When Zhao Xu walked out of the Mage Association, he turned invisible and walked to a corner and put on a disguise.
When Zhao Xu appeared again, he was already a priest wearing heavy armor and slats, with a holy emblem of the goddess of magic pinned directly on his chest.
Zhao Xu's slatted armor was naturally transformed by him.
Otherwise, although this armor will not affect divine spells, he is also a second-level mage, so the arcane spell failure rate will soar to 40%.
The weapon in Zhao Xu's hand was a giant scythe, which attracted the attention of many passers-by.
Because Sisylvina's natural weapon is a wooden stick, her priests generally use weapons consistent with those of the gods, and rarely use this special weapon ingeniously.
At this time, Zhao Xu followed everyone's rumors and walked towards the Civic Center Square in the center of Wandering Street, where a swearing-in meeting for players was being held.
In fact, when players were performing tasks around "Falling Star Lake", they had conflicts and frictions with local mines from time to time.
, so this time it was also a long-standing grudge.
On the way, Zhao Xu also held the giant scythe in his hand, trying to become familiar with its use as soon as possible.
In his previous life, Zhao Xu was a warrior and was good at various military weapons, and the giant scythe was one of them.
It is also a two-handed melee weapon like the Greatsword.
According to the inheritance of war-type martial arts compiled by Arthur over the years, and then quantified through the character card system, the damage curve of the giant scythe in Zhao Xu's hand is approximately 2D4 (2-8) damage. It is generally expected that one hit will cause about 5HP damage.
This damage characteristic is not outstanding, but there is a unique skill in Arthur's combat skills inheritance.
That is, when the level of attack performance is extremely high, it can trigger a "heavy attack" combat skill that causes huge damage.
However, the difficulty of triggering is not exactly the same for different weapons.
The giant scythe in Zhao Xu's hand can basically only be triggered when he has a system rating that is close to perfect, that is, a rating of level 1-20, with the highest rating being level 20.
But once it is triggered by the threat of a heavy hit, it will directly deal 4 times the damage, which is equivalent to 20 HP of damage from Zhao Xu's hit without adding anything.
It can be said that once a low-level player is hit hard by him, he will definitely fall to the ground and die.
However, no matter what Zhao Xu thinks.
He has to solve a prerequisite, that is, he does not actually master this weapon.
Vocational training for mages and priests only provides enough spirituality for "light weapons". As for "military weapons" such as giant scythes, if Zhao Xu wants to be "good at", he has to use expertise instead. .
The reason why War Priests don't have this problem is because they choose the war field. In that field, in addition to allowing them to be good at the gods' special weapons, they can also get the additional "Weapon Specialization" expertise.
It's a pity that the weapon Sisilvina is good at is a wooden stick.
He is good at this wooden stick with his mage, priest, and archival scholar professional abilities.
Being three times better at it, there is no need to stack it up at all.
But Zhao Xu, as a spell caster, is a spell caster who has mastered all first- and second-level spells.
He himself has all kinds of possibilities.
Once, Zhao Xu used "Scholar's Touch" to quickly read a book in the library, and then relied on this ability as a search tool.
And corresponding to one article and one weapon is - "Master's Touch".
This mage-level minute-level spell allows him to become "good at" a certain weapon in a short period of time.
The disadvantage is that Zhao Xu must prepare to use some spells before starting the battle.
Only then can the brilliance of that moment burst out.
At this time, Zhao Xu had already followed the flow of people and walked to the Citizen Square.
At the front of the square stand the stone sculptures of the original thirteen founders of the Northern Alliance.
They were actually a group of adventurers at first. Later, after the team members completed the feat of slaying the dragon and successfully killed the demon king's clone in the abyss, they became famous as Arthur.
In the end, this team settled here in the Northland, and relied on their reputation to form the Northern Alliance, and then the entire power lasted like this for hundreds of years.
"Why, at this moment, is there such an ugly thing as 'slave trade'!"
A simple stage was specially set up in front of the statue in the square, and a poet in gorgeous clothes was using an impassioned tone to accuse the evil of "Falling Star Lake".
Immediately afterwards, the team of adventurers who had witnessed the mine owners selling slaves in "Falling Star Lake" also came to the stage and began to tell the story of what happened to more and more players gathered below.
At this time, in addition to the players who came here specifically to support the scene, many citizens of Winter City stopped here and watched the narration on the stage.
The person speaking on the stage at this time was the priest of Goddess Luck, a pretty and short girl. She used her slightly crying voice to describe bit by bit the miserable conditions of the slaves in the underground pit they found.
There are not many adjectives, just simple line drawings, which directly outline the fact that the slaves are hungry. Even the eyes looking at them lack the strength of despair, leaving only numbness.
As each participant came on stage, the atmosphere in the entire square reached another peak.
Zhao Xu, who had heard this historical data in his previous life, was actually feeling much calmer at the moment.
At this time, he also realized the power of various skills after being stacked up, and it even affected how he observed the world.
At least when he was listening to the speech, his "observation of words and expressions" skill was automatically activated, like an intelligent AI, constantly analyzing and reminding him of the various details of the speaker's expression.
Even before the speaker speaks, the next step can be inferred.
As for what the pastor lady said, Zhao Xu actually knew better than these people.
After the players were strangled by the mine owners' guards, all the slaves they witnessed had been killed.
Eliminating the last traces.
This is the cruelest truth of Arthur. Only powerful professionals have the right to breathe and can control their own destiny.
Level 1 civilians without any abilities can only flow with the flow of people.
Even the residents of Arthur who stopped at this time were mostly ordinary level 1 civilians, even if they gritted their teeth after hearing it.
Those whose children were lost could only go home and take out their coins and hand them to the Earth adventurers on the stage.
Please ask them to find their children.
Arthur's adventurers are, after all, in the minority.
In other words, Zhao Xu and the others who were the first batch of players to enter the game were the average adventurers per capita.
To put it bluntly, they are much luckier than other people on earth who have not entered the game.
In fact, they are much luckier and stronger than Arthur's many civilians whose attributes are all 10 points on average.
Just like this, Zhao Xu discovered that with the blessing of his automatically effective "detection magic", he saw some cruel facts.
The player present was really poor, so poor that he almost thought his spell had failed.
There are not many players wearing magic equipment.
At a glance, he saw that it was not as much as what he had on him, let alone the value. It was not as expensive as the star cloak he was wearing.
Even many soldiers could only wear some broken light armor, holding machetes in their hands, and stopped and listened in the audience.
After the warriors graduate from training, they can wear "heavy armor" with higher defense, starting from armor with at least level 6 defense like lath armor, all the way to "full body armor" with level 8 armor bonus.
Not wearing anything was naturally due to poverty.
Only then did Zhao Xu notice that the slatted armor he had just transformed into a piece of armor that only cost 200 gold coins was already outstanding among the players present.
He also remembered that the level 1 mage "Sudden Rain Night" only had a few bottles of potion for "treating minor injuries" in his body.
Zhao Xu suddenly sighed deeply.
In his previous life, as the peace officer of "Falling Star Lake", he would go to the monument on the lake to hold public sacrifices every year.
That's why he was so sure that the outbreak occurred three days earlier.
At that time, he used to wonder why the guards of the mining owners were all at the same level as the players, even more elite.
Even though there are several third- and fourth-level mages on the mine owner's side to support them, they are incapable of doing anything at all. Why are the players being beaten at the beginning
In the end, it was necessary to fill it in with human lives to conquer the fortified city of the mine owners.
Suddenly, Zhao Xu, whose investigative skills completely surpassed everyone present, felt someone approaching him.
Zhao Xu's arm was slightly pressed on the giant scythe, guarding against possible battles.
Then he heard a call from behind - "Brother Xu?"
However, Zhao Xu, who was prepared in his heart, did not look back without asking.
At this time, there were many passers-by around him.
As footsteps approached, Zhao Xu felt a tap on his shoulder.
Only then did he turn around, with a surprised look on his face.
The person standing in front of Zhao Xu at this time was Zhang Qi.
Behind him stood several people from the class who were playing games together.
Several female classmates in Zhao Xu's class who were also playing games did not come close, but stood in a slightly further corner.
Including Cui Lu and others, everyone had no classes today, so naturally they had logged into the game earlier, and they were all attracted.
"Oh, I'm sorry. I recognized the wrong person. I was wondering why my classmate suddenly appeared here when he should be in the Floating City."
At this time, Zhang Qi quickly apologized and signaled.
Zhao Xu also noticed that the other person only had a piece of leather armor worth 10 gold coins, so he probably spent it on other things.
"Nothing." Zhao Xu simply responded.
At this time, everything from his height to his facial expression had changed, and Zhang Qi naturally couldn't tell.
Suddenly, Zhao Xu's eyes condensed and he looked to the left.
A rising fireball is flying towards somewhere near here.
Target him
wrong!
It's framed.
Zhao Xu reacted instantly and rushed over with a quick stride.
(End of chapter)