Compared with the super giant mutant scorpion with 300 HP, the giant one has been reduced by half, leaving only 150 HP, the super large one has been halved, leaving only 75 HP, and the large one has 32 HP.
Even the medium-sized 13HP and small-sized 6HP below are all things that Vivian can solve with just one sword.
In order to improve his attack power, Zhao Xu's first reaction was to look at his two knowledge-based damage-increasing abilities that can increase attack and damage.
Insect creatures are not within the scope of dark knowledge, and its duration of action is also limited, so Zhao Xu does not consider it.
His knowledge and piety ability can be used at this time. As long as he fights against the corresponding creatures, he can be improved.
Insect creatures belong to the category of natural knowledge. This skill has only been increased to level 5 by Zhao Xu. Coupled with the 9 intelligence adjustment value brought by his 28 intelligence, his knowledge (nature) skill is level 14.
And as long as his skill check is higher, the attack and damage bonus will be higher.
Now Zhao Xu is no longer the rookie who could only get a little bit of skill bonus by calculating all the tricks.
For skill bonuses that others could do nothing about, all he had to consider was whether it was worth losing spell slots in exchange for them.
Zhao Xu immediately cast two first-level spells that could improve any skill level.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you cast the one-ring mechanism spell "Skill Strengthening", and select knowledge (nature) to gain a level 7 environment bonus (7=2+level 11/2). Duration: 110 minutes (10 minutes per level) )]
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you cast the first-level mage spell "Song of Knowledge" (spell lasting), and select knowledge (nature) to gain a level 10 performance bonus (10=4+level 12/2), duration: 24 hours ( Originally 12 rounds)]
In an instant, Zhao Xu's 14th level knowledge (nature) skill was suddenly strengthened by 17th level, soaring to a full 31st level.
With just two simple first-level spells that ordinary people can't access, Zhao Xu has accumulated his knowledge and skills to the level of a master.
In other words, it is a level that most players will find difficult to reach in their lifetime.
At this time, Zhao Xu can continue to cast spells, such as the second-level divine knowledge spell, which can give all knowledge skills a 10th-level insight bonus.
This means that he can continue to upgrade to level 41 knowledge and skills.
That means that in the source of knowledge, secrets below level 41 difficulty are no longer secrets to him. Even if they are at level 61 difficulty, he may be able to successfully retrieve them if his performance is perfect.
Basically, the world has become transparent to him.
Level 41 knowledge and skills, connected to the source of knowledge, he can get any gossip insider information he wants.
Even after Zhao Xu accepted Vivian before, with the support of level 41 knowledge (foreign world) skills, he retrieved a level 44 difficulty secret - the appearance of the demon mother Cang Ye herself, allowing her to He felt scared, and any creature that gazed at Cang Ye's true appearance would die.
However, Zhao Xu's focus was not on Bagua at this time, and he continued his path of improving his attacks.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you activate "Knowledge Piety". Against mutant scorpion creatures, your knowledge (nature) check is level 42 (30+D20), which exceeds the fifth level of difficulty level 36. Your attack and damage gain +5 levels. Insight bonus]
After getting the insight bonus for level 5 attacks, Zhao Xu's attack power exceeded level 11.
At this time, once he comes into contact with the mutant scorpion, the ability brought by the insight bonus will make it easier for him to see through the mutant scorpion's flaws and break through the defense.
Zhao Xu, who has an 11th level attack, no longer needs to increase his attack power.
Because the mutant scorpion itself has an average defense level of more than ten to twenty levels, which is based on natural defensive armor.
With the blessing of the long-lasting "Ghost Strike" spell, he can completely penetrate all armor.
Those mutant scorpions, from ultra-small to super-giant, have defenses of level 10 or even lower without armor.
Therefore, the current Zhao Xu is a must-win for the mutant scorpion.
Even if he swings an extremely clumsy blow, with the correction of his ability, luck, or finding the right weakness, he can penetrate the mutant scorpion's defense and cause damage.
Even the leading soldiers of the fleeing team at the foot of the mountain could not imagine that they were unable to break through the defense before, but now they were like paper in front of Zhao Xu.
A ghost attack technique combined with knowledge and piety ability stacked with knowledge and skills is so terrifying.
Vivian seemed to notice something strange about Zhao Xu at this moment, and asked: "President, have you increased your attack power?"
Zhao Xu nodded and smiled.
"It's just that if you rely on the stick in your hand, the damage will be too low." Vivian frowned slightly.
The damage output by Arthur's weapons is divided into two parts: range damage and fixed damage.
Range damage is naturally the damage of the weapon itself. The final damage is determined by the location, depth and even the strength of the attack.
For example, after a large number of statistics, the damage range of wooden sticks is very clear. Small wooden sticks are 1-4 (1D4) points, and medium-sized sticks are 1-6 (1D6) points.
Fixed damage is additional damage to strength and other fixed additional damage.
Zhao Xu can now cause 1-6 points of floating damage to the mutant scorpion with just one tap.
In terms of fixed damage, it is as follows: -1 (Strength), 5 (Insight/Knowledge Piety), 3 (Luck/Praise), 2 (Magic Weapon), a total of 9 points.
Therefore, he causes 10-15 points of damage in one hit, which is within the satisfactory category.
But among players, it's already quite impressive.
At least he knocked it lightly, which meant the death of a medium-sized mutant scorpion.
As long as Zhao Xu is willing to sacrifice a 1-level spell, the damage he causes in that round can be doubled, reaching 20-30 points of damage output.
Ordinary second- and third-level warriors with only this amount of HP would be beaten to death by a mage like him.
Next, Zhao Xu and Vivian, who had redressed, set off to find the mysterious mutant scorpion nest.
Although the view of the valley at night was not good, since the same treasure box existed in the nest, they quickly located the general location.
Vivian also used her level 12 search skills,
After roughly checking an area of hundreds of square meters, they found a cave. The entrance itself was not spacious, and the giant size was already very difficult. I am afraid that the super giant mutant scorpion could only enter and exit by relying on its own ability to open any door. pass
Vivian squatted down and gently picked up a stiff lump, as if feeling the hardness.
"what is this?"
"The mutant scorpion's feces is indeed their nest down there." Vivian directly crushed the lumps in her hands without any psychological pressure.
Zhao Xu felt a slight pain in his stomach.
He remembered that Zhang Qi went on an adventure with him in his previous life. After Zhang Qi fell into a strange puddle of mud, all the monsters around him felt like they were facing formidable enemies. Even game animals such as rabbits had their legs weak on the spot. captured by them.
Afterwards, Zhang Qi went back to dig out the mud and transport it home to worship.
He planned to take a mud bath to strengthen his courage before going into battle in the future, so he almost made this a rule of his old Zhang family.
Until one time, a businessman told Zhang Qi that the mud was wet dragon dung.
"President, are we going in then?" Vivian asked. At this moment, she had raised the Holy Avenger in her hand and was about to hit her head in front.
"Wait a moment, I will add more magic." Zhao Xu said softly.
At this time, his eyes began to show a hint of seriousness.
"Before, I wasn't sure whether I could really find this nest, so I only used one-level spells to support it. Now that I'm sure, I can continue to add more energy."
Zhao Xu didn't just plan to kill a medium-to-large mutant scorpion with one strike.
He has a level 3 basic attack, but has not reached level 6, and cannot comprehend the combo ability.
Therefore, Zhao Xu can usually use all his strength to launch an attack in one round.
In the Swift Acceleration Technique, he could barely add one more attack.
With a slight smile on his lips, he raised his hand and began to cast the spell.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you use the third-ring spell "Higher Extraordinary Slam" to increase the damage of your wooden stick from medium damage 1-6 to giant weapon damage 3-18 (3D6), lasting: 12 hours]
The larger the weapon, the greater the damage it can cause.
It's just that without that kind of body shape, it's impossible to hold the corresponding weapons.
The high-level extraordinary slam instantly caused the weapon Zhao Xu held with a medium-sized body to become as damaging as a wooden stick held by a giant giant.
It directly crushed the damage of all medium-sized weapons.
At this time, the "wooden stick" in his hand, which originally looked ordinary, the Rune Staff of Power, sprouted a halo of light, as if it had grown several times in size invisibly.
At this time, Zhao Xu's wooden stick can cause 12-27 damage with a casual hit, which is expected to be about 20 HP. If the staff is activated to double the damage, it will be 40 HP. If he hits it twice in one round, he can kill two large mutant scorpions in seconds.
However, Zhao Xu was not satisfied, and the casting process did not stop at all.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you cast a ring of paladin magic "Rhinoceros Crash" (the spell is long-lasting), and your first hit after each charge will cause double damage, lasting 24 hours (1 round)]
In an instant, this spell, which originally lasted for one round, allowed Zhao Xu to deal double damage to 40 HP with the first hit after each charge in each subsequent round. He could also use the acceleration effect to perform combos, which also caused 20 HP of damage.
Seeing this scene, Zhao Xu was finally satisfied.
As long as he activates the ability of the rune staff to double the damage, then hitting two sticks after charging will triple the basic damage.
That is a huge damage output of 60 (rhinoceros + staff) + 40 (staff) = 100 HP.
Arthur's doubling is calculated as a doubling, so the two doublings are not four times the damage, but three times.
At this time, Vivian saw the light of the weapon in Zhao Xu's hand and understood what he was doing.
In other words, she had also seen this kind of behavior from the May lady.
The opponent even has the same "power rune staff" in his hand.
"President, Ms. May also likes to add the 'fearless' ability to the wooden stick that can double the charge damage."
At this time, Zhao Xu was slightly stunned after hearing this, fearless
As if he had some impression, he took out a book of Arthur's weapon enchantments that he had been reading recently from his backpack.
Then he immediately located this ability, and then smiled secretly, "It is really rare that a +1 value weapon enchantment can have such a good effect."
Like the weapon Wu Kong, it has a +5 value, and the decapitation effect also has a +5 value.
Generally speaking, the +1 value is a rather ordinary enchantment effect like Netherworld.
At this time, Zhao Xu had just dealt three times the damage with his weapon. Seeing this scene, why wasn't he excited
He immediately read up on this enchantment effect in detail.
Most people only customize weapons and only refer to these contents before enchanting them.
However, Zhao Xu really has a spell that can temporarily enchant weapons.
[Adventurer Zhongxia, you cast a ring of machine man spell "self-strengthened weapon" to temporarily add a "+1" enchantment effect or an effect of no more than 3000 gold coins to the weapon, lasting: 110 minutes]
In an instant, the power rune staff in Zhao Xu's hand turned into a +2 fearless stick on the character card.
It's a pity that he hasn't reached the sixth level yet, otherwise the advanced enhanced weapons he uses at that time can be temporarily added with a +5 bonus enchanting ability.
But no matter what, the damage of Zhao Xu's charge after activating the staff at this time has become a terrifying output of 80HP (4 times) + 60HP (3 times) = 140HP.
Twice the rhinoceros charge, twice the staff ability, and twice the fearlessness ability.
A giant mutant scorpion was now standing in front of him, and it was a matter of beating him to death with two sticks.
In the future, if Zhao Xu obtains stronger spells, he can continue to improve in terms of strength, enchantment, and expertise.
Basically, he continues to improve along with his current ideas, and even these current spells can be used by him even if he is legendary.
When he improves a few more levels, his damage per round will not be just 150 HP now, but thousands of damage output.
Killing the dragon in one round is no longer a fantasy.
"Go in, Vivian." Zhao Xu put the power rune staff on his shoulder and walked in slowly.
At this time, Vivian looked at Zhao Xu's back, feeling as if the remnant souls of countless mutant scorpions were wailing.
I will write four more updates in one go tomorrow.
(End of chapter)