Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

Upon seeing Ysera bring her people in, the three turned to look at her, their gazes falling on Hughes with a hint of scrutiny.

When Leibni looked at Hughes, his gaze visibly faltered for a moment, but he quickly recovered and turned to look at Ysera.

"Lady Ysera x3"

The three of them said in unison, and then stopped what they were doing.

They were all formal wizards, and naturally dared not be the slightest bit negligent in the face of Ysera, who was both a second-level wizard and the tower master.

"This is Hughes. He will be joining your research group to study the fusion of wizard souls and secret sources."

Isera said calmly, giving the three a brief introduction to Hughes.

"I believe that with his expertise, he can definitely help you break through your current bottleneck."

As she spoke, she turned to Hughes and said:

"Hughes, these three, like you, have done considerable research on the fusion of soul and secret source. From now on, you will work with them here."

"Yes, Lady Ysera."

Hughes nodded to the other person, and then nodded to the other three in greeting.

"Alright, why don't you two get to know each other first?"

Ysera nodded, then turned and walked away, heading towards the other end of the corridor...

"Da, da, da..."

"Click—thump."

After Ysera left and the crystal door closed, Hughes slowly stepped forward and came to the three of them.

"Gentlemen..."

He spoke first and gave the three of them an elegant wizard's salute.

"My name is Hughes, Hughes Craig. It's an honor to work with you all from now on."

As soon as he finished speaking, the three people opposite him had different expressions.

"Lord Hughes."

The first to speak was a young dwarf dressed in a light blue robe.

"Jack Digpe, you can just call me Jack."

He was quite different from those rugged dwarves; not only had he shaved off his thick beard, but his features were also much softer.

What caught Hughes's attention most was the badge on his chest, which bore the mark of two spires, signifying that he had successfully graduated from the two towers of knowledge.

"You're not from the Fugri Spire either, are you?"

Gack raised an eyebrow.

"I've been at the Fugri Spire for over three years, and it seems like I've never seen you."

Upon hearing this, Hughes nodded.

"I just graduated from the Koya Spire, and then I was introduced here by the tower master of the Koya Spire."

Then, a voice carrying a hint of arrogance suddenly rang out:

"My name is Lawrence, and I come from the noble Perugia family."

The human wizard standing on the left crossed his arms and looked Yanxius up and down.

"You're a newly minted wizard, aren't you? You look quite young."

He glanced at the other person's young face, then deliberately lingered for a moment on the badge engraved with only a single spire.

The next second, a mocking smile appeared on his lips.

"Heh, such obscure and profound research cannot be explored with just a single-tower graduation qualification. I hope you won't hold us back in the future."

As soon as he finished speaking, he removed the badge on his chest, deliberately showing Hughes his Three Towers degree.

Then, without looking back, he walked toward the experimental equipment to the side.

He probably didn't know that the other party had achieved one of the three spire marks that he had spent over a hundred years acquiring one by one in just over a year.

"Leibni is in charge of handling wizards' souls."

At this moment, Leibni, who had been silent all along, finally came over.

He gave Hughes a deep look, his eyes holding an unreadable meaning.

"If we're in the same research group in the future... we can each do our own job."

He gave a very brief introduction, only as a colleague in the research group.

However, Xiu Si gleaned another meaning from the other party's veiled words—that they should not let others know about their teacher-student relationship.

Despite some doubt, Hughes calmly responded:

"Yes, Leibni... Your Excellency."

At this point, Hughes had officially met his three research team members.

During the conversation, he learned that the other three had also been chosen and recruited by Ysera because of their research on the fusion of soul and secret source.

"..."

Several months later, the four of them stood at different points on the two glass domes, looking up at the scene of merging inside.

"Jack, connect the two glass domes."

Upon hearing this, Jakli pulled down the lever beside him.

"Click—"

Between the two large glass domes, there was a glass pipe, and as the lever was pulled down, the runic barrier inside the pipe dissipated.

——Whew!!

The next moment, a peculiar suction force emanated from the glass dome containing the secret source, attempting to draw the wizard's spirit from the adjacent glass dome into it.

—Bang! Bang! Bang bang!!

As if sensing something amiss, the previously silent wizard spirit suddenly became agitated and began frantically ramming against the glass dome in front of it, attempting to shatter it.

However, this glass was specially made by a mold maker, specifically for imprisoning spirit-like creatures.

Even though he had materialized, and even though the soul impact he unleashed caused ripples in the air, it still couldn't shake the glass in the slightest.

"Wow, this wizard's soul energy is quite abundant."

Standing beside the glass dome, Jacques couldn't help but exclaim in admiration.

"Leibniz, your soul-extraction technique is absolutely the best I've ever seen among wizards."

These wizard spirits all originated from the imprisoned dark wizards or wandering wizards in the aerial prison.

In order to keep the soul at a higher level, the consciousness of the person being extracted should be preserved as much as possible, so that the person remains a spirit that retains the wisdom of their previous life.

This step has always been handled by Leibni, and he has always done it best.

Soon after, the wizard's spirit was unable to resist the terrifying suction force.

With a "whoosh," it was quickly sucked into the glass dome containing the secret source through the pipe.

—Ahhh

The moment it entered, the large mass of dark blue secret energy surged violently, seemingly about to devour the spirit.

The spirit clearly sensed something was wrong; it began to struggle and shake violently, attempting to float back into the original glass dome.

Unfortunately, another runic barrier reappeared inside the glass tube, completely sealing him off from the source of the secret energy.

"Bang—!!"

The next moment, the secret source and the spirit body became entangled, with the dark blue particles and the milky white spirit body merging together like a tide.

"Aaaaaah—!!"

The spirit emitted a piercing scream, the sound of which even the glass enclosure could not block out.

However, the dark blue particles of the secret source still clung to the spirit body little by little, attempting to devour it bit by bit.