground.
He couldn't tell later, he would have to cast a "Cure Minor Injury" spell to lift the opponent.
After being injured, the health value drops below 0HP. If you do not receive good treatment or your body cannot stabilize the injury, you will continue to lose health value, and will eventually be declared dead when it reaches -10HP.
This is also what a priest with healing spells means to every adventuring party.
At this time, Wang Ningwei leaned over and looked down at the mages who were knocked down by arrows or javelins.
"I have a healing belt that can release healing spells." Wang Ningwei breathed a sigh of relief after confirming that the three novice mages had just passed out.
Watching Wang Ningwei release the spell on her belt from a distance, Zhao Xu was secretly speechless. Sure enough, she was also the daughter of destiny.
The "Healing Belt", a small healing artifact from the past life, is known as the most powerful low-level healing equipment. Wang Ningwei actually had it at this early stage.
This belt only costs 750 gold coins, but it has 3 rounds of energy every day. It can consume 1 round to heal 2D8 (2-16) HP, consuming 2 rounds is 3D8 (3-24) HP, and 3 rounds is 4D8 ( 4-36) HP healing amount.
The healing amount of 2D8 is already the healing amount of the priest's second-level magic "Cure Moderate Wounds", but the magic can also add an additional healing amount equal to the "caster level".
So Arthur's mage depends on the caster's level, from spell distance to various spell effects.
Wang Ningwei's natural choice on the spot was to treat each of the three people who fell to the ground with one shot, which just happened to bring them back from the brink of death.
Luo Lei walked forward and reached out to touch the ground where several goblins had just fallen, but found nothing.
"The 'grease spell' can be resolved on its own." Eswig stood aside and said.
Zhao Xu's grease technique can last for 6 rounds, but after seeing the player's counterattack, Zhao Xu naturally canceled the layer of grease summoned to avoid tripping his own people.
"Who released the greasy spell just now?" Luo Lei, who was always cold and showy, asked.
Those who can be selected to study in Mystra have normal IQs, but their emotional intelligence is insufficient.
When they heard the thunder, they also reacted.
At that moment, he was not releasing "Magic Armor" to protect himself, nor was he releasing "Magic Missiles" to attack the goblins. Instead, he was releasing "Grease" to block the players, which played an extremely critical role.
But all the players present were silent.
Standing in the corner, Jiang Shan's throat was a little dry. He wanted to speak, but he didn't dare to claim the credit.
No one is a fool. No matter what magic he has learned, he did information sharing on the first day.
"It's really amazing. That's our team, and we have the 21st member." Eswig slowly walked to the back of the team.
But in front of her, there was a chaotic jungle with not a single person in sight.
At this moment, Eswig's eyes fell on the gravel ground, trying to analyze something.
Zhao Xu, on the other hand, was upset by the other party's sight. His invisibility only concealed his body and could not hide his own scent, sound, and touch.
He couldn't help but look down to see if he had really left any footprints.
And he who was being watched at this time also knew that he had better not act rashly and had twenty pairs of eyes looking at this direction.
One thing is uncertain, which mage's reconnaissance skills explode, his presence will be detected.
It's a pity that these mages in front of him don't have the magical skill of "Investigation Network". Otherwise, if they stack up the 40th level bonus on their investigation skills, Zhao Xu will have nothing to hide.
"Grease Technique." Suddenly Eswig said to the place in front of Zhao Xu.
Zhao Xu suddenly found that a layer of grease began to appear on the soles of his feet.
He's going to be exposed!
(End of chapter)