Rune Staff of Power.
A staff that weighed no more than a few kilograms and was as smooth as jet black. The top of it was inlaid with a sparkling mysterious gem, and the inside was engraved with complex arcane runes.
"Rune staff" is another form of staff, which allows the caster to consume spell slots of the same level as the spell to cast spells engraved in the rune staff, which is equivalent to broadening the spell slot restrictions of mages.
For example, the power rune staff in Zhao Xu's hand is worth about 60,000 gold coins. It can use spell slots to cast ice cone, immortal flame, fireball, spell invalidation barrier, monster immobilization, and levitation. spells, lightning bolt, magic missile, ray of enfeeblement, force wall and other spells.
It's just that Zhao Xu has two major abilities: versatile spellcaster and bizarre foresight, so it's not as significant as other spellcasters.
Moreover, to use the Rune Staff, you must first perform a "tuning ritual". Repeating this ritual will only overwrite the previous one.
Therefore, each person can only have one rune staff at the same time.
This staff itself can be used as a +2 exquisite wooden stick, and it can also allow the user to gain level 2 luck in defense and saving throws, which is worth most of the praise spell.
If it were just a +2 magic stick, there would be nothing particularly surprising about it.
It can be treasured in the treasure room, alongside many dragon beads, Wanxiang Impermanence Cards and other artifacts, mainly because of its other function.
The staff can use a swift action to consume a first-level spell slot, so that in the next round, the staff's melee attacks can cause twice the damage, and once it hits a critical hit, it will cause three times the damage.
This is extremely critical for melee output.
Next, Zhao Xu hurriedly said goodbye to everyone, carried the brass box, and returned to his tent.
After this turmoil, this refugee team no longer dared to let people go out to commit suicide.
"President, did you recognize this stick?" Vivian said.
Zhao Xu nodded and directly told everything he knew.
But after Vivian finished listening, she said with a mysterious smile, "President, do you know?"
"Um?"
"There are two versions of this power rune staff in the world."
"How to say?"
Zhao Xu couldn't help but raise his eyebrows.
It stands to reason that the ones in the treasure house should be considered the best, and he did not see any other versions of the power rune staffs.
Vivian bit her lip lightly, as if she felt that what was happening in front of her was a bit unbelievable.
"Although the power rune scepter is very rare, other mages have successfully made it, but most of those versions are in the form of wooden sticks."
"Only a few are in the form of wooden sticks. Their power is no different from that of wooden sticks. It's just that the appearance of the weapons is inconsistent."
Wooden sticks and sticks are two types of weapons mastered by a few mages. They are simple weapons and have not yet reached the level of military weapons.
Among them, wooden sticks are often used with one hand, while sticks are used with both hands.
Zhao Xu frowned slightly, "The producers are different?"
"Captain, your reaction is really quick." Vivian immediately continued, "The ones in the form of wooden sticks were all created by my Lord, because he likes wooden sticks and dislikes wooden sticks."
At this time, Zhao Xu looked at the wooden stick in his hand with some disbelief.
It seems that Ernest not only made several "Rune Scepters of Power" back then, but for some unknown reason, one of them actually strayed outside.
During this period, it must have changed hands several times, until it was sealed into a brass treasure chest and entered the mutant scorpion's lair, never to be seen again.
Unexpectedly, it ended up falling into his hands again.
"Vivian, I'm afraid we have to go to the lair to have a look next." Zhao Xu said seriously.
In a mysterious lair, a randomly grabbed treasure chest contained a rune scepter made by Ernest, which was somewhat beyond his expectation.
"Indeed, that lair is worth exploring."
It stands to reason that most of the magic items held by Arthur's monsters will match their identities.
If you hold treasures that exceed your own level, the water-filled part will have been squeezed dry by more powerful adventurers.
A mutant scorpion with a challenge level of 11 may not attract attention, but if paired with a lair with a large inventory, an adventure team with an average level of 15 will be tempted.
In particular, the mutant scorpion actually had an ability that was similar to "any door" that was not included in racial abilities, which made Zhao Xu curious.
It's a good thing that the mutant scorpion couldn't open the treasure chest and take out the wooden stick to show off, otherwise it wouldn't live to become a super giant insect.
"But the old man said that these adventurers who stole the treasure box formed a team of their own and went out for a wander two hours ago. Outsiders had no idea of their whereabouts at that time, and..."
Vivian didn't say anything else.
After they killed the super-giant mutant scorpion that swallowed the adventurer, the opponent's stomach had too strong a digestive capacity. When everyone cut the scorpion open, only bones were left inside.
Naturally, the spell of talking to the dead cannot be used.
"No, Vivian." Zhao Xu gently pointed to the brass treasure boxes stacked in the corner.
This thing occupies too much space and is not easy to stuff into his convenience bag with subspace, but Zhao Xu still brought it back like picking up rags.
"With this treasure chest, we can use the object positioning technique to detect similar items."
Now Zhao Xu has a 12th level caster level, and the scope of effect when he uses this spell is an area within a radius of 300 meters with himself as the center.
The round trip for the adventurers took two hours. Even if they didn't have time to explore, walking at night for one hour would only be a little over two or three kilometers.
In this way, his "object locating technique" with a diameter of just over half a kilometer can completely search for the target in the direction pointed by the old man as long as he uses it three or four times.
At this time, among the fleeing team, even if they wanted to get their hands on the treasure of the lair, only a few dared to go under the threat of mutant scorpions.
Even if they want to leave the treasure hunt because those adventurers just brought back the disaster, they will be stopped by others.
Therefore, they are unlikely to encounter interference from other people during the search for the nest.
The only ones that need to be considered are the mutant scorpions.
Vivian looked at the smile on Zhao Xu's lips and immediately understood what Zhao Xu meant.
"Master, if you can support the nest of a super giant mutant scorpion, I'm afraid the number of other mutant scorpions will not be small."
She was a little worried about Zhao Xu's spell endurance.
Arthur's monsters don't line up to die.
Therefore, even if Zhao Xu used fireballs to wash the floor, the effect would be average. The various mutant scorpions that continuously poured out of the lair were their biggest headache.
"Vivian, mages can also fight for a long time." Zhao Xu said with a smile.
Energy protection!
In an instant, Zhao Xu cast this three-ring spell that could only last for more than ten minutes. It was immune to attribute damage and was perfect for matching the subsequent super-magic control ability.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you cast the second-level spell Blade Cloud (spell lasting), duration: 24 hours (originally 12 rounds)]
[Freely release a blade attack every round, range: 9 meters, attack power level 20 (caster level + intelligence adjustment), damage: 5-11 (1D6+level/3)]
After receiving a sword energy that coiled around his body like a phantom mist, Zhao Xu stared straight at the wooden stick in his hand.
Once upon a time, after he was in tune with the Divine Attendant of Blazing Sky, he directly raised a giant scythe to kill in all directions, chopping up cavalrymen like vegetables, as if they were entering an uninhabited land.
At that time, he had the blessing of nine rings of magic.
Now, he has to rely on his few remaining spell slots to stack up and become the number one melee powerhouse among the current player group.
Each level of a warrior needs to increase its attack power. Generally, warriors of several levels have several levels of basic attack power.
Because of being a mage, Zhao Xu now barely has the combat awareness of level 3 attacks at level 6. This is because he was a level 5 warrior in his previous life, so there is no need to waste time on melee training.
Otherwise, other mages, even if they don't like close combat, would still receive some basic physical combat training if they want to increase their level, and the requirements are much lower than those of warriors.
When reaching level 20, warriors, barbarians, paladins, and rangers who focus on physical output all have full level 20 basic attack levels.
The secondary output poets, priests, rogues, druids, and monks are around level 15.
As for the two novices, the mage and the warlock, they are only at level 10. They are more than enough to bully an ordinary warrior, but compared to warriors of the same level, there is a huge difference without the blessing of spells.
Zhao Xu looked at the attack power on his character card, which was level 3 profession, level 3 praise of luck, level 1 quick acceleration, +2 level rune staff +2.
Altogether there are 9 levels in total.
It's just that when Zhao Xu first created the account, he didn't know that mages could also do physical damage, so he chose civilians to weaken the second-level attack. At the same time, 8 points of strength not only failed to increase the attack, but also caused a first-level penalty because of the small strength. .
His current true attack output level is only level 6.
Fortunately, his professional abilities and spell slots are not limited. With the accumulation of various resources, Zhao Xu also has the ability to change his destiny.
How dare he go to that nest unless he piles up so much that he will inevitably break the mutant scorpion defense
(End of chapter)