Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

Therefore, even after being burned by the flames for several seconds, Hughes' fingers did not show any scorch marks.

"Sizzle—!"

Finally, after being scorched for a full two minutes, Hughes' fingertips were scorched by the flames.

Immediately afterwards, a small piece of skin on his fingertip began to curl slightly as it was licked by the flames, and a small patch was burned off.

Upon seeing this, Hughes quickly withdrew his finger.

Immediately, he took out a blood-replenishing potion from his storage bag and poured the blood-red liquid from the bottle onto his wound.

Strangely, even though the medicine had been poured on for a full nine seconds and seeped into his wound, the wound showed no signs of healing.

"Sizzle..."

Finally, at the 10th second, a wisp of white steam rose from the wound on his fingertip, and then the charred skin on his fingertip quickly fell off, and new granulation tissue quickly grew from the wound.

"It took a full 10 seconds for my wound to heal...?"

Looking at his skin, which had been fully restored, Hughes murmured.

"So it seems that the effect of this green flame is to hinder the healing of the body."

This bizarre effect targeting healing abilities is particularly troublesome in combat.

After figuring out the effects of the green fire, Hughes ordered Lyra to increase its output.

"call--!"

In an instant, the tiny flame suddenly swelled up and expanded into a huge fireball.

Hughes then took out a specially made container and began to absorb the flames from the fireball.

The next moment, the green flames were instantly drawn out of the fireball and sucked into the container in wisps.

"..."

A moment later, the purple light on Lyra's left chest gradually dimmed, and the magic power in her magic storage device was temporarily exhausted.

Seeing this, Hughes first glanced at the green flame in the container. Seeing that the amount was sufficient for further research, he casually waved his hand, absorbed Lyra's necromantic energy, and then put her corpse into the undead space.

Thus, the research on the corpses came to a temporary end. As for these green flames, the Myriad Spire has a special experimental room for studying elements.

……

A few days later, in a specially decorated room.

Hughes was standing in front of an instrument, staring at the green flame that was held in place by two clamps.

"Buzzing...buzzing..."

Under the influence of the instrument, the green flame trembled continuously, even creating a double image.

Moreover, its form is slowly changing, gradually transforming from a ball of green fire into a purple magic.

Theoretically speaking, the conversion of magic is unidirectional, meaning that magic can be converted into any type of attribute energy through specific rules, but attribute energy cannot be converted back into magic.

The reason for this is that the essence of those "laws" is a kind of rule, so they are too complex, and even wizards find it difficult to reverse the "laws".

Even in the beginning, wizards only discovered these "rules," but did not create them, much less interfere with them.

The reason why magic can utilize these "laws" is simply because it is magic.

Fortunately, thanks to the continuous research of the few wizards who are able to intervene in these "rules" themselves.

They finally developed a special instrument that could help wizards intervene in these "laws"—the "element processing device" that Hughes was looking at.

This is undoubtedly a revolutionary invention.

Its appearance allowed wizards to participate in the study of those "laws" and to gain a deeper understanding of the attribute energy they controlled.

Later, several elemental wizards had a sudden inspiration: they caused the magic to deviate from its "regular" operation, thus discovering the possibility of modifying the elements...

Later still, some people even discovered a pattern between the two elements.

In general, the core method of improving elements is to deviate from the "laws" governing the operation of those elements (i.e., when transforming them into elements) by manipulating those "laws".

For example, when magic is transformed into fire element, the "rules" of fire element are shifted towards the "rules" of ice element.

If successful, the resulting fire element may have a "freezing" effect.

In the future, elemental wizards will be able to use this "new law" born from the deviation to transform this improved fire element with magic.

Under the same principle, there are numerous types of attribute energy—that is, so many transformation "rules".

These elements are offset from each other, and the differences in the degree of offset, along with other auxiliary means, have created the diverse and varied improved elements we see today.

What Hughes is currently doing is using the "Element Processor" in front of him to reverse the green flames into magic power, thereby recording the conversion pattern of the green flames.

Although he controlled the ice element, knowledge is universal. His study of the "laws" of green fire transformation was helpful and provided a reference for his later deviation from his own improved element.

Moreover, the "rules" of such improved elements are extremely expensive and rare.

After all, deviations from the "rules" are not easy to make; even a slight deviation could cause elemental upheavals.

At the same time, elemental wizards naturally cannot show their improved elements to others, so it is difficult to find improved elements available for reference on the market.

Hughes believed that if he wanted to sell this "law" of green fire transformation, countless elemental wizards would be eager to buy it.

Several hours later, the green flame finally transformed into pure magic.

The entire process of its transformation was meticulously recorded by Hughes, and after a period of study, he deduced the "law" of the green fire's transformation.

"..."

Hughes then raised his hand with great interest, and with a light flick of his fingertips, a wisp of magic flowed between his fingers.

Then, while looking at the recorded "patterns," he tried to convert magic into green fire.

The magic suddenly trembled, followed by a surge of scorching heat.

Unfortunately, just as the magic turned green, a muffled thud suddenly exploded.

"Bang—!"

The flame, which had only been partially transformed, instantly dissipated, turning into a ball of green smoke that slowly vanished from his palm.

Hughes frowned slightly at the lingering burnt smell in the air, but he wasn't surprised.

His affinity for fire element was not high to begin with, making it difficult for him to convert fire element, let alone with the many complex and modified fire element.

However, it doesn't matter if we can't use it for the time being. After all, the patterns of this green fire are meant for research and reference. In actual combat, we should use the ice element, which has the highest affinity with it.

Then, Hughes mobilized a wisp of magic, transforming it into ice element and injecting it into the element processor, beginning his research into the "regular" shift of the ice element...