Zhao Xu took out a letter with a red clay seal from his pocket, revealing the magic mark on it.
"Mystra Mage Association, dispatched." As he said this, he showed off his mage badge.
"Hand it over and take a look." The guard captain said with a serious look on his face.
As a guard at the city gate, he has received training in document interpretation, and he can roughly identify the seals of official documents.
But this kind of thing related to magical forces couldn't help but make him careless.
He even considered whether to call the mage who was resting in the attic next to the city gate to come over and make an identification.
Zhao Xu's letter was not forged, and he handed it over gracefully.
After looking at it several times, the guard still didn't have the courage to open the red mud and check it, so he handed it back and let the two of them enter the city.
The two people in front of them were dressed in traditional mage attire, wrapping themselves tightly, as if their exposed skin would be scalded by the air.
If they hadn't received an order to conduct strict inspections in the early morning, he would not dare to ask these spellcasters too many questions and just let them go.
It really pissed off those noble mages, and the city guards would not take the initiative to stand up for a little guy like him.
This is also the survival experience of the majority of Northern Alliance guards.
"Just because we are dressed the way we are, it doesn't matter at all?"
If it were an abyss of extreme chaos, Vivian would not be surprised to encounter this situation. There is no order at all there.
But now, just because they were both wearing mage robes and handing over a letter, they were able to successfully break through so easily, which was somewhat beyond her expectation.
The "culprit" who caused the entire town to have a tense atmosphere was standing in front of this guard.
"That's natural. We had been restraining the use of close combat capabilities at that time. At best, the other party thought it was another or even a small group of outstanding warriors who attacked and killed us. It was even possible that it was some kind of mysterious monster."
"Of course there is no doubt about our two mages." Zhao Xu explained.
In the battle last night, it could be said that Zhao Xu and Vivian almost ran out of gas.
Those cavalry were not the ordinary bandits they encountered, consisting of stragglers.
Coming from a completely regular army, from training to uniform standards, to the momentum and combat skills of collective charge.
Zhao Xu was sure at a glance that the opponent was definitely from the regular army of the Northern Alliance.
Although it was not the most elite group of glorious knights guarding the capital, Zhao Xu also recognized the similarities in training.
This meant that the trouble he was making was not small. Thinking that he still had to work in the Northern Alliance's Mage Association, Zhao Xu felt that it would be better for him to keep it a secret.
Moreover, the other party clearly saw that he and others could fly without wings, and they were probably three-ring mages. However, they refused to talk about it, and they were just going to destroy them to death.
It is clear that the corpses hanging in the lair that have turned into skeletons in the sky, as well as the five brass treasure boxes in total, are not trivial.
It was enough for them to suppress their fear of the mage.
Especially the two young men with extraordinary backgrounds at the end both sacrificed several powerful magic items.
Zhao Xu didn't want to cause trouble, so he took the three treasure boxes recovered by the other party.
He did not take away the remaining magic items used by the opponent.
Sometimes, if some magic items are taken away from adventurers from a wealthy family, if they are not removed in time, they may be traced later.
At this time, Zhao Xu couldn't help but look back at the blue sky in the distance.
"Is there anything strange?" At this time, Vivian was also wearing a slender robe, and she even wore a cloak and a scarf to cover up her outstanding and charming appearance.
With a charm value of close to 30 points and an appearance that is in line with human aesthetics, it is completely killing everyone. Currently, it can only be covered up like this.
"Nothing." Zhao Xu smiled.
In my impression, there was only one big event in Zhenyu City in the next few years.
It shouldn't really have anything to do with the "Holy Breath" that destroyed the entire Twilight Forest five years later, right
Zhao Xu suddenly had a headache. He was not nearby at that time, and he didn't know much about the falling object that fell from the sky and destroyed the entire forest and several small towns.
I just heard that countless adventurers rushed there to explore the mysterious fortress that fell from the sky to the ground.
"Vivian, are you really not interested?" Zhao Xu asked.
Vivian immediately shook her head, "I have my own restrictions on the use of magic items. I can only use very special equipment."
Among the five brass treasure chests, the first Zhao opened the "Power Rune Staff".
The second treasure chest he opened was the "Monk's Belt".
As for the remaining three treasure chests, the secret magic runes involved are much more complicated. Zhao Xu's three-ring "dispelling magic" is not powerful enough to forcefully dispel them.
For a while, I could only rely on the powerful mental arithmetic ability of 28 intelligence to decipher the arcane code above.
However, Zhao Xu had estimated the amount of calculations, and it would be impossible to open and take out the contents without spending several days.
The "Monk Belt" in the second treasure chest looks very ordinary, just a thick rope.
It didn't even feel like it was tied to Zhao Xu's underwear and pants, and it didn't have the coolness of the magic item itself at all.
Moreover, the market price of this magic item is only about 13,000 gold coins, so it is not a rare treasure.
Wearing a monk's belt can enhance the monk's abilities.
Those like Zhao Xu who do not have a monk level can, like a level 5 monk, strengthen their defense perception and dodge abilities, and at the same time obtain decent unarmed damage.
As typical representatives of bare-handed combat, monks have a unique sixth sense to dodge attacks.
This is reflected in the fact that the perception adjustment value can be superimposed on defense like agility.
At this moment, he was walking on the street, and he seemed to be able to see the rhythm of pedestrians' movements in his mind.
Zhao Xu's defense ability on the character card panel has also been improved by 2 levels (perception), reaching the 20th level.
They are level 10 (basic), level 6 armor (high mage armor), level 1 agility, level 2 luck (rune staff of strength), level 2 perception (monk's belt), and -1 (flaw).
If he adds more shield skills to himself, he can upgrade it to level 24.
It's just that after Zhao Xu saw Vivian's "+2 floating mirror" large steel shield, he realized something he had neglected.
He cannot wear armor because of the arcane failure rate.
But it's not a loss for him to bring a shield like this.
Because the enchantment effect can be superimposed on it, especially as long as it is paired with the "floating" effect with a value of +2, he can free his hands without affecting the casting action, and the rest can naturally be combined with other enchantments.
An adventurer equips two round shields, which itself cannot improve the defense much due to the cumbersomeness, but it means that he has an additional defensive shield that can be enchanted, which naturally has additional enchanting effects.
Vivian's side can reverse the spell effect "Mirror Reflection" enchantment once a day. As long as you have money, no one will suffer a loss if you bring it.
Even if one is not careful, he can reflect the "finger of death" and kill the enemy mage.
"President, where should we go now? Heading directly towards Winter City?" Vivian asked.
"No, let's go to the black market." Zhao Xu smiled.
"black market?"
In his previous life, Zhao Xu was not wealthy, and he had never seen the famous "black market" in Zhenyu City, which was said to contain countless underground transactions of magic items.
This time it was rare, so he naturally wanted to purchase a few pieces.
He did get a fortune of gold coins by assisting the temple in trapping the succubus and helping Wang Ningwei and Eswig escape from the demiplane.
In addition, when Antinoya saw that he was traveling far away, she also gave him a living allowance as a member of the "Final Scroll" and a "consolation money" because she sympathized with Zhao Xu for being too poor.
Now it's not a big problem for Zhao Xu to buy one or two magic items.
"Go to the black market and see if there are any magic items suitable for you." Zhao Xu said.
"The battle last night?" Vivian said with a hint of self-blame.
"It's okay, I really need to replenish some magic equipment."
Zhao Xu sighed. He had realized that Vivian, as a succubus, was not a natural warrior like other demons.
Her attack methods are limited, and the spell-like abilities she possesses are all auxiliary, so "suggestion" and "advanced teleportation" are still somewhat useful.
The rare supernatural ability of oneself can absorb the "energy absorption" ability of other people's level, also by "kissing" or "forcibly grabbing".
Now Vivian, as a noble paladin, naturally cannot do such a thing.
This ability has also become half useless.
Zhao Xu's own spell slot is also a big problem.
After the intensity increased, he, who had the most spell slots among the players, was unable to keep up.
So when he went to conquer the lair yesterday, he had no choice but to convert his spell ability into melee combat ability.
This time he went to the black market to see if he could find the "Wizard's Ring".
This magic item can double the natural spell slots of a certain ring of the mage. It happened that after Zhao Xu sold the invisible ring in exchange for the ownership of the mage tower, his fingers were empty.
"I'll take you to the black market later. You can communicate with me through your mind and avoid speaking." Zhao Xu ordered.
"Okay." Vivian immediately got into rhythm.
"That shabby place has a lot of rules." Zhao Xu sneered, "I'll tell you slowly later."
In his previous life, Zhao Xu learned the rules of the vast Northern Alliance black market, but in the end he didn't use them. It was also a kind of black humor.
Thinking of this, he couldn't help but have a headache.
From his parents to Zheng Xinyun, Wang Ningwei, Eswig, Zhang Qi and others, once he encounters a suitable magic item, he has to be careful to find one for him.
It's a pity that the capital he harvested from the mithril mine in Falling Star Lake is still in the church in Winter City and has not yet been officially collected.
Zhao Xu, who was originally one of the top wealthy players, suddenly felt the ruthlessness of life.
(End of chapter)