Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

A few days later, Hughes received a notice that Clotilde wanted to summon him to the Spire of Fugri to discuss matters related to his graduation.

"It's a discussion, not an authorization?"

This left Hughes somewhat puzzled.

"Does my work not meet the graduation requirements?"

However, since things had come to this point, he had no choice but to go to the Spire of Fugri and meet Clotilde.

As for where the two met, it was still at the Fugri Spire.

At this time, due to the merger of the two towers, Clotilde temporarily resided in this spire and temporarily assumed the position of the tower master of the Koya spire.

"..."

Not long after, Hughes returned to the Spire of Fugri.

Like the Koya Spire, this spire is filled with wisps of cold air, even inside, and is decorated with an ice-themed style.

Upon entering the tower, he went straight to the crystal elevator platform in the center, preparing to go to the top floor.

"Whoosh—whoosh!"

The next moment, as a purple light enveloped everything, the elevator platform instantly transformed into a purple streak, carrying Hughes straight upwards.

"Buzz—"

Hughes felt the scene before him blur for a few seconds, and then the elevator suddenly stopped, and he was already at the top of the spire.

"clatter--"

Upon reaching the top floor, Hughes discovered that its scale was comparable to that of a sizable workshop.

Countless large pieces of equipment are placed here, and wizards in uniform move about among them, either operating the equipment or recording strings of data.

The most eye-catching feature is the row of giant glass containers, each containing a large cluster of ice-blue particles.

They seemed to possess life, constantly churning and dispersing inside the glass case.

They vaguely seem to outline the shape of some kind of creature.

As a wizard of the Koya Spire, Hughes recognized at a glance that these particles were the Secret Source, the soul of the ice elemental lifeforms artificially created by the wizards.

"Speaking of which..."

Thinking of this, Hughes murmured.

"My graduation project—is also about the secret source."

Although he had the most contact with ice elemental life forms in the Koya Spire, he had very little contact with the Secret Source.

After all, the important research area he was involved in was the transformation between magical beasts and elemental life forms, and the transformation between them did not involve the implantation of secret sources.

However, perhaps due to the fusion of his two souls, he has an exceptionally keen perception of the soul and a far greater understanding of it than ordinary people.

This inspired him to write his graduation project, which had little to do with his usual research.

If Bilim knew about this, he would probably be even more shocked.

After all, in the various towers of knowledge, most wizards' graduation projects are closely related to their daily research directions. The more they come into contact with it, the deeper their understanding becomes, and the easier it is to produce results.

However, the final graduation project that Xu Sisi produced was still a secret source that had very little to do with his daily research, which was naturally even more shocking.

"..."

Soon, following the directions, Hughes arrived at the area where Clotilde was located.

"Knock knock..."

"Enter."

"Creak—"

Upon opening the door, he saw Clotilde standing in the center of the room.

A crystal platform floated in front of him, with several Esso runes and a few milky-white crystal chips floating on its surface.

Hughes felt that these chips looked familiar, and he immediately recognized them as fragments of the Eye of Erdos.

"Buzz—"

Upon seeing Hughes enter, Clotilde casually waved his hand, releasing his control over the table.

"Buzzing, splashing—"

In an instant, the Esso language symbols vanished into thin air, and the chips fell back onto the table.

"You've come, Hughes."

When he turned around and his gaze fell on Hughes, it was less cold than usual and more approving.

Upon noticing the other person's gaze, Hughes knew—graduation was in the bag.

"Actually... I have a good impression of your performance over the past year, and my assessment is—very good."

Clotilde tapped the tabletop with his fingertips, and then a scroll filled with dense text emerged from the table and unfurled out of thin air.

"Thank you for your recognition, Lord Clotilde."

Hughes recognized it at a glance; the scroll contained his graduation project—the fusion of the human soul and the secret source.

"To be frank, your graduation project has met the graduation requirements, but I have not summoned you here today solely to award you a graduation certificate."

After a pause, Clotilde continued.

"I've reviewed your graduation results, and they will greatly benefit the future development of 'The Secret Source of Frost Breath,' and also..."

The next moment, he changed the subject and his tone became somewhat serious.

"At the same time—and perhaps also very helpful to one of the experiments at the Fugri Tower."

Upon hearing this, Hughes raised an eyebrow, already understanding the unspoken meaning behind the other party's words—that they wanted him to participate in a certain experiment.

"Hmm... Thank you for your high regard, Lord Clotilde and Lord Ysera, but—I think I'm afraid I won't be able to be of much help to the experiment."

It wasn't that Hughes didn't want to participate in the experiment, but ever since the Black Ring Crown reappeared, he had noticed that the atmosphere throughout the Oren Plane seemed to have become tense.

In addition, after hearing about the Blood Domain from Vakana, and knowing the relationship between the Black Ring Crown and the vampires, he immediately became vigilant.

At this moment, all he wanted was to become stronger as quickly as possible in order to cope with the impending turmoil.

"Oh? Bush, I think you're perfectly capable..."

Upon being rejected, Clotilde frowned slightly, a hint of displeasure flashing through his mind, but having lived for hundreds of years, he was not so easily angered.

"Perhaps I didn't explain this beforehand... If you participate in this experiment, you will not only receive a generous reward, but if you plan to apply to establish the Tower of Knowledge in the future, the two tower masters, Ysera and I, will recommend you to the Dean."

Upon hearing this, Hughes's heart stirred.

If you want to build your own knowledge spire, you have to apply to the dean, since the spire was built by the dean himself.

Similarly, whether or not the conditions for building the spire were met was decided personally by Dean Ramis.

However, viewing a complete knowledge system requires a lot of time and effort, so another way has emerged – recommendation from other tower masters.

The tower master's skill was naturally inferior to that of Dean Ramis from the wizarding world, but he had the advantage of having more people.

Together, they evaluate the new knowledge system on behalf of the dean, and finally discuss whether the knowledge system created by the applicant can build a knowledge pyramid.

If all five tower masters agree, the dean will directly build a knowledge tower for the applicant.