The Truth of Magic

Chapter 11 Getting Started as a Mage

Zhao Xu's dormitory in the game was several times larger than the four-person dormitory in the real university.

After the whole people crossed, the first problem faced by the earth community was the problem of housing. Many people never thought that after struggling to own a house on the earth, they would have to do it all over again when they came to another world.

Many people lived in the open in the early days, no different from homeless people.

Zhao Xu fulfilled his accommodation needs directly.

In the middle of the dormitory is a thick nanmu table, with simple alchemy tools placed on the half-person-high table.

On the left side of the table is his bed, which is square and square, and the mattress and quilt have been folded.

On the other side, there are bookcases that surround three walls.

Zhao Xu glanced at the past, Introduction to Simple Spells, Mage's Path: Beginning Heart, Discussion on the Origin and Development of the Eight Major Spell Schools, Transformation in Transformation Spells...

All of them were books about mages, but Zhao Xu knew that if he opened any book, he would find that the content recorded on it was detailed and reliable.

Many people were amazed at Arthur's astonishing details at the beginning. After some spell books were widely circulated in the later stage, some people actually doubted whether today's AI has reached such a terrible level that it can construct a knowledge system like this.

Although they are all seemingly nonsense magic book theories, they are surprisingly self-consistent.

It's definitely not just copying and pasting some medieval magic books.

But these were the only things that wouldn't shock Zhao Xu so much that he almost couldn't close his jaw.

In front of the desk, stood a female mage with a robe and cloak, standing there staring at him, as if staring at the years.

Zhao Xu thought to himself: Arthur's mage, shouldn't be so cheap that he can give one-on-one tutoring to novice players like him.

Mr. Zhong Xia, hello. The woman did not put down her cloak, her appearance was still shrouded in a deep curtain, and her whole body exuded a mysterious aura.

I'm your mentor for the mage course, Antinoya. I will assist you in completing the mage professional training during the next period of time. The voice of the mysterious woman was very clear and melodious.

Are the mages of Mystra already rich enough?

Zhao Xu asked in surprise.

He knew that even the headquarters of the Mage Association, the most powerful Mystra, still had a small class selection system for the teaching of mages.

In the traditional one-to-one model of master and apprentice, unless the other party is a legendary mage standing on top of the world, the quality of teaching is not as good as the current mainstream professional collective teaching.

One-on-one mentoring is currently only seen in some rural wandering mages accepting apprentices.

So when he heard this teaching method, his first reaction was not surprise, but some doubts.

If he's just playing a game, it doesn't matter.

But now he has to study hard, even if everyone is promoted to the second level, it doesn't matter if he hasn't graduated yet.

The time in the academy was the only time in his life where he could acquire knowledge for free.

Don't worry, I'm just assisting, and I will be responsible for answering your initial questions. For your specific teaching, you can see the list of recent lectures on the desktop, and participate in the above lectures according to your own needs.

After finishing speaking, she handed it over without looking back, as if she knew every piece of information on the table by heart.

After Zhao Xu took it, he didn't look at it very carefully, and stuffed it back into his backpack, but his eyes kept scanning the opponent's cloak from time to time.

There was light on the cloak, like the accumulation of streamers of stars, all of which made him unable to bear a guess in his heart.

The mysterious woman Antinoya saw that Zhao Xu was more interested in her cloak than in herself, so she couldn't help but said, You are interested in this cloak, then after you finish training, I can give you a similar set.

Really? Zhao Xu couldn't help but raise his voice. It was said that outstanding graduates would receive a big gift package. Could it really be his turn?

Of course, this cloak is worthless, it's just for decoration. Antinoya said.

Zhao Xu almost choked when he heard it, but he almost fantasized about it.

A legendary item that was impossible to buy had just entered his mind.

The star cloak is said to be immune to non-magic weapons, even if it is a magic weapon, as long as it passes the test, it can be exempted from half of the damage. The price is 130,000 gold coins, but there is always a price but no market, even if you want a premium, there is no place to buy it.

But this is also natural. In the matter of giving a graduation gift bag, in the previous life forum, the most luxurious gift was a giant sword with 50 gold coins.

Others are usually dismissed with a weapon that does not exceed 10 gold coins.

For the next period of time, Zhao Xu sat on the desk with peace of mind, reading the introductory book Antinoya provided him: The Path of the Arcane.

The cover of this book outlines a strange pattern, like a mysterious giant net, communicating countless nodes.

However, the material looks like it is not in this era, and it has a sense of history oncoming.

According to the traditional concept that the older the stronger, it is worth a lot of money to sell it.

It's the author's name that says Antinoya destroys the value. Zhao Xu couldn't help but sigh secretly that people's hearts are not ancient. It must be uneasy for a mage to develop such an old spell for no reason.

While flipping through the contents, he asked Antinoya about the contents.

This is why Arthur stopped countless players from choosing mages.

We come to play games, not to study.

So before everyone knew the power of mages, many people were dissuaded by this miraculous training and directly switched to other professions.

What's even more pitiful is that the level 1 mage is also a rookie.

Hit Dice is the least D4 in all professions, and priests have D8 anyway.

In the case of limited resurrection stones, mages want to upgrade by fighting monsters, and no one takes it. It is really a hell difficult route.

So in the early days, apart from those who were interested in occultism or secondary school patients, very few people were able to sink their hearts into delving into the knowledge of spells recorded in a game.

For players to really know how powerful mages are, they still have to wait until the first level 5 mage appears, followed by level 7 mages, level 9 mages, and level 11 mages.

In this way, the player's concept is reversed step by step, and the profession of mage is gradually raised to the altar.

It's not that players haven't been in contact with what they think of as npc mages, but in other online games, npcs and players don't have the same numerical system at all, and it's really tangled that npc mages can destroy the world.

So in the early days, when everyone saw a powerful npc mage, they didn't take it seriously.

As everyone knows, these npcs are also upgraded by players, and they are also slowly stacked up with races, occupations, specialties, skills, spells, immunity, health, and items.

Zhao Xu knew this, but it didn't stop him from worrying about those bible-like tutorials now.

It stands to reason that the teaching method of the academy is not to let a group of players listen to the lectures, and then guide them slowly?

His way of starting is that the tutor watches and learns by himself, which is a bit magical.

The only thing that comforted him was that although the Path of the Arcane was a holy book to him, it did not prevent him from feeling that the book was well written.

In particular, the whole book exudes a profound sense of Arthur's countless eras.

After a while, Zhao Xu asked each question, and the female mage would answer him in detail.

But he still felt a bit awkward in this process, like a purposeless road in the desert.

After turning a lot of pages, Zhao Xu still mentioned a little bit, Why don't you teach me tricks first?

Tricks are zero-level spells for mages, and basically every spell will master all tricks.

In the following spells, the mages learn according to their own abilities.

In fact, the other party didn't tell him the common sense of mages, but started with the origin of arcane arts, and he was already a little entangled.

No matter how difficult the mage course is, it has its basis after all. It will talk about the spell model, how to prepare the spell, and how to release the spell.

It's one thing for players to sound impatient, but at least the goal is clear.

Antinoya was very elegant. She said, What's the point of preparing spells? Isn't it a matter of course?

Zhao Xu was surprised, How come it's a matter of course?

According to the server opening records, the first mage to complete the training is already a week later.

This is number one, not average.

The progress of the overall players can be imagined. Even when Zhao Xu entered the game 8 months later, there were still some people who hadn't completed the mage tutorial training.

For each profession to be recognized as level 1 by the system, it must be able to display all professional abilities.

For example, a mage must be able to copy all 0-level spells and 3 first-level spells, and be able to successfully cast a first-level spell, learn to copy scrolls, successfully summon magic pets, and learn dragon language.

Now someone actually told him that it was a matter of course?

These bosses, let’s be considerate of their rookie players. Their players don’t have the real intelligence at the moment, and they can’t really understand the knowledge so quickly. Only after a year, everyone will get the body corresponding to the attribute, and that will be a matter of course. .