Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

"Such immense power, and you dare to look down on it?!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than Barossa brazenly unleashed his blood energy high in the sky outside the academy.

In an instant, the eerie blood energy rapidly seeped out from between the feathers.

At the very moment the blood energy was released, his aura suddenly doubled, and his mental energy fluctuations were almost on par with those of the full pool of wizards.

"This is the real me, Hughes Craig."

Aldek (Barossa) looked at Hughes with a defiant gaze.

"This is the venerable vampire wizard, Aldek Nasir, not this feathered brat."

Aldec and Barossa have completely opposite personalities.

Barossa was aloof and arrogant by nature, and remained so until his death.

This appearance is also the image that Aldek has been disguising for a long time.

But once Aldek sheds his "Barossa" disguise, he is a dissolute and unrestrained vampire nobleman.

No one knew the extent of his repression: the unfamiliar continent, years of pretense, the immense pressure from Valerius, and... the sudden entry of Hughes, all of which were gradually tormenting his true nature.

Until today, after hearing Hughes's nonchalant "cannot be enhanced," he finally couldn't suppress the anger that had been building up in his heart for so long and completely tore off his disguise.

There was no interference from any mental energy, nor was it a deliberate provocation by Hughes.

It was Aldec's hidden jealousy that caused his long-suppressed nature to be completely revealed.

"Hehehe... Lord Hughes, since you look down on the power of our vampires so much..."

...Boom! Boom boom!!

Before the words were even finished, a surge of powerful blood energy erupted, turning the entire area crimson.

"Then—prove to me the power of you human wizards!"

After saying that, Aldek summoned a silver crystal from his storage bag.

The crystal floated silently in mid-air, its magical energy constantly overflowing, transforming the area into the appearance of an ordinary sky.

In an instant, the blood energy in the air, as well as the figures of Hughes and Aldek, completely disappeared into the air and were concealed in the illusion generated by the crystal.

At this moment, the real sky had been dyed blood red.

In the sky, wings made of blood energy materialized behind Aldek, hovering high above Hughes.

"Hehehe... Well then, no one will bother you now, Lord Hughes."

He grinned maliciously, then suddenly raised his hands, and the surrounding blood energy surged and reshaped, instantly transforming into deadly blood-red spears.

The next second, with a slight flick of his finger, the blood-red spears rained down like a storm.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!"

"..."

"Neuropathy……"

Below, looking at the rain of spears that inexplicably came crashing down on him from above, Hughes couldn't help but complain.

Even so, he knew that a showdown was inevitable at this moment.

The next moment, a chilling aura burst forth from his body, instantly transforming into a howling blizzard that shattered all the spears attacking from above.

"Huff! Huff! Huff!!"

Immediately afterwards, the raging wind and snow suddenly contracted and condensed, transforming into a sharp whirlwind cone that shot straight towards Aldek above.

"call out--!!"

"..."

In the distance, watching Aldek unleash several crimson bombs that instantly shattered the whirlwind cone, Hughes smiled slightly and said:

"Perfect... let me get to know your fighting style in advance."

Having said that, he flashed and charged straight at the other party.

"..."

The duel lasted for several hours, and even the illusion created by the crystal was almost shattered by the residual power emanating from the two.

Suddenly, the entire "sky" began to shake violently, followed by several muffled explosions.

...Boom! Boom boom!!

At this moment, in the real sky.

The sky was completely split into two scenes: one side was completely stained with blood energy, even the clouds were tinged with an eerie crimson, while the other side was constantly ravaged by blizzards, and the clouds had long since frozen into tiny ice crystals.

Hughes and Aldek, on the other hand, were clearly suspended in two separate scenes, silently facing each other.

Aldek's body was covered in purple frostbite, and his body was riddled with holes of all sizes, some of which had been blasted open with multiple bloody holes.

Fortunately, as a vampire, he can quickly heal these flesh wounds by activating his blood energy to remove the ice elements attached to the wounds.

Hughes, on the other hand, was in no better shape. His body was covered in gruesome scratches, and his entire left hand was being constantly eroded by a thick mass of blood energy.

In desperation, he had no choice but to temporarily freeze his entire left hand, sealing the blood inside the ice crystals.

Both of them tacitly stopped fighting and seemed to have no intention of continuing.

"call……"

Aldek was the first to stop. He gradually suppressed the blood energy that was constantly dissipating, and his aura weakened, slowly transforming into the "Barossa" state.

At the same time, the blood in his eyes and his blood-feathered robes also faded.

"Huff huff..."

He transformed back into Barossa, his face once again displaying that aloof and arrogant expression.

"Not bad, Lord Hughes."

Barossa suddenly spoke, his tone softening slightly, perhaps because he couldn't defeat his opponent.

"But I haven't used my full strength yet, and I think you haven't either."

As soon as he finished speaking, the blood-red color around him gradually faded, and the sky returned to its original state.

At the same time, Hughes stopped his attack upon seeing this, and the surrounding blizzard ceased its rampage, while the free-floating compressed ice elements gradually dissipated into the air.

"Heh heh, your temperament is quite changeable, Lord Barossa."

He sneered, while silently calculating his opponent's fighting style.

Besides blood magic, Aldek is also clearly skilled in dark magic, which may explain why he disguised himself as Barossa.

But what he feared most was the opponent's somewhat special blood energy, which was the ball in his left hand.

This blood energy is quite special; in layman's terms, it's somewhat similar to the "modified elements" of their elemental wizards.

Therefore, this mass of blood energy had been modified by Aldek, giving it certain special properties.

It has strong adhesion and is difficult to destroy.

If it gets on your skin, it will greatly affect your activities.

For example, his entire left hand was constantly being "absorbed" by this blood energy after it came into contact with it. If it hadn't been frozen in time with a large amount of ice element, it probably would have been completely absorbed along with its flesh and blood in no time.

On the other side, Aldec ignored Hughesbaru's sarcasm and instead spoke to himself:

"Alright, I admit you surprised me a bit, and you can indeed be a good help to my vampire clan."