After finally discovering the hidden mission and leaving it unfinished, what’s the point of playing this game?
Istna is just an NPC in the game and cannot understand the player's "death-seeking" mentality. When she saw Ma Yun rejecting her suggestion, she was so angry that she cursed in a low voice, "a little village girl who doesn't know what is good or bad", but there was nothing she could do.
Ma Yun has the proficiency items of "Investigation" and "Secret", with a proficiency modifier of 3 and an intelligence modifier of 5.
A simple calculation shows that the probability of passing both tests is only 49%, which is basically a 50-50 odds. Is it worth the gamble?
The common saying "You will win if you work hard" is a typical survivor bias.
Xiao Ma, who loves to work hard, rolled two test dice with great expectation, and the result completely met the mathematical expectations.
The "Investigation" check was passed successfully, but unfortunately the subsequent "Arcana" check failed, and the magic alarm was immediately triggered.
The sharp siren broke the silence in the laboratory.
The glass pipes that were originally closely connected suddenly disconnected, and billowing hot air spurted out.
Large groups of steam magic bats originally imprisoned in the pipes also swarmed out, circling in the air, making a lot of noise.
This group of grumpy little monsters, upon realizing that there were aliens in the room, immediately rushed towards them with strange screams, spitting hot air at Gao Fei and others.
The steam breathed by the mephit is a supernatural attack.
The heat wave spreads in a cone shape, covering a space of 15 feet in front, causing 2d6 points of burns to all creatures in the area. A DC 12 reflex save reduces the damage by half.
Gao Fei, Jiang Feng and Ma Yun realized that something was wrong the moment the alarm sounded. They hurried to the stairs and planned to run away. Then they closed the door and locked the rioting magic bats in the alchemy laboratory.
"Hmph! A bunch of cowards! If you cause trouble, you'll end up asking me to wipe your butts for you!"
Istna looked unruly. Instead of running away, she actively stepped forward to attract the steam magic bats for Gao Fei and others.
Seeing her actions, everyone couldn't help but be deeply moved.
This little hag is the daughter of the Wicked Witch of the East. She has a bad temper and loves to show off. She is the enemy of the protagonist designated by the game. However, there is a saying that Istna's character is much better than that of her hag mother.
She dared to step forward and help her teammates at critical moments. With this courage and loyalty, Gao Fei felt that this sister could handle it!
Istna's courage to fight against the overwhelming swarm of magic bats alone was not based solely on physical courage.
The night hags are naturally immune to fire damage.
To Istna, the scalding steam emitted by the magic bat was like a breeze blowing on her face, and she didn't even bother to dodge.
"!"
Istna raised her hand and fired a string of magic missiles, injuring several steam magic bats hovering above her head, and flew away screaming.
The other mephits realized that their steam breath had no effect on Istna, so they swooped on her, biting and scratching her.
The Hag's Daughter has 10 points of damage-reducing armor. Only cold iron or enchanted weapons can penetrate it without hindrance.
The Steam Mephit does not have such weapons. It is small in stature and weak in melee combat. Unless it hits a critical hit, its tiny minions cannot break through Istna's defense.
Although Istna was not in danger for the time being, Ma Yun could not bear to leave her alone to face the siege of steam magic bats, and hurriedly cast spells to add "fire resistance barrier" to Gao Fei, Jiang Feng and herself.
At her current casting level, "Fire Resistance Barrier" can reduce high temperature damage by 20 points, which is enough to offset the heat wave spewed by the steam mephit.
Jiang Feng stood at the top of the stairs, raised his hand and released the "Water Making Technique" to artificially rain in the melee zone.
The cold rain fell on the body, and the body temperature of the steam magic bat, which was naturally afraid of the cold, dropped sharply, and its flight movements became obviously sluggish.
The magic bats screamed in anger and hurriedly flew away from the rain zone. Magic auras appeared around them and disappeared out of thin air one after another.
The mephit family is naturally good at casting spells, and the spells they master correspond to their own elemental attributes.
Steam mephits are good at illusions, and most of them can cast the 2nd level "obscurity" or "invisibility" spell.
Those magic bats that disappeared from the sky just now were the result of collective "invisibility".
Ma Yun was wearing a "psychic necklace" close to her body. When she saw the magic bats becoming invisible, she quickly extracted the magic power from the necklace, intending to "see through invisibility".
At this moment, an invisible magic bat rushed toward her, trying to interrupt the spell.
The mechanical dog Toto stood by the mistress' side, alertly catching the sudden heat flow in the air, raising his head and glaring, his eyes bursting with golden beams of light!
call out!
hp-14!
The steam magic bat in mid-air was spotted by Toto and intercepted by the "force field ray". Most of its health bar was knocked off immediately. The "invisibility spell" was also broken, and it screamed and fled into the distance.
Gao Fei also noticed that most of the steam magic bats had entered the invisible state, and quickly took out the "visualizing lamp" from the astrolabe, stimulating a beam of energy and lighting up the light.
The magical light emitted by the lantern illuminates the surrounding 30-foot space.
The steam magic bats in this area were all forced out of their invisibility state and exposed one after another.
boom!
Jiang Feng raised his hand and fired another shot, killing the magic bat that Toto had just injured.
The moment HP returned to zero, the magic bat let out a last mournful cry, and its body suddenly exploded, spewing out a large amount of scorching steam.
All types of mephits will self-destruct when near death.
The self-destruction damage of the Steam Mephit is similar to the heat flow it spits, but it only affects a wider area.
This level of high-temperature burns cannot penetrate everyone's "fire resistance barrier", so just ignore it.
With the support of Gao Fei, Jiang Feng, Ma Yun and Toto, Istna was able to get rid of the hordes of magic bats and was finally able to calm down and focus on casting spells.
"ringa!"
The hag's daughter chanted a spell, a silver cyclone surged in the palm of her hand, and she raised her hand and fired a 3-level "Frost Nova" that had been "spell expanded" and super-magic!
The sudden burst of cold current instantly spread to a 40-foot surrounding space, covering most of the steam magic bats in the air!
Steam Mephit is afraid of cold, and the damage dealt by cold magic is doubled.
The lethality of "Frost Nova" is the same as "Fireball", which is 10d6.
The steam mephit in a healthy state has only a total of more than 20 health points. It will be killed instantly when it is frozen, without even a chance to self-destruct.
The remaining mephits escaped the "Frost Nova" bombing and were all frightened and transformed into steam form.
The pipe in the alchemy laboratory burst, and the escaping water vapor spread everywhere and filled the room.
In this mist-steaming environment, the magic bats turn into steam form, just like streams flowing into the sea, gaining natural camouflage.
Istna could not distinguish the steam magic bat from the naturally rising water vapor, so she stopped casting the spell and looked hesitant.
Gao Fei also noticed this situation, and with an idea, he quickly ran to the blower and removed the lever.
However, to his surprise, the blower didn't move at all!
