Chapter 998: Advanced Defeat
"Wow! What a powerful spell scroll!"
The girl's cheers interrupted Gao Fei's thoughts on the subsequent uses of the "Anti-Poison Spell".
"Mr. Billionaire, you are so happy, is there any good news?" Gao Fei turned his head to look at Xiao Ma, who was beaming with joy.
"Brother Fei! Come and see, Fabian gave me a very rare spell scroll!" Ma Yun waved excitedly.
"Rare things are not necessarily good..." Gao Fei asked casually, "Is this spell powerful?"
"Well... for a professional mage like me, this spell can only be said to be not bad, but for a freeloader like you who specializes in sneak attacks from behind, this thing is simply a magical skill!" Ma Yun replied with a smile.
"Really?" Gao Fei immediately became energetic, took the scroll handed over by Ma Yun and took a look, and couldn't help but take a breath.
Xiao Ma was right, this 4th-ring spell called "Advanced Preemptive Strike" was really too abnormal!
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4th-level "Advanced True Strike" (Divination): Spend a bonus action to designate a subject within 30 feet, so that in the next round/casting level, the subject's attack rolls gain an insight bonus of 1/2 the casting level.
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0th-level "Second True Strike" allows the subject to gain attack advantage within one round.
1st-level "True Strike" allows the subject's attack rolls to be improved within one round, with a bonus equal to the casting level.
4th-level "Advanced True Strike", as the name suggests, is an upgraded version of 0th-level "Second True Strike" and 1st-level "True Strike".
Its function is also to improve attack rolls and enhance hit rate. Although the improvement is not as great as the 1st-level low-level version, it can last for multiple rounds.
Including "Experienced Caster", Gao Fei's current casting level is 14. Casting "Advanced True Strike" once can increase attack rolls by an additional +7 in the next 14 rounds!
You should know that the so-called "attack advantage" is just equivalent to +4 attack roll.
With such a simple comparison, it is not difficult to find out how strong the gain provided by "Advanced True Strike" is.
Among all the gain buffs, the gain that improves the hit rate is the rarest and most valuable. With the hit rate, the output damage is guaranteed, otherwise the high paper damage is also a bubble.
Especially for thieves like Gao Fei, the pursuit is sneak attack backstab, one-shot kill!
In most cases, the damage data of backstab is overflowing, but it cannot guarantee a stable hit rate.
Especially when the target has super high defense, you can only use "Scorching Ray" to output.
If the target's agility attribute is also very high, even ray magic cannot guarantee the hit rate.
In this case, applying "Advanced True Strike" to yourself can perfectly avoid the embarrassment of misses.
Gao Fei's Spellthief currently has no extra slots to copy "Advanced Preemptive Strategy", so he made an agreement with Xiao Ma to play the "Harbor City Raiders" module tomorrow, upgrade the Spellthief to level 11, add a spell slot, and then return to the Mage module to copy "Advanced Preemptive Strategy" from her.
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"Young friends, this is the boundary of the maze forest. Please forgive me for not being able to accompany you to move forward. It's time to say goodbye. I wish you a smooth rescue of your kidnapped friends."
Fabion said goodbye to Gao Fei and his party and turned to walk towards the dense forest.
At this time, the Tin Man Nick suddenly remembered something and hurriedly shouted: "Dear Hermit, please stay! I have another question for you!"
The tree dragon slowly turned around, his eyes fell on the Tin Man, waiting for him to ask questions.
"When our camp was attacked by flying dragons, the wild flying dragons asked Vita and me to solve a puzzle. If we answered correctly, the flying dragons would let us go. Unfortunately, we failed to give the correct answer. I still can't let it go."
"Wise hermit, maybe you can help me solve this mystery."
"Tin Man, tell me, what kind of puzzle did the flying dragon give you?" Fabian asked with interest.
"The flying dragons claimed that their leader, the Medellin brothers, one named An and the other named Du. Let me guess, who is the elder brother and who is the younger brother?"
"Vita and I gave opposite answers, but the flying dragon said that we were both wrong. This is really illogical!"
Thinking back to the scene of being mocked by the flying dragons, the tin man couldn't help but get angry.
"Hahaha! So that's how it is..." The tree dragon raised his head and laughed, "Tin Man, you and your scarecrow friend were deceived by the flying dragons and fell into the trap they set in the language."
"What do you mean...?"
Not only was the Tin Man puzzled, Gao Fei and others also couldn't see where the so-called "language trap" was reflected.
"First of all, I have to make it clear that the flying dragons did not lie. Their leaders are indeed named An Medellin and Du Medellin, but the problem is... these two Medellins can't be considered a pair of brothers at all."
"Oh! I understand!" Jiang Feng rushed to say, "An Medellin and Du Medellin are actually female flying dragons! So they should be a pair of sisters instead of brothers, right?"
Fabion smiled and shook his head.
"Girl, it's a good thing that you are willing to use your brain, but your thinking is only at this level! If the facts are really as you guessed, the dragons lied when they first said the word "Medellin brothers". This kind of clumsy misleading can be easily exposed by discerning people."
"Yes, if they knew that the two Medellins were sisters rather than brothers, with my professional ability, I should have seen that they were lying."
As a "judge", Nick was confident that he could see through the lies at the first time, but unfortunately, he did not hear any signs of lying from the words of the dragons.
"Ann Medellin and Du Medellin are the freaks born from the mating of a green dragon and a female bipedal dragon."
Under everyone's expectation, Fabian finally revealed the answer.
"These so-called brothers are conjoined twins from birth, sharing one body but with two heads."
"This two-headed dragon, one head calls itself 'An' and the other 'Du', and they exchange names after a while, so although they are collectively called Medellin brothers, there is no distinction between the elder and the younger."
After listening to Fabian's explanation, Nick was simply at a loss whether to laugh or cry, and couldn't tell whether he was fooled by the dragons.
"To be honest, it's no wonder that Nick and Vita couldn't guess it. Who could have imagined this kind of bizarre creature with two heads living together?"
Jiang Feng comforted the depressed Tin Man.
Gao Fei felt the same way, and said to Ma Yun and Jiang Feng with a smile: "This word game reminds me of a martial arts novel I read when I was a child. There was a villain called Brother Ouyang in it. People thought they were brothers, but they didn't know that this person had no brothers at all, but his name was 'Brother Ouyang'."
