The moment he finished chanting the spell, Zhao Xu suddenly felt the life force of his body being extracted, and then condensed into a ghost hand that emitted a strange shimmer in front of the ferocious bear's eyes.
Some of Arthur's spells require "contact" with the target person.
Teammates need to move to the opponent's side, while enemies need to get close.
These are extremely dangerous for mages. After all, most spells require a "posture" component. Once someone is grappled at close range, without the "Spell Setting" expertise, the spell will be unable to be cast.
So even though the soul-prisoning demon itself was greatly suppressing the ferocious bear, Zhao Xu still put safety first and would never take the initiative to get close to him. So he cast the second-level spell "Ghost Hand" to replace him with the first- to fourth-level "contact" spells.
The only price is that each spell cast costs 1-4 HP, and until the spell ends, the life force will be returned to him.
The soldiers and barbarians who were patrolling around to suppress the ferocious bear and prevent it from escaping looked curiously at the incorporeal "hand" that appeared out of thin air. Needless to say, they understood that it was created by the wind mage.
Everyone is also looking forward to its effectiveness.
Although the ghost hand itself is a minute-level spell, Zhao Xu still seizes the time and continues to cast the final spell.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you activate the "Knowledge Piety" ability, linked to Knowledge (Nature), the test result is 17, you know the weakness of the dire bear in front of you, and gain a +2 level insight bonus for attacks and damage]
Zhao Xu instantly activated the "Knowledge Piety" ability that he exchanged for the "Knowledge Field", but unfortunately this ability could only be used on himself. The dossier ability Dark Knowledge (tactics), which can also deal with monsters better, cannot be activated because Dire Bear does not belong to one of the five categories.
After receiving the bonus instantly, Zhao Xu began to sing seriously the third-level spell that dominated the lower level—
"Chilling Touch!"
In an instant, the ghost hand controlled by Zhao Xu was directly injected with an extremely cold air. If the ghost hand was not incorporeal, it could even form frost.
The moment the spell was completed, the ghost hand directly drove the icy cold mass in the palm towards the ferocious bear.
When the ferocious bear saw the ghost hand coming, he turned to one side of his body and tried to avoid the attack.
"Can a mage hit this bear?" The poet standing in the corner murmured to himself. Generally, the attack capabilities of such summoned energy hands mostly follow the mage's own fighting consciousness.
And one can imagine how poor a mage's melee combat ability is.
Even the ferocious bear thought so, and its focus was more on defending against the soul-prisoning demon.
The rough skin of the Dire Bear has a powerful 7-level natural defense, which also gives him a final 17-level defense. This is also the reason why players don't hit this ferocious bear very well.
However, the ghost hand itself strengthened the attack level 2 due to spells, and after adding level 2 knowledge and piety, it just touched the body of the ferocious bear.
Because it is a melee contact attack, it ignores any armor and natural armor.
At the moment of being hit, the ferocious bear still didn't take it seriously. It knew that it still had huge vitality.
There was just a biting coldness that penetrated the heart of the ferocious bear. Immediately, its entire body began to shiver uncontrollably, affecting its whole body's vigorous movements.
At this time, the players also screamed with excitement, as if they had cast the spell themselves.
The bear's speed is affected, which means the bear's ability to dodge is reduced, making it easier to hit.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you cast "Chilling Touch" on "Dire Bear", causing 3D6 (3-18) = 13 points of agility damage, lasting 7 rounds]
Suddenly the bear's limbs became as stiff as a statue and fell into a state of paralysis. Those who didn't know it thought there was an ice sculpture on the outside blocking him.
Seeing this scene, the soul-capturing demon began to release "soul-capturing attacks" one after another.
The surrounding players saw that this powerful ferocious bear with a challenge level of level 7 was controlled by the spell cast by Mage Guangfeng, and they did not react for a while.
"Is a three-ring spell so powerful?" a trade union member asked.
"I'm afraid it's a state of paralysis, but this kind of spell usually requires a lot of strength. Is the difficulty of the saving throw of the Storm Mage so high? Even a ferocious bear with a high physique can't pass it."
No one knew at this time that Zhao Xu's agility damage actually reduced the ferocious bear's 13 agility points to 0 points.
Compared with the serious consequences of direct death if the constitution returns to zero, if the agility returns to zero, you will fall into a state of paralysis.
As a three-ring spell, Chilling Touch can cause 3-18 points of agility damage, of which 11 points are expected damage, making it extremely cost-effective.
What's even more frightening is that it is a spell that does not require a saving throw or spell resistance test.
The moment the attack is successful, it means that the spell has taken effect.
Basically, players who have not deliberately added some agility cannot withstand his "Chilling Touch" blow.
Even after he can super-magic at no cost at level 6, when combined with "Maximum Spell" and "Powerful Spell", the expected agility damage of "Chilling Touch" will be a full 27 points.
Generally, creatures that are not legendary or naturally highly sensitive cannot resist this move.
Even ordinary players will have their agility reduced to zero by him, and then fall into a state of paralysis.
Especially after Zhao Xuri becomes more advanced and can cast the five-ring "Lucky Wave", he will be able to make his blow a sure hit.
"Lucky Tide" + Spell Maximum Effect and Spell Powerful "Chilling Touch", this is a sure-kill combination. As long as the opponent is not immune to attribute damage, otherwise no matter how strong he is, he will kill him all the way.
In the end, the originally paralyzed ferocious bear finally failed the save under the Soul Prisoner Demon's continuous tests. The huge body weighing three to four tons lost the ability to support it in an instant and fell heavily to the ground, which also made everyone feel the vibration of the ground. .
At this time, a tiny bear-shaped creature also appeared in the ribs of the Soul Prisoner's chest. Everyone was a little frightened when they saw this scene, knowing that it was the soul of the ferocious bear.
After losing its soul, even if someone casts a resurrection spell on the Dire Bear corpse on the ground, it will have no effect.
The Soul Capture Demon itself also relies on the 12 HD Dire Bear, which directly obtains 60 points of energy, which can be used for it to perform sixty spell-like abilities.
At this time, the soul-prisoning demon followed Zhao Xu's instructions and immediately consumed the energy it had just obtained, and used the "True Knowledge Technique" of the priest's fifth ring and the mage's sixth ring on him.
Suddenly, a true and destructive pure prophecy spell energy poured into Zhao Xu's eyes.
The world in front of you has become clearer and more real at this moment, and there is no room for any falsehood.
True Seeing is a minute-level spell, and the caster level of Soul Prisoner's spell-like ability is 18th level.
Therefore, in the next 18 minutes, Zhao Xu will be able to see through the darkness and magical darkness, as well as the hidden secret door of magic. At the same time, all illusions, invisibility, and transformation will be invisible.
The Soul Capture Demon has a total of 60 points, which is enough for Zhao Xu to enjoy the effect of this spell for the next 18 hours.
Frost Sword asked his men to temporarily decompose the bear corpse, and first took away some of the more precious bear skins and bear bile.
"It's tricky to put a huge corpse here. It can easily attract other animals." Shuangjian said, feeling a little headache.
"Brother, don't be stupid. This bear roared twice just now and has already disturbed the nearby creatures." Jiuxue said.
Zhao Xu had already returned to his horse and continued to flip through his magic books. He was a little embarrassed to hear this.
In fact, he has prepared a silence spell, which can completely center on the bear and make no sound come out for a full six meters. Naturally, it also affects the spells with the sound component of the spell.
It's just that the "Silence Spell" is a second-level priest spell. When there was a priest present, Zhao Xu didn't want to reveal his ability to perform divine magic, so he didn't take action to stop the ferocious bear from roaring.
As soon as Shuang Jian heard this, he didn't continue to struggle and directly directed everyone to move forward.
When the afterglow of the setting sun shone on the lake and everything was about to return to silence, Zhao Xu and his party also arrived near Jingyue Lake. There were stones half a meter high around the lake for people to walk on.
"Mr. Guangfeng, I'm afraid tonight's exploration time will last for a long time, so our group has to temporarily go offline to solve the problem of eating. I can only ask you to wait here for the time being, or we can go offline in batches." Shi Shuangjian asked Zhao Xu for advice.
In his opinion, it is best to go down together and go up together to avoid the risk of being defeated one by one. However, this is where the Guangfeng Mage is most likely to encounter risks.
"I can become invisible, so there won't be any big problem. You guys can go offline together." Zhao Xu was actually the same, he also had to go offline to eat.
He has a concert to go to in two days, so naturally he has to solve the task of this mage tower in these three days.
Otherwise, when there is gold in the tower, he will have to run away.
"Huh?" Suddenly a wanderer asked in a low voice, and everyone's spirits became tense instantly.
Zhao Xu was no exception. On the one hand, he was preparing to cast the spell and on the other hand, he looked over.
I saw that the wanderer was holding a snow-white rabbit in his hand, and smiled with his teeth, "It's a lost hare, and it actually broke into the crowd."
Hearing this, the players in the union laughed happily. They had just finished fighting the dire bear and suddenly saw the rabbit, and they were still very kind-hearted.
However, Zhao Xu's expression was extremely serious. Players who noticed this for a moment were silent and looked at Zhao Xu in surprise.
"What's wrong, Mr. Guangfeng?" Shuangjian also asked cautiously.
Zhao Xu, however, kept scanning the surrounding situation, and after a while, he whispered.
"Where do rabbits in the wild get their snow-white color?"
(End of chapter)