After hearing Zhao Xu's request, the tall and thin man Andy woke up as if from a dream. He hurriedly reached out and groped on the ground, but he came up empty because of nervousness.
"Then I'll do it." Seeing how nervous the man named Andy was, Zhao Xu simply used his "Mage's Hand" to make the black classic fly into his hands.
At this time, the young men and women also watched this scene silently. Even if they live in Mystra, every time they see these spells, they can recall the sigh in their parents' eyes when they found out that they had not become a mage or priest.
Zhao Xu controlled the book to fly into his hands and clenched it tightly, but did not open it in a hurry. Instead, he looked at the man Andy with questioning eyes.
Waiting for the other party to give him some additional information.
For example, it is said that there is a magic book in the library, which is also a magic item in itself, called "Scroll of Unknown Origin".
As long as the alignment matches, reading it also grants a +5 performance bonus on Knowledge checks.
By reading that scroll, as time goes by, you can get corresponding improvements. But when you read a scroll, you are also taking an adventure. Every hour there is a possibility of backlash from the scroll, with consequences ranging from insanity, to being cursed, to even turning into a ghost.
Therefore, for books of unknown origin, Zhao Xu would not open them immediately.
And Andy looked at Zhao Xu's bright eyes falling on him, and then thought of the other person's terrifying identity, he couldn't help but panic, and quickly explained: "I don't know the name of this book. I found it from the family's collection. I only know that it was obtained by my ancestor from a mysterious tomb on an adventure a long time ago. It's just that after the ancestor came back from the adventure, he died of his injuries soon, so This classic has also been sealed."
"Does it have any special effects?" Zhao Xu then asked.
The mysterious books in ancient tombs record these primitive rituals, which sounds reasonable.
At this time, Andy sat up cross-legged, ignoring the reaction of the gravel on the ground, and began to recall: "My ancestors took it to the mages for identification, and confirmed that it is actually a magic item. As for the effect-"
At this time, Andy couldn't help but look at the book with a fearful expression, and said, "The words recorded on it will have spirituality."
Zhao Xu's heart moved after hearing this, "You mean you copied the summoning ceremony just now yourself?"
Andy's face became paler and he nodded, "We saw that ritual in a mysterious shop selling ancient relics on the Central Street of Mystra. At that time, out of curiosity, I copied the ritual content on the stone tablet. After Lisa's accident, I wanted to actually perform this ritual and went to that store again on purpose, but the stone slab had already been bought by the mage."
"The first requirement for performing the ritual is to make the incantation that transcribes the ritual spiritual. I also thought of this, so I dug out this classic book from the family's collection."
Zhao Xu listened to the other party's description, which was basically logical.
As for being spiritual, he probably understood what it meant. When they copy spells, they need the words to be spiritual, which means they have to use ink and quills specially designed for copying spells, and they also need to use arcane words.
He didn't expect that the book in his hand would have the same effect. Wouldn't it be equivalent to a different kind of "blessing book"
Is it possible to copy spells without materials
It's just that this book doesn't seem to be worth copying. A ninth-level spell takes up nine pages, which is much lower level than the legendary 1,000-page blessing book.
There is no difference at all from an ordinary 100-page spell book, it just saves the material cost.
However, Zhao Xu also made up his mind to copy some of the core spells that the association would open for purchase and learn, and then sell the full books.
After thinking about it, Zhao Xu took out the "Mechanism Goggles" that Antinoya had given him before, and cast "Detection Magic" on the book on the spot.
Immediately, the light detecting magic was transformed by the goggles, and the energy of the spell was integrated into the interior of the book.
[Adventurer Zhongxia casts "Detection Magic" and obtains the effect of "Identification Technique" through "Mechanism Goggles"]
With a sweep of the ground, the effect of the classics was directly displayed in front of his eyes.
Zhao Xu read it carefully, but couldn't help but be stunned.
I thought to myself, is it difficult to upgrade the appraisal technique, or is there a certain failure rate in the appraisal itself
However, he suppressed the doubts in his heart and opened the book directly. Nearly half of the pages in this book have been recorded.
There are a few pages of notes written by the man's ancestor who brought this book out of the mysterious tomb. It is probably because of these contents that this book did not become a burial object, but was preserved as an ancestor's manuscript.
Most of the following were scattered notes from the ancestors of the man's family, including writing his own poems and drawings of various ritual magic circles, but Zhao Xu saw that they were all fabricated.
I turned to the middle of the book, which was also the last page with writing on it. As expected, it contained a series of ritual array structures, various rituals that needed to be prepared, and the corresponding chanting incantations.
Zhao Xu couldn't help but glance at the man Andy. This boy could memorize all of this, and he didn't know how many times he ran to the store.
The five people kneeling on the ground did not dare to say anything at this time, waiting for Zhao Xu to check the classic.
They were also worried, lest Zhao Xu and others would judge them as collecting evil gods and heretical books, and then the real charges would be increased, and their families would even be implicated.
And after Andy told Zhao Xu the whole story, he also thought of the consequences, and his face turned even paler than the four people who had experienced a life and death crisis.
In the end, after Zhao Xu roughly browsed through it, he determined that this ritual was probably one of the common ancient summoning rituals, which randomly summoned alien creatures.
It's just that this group of young people were unlucky this time and provoked evil alien creatures, so it wasn't a big problem.
Zhao Xu estimated that he should be able to find the corresponding rituals if he went back and looked through the legend library carefully.
Originally, Zhao Xu couldn't help but sigh when he saw this scene. There was nothing to gain from this operation and he could only do good deeds.
However, Zhao Xu, who had just used the identification technique and learned that this book was different, suppressed his thoughts and whispered to Andy: "Then what are you going to do with this book?"
After Andy heard Zhao Xu's words, he almost jumped up as if frightened. He quickly shook his head and said, "I don't want this book anymore. I plan to throw it into the bonfire and burn it later."
"I feel like there are still some secrets hidden in this book." Zhao Xu nodded and said, "Then let me handle it for you?"
After hearing Zhao Xu's words, the five people who knew that there was a turn of events nodded quickly, indicating that they would let Zhao Xu arrange it.
At this time, Zhao Xu was too lazy to say anything to these young people seeking death. He told them to remember to go to the Goddess Church for worship when they returned, and after clearing away their bad luck, he let them leave.
Seeing those five people hurriedly running away like they were treating him like a god of plague, Zhao Xu quickly said: "Take this bag of things away too, go back and bury it properly."
Only then did the two stronger men come back and drag away the dead goat.
Waiting until the five people walked away and disappeared from sight, Zhao Xu gently tapped the surface of the "invisibility ring", and suddenly his whole person, together with the classics in his hand, disappeared.
Zhao Xu also left the bonfire directly, walked to the position near the tombstones, and sat down peacefully.
On Earth, Zhao Xu would definitely not have the guts to do such a thing.
It's just that he is wearing the Holy Emblem on his body now, so it's not much of a problem for those underground who are afraid of him.
If a necromancer really appeared and pulled out the undead creatures from the ground, Zhao Xu would also have a way to drive them back.
Of course, if there were villains buried under this ground and what was reanimated was a "Demon Soul Corpse" with a challenge level 9, then he would still have to avoid the limelight.
Two fireballs can kill an undead creature with an average health of 90 HP.
Zhao Xu, who felt happy physically and mentally after doing a good deed, also began to open the book in his hand, which was his gain this time.
When he was appraising it just now, he suddenly discovered that this book actually had another effect.
It's just that it's not just 100 pages.
Technically, it has countless pages.
Zhao Xu had seen many books like this with countless pages, and many magic books had this effect. It is more like a search engine. When you think of the key words, the corresponding content of the book will appear.
I don’t know who Andy’s ancestor asked for the appraisal, but he missed such an important effect.
Books with unlimited pages are certainly worth a lot of money.
There were once wizards who used this kind of book with infinite pages as a spell book, but the spells would interfere with each other, making them unrecognizable.
The most famous among them is the "Scroll of Ancient Knowledge" created by the second generation Magic Goddess after imitating the final scroll. It is said that the mage who obtained it can use the scroll to prepare a spell that he has not mastered every day, but this book is now missing.
And after even the Magic Goddess failed, naturally no one tried to use this kind of infinite page book as a spell book.
At this moment, Zhao Xu gently closed the book and added a title to the cover: Zhongxia's Spell Notes.
This black-covered book, which had always looked normal, suddenly burst into colorful light.
(End of chapter)