Arcane Lord

After dinner, before the tactics class, Xia Duo hurried to the material requisition office to exchange two learning scrolls. Considering that he had exchanged for attack spells before, Xia Duo chose functional spells such as [Phantom Sound] and [Mage's Hand] this time.

An attack spell [Acid Splash] is enough. Xia Duo doesn't think he can rely on some apprentice spells to gallop on the battlefield.

Choosing functional spells is just to give him more choices when facing danger. In the final analysis, he still has to survive this orc tide. Everything else is secondary.

He has no idea of ​​working for Savile, but he has to do it because of the situation.

For the tactics class, Xia Duo still chose the spell practice room from the previous two days. This tactical class only taught some military commands and the use of standard weapons.

After the class, the formal apprentices were distributed with a one-handed sword, a small crossbow, and 6 crossbow arrows. The moment he got the weapons, Xia Duo realized that the battle was coming soon.

But facing the powerful orcs, Xia Duo felt that these two weapons did not bring him much sense of security.

The other apprentices also seemed to understand the terrible fate they would face next, and they began to practice frantically, whether it was magic or swordsmanship, or anything that could bring them a sense of security.

Seeing this scene, Shado couldn't help shaking his head, wondering why the Mage Tower didn't guide them well. Did they really want these apprentices to die on the battlefield?

I can't figure it out, I can't figure it out!

It's been less than a year since Shado came to Netheril from Earth by accident. He is still trying to learn everything about Netheril. This kind of underlying thinking logic of human nature, Shado can't go deep into it.

However, no matter what others do, Shado always has his own goals, plans, and determination to act.

Practicing swordsmanship is not a good choice. Shado doesn't even plan to take this one-handed sword to the battlefield. What else can it do except be a burden?

He didn't practice the crossbow either. There were very few arrows, only 6. Shado hooked the crossbow string with his fingers, and it can almost be concluded that this crossbow cannot cause fatal damage to orcs.

Even for humans, it is difficult to kill them with one shot.

Moreover, the effective damage range of the hand crossbow is limited. When the situation really requires this little damage, it is estimated that he will be dead soon.

Only magic!

Only magic can turn the impossible into the possible and turn decay into magic.

Although Xia Duo came from the technologically advanced Earth and came to Faerun less than a year ago, he has truly seen the magic of magic and is now full of confidence in magic.

Even if it is just some apprentice-level spells, it may produce miraculous effects!

The remaining time of the tactics class is limited, and it must be used well!

Xia Duo quickly found an empty corner in the spell practice room and unfolded the learning scroll. During this period, some people wanted to get the opportunity to read the learning scroll, but Xia Duo refused one by one.

He was going to verify his conjecture last night, so he did not copy it into his notes immediately, but studied the learning scroll directly.

The first is the 0-ring spell [Phantom Sound].

The effect of this spell is somewhat similar to the [Communication Spell] learned before, the only difference is that the sound emitted by [Communication Spell] can only be heard by the target, and the distance is farther.

【Phantom Sound】 emits sound indiscriminately, and people with hearing within a certain range can hear it according to the size of the sound.

Its spell structure is similar to an open arc surface. If we continue to disassemble the spell structure, its essence is still the most superficial entanglement, connection, bending, coiling, and overlapping operations on the magic net.

This is already very familiar to Xia Duo in his previous research.

Without practicing 【Phantom Sound】 immediately, Xia Duo put away its learning scroll, opened the learning scroll of 【Hand of the Mage】, and studied it carefully.

It is still similar to the 0-ring spells studied before, and Xia Duo is completely relieved now-

Sure enough, all the 0-ring spells he knows have similar operations on the same level of the magic net, and the difference is only the different spell structures above this bottom-level operation.

In other words, the spell structure is only the intuitive manifestation of successful casting, and those direct operations on the magic net are the true essence of magic.

Whether it is the entanglement, connection, bending, coiling, overlapping of the magic net, or any other more complex operations, Xia Duo named it 【Elements of Magic】.

Named after the "three elements of spellcasting".

Any magic is composed of several elements, but these operations are too complicated, and the mage needs a spell structure to assist memory when casting.

It's like a house is composed of several building materials, but the builder cannot directly turn the building materials into a house, and a construction blueprint is needed to ensure that the entire construction process is not distorted.

If a mage can see through all the elements of a magic, then he can release the magic even if he doesn't know the spell structure.

Of course, this analogy is not quite appropriate, because all the elements actually include the spell structure.

The elements of 0-ring spells are still relatively simple, just the most superficial operation of the magic network, and the spell structure above the elements is not complicated.

At least it's not complicated in Xia Duo's opinion.

At this point, Xia Duo can actually be called a master of 0-ring spells (theory). For other 0-ring spells that have not been exchanged, Xia Duo is confident that as long as he is given enough time, he can even "create" them by himself.

At this point, Xia Duo can also look forward to the higher-level scenery. A formal mage is not out of reach.

…

No one knew that just now, in this magic laboratory shared by many people at the same time, Xia Duo completed an important transformation - not in terms of strength, but in vision, confidence, and even ambition.

The whole morning's work had tempered his body, and the afternoon's research had transformed his spirit. But no matter how he transformed, he could never escape the orc tide.

Xia Duo could only put his thoughts aside for a while and devote himself wholeheartedly to practicing magic.

The only level 0 spells he has mastered now are [Acid Splash] and [Light Spell]. Although he has learned the other spells, he still lacks the skills to master them.

Casting spells with one's own body can also be called magic skills, and naturally requires regular practice.

What if it’s a machine?

For a moment, Xia Duo's thoughts went astray again, and he even thought of an alternative spell-casting device, but ignored that the Mage Tower itself was a multi-functional and super-powerful alternative spell-casting device, or building.

Pulling back his wandering thoughts, Xia Duo warned himself not to be too ambitious, but to be down-to-earth and take care of the present first before talking about anything else.

The time passed quickly after that.

After dinner that day, Xia Duo did not study as usual, but went to bed early. He was too tired after a day of physical and mental exertion.