Chapter 371 Sharpened Mark Missile
"Look at your taste, you're a heroine, you look like a bandit!" Gao Fei complained angrily.
Jiang Feng was concerned about Ma Yun's safety and ignored the retort. He watched nervously the duel between Ma Yun and Istna through the wall of air.
Knowing that there was a huge gap in strength between herself and Istna, it was almost impossible to defeat this overly powerful opponent. However, Ma Yun did not give up resistance, endured the pain and got up, and remotely controlled the "volley sword" to slash at Istna.
The hag's daughter sneered, raised her hand and fired another "Dispersion Technique", shrouding the "Sky Sword" in a green light curtain.
The magic power attached to the "Sky Sword" was dispelled, and it turned back into an ordinary long sword, which clattered to the ground.
Istna continued to cast spells, first using a bonus action to put a dark red magic mark on Ma Yun, and then waved out three magic missiles trailing purple light.
Three missiles roared and hit Ma Yun, sending her thin body flying into the air. She fell on her back on the river beach and was immediately in a state of near death.
HP-30!
Seeing the blood-red numbers exploding on Ma Yun's head, Gao Fei's heart suddenly trembled.
"Wori! Three magic missiles deal 30 points of damage? This is unscientific!"
One missile is 1d6, and the three of them can only do 18 points of damage in total. How could it be so much higher?
What kind of perverted tricks did this witch Istna use?
"Could it be a critical strike?" Jiang Feng guessed.
Similar to physical attacks, magic attacks also have a 5% chance of triggering a critical hit, doubling the damage.
"It's possible, let me take a look first!"
Gao Fei hurriedly opened the astrolabe and checked the battle records, and found that things were more complicated than he thought.
The reason why the magic missiles released by Istna caused such ridiculously high damage was not because it triggered a critical hit, but because of the "mark of vulnerability" she had previously placed on Ma Yun and the mage's professional ability "Spell Sharpening".
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Level 1 "Mark of Fragility" (School of Necromancy): Added action to cast, lasting 1 hour; designate any hostile creature within 120 feet and mark it. Any attack launched against the creature will cause an additional +1d6 damage; After the creature dies, a new mark target can be replaced until the spell time expires. This mark cannot be saved, and can be removed by "Remove Curse", "Restoration", "Break Barrier", "Counter Good and Evil" and similar abilities; creatures immune to the curse are not affected by the "Mark of Fragility" .
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Spell sharpening: When releasing a lethal spell, the caster can add his own spellcasting attribute modification into the spell damage. If the spell can attack multiple targets separately, such as "Magic Missile", or launch multiple strikes on the same target, such as "Scorching Ray", then each separate attack can be strengthened by "Spell Sharpening".
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"Fragile Mark" is similar to the Ranger's 1st level natural magic "Hunter's Mark". The difference is that "Hunter's Mark" can only increase damage to weapons, while "Fragile Mark" is effective on both weapons and offensive spells.
A simple calculation shows that when Istna releases magic missiles, the total basic damage of the three missiles is 3d6.
Each missile can receive the bonuses of "Mark of Fragility" and "Spell Sharpening", which will increase the damage by an additional 1d6+5 points, for a total increase of 3d6+15.
Add the two together, which is 6d6+15.
Istna dealt 30 points of damage to Ma Yun, which was even slightly lower than mathematical expectations.
Based on the damage bonus provided by "Spell Sharpening", it is not difficult for Goofy to deduce that Istna's intelligence attribute is 20 or 21 points.
After figuring out this problem, Gao Fei couldn't help but secretly regret it.
If he had known Istna's routine earlier, he should have taken the opportunity to imitate "Fragile Mark" and "Magic Missile" just now and learn this trick.
It's a pity to miss the opportunity, but don't worry too much.
NPCs like Istna, who have a heavy role in the role, will have a lot of opportunities to appear in the future, so they can just learn from it when the time comes.
Poor classmate Xiao Ma was beaten to the street by Istna's crazy output. His current health value is "-17" and he is hovering on the edge of life and death.
Luckily for her, she can still make death saving throws.
If the health point lost just now is 1 more point, and the overflow damage reaches the maximum health value (18), there will be no chance to make a death saving throw, and the card will be torn directly.
Gao Fei then thought about it, could this be too much of a coincidence?
No matter how you look at it, it looks like a pre-planned plot - the protagonist is deliberately not killed, leaving only his last breath.
So, will a savior appear next?
The result was really as expected.
Just when Ma Yun's magical weapon master was dying, a clear ringing sound suddenly came from the forest behind him.
The breeze was blowing on the treetops, and under the hazy moonlight, a unicorn with pure white fur, as if it were made of silver, walked quickly out of the woods.
On the back of the unicorn is a woman wearing a white robe and a mithril crown. Her pointed ears, beautiful face, and hair hanging down to her waist all indicate that she has elf blood. Gives a noble and elegant impression.
Next to the half-elf lady riding a unicorn, there is a long-nosed panda floating in the air. It is the dream tapir Panda that Ma Yun saw in her dream before.
Gao Fei and Jiang Feng looked at each other and felt relieved.
Seeing the dream tapir, it was not difficult for them to guess that the beautiful and elegant lady must be Adipel, the Witch of the North!
Istna was also looking at the uninvited guest walking in the forest.
She had obviously recognized the other party's identity, and cold sweat oozed from her forehead, but she was unwilling to let the cooked duck fly away. She gritted her teeth and quickly made a series of spellcasting gestures.
The northern witch looked at her coldly, and suddenly raised her hand to point at Ma Yun lying on the grass.
A circle of transparent spherical force field shields wrapped the unconscious girl and blocked the magic missiles fired by Eastna for her.
"Damn it!"
Eastna screamed in anger and turned to cast "Fireball" to blow away the witch who came out halfway.
Edper sneered and waved his hand, using "Dispersion" to counter Eastna's "Fireball", and then flicked his fingers, and the electric sparks bursting from his fingertips turned into a dazzling "Lightning Beam" and blasted back.
Crack!
Eastna was hit in the chest by the "Lightning Beam", and smoke rose all over her body, and her hair stood up like a hedgehog.
Gao Fei and Jiang Feng couldn't help laughing when they saw her embarrassed and funny appearance.
"Daughter of Ivanora, get out of here!"
The northern witch scolded coldly.
Eastna's face was twisted with anger, but she was not as powerful as Edpel. If she didn't know what was good for her and angered this northern witch who was known for her good temper, she might lose her life!
Reluctantly suppressing her shame and anger, Eastna took out the "heart-shaped stone" from her pocket, extracted the magic power contained in the gem, and her figure quickly faded and teleported to the spirit world for refuge.
Before leaving, she left a furious and cruel word.
"Just wait and see, I will come back!"
