Chapter 33: Arcane Knight (Thanks to the sad onlookers for the reward)
And the Night Lady Shar also seized the powerful priesthood of hatred in one fell swoop in this catastrophe, and successfully returned to the ranks of powerful divine powers. Pen ~ Fun ~ Pavilion www.biquge.info Shar and the Goddess of the Moon, Suren, lost most of their strength in the Ancient War, and never recovered. (So is Suren, the original goddess who is still only moderately powerful)
Now, relying on intrigue and trickery, fishing in troubled waters, he has finally returned to the ranks of powerful divine powers. And this catastrophe caused great damage to the world. For Sha'er is the primordial darkness, the complete nothingness before time begins to flow, the powerful divinity of indifference. She desperately longed to return to the quiet nothingness of the beginning, so she had been planning in the shadows to destroy all civilizations, and the catastrophe of the dark boiling year really had a great appetite for her, and her old man was making a lot of money.
And the other shit-stirring stick, Shirek, the prince of lies, got nothing but the hatred of the other gods, and the new three gods of death hated him more than the three gods of justice, and they didn't want to kill this madman all the time, let alone the gods of goodness, and none of them didn't want to feed this bastard to the chaos demon dog Kozf. His comrade-in-arms, Lady Night, also covets his priesthood and doesn't want to kill him at all times. Even the savage god Marat doesn't have a good impression of this thing, and he definitely wants to him if he has the chance. However, Ciric is quite indifferent to these hatreds and hatreds, but enjoys them, this thing is the kind of typical person who hurts others and does not benefit himself, and is very happy when he sees others unlucky, extremely bad taste.
However, I can't admit that this prince of lies is still very capable, and in the case of being hated by almost all the gods, he is still alive and well, and he still runs out to make trouble everywhere, and his life is so hard that it is simply touching.
There are not many people in Avalon who will teach Solam these things, and the Avalon orcs are quite cold to the things of the gods because they were betrayed by the gods, so there are few Avalon orcs who take the initiative to talk about the gods.
Solam listened to it with relish, this is much more interesting than the myths and stories of the previous life, probably there are no gods in that world, these stories are both absurd and true, according to the religious myths of the previous life, the gods are all great and flawless, which is like these gods, powerful is very powerful, but which is not a lot of faults. That's interesting, isn't it?
But in the end, the old man was old, and he had just been injured, so he yawned again and again as he spoke. Although Solam is very interested in the outside world, he is not enough for an old man to talk endlessly in this situation. So he gave his blanket to the old man, let him sleep first, dispose of the snow dragon skin first, and then sleep beautifully with frosty teeth.
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In the days that followed, the old man went on the road with Solam, and one of them talked beside him to relieve his boredom, which was much more interesting than walking alone. Soram could see that Arlando was quite knowledgeable, and he could tell him things he had never heard before.
The most important thing is that the old man is still a mage, no, it is not entirely true to say that he is a mage, the old man is an arcane knight.
A class that can fight like a knight in armor and cast spells like a mage, and according to the old man, this class is called an Arcane Knight because it originated in the time of the great Netheril. At that time, the Grand Arcanists had the whimsical idea to have a group of Floating Guard Knights with the same spell-casting abilities as the Arcanists, so that they could better serve the Grand Arcanists.
But the idea is very beautiful.,But in fact, it's not that simple.,First of all, whether it's an arcane or a mage, you can't wear armor.,That will lead to the failure of casting.,Generally speaking,Leather armor will have a 40% chance of casting failure.,Half-body armor is 60%,Full body armor is 80%,But if you can't wear armor,That's still a fart knight.,A knight without armor.,Defense plummets.,Originally, the Arcane Knight is a supplement to the melee protection of the Arcanist.,If you can't wear armor.,It's not as good as., Just bring a few more low-level arcanists, it's the same.
However, as the greatest group of people in the greatest era of mankind, it is really not for nothing, they finally invented a solution through a series of research, that is, to design a special spell to bless the Arcane Knights through a special ritual, so that these knights have the talent of armor and spell casting, but God is fair, and the Arcane Knights have to pay something to get this powerful talent. That is, Arcane Knight will have -1 spell count per cast level, and now, each level will have one less spell slot than other mages.
After the problem of armor casting is solved, another problem has appeared, which is the problem of the knight itself, if the arcane knight is just a mage wearing armor, the arcanist does not need to spend so much time and material resources to create this profession, the arcane knight without the ability of the knight is not different from the ordinary arcanist, but the knight is not so easy to exercise, which requires a lot of time to train, and spell casting training and research will also take up a lot of time, so that the arcane knight is not half a bottle of water, It's not useful at all.
So the group of great arcanists summed up, yes, let's transform it again, and then a new magic ritual appeared, and the new ritual would not only allow the Arcane Knight to have the talent of armor casting, but also get a talent for arcane transformation. This talent allows Arcane Knight to use magical energy to improve his physical fitness while meditating, and gives Arcane Knight magic resistance, but requires all levels of spell slot -2. But this isn't a big deal for the Grand Arcanists, but it's just a melee support, and if there are fewer spells, there are fewer spells.
After solving these two problems, the Grand Arcanist couldn't help but be overjoyed, feeling that he was about to reach another peak, but the reality gave them a blow in the face, although they solved the "hardware" conditions, but the knight skills and spell casting skills still have to be learned by themselves, which can't be done by magic. Both of these skills require talent and time, and people who can take care of both are undoubtedly geniuses, but where to find so many geniuses, even if they find them, it is better to learn to become an arcanist directly, why waste time on this, it's not worth it.
So in the era of Nesser, this profession did not develop in a big way, only a few people would learn this profession, and after the collapse of the Nessera era, this profession was actually magically inherited, but it was still so half-dead, and there are very few Arcane Knights who can be passed on to this day.
But just relying on these, it would be wrong to say that this profession is not strong, in fact, this combination of spells and knights is still very powerful. However, in order to make better use of the power of this class, basically the Arcane Knight will give up the deep study of magic and various experiments, and will only try to learn some spells that can be used in battle, so most mages look down on this half-tone class, although they also look down on other classes.
As soon as Soram heard about such a dick profession, he immediately came to his senses, he has always had a strong curiosity about spells, and this profession does not have to become weak like a mage, because he grew up in the orc clan since he was a child, and he was inevitably affected by some atmospheres, and Soram still values this very much. As for the problem of the lack of spell bits, Soram doesn't care, isn't he still a shaman, he can complement each other, and the shaman doesn't have so many things as a mage, it doesn't matter if he wears armor or not. As for the question of the time required for this profession, come on, he is a beast elf, his life is 600 years, he doesn't care about wasting some things, he has time.
So since listening to Arlando's story, Soram has pestered Arrando to teach him to be an Arcane Knight. Especially after Arrando saw that Solam had too many things, so he took out a dimensional belt to help him load most of the things, Solam was even more reluctant, saying that he wanted to become an Arcane Knight, because he heard Arrando say that Arcane Knights can actually learn alchemy and make magic items like ordinary mages.
To be honest, when I saw that dimensional belt, Solam was even more shocked than seeing a powerful spell, you must know that compared to your previous life, how powerful your spell is more powerful than a missile? No, there are nuclear bombs, hydrogen bombs, neutron bombs, and star destroyers.
Listen to them describe the elven era, how those spells are dick, and how the floating city of the Nessera era is majestic, but in Solam's opinion, this is a hair, is your elven magic ritual very dick? Isn't it just to blow up the continent into several pieces? Garbage, a single shot of the Star Destroyer can blow the whole world into slag. Is your floating city a dick? Isn't it enough to fit 100,000 people? The garbage, labor-managed interstellar ark can hold hundreds of thousands of people, and it will not fall yet. The traverser must have the pride of the traverser, after Solam saw the production level of this world, a big world chauvinistic mood could not help but appear.
But after seeing the dimensional belt that Allando took out, he immediately shocked Soram's pride, Nima, isn't this a space folding technique? You know, in Solam's previous life, this has been a technical problem in that world for nearly a hundred years, and the humans of that world have been spinning in the solar system for hundreds of years, just to figure out the rotation of the solar system, but there is only one problem, it is too far away, and it takes N years to go back and forth, and it can't stand it. So I have always hoped to make a breakthrough in space technology, but just like hitting a ghost, I can't even do the most basic space folding, and it took a hundred years in vain, let alone a deeper space fold.
How to describe the shock of Solam at that time, for example, you drove a new small plane to the primitive tribes of Africa to load B, but just got there, everyone from other primitive tribes drove hovering personal aircraft.