Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

After the disappearances of Black Pact's Nest and Hector, Hughes enjoyed a period of peace and tranquility, free from any major incidents.

After learning about the general route to the Wizarding World from Vakana, he was able to determine the direction of his current efforts.

One option is to try to become the Tower Master and gain Ramius's attention, since this is currently the only probable and legal opportunity to travel to the Wizarding World.

The second was to prepare his own illegal journey—to place teleportation points on the younger generation of the Five Rings family.

That way, once they reach the Wizarding Plane, he can teleport there as well, if he can utilize the rift anchoring to that extent.

However, Hughes estimated that although the rift anchoring was very special, he would need to be at least a level two wizard to activate the teleportation point in another dimension.

At the same time, this plan requires two key preparatory steps:

First, he needed to ensure that he could place the teleportation points discreetly enough so that no one would notice; second, he needed to establish contact with the younger generation of the Five Rings family.

In the blink of an eye, a year has passed...

Now, the five knowledge towers that Hughes has joined have all completed the transmission of their respective knowledge systems.

In the following period, the students were tasked with understanding this obscure knowledge on their own and developing new knowledge based on this system as a graduation requirement.

Leibni made another appearance during this period, passing on the remaining knowledge to Hughes so that he could officially begin refining the Skin-Sculpting Potion.

Fortunately, Hughes's alchemy talent was quite good, which allowed him to barely keep up with the other party's rapid teaching pace.

Even Leibni couldn't help but praise him a few times during that period.

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In the morning, the Koya Spire

Upon entering the tower, Hughes went directly to the teleportation array set up in the first-floor hall and was teleported to the top floor of the Koya Spire with a "whoosh".

This is where the Tower Master resides, and it is also the research site for the two most important research areas of "The Secret Source of Frost Breath".

One half of the area is used to study the ice elemental life form with the real name "Flora," while the other half is used to study the transformation of magical beasts into ice elemental life forms.

Hughes was granted access to this level because, after a year of study, he had gained Noctyr's favor and was allowed to participate in the research on magical beasts transforming into ice elemental life forms.

Soon after, as he passed another research site, a piercing scream suddenly came from the depths of the corridor.

"Ah!! Ah—!!"

The voice clearly came from a woman, but its tone was very eerie, like the scream of a ghost.

Listening closely, Hughes even felt as if his soul had been struck.

The one who let out the scream was the ice elemental life form with a true name—"Flora".

Two years ago, she escaped, but six months ago she was unfortunately summoned back to the Koya Spire by the wizards and imprisoned by the tower master himself.

Thus, the research project, which had been delayed for a year and a half, finally resumed.

Meanwhile, Hughes ignored the screams coming from nearby and took a different route away from the source of the sound before quickly heading toward the research area he was in charge of.

Good morning, Lord Hughes.

Along the way, wizard apprentices would occasionally greet Hughes respectfully.

They were only assigned to do odd jobs and had no access to the experiments.

"Um."

Hughes nodded slightly in response.

Before long, he arrived at his group's research area. His apprentices had already prepared the experimental subjects for them today: a group of Modridon wolves with their limbs firmly bound.

Hughes was not the first to arrive.

One of the experimental tables was already occupied by a person, a wizard dressed in a simple white robe.

The other party had already placed a Modridon Ice Wolf in place and inserted some kind of instrument into its chest, slowly injecting something into its body.

Hughes recognized the wizard; his name was Billym Stephen, and he had joined the Spire two years ago.

However, he did not disturb the other party, but quickly went to a corner.

Then, just like the other person, he chose a Modridon wolf and began today's experiment.

Hughes was not opposed to joining the Spire's research field. Firstly, he could learn a lot, and secondly, there was a hidden benefit: he wouldn't have to participate in the Spire's missions.

Compared to the academies on the outskirts of the continent, the wizards in the central academies of the continent lead a much more leisurely and peaceful life.

After all, everything in the center of the continent is under the watchful eye of the Golden Crown, and even if the academy's territory borders any race, the two sides will not go to war.

Take the Wanling Spire, for example. They only fought a war with the neighboring sea creatures in their early years when the Golden Ring Crown's rule was not yet secure.

However, after the Golden Ring Crown established its absolute hegemony, the sea creatures and the academy stopped their war almost simultaneously and even began to accept each other.

After that, the daily routine of the academy wizards became traveling back and forth between various knowledge towers to study, conduct research, and complete tasks assigned by the towers.

Some of these tasks are optional, while others are mandatory, depending on the Spire task issuer's arrangements.

Prior to this, Hughes had received a mandatory mission at the Radim Spire, which required him to stay at a designated location near the academy for a period of time.

This is because the spatial structure at that location has changed, making it difficult to build a jump tunnel there in the future. Therefore, the Spire sent them to deal with it and restore the spatial structure to its original state.

Regardless of the type of task, the actual gains for them are very limited, and there are almost no extra rewards, because the so-called reward is the knowledge that the Spire imparts to them.

Therefore, many people were not interested in the task at the spire, and Hughes was no exception.

Therefore, he was naturally delighted to be spared the task of the Koya Spire.

"..."

"Hey, Hughes."

During a brief break, Bilim suddenly came up to him.

Hughes was able to recognize the other person because they were quite familiar with each other.

As for the other wizards in the group, he could only say that they barely knew each other.

After all, although they were in the same group, the grouping was only due to the venue, so they didn't have much to talk about.

As for how he met Bilim, it was because he also had a falling out with Ector.

As the saying goes, the enemy of my enemy is my friend (even though that enemy is dead), so when he first met Hughes, he praised Hughes' performance in his duel with Hector.

On the other side, after putting down his things, Hughes politely inquired.

"What's wrong, Wizard Bilim?"

Bilim, however, said with a hint of excitement:

"I heard... the wizards of the Natural Codex and those elves of the Chelka family have arrived!"