The Truth of Magic

Chapter 485

485 an unexplainable secret

Due to the existence of magic, the defense system of buildings had to take it into account.

the governor’s manor of olu city occupied an extremely large area. it also had another name in olu city-inner city.

the gate of the inner city alone occupied almost an entire street, and the other three outer walls had a five-meter-wide ” moat “. Not to mention the various sentry towers that were densely packed in the city, just the arrow towers on the edge of the wall were set up every few hundred steps. If one day, Olu city was really captured, this inner city could hold on for a while.

The inner city itself was divided into a front yard and a back yard.

The front yard was where the official departments of the Alliance were stationed, while the back yard was the office and residence of commander donder.

for a level 5 spell like ‘teleportation’, the governor’s mansion’s building complex had taken it into consideration when it was designed.

Not to mention the ‘flying spell’ from the sky, the ‘stone walking spell’ from digging tunnels, and all kinds of secret stealing spells such as ‘detection’,’ Eagle Eye’, and ‘sharp ears’.

If one only had to defend against specific spells, they would have to face the contradiction between the spell’s duration, range of effect, and the difficulty of maintenance.

It was like the real wooden floor in a house. Sometimes, it was removed due to cost, and it was only installed in the bedroom or even the master bedroom.

The northern Alliance had been running for many years, and it wasn’t that they couldn’t achieve it. It was just that they had to focus on the defense of the entire governor’s manor based on the cost-performance ratio.

The most important level one defense areas, such as the offices of the key departments and the residences of the commanders, were naturally set up with means to prevent teleportation and exploration.

As for the open-air courtyards and ordinary corridors, they were simply set up to detect and teleport.

Once someone was teleported in and triggered the ‘magic surveillance network’, the mages stationed in the governor’s manor would work together with the guards to capture them.

In his previous life, Zhao Xu had taken part in the defense system of the general’s office because of Flay’s recommendation.

When Wang Ningwei had brought the Earth’s diplomatic mission to attend, he had acted as a security guard and had been shocked by the scene below the stage.

Naturally, Zhao Xu also knew where the weaknesses and flaws of this enormous spell surveillance net were.

The first point was the “interval” between the regular reboot of the spell network. He did not have to consider it if he could not wait for it.

The second point was its own systematic flaw. The ” spiritual spell monitoring network ” itself had a huge range of effect, and it involved the problem of mutual influence and interference.

Therefore, there were a few key blind spots that were unknown to others.

Even the northern Alliance’s sorcerer Association branch couldn’t test every corner one by one, which left a ” flaw ” in the seemingly impenetrable house of commanders.

Zhao Xu clearly remembered that in his previous life, when he had just arrived at the general’s office, a crucial ” loophole ” had been revealed.

that was why they had been stationed there 24 hours a day to keep an eye on the area until the mages repaired it.

and now, before this point was exposed, zhao xu was able to make use of it perfectly.

He easily teleported to the basement of the guard tower that he had guarded for three days in his previous life.

However ...

Just as Zhao Xu was about to be teleported away, he heard a scream that sounded like it was in shock. His entire body tensed up and he was like a cat with its fur standing up.

Even though the voice sounded a little familiar, Zhao Xu’s vision hadn’t recovered yet because he had been teleported here, so all he could see was darkness.

Zhao Xu immediately raised the instant cast scepter in his hand, turned his body to the side, and pointed the tip of the scepter in the direction of the voice.

It was just that his action of casting a spell seemed to be directed at the other party, but another spell came out of his mouth.

“Swift burst!”

At this critical moment, Zhao Xu thought about it for a while and decided to cast this spell.

He wanted to get the upper hand so that he wouldn’t fall into a situation where he would be attacked in the next few seconds.

In his previous life, he had experienced being numbed by someone’s name, but in fact, the sword had already stabbed him near the waist.

Zhao Xu’s mind was already very clear. After buying himself some time, he would wait until his vision recovered to see who the person in front of him was.

If they knew each other well, nothing would happen.

if it wasn’t, it meant that his infiltration had been exposed. At that time, he would use the spell ” touch of shivering ” to subdue the other party, or if there were more people, he would use the teleportation spell again to escape.

However ...

The feeling of time freezing didn’t come as Zhao Xu had expected. The hands on the mechanical clock continued to tick away mercilessly.

[ adventurer zhongxia, your spell ‘Swift burst’ was countered by the target’s spell. You have lost the spell. ]

how is this possible? ” this unbelievable thought suddenly appeared in Zhao Xu’s mind.

He was casting the spell on instinct!

Most mages who wanted to target him would have to give up all other actions at the start and focus on preparing a ‘counter spell’.

Otherwise, it would be too late to target him when he cast the spell.

However, how did the other party know that he had teleported and made such ‘preparations’?

Slowly, Zhao Xu’s eyes started to open. In this dark basement, he leaned against the weak light of the oil lamp and could just barely make out the face of the person in front of him.

“Huu.”

Zhao Xu was finally able to put down a huge stone in his heart.

“teacher antonya.”

Zhao Xu couldn’t help but ask, ” we should be quite familiar with each other. You wouldn’t make such a frightened sound when you see me, would you? ”

Right now, the person standing right in front of Zhao Xu’s eyes was Antonya, who was wearing a brocade robe and a dark gold secret cloak. It was obvious that her skills had improved a lot recently, and even the patterns on her cloak had become a lot more complicated.

antonya was also looking at zhao xu with a gentle gaze.

“i’m thinking that since we’ve reunited after a long time, we should show some surprise.” Antonya said.

That was clearly a shock.

...

Zhao Xu thought to himself, but he still said honestly, ” then I’m really touched, mentor.

“yes, but you did well this time. Even when he heard a familiar voice, he made the first move decisively and did not give up the right to make the first move. With this kind of quick-witted spirit, I won’t have to collect your corpse in the upcoming storm in Olu city.”

“But you still countered my spell, mentor.” zhao xu felt a little embarrassed as well. he felt like antonya had been praising him a lot more frequently recently.

“Idiot, don’t you know who I am?” Antonya snorted softly.

“then, teacher, when you countered my spell just now, did you use the ‘insight battle technique’?” zhao xu couldn’t help but ask.

The level 3 spell,{battle observation}, could last for ten minutes at every level. With Zhao Xu’s current spellcaster level and his delayed spell talent, he was able to easily break through seven to eight hours.

As long as he had enough level 3 spells, he could use them as a permanent spell.

The insight combat technique allowed him to automatically know that there was a spell being cast within a few dozen meters. If he could see the other party, he could also know what spell it was through spell identification.

But the most important thing was that he could choose to use up the remaining duration and use [ freedom of action ] to counter the opponent’s spell.

there was no need for the ‘preparation action’!

So as long as Zhao Xu had this spell permanently cast on him, he wouldn’t have to worry about being threatened by spells at close range. It was like an efficient magic radar.

...

With his Swift burst, he could even counterattack.

It was just that he had been a little embarrassed just now, so he had tried to make the first move, but Antonya had once again made the first move and countered his spell.

This was also the norm in high-level wizard battles, gradually targeting each spell cast by the opponent.

When the other party cast a spell, his ‘instinct’ action ‘restrained’ the spell this time.

in the end, his opponent’s ” instinct ” also ” countered ” his ” counter ” this time.

This kind of return trip would often cause the outside world to think that not a second had passed, but the two mages had already fought dozens of times in private.

“The spell you mentioned, once it’s decided to activate the dissipation of energy to ‘counter’, that’s only a one-time chance. I have to immediately cast another ‘insight’ spell, so I usually don’t use this spell to counter-attack.” Antonya explained.

What she meant was that Zhao Xu’s ” spell actions ” weren’t complicated enough, and she needed to use her backup plan.

She did, but there was no need.

“So fierce?”

“Zhongxia, your path as a mage is still very long.” Antonya said, ” but I can tell you where you should go in this direction.

“Basically, as long as I want to, no one can successfully cast a spell in front of me.”

Zhao Xu couldn’t help but open his eyes slightly.

Every mage could only counter one spell in each round.

So in a mage battle, if there was a mage who gave up on casting spells and focused on preparing to cast counter spells, it would be a very disgusting thing.

zhongxia, you can only counter a spell once in each round because you can only ‘prepare’ once to counter the opponent’s next spell.

once the other party doesn’t cast a spell, your counterattack will also fail. Although the spell won’t be wasted, the body’s synchronization will make you unable to cast any spells.

Zhao Xu nodded his head after he heard this. Counterspell was a useless method, and that was also why it wasn’t very common in low-level matches like theirs.

and counterspell, you have to prepare the same spell to counter it. Generally, unless it’s a very common mainstream spell that everyone prepares, otherwise, it’s generally not easy to find an opportunity to take effect. Zhao Xu said.

However, he also knew that no matter how useless counterspell was, it was just another way to counter mage’s disintegration.

it was equivalent to the all-purpose nullifying spell of the wizards.

teacher, is there any other advancement that has a special bonus for counterspell? ”

Zhao Xu couldn’t help but let his imagination run wild.

In the future, if someone tried to cast a spell in front of him, he would counter it with a spell without saying a word.

Without his permission, no one could cast spells.

This was what it meant to act cool invisibly.

This was especially so because Zhao Xu had an unlimited number of spell slots and because of his ” multi-talented spellcaster ” and ” bizarre foresight, ” he didn’t need to prepare the corresponding spell to counter the spell.

“Hehe.” Antonya also smiled smugly at this moment. this is all thanks to my specialty.

“specialty?” Zhao Xu was surprised.

Right now, he had at least four or five more specialty slots than the average person. He could be considered to be a little more well-off.

“Strictly speaking, it’s a chain of specialties.” antonya explained.

for example, the specialty ‘counterspell proficiency’ can counter with higher-circle spells of the same faction without being limited to the same spells.

another example is ‘passive counterspell’. It can allow me to counter you when I notice you casting a spell without any preparation in advance.

another example is the legendary ability ‘legendary counterspell’, which can allow me to counter spells an unlimited number of times in each round.

“As for the three specializations that I just mentioned, they’re all progressive. You have to learn the first specialization before you can learn the second. Even that legendary ability also requires you to meet the three prerequisites of combat reflex, proficiency in first attack, and spontaneous casting.”

After hearing Antonya mention this, Zhao Xu couldn’t help but click his tongue.

This legendary counterspell had five basic feats as a prerequisite, but Zhao Xu had already mastered combat reflex and spontaneous casting.

Under the premise of being able to maintain an undefeatable suppression on low-circle mages, the cost of achieving this was indeed incomparably huge.

One had to know that by relying on level specialties, from Level 1 to level 20, one would only have seven specialties.

But Zhao Xu still started to prepare himself in his heart.

He had also decided on a specialized chain for himself in the future.

As Zhao Xu thought about it, he came back to his senses and went back to the original question. mentor, why are you here? ”

Since he didn’t have a ” mind barrier ” spell, he couldn’t avoid the detection spells. He could only sneak in by looking for the black spots.

but to antonya, even if she was in the divine kingdom of the gods, she still had the courage to walk in without any fear. she wouldn’t go as far as to search for something like zhao xu.

“Didn’t I tell you that don, the commander of this Alliance, believes in grazite?”

Zhao Xu immediately reacted. mentor, you’re saying that there’s something strange about the magic surveillance network in this area, and there are traces of grazite? ”

“That’s right. Otherwise, how could I be sure that don and grazite have a relationship? Although it wasn’t obvious, I could faintly sense that grazite’s abyssal divine power had been infused into these defensive detection spells. That’s why I was able to find out the reason behind this.”

“The divine power on the ‘magic monitoring network’ is extremely weak and can’t play any role in defense, so the priests in Olu city didn’t notice this. However, this is enough to remind dougrazite that some sort of power has entered this place.”

let’s say a wizard with a ‘mind barrier’ uses the immunity effect to teleport to a non-critical point. Although the monitoring net won’t notice it, grazite, who is behind the scenes, will be able to sense the movement of the net.

Zhao Xu couldn’t help but nod when he heard this. Antonya didn’t want grazite to find her, so she did the same thing as Zhao Xu and sneaked into this black spot before making her move.

It seemed that he had come in by following the black spots on the surveillance network.

“In fact, I’m also quite curious.” Antonya said, “what kind of secret is it that even grazite has to monitor this area? I even suspect that it’s for the same reason that he converted the Alliance’s commander, donder, to become his follower.

“Generally speaking, these abyssal feudal lords seek secrecy when they develop believers. This kind of Lord-tier powerhouse would be hard to subdue without breaking through the weakness of the heart. Even if we succeed, they will be easily exposed.”

in other words, if grazite doesn’t want to expose himself, he’ll have to spend even more resources. It’s not worth it.

Zhao Xu nodded his head in agreement. He was also thinking about the internal reasons behind this.

The thoughts in his mind slowly led him to the ‘demon-sealing war’ that had affected all the forces North of the ice field mountain range in his previous life.

The war was started by the countless portals that directly connected the abyss and the inferno.

The abyss fiends didn’t have the ability to teleport to another world. If they wanted to go to Arthur, they had to rely on the once-a-year wish spell to simulate the teleportation.

If he wanted to go back after this, he would have to wait for wish’s cooldown to reset next year.

For the demons and devils of lower levels, coming to Arthur, where delicious souls were everywhere, was something they wanted but couldn’t do.

I told you to detonate this as a reward for the ‘Howard luxury bedding’ and the ‘arsenson cross’, but I still have to set up a trap here.

I don’t want your soul to be swept away by the abyss. If I were to come and ask for your soul, it would be really embarrassing.

Zhao Xu’s mouth was slightly agape. He didn’t think that Antonya had disappeared at the last minute just so she could help him prepare a backup plan.

Antonya furrowed her brows slightly. I should be the one asking you, zhongxia.

I found the ‘magical defensive layout’ of the general’s residence. Then, I did some mental calculations and found a few flaws in it. I found this infiltration point.

“What about you?” Antonya looked at Zhao Xu with interest.

“How do you know that we won’t be discovered if we teleport to the basement of this tower?”