Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

The identity token "given" by Hector was ultimately used by Hughes on Mr. Poison Demon.

Thus, Mr. Poison Demon officially became a legal resident of the continent of Maransel, and even "owned" a property in Wisholm.

The property was a two-story house with a courtyard and a basement. After some minor modifications, Hughes turned the basement into his own private laboratory.

Not long after, in the underground laboratory.

The surrounding walls have been engraved with layers of runes, which not only greatly enhances the defense but also blocks a certain degree of mental detection.

The air was filled with the pleasant aroma of herbs and potions, and various expensive alchemy vessels and biological modification tools were neatly arranged in the room.

These were specially prepared by the school, and their quality was in no way inferior to most of the equipment in the academy.

Now that his corpse has a legal status and he owns this property, all his future actions in the center of Maranseur will have an extra layer of reliable cover.

This will become his safest stronghold.

"..."

After entering the basement, Hughes began to hold his breath and concentrate, immersing his consciousness into the world of his mind.

He first dispersed the knowledge runes that contained the contents of the old witchcraft, and then put the knowledge runes of the newly acquired witchcraft into his consciousness world.

After doing all this, he slowly walked to a long table and sat down.

However, instead of accessing the knowledge runes of those witchcrafts, he first observed the magic pool that Gabriel had designed for him.

Aside from running errands, this was a task he did almost every day, in preparation for his advancement to a half-pool wizard.

Even if he only comprehends a single rune or figurees out the trajectory of a flow of spiritual energy in one night, it can save him a lot of time on his path to advancement.

In fact, Hughes's method is not unique in the entire Wizarding World, or even in the Oren World.

Some large families would also hire specialized wizards to pre-construct a magic pool system for their descendants as a reference.

However, it's important to know that the Magic Pool system is the most crucial advancement path for becoming a formal wizard.

For an ordinary wizard, it often takes hundreds of years to go from an empty pool to a full pool, then step by step to half a pool, and finally to a full pool.

Therefore, such a complicated process, even if it is just for reference, requires at least a wizard with a full pool and who specializes in the construction of magic pool systems to complete it, and it often takes nearly a hundred years.

Moreover, this was only prepared for apprentice wizards with average mental strength.

If a wizard's mental strength is exceptionally outstanding during their apprenticeship, the magic pool they construct will inevitably be larger, and the difficulty of constructing the magic pool system will also increase dramatically.

Therefore, there aren't many wizards who specialize in this business nowadays. If there are, the only ones they provide reference for are wizards with average mental strength but lacking spiritual power.

As for someone like Hughes, not only is the size of his magic pool among the top in the wizarding world, but Gabriel also personally constructed a magic pool system for him to refer to, a privilege that is truly unique.

This is why most wizards can only explore the magic pool system little by little on their own, repeatedly trying and making mistakes over a long period of time.

Hughes, however, had Gabriel as a reference, which meant he was standing directly on the path to advancement that Gabriel had paved for him.

This not only avoids all the dangerous pitfalls, but also saves us from centuries of tedious trial and error.

Even more terrifying is that the magic pool system constructed in this way not only does not have problems, but its performance may even be better.

"..."

Hughes sat at the table for a long time, going over the structure of the magic pool system countless times in his mind.

With this unique advantage, he is rapidly approaching the threshold of becoming a half-pool wizard at a speed far beyond what ordinary people can imagine.

……

Meanwhile, the Golden Crown has been exploring the underground of the Blood Domain for a full year.

Today, whether in mountains or forests, towns or riverbeds, wherever there is land within the Blood Domain, you can see pillars scattered across the ground.

These pillars, known as the Pillars of Quiris, are the culmination of the work of the wizard Quiris.

The lower half of the column continuously releases a special force field into the ground, while the upper half uses this force field to draw a complete map of the underground topography.

However, the troublesome part is that these pillars need to be manually opened one by one, and the wizard needs to monitor the drawing process of the pillars from time to time...

Nighttime, Blood Domain, Area 5

The evening breeze carried a faint scent of blood as it gently blew across the towering Pillars of Quiris on the ground.

—Waaah

The pillar then emitted a low, groaning sound, like a murmur from the depths of the earth.

A few minutes later, two monitors wearing special equipment appeared in a dense, blood-red forest.

The exploration of the Pillars of Quiris takes a long time, and the deeper underground it is, the longer the exploration time will be.

To this end, the Blood Domain's monitors were divided into two groups to take turns managing these giant pillars.

These two were the wizards responsible for the nighttime checks...

"Fern, don't you feel... the concentration of blood energy in this Blood Forest is a bit high?"

At that moment, Xiu En suddenly twitched his nose inside his mask and turned to ask his companion beside him.

"Even with the isolation mask on, I could smell blood."

At this moment, Fern had just finished inspecting the condition of one of the Pillars of Quiris, and after recording it, he turned around and replied:

"Whoosh... Hmm, it seems so."

He sniffed and found that he could indeed smell a faint metallic rusty smell, characteristic of blood.

"Oh, don't worry about that. You're new here and not familiar with the place yet."

Compared to Shuen, whose fingers were trembling slightly, Fern's reaction was much calmer.

"In such a large area, the concentration of blood qi will naturally not be very balanced. There will definitely be areas with very high concentrations, which even our equipment cannot completely isolate."

Having said that, he raised his hand to reinforce the mask covering his face, and then walked toward another pillar of Quiris not far away.

"Let's bear with it for now. Let's speed things up and finish inspecting the Pillars of Quiris in this dense forest as soon as possible."

Upon hearing this, Xiu En naturally couldn't say anything more, so he quickened his pace to catch up with Fern, who had already walked ahead...

"..."

——rustling

Unbeknownst to the two, right after they left, wisps of black mist suddenly emerged from a bush less than ten meters away from them.