Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

Shortly after, Hughes returned to his dormitory.

"Phew... I'm finally back."

He murmured to himself, then took out a crystal ball from a cabinet to the side.

This is a crystal ball specifically used to test the mental strength of formal wizards. Hughes plans to use it to test his own mental strength first, so as to estimate whether he has reached the ability to construct a half-pool.

Because constructing the magic pool system essentially involves solidifying a large number of runes in the world of consciousness, and these runes are not independent entities, but interconnected.

Therefore, wizards need to reach a certain level of mental strength to construct the bottom pool, half pool, and full pool.

As for why Hughes was able to build a bottom pool just two months after his promotion?

That's because his meditation method was too advanced, so when he was promoted to a formal wizard, he directly extracted spiritual power from his soul that far exceeded Chang Liang's, directly meeting the requirements for constructing the bottom pool.

However, this doesn't work when it comes to building a half-pool. The difference in size between a bottom pool and a half-pool is enormous, and the difficulty of building one increases exponentially.

Correspondingly, the same applies to the requirements for mental strength.

Moreover, the magic pool that Hughes constructed is very large, so these requirements will be raised even further to some extent...

"..."

Before that, Hughes meditated for a while to ensure that his mental energy was in a state of no depletion.

He then reached for the crystal ball on the table.

The process is the same as the mental strength test during the apprenticeship; both involve injecting mental strength into the crystal ball through the hand.

Similarly, the phenomena occurring from the crystal ball all involve ripples of mental energy, only these are ripples of mental energy from a formal wizard.

"Buzz..."

Soon, as Hughes infused his mental energy into it, the crystal ball lit up and a milky white halo spread across its surface.

Not long after...

"Buzz—!"

With a loud buzzing sound, the halo on the surface of the crystal ball suddenly trembled.

The next moment, it quickly spread out an invisible ripple, spreading in all directions.

This ripple was incredibly solid, far surpassing anything he had experienced during the apprentice test. As it spread toward him, he could even feel a gentle pushing force.

On average, a wizard needs to be able to generate two ripples of mental energy to meet the mental energy requirements for constructing the Empty Pool system.

To construct a half-pool, one needs to generate a full twenty-two ripples of mental energy.

Moreover, it's said that the number of laps required to construct a full pool is even more exaggerated compared to a half-pool...

"Buzz—!"

Soon, the second ripple burst forth, reaching the level required to construct an empty pool.

And as time went by, the third lap, the fourth lap, the fifth lap...

"Buzz! Buzz! Buzz!..."

As Hughes continued to inject his mental energy, the number of rotations he activated reached twenty-one.

next moment.

"Buzz—!"

As a ripple spread outwards, the twenty-second lap was quietly completed.

This is the standard for constructing a semi-pool system.

But Hughes was not ready to end it, because he knew the level should be even higher.

Moreover, his mental energy has not yet been depleted to one-third.

That's right, the wizards weren't testing their full mental power, but rather two-thirds of it.

When advancing in rank, a wizard would naturally not be able to devote all their mental energy to constructing a magic pool system, as such an action would be very dangerous.

For example, this is what happened after Hughes reshaped Milro's soul structure, and this was even after he secretly held back some of his power.

Using two-thirds of one's mental energy to construct the magic pool system is the maximum consumption that wizards have determined after research and summarization.

As for the remaining third, one reason is that it needs to be used to maintain the normal state, and the other is that there are more than just building the magic pool system to do during the promotion.

"Buzz—!"

Soon, the twenty-third ripple burst forth, but this was clearly not two-thirds of the way to Hughes.

……

"Buzz—!"

This is the forty-ninth lap, and judging from Hughes's furrowed brow, it's not hard to tell that this is almost two-thirds of the way through.

Until the very end.

"Buzz—!"

As the fiftieth ripple of mental energy rapidly spread out, the test officially came to an end.

"Did you reach fifty laps?"

After withdrawing his hand, Hughes muttered to himself.

"It's much higher than the average level, even the top level in the Oren plane, but it's still far from reaching the full pool level."

He was quite satisfied with this data and was very certain that his mental strength had met the requirements for constructing his own half-pool.

Soon, after putting the crystal ball away, Hughes sat down by the window and meditated to restore his mental energy.

Half a day passed, and once his mental energy had fully recovered, he stored all the items needed for his advancement into his personal space and then teleported to his residence in Wisholm.

Since purchasing the mansion in this city, Hughes has arranged for almost all important matters to be carried out here.

Firstly, this place is secluded enough that any noise made here will not attract the attention of the academy.

Secondly, they were wary of potential threats such as Valerius, since even if they successfully applied for private property at the Academy, it would still be within the Academy grounds.

Then he began to set up the environment for his promotion.

"..."

"Yes, that's about it."

After a long while, the Hughes family's living room had changed dramatically.

A huge circular purple rune array was engraved on the ground, and on each ring of the array, there was a jar.

Inside the container was a thick purple mist, which was compressed magic.

The main function of this rune array is to absorb the magic power placed on it through the array rings, and supply magic power to Hughes, who is sitting in the very center of the rune array.

Promotion requires more than just mental energy; the runes and magic patterns that make up the magic pool system also require magic energy to draw.

The magical galaxy within the ruins served the same purpose.

Once everything was ready, Hughes activated the rune array that shielded him from external interference, including soundproofing, and officially began his advancement.

He sat on the central ring of the rune array, which was connected to all the surrounding rings, and the magic power that would be transferred to him would be transmitted through this ring.

"Buzz..."

The next moment, the rune array on the ground suddenly lit up, bursting with purple light.

At the same time, the rings on it lit up one after another, and began to draw magic power from the container.

Soon after, the patterns and runes on these array rings were covered with a thick layer of purple mist.

Immediately, the hazy purple mist followed the magical patterns on the ground, flowing like a river into the central array ring.

"Sizzle... Pfft..."

After absorbing the surrounding magical energy, the central array ring began to release a thick magical mist, enveloping Hughes...