Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

"hehe……"

Finally, Zoroark smiled helplessly, then raised his hand and shed his lava body.

"In the end, you're nothing more than... a small fry who just happened to come from the outskirts of the mainland."

As soon as he finished speaking, the lava on his body began to peel away layer by layer, and at that very moment, excruciating pain swept over him.

"Well--!"

The next moment, Zoroark let out a muffled groan. He no longer looked at Hughes, but lowered his head and silently endured the excruciating pain of his body being torn apart.

"Sizzle!!"

Immediately afterwards, the venom on his shoulder began to corrode his flesh, inside and out, and blood began to gush out from his entire body.

"I...I..."

Suddenly, Zoroark swayed, then abruptly stopped, looked up, and roared:

"I will never allow you to touch anything belonging to the Herunor family again!"

"Whoosh... Boom!!"

As soon as he finished speaking, his legs, which were still covered in lava, suddenly changed, turning flesh and blood into gushing magma.

The terrifying thrust that erupted in that instant launched him out like a cannonball.

"Whoosh—!"

However, his target wasn't Hughes, but rather Nister directly in front of him...

Clearly, Zoroark was preparing to use his Lava Heart to destroy the heart of Ector inside Nystor's body.

Their Heruno family's property must never be defiled.

...But more precisely, what he wanted to destroy was the secret hidden in his heart, the secret belonging to the entire family.

——!

But at this critical moment, Hughes suddenly moved.

Suddenly, his eyes widened, and an invisible ripple quickly spread out from in front of him.

...Whoosh! Buzz! !

That was a mental attack he had planned in advance, and a deadly move that Zoroark, who was on the verge of death at this moment, was powerless to resist.

……boom!

Soon, the invisible impact struck Zoroark heavily, and a soft thud suddenly rang out.

"Well……"

The next moment, his eyes rolled back, and he fell heavily to the ground, lying in front of Nister.

"Thump—"

At that moment, the lava heart in his chest slowly extinguished, gradually returning to its normal flesh and blood form.

"Buzz—!"

But in that instant, a fiery red rune quietly appeared in his heart, about to unleash a powerful energy.

But the next second, Hughes' right hand suddenly reached out.

"call out--!"

Immediately afterwards, the energy of the shattered realm condensed into a wisp of silver light, which shot out from his fingertip and then pierced his heart, striking the rune directly.

……Bang!

In an instant, the rune was blasted apart by the energy of the shattered realm, turning into countless particles.

"laugh--!"

At the same time, Hughes reached out with his right hand and pulled out the other man's heart.

"As expected... the Heruno family has a secret..."

Seeing what had just happened, Hughes became even more certain of his previous guess.

In addition, Brecken also suffered a heart attack earlier.

Unfortunately, only Mr. Poison and his group were present at the time, and he himself was fighting against Zoroark and the others, so he could only let the other's heart self-destruct.

This also shows that the members of the Heruno family must have been hiding something from their hearts, which is why they all resorted to such methods.

As for whether Hector and Sores' hearts did not self-destruct?

Hughes speculated that it was because their souls had been sucked away by his sighing bone flute before they died, which was why the self-destruct mechanism in their hearts was not triggered.

Looking at the bloody heart in his hand, he immediately became interested and prepared to investigate further later.

After all, the Heruno family had lost three official wizards at once, and they would definitely come looking for him to settle accounts.

If he could discover something his family didn't want to see, perhaps he could avoid retribution...

"..."

After placing the heart into the container and putting it into his storage bag, Hughes looked at Zoroark at his feet.

The other party was not dead, but their body and consciousness were already beyond repair.

The body is ruined because of those injuries and the loss of the heart.

As for the world of consciousness?

His mental attack was quite powerful, as it had already begun to build up after he walked over.

"Zoroark, please help me with one last thing."

As he spoke, Hughes once again took out the Sighing Bone Flute and the Blood Pact Tick.

"Help me, a nobody, escape your family's punishment."

Having said that, he ignored Zoroark's horrified gaze and directly put the Blood Pact Tick into the other's mouth.

"..."

"##**##*#*#"

"Waaah—"

The next moment, accompanied by the melodious sound of a flute, Zoroark's soul also floated out of his body.

But just as it was about to play the bone flute freely, a hand radiating a pale white glow suddenly reached out.

"Whoosh—snap!"

Hughes suddenly grabbed and easily seized the soul that was about to be sucked into the flute music.

Immediately, ignoring the suction from the flute, his eyes suddenly rolled back, and he used the Soul Searching Technique on the soul in his hand.

...Buzz!

Soon, fragments of Zoroark's memories began to seep into Hughes's mind.

Scenes flashed through his mind like a revolving lantern, constantly increasing his mental burden.

Including... the secrets of the Lava Heart.

Finally, one image caught his attention:

It was a crimson dot of light that quietly drifted into Zoroark's room.

"..."

Soon after, the words "Hughes Craig" formed from blood energy appeared in Zoroark's mind.

Hughes's face darkened, and he immediately withdrew the soul-searching spell. At the same time, he loosened his grip, allowing the nearly destroyed soul to enter the Sighing Bone Flute.

"So that's it... It was you..."

……

"Whoosh—Bang!"

In a dark corner, a pitch-black figure suddenly flew backward and crashed heavily to the ground.

"Thump!!"

The next moment, the figure staggered to his feet, his voice trembling as he said:

"Lord Xiu...Lord Xiu, this...this was indeed what I did, and I want to apologize to you."

The figure was Barossa, and right now, opposite him, Hughes was walking towards him step by step with a gloomy expression.

After seeing that scene in Zoroark's memory, he instantly deduced who the informant was behind it all.

Blood Energy, Hector.

Aside from Barossa, or Aldec, who was on good terms with him, there was probably no one else.

"Barossa..."

Soon, Hughes approached, his voice filled with coldness.

"You think I don't know that it was you who suggested that Hector, who is a year older than me, compete against me?"

Upon hearing this, Barossa on the opposite side trembled suddenly.