Eswig had obviously seen the difference in the ground he was stepping on, and directly covered Zhao Xu with a greasy area of about 9 square meters.
Although the grease created by the "grease technique" lasted for a long time, Zhao Xu was completely unable to move within the one or two rounds that Eswig could maintain.
Once he leaves, he leaves obvious footprints in the grease. Even he may not be able to leave smoothly, and he may accidentally fall down like the goblin at any time.
But if he didn't leave without giving orders, the remaining mages would naturally come forward and try to knock Zhao Xu down.
At this critical moment, Zhao Xu was caught in a dilemma.
At the moment when the spell was about to be completed, Eswig also smiled.
To be able to show such obvious flaws, it was obviously not a high-level mage, and she had even vaguely guessed the candidate.
At this time, everyone's eyes were firmly focused on the venue.
Being able to find out the instructor who came to stalk them is something to be proud of.
They can even brag about it when they return to the floating city.
At this moment, Zhao Xu became calm. Since he mastered all the spells, he rarely gets nervous anymore.
Mages are powerful precisely because they have countless choices.
Zhao Xu could use "spell counterattack" to try to cancel Eswig's spell.
He can even use the amulet on his chest to push back the surrounding situation to six seconds ago.
However, none of this could be hidden from Eswig.
However, Zhao Xu still has a way out!
Secondary swift burst!
Suddenly, the entire tree-lined path and the twenty mages in front of Zhao Xu went into slow motion in his eyes.
Even if they blinked slightly, Zhao Xu could clearly see the movements of the muscles on the eyelashes.
The sound waves of Eswith's mantra were still rippling in the air and could not reach his ears.
Zhao Xu gained extremely rare time.
This time is enough for him to make a sprint.
But Zhao Xu looked at the grease layer that was about to form below.
If he really ran away suddenly, everyone would only see inexplicable splashes on the oil layer.
At this time, Zhao Xu directly drove the "teleportation boots" on his feet. At the same time, he looked towards the position where the summoning horse was hidden seven or eight meters behind. He wanted to determine the destination of the teleportation.
Immediately, powerful space power seeped out from the soles of the teleportation boots, causing Zhao Xu to disappear on the spot.
Time resumes its flow.
A thick layer of fat in a square area appeared directly in front of everyone.
Everyone was staring at the grease, but they didn't see anything unusual.
A few of the mages who were unwilling to give up even risked falling and pounced directly on them, but found nothing.
But Eswig didn't show any embarrassment.
She knew she wasn't wrong.
When Wang Ningwei was treating the injured, she glanced at the ground behind her.
She was extremely certain that the yellowed and dried leaf must have been stepped on before it cracked.
Zhao Xu, who was standing at the end, still felt a little dizzy, feeling the aftereffects of "secondary rapid burst".
Although he has no problem dodging other people's attacks now, he is unable to cast spells or perform some complicated movements.
He also sighed slightly.
Fortunately, he has the unreasonable spell "Secondary Swift Burst".
No matter how fast his spell is, as long as he can react, he can cast the spell directly without going through any complicated process.
This is also the most powerful point of the "Intuitive Action" spell.
All it takes is a thought.
Zhao Xu was more cautious this time. Even when the other party came to search, he would reluctantly remove the summoned horse.
As long as he is discovered, it means he will have one less magic item.
After this battle, he has realized the power of the "invisibility ring".
In a low-level environment that lacks concealment-breaking methods, if he is a good thief and has some sneak attack capabilities, he can completely eliminate these mages one by one with one sword.
Mainly, this “ring” has no battery life issues.
As for his "Eternal Fireball Wand", it can be fired twice a day forever. The meaning of this is self-evident.
Calculated based on the price of a "Fireball" scroll of 375 gold coins, basically every time he used the wand, it meant saving 375 gold coins.
If Zhao Xu didn't care about exposing his identity just now. As long as he controls the center of the spell explosion and avoids the mage players, those goblins are just garbage that he can clear away with one fireball.
Even the hobgoblin wasn't much better.
After all, no one present has that kind of "reflective dodge" ability, and cannot completely avoid the damage of the fireball spell.
Later, Zhao Xu also noticed that those mages cast many spells, among which mage armor was the most common.
Zhao Xu also waited until everyone on the other side had evacuated for almost half a minute before untying the horse's reins and driving his horse to follow.
However, he maintained a high degree of vigilance. Although he had just watched the actions of the opponent's large army, he could not tell whether there was a trap planted here.
So he was concentrating on reconnaissance at the moment.
Suddenly, Zhao Xu saw a white light shining in the corner of the tree stump with his peripheral vision, and his heart suddenly shuddered.
He immediately clamped his legs together and pulled the reins of the horse, stopping the light horse beneath him from moving forward.
Zhao Xu looked carefully at the tree stump. There was a thread on it that was faintly glowing with white light.
Otherwise, the sunlight would be too strong, and the other person might be that kind of metal, otherwise he might not be able to notice it.
But Zhao Xu knew in his heart that with Eswig's way of thinking, he would definitely not let go of such an obvious thing. It might be a serial trap.
Thinking of this, after taking a look at his abundant spell slots, Zhao Xu was fearless and cast the Druid and Ranger's first-level magic "Detect Trap" on the spot.
Just like the form of "detection magic", this type of detection spell explodes into a cone-shaped fan-shaped area with a radius of 20 meters.
On the first pass he can tell if there is anything ahead to detect.
In the second round, he will be able to know the number and location of traps.
In each subsequent round, he can know the triggering method and type of each trap in turn from near to far.
This is the power of the spell. When the level of the spellcaster increases, the rogues who specialize in dismantling traps find that they are not even as good as the spellcasters. The warriors also found that the sword they swung did not even deal one-tenth of the damage of the caster's sword.
This strong sense of gap makes Arthur's adventurers not reluctant to send their children to study at the Mage Academy. Everyone knows how to vote with their feet.
However, after three rounds, Zhao Xu found that the information fed back in his field of vision was blank.
It was as if there really were no traps ahead.
The "detect trap" spell is supposed to be able to detect only the simplest ordinary pits, traps, traps, or natural dangers such as quicksand and stone walls that are about to collapse.
It is powerless against magic traps and complex mechanical traps.
Zhao Xu was very sure that the novice mage team did not have the ability to accomplish this.
After Zhao Xu analyzed the possibilities, he calmly dismounted and walked over.
Once the situation goes wrong, he will use the "Transformation Technique" to change positions with his mount.
However, when Zhao Xu squatted down and realized that the white light was a silver thread with a bell tied to the end, he couldn't help but sigh to himself.
He still fell for those two clever girls.
It's a pity that the range of this warning spell is as long as six meters. He really doesn't have the eyesight to see things clearly from six meters away. ���
At this time, Wang Ningwei, who was standing in the team, suddenly smiled knowingly.
After seeing Wang Ningwei's smile, Eswig also leaned over and asked in a low voice: "Did you find it?"
Wang Ningwei nodded slightly, knowing that she couldn't hide it from the smart woman next to her.
Just now, Eswig saw Wang Ningwei take out a bell and a thin silver wire and place it on the ground.
She deliberately walked away to another location, trying to distract the twenty-one person.
Just so that Wang Ningwei can quietly release the first-level spell "Magic Alarm" spell.
After the magic alarm spell is deployed, it can last for 2 hours per caster level. Basically, when the level is high, or if it is stacked to level 6 like Zhao Xu, it can last up to 12 hours and function as a night watch.
Once someone enters the warning area with a radius of 6 meters, the alarm will sound an audible alarm or a mental alarm.
Remind everyone or just the caster respectively.
Wang Ningwei laughed, which naturally meant that someone had entered the spell barrier she had set up.
Antinoya also relied on this method to know that Zhao Xu was online.
"How can you be so sure it's him?" Wang Ningwei also asked Eswig in a low voice at this time.
"Apart from him, is there any other senior mage who is so bad that he can't even see a magic barrier." Eswig said angrily.
To be sent by the Floating City, one must not even be able to cast a "secret vision", cannot detect the magic barrier in front of them, and can be familiar with them, basically no one else except Zhao Xu.
If the other party is a senior mage who can hide in the spirit world, the barrier will not be triggered.
But at this time, Wang Ningwei and Eswig began to determine one thing.
This mission, after killing the bandits, will definitely have a follow-up branch.
"Remember to keep it secret. There must be a reason for him not to show his face." Wang Ningwei still told Eswig in a low voice.
"Humph, am I as stupid as him?" Eswig curled his lips and said.
Now I still owe 2 chapters of Helmsman and 3 monthly passes. At the same time, the monthly pass for the new book has jumped from 13 to 11. Another 2 chapters have been added, and now I owe a total of 7 chapters.
Reading has dropped recently, probably because my 9k update is not powerful enough, so next Monday I will try to update 4k.
(End of chapter)