Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

However, on the surface, this appears to be just an assassination attempt by Black Ring targeting members of the academy.

But deep down, Xiu Si had a feeling that this assassination attempt was somewhat strange and not as simple as it seemed on the surface.

"Now that things have come to this, let's hurry back and inform the academy."

Thinking of this, Hughes looked around, then suddenly looked down.

……

"call out……"

At this moment, the assassin's severed arms were still falling through the air.

However, as the assassin transformed into an elemental life form and fled, these two arms began to subtly change.

They began to disintegrate inch by inch from the upper arm, turning into specks of dark elemental particles, and continued to spread to the other end.

But suddenly! Just as the right hand was about to disintegrate automatically, a sharp spatial blade suddenly struck from above.

"Whoosh—!!"

There was no flash of a blade, only a fleeting, transparent ripple across the wrist.

In an instant, the wrist broke off, the cut being unusually clean.

"As expected, even if your body and clothes are made of dark elements, the gloves that represent the Black Ring Crown cannot be faked with elements."

Just then, Hughes's voice suddenly came.

Just now, he had swooped down from above and landed beside the falling arm.

As soon as he finished speaking, he quickly reached forward and grabbed the severed hand.

In an instant, the severed hand turned into dark particles, leaving only the empty black ring glove in Hughes's hand.

But he had already achieved his goal; with this glove, he could prove that he had been assassinated by the Black Ring Crown.

At that time, Wanlingjianta will send people to investigate.

"Whoosh—"

Meanwhile, the assassin, now transformed into black mist, had already escaped several kilometers away.

He landed slowly by a river, then manipulated the black mist to quickly gather and solidify his body.

"Whoosh..."

This time, however, he no longer revealed a face constructed of dark particles, but rather an extremely eerie face.

Those scarlet eyes revealed his vampire identity.

"Damn it, that guy Barossa's information isn't accurate either!"

The vampire assassin muttered to himself, then pulled out a communication crystal.

"If it weren't for my special talent, I would have really died at the hands of that space wizard this time."

Immediately after the communication crystal lit up, he sent a message to one of the communication markers.

"Aldec (Barossa), I've already tried it with Bevic's mark, and he wasn't controlled by it. It shouldn't be what you think."

"As for those two scents you mentioned? The situation was too urgent at the time, I didn't notice them, and besides, you have the most sensitive sense of smell among us."

After saying that, he turned off the communication crystal, and then his body went limp and he collapsed heavily to the ground.

"That guy Aldec... he's really cautious, always before he makes a move..."

"..."

"We need to have others test the waters a few times first, so we can find out their true intentions."

……

Upon returning to the academy, Hughes immediately put on the black-ringed glove and entered the central hall where academy affairs were handled.

He skipped the tedious procedures and flew swiftly to the main office in the lobby.

"What did you say? The Black Crown!"

In the central hall, the wizard on duty immediately stood up.

He looked around and noticed that all the wizards around him were watching him. His expression darkened, and he immediately teleported Hughes to a secluded room.

"call out--"

There was only one special device in the room, marked with a gold ring.

"Put that glove on."

Hughes nodded and then put the glove into the device.

The next moment, all the circular patterns on the gloves lit up, emitting a deathly black light.

"Waaah—"

Instantly, the space around them distorted, and a level two wizard appeared.

He was the manager of the hub hall—Haven Pegley.

"A black ring keepsake?"

Harvin glanced around, then looked at Hughes.

Tell me what happened.

"..."

Soon, the news reached the higher-ups of the Myriad Peaks, who immediately dispatched several wizards to the locations Hughes had described as having been attacked and where the teleportation trap had been triggered.

"call out--!"

Just five minutes later, a dazzling stream of light suddenly pierced the sky, bringing with it a level two wizard with a golden crown to the Myriad Peaks.

Before the wizard from the Myriad Spire could arrive, he flashed and teleported to the room.

"Tregear Wizard, I didn't expect you to arrive so quickly."

Ha Wen immediately came over to greet him.

"It's not just here; similar things have happened to apprentices in the Natural Codex, and some have even died."

The man in the golden robe, Toregia, nodded to the other party, then looked at Hughes in the corner with a serious expression.

"You are the only one who has returned alive so far, so in order to prevent you from being corrupted by the Black Ring, you need to undergo my examination."

Upon hearing this, Hughes immediately responded:

"Yes."

……

Meanwhile, at a spire in the center of the college.

"Buzzing..."

At the very top of the spire, the air suddenly trembled violently, and a crimson force field crashed down into the hall.

"Buzz! Whoosh!!!"

At the very center of the force field, Barossa knelt on the ground, his face contorted in pain, enduring the violent impact of the force field.

Even though his skin was torn and bleeding all over his body, he remained motionless and showed no intention of breaking free.

The reason for this terrifying force field was that it was Valerius, who was standing in front of him, who unleashed it upon him.

Valerius was also standing in the center of the force field, but he was not affected.

He had shed his usual golden eyes as a disguise, revealing his blood-red eyes that belonged to the vampires.

"Aldec Nasir".

Valerius was clearly enraged, his eyes filled with icy coldness as he looked at Barossa (Aldec).

"If I hadn't intervened in time to clean up the mess, you and that idiot... would have caused an irreparable disaster in our vampire clan's grand plan that we've been scheming for years!"

As he spoke, he raised his hand and suddenly waved it.

In an instant, Barossa was lifted into the air and flew to Valerius's side.

"Do you realize that if we alert the Golden Ring Crown and they send more wizards to the Myriad Edges Spire, it could very well ruin our part of the plan, huh?!"

As he spoke, his blood-stained hand clenched slightly.

"You almost ruined my plan!"

The surrounding blood energy immediately converged on Barossa, constantly squeezing his body.

"Ah—ah!!"

The cracking sound of bones breaking echoed continuously from within his body, but Barossa only called out a few times before immediately replying:

"I...I'm sorry, Lord Valerius, I...I really didn't expect that guy to be able to dodge Bacarda's sneak attack."