Most of these Wizards had prepared several fixed spells so they could cast them at the fixed targets in the underground plaza.
The Ray of Frost and Magic Missile spells they cast were basically all spells Zhao Xu knew and understood.
That left him somewhat confused. He could barely recognize them without even using the Identify Spell skill.
"Mentor, I feel like something is off." Zhao Xu finally could not help bringing it up.
"Hm?"
"For example, if I heard a certain incantation and it belonged to a spell I knew, then I would know what spell they were casting. To put it more bluntly, if someone chanted that incantation loudly right in front of me—like Identify Spell, which took an hour to cast—there was no way I would fail to recognize it."
He had studied magic, so he was technically somewhat trained in the ability of "Identify Spell." But did that not mean he could exploit a loophole and identify spells without investing points in it?
"Naive." Antinoa mocked him. "Do not use your current Intelligence of less than 16 to challenge the practice of countless people over thousands of years."
"What you call that is recognition, not identification. Only when your Identify Spell condensed into a level-one skill rank would you understand that identifying spells was an instinctive passive action."
Turning the active into the passive?
The moment Zhao Xu heard those words, something seemed to stir within him.
"It is easy enough when one Wizard casts a spell, but what about seven or eight Wizards casting at once? My Intelligence can handle it, but can your current Intelligence process that much?"
"The reason I brought you here to train Identify Spell is because you have basically mastered all the spells they are casting. As far as the