The Truth of Magic



79 The candle

The floating city of Mystra, the library of knowledge, a few days ago.

“You were hit by that skeleton? you don’t have to keep reading books like how to deal with ghosts to increase your religious knowledge and skills, right?”

when he heard antonya’s question, zhao xu just smiled and didn’t say anything.

he had once led an entire team to be wiped out by the spirits, so he naturally couldn’t tell antonya about it.

“you want to deal with spectral soul?”

Antonya quickly got to the point that Zhao Xu wanted to ask.

zhao xu had always been someone who didn’t visit unless he had a reason for doing so, so he wouldn’t do something like this for no reason.

“although it’s unlikely that you earthlings will encounter ghosts, you can actually ask me directly. i’ve destroyed more spirits than the author of this book has ever seen.” Antonya said.

zhao xu put down the book in his hand and looked at antonya. ” mentor, is it possible for the current me to dispel the spirit of a level 1 person? ”

“I can’t.” Antonya said softly, “in theory, a priest can only dispel undead creatures that are four levels higher than themselves. However, the ghost itself had +4 resistance, which was equivalent to a 5HD undead. That’s why you can’t dispel it. ”

Zhao Xu was about to ask him a question in return. Didn’t they just say that he would be four levels higher?

However, he quickly realized that with his low priest level and charm, even if he was extremely lucky, he could only dispel 2HD undead at most.

zhao xu couldn’t help but let out a sigh when he thought about this.

so what if it could be dispersed?

In his previous life, after they had experienced the ghost crisis, they had immediately hired a high-level priest to destroy and purify it. A few days later, the ghost had still resurrected.

in the end, they had no choice but to seal the hole and never open it again.

” teacher, isn’t it impossible to understand why ghosts can resurrect? ”

Zhao Xu thought about it and decided to ask the question that was on his mind. By this time, he had already flipped to the last chapter on the resurrection.

“Why is there no solution?” Antonya asked in return.

Zhao Xu immediately spread out his hands and pointed at the picture of the ghost in the book. when a ghost dies, it can undergo a ‘level +1d20’ check. If it’s higher than 16, it can be resurrected. If it’s a level 15 ghost, the check’s result will definitely be higher than 16, so it will be 100% resurrected.

this was also something that he had been unable to let go of in his previous life.

“Ah, let me correct you. Actually, when the result of the check is 1, there will be a very special situation. “sometimes, even though the numbers can pass, it will still fail. it’s just that when 1 can pass and when 1 can’t, no one knows. we can only blame it on the world will.”

Antonya’s eyes lit up as she said this. and you know nothing about the power of a wizard.

” there are ways to seal, control, and even fail a test. ”

After hearing this, Zhao Xu felt a lot more confident.

“mentor, why do i feel that your explanation is much more common than this book? It’s just a few simple sentences, but this book on how to deal with ghosts keeps going around in circles, giving me a headache. in my opinion, this book should be removed from the category of ‘raising religious knowledge’- recommended reading sequence list.”

When he saw Antonya explaining things to him, Zhao Xu quickly started sucking up to her and complaining a little.

“oh, the reason why i dare to say that the author has not seen as many ghosts as i do when he writes his book is because-”

“I actually wrote this book when I was young.”

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zhao xu looked at the ghost in front of him with its mouth wide open and it looked like it was going to eat him alive, and he laughed softly.

at this moment, he had already gotten hold of the trump card that antonya had given him.

“you know nothing about the power of a mage.”

At that moment, Zhao Xu was holding a small, narrow lantern in his hand, and the space inside was only enough to fit one candle.

however, the candle had already been enchanted. the moment it was taken out of the backpack and came into contact with the air, the ordinary-looking candle spontaneously ignited.

A mysterious aura suddenly gathered around him.

[adventurer zhongxia has lit the neutral good camp’s ‘prayer candle.’ attack checks, immunity checks, and skill checks of the same camp within 10 meters will gain +2 morale points.]

“foreignland-” zhao xu started to mumble the name of a spell that was just as ordinary.

In the blink of an eye, the air around them froze, and even time and space were pulled in. The entire candle began to burst out with infinite holy aura.

A ring that was six to seven meters in diameter and was glowing faintly appeared in the air.

what was even more profound was that behind the ring, a holy aura like heaven began to appear faintly.

It was as if holy light was about to descend upon the earth, destroying all evil and sweeping away all filth.

seeing the scene in front of him, the terrifying experience of the past resurfaced in the specter’s mind. it let out a terrified howl on the spot, as if it had fallen into deep despair.

the good thing was that it didn’t get the supernatural power of the terrifying wail. it was just that hoarse voice that made zhao xu’s hair stand on end.

In an instant, the ghost ran for its life. It was already dead, and it seemed to have seen something more terrifying than death.

It was as if there was a flying sword with a force field following it like a shadow.

the spirit didn’t even turn its head. it didn’t have any attachment and disappeared from the limited view of the torch.

zhao xu looked ahead without his night vision, but he couldn’t see the darkness further into the distance.

zhao xu sighed a little, but in the end, he didn’t manage to finish his sentence.

The glowing disc lost the support of its power and slowly began to shrink again.

night fell upon the earth again.

This prayer candle could burn for four hours, and Zhao Xu had just recited a few simple words and it had already lost a small chunk of its flame.

Zhao Xu couldn’t care less about the pain he was feeling. He just stood there in the cold wind and looked straight ahead.

He only let his guard down after a minute or two when the protection from evil wore off.

zhao xu immediately extinguished the candle in the small lantern.

zhao xu smiled as he looked at the ” god’s prayer candle ” in his hand that had scared away the ghost just by lighting it.

sure enough, the power of spells was just that powerful.

and that was only the aftermath.

In fact, it was not the candle that had scared the ghost away, but the level nine spell behind the candle-gate between worlds.

just now, as long as he said the name of the spell, the candle would instantly burn and turn into a gate between worlds, from which powerful creatures would be summoned.

Antonya had introduced him to a few powerful creatures at the time and asked him to familiarize himself with them so that he could remember their details.

One of them was the blazing Angel, also known as the blazing God’s servant.

this kind of level 23 challenge rating creature not only had powerful combat power, but also was equivalent to a priest who could cast level 9 spells.

Basically, they were invincible existences in Arthur’s non-legendary realms.

He could even fight an immemorial Dragon, let alone a mere specter.

zhao xu shook his head, but he still turned around and helped the people who had fallen to the ground up.