Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

"Is this... the place of life they spoke of?"

Hughes hovered in mid-air, his gaze sweeping over the strange storage space beneath his feet.

The storage space that can store living beings is not much different from the normal world. There are blue skies and white clouds, and the ground is soft, wet soil.

If it weren't for the fact that this storage space could move with the ring, he would have thought this place was a secret realm.

"But what is the point of Gabriel leaving this space?"

As he spoke, Hughes frowned.

His own not only granted him a meditation technique, rare even in the wizarding world, but also allowed him to master the exquisite teleportation technique called [Gap Anchoring].

The one given by Green can also sense the positions of the other rings in all planes.

As for the one belonging to the Chiss family, besides the fact that the ring itself vaguely sensed the positions of the other rings, it also contained this living place.

So what is the purpose of this living place?

(The Chiss family's ring was taken by Mor to investigate Hughes at the Everfrost Spire, but the Chiss family left the Living Land inside behind.)

So Hughes first obtained the Ring from Morna, but the Land of Life within the Ring was only acquired now in the castle of the Chis family.

(See chapters 149 to 150 for details)

"..."

The war outside had not subsided, so Hughes only hesitated for a moment before deciding to first bring this living land back into the ring and think about it later.

Immediately, he took out a ring from his storage bag, the one he had taken from Moore.

Its surface is engraved with a small string of Esso runes. According to Mor, if you read it forward, you can "release space," and if you read it backward, you can "reclaim space."

(Chapter 150 talks about opening and closing; I'm correcting that, the wording was a bit off.)

Hughes glanced at the runes on the ring, then read them aloud in reverse.

"wojian gd aini lvxing"

"Buzz...buzz..."

The moment the incantation was cast, the scenery around him began to distort, then transformed into wisps of ripples, which were sucked into the ring one by one.

Correspondingly, the scene of the living land is gradually becoming transparent, and even the outline of the room is faintly emerging.

"Buzz... Whoosh—"

A moment later, the last ripple was sucked into the ring.

The place where Hughes was was now an empty room, the very room that the Chis family used to store the living quarters.

"Sizzle—sizzle—"

The room's protective barrier was clearly still in place, and upon sensing Hughes's entry, strands of silver electricity instantly surged from the door.

Fortunately, he was prepared. Just as the electric currents were about to strike, he activated the teleportation point he had placed in advance and teleported outside the room.

"call out--"

With the wizards' full cooperation, the war beasts on the battlefield have fallen one after another, and many wizards who escaped are now arriving here.

So the next second, Hughes immediately transformed into black mist and silently flew away from the territory of the Chiss family.

Before leaving, seeing that the war behemoth was about to be surrounded, he gave one last order.

"roar--!!!!!"

The next second, the behemoth instantly entered its most ferocious state.

"Thump!! Thump thump!! Thump thump!!!"

Its four hooves pounded the ground wildly, then it suddenly turned its mountain-like body and galloped out of the city.

"Thump! Thump thump!! Thump thump!!"

"roar--!!"

Seeing the war behemoth descend into such a frenzied state, the wizards who had originally come to help also avoided it.

"Run at full speed..."

In the distance, Hughes watched the war behemoths that had already run out of the city, muttering to himself:

"Perhaps we'll have another chance to meet."

However, at this point, he suddenly gave a sarcastic laugh.

"Heh...what a pity."

He was shocked to discover that the bloodline within the war behemoth had been corrupted by blood energy.

Although somewhat shocked, the thought that these lower races had joined forces with the vampires made it all make sense.

Unfortunately, if the opponent was just an ordinary mutated creature, then its massive, mountain-like body would undoubtedly provide him with great assistance.

Unfortunately, the opponent had been completely corrupted by blood energy, and that blood energy was impossible to remove.

Of course, this doesn't mean it has completely lost its value...

"alright……"

Finally, Hughes looked around.

Seeing that the situation had stabilized, he turned and flew towards the upper city.

"We should go see what Elena is planning to do."

Whoosh—

……

At the same time, the balance of power in the entire battle has begun to tilt slightly.

The reason why the Wasteland Hunters took less than a day to invade the wizard city-state was that the orcs were born with insufficient magic power and could usually only fight blitzkrieg.

Now, thanks to the wizards' best efforts to stall for time, almost half a day has passed, and many orcs have run out of magic.

Thus, the wizards immediately launched a full-scale counterattack.

"..."

"roar……"

"Thump!! Thump..."

Meanwhile, on the other side, "Vesaka" looked at the war behemoths falling one after another around him, a hint of solemnity flashing in his eyes.

"Boss, our goal is just to raid, not to plunder the wizard town like real wasteland hunters."

Just then, a heavily wounded orc warrior walked over.

"These orcs have almost no magic left in their bodies, so shouldn't we...?"

——!

However, he was immediately silenced by a glare from the other person.

"Since the king has given us a second life, we should fight for him again."

"Besaka" glanced in the direction of the upper city ahead, gently stroking the bone staff in his hand with his fingertips.

"Moreover... 'a certain lord' has issued a new order: we must at least destroy everything in the upper city before we can evacuate."

"What?!"

Upon hearing this, the orc warrior's eyes suddenly widened.

"We're barely surviving in the central district, let alone moving into the upper district—"

But the next second, he abruptly stopped speaking.

Because "Vesaka" had actually plunged the bone staff in his hand into the brain of the giant beast beneath his feet.

"laugh--"

"Huuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuu..."

The next moment, crimson blood energy overflowed from his palm, flowing down the bone staff and into the giant beast's brain.

"Don't forget, we are not orcs at all, nor are we wasteland hunters."

At this moment, "Vesaka's" eyes had turned bloodshot.

He looked at the "orcs" who were standing there dumbfounded, and let out a roar:

"For the King!!"