The Truth of Magic

Chapter 217: Winter City (1/3)

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In his previous life, as a small town sheriff, Zhao Xu had a magic weapon with a +1 enhancement bonus.

Although it is not as good as the majority of high-level warriors, and they always have +2 and +3 level magic weapons, Zhao Xu himself is very satisfied.

Warriors with magic weapons are equivalent to the car-owning people on Earth.

It's not a luxury car, but at least you don't have to beg mages for a "magic weapon" every day when you're taking risks to live your life.

In the early stage, when the mage himself is short of spell slots, it is generally not easy to allocate spell slots to the warriors to strengthen their weapons.

The most obvious feature of a +1 magic weapon is that it increases its own attack power by 1 level most intuitively.

If that's all it is, then that's it.

The key is that many monsters themselves have damage reduction. Warriors often manage to penetrate the monster's defense and inflict damage with the sword in their hands.

But he found that the damage was instantly eliminated. This is the power of damage reduction.

Fortunately, this kind of damage reduction is usually accompanied by weaknesses. The most common weakness is that damage reduction can be penetrated by magic weapons.

Even for other weaknesses, magic weapons often have special effects to target them.

So it's natural that Arthur's "magic weapons" will rise as the tide lifts all boats.

If a weapon is successfully enchanted, it becomes a magical weapon.

Its predecessor must be a "refined product" worth hundreds of gold coins, and then be enchanted by the caster to transform it into a "magic weapon".

If the "giant scythe" in front of Zhao Xu was the most common standard equipment, it would only cost 18 gold coins.

However, if it is that kind of "refined product", you will need to add 300 gold coins to reach 318 gold coins before you can buy it.

After it becomes a magic weapon, the specific price is determined according to the intensity of the enchantment improvement.

Within the legendary realm, the enhancement bonus for a typical magic weapon ranges from +1 to +5.

However, magic weapons do not just monotonically increase attack strength and damage power.

Magic weapons themselves can also have special effects attached to them, and Arthur generally divides them by a fixed number of gold coins, or "+1" to "+5", based on their value.

For example, the Chitian Divine Attendant that Zhao Xu once transformed has a +5 Dancing Sky Sword.

+5 means that the magic weapon's enhancement bonus has reached its upper limit.

"Dancing in the Sky" is a "special ability" that allows the owner to free up his hands, and the price evaluation is equivalent to +5 enhancement.

Therefore, the price adjustment of a +5 Sky Dance Sword itself is +10 bonus, which is also the upper limit of magic weapons under legend.

The maximum can only be stacked up to +10.

For example, the +1 Netherworld Scythe in front of Zhao Xu has a weapon enhancement bonus of +1, and the price adjustment of the "Netherworld" effect is also "+1", so its price adjustment is equivalent to "+2".

After thousands of years of price fluctuations in Arthur, magic weapons have basically become a very stable high-end trade. Unless there are fluctuations in local wars, the prices are extremely stable.

Basically, the price adjustment ranges from "+1" to "+10", and the cheapest "+1" is 2,000 gold coins.

The price adjustment "+2" will increase the price by 8,000 gold coins, which is the +1 Netherworld Scythe in Zhao Xu's hand. The original price of 318 gold coins, because of the two characteristics of "+1" enhancement and Netherworld, has directly soared to The market price of 8318 gold coins.

These magic weapons are also the most valuable collateral, so any warrior will not hesitate to spend a lot of money to buy one.

Therefore, even if Zhao Xu was considered a small tycoon at the moment, he couldn't help but feel excited when he saw the magic weapon that the "Thriller Binding Spirit" had lost because of his escape.

This is exactly 8,000 gold coins.

Sure enough, if you take big risks, you will reap big rewards.

Nether weapons are also the only rare equipment of the incorporeal type that can be dropped, and even if they are beaten ten times, they may not be dropped successfully once.

But with this weapon, Zhao Xu will really transform into a warrior in the future. Even if he fights ghosts, he will not be restrained.

It's just that Zhao Xu turned over and over and looked at the "giant scythe" in front of him, but he couldn't see anything strange, and it didn't have any special mechanism.

Judging from Zhao Xu's hands that had touched countless weapons in his previous life, this was just a very "ordinary" magic weapon.

After thinking about it, Zhao Xu walked forward and stood in front of the portal leading to the "scavenger demiplane".

The edge of the teleportation door is a stone doorframe, and there are blue-white spell energy ripples in the middle. Obviously, as long as you walk into this door, you can be teleported to the target location.

During this period of time, after Zhao Xu had been in and out of the floating city, he had experienced going to and from these portals more than once, and he no longer had the excitement he felt when he passed through them for the first time.

When reaching this point, most normal people's choice is to directly hold the "key" scythe, and then slowly walk into the portal, waiting for the challenge to come.

However, Zhao Xu is now a mage with various methods.

Compared to other players, he has fluttered his wings and can see the existence of a larger world outside.

Since Zhao Xu has the highest limit of seventeen second-level spells, he will also pay the price for information.

Various experiences in this training told him that everything is not that simple.

He even doubted whether the giant scythe in his hand was the real key.

In other words, is there more than one key to pass through this portal

Otherwise, it would be too extreme if the key to the portal is hidden on the body of the "Thriller Binding Spirit" and the other party just drops it.

So after Zhao Xu thought about it for a while, he decided to solve it according to the mage's idea.

Since he doesn't know.

Then let the magic tell him.

The moment he knew that the target this time was the portal, a spell - "Analyze the portal" flashed in Zhao Xu's mind.

This spell is a third-level spell for mages and poets, but it is also a second-level domain spell for "teleportation domain".

Therefore, Zhao Xu, as a level 3 archival scholar, was able to display it in front of him.

He took out the lenses and small mirror he bought at the market in the morning from his backpack, and cast the spell on the spot according to the spell in his mind.

The casting time of this spell is nearly a full minute.

Zhao Xu once used the "appraisal technique" for an hour, so he was able to remain patient.

After the last mantra was sung, the second-ring magic position in his mind disappeared instantly, and the crystal lens and mirror in his hand merged directly into one, turning into a bright light covering Zhao Xu's whole body.

Immediately afterwards, Zhao Xu felt as if his whole body was transformed into a radar. Waves of energy emanated from his body and began to locate the portal or "Gate to Another World" spell within an entire 18-meter range.

And there is indeed only one portal at this high platform, and naturally all energy gathers on it.

Zhao Xu has a 5th level caster level, so he can continue this spell for nearly 5 rounds.

He can get a piece of information from this portal every round!

Every piece of information popped up on Zhao Xu's dynamic panel, revealing the secret of the portal to him.

But the more Zhao Xu looked at it, the more he frowned.

Following these prompts, after he holds the giant scythe and passes through the portal in front, a "random" teleportation effect will be attached to him.

Where he is teleported, the power of time and space will build a hidden temporary portal that lasts for five days and only he can pass through.

His mission is to find this portal. Once he steps in, he can directly reach the "legendary demiplane".

Zhao Xu didn't expect that the battlefield would be suddenly moved to another place.

This also means that the variables increase dramatically.

Although only he can pass through the portal, he will have a lot of interference from the outside world.

From Arthur natives to gamers, we have them all.

Zhao Xu looked at the "gem" he buried in the corner.

As long as he is in the same plane, he can successfully return to the location of any gem through the "gem jump" magic he cast previously.

However, when he comes back, the portal will not come back.

Each person can only activate the power of this portal once within ten years.

Compared with other people who have to teleport and arrive in a strange city, they have to go through some hard guessing before they can understand the ultimate goal.

Zhao Xu relied on the "Analysis Portal" spell to skip many guesses and reach the goal in one step.

This is also the powerful effect of spells.

It can smooth the gap.

It can falsify speculation.

It can reverse reality.

After Zhao Xu thought for a while, he walked forward calmly.

Speaking of which, his "Analyzing Portal" is actually a big killer. After learning this spell, as long as he can determine the area of the portal, he can rely on this spell to locate the specific location of the hidden portal.

Therefore, he does not need to try his luck like other personnel.

Slowly, Zhao Xu walked into the portal that was constantly vibrating on the surface, and the power of space began to pull on his body.

There was a flash of white light.

Zhao Xu's eyes lit up.

In front of him was the familiar "Promenade Avenue". There were pubs and restaurants everywhere along the street. The sound of players selling and bargaining could be heard from a huge grocery market next to it.

The nearby shops have stacked their shelves on the sidewalk, while the chimneys of the blacksmith shops in the distance stand tall and spit out thick clouds of smoke, making it a very lively street scene.

Zhao Xu smiled happily.

He returned to the Winter City in his memory ten years ago.

(End of chapter)