Spell Slots and Creature Feats

When he was setting the characters' professions before their deaths, he did a lot of research. They were all professions like soldiers, blacksmiths, farmers, and vagrants. There were no professions related to mages or Priest at all.

You, the Sword of the Fallen Angel, said, "Heh heh, indeed there are no mages or Priest, but do you remember the vagrant class?"

Xiao Yu thought for a moment, then nodded. "That is one option—could that homeless man actually be a mage?"

"No, it should be said that the homeless man has the potential to become an advanced skeleton mage. Back when I was in the closed beta, I experimented with every class more than once in order to find a way to become an advanced skeleton mage. I tried every option for every class."

I shouldn't be sharing this method in theory, but considering that there will likely be guides online soon, and since the game is already in open beta and I've gained an early advantage, I'll tell you about it anyway.

First, you must choose the vagrant profession, and the country background must be the Qatar City-State. Qatar is a famous magical city, and its rulers are a group of mages.

After making your choice, you will appear on the streets of the Qatar City-State. The starting storyline for the vagrant is the most complex, with many side quests to follow. However, all of these side quests end in death; the only question is how you die.

One side quest involves stealing from a mage tower, getting caught by the mages, and being used as material for magical experiments. You die during the experiments, and the mages have you dump your body in the wilderness outside the city. After resurrecting, because your body was infused with magic during the experiments, you'll unlock the option to become a skeleton mage when you advance in rank.

Xiao Yu nodded, thinking to himself, "I see. This kind of method can only be found by beta testers through constant trial and error. Otherwise, you'd have incredible luck and just pick the right path, which is almost like winning the lottery."

"That's really impressive. Most people couldn't pull off that kind of skill. Looks like you have the talent of a professional gamer," Xiao Yu exclaimed, a genuine compliment from a professional gamer to another's gaming skills.

Seeing Xiao Yu's words, the Sword of the Fallen Angel felt a little embarrassed. "Hehe, this is nothing, it's far inferior to my idol."

"Idol? Who's your idol?"

"Azathoth, or rather Xiao Yu, have you heard of the Sky World? He's the number one expert in the Sky World. I wonder if he also participates in the War of the Gods?"

Xiao Yu was stunned for a moment upon hearing this. (What the hell? Isn't this talking about me? I didn't realize I was this awesome?)

But thinking about it, it makes sense. The title of the number one expert in the Sky World is no exaggeration. To be the number one expert among hundreds of millions of people is indeed worthy of being an idol.

However, when this happens to me, it always feels a bit unreal.

Xiao Yu wondered whether he should tell him his identity. After thinking about it, he decided against it. Even if he did tell him, the other party probably wouldn't believe him, and there was no need to do so.

"Actually, when I created the character, I wanted to Azathoth, but I didn't expect it to be taken."

Xiao Yu shook his head. "It's not that it's occupied, it's that it's not allowed to be used."

Isn't that the same thing?

Xiao Yu shook his head and said, "There is a difference between the two. If it's already taken, it means another player has chosen that name, and it's not allowed to use it. This is because the name is a sensitive word or there's an NPC with the same name in the game, so it can't be used."

The Sword of the Fallen Angel exclaimed in surprise, "What? Does that mean there's an Azathoth in this game?"

Xiao Yu nodded. "That's true."

He found it strange, because Azathoth is a name from the Cthulhu Mythos. If Azathoth is in this game, does it mean it's related to the Cthulhu Mythos? But looking at the content of War of the Gods, it's clearly based on the Dungeons & Dragons system.

"By the way, what do you mean by your skill being a biological specialty?"

The Sword of the Fallen Angel, "Skills in the game are divided into two types: biological specialties and spells. For example, your Consecutive Sword Strikes is a biological specialty. It doesn't consume spell slots and can be used infinitely, as long as you have enough strength. My Flame Missiles are the same."

Spell slots? Xiao Yu thought to himself, so casting spells in this game is done using spell slots? I'll have to look into that.

"Wait a minute, let me study the magic first."

Xiao Yu was indeed very curious. He had only focused on studying the monster system before and hadn't done much research on the adventurer system. He originally thought it was just like the adventurers in the old games, with Warrior using rage and mages using mana. But now he found that it seemed completely different. The biggest difference was in the spell slots.

The spells in this game are incredibly powerful. Just one spell, "Let the Dead Return to Death," is almost impossible for an Undead to counter. If it's based on mana, that's a complete misunderstanding.

Now that we know we're using a spell slot, we need to understand how adventurer spells work.

After looking at the information, Xiao Yu breathed a sigh of relief.

I see.

In the War of the Gods, all spellcasting classes, including mages, Priest, and Druid, used spell slots instead of mana.

Taking a mage as an example, a level 1 mage has only one spell slot, and then gains an additional spell slot for each level gained. In other words, a level 20 mage only has 20 spell slots.

Of course, leveling up isn't the only way to gain spell slots. There are also initial talents that increase spell slots, advancement to higher classes like Archmage or Arcanist that boost spell slot growth, advancement rewards, spell slots attached to magical items, and so on. Basically, a level 10 mage can have around 20 spell slots, or even 34 or 40.

Both the mage's spells and the Priest's divine spells are divided into 10 levels.

Level 1 spells consume 1 spell slot, level 2 spells consume 2 spell slots, and so on.

Once your spell slots are depleted, you must sit down and meditate to replenish them.

Therefore, although the spells of mages and Priest are very powerful, their numbers are actually very limited, and once they run out of spells, they can only engage in melee combat.

Therefore, leveling up is still very difficult for spellcasting classes in the early stages. For example, a mage only has one spell slot at level one, which means that casting a fireball or a Magic Missile is all you can do. It's even Quick Draw than Quick Draw- draw gunner.

That's why Priest wear heavy armor and wield maces; they need to engage in melee combat after casting spells.

Mages usually carry a crossbow or similar ranged weapon, and can fire two arrows after casting a spell. Of course, their combat power is definitely not as good as that of a professional archer or Warrior.

Just like the Priest and mage in that team we encountered before who wiped them out, that mage Grease, Burning Hands, and Flame Missiles, and probably didn't have any spell slots left.

The Priest cast Detect Evil, Evil-Breaking Weapon, and Let the Dead Return to Death, and probably doesn't have any spell slots left.

So if they had had more of them, say fifteen or twenty Undead, they probably could have overwhelmed the enemy.

It seems that monsters still need to outnumber each other to win, or attack so fast that the opponent can't even cast a spell.