Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

"call out--"

Not long after, Dorati used the same method to take Hughes away from the palace.

Before leaving, Netil also gave Hughes many potion recipes, entrusting him to help the organization refine them.

"call out--"

A few seconds later, a flash of silver light appeared inside the hall, and Dorati's figure suddenly appeared.

"Lord Netir..."

Back in the palace, Dorati looked at the woman on the throne, a hint of confusion flashing in her eyes behind the mask.

"You clearly... had already dealt with the merman symbol blood stored in the secret chamber, so why did you still ask that Hughes to do this unnecessary thing?"

Upon hearing this, Netil, seated on the throne, slowly spoke:

"Do you know why I got rid of Wakka?"

Dorati gently shook his head and said:

"I always thought that you wanted to get rid of him because he had the idea of ​​leaving the organization."

"No--"

Netil's eyes narrowed slightly, and his tone became somewhat low:

"As one of the earliest wizards to join, he knows far too much... including our dealings with those fourth-ring families."

Upon hearing this, Dorati below trembled violently, his eyes filled with horror.

Rumors circulate that several families from the fourth ring have already set their sights on seizing the teleporter.

But what many people don't know is that the Coral Oath is actually involved here.

Or rather... it was the work of the branch leader, Netil himself.

(404 mentions the plot to use the teleporter)

The shrewd and calculating man naturally understood the unspoken message in the other party's words: that no one who knew about this matter should even think about escaping.

This naturally includes himself.

"Lord Netiel, entering the Wizarding Dimension is my lifelong dream."

With this in mind, Dorati immediately stated her position.

"Even if it means death, I will help you obtain the teleporter!"

Seeing that the other party had made their stance clear, Nettil nodded slightly.

"With Vaka gone, our branch naturally needs a new key administrator, and after some consideration, I think only the newly arrived Hughes is suitable for the job."

As a branch located next to the Tower of Triumph, they have only recruited one champion, Hughes, in recent years; the rest are wizards who have been smuggled in.

Therefore, Hughes is the most suitable candidate for this soon-to-be-vacant new position...

"And in order for him to be competent as the key manager, I naturally need to test his loyalty."

Thinking of this, Nettil's eyes narrowed slightly.

"Of course... actually, I also have the idea of ​​bringing him on board."

……

"call out--"

Not long after, Dorati also took his leave.

Seeing that there was no one else in the empty palace, Netil suddenly closed her eyes slowly.

"Click-clack—click-clack"

The next moment, her body suddenly transformed into a humanoid form pieced together from coral.

"..."

Meanwhile, somewhere deep in the ocean, the real Nedir had quietly opened his eyes.

She was surrounded by giant, colorful, enchanted coral reefs.

They stretched for miles, completely covering the surrounding sea, and ordinary magical beasts and wizards dared not approach them.

But at this moment, right in front of Netteir, besides the coral reefs, stood an ancient tree with a completely aquamarine color.

Its bark, branches, and even leaves are a clear, watery blue.

Meanwhile, countless light blue vines hung from the tree trunk.

Upon closer inspection, it turned out to be the strange, strip-shaped object that Netil had previously given to Hughes.

The entire ancient tree resembles a giant octopus, with its trunk and crown forming its massive body, and countless vines acting as its tentacles.

But it's neither an ancient tree nor a giant octopus.

Instead, it is the Tree of Life, which the sea spirits have guarded for generations.

At this moment, Netil had slowly walked to the Tree of Life.

Upon closer inspection, one can see a light blue mark that has appeared on her smooth forehead.

Clearly, like Tyr, she, possessing half-elf blood, also received the gifts of the Tree of Life.

"Why... do I feel like I can hear your voice?"

Before long, as Netil gazed at the giant tree rooted in the seabed, a hint of confusion appeared in his eyes.

"And why—why did you guide me to cast a curse on Wakka back then?"

……

After emerging from the underwater ruins, Hughes teleported back to his room in Wiesholm.

"Strange, this thing... why does it feel so familiar?"

He took out the unidentified strip that Netil had given him, and his doubts grew.

On the surface of this object, there was actually a thin film attached, which was obviously Nethil's way of preventing him from seeing its true form.

But what the other person didn't know was that he had a strange sense of familiarity with this thing, as if he had seen something similar before...

"..."

Until, for some reason, Hughes subconsciously looked at the black sapling in the basement.

"That's—!"

Upon seeing this, his pupils contracted slightly, and a word suddenly appeared in his mind.

"The Tree of Life!"

The black sapling in the basement is the Green's Grudge that Hughes has nurtured to this day.

Two years have passed quietly, and its trunk is now thicker and its branches more lush.

Unfortunately, the spirit at that time was only a part of Green, so even the other party could not know the origin of these trees.

To this day, these beings, known as "another kind of sub-tree of life," remain an unsolved mystery.

But one thing is certain: even if the Grim Reaper is not the Tree of Life, it must be related to it.

Now, he could sense a similar aura to the Grudge from the strip in his hand.

Therefore, without a doubt, this strip-shaped object is part of a certain tree of life.

"Could this be... the Tree of Life of the Sea Spirits?"

Seeing this, Hughes murmured.

Although so far, apart from the Frost Elf Tree of Life he saw in the village of Liviser and the pseudo-Primordial Tree of Life in the city beneath the tree, he has not seen any other forms of Tree of Life.

Fortunately, when he was learning the Elven language from Cyrus, he had seen the forms of all the known Trees of Life in one of Cyrus's books.

Of course, this does not include the original Tree of Life.

The long, thin object in front of them was strangely similar to a part of the Sea Spirit Tree of Life, namely the vines that grew from the trunk.

"It's almost certainly the one."

Despite the thin membrane separating them, once he got close to the Grudge, Hughes became certain of his suspicions.

But what puzzled him was, what exactly was the meaning of mixing a portion of the Tree of Life into a potion?!