Chapter 10: Magic Missile
On the battlefield, Land slashed down an orc with one sword stroke, but it did not cause any casualties.
The orc stood up, roared, raised his shield, and charged again, his eyes showing fear but no hesitation.
Sudden footsteps sounded, and Land glanced from the corner of his eye to see two shadow figures rushing from the rear.
His eyes lit up, and he shouted loudly: “Reinforcements have arrived, everyone hold on.”
This was strategy; he did not think two people could make much difference, but he used it to boost morale.
The human side was indeed greatly encouraged, although most people had no time to check how many reinforcements had arrived.
Battlefield outskirts.
Anse slowed his steps; the chaotic battlefield was not favorable for spellcasters to enter.
Seeing the low hills on both sides, he had an idea, adjusted his direction, ran a few steps, leaped up, and began to climb.
The hillside was not steep; he climbed to a height of six or seven meters in a few moves, found a foothold, stood up to overlook, and saw the battlefield twenty meters ahead clearly in view.
‘Perfect!’ Anse was overjoyed.
At this time, Brat had just entered the battlefield and was looking back when he saw the shadow figure on the side hillside and finally relaxed.
Anse nodded to him, then cast Mold Earth, creating a thin wall about one meter high in front of him.
These actions seemed to be wasting time, but in reality, he was “creating an advantage”!
Being above provided a hit advantage, spells would not be blocked by crowds or obstacles. The wall provided cover, making it hard to be hit, simple and practical.
His gaze swept across the battlefield, locking onto a goblin holding a bow and crossbow.
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Sorcerous Burst-Flame!
In less than half a second, a mass of sorcerous energy burst from the tip of the staff, streaking over the heads of the crowd in the blink of an eye, and slammed into a goblin’s chest.
“Bang bang——”
The goblin was like it had taken two heavy hammer blows, smashed heavily to the ground, chest collapsed, blood flowing from its features, twitched a few times, and then stopped moving.
【You cast Sorcerous Burst on the goblin… the goblin is hit, takes 13（8+5） fire damage, fatal strike, target death. Gain 50 combat experience, level up…】
Leveled up!
This time luck was good, triggered chain burst, the goblin with only 7 life was instantly killed.
In the frontline battlefield, Land saw this scene and was delighted in his heart.
Spellcasters were not rare, but in the disrupted Magic Net, a spellcaster who could still cast efficiently and accurately was too rare. Even he found casting Holy Slash quite strenuous, let alone low-level professionals.
Anse did not pay attention to those; he crouched down and immediately summoned his character card.
After leveling up, professionals can choose to increase their current class level or multiclass into another class, one specializing, one gathering broadly.
Anse decisively chose to increase his sorcerer level.
【Level Up: 2nd level sorcerer! You gain two new class features, you can learn a new spell.】
No time to check class features, he quickly locked in a new spell: Magic Missile.
Magic Missile, nicknamed magic missile, creates three glowing darts formed by magic force field, each dart deals 1d4（1-4）+1 force damage to the target, base casting distance 120 feet（≥36 meters）, force tracking, never misses.
The most embarrassing problem for low-level spellcasters facing strong opponents is: missing!
High-level professionals have high attributes, many features, many skills, can dodge and run, no matter how strong the spell, missing does no good.
Magic Missile perfectly solves this problem.
Anse stood up, his eyes flickering with magical glow, all insights about Magic Missile surging in his mind.
After a few seconds, he locked the target on Brat’s opponent.
This was a bugbear, half a head taller than Brat, but not as strong as Brat, wearing leather armor, holding a shield and mace, pressing Brat.
“
（Magic Missile）
Three glowing missiles flew out almost simultaneously, each tracing a weird unpredictable arc in the air, whistling toward the bugbear.
The bugbear was caught off guard, barely raised his shield, but too late. The missiles hit his head, chest, and arm in succession, bursting into blood flowers.
【Successfully cast first ring spell Magic Missile, you have more understanding of innate magic, gain 1 class experience…】
【You cast Magic Missile on the bugbear… the bugbear is hit, takes 12 force damage, current life 9/27…】
‘Only 1 experience for casting?’ Anse was speechless.
On the battlefield, Brat was stunned for a moment, then reacted, lunged forward with a stab, longsword piercing under the unbalanced bugbear’s armpit straight to the heart.
【Target death, gain 31 combat experience…】
The human side’s morale soared, these armored bugbears were big trouble, fewer by one reduced a lot of pressure.
The duergar at the battlefield rear shouted a few times, several orcs and goblins tried to rush over to kill Anse, but were blocked dead by Brat and the human side.
“Watch out——” Land turned his head and shouted.
Anse looked up to see a black gleam enlarging before his eyes, scalp tightening, he squatted down sharply, hiding his body behind the low wall.
“Whoosh——”
A javelin whistled past half a foot above the low wall, making his heart race.
“Fuck!”
He immediately peeked from the side toward the battlefield.
A red-skinned, pointed-eared, half plate armored sturdy ogre officer was posing to throw a second time.
Suddenly, an arrow shot from the upper diagonal, the ogre officer dodged in panic but was still hit in the arm.
Anse looked up to see a human archer had appeared on the hillside at some point, drawing bow and nocking arrow.
The ogre officer flew into a rage, shifting target to the closer archer.
‘Good opportunity.’
Anse suddenly stood up, mind locking the ogre.
“
（Magic Missile）
Three glowing missiles streaked across the battlefield with a numbing whine, much faster than the javelin.
The ogre rolled to dodge, the missiles’ trajectory shifted slightly, instantly arriving, smashing successively on his exposed butt from rolling.
“Awoo——”
The shrill wail made both sides involuntarily clench.
【You cast Magic Missile on the ogre officer… ogre officer hit, takes 20（critical hit） force damage, current life 35/58…】
Whoosh whoosh whoosh, three arrows arrived in succession.
The ogre officer instinctively rolled on the ground, arrows deflected by plate armor, only one hit the leg, splashing blood.
“
（Magic Missile）
When the resounding Dragon Speech reached the battlefield, the Magic Missile had already arrived.
The ogre knew he couldn’t dodge, raised both arms to hard block the missiles.
“Boom boom boom——”
【…ogre officer hit, takes 7 force damage, current life 24/58…】
‘So tough.’ Anse panted slightly, calming his turbulent mana.
If he were an ordinary sorcerer, he would have exhausted spell slots or fallen into exhaustion status, unable to do anything to the opponent, fighting two levels higher is very difficult.
Fortunately, he was not ordinary, after leveling up he had 11 mana, enough to blast the opponent dead.
At this time, Land finished his opponent, stepped to the ogre officer, one sword knocked away the defense, another sword beheaded him.
【Target death, gain 190 combat experience…】
‘So much experience.’ Anse was thrilled inside.
Pity the kill was not his, he found not directly killing enemies gives much less experience, but good as long as personally participating in combat gives experience.
Threat removed, he held staff in one hand, standing against the wind, turning into a merciless spellcasting machine, spells thrown one after another, accurate and fast.
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“…”
Mana limited, he mostly used Sorcerous Burst, targeting rear shooters or unarmored goblin minions, occasionally helping Brat relieve pressure.
Cantrips have no lock-on, moving targets hard to hit, not good to intervene directly in melee, in chaotic battle hitting teammates would hurt morale too much.
“Boom——”
A goblin minion was unlucky, triggered chain burst, features smashed, fell straight to the ground stiff.
【…target death. Gain 37 combat experience…】
At this point at least six or seven goblins had died directly or indirectly by his hand.
Such opportunity rare, waves of experience gains like drinking ice-cold beverage on a 40-degree hot day, refreshing and addictive.
Note: In DND rules, Magic Missile auto-hits, no attack roll, so no critical hit（crit）.
But reality different, hitting vital spots causes heavy injury or death, for reasonableness, introduced critical hit, thanks for understanding.
Magic Missile｜Magic Missile
First ring evocation（sorcerer, wizard）
Casting Time: 1 action
Casting Distance: 120 feet
Spell Components: V（verbal）, S（somatic）
Duration: Instantaneous
You create three glowing darts of magical force field, and make each dart hit a specified creature you can see within casting distance. Each dart deals 1d4+1 force damage to the target. All darts hit the target simultaneously, and you can specify they hit the same target or different ones.
Upcasting. When cast using a second ring or higher spell slot, for each ring higher than first, the spell creates one additional dart.
