Chapter 182: Ritual talent (one/four)

Seeing Andy and the other four people suddenly appeared in front of him, Zhao Xu was slightly surprised.
　　
　　 Zhao Xu, who once cast this spell in the final scroll space, knows that this spell only allows the caster to see the specific history.
　　
　　 is the same as when he casts "detection magic", the specific aura can only be seen by him, the caster himself.
　　
　　 And now that they can still see this scene, it is natural that Lei An used illusion at the same time to show what he saw.
　　
　　 The result was not what Zhao Xu expected. The five people finally got to the stream and were about to step on the stone pier. Suddenly the four young people showed a look of horror and fell directly to the ground, unable to move.
　　
　　 And the man named Andy, with a hideous look, went up to kill his former friends one by one.
　　
　　 Among them, the slightly fat man who tried to invite Zhao Xu to visit, whose father was the clerk of the Mystral Administrative Office, suddenly fled forward with a look of horror.
　　
　　 It's just that the man didn't run a few steps, he was frozen like a statue.
　　
　　 is like giving birth to a curse of bondage.
　　
　　 Seeing this scene, Zhao Xu couldn't help but frown.
　　
　　 This kind of effect is naturally the ability released by the devil who crossed over.
　　
　　 Generally more powerful monsters, in addition to their own characteristics, also have special abilities, supernatural abilities, and spell-like abilities.
　　
　　 Like Zhao Xu's once transformed target Blazing God Servant, it itself has the spellcasting ability of a 19th-level priest, but it also has spell-like abilities.
　　
　　 These spell-like abilities all correspond to the spells of the same name, but there are restrictions on the frequency of use, such as random cast, once a day, and once a year.
　　
　　Like the 20-level deep fiend mentioned by Lei An, it has the ability to cast spells-the ninth-level spell "Wish Spell", but it can only be cast once a year.
　　
　　Like the deep fiends do not have the ability to teleport to other worlds. If you think of Arthur's main material plane, you can only use the once-a-year "pray technique" to simulate teleportation to reach Arthur.
　　
　　 But this also means that the opponent's body will not be able to return until such spell ability is restored after a year.
　　
　　 This also means that the devil possessed by Andy has a spell-like ability similar to the hold spell.
　　
Among them, the lowest level is naturally the priest's second-level magic, and it is also the "human hold art" of the mage's third-level arcane. The higher one is the seventh-level arcane "group human hold" and the ninth-level arcane "Group Monster Root Technique".
　　
　　 In the end, after a simple killing and sacrifice ritual, Andy fled to the other side of the stream, covered in blood.
　　
　　 After showing this scene, Lei An is also equivalent to obtaining Andy's portrait information, and he once again used the eight-ring arcane magic of IQ "Perception Position" on the spot.
　　
　　 Until he finished casting his spell, his whole body was with a solemn expression.
　　
　　 After a while, Lei An raised his eyebrows, looked at Zhao Xu, and asked, "Do you have any guesses?"
　　
　　 Zhao Xu was lost in thought, "The most common devil with the ability of fixed body spells is naturally the spiked demon who challenged level 11, and the infernal fiend who challenged level 20."
　　
　　Because the devil maintained Andy's human form from beginning to end, and did not transform into the body, it cannot be judged directly.
　　
　　 "Then which one do you guess?" Lei An continued to ask.
　　
　　 "Deep Purgatory." Zhao Xu said with a slightly hesitant expression.
　　
　　 "Well, congratulations, you got the right answer. Judging from the remaining traces on the scene and the feedback from our staff in Mystra, it is a ‘deep purgatory’." Lei An laughed.
　　
　　 "Moreover, he is still a ‘deep fiend’ with a high level of status. He just killed the four people specifically for the purpose of covering up its subsequent traces through a ritual." Lei An said.
　　
　　 Hearing this, Zhao Xu's eyes also crossed the stream, looking at the terrifying darkness in the shade of the trees ahead.
　　
　　 Those bushes swayed gently with the night wind from time to time, as if it was the "deep fiend" standing there and staring at them.
　　
　　 And Zhao Xu also has a heavy face.
　　
　　 can have special rituals, and even pay attention to resisting the devil who perceives the position. It can be said that in purgatory, it is definitely not an unnamed generation.
　　
　　 This means that the opponent may not only be 18 HD, but may even be the kind of expert who has evolved Hit Dice and has a class level.
　　
　　It is just that the ordinary "Deep Purgatory" can cast several spell-like abilities at will every day, including the seven-ring negative and the death spell "blasphemy".
　　
　　 This spell does not consider anything, and only determines the effect of the spell based on the difference in Hit Dice between the caster and the subject.
　　
　　 Like Zhao Xu, he only has 3 levels, that is, three Hit Dice or 3 HD, which is more than 10 HD compared to the opponent's at least 18 HD Hit Dice.
　　
　　 In the spell effect of Blasphemy, the HD gap is zero, that is, falling into a vertigo state, just like Zhao Xu's previous swift burst.
　　
　　 But if the gap is more than 10 HD, it is obliterated on the spot, and there is no even the most basic save for the instant death spell.
　　
　　 So if Zhao Xu rushed to find the other party for theory, if the other party had no idea to cover up, then he would have a spell to kill him in seconds.
　　
　　 "They just finished collecting information, now let's take a look?" Lei An suggested at this time.
　　
　　 Zhao Xu also nodded. After all, this is not the scene of a famous detective, so he didn't go forward to join in the fun at first.
　　
　　 Even before Lei An and the others arrived, he didn't step forward to avoid being cursed or even destroying the scene.
　　
　　 At this moment, Zhao Xu finally observed from close range that Andy, who was possessed by the devil, used the blood of four innocent victims to draw a simple ritual circle on the ground.
　　
　　 At this time, a middle-aged mage who has just collected and depicted information here, who looks mature and belongs to a spell guard, is about to come forward and briefly report the results of their analysis to Lei An.
　　
　　 However, Lei An did wave his hand gently and stopped the other party from speaking.
　　
　　 "Is this an anti-prophetic ritual?"
　　
　　 Although Zhao Xu did not recognize the effect of this ritual itself, he was no longer Wu Xia Amon at the moment. He had some concepts about the rune marks used in some rituals.
　　
　　Such as summoning rituals, runes that involve planes, teleportation, coordinates, and energy transmission must be used a lot.
　　
　　 And the rituals in front of me are not all about detecting prophecy, but this does not mean that it is a prophecy ritual.
　　
　　 On the contrary, the layout of the ceremony is in the pattern of an inverted star palace, which is completely counter-prophetic.
　　
　　 "Yes." Lei An verified Zhao Xu's judgment.
　　
　　 And the mage who was about to report couldn't help but stare at Zhao Xu in surprise.
　　
　　 At the beginning, Zhao Xu's shining cloak with a trajectory of meteors had already attracted his attention, and when he saw the badge against the archbishop on his body, he didn't think much.
　　
　　 It’s just that the other party now has research on rituals at this age? It stands to reason that the wizards of Mystra don't have much research on the ceremony itself.
　　
　　Only some senior mages dedicated to the study of rituals know a little bit about this aspect.
　　
　　 Combined with Captain Lei'an's courtesy demeanor to the opponent, the spell guard guessed that the opponent must be an expert in rituals.
　　
　　 At this time, Zhao Xu stared at the ground formation and fell into deep thought.
　　
　　 Immediately afterwards, he took out his spell notebook again, and by manipulating his own consciousness, copied the crude sketch of the ritual magic circle in front of him on the notebook.
　　
　　 This made the "spell guard" who recognized the other party's actions startled. Generally, most of the scenes involving the devil and the killing of the devil are strictly sealed off to prevent the power of the devil and the devil from leaking and causing panic.
　　
　　 It was the first time he saw someone so showy in so many years, so he copied the contents of the scene directly in front of them.
　　
　　 At this time, Lei An still noticed the look of his subordinates and explained: "He is our future team member, so this time the information is shared with him."
　　
At this moment, Zhao Xu has fallen into a state of no distraction. He took out a book of "Details of Hundred Rituals" borrowed from the Legend Library, and then turned to one of the pages. Obviously, he had read it before. .
　　
　　 Zhao Xu had stayed up late to read this book before, and then read the book "Transport Ritual: The Journey of Hrosga" according to the recommendations in the book.
　　
　　 At the legendary library, he stayed up late at night and kept reading various rituals, and even his mind was full of various ritual symbols flying around.
　　
　　 Even when he came out to protect the twenty mages this time, it was a journey of relaxation.
　　
　　 Suddenly, Zhao Xu's eyes fell directly on a certain key node in the ceremony, and the spell notes in his hand suddenly appeared at that location like waves of water on a calm lake.
　　
　　 Slowly that position enlarged on the book.
　　
　　 Zhao Xu knew that this place of ceremony was not complete.
　　
　　 Actually, the ceremony does not need to be complete.
　　
　　 It's just that the "Deep Purgatory" has the ability to let the incomplete rituals also exert their own abilities, and they use their own spirituality to make up.
　　
　　 Zhao Xu started to reconstruct the missing key link of the ritual in his mind.
　　
　　 It's like a broken and broken into ten pieces~EbookFREE.me~ Zhao Xu has to visualize the original intact vase with only half of the fragments.
　　
　　 In the process of thinking, Zhao Xu's eyes fell on the body bag that had converged.
　　
　　 His heart was shocked, and some unspeakable thoughts emerged from his body.
　　
　　 "The ‘Infernal Demon’ must take this place as the center and hide around. This killing scene is the center of the ceremony."
　　
　　 Zhao Xu asserted.
　　
　　 At this time, Lei An also looked at him with a strange expression.
　　
　　 This kid, shouldn't it be a similar case that I have read before, and deliberately pretended to deceive him here?
　　
　　 However, Lei An immediately denied his guess.
　　
　　 Those files are still hidden in the Rosicrucian archives.
　　
　　 At this moment, Lei An couldn't help looking at Zhao Xu with a serious face.