After Zhao Xu obtained the "Spell Upgrade" expertise, he couldn't help but smile. However, at this time, there were two cavalry leading the way in front of him, and no one was walking side by side. Naturally, no one knew what he had gained.
In terms of level expertise, Zhao Xu has to wait until level 9 to obtain the next expertise. Judging from the difficulty of upgrading to level 6-9, it is likely that it will be when he is approaching time travel.
The only remaining chance is when he reaches level 7. When the metamagic shaper reaches level 2, he can gain an additional metamagic feat.
An ordinary mage must be 5th level to gain a metamagic feat.
The Metamagic Shaper gains the "Metamagic Control" ability at level 1 and metamagic expertise at level 2. This is the strength of the advanced profession.
But after all, his specialty position is very rare.
For example, "Spell Maximum Effect" that can maximize the fluctuation range of spell damage, or "Spell Power" that can increase the damage by about half, Zhao Xu has no choice.
He directly chose "Spell Upgrade" because this expertise could be invincible in his hands.
For ordinary people to successfully resist spells, they rely on saving throws and spell resistance.
Unless that spell ignores saving throws or ignores resistance, but such spells themselves are extremely rare.
An instant-death spell like "blasphemy" has become a powerful trump card just because it can ignore saving throws after level 10.
And ordinary people basically have no magic resistance, so naturally they are unable to resist in this regard.
Therefore, whether ordinary people can survive the spell depends mostly on whether they can survive the saving throw.
Zhao Xu had received this education when he received practical magic lessons from Antinoya.
If you want to make people unable to resist spells, you must either use spells without saving throws, or you must pile up the difficulty of your own spell saving throws to the point where it is difficult for others to pass.
The difficulty of general spell saving throw is based on level 10, plus the intelligence adjustment value, and then the spell ring number.
Taking Zhao Xu's 22 points of intelligence as an example, his spell saving difficulty is 16+X level.
For example, the difficulty of the reflex save for the three-ring fireball spell is level 19.
In terms of civilian abilities, the reflex saving throw provided by a profession is almost 0, and the agility attribute added to it is even more pitiful. Therefore, it basically depends on the reflex saving throw of level 0 and the temporary performance of levels 1-20. Resist hard.
Therefore, for ordinary people, Zhao Xu's fireball technique can only be successfully reflected by the opponent by using a perfect 19th or 20th level, and only take half the damage.
As for some monsters with reflex immunity exceeding level 20, Zhao Xu's fireball technique is basically bound to pass.
However, in terms of saving throw difficulty, intelligence improvement is extremely difficult.
Therefore, ordinary spell casters can only choose some expertise that specializes in spell factions to increase the level 2 difficulty of the corresponding spells.
It can only be said that it is better than nothing.
On the other hand, you can use the method of "spell upgrade" to not only improve the ring skills, but also increase the difficulty of the spell's saving throw.
For a person like Leian, if he learns spells and upgrades, he can use the nine-level spell slot to prepare the fireball spell. In this way, the difficulty level of the fireball spell will be nine levels, which is equivalent to a full 6-level increase. level of saving throw difficulty.
The Spell Specialization and Advanced Spell Specialization expertise of the two designated evocation factions are only at level 4.
Moreover, after upgrading, you can also bypass the restrictions of "secondary spell invalidation enchantment" and "spell invalidation enchantment".
Zhao Xu once used the "spell invalidation barrier" in the protective staff to avoid a bunch of third-level spells from the spell turret in the corridor of the dungeon, which directly made him immune to 1-4 level spells.
Later, when Zhao Xu transforms or synchronizes with the angel, the "protective aura" carried by the angel itself is also combined with the "secondary spell invalidation barrier".
It can be said that the 4th level mages can directly suppress the 1-3 level mages like them.
But after having the spell upgrade, Zhao Xu can bypass the restrictions as long as he upgrades the spell to level five.
However, no matter what, the number of people who choose the easy-to-learn expertise of spell upgrade is not many after all.
Because the price of ring magic is too serious.
A third-level "Human Immobilization Technique", combined with instant spells, occupies a seventh-level spell slot.
But the same "group human fixation technique" only has seven rings.
If the human immobilization spell is upgraded to the seventh level, there will be nothing except the difficulty of the saving throw.
Not to mention, the premise is that Zhao Xu currently only has three-ring spell slots.
He just upgraded the spells from level 0 to level 2 to level 3 even if he wanted to get rid of the spell invalidation barrier.
Therefore, spellcasters with "Spell Leveling" are ordinary.
However, Zhao Xu, who also uses "Super Demonic Control", has no solution.
He can choose to upgrade the spell to level X, but the specific cost of the ring spell is achieved by having the metamagic control ability bear X points of attribute damage.
Then theoretically, he can use "energy protection" to make X points of attribute damage immune, as long as he uses six different attributes afterwards and refreshes the spell.
However, Zhao Xu knew that there were two unfortunate limitations.
He cannot increase the difficulty of the spell to hundreds of millions of levels willfully.
Because his attributes are limited, the X points of attribute damage cannot exceed his attribute value. Putting it at the highest 22 intelligence attributes, it cannot exceed 21 points of attribute damage.
At the same time, there is another point. The prerequisite for Zhao Xu to cast the nine-ring spell is that he must have 19 intelligence.
So his current intelligence of 22 points means that he can only cast twelve-level spells at most.
This means that all his spells can be upgraded to level twelve at most, and the corresponding saving throw difficulty level is level 28.
Instead of increasing to twenty-one rings as originally expected, the difficulty reached level 34.
This is also the reason why the next "+6 intelligence headscarf" is of great significance to Zhao Xu. In addition to raising the difficulty of saving throws from intelligence by level 3, it can also raise the difficulty of saving throws by level 6 from ring number, bringing Zhao Xu's spell saving throw difficulty to level 37.
However, it seems that the 28th level of difficulty that is within reach of him now means that it is a ceiling that is difficult for ordinary mages to reach.
Taking the old hag he may encounter, if it is just the basic ordinary version, which is level 12 toughness, level 9 reflection, and level 10 will, it is basically extremely difficult to save from his spells.
However, the opponent has level 25 spell resistance. Facing Zhao Xu's level 12 spell caster, there is still half a chance of resisting his spells.
As for other current players, with their caster level not exceeding level 3, it is basically impossible to break through the old hag's spell resistance.
It wasn't until the cavalry in front used their long swords to push aside a lush weed that Zhao Xu and his group finally saw an old house that looked very dilapidated and showed signs of collapse.
Judging from some of the blackened walls and the burnt remains, I am afraid that this house was burned by fire and eventually covered up by the traces of time.
It's a bit strange that such a stand-alone house suddenly appears in the wilderness.
Especially in Arthur, because there are a lot of monsters, basically all races choose to live in groups, and most of those who can live alone have "abilities".
The house itself is a certain distance from the cemetery, so it cannot be the tombkeeper's house.
Zhao Xu began to slow down and tried to get closer.
At this moment, Chuck, who was still a little confused, suddenly changed his expression, pulled Zhao Xu directly and said, "Mr. Pastor, I suddenly remembered a legend."
Zhao Xu turned back and looked at him: "Huh?"
Mrs. Betty was hesitant to speak at this time, and in the end she didn't say much.
Chuck, who serves as the captain of Lady Betty's escort, has reached the level of a level 1 warrior in his thirties. He can't be said to be outstanding, but with his strong physique and huge muscles in his arms, it is basically easy to make a living. very.
With a look of recollection, he thought for a while and then said: "When I escorted my wife back to Shuanglu Town, I heard the children there singing nursery rhymes."
"Keywords include old house, cemetery, hide-and-seek, old witch, etc."
As soon as she said this, Zheng Xinyun's scalp almost went numb, and she couldn't help but stand close to Zhao Xu.
The dilapidated houses and cemeteries all match the current scene.
Suddenly, Zhao Xu pointed at the two cavalrymen in front, "I see that house, you two come and stand behind me."
If the old house in front is indeed the residence of the old hag, then there is really no need to let people die.
At this time, Zhao Xu lowered his head and thought deeply. The old hag's attack was regarded as a magic weapon, which happened to be able to penetrate the defense of his star cloak.
At first glance, although his defense is stacked with level 4 mage armor and level 4 shield, it is still difficult to defy the odds at only level 18, and he is still under the threat of the old hag.
The level 1 defense originally derived from agility offsets his vulnerability to injury.
However, as a third-ring spell caster, Zhao Xu is not worried at all, after possessing the ability to master super magic.
He already has the ability to stack up static defenses.
(End of chapter)