Chapter 125: The Passage (3/4)
When Zhao Xu walked out of the door, he found that an old man was waiting for him.
It's no wonder that most of the people in the floating city are elderly, mainly because the strength of the mage itself is linked to the accumulation of time.
Most mages use the path of longevity, rather than the cost and risk of rejuvenation, let alone the immortality of other racial types through advancement.
"Any advice?" The robe on the other party's body does not have a single circle, and those who usually wear it like this are either apprentices or legendary mages.
Of course, there is another kind, that is, it is too lazy to wear it, and it does not need to be used to show identity, like the bohemian like Ren.
"Mr. Midsummer, this is your prize, because you were the first to complete the assessment." The old man's originally clumsy body stood in a corner, and his face was covered with the ruthless scratches of time.
But when he turned to face Zhao Xu, his eyes were bright, and there was an invisible aura of a superior person all over his body.
Zhao Xu, who had guarded the northern lord in his previous life, almost had an illusion that there was a king standing opposite.
It's just that it's unrealistic to think about it, and he can barely recognize Arthur's monarch.
At this time, the old man's rugged hand handed over an identical "automatic shorthand quill pen".
Zhao Xu was curious: "Didn't I already take it?" ”
"No, Mr. Midsummer, this is your reward for winning all the apprentices in the audience, and the one that Miss Antinoya gave you is her reward for you alone, and there is no conflict between the two."
Zhao Xu will not refuse the things sent to the door by others, anyway, he must have brought them to Antinoya for inspection before he dared to use them.
After Zhao Xu took it easily, he found that the old man was still standing, unmoved.
He didn't bother or ask too much, and walked directly down the front of the hallway.
At this time, Zhao Xu didn't notice that the old man behind him had been bending down slightly, saluting him.
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After Zhao Xu returned, he moved his luggage to the obelisk according to Antinoya's request.
This is also a tradition in the Floating City, but once a mage apprentice becomes a full-fledged mage, the dormitory is only renewed for three months.
It's not that mages don't have a place to go without a dormitory, it's just a way to suggest that new mages hurry up and find a home.
Zhao Xu's next home was naturally the "Final Scroll", so his dormitory was reassigned to the sixth floor of the obelisk.
Basically, the entire obelisk has been renovated, so that the fact that there are too many people to live in it never appears in the mage's dictionary.
Zhao Xu didn't have much luggage in the dormitory, mainly packing some magic books that he hadn't brought with him on his previous adventures and putting them in his backpack.
As he sorted it out, he also thought back to what had happened when he copied the scroll.
Originally, he thought that this ability would be particularly difficult, but when he really put pen to paper, he found that the power of those runes automatically flowed from his mind to the scroll.
It's as if he'd copied it a thousand times.
This extraordinary sense of familiarity made Zhao Xu have to blame himself for being already a level 1 mage, and then mastering the specialty of "copying scrolls" to have this special effect.
After all, most of the other new mages first mastered the transcription scroll and summoned the magic pet, and then copied enough spells before they officially awakened as mages.
At this moment, Zhao Xu didn't know what he was doing at that time, and he was completely shocked by those who started to learn the specialty with him at the same pace.
After Zhao Xu finished moving his things, he didn't have time to take a breath.
Then he put the quill given to him by Antinoa and the old man's quill side by side on the table.
The appearance is almost identical, and there are no special marks.
Fortunately, it would not have meant that both were the products of Antinoea.
According to Antinoea's personality, she doesn't like her stuff to people she doesn't know.
Doesn't this mean that Antinoya was sure that he would be the first to copy the successful scroll?
If that's the case, then the prophecy spell is too overbearing.
After a while, Antinoa also arrived in his new dormitory.
She already knew what Zhao Xu had just happened, but she didn't praise Zhao Xu much, but said to him: "Let's go, now I will take you to see the reason why the dossier scholar is powerful." ”
When Zhao Xu heard this, he immediately thought of it.
He would envy the profession of dossier scholar, believing that it was not inferior to the mage, and that it was mainly derived from the dossier blowers of the forum in the later stages of the previous life.
At that time, it was no secret that the scholars of the dossier were still in the background, and many people knew that there was such a profession as a magic caster.
He is equivalent to the mirror of the mage, and the similarities are that he needs to study spells, copy spells into prayer books, and determine the strength of spells by intelligence.
Therefore, Zhao Xu will mainly promote the scholars of the dossier in the future, so he doesn't have to worry so much about the problem of attribute dispersion, and he will go all out to increase his intelligence.
The only difference with mages is that the dossier is releasing divine magic, not arcane art.
There are two main types of spells, arcane and mysterious.
There are also spells, both arcane and mysterious, such as detection magic, that can be cast by both mages and priests.
Like the mage armor that Zhao Xu likes to use, it is a pure natural arcane, and the priest can't use it.
If the dossier were just that simple, then it wouldn't have been blown up to the sky by the dossier blowers.
Mainly in terms of professional ability, the mage has a transcription scroll and summons a magic pet at level 1, and then he has to get a super magic specialty every 5 levels.
In the dossier scholar levels 1-20, only two levels are vacant and have no ability to improve, and the others are occupied by various abilities to improve.
As for what the dossier scholars are, the forum is very mysterious and does not reveal much.
But everybody yearns for it.
At this time, Zhao Xu and Antinoya sat in the escalator of the obelisk, and sat down on the magic-powered alchemy device.
Antinoya relies on her potential points to recover infinitely, and basically she will choose to teleport over the road of more than 300 meters.
At 20 meters, it was flickering, and Zhao Xu now knew that the other party was flashing past with the long-lasting ninth-level spell of "High Dimensional Jump".
Not the arbitrary spell he thought he had at first.
However, the obelisk is shielded from teleportation except for the spire. So Antinoya could only walk with Zhao Xu honestly.
"Mentor, are you going to practice 'dark knowledge'?" Zhao Xu asked.
Although the abilities of the scroll scholars in the previous life are very mysterious, the first ability, the dark knowledge (combat), has been revealed, and it is said that it has a bonus to attack power when facing monsters, which makes their warriors itch to pull a dossier teammate.
"The professional abilities of the dossier scholars are meaningless, and the terrifying secrets of level 11 can make the other party deter and barely be able to fight." Antinoya, as always, answered Zhao Xu's pediatric questions.
Zhao Xu understood now as soon as he heard it.
The dossier of the forum in the previous life was blown and the angle was wrong.
That's not a strong professional ability, it's not always strong in spells, right?
It's just that the priest doesn't have the same magic skills, and it's given by the gods, and it's completely free.
The mage has to copy spells for money, and the dossier also costs money for copying spells.
If it weren't for Zhao Xu's reluctance to hug Antinoya's thighs, otherwise he would have to go to Floating City to work as a waiter now, working part-time to earn the cost of copying spells.
However, Antinoya pulled Zhao Xu out on the second floor, and after pulling him around a few corners, he walked to the end of a corridor.
Zhao Xu looked at this dead end and wondered if there was a secret door.
Antinoa, however, recited a mantra as quickly as it hummed.
Zhao Xu's panel instantly swiped a message that "Spell Identification" had failed.
He knew that Antinoa had cast a spell instantly, but he didn't know what had happened.
"Let's go." Antinoya said.
Zhao Xu turned around, but he didn't see any secret doors opened by Antinoya.
Immediately after, Antinoya pulled Zhao Xu's sleeve and walked towards the wall in front of him with him.
Just as they were about to collide, the entire wall seemed to be a false illusion, and it didn't hinder the two of them at all.
After a slight feeling of dizziness, Zhao Xu found that he appeared in a closed room, which had no doors or windows at all, just like in a box.
If it weren't for the lights on the ceiling, he would probably have a psychological shadow.
"It's just a seventh-level spell 'phase, you can open the spirit passage and let us get here through that wall." Antinoya said.
Only then did Zhao Xu understand why there were no doors and no windows in this room.
In the case of shielding teleportation, the mage's phase gate spell is a one-time key to enter here.
It's just a bit extravagant.
At this time, Zhao Xu also began to observe the things in the room, there were a total of 12 identical classical mirrors, erected on the 12-hour scale like clocks.
Most of the mirrors are one meter two high, about one meter wide, and all of them are covered with a dark curtain.
"What is this?" When Zhao Xu chose the third method, he had seen this kind of mirror in the collection poured out by Antinoia, but it was too big, otherwise he would definitely be interested in that mirror.
"This is the sworn enemy doppelganger mirror."
"If you pull back the curtain and look at the mirror, you'll summon a doppelganger like you, with the same equipment, abilities, and spells, and then attack you with all your might."
"Are you kidding?" Zhao Xu's mentality, which had already been exercised, also began to be surprised.
Come to a legendary mage, it's hard to really summon a legendary mage to come out.
"This kind of mirror, made by King Ernest of the Arcane, is said to have been made using the principle of cloning, but the method and craftsmanship have long been lost. Most of the rest of the floating city is placed here, and this kind of mirror has a way to crack it, but it is really too dangerous, so it is directly put here for waste use. Antinoa explained.
Zhao Xu looked at these twelve mirrors, which was even more terrifying than a horror movie.
Come out of the ghost what Antinoya will definitely solve at will.
But if an Antinoya clone comes out, she should be able to fight, and he himself won't be able to survive the aftermath of the spell.
"So what are we going to do?"
"One of the mirrors came from the passage, just find it."
"Where does it lead?" Zhao Xu looked back at Antinoya.
"The original scroll."