The Truth of Magic

Chapter 184 Target Altar (24)

At this time, the middle-aged mage who was advanced to "Spell Guard" also looked puzzled, his eyes lingering on Lei An and Zhao Xu, wondering if it was really the young mage in front of him who deduced it himself?

It's not what Leian and he revealed.

At this moment, Zhao Xu's eyes became brighter and brighter, and the entire logical chain in his mind was connected in an instant.

This kind of dopamine secreted by the successful derivation of the result instantly let him wash away the frustration after witnessing the death of the four young men and women.

"Let's return the question to the beginning first. It is understandable that the 'Deep Prison Demon' will not go back to Mystra, but why did the other party attack here, even after killing four people, the traces have not been eliminated."

Ordinary people may not be easy to deal with, but with the means of the devil, even if there are hundreds of people, the other party has the ability to cover up those corpses.

"It's impossible to guess what choices a chaotic evil devil makes, but when a lawful devil makes such a choice, it can only be attributed to the other party's having to do so."

At this moment, Zhao Xu began to look confidently, while the other priests present and the three magic guards of the floating city were all looking at him, waiting for his next speech.

At this time, Lei An lowered his head slightly, thinking about Zhao Xu's words.

"Originally, it could control Andy and choose the 'advanced teleportation technique' to escape directly. However, the existence of these four people, and my witness, make it impossible to hide and take Andy away. Even according to my request, they will turn around Going to the Church of the Goddess is a great risk to the devil. And even if the four are killed secretly, but one of them is the son of the clerk of the Mystra government affairs office, it will definitely lead to investigation."

"So it simply used four people as sacrifices, created a killing that would be discovered by others, and spread fear to explode power to support this ceremony that can hide its location. As for choosing the vicinity of the stream, I guess it is also to expand the scope of the ceremony. "

"This also shows that the scope of this ritual is absolutely limited, and the 'deep hell refining demon' is hidden around this area."

Zhao Xu said firmly.

At this time, Leian shook his head deliberately, "That's not necessarily the case, this kind of hidden ritual can only last for a while. As time goes by, the hidden power will eventually disappear. ’ there is no longer any power to block the 'perceived location'."

"It's just letting it delay its exposure time by ten days and half a month.".

Zhao Xu smiled when he heard this.

If he hadn't seen that the ritual was limited in duration, he might have questioned himself.

But he has seen through this from the very beginning, and this will be a strong evidentiary foothold for his speculation.

"This shows that there must be altars related to devils around here."

After Zhao Xu said it, he found that everyone around him remained calm.

With a clear mind at this moment, he immediately understood.

A similar case happened with the "Rose Cross"!

"Crack, crack, crack." Lei An couldn't help but clapped his hands. At this moment, he looked at Zhao Xu, no longer the foolish look he had at first, but a serious expression.

"In the Dawn Era, in 1724, the prince of the Casa Empire disappeared. At that time, it was discovered that the twenty followers who followed him were all slaughtered, and the blood stained the nearby streams red. It was also a ' The "Deep Hell Refinement" used killing as a ritual, and hid in the altar lair deep in the bottom of the hunting ground. Later, after the legendary mage intervened, the existence of the "Python Refinement" was hunted down."

Lei An looked at Zhao Xu with satisfaction, "Now your performance is coming to an end, and I will leave it to me."

After finishing speaking, he looked at his subordinates with a heroic face, "Contact the Mystra city guards, and search for me within a radius of 20 miles around this stream."“

Zhao Xu gently took off the vr simulation helmet and rolled over from the bed.

It was almost two or three o'clock in the morning, and the power lights of Zhang Qi and Chen Sinan's VR helmets had already been turned off, and the standby lights were blinking.

It shows that they also fell asleep at this moment, but they didn't take off the helmet. Another roommate, Liu Hanqiang, was snoring slightly.

On the other hand, Zhao Xu tiptoed and walked softly to the balcony of the dormitory, turned on the faucet to keep it under a small amount of water, and took a handful of clean water to wash his face and wake up.

The balcony of the dormitory is not big. On the left is a sink and the washing machine jointly purchased by Zhao Xu and four people. On the right is the toilet and the door of the bathroom. The open space in the middle is only about three square meters.

Zhao Xu leaned gently on the stone brick guardrail of the balcony and looked through the luxuriant branches of the banyan tree in front of him. All the lights in the girls' dormitory opposite were turned off and plunged into darkness.

Everything in the world is full of silence.

Zhao Xu recalled that in the next two days, the "Rose Cross" would gather strength to search the entire area.

Even Wang Ningwei's mage team, which was originally going to kill robbers, will be recruited again as soon as it goes online tomorrow, and will directly participate in the search for the devil's altar on the spot.

Naturally, it is not for these people to participate in hunting down the devil, but only to find traces of the altar.

Even Zhao Xu's mission became to participate in the search directly.

This was also Zhao Xu's suggestion to Leian as a "rose cross" trainee member.

Regarding this matter, Zhao Xu really wanted to stick to it and participate in the resolution by himself. So after considering his next guardianship task, he directly suggested to Leian to make a change.

Naturally, Leian also agreed.

Unknowingly, Zhao Xu discovered that he had also become an existence that could influence players to release missions.

Maybe one day, it will be his turn to issue tasks to the players.

But in this way, the tacit understanding between Zhao Xu and Wang Ningwei, which was established with great difficulty, wasted all of a sudden.

In fact, those novice mages would not know tomorrow that the original source of everything was because Zhao Xu searched for unexpected situations nearby, and accidentally encountered a demon possessing and killing, which caused their own mission to be changed.

According to Leian, the ownership of the two magical items "Eternal Magic Wand" and "Invisibility Ring" can already be obtained with his discovery.

But the other one will be distributed to those who find clues to the altar as a reward.

This somewhat relieved Zhao Xu's worries and guaranteed his income. But it also means that he must take the lead in the search team next.

The value of the two magic items in Zhao Xu's hands is among the top ones among the current magic items obtained by players.

The only regret is that alien creatures like devils are naturally immune to damage from the fire element, so his "Fireball Eternal Magic Wand" is really useless if you encounter it.

At this time, Zhao Xu had no need to keep it secret, so he took out his phone and briefly sent what happened tonight to the group, telling Wang Ningwei and Eswech.

Especially regarding the cause and effect of the ritual and the power of the "Deep Hell Purgatory", he specially emphasized it.

Tomorrow "Rose Cross" will naturally re-divide them into groups, and then Zhao Xu will also need two women to help him get the remaining magic item.

After finishing these, Zhao Xu also continued to stand.

Unknowingly, he has had a slight influence on Arthur, especially the city of Mystra.

Tonight's incident will definitely be briefly written into a report by the "Rosie Cross" in the future, and secretly sent to all the churches of good gods and large organizations for notification.

Speaking of which, it was also unlucky for the "deep hell refiner" to meet Zhao Xu, otherwise the other party should have successfully completed the ceremony tonight, then continued to lurk in Mystra, and then secretly developed the power of hell.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu's phone vibrated.

[Eswig: ╯□╰Your experience tonight is a bit bizarre. If I had known, I would not have gone offline to patrol with you. 】

[Wang Ningwei: Mr. Zhong Xia is really great, like an unsung hero, he avoided an incident where the devil was hiding. 】

Both women were smart people, and in an instant from Zhao Xu's brief words, they could feel how much confrontation Zhao Xu had experienced tonight.

And being able to directly cross the Floating Void City, allowing these players to directly change missions and be recruited is only because of a suggestion from the person in front of them.

In fact, for ordinary people, even if it is a cemetery in the game, they will feel fear just by approaching it.

Only Zhao Xu, a warrior who had hacked the undead in his previous life, could be so fearless, sitting by the cemetery and slowly flipping through the newly acquired notes.

[Eswig: In a few days, why is the mission you participated in saving the world's safety, and we are still just eliminating robbers. 】

[Zhong Xia: Blow lightly. 】

[Wang Ningwei: Haha, it's rare that Mr. Zhong Xia is so humble. 】

And Zhao Xu then had a business exchange with the two women. Then after the two women's explanations, Zhao Xu also understood why the two of them didn't do much when they encountered the group of goblins during the day.

It turned out that everyone thought of going together.

However, this incident also directly turned the page, and the three of them began to communicate carefully about the specific plan for tomorrow.

In the process of communicating with Lei An later tonight, Zhao Xu had a little idea of ​​the map and decided which places to focus on first, which was why he needed the help of the two women.

Zhao Xu's gaze fell on a guard tower on the edge of the stream in the rough map drawn for the two women.