Chapter 2198 Styx Ancient Dragon (Ⅱ)

Seeing that her daughter, Hilde, and Clark all had such confidence in Joan, even if Ms. Herlene still had doubts in her heart, she couldn't dissuade her anymore.

Joan noticed the change in her expression, and asked Ms. Helin about the ancient dragon Styx at the right time.

In fact, it's not just Qiao An who has such a habit. The biggest feature of the mage profession is that spells must be prepared in advance. Which spells should be prepared depends on the expectations for the future. To put it bluntly, it depends on information.

A mage casts spells, not as flexible and adaptable as a warlock.

No matter how many spells you have learned, you can't use them without preparation in advance, and the spells that can be prepared only account for a small part of your life, so mages are naturally not suitable for "encounter battles", and you must "plan before you move". regarded as an overriding principle of action.

Of course, Joan also has the profession of "Mage of Myth", who can use "Power of Myth" to directly launch spells that have not been prepared in advance, which is more like a warlock.

Despite such convenient conditions, Qiao An still adheres to the basic principle of "planning before moving". In any case, in terms of probability, the more detailed information you have in advance and the more you prepare, the greater your chances of winning. This is equally applicable to any profession.

"The Styx Dragon, also known as the Dark Dragon, has a winding body like a giant python, and a layer of slippery mucus adheres to the surface of its dark red scales."

"When the sword is cut on the poisonous dragon, it is easy to be slipped away by the mucus, not to mention that there is a hard layer of armor under the mucus, so it is difficult to damage it."

Ms. Helin has been stationed in Shuanglin Town for many years and frequently fights against poisonous dragons. Based on her actual combat experience, she reminds Joan what matters to pay attention to.

"The wide webbed palms of the poisonous dragon are very suitable for paddling, but they are not very useful in land battles."

"Like most other real dragons, poisonous dragons also have a pair of wings, but their wings are too small compared to their huge bodies to support poisonous dragons to fly in the air. They can only function like fish fins in water."

"According to the body structure of the poisonous dragon, it is not difficult to find that the water combat ability of this monster is obviously stronger than that of land combat. Try to avoid being dragged into the water by them."

"Due to the severe degradation of their wings, poisonous dragons must use magic to temporarily gain flight ability, and their air combat capabilities are generally stronger than their land combat capabilities."

"Just like true dragons of other races, poisonous dragons have their own warlock profession. As they grow older, their spellcasting level will also increase."

"The poisonous dragon has to develop at least to the 'mature age' stage before it can obtain the third-level spell slot, and then it is possible to awaken the 'flying technique'; on the contrary, it is almost impossible for the poisonous dragon below the prime of life to have the ability to fly."

"In fact, even the six mythical ancient dragons with the 11th-level warlock profession may not all have awakened flying magic. Unless they have to, they will never fly off the ground. They seem to have some inexplicable fear of the sky."

"The claws and wings of the poisonous dragon are not suitable as weapons. In addition to biting the enemy with poisonous fangs in battle, they often use the tail with a unique structure as an auxiliary weapon."

"The dragon's tail is long and forked. It looks like two soft whips with very sharp edges. It is as flexible as fingers and can cut, whip or entangle the prey as needed."

Joan took notes of Ms. Helin's story carefully, and then asked her for advice: "What other magic, supernatural abilities, or mythological abilities does Styx Ancient Dragon excel at?"

"Speaking of dragons, the most well-known supernatural ability is of course 'Longwei'."

"The power of the six mythical ancient dragons is equivalent to the 'fear aura' with a radius of 300 feet. Unless you are a paladin, it is best to add spells that resist fear in advance, such as 'heroic spirit', before dealing with poisonous dragons."

"Spells commonly used by the Styx ancient dragon, such as 1st level 'rotten water' and 'shield', 2nd level 'darkness' and 'cloud mist', 3rd level 'dispel' and 'smelly cloud', 4th level 'Manipulate water bodies' and 'charm monsters', as for the 5th level spells, in addition to 'monster hold', occasionally 'mind fog' will be cast to weaken the opponent's perception attributes and mental resistance."

"In addition, the ancient dragon of the Styx is also very good at summoning water monsters to serve as servants, such as giant squids with purgatory bloodlines. Not only can they make trouble in the sea, but they can also temporarily leave the water and follow the poisonous dragon to land to cause destruction."

Joan carefully memorized the spells that Ms. Helin specifically mentioned, and found that most of them belonged to the "School of Conjuration" or "School of Enchantment", and it was not difficult to decipher them.

Ms. Helin went on to say: "The Styx ancient dragon's spellcasting ability is mediocre, but it has super high spell resistance. Before casting spells to attack them, it is best to bless magic in advance such as 'Precise Casting', otherwise it will be very difficult. Probability is resisted."

"In addition, the poisonous dragons are naturally immune to the effects of 'sleep', 'paralysis', 'disease', 'acid erosion', 'cold' and 'negative energy'. The latter two are especially troublesome for us Styx witches." Herlene The lady smiled wryly, "After all, the offensive spells of our profession are mainly cold and necromancy, which happened to be restrained by the poisonous dragon."

"Fortunately, we still have 'deep cold'!" Gaina added optimistically, "It is precisely to fight against the poisonous dragons that our seniors of the Church of the Styx spent a lot of effort to create this cold-type immune system. A spell of power!"

Ms. Helin nodded with a smile, and continued to say to Joan: "The physical resistance of the Styx ancient dragon is not inferior to the magic resistance. It can reduce the damage of weapons with 6 levels of energy. Only those with 'good' or 'sacred' attributes Magic weapons can do real damage regardless of their magical armor, but that doesn't matter to you—mages don't have to be reduced to fighting dragons with swords."

"That's not necessarily true." Clark couldn't help but slapped him. "I've personally seen a white dragon in its prime, which was beaten so badly by Joan's fist that it couldn't get up."

His words were endless and sounded very unreliable, causing Gaina and Hilde to roll their eyes.

Of course, Joan understood that what Clark said was that he pretended to be the mutated snow monster "Brother Crow", ran to Winterhold to make a big wedding banquet, and beat "White Prince" Vignir with his bare hands. Now that I think about it, I feel weird funny.

"Aunt Helene, is there anything special about the breath of the Styx ancient dragon?" Joan returned to the topic.

"You asked the key point, Dr. Vader, the most powerful of the poisonous dragon family is the dragon's breath!"

Ms. Helin put away her smile and looked very serious.

"Similar to the metal dragon family, the Styx poisonous dragon is born with two kinds of dragon breaths, one directly kills the enemy, and the other can cause negative states."