The Truth of Magic - Chapter 309

309 The turbulent forum

the next day’s journey was calm and peaceful.

When night fell, Zhao Xu and the others set up a small tent, and then the core group went in and untied the ” lead box.

Just like that, the entire ” notebook ” slowly spread out before the eyes of the higher-ups of The Guardian Guild.

Compared to the first two notebooks, which more or less recorded their experiences in the mysterious tomb, the third notebook was a notebook passed down by the Errol family.

There were no records of their past tomb exploration, not even the mysterious symbol. It was obvious that the owner of the wizard Tower had deliberately erased the records of their ancestors and hidden them somewhere else.

the notebook was filled with detailed information about the mage tower.

There was only one point, and that was that this notebook was divided into two parts. The first part described the hiding place of the wizard Tower and the specific method of entering it.

However, the lower half of the tower was written in a special secret text that described the various mechanisms of the tower, how to break through them, and even the structure of the wizard Tower.

Zhao Xu had to find the corresponding ” secret key ” to crack it, and according to the book, the secret key was hidden in the wizard Tower.

This meant that he had to enter the wizard Tower before he could Continue reading.

Zhao Xu knew that there was something fishy about this setup, but he didn’t say anything more.

the group of people then made the next day’s push and plan on the temporary sandpit.

for the sake of safety, zhao xu had frostsword and the other guild members go offline one by one. as for him, he went invisible before going offline.

When Zhao Xu finally came back to his senses, he saw Zhang Qi typing away on the keyboard excitedly. At the same time, he couldn’t help but curse.

“What’s wrong?” zhao xu got off the bed and stood behind zhang qi.

zhang qi should still be dealing with some issues in starfall town that night. recently, zhang qi had also been promoted to a small leader position in the security team, which was similar to zhao xu’s subordinates in his previous life.

” it’s so infuriating. we players were killed by the npcs in the game. we even lost the basic chance to revive. ” Zhang Qi said angrily, ” I’m currently writing an email to ask about the game producers. What kind of stupid setting is this? five Lifestones are already difficult enough, and they’re still tormenting us.

When Zhao Xu heard this, he immediately understood that it had something to do with him.

However, he was not in a hurry to express his opinion. Instead, he sat quietly on his stool, and the light from the laptop’s boot screen shone on his face.

in this late-night entertainment era, zhao xu’s floor was usually very dark, and even the sound of the microphone was much lower. it was mostly covered by the rustling from the balcony.

Zhao Xu quickly saw the trending posts on the forum, but he couldn’t help but sneer in his heart.

He didn’t expect that after the four players died and realized that they couldn’t be resurrected, they immediately went to the forums in anger and started posting rhythmical posts. They took advantage of the fact that Zhao Xu couldn’t come back to earth to refute their arguments and started throwing dirt on him.

at the same time, they also demanded compensation from tc’s producers for the fact that they couldn’t revive.

even zhao xu didn’t expect that the fact that he couldn’t be revived would actually hit a sensitive spot for the players.

In his past life, when the players discovered the soul Catcher, they were already quite strong and knew how to deal with it. It was almost impossible for a newbie to be tricked by it.

who would have thought that zhao xu would be the first to pull out this “ultimate weapon” at the start of the two months, and then the four players would start complaining about it?

enough unfairness “combined with” I might encounter it too “was like a hot stone thrown into a pool of water, instantly causing countless bubbles.

even his roommate, zhang qi, felt indignant when he saw it. he wanted to stand on the side of this group of players and complain.

but zhao xu wasn’t in a hurry to write a post detailing everything that had happened that day, and he didn’t go out of his way to refute the main posts either.

Instead, he opened a word editor and started typing.

as time went on, zhao xu spent more than an entire hour before he finished writing that article.

at this moment, he was glancing at the forum and noticed that a few headlines had been posted.

[ i should’ve remained silent, but allow me to be frank and tell you the story of mister dongguo. ]

[ making bogus accusations. as expected, this is the characteristic of some players. ]

[ some people just ‘deserve to die’. ]

the four players still didn’t realize that zhao xu was now a representative of the common interests of the overwatch guild.

They wouldn’t change their minds just because of a few messages asking them to keep it a secret. They even took screenshots as evidence of their lies.

When the other 40 witnesses of the day’s incident came forward to testify, especially when they had a certain reputation in Mystra, the entire forum began to understand that the four players had brought it upon themselves.

However, at this time, there were quite a number of verified accounts on the forum who had already stood on the side of the four players. A few of them did not retreat. If they continued to hold on to the game, they should not have killed five people by themselves.

Otherwise, everyone could just use this method in the future. There was no point in setting up five Lifestones.

This was even beyond the expectations of the four players, and more and more lurkers started to join the discussion.

the entire topic was about arthur and whether such a method of killing should exist.

As the number of arguments increased, many of the high-level Arthur players began to leave the arena and express their opinions.

however, other than mages, most of the high-level players thought that this setting was a failure.

in other words, this method of one-versus-five was similar to the one-hit kill in fighting games. there was no chance for regret at all, so it was naturally a taboo for countless high-level players.

At the same time, many players had already started to @ Dongcheng to express their opinions.

As time passed, the mainstream opinion on the forum was that Dong Chengyu was a level 3 mage player.

However, no one realized that Dongcheng God had already made his move.

zhao xu hadn’t stepped in just now not because he didn’t care, but because he needed to make the final decision.

after zhao xu read through the entire text of his post, he copied it to the main post on the forum and then tapped ‘publish’.

suddenly, many of the players who were still passionately debating on the main post on the forum received a beeping sound from the qq group.

at the same time, the players who had set up ‘special notifications’ and ‘followed’ on the forum all saw a pop-up box.

In an instant, countless forum users who followed the account ” Dongcheng kun ” saw the post he posted-

[ regarding the two types of methods to imprison and annihilate souls, signature: [ dongcheng ].

the post briefly described two types of methods. one was the method that could not be freed-after being hit by the level 6 ” demonic feast “, the level 9 spell ” end of decay “, and the level 9 spell ” soul binding “, one would never be able to revive.

The other type would temporarily imprison the soul, but one could still choose to commit suicide, which was to reorganize the soul to free themselves. the specific methods included the five-ring ” devil soul pot “, the eight-ring ” soul seizing spell “, ” soul-imprisoning demon-imprisoning the body “, and ” turning into an undead creature. ”

the details of the undead creature ” soul catcher ” that had caused a lot of controversy on the forum had also officially entered the players ‘line of sight with the introduction of the post.

The players whose souls had been killed by Zhao Xu only just found out about this. Even if the soul Catcher used ” imprisoning the main body “, they could still commit suicide.

It was just that their reactions were too slow, or they hadn’t made up their minds. As a result, they had been dragged on until the soul Catcher used their souls as spell-like energy after five rounds.

similarly, when players were turned into undead creatures after death, their souls would also stay in the undead creatures ‘bodies and could not be resurrected. however, they could still choose to commit suicide to ” resurrect “.

this was because the lifestone was equivalent to the ninth-circle ‘complete resurrection spell’, which could resurrect the dead undead creatures and turn them back to the living things in front of them. otherwise, a second-circle priest who had mastered corpse manipulation could kill five undead creatures at once.

It was just that becoming an undead creature would at most be an AFK and not resurrected, unlike the ” Soul Catcher “, who would be annihilated if he did not commit suicide within five rounds.

so, zhao xu had basically sealed off all his escape routes in the future. it would make it impossible for players to use the information gap to see through five players in the future like he did today.

However, this also made the players feel at ease. They still had a way out of ” suicide “.

however, zhao xu had a legendary necromancer’s staff, and the ninth-circle soul binding spell was used against corpses. it could siphon the soul out of the corpse and imprison it within the gemstone. this spell specifically stated that all resurrection spells would not work, so even if the player committed suicide, their soul would still be reorganized in the gem and could not be resurrected in the temple.

zhao xu was basically taking advantage of the fact that he had a backup plan, so he had revealed all the secrets of how future spellcasters would be able to seal souls. this had left everyone with no other way out.

after learning about the difficulty of imprisoning souls to ” one-versus-five “, the heated discussion on the forum finally calmed down.

as a result, the popularity of zhao xu’s ” dongcheng yin ” account increased by quite a bit. for the first time ever, this account surpassed the level 5 player ” starry sky reflection ” in the list of the top ten arthur players.

zhao xu let out a sigh of relief after doing all this. in reality, after a year, when all the players transmigrated, they would lose their lifestone and their ability to kill themselves.

in other words, once one’s soul was imprisoned, it would be the price of never being able to reincarnate.

This was also the reason why Wizard Arthur had an unlimited amount of intimidation power toward other classes.

And after Zhao Xu was done with all this, he didn’t care about the discussion forum that had become a mess because of him.

he didn’t care about the players ‘suggestions on how to improve arthur.

Zhao Xu took out a piece of A3 paper from the picture folder on his bookshelf and drew a simple map of the area around Mistral on it. It covered the entire seven-day journey, and then he marked the moon Mirror Lake, where he was certain the wizard Tower was hidden.

Suddenly, an idea flashed across Zhao Xu’s mind. He quickly synchronized the map and marked the location where Andy had performed the summoning ritual for the creature from another world, the location of the guard tower where the second notebook was buried, and the location where they had come out from the underground temple.

even the location of the mysterious manor that led to the scavenger beast mine, the location of the underground stone room where the third notebook was.

After Zhao Xu marked out the various locations, he looked at the map that was becoming more and more detailed and almost three-dimensional. Suddenly, his eyes lit up and he grabbed the edge of the paper tightly.”i see!”