The Truth of Magic

166 the summoning ritual

Zhao Xu couldn’t believe what the elderly wizard was saying. He turned around and scanned the thousands of bookshelves.

“isn’t this a little too much?” Zhao Xu said.

He might not be able to finish reading all the books even if he spent an entire afternoon just walking through the bookshelves and glancing at the titles.

Not to mention, he still had to find the ancient book that led to the ‘library of legends’.

this was completely a fool’s dream.

After hearing Zhao Xu’s words, the wizard who was so old that he couldn’t even move lowered his head and tried to recall what happened. every wizard who comes here for the first time has the same thought.

however, if you can’t prove your potential, why should the Association allow you to come into contact with the ‘legendary library’? ”

zhao xu was no longer testing the waters. he was now fully focused on thinking about every single word the old man had said.

“then, i would like to ask, what is the legendary library like?” zhao xu asked.

it possesses a lot of ancient knowledge and secrets of this world.

“Just go and find it. If you can’t find it within three hours, it means that you’re not fated to do so. cough, cough.” the elderly wizard could not help but cough a few times.

Zhao Xu knew that there had to be some sort of shortcut.

zhao xu started to look at the shelves on this floor seriously. he no longer focused on each book on the shelf, but directly looked at the shelves one by one.

when he got to the last few shelves, zhao xu realized that the subject of the books was no longer about the original primitive and evil rituals. many other types of books began to appear, such as “god and divinity “,” theory of divinity “,”three magical crises “,” poems of the giant dragon “, and other books on other aspects.

zhao xu also realized that the books in this abandoned library weren’t just about forbidden evil elements. there were many different types of books.

but when zhao xu looked at the titles of the books, he was quite confused. the titles of some of the books didn’t seem to be appropriate at all, so why did the old man say that most of them were ineffective?

When Zhao Xu had gone through one-third of the bookshelves, he realized that the books on this floor corresponded to the ten or so knowledge and skills that he had learned.

moreover, the books on this floor seemed to be more advanced and practical.

just as zhao xu was bending over and examining the books on the shelves ...

the elderly wizard was looking at zhao xu with a sharp gaze, as if he was examining him.

it took zhao xu two whole hours to just barely finish going through the thousands of bookshelves on this floor. when he counted the number of books stacked so high that they almost touched the ceiling, it was even more difficult to count.

but in the process, zhao xu noticed something. there was a religious scripture from the goddess of magic in the collection.

Even though Zhao Xu wasn’t a very competent Level 1 cleric, he still had some basic skills, and he had also read through the teachings of the goddess.

zhao xu was pretty sure that the style of that book wasn’t something that the church had released recently. in fact, it wasn’t even a version that had been released before.

However, the style of the Holy emblem in the book was the latest. it was the holy emblem that the goddess of magic, sisylvana, had reissued three years ago when she received her new priesthood.

so, based on the holy emblem, zhao xu was pretty sure that the history of that book couldn’t be more than three years old.

according to the principles of the church of the goddess of magic, they would not cast magic to make the holy emblem on all the classics change automatically. in their eyes, doing so would only be betraying history.

so zhao xu was very sure that the book had not been in there for more than three years.

This was contrary to the thick layer of dust on all the books here.

Zhao Xu was standing on the wall with his hands behind his back as he scanned the entire library. Meanwhile, the elderly mage was standing on the other side of the end, lowering his head and wiping his glasses.

Suddenly, Zhao Xu had an idea.

He understood now. The old man had said that most of the ancient books here had lost their effectiveness.

there was probably a trap in this sentence.

Even though Zhao Xu didn’t look through it in detail, he could already tell that there were quite a few books here that introduced rituals.

the ceremony, strictly speaking, was another kind of more primitive magic. Moreover, they could be cast by non-spellcasters.

they didn’t need any spell slots, nor did they need to prepare in advance. there was even no limit to the number of rituals they could perform each day.

the only troublesome part was that the rituals took a long time to be performed, and they had to be performed at specific times. at the same time, the materials were complicated.

for example, antonya had once given zhao xu the ability to awaken his abilities and even the enlightened spellcaster ability through a ritual.

The “spellcaster level +1” necklace that Wang Ningwei had was created through a ritual.

the old mage’s words were not true, which meant that the ritual here was useful.

“i want a full list of all the books and records.” zhao xu shouted at the old man.

After the elderly wizard heard what Zhao Xu said, he didn’t say anything. He just pointed behind Zhao Xu.

when zhao xu turned around, he noticed that the white walls at the end of the abandoned library were starting to show book titles.

at the same time, the titles of the books all extended lines and pointed to a common bookshelf number.

” the entrance to the ‘legendary library’. ” zhao xu said with the intention of taking a gamble.

however, the titles were unmoved. they continued to publish new titles, and the wall was so packed that it was almost impossible to get through.

he had indeed thought too much.

“summoning ritual.” Zhao Xu continued to speak in a low voice.

All of a sudden, the ink-like runes on the wall were shattered and then reassembled.

searching for items: 144 summoning rituals “. The title of the book immediately caught Zhao Xu’s eye.

after he wrote down the number, he walked directly to the shelf and picked out the book.

At the same time, Zhao Xu pulled out the key hanging on the door and inserted it into the lock to unlock the door. The entire process was as smooth as flowing water and there wasn’t a single delay.

zhao xu didn’t feel anything strange from the book, so he started to read it carefully.

It was just that this ancient book was the kind of book that was opened up and looked like a picture book. There were very few illustrations inside, and the words were all densely piled together.

If Zhao Xu wanted to perform a ritual later, he wouldn’t be able to spend much time reading this book.

he had to find the ritual he wanted from this book without a table of contents.

zhao xu thought about it for a moment and laughed. other people might not be able to do anything about it, but he just so happened to have mastered too many spells.

level 1 spell-scholar’s touch.

This spell could allow the spellcaster to roughly read a book from beginning to end, but this level was not enough to make it a detailed read, and it could not be used in some special magic books.

therefore, this spell was not a very common spell for spell casters.

but right now, zhao xu only needed to know where the ritual he was going to use was in the book, and that spell would be enough.

as he thought about this, zhao xu immediately took out the thin crystal disk and the materials for casting this spell, parchment and flaming velvet, from his backpack.

Zhao Xu had the crystal disc and the goatskin parchment, but the “flaming velvet” made him frown.

When entering the academic library, even if there were all kinds of fire prevention measures in the library, everyone was still required to store flammable objects.

zhao xu had stored his velvet, alcohol, and other stuff in the cabinet.

If Zhao Xu were to go down to the first floor to get his spell materials back, he couldn’t guarantee that he would be able to return to this floor again. the words on the parchment that antonya had given him had already disappeared.

If Zhao Xu could master the “supernatural” abilities of The Guardian of runes, then he would be able to cast spells without any materials.

even if he mastered the “material exemption for casting” specialty, he could save on these materials that were less than 1 gold piece.

thinking about this, zhao xu turned his gaze to his potential points. he could use them to simulate feats.

After reaching Level 3, Zhao Xu had already recovered five potential points. This way, he could spend 1 potential point to simulate the ” material-free spell ” talent.

However, Zhao Xu still had more tricks up his sleeve.

Zhao Xu waved his hand, and in the blink of an eye, a piece of fiery velvet appeared in the air and gently landed on his hand.

the level one arcane spell ” summoning spell materials ” could turn into cheap spell materials to avoid the dilemma of spell casters not having any spell materials.

zhao xu didn’t think that he would one day be able to use this spell even though he had a complete set of spell material.

After he was done with all this, Zhao Xu immediately used the magic materials he had summoned to cast the scholar’s touch spell.

after he touched the book, the contents of the book flashed across zhao xu’s mind like a movie.

After receiving the feedback, Zhao Xu flipped to page 312 of the 144 summoning rituals for finding items and started reading through the 39th ritual.

Zhao Xu realized that time was of the essence, so he quickly found an empty space and started to draw mysterious symbols with the charcoal pencil in his hand according to the contents of the book.

After a total of sixty-seven stars, Zhao Xu drew another star map. Then, he used the ancient book as a medium and started to chant an incantation.

compared to the spell, which took less than 6 seconds, the chanting time for this ritual was as long as 45 minutes.

zhao xu was already making use of the last few minutes to rush over.

When the elderly wizard saw what Zhao Xu was doing, he just nodded his head and didn’t say anything.

At the very last minute, Zhao Xu finished the last line of the spell and a powerful, mysterious power poured into his body from the void.

“Look for the books in the legendary library,” Zhao Xu shouted.

suddenly, a white light appeared from zhao xu’s fingertips. Zhao Xu knew that the light was pointing at the location of the book.

he quickly looked towards the light, only to find that the light was pointing directly at the elderly mage in front of him.

In other words, the old man before him was the incarnation of the legendary library.

at this time, the old mage had already turned around and slowly raised his head to look at the layers of bookshelves, “the legendary library now is actually just a fragment of time.”

“the ‘legendary library’ was first built by the second goddess of magic, who tried to gather all the knowledge and mysteries of the world in it. unfortunately, it was destroyed in the war of the gods.”

after that, the third generation goddess of magic took pity on the difficulty of the ‘legendary library’, and she also obtained a lot of knowledge from it, so she restored it with divine power.

“Spellcaster zhongxia, I now make a contract with you. From now on, you can visit the ‘legendary library’ once a week. however, you must swear an oath not to reveal this secret. are you willing to do so?”

the old man was also the embodiment of the library of legends ‘will, and he was looking at zhao xu as he spoke.