The staff in Zhao Xu's hand is nearly one meter long and made of ancient oak tree core. The head is inlaid with a yellow crystal stone.
At this time, Zhao Xu's appearance was not far from what everyone imagined as the mages in fantasy books.
The staff is a type of magic item that stores several spells. Each time a spell is cast, one or several rounds of the staff's energy will be consumed. Generally speaking, a brand new staff has 50 energy rounds. whole.
Another magical item, the wand, is generally 30 centimeters long, about the same size as the wands of the wizards in Harry Potter.
The wand also has only 50 energy, but each spell use only consumes 1 energy.
The difference between a wand and a wand is that each wand can only store one spell, and it can only store spells of level 4 and below.
And the staff will not be restricted by fourth-level spells. Like the protective staff in Zhao Xu's hand, it can use shielding (level 1 spell/1 energy shot), resist energy damage (level 2/1 shot), and dispel magic. (level 3/1 shot), secondary spell invalidation barrier (level 4/2 shots), expulsion (level 4/2 shots), and anti-living creature shield (level 6/3 shots).
Calculated based on 65,000 GP, basically one shot of energy is 1,300 GP. Even if Zhao Xu uses it, his heart will bleed.
Today he is going to use the "dispel magic" spell in the staff, which can be used to suppress magic traps.
If he is using a magic wand, a dispelling magic wand costs 11,250 GP for 50 rounds. After calculation, one shot only costs 225 GP, which is much more cost-effective.
Speaking of which, he wanted to go in and explore it more, and he would use his trump card as long as he used it. Destroying the devil's lair would give him more points with Antinoya than driving away the ghosts.
When he faced the druid before, Zhao Xu took out his staff and prepared to cast a "resist energy damage" spell on himself to absorb the damage for him.
If he reaches level 3 and can cast second-level spells, he can also cast the "Resist Energy Damage" spell.
It's just that his caster level is too low, and he can only absorb 10 points of damage when casting this spell, and his health is not enough to be struck by lightning.
But if he casts a spell with a protective staff, the caster level must be at least level 13, which is the minimum caster level of the staff, which means it can absorb 30 points of damage. At that time, it was enough for him to survive one or two lightning strikes without being hurt.
This is the huge advantage of the staff over low-level spellcasters like Zhao Xu.
But when Antinoya gave him the staff, she didn't tell him how much energy was left in it.
Taking risks with the staff while being unable to estimate how many rounds of energy are left is also a test for him.
"What is this one?" Roja has seen the world, but most of the ones he has seen are small wands, and he has never seen such a nearly one-meter-long wand.
"Magic items." Zhao Xu said briefly, "They can be used to dispel magic traps."
Then Zhao Xu told the two wanderers how to open the secret door. Once he suppressed the energy of the magic trap, they had to rush up and open the secret door.
After finishing speaking, Zhao Xu directly held up the staff in his hand and made a spell-casting movement toward the magic trap ahead.
Suddenly, the three effects of dispelling magic came to his mind: "target type", "area type", and "counterspell type".
Zhao Xu, who knew some of the principles of magic traps, directly chose the "target type" dispelling magic.
After the spell was cast, a white light shot out from the protective staff in Zhao Xu's hand and directly hit the brick where the trap was placed.
[Adventurer Zhongxia casts "dispel magic" and "curse trap" to make a caster check confrontation. Adventurer Zhongxia's caster check is 20+D20=20+15=35, and the caster check of curse trap is 5+D20=5+10. =15. The test is passed and the trap is successfully suppressed for 1D4 = 4 rounds.]
Zhao Xu read the information and realized that to dispel magic and deal with magic traps, it was actually a caster level confrontation test instead of a difficulty test.
That is to say, the caster level of the staff is compared with the caster level of the priest who made the trap. Whoever is higher is more likely to win.
Antinoya did not make the staff according to the minimum level 13 requirement, but directly gave it a level 20 caster level, which naturally allowed him to crush the level 5 priest who made the trap.
But Zhao Xu didn't have time to sigh. He quickly shouted: "'Dispel Magic' can only suppress the trap for 4 rounds. Hurry and open the secret door."
Hearing this, the two wanderers walked forward without any doubts, and Rainbow was the first to rush to press the originally extremely dangerous brick.
Immediately, the mechanism at the door was activated, and a stone door one meter wide and two meters high slowly descended from the seemingly flawless wall, revealing a passageway.
The brick with the trap attached also landed.
"Finally down." Youyou breathed a sigh of relief after seeing the piece disappear.
She also knew that her level was too low. If it were higher, at least she would have a way to relieve the damage caused by these spells.
The threat of a curse is extremely troublesome to everyone.
"Can you pass?" Roja asked.
Although he was facing the auxiliary expert, everyone knew that he was asking about Zhongxia.
Zhao Xu nodded, "The stone gate has been lowered deep enough, so we won't trigger any more traps. Wanderers, take the lead now and keep searching and beware of the traps inside."
After hearing Zhao Xu's instructions, Hill looked at the team leader Luo Ya, while Caihong walked directly to the front.
Risking one's life in a trap is also one of the rogue's fates.
The entire team also adjusted their formation accordingly.
Everyone held weapons and slowly passed through the stone gate in front of them in a state of high alert.
As the torches shone, slowly, everyone in the team also saw what was inside the stone door, which was a long corridor.
"Be careful." Roja warned, "If there is a trap, we will be very passive."
Hearing this, everyone couldn't help but get closer, as if it would be easier to gather courage.
"It feels a lot like exploring a haunted house late at night." After leaving the room full of red letters, Yuyou's originally suppressed emotions recovered a lot.
"Don't set the flag casually. Don't forget the last encounter we had in the forest." Rainbow Company, the wanderer at the forefront, stopped him.
He's had enough of Youyou's crow's mouth.
"Hmph, didn't I just say that I hope to see a cute bear, but who knew it was a ferocious bear." Youyou complained.
Zhao Xu immediately understood that the ticket to the zoo was a bit expensive, and he didn't know how many resurrection stones were included.
However, thinking of the accident that Youyou had encountered, Zhao Xu also tightly grasped the staff in his hand, and the rest of the journey depended on this staff.
(End of chapter)