Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

A few days later, Hughes received a message instructing him to go to the Spire of Fugri and discuss his entry into the tower with its master, Isera.

A few minutes later, he reached the top of the spire again, but this time he headed towards the area where Ysera was.

"Knock knock—"

"Enter."

"Creak—"

Hughes pushed open the door and entered. Unlike Clotilde's spacious office area, Ysera's was relatively cramped, even though her office area was actually larger.

This place is filled with glass domes of all sizes, and inside them are various ice elemental life forms soaked in some kind of blue liquid.

He glanced around and discovered that they were all natives of the Frozen Plane, ranging from the smallest Ice Shard Demons to the Ice Giants, whose size was comparable to adult giants.

—It's practically a "specimen room"!

Hughes clicked his tongue in amazement.

However, he could sense that these ice elemental life forms were still alive and were not specimens.

"What? Interested in this place?"

Seeing Hughes lingering over the glass domes, Isera smiled faintly.

"Oh! I'm sorry, Lady Ysera."

Hughes smiled.

"Your collection is truly amazing. I have never seen so many beings from the Frozen Dimension, and they have been preserved so well."

He assumed that Ysera was saving the summoned ice elemental lifeforms to conserve her mental energy.

This is also what most ice wizards do, since these summoned creatures cannot return to the ice plane, and keeping them would consume a portion of their mental energy.

Therefore, they can only be put into temporary hibernation and summoned directly from somewhere in the Oren plane during battle.

As for those summoned using Soul Stones or Secret Sources, they will disappear once the time limit is up.

"Hehehe..."

However, upon hearing this, Ysera chuckled and then explained:

"These are not natives summoned from the Frozen Plane, but replicas I created based on them."

"Copy?"

Upon hearing this, Hughes' heart stirred. Thinking of the knowledge system studied by the Fugri Spire, he immediately understood.

In other words, what is placed here now, although not native to the Frozen Plane, is a creation that possesses their characteristics, is not bound to the summoner, and can exist permanently!

"I see... Your methods are truly admirable."

Hughes exclaimed, and it was from the bottom of his heart.

From the mysterious summoning of the Koya Spire to the replication of ice elemental life forms at the Fugri Spire.

Through bold ideas, wizards continuously improved the originally flawed summoning magic.

"Unfortunately, the core of our knowledge system—the replication of true-name life forms—has made little progress."

At this point, Ysera sighed.

"Fortunately, a few years ago, we came up with a solution that wasn't really a solution, and your derivative results can provide a lot of help to that solution."

Upon hearing this, Hughes' heart stirred slightly.

"You mean...we should try to combine the secret source with the wizard's soul?"

In fact, he had already vaguely guessed their purpose when Clotilde invited him.

"Very perceptive. It seems Clotilde was right about you."

Ysera nodded, a hint of approval flashing in her eyes.

"Since their souls are at such a high level, we will add a wizard's soul of the same high level and create a secret source that can replace their souls."

"Of course, this is just a workaround. If we really do it this way, then the original wizard's consciousness cannot be separated. But if it is not separated, then it is just like giving the wizard a new body of ice element."

After saying that, she led Hughes to the area where the other party would conduct research.

"I've divided my research into two directions. One is what I did before: synthesizing a secret source that can replace the soul of a true-name life form."

Isela spoke as she walked, her boots clicking lightly on the ground.

"As for the other new one, it's to have you and a few others—research how to fuse the wizard's soul with the secret source I've given you."

"The wizard's soul merges with the secret source..."

He repeated it in a low voice, his fingertips unconsciously clenching together.

Although this knowledge is my graduation project, it is knowledge that has been verified through practice.

However, this time it involves an entity with a true name, and judging from the specifications of the Fugri Spire, it is estimated that the research will still focus on the secrets of a level two ice elemental life form.

In this way, even with previous theoretical and practical references, the difficulty will still increase significantly.

Soon, Hughes followed Ysera to a magical barrier.

He was then surprised to realize that this was not the top floor of the Fugri Spire, but that there was an even higher place behind this magical barrier.

Immediately, Ysera raised her hand and pointed, and the originally solid magic barrier rippled instantly, then quickly cracked open, allowing the two of them to pass through.

After stepping onto the spiral staircase, the two went up and soon arrived at the top-floor corridor.

They came up from the middle of the corridor. Hughes looked around and found that the corridor was very long and led to the left and right sides.

"The area you are studying is on the left."

At this moment, Ysera, who was beside him, stepped out slowly and walked straight to the left side of the corridor.

Hughes followed, glancing back at the path leading to the right side of the corridor as he left.

At the end of the corridor was an incredibly thick crystal door, and even from a distance, he could feel the chill emanating from within.

That place... might be the secret source they are trying so hard to synthesize—a source that can replace the soul of a true-name life form!

"Da, da, da, da..."

Soon after, they arrived at the end of the left side of the corridor, where there was an identical crystal door.

"Click-crack"

As the heavy crystal door slowly opened, a biting chill instantly rushed out.

However, since both of them were ice wizards, this bit of cold air had no effect on them, and it seemed that the corridor beneath their feet had also been specially modified so that the cold air could not freeze on it.

Upon entering, one is greeted by a large hall.

Despite being called a hall, it was actually quite crowded with all sorts of equipment.

The most eye-catching feature is the two giant glass domes placed in the center.

One of them contained a solidified wizard spirit, while the other contained a large mass of icy blue mystic energy.

Hughes looked over and found three wizards standing beside the glass dome. He happened to recognize one of them, Leibni Interbern, his Potions Tower mentor.