Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

"Phew, another bottle successfully made."

After using up 5 portions of materials, Hughes produced another bottle of qualified blood-replenishing potion. Of course, this does not mean that Hughes' success rate in refining blood-replenishing potions is 20%. Generally, the standard is 10 times.

A bottle of qualified blood-replenishing potion sells for 3 magic stones to a potion shop, and usually sells for 4 magic stones yourself, so you can earn at least 2 magic stones per bottle.

Potions never lack a market, but Hughes isn't planning to sell them now, since his progress is actually quite fast, though not as fast as those geniuses with ample resources.

However, each potion master represents endless resources, and revealing one's talent now could easily attract the attention of those powerful families.

Even a Golden Ring family might not have a single potion master. His strength is too weak, and his family only has three wizard apprentices left. He doesn't want to be recruited by a large family prematurely and sign a tyrannical contract. Besides, his secret is easy to be discovered.

With the help of advanced meditation techniques and his talent for alchemy, he believed he could go further and further.

Hughes had a hunch that he had more than one ring in his storage bag, because Moore was always watching his storage bag. Hughes concluded that Moore or the entire Chiss family also had rings.

Of course, everything depends on Holt's investigation. He specifically asked Holt to investigate several places where it could be determined that Moore was the murderer.

As for the blood-replenishing potions he'd used in the past few days, he planned to sell them in the academy's black market district, a place where wizards secretly traded their wares.

Although wizards may resort to any means to explore knowledge and enhance their power, there are still some things that are strictly forbidden.

It is said that a few hundred years after the opening of the Oren Plane, many mad wizards performed various forbidden witchcraft here, and frantically captured the local natives to conduct a large number of experiments.

Kingdoms and towns are destroyed every day, not to mention villages of all sizes. They are even more ruthless than the vampires before them, which has led to the destruction of a large number of people and the environment.

Therefore, under the intimidation of several high-ranking wizards, the Oren Plane established the Council of Light, which explicitly prohibited certain things that would cause great harm.

The five most powerful families that established their clans here also formed an alliance to establish the Golden Crown for easier management.

Of course, these things still happen in secret, and everyone accepts it.

However, it was too late. It is said that the Golden Crown has roughly estimated that there are very few humans left in the Oren Plane. There may still be some of their descendants in the Abandoned Lands.

Most of them were human slaves brought from the wizarding plane.

Now, after thousands of years of development, the Oren Plane has taken shape, and various wizard relics and secret realms have appeared all over the world. Even some abandoned lands have been discovered.

Of course, they didn't want too many people to know this information, and wizards like Hughes wanted to trade some illicit items and information without revealing their identities.

The black market was thus established, and those with connections could naturally obtain it, but Hughes was not yet prepared to go to the black market.

He first needed to create the illusion that alchemy was difficult.

Inside Bohr's potions shop, Bohr, still bored, propped his head up with his right hand on the counter.

Once you reach the level of a third-class wizard apprentice, the improvement brought by meditation is minimal. You rely more on researching and exploring ruins and using mental potions to improve yourself.

"When will it be my turn to get that spiritual potion from the family?" Bohr sighed.

"Crunch"

Without even looking up, Bohr knew who it was just by the sound of footsteps.

"How's it going, our Potions Master?"

"Ingredients for ten blood-replenishing supplements"

"It's alright, this happens often among potion apprentices. You are, after all, Lady Serafina's disciple."

"I've finally managed to concoct a low-quality potion. I've accumulated quite a few over the past few days. Will you take it or not?"

"roll."

His potions shop only accepts potions that are of acceptable quality or higher.

Leaving Bohr's potion shop, Hughes prepared to head to the slave trading district to sell his inferior potions; he was truly broke now, with only 5 magic stones left.

I recovered some of my health by taking on a few material processing tasks, but they were too time-consuming and laborious, and I didn't earn much magic stone.

Arriving at the slave trading area, it was a bit noisier, with all sorts of creatures locked in cages, including humans, elves, and even sea creatures in a pool.

"The princess of the Kei Empire only wants 2 magic stones!"

"A boar-headed man whose strength has reached that of a Grand Knight! 5 magic stones!"

"A female forest elf without a family, a first-class wizard apprentice, 20 magic stones!"

Most of these slaves were prisoners of war.

However, most wizards would choose humans like Grand Knights, who not only possessed certain strength but could also conduct some experiments.

Speaking of the Great Knight, Hughes realized that he hadn't practiced his breathing technique in a long time, which was considered a very good method during his apprenticeship.

However, he is now close to condensing his third rune, so it's best to focus on meditation.

The academy has a rule that anyone who doesn't advance to first-class wizard apprentice within a year will be expelled, while second-class wizard apprentices will be expelled within two years.

As for third-class wizard apprentices, they must be under 30 years old. Hughes recently celebrated his 17th birthday, and although it was his birthday, his elder sister and family only gave him a few magic stones.

Becoming a third-class wizard apprentice allows one to remain in the academy permanently. However, if one fails to advance to a full wizard after a certain number of years, the benefits will be canceled, and one will gradually lose out to more promising third-class wizard apprentices.

Not to mention the academy's mandatory missions and wars. Although Hughes's Craig family lived in Corera, their ancestors were still connected to the wizarding academy, and as a result, they all died when war broke out.

This is also why some families establish wizarding towns. Many wizarding apprentices cannot survive in the highly competitive academies, and it also makes it convenient for each wizarding family to handle some miscellaneous matters.

After wandering around, Hughes saw many of the races described in books, which broadened his horizons.

Upon arriving at the management office, we found ourselves in a large hall with numerous counters. Here, the office kept real-time statistics on most of the slave food items and the types of slaves desired.

The counter was crowded with people. When it was Hughes' turn, he asked several slave traders who needed inferior blood-replenishing potions. After taking a look, he decided to sell to a merchant named Dorrant.

Upon arriving at his location, he saw a minotaur dressed in magnificent robes holding a notebook and recording something, presumably an account book.

"A Dorrent apprentice?"

Upon hearing this, the minotaur raised his head, looked at Hughes, and stuffed the notebook into the gold-threaded storage bag at his waist.

"What can I do for you?" Dorrant asked politely.

"I have substandard blood-replenishing supplements; I heard you'll buy as many as you have?"

A shrewd glint appeared in Dorrant's eyes.

"5 bottles for 1 magic stone, no bargaining," Dorrent rubbed his hands together.

In the end, Hughes sold the 40 low-quality blood-replenishing potions he had accumulated over the days and exchanged them for 8 magic stones.