The Truth of Magic - Chapter 180

180 zhongxia’s spell notes

after he heard zhao xu’s request, the tall, thin man, andy, seemed to wake up from a dream. he quickly reached out and felt around the ground, but because he was nervous, he felt nothing.

“Then I’ll do it.” when zhao xu saw how nervous this guy called andy was, he decided to use the magician’s hand to make the black book fly into his hands.

At this moment, the young men and women were also silently watching this scene. Even though they lived in Mystra, every time they saw these spells, they could still remember the sigh in their parents ‘eyes when they found out that they had not become mages or priests.

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zhao xu controlled the book to fly into his hand, but he wasn’t in a hurry to open it. instead, he looked at andy with a questioning gaze.

he was waiting for the other party to provide him with more information.

for example, there was a magic book in the legendary library. it was also a magic item in itself, called the scroll of unknown origins.

as long as the camp was consistent, reading it would also give a +5 performance bonus in the knowledge check.

Reading that scroll, as time goes on, you can get corresponding improvements. But reading the scroll was also a risk. every hour, he could suffer a backlash from the scroll. the consequences ranged from insanity, curses, or even turning into a ghost.

So, Zhao Xu wouldn’t immediately open a book of unknown origin.

When Andy saw Zhao Xu’s bright eyes on him and thought about his terrifying identity, she couldn’t help but panic. She quickly explained, ” “i don’t know the name of this ancient book. i found it in my family’s collection. i only know that it was obtained a long time ago by my ancestors from a mysterious tomb. It’s just that after our ancestor returned from his adventure, he passed away very soon after being seriously injured. Thus, this ancient book has always been sealed.”

“Is there any special effect?” Zhao Xu continued to ask.

The mysterious ancient books in the ancient tombs recorded these primitive rituals, which sounded reasonable.

At this time, Andy sat cross-legged, ignoring the gravel on the ground, and began to recall, ” “my ancestor took it to the mages for appraisal and confirmed that it was actually a magic item. as for the effect …”

At this time, Andy could not help but look at the ancient book with a frightened expression and said, ” “it means that the words recorded on it will have a spirit.”

zhao xu’s heart skipped a beat. “so you’re saying that the summoning ritual just now was something that you guys copied down?”

andy’s face grew paler as he nodded. ” we saw the ritual in a mysterious shop that sold items from ancient ruins on central street of mystra. Out of curiosity, I copied the content of the ritual on the stone slab. After what happened to Lisa, I really wanted to carry out this ritual and went to the shop again, but the stone slab had already been bought by the mages.”

“The first requirement of the ritual is to make the incantation that is copied have a spirit. I also thought of this, so I took out this ancient book from my family’s collection.”

zhao xu listened to the man’s description and felt that it was pretty much logical.

As for possessing spirituality, he roughly understood what that meant. when they copied spells, they required the words to be spiritual, which meant that they had to use the kind of ink and quill used for copying spells. at the same time, they had to use arcane text.

he didn’t expect the ancient book in his hand to have the same effect. wasn’t it equivalent to a different kind of “book of blessing”?

You can copy spells without materials?

it was just that this book didn’t seem like it could be easily copied. a level 9 spell would take up nine pages of space, and it was much lower than the legendary book of blessings with a full 1000 pages.

it was no different from an ordinary 100-page spellbook, except that it saved on the cost of materials.

but zhao xu had already made up his mind. he would go back and copy some of the core spells that the association would open up for him to learn and put them on the shelves. then, he would sell the books he had copied.

after thinking about it, zhao xu took out the golem goggles that antonya had given him earlier and cast a detection spell on the book.

Immediately, the light of the detection spell was transformed by the goggles, and the energy of the spell was integrated into the book.

[ adventurer zhongxia has cast detection magic. appraisal effect has been obtained through golem goggles. ]

with a swoosh, the effects of the ancient book were directly displayed in front of his eyes.

Zhao Xu read through it carefully and was stunned.

he thought to himself,’could it be that the appraisal skill has been upgraded, or does the appraisal itself have a certain failure rate?

however, he suppressed the doubts in his heart and directly opened the book. Nearly half of the pages of the book had all sorts of content recorded.

there were a few simple pages of notes left behind by the man’s ancestor who brought this book out of the mysterious tomb. it was probably because of these contents that this book was not buried as a burial object, but was preserved as an ancestor’s manuscript.

most of the notes at the back were scattered notes left behind by the ancestors of the male families. some of them were about their own poems, and some of them were about ritualistic magic circles, but zhao xu could tell that they were all made up.

He flipped to the middle of the book, which was the last page with words. As expected, there was a series of ritual circle structures, various ritual rituals that needed to be prepared, and the corresponding incantations.

zhao xu couldn’t help but glance at andy. if this kid could remember all of this, then he must have run to that shop many times already.

the five people kneeling on the ground didn’t dare to make a sound either. they just waited for zhao xu to check the book.

They were also feeling very uneasy. They were afraid that Zhao Xu would later judge them as collectors of the heresy’s ancient records. That would really increase their crime and might even implicate their families.

after andy told zhao xu everything that had happened, she also thought about the consequences. her face was even paler than the four of them who had just been through a life and death situation.

In the end, Zhao Xu flipped through the pages and confirmed that this ritual was probably just one of the normal ancient summoning rituals that randomly summoned creatures from another world.

It was just that this group of young men had bad luck this time and had provoked an evil otherworldly creature. However, it was not a big problem.

Zhao Xu reckoned that if he went back and looked through the library of legends carefully, he would probably be able to find the corresponding ritual.

Originally, when Zhao Xu saw this, he couldn’t help but sigh. He hadn’t gained anything from this operation and could only do good.

But Zhao Xu had just used his appraisal skill and realized that this book was different from the others, so he calmed himself down and said to Andy in a low voice, ” “Then what do you plan to do with this book?”

When Andy heard what Zhao Xu said, he looked as if he was shocked and almost jumped up in fright. He quickly shook his head and said, ” “I don’t want this book anymore. I plan to throw it into the bonfire and burn it later.”

“I feel like there are still some secrets hidden in this book,” Zhao Xu nodded and said, ” so I’ll handle this for you guys? ”

after hearing zhao xu’s words, the five of them knew that there was a turning point for them. they quickly nodded and said that they would let zhao xu do whatever he wanted.

zhao xu couldn’t be bothered to say anything more to this group of suicidal young men. he just told them to remember to go to the church of the goddess next week when they got back and get rid of all the bad luck they had before letting them go.

The five of them looked at him as if he was the God of plague and ran away in a hurry. Zhao Xu quickly said, ” “take this bag of things with you and give it a proper burial when we get back.”

At this time, the two strong men came back and dragged the dead goat away.

Zhao Xu waited until the five of them had disappeared from his line of sight before he gently tapped the surface of the invisibility ring. In an instant, his entire body, along with the book he was holding, disappeared.

Zhao Xu also left the bonfire and walked over to a spot near the gravestone. He then sat down with a peace of mind.

if he was on earth, zhao xu definitely wouldn’t have the guts to do something like this.

however, with the sacred emblem on his body, it was more likely that the things underground were afraid of him.

If a Necromancer really did end up pulling undead creatures out of the ground, Zhao Xu would have a way to drive them back.

Of course, if there were villains buried under the ground, and the thing that was revived was a level 9 challenge level ” demonic soul corpse, ” then he would have to stay out of the trouble.

Two fireballs were not enough to kill these undead creatures that had an average of 90 hp.

Zhao Xu, who had just done a good deed, started to flip through the book in his hand. This was what he had gained from this trip.

when he appraised it earlier, he suddenly discovered that this ancient book actually had another effect.

it was just that it had more than 100 pages.

Strictly speaking, it had countless pages.

zhao xu had seen a lot of books like this that had countless pages, and many magic books had this effect. The book itself was more like a search engine. When he thought of the key words, the corresponding content would appear.

He did not know who Andy’s ancestor had found to appraise it, but he had actually missed out on such an important effect.

a book with an unlimited page would definitely be worth a lot of money.

there was once a mage who used this kind of book with infinite pages as a spellbook, but the spells would interfere with each other, causing them to be unable to be recognized.

One of the most famous ones was the ” scroll of ancient knowledge ” created by the second generation goddess of magic after the final scroll. It was said that the mage who got it could use the scroll to prepare a spell that he had not mastered every day, but the book was still missing.

After the failure of the goddess of magic, naturally, no one tried to use this kind of unlimited page book as a spellbook.

Zhao Xu gently closed the book and added a title to the cover: It was zhongxia’s spell notebook.

The black-sealed ancient book that had not shown any signs of abnormality suddenly burst forth with a rainbow-colored radiance.