Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

"Um……"

Not long after the vampires left, Fern and Shuen moved at the same time. They slowly opened their eyes and looked around with a hint of confusion.

"What just happened? Did we suddenly freeze for a moment?"

Xiu En turned his head, his tone slightly dazed.

He always felt as if his consciousness had suddenly gone blank for a moment.

"The blood energy here is too strange; let's leave as soon as possible."

Fern responded, his tone somewhat grave.

"We informed the organization about the blood and gas situation here and asked them to send someone to take another look."

"it is good."

"..."

Before leaving, Fern took a final look at the Pillar of Quiris that he had just been inspecting. Seeing that the crystal screen on it was still drawing out the network diagram, he felt relieved and left.

……

The event happened so quietly that no one knew about it, including Hughes, who was currently meditating after observing the magic pool system.

"..."

The next day, after finishing his meditation, Hughes was in the basement studying the level one [Shadow of Black Mist] sorcery runes.

"Buzzing—"

Suddenly, his communication crystal flashed.

Hughes picked it up and saw a string of information appear before his eyes:

Following a decision by the academy, the Koya Spire will be temporarily closed effective immediately due to severe damage. All members of the Spire will be relocated to the Fugri Spire to continue their research on the Frostbreath Secret Source knowledge system…

"The Spire of Fugri?"

After reviewing the notice, Hughes began searching his memory for information about the Fugri Spire.

"So that's what it was... this spire..."

Coincidentally, when he was deciding which tower of knowledge to join, he had also considered the Fugri Tower.

After all, the knowledge systems studied by the Fugri Spire and the Koya Spire are quite similar. He had to choose between the two and ultimately chose the Koya Spire, which studied the "Frost Breath Secret Source".

Thinking of this, Hughes smiled and said:

"Perhaps that's why we moved here, since this way we can use some of the equipment in the Fugri Spire."

Like the Koya Spire, the Fugri Spire's research subjects are also ice elemental life forms, and it has even ventured into the study of secret sources.

However, unlike others, their system has only one research direction—to replicate those ice elemental life forms that have real names.

In layman's terms, the goal is to make the secret source they synthesize able to replace the souls of these true-name elemental life forms.

This is undoubtedly a crazy idea.

It's important to understand that while the Koya Spire also researches the Secret Source, essentially aiming to replace the souls of ice elemental lifeforms, it deliberately avoids those beings with true names.

After all, any elemental life form that possesses a true name means that its soul level is already comparable to that of higher races such as humans and elves.

To create a secret source that can replace their souls is tantamount to fabricating the soul of a superior race with wizarding potential out of thin air.

This idea is tantamount to nonsense, at least in the Oren plane.

Therefore, the research progress on the Fugri Spire... can be said to have made no progress to this day.

As for why Ramius would build a spire for this fruitless system of knowledge?

This is purely because this system was discovered by Ramis himself by chance in the Oren plane, and it was only a fragment.

This system of knowledge was signed by a wizard named Fugri.

Therefore, Ramius, who became interested in this idea, built the knowledge spire for this incomplete system.

"..."

After receiving the notification, Hughes teleported back to his dormitory at the Vulture Peak, and then flew to the Vulture Peak to receive the corresponding permissions.

"call out--!"

About 10 minutes later, Hughes arrived above the Fugri Spire.

A group of people had already gathered in the open space; they were the people from the Koya Spire.

A quick glance revealed that both Tilly and Bilim were present.

After he landed slowly, Bilim walked over.

"Hughes, you're here too."

His injuries have healed, at least in terms of his appearance and demeanor.

However, when the other party opened his mouth to speak, Hughes noticed that the other party's head-turning movement was slightly stiff, which suggested that the injuries caused by the Cold Cave Worm King would be difficult to completely eradicate in a short period of time.

"Lord Clotilde instructed us to take inventory of the usable equipment in the Koya Spire."

As he spoke, Bilim pointed to the crowd gathered not far away.

"It's a pity that these are all that's left... As for the most precious ones, it will probably take several more years to apply for them from the Wizarding Plane."

"Sigh... I hope the equipment at the Fugri Spire can be used temporarily, otherwise even my graduation... will probably have to be postponed."

The destruction of the spire will most affect these graduating wizards.

The destruction of the equipment meant that many critical experiments could not be carried out, and alternative methods had to be found.

However, compared to the dejected Billym, Hughes appeared remarkably calm.

He simply patted the other person on the shoulder, then asked curiously:

"How is our tower master?"

The reason for this is that he had an inspiration early on and had already completed the experiment. All that was needed was a final summary, and the knowledge derived from "The Secret Source of Frost Breath" would be fully formed.

Hughes himself found it hard to believe, but after thinking about it, he figured it might be because of his soul...

"Oh, Lord Mokat."

Meanwhile, Bilim responded.

"He was sent to the Blood Domain to serve as a surveillance agent for a full hundred years."

Upon hearing this, Hughes nodded thoughtfully.

Mocarat was, after all, a level two wizard, and moreover, he had once been a tower master.

Therefore, the academy will not impose excessive punishment on him.

A job that yields absolutely no "profit" for a full hundred years, while not a long time for a second-level wizard, is certainly not short either.

However, Hughes had another thought.

Throughout the year, he frequently visited Vaka at Coral Oath.

This "know-it-all" really does know a lot of things, and the two often discuss other things besides that combination potion.

Some time ago, he learned from Vaka that the Golden Crown seemed to have made some big moves in the Blood Domain, and it seemed that it had purchased a large number of detection tools from the Wizarding Plane.

A batch of magical artifacts for detection... combined with the current arrangement that Mocart has been exiled to the Blood Domain.

Hughes's fingertips twitched almost imperceptibly.

Things are probably not as simple as they seem.

The so-called punishment is probably just a convenient excuse to send a level-two wizard there...