Chapter 1063 The Mage's Loyal Dog

The Phantom Hound in front of him reminded Joan of the "Phantom Horse". It has such an illusory and cold texture, and its weight is almost zero. It gives people the impression of being like smoke, as if it will be blown away by a gust of wind at any time.

It can be seen that "phantom creatures" generally have such "semi-entity" characteristics.

If we make a simple ranking of the "sense of reality" of creatures, then the most lacking sense of reality is undoubtedly a pure spiritual body, without any observable physical form, such as "brood will".

Slightly more real than pure spiritual bodies are "spiritual creatures", such as ghosts, and "phase spiders" in the spirit world.

Such creatures hover in the spirit world, and their true form cannot be seen from the physical world unless they have the ability to see through invisibility.

Except for a few exceptions, such as spells that use the "force field" attribute, other attacks cannot harm spirit creatures.

What is more realistic than the "spiritual body" is the "incorporated body", such as ghosts that show their bodies in the material world, and many special creatures living in the astral world or the shadow world.

The "ghosts" that often appear in horror stories are typical incorporeal creatures.

Incorporeal creatures cannot be killed by ordinary weapons, but enchanted weapons or magical attacks may cause real damage to them—this is the biggest difference between incorporeal and spiritual bodies.

More realistic than incorporeal creatures are "phantom creatures".

For example, the phantom hound in front of Qiao An can be injured by ordinary swords, but the phantom creature's natural sense of illusion can easily cause the attacker to have an illusion, resulting in a deviation between the sword's landing point and the real vital point, and the damage caused is often not as expected.

In addition, the phantom hound is not easy to bully, it can bite off the leg bones of adults with one bite!

Belling saw that Joan was very interested in the Phantom Hound, and said to him with a smile: "Mr. Vader, when we get to a safe place, I will lend you the spell book to copy, including the 4-ring 'Mage Faithful Dog' , you can learn this spell if you raise another mage level."

"Thank you then, Mr. Belling."

Joan nodded gratefully, bid farewell to Belling and the other companions, and returned to his tent.

Joan only needs to sleep for two hours a day to fully recover his physical strength and spell slots. It is not time for him to rest, so he will take out the spoils from the two-day expedition one by one and study them.

Joan first checked the half-pound magic crystal presented by Belling, and after careful identification, he was relieved only after confirming that it was not adulterated.

This may be a bit of a disservice to Belling, but Joan has to be more careful - after all, the dwarves have never had a good reputation in the trading field, and various fraudulent tricks emerge in endlessly.

For example, using illusion to disguise brass as gold is a common trick for dwarves.

Even when the deception is exposed in person, they always shrug their shoulders nonchalantly, claiming that it was just a joke.

If you get angry about it, my dear friend, then you have too little sense of humor, don't be so serious all the time, okay?

No way, this is the cultural tradition of the gnomes.

It is said that Garl, the patron saint of the dwarves, once deceived the "Kobold God" Ketuma and brought down Ketuma's cave.

The descendants of Gal Gold Shining also take pleasure in playing with the serious and unsmiling kobolds, so much so that the most hated creature of the kobolds is the dwarf.

Joan couldn't help being a little curious. If Mr. Benny and Belling were introduced, what kind of sparks could be created between the two of them?

The results of the appraisal showed that each of the half-pound magic crystals was genuine. It can be seen that Belling was a rare kind person among dwarves, at least he would not play tricks on his friends.

With the magic crystals presented by Belling and the magic crystals he obtained from King Fungus before, Joan already had a whole pound of magic crystals in his bag after running down the underground journey, which made him very satisfied.

With these magic crystals, he can try to make new magic tools when he returns to school.

Carefully putting away the magic crystal, Joan went on to check the loot collected in the Oaknell area, including two blood samples and a bottle of drow poison.

Joan is already familiar with "drow poison".

This dark elf specialty toxin is like the "poisoned apple" that the stepmother used to murder her daughter in fairy tales. Just a small drop can make people sleep for a long time, until their internal organs fail and they die.

This small bottle of drow poison is about 1/4 pint, if diluted into a sleeping potion, it is enough to put an army collectively into a deep sleep.

Drow toxin is colorless and transparent, emitting a faint bitter smell.

Like most "local products" in dark areas, drow toxins cannot be directly exposed to the air, let alone be exposed to strong light, otherwise it will easily deteriorate and lose its toxicity.

Joan transferred the toxin into an opaque brown reagent bottle, added a cork to ensure air and sunlight isolation, and put it in a special "green ice refrigerator", which can be stored for a long time at low temperature.

Putting away the "drow poison", Joan next proceeded to process the drow warlock's blood sample.

It's still the old way, "mythical blood interpretation" combined with the No. 4 rune rune Ansuz, to analyze the spell configuration contained in the blood in one brain.

Joan originally didn't expect to obtain unknown spells from this level 6 warlock, but the result of the analysis brought him a small surprise.

There are a total of 14 spells from 0 to 3 in the drow warlock blood, half of which are 0-level tricks, in addition to four 1-level spells, two 2-level spells, and 1 third-level spell.

As a level 6 arcane spellcaster, I have only mastered a few spells...

Joan, who is also a level 6 arcane spellcaster, couldn't help but sympathize with this guy when he saw this scene, it's really pitiful.

To be fair, it's not that this drow warlock is too useless. In fact, there are only a dozen or so spells that a level 6 warlock can master under normal circumstances—if you don't count 0-level magic tricks, It is even more pitiful!

In contrast, as a level 6 mage, how many spells from level 0 to level 3 do Joan currently master?

In fact, there are not many, there are only a hundred or so in total, which is less than 10 times that of warlocks of the same level, and we need to continue to study hard!

But having said that, among the four first-level spells in this area, there are actually two that Joan has not learned yet, one of which is "Demon Fire" and the other is "Shadow Cloak".

In today's conflict with the drow clan, Joan had already seen the power of these two spells.

"Demon Fire" is equivalent to a simplified version of "Flash Dust", which can be used to mark enemies and surround them with brightly colored cold light, which becomes particularly dazzling in the dark, making it difficult to hide their tracks, and after clearing "Demon Fire" Before, illusions such as "invisibility" could not take effect.