Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

"Whoosh whoosh whoosh—"

The airship flies through the air, and the strong air currents it generates can tear through the clouds, but they cannot blow away the cloud puppets that are firmly attached to the wooden house.

From the outside, the floating ship enveloped by the cloud golems looks like a living cloud, freely flying in the air.

Hughes stood on the rooftop, observing the view below through the gaps between the cloud golems. There wasn't much to see, really, because they had already flown into the clouds.

A full month had passed since Hughes left the Everfrost Spire, and the pursuit by the Tunotian family had not yet arrived. Hughes and Cyrus thus spent their days peacefully in the cabin.

Cyrus finally had time to carefully teach Hughes, and Hughes's Esso language level was many times higher than that of his fellow apprentices at the same stage, so Hughes's Elvish language progress also made rapid progress.

According to Cyrus's speculation, Hughes will probably have mastered Elvish by the end of next month, but he will need to delve deeper into the basics of magical languages.

However, although Hughes has not yet fully mastered the magical language, he has basically finished translating Shutal's notes based on the book given to him by Cyrus.

Even the above-mentioned outlines of elven runes (that is, the magical language of the elves) are now only about figuring out the principles behind those rune outlines in the notes.

But as his self-created witchcraft gradually took shape, Hughes estimated that he would soon have to use all the knowledge in the notebook.

Therefore, he temporarily put aside the research and development of his self-created witchcraft, and planned to continue after converting those elven runes into Esso.

Translating Elven runes and Esso is not as simple as translating Elven and Common, which are just languages ​​of communication and require translating each word.

The former is the language of knowledge exchange and the manipulation of magic. The conversion between the two is not a translation of runes one by one, but rather a replacement with the corresponding Esso language after understanding the principles.

Hughes took out the book that Cyrus had given him and began to read it. It must be said that even three months later, he was able to learn the Elven language fluently by himself using this book.

It contains detailed records of Cyrus's summaries and analyses of Elvish and Elvish magical languages, and Hughes benefits greatly from each reading.

"Whether it's Elvish or Elvish magical language, every word and every rune is created around their Tree of Life."

This is the last sentence of the book, and it is also Cyrus's lifelong understanding of the Elvish language.

"Hughes, I need to go downstairs today..."

Cyrus stepped out of the cabin and stood on the blue halo.

He was wearing a large black robe, which was also covered with blue runes, but unlike before, this robe had a black leopard pattern on the left chest.

Unlike the Tunosetian family, this cheetah had no scarlet eyes or bloodthirsty fangs, but possessed an indescribable agility.

According to Cyrus, this was originally the crest of the Tunotian family, but because they came into contact with vampire magic, the cheetah on the crest now has scarlet eyes and two sharp fangs.

They have now reached the northern part of Maranthel, while Cyrus's goal is to reach the port in the western part of Maranthel and smuggle himself into the Blood Domain.

The reason he didn't use the wooden airship to fly to the Blood Domain was because the Golden Ring Crown directly controlled the skies above the Blood Domain, making it convenient for them to monitor the vampires.

As for the seas, because of the various sea creatures, the Golden Crown was not able to control them successfully. It only set up some checkpoints to intercept wizards who attempted to smuggle themselves into the vampire realm.

"The Tunotian family's pursuers will probably arrive soon, and we definitely can't handle them on our own."

Cyrus touched the family crest on his chest and couldn't help but recall the time before his family came into contact with vampire magic.

"There were many people in the family who refused to come into contact with vampire magic, and as a result, many family members chose to leave the family and become wandering wizards."

"I still have dealings with them. Most of them have come to develop in the north of Maranseur and have established a new family there—the Tunodean family."

"I'm planning to go down today to form an alliance with their chieftain. Would you like to come along and take a look?"

Not everyone in the Tunotian family could be expected to study these vampire-related knowledge, and as a result, after several small-scale internal family wars broke out, many family wizards left the family.

Cyrus had previously been neutral because, although he was not as extreme as the family's wizards, he was interested in vampire knowledge and therefore did not leave the family.

Without much thought, Hughes prepared to follow Cyrus down. After spending so many days in the air, he also planned to return to the land for a walk and, incidentally, visit the Alchemist Guild to replenish some materials.

The two stood on the blue circle of light at the edge of the wooden house. In fact, Hughes had already discovered that the wooden house was not the Fu Kong ship at all.

The reason it can fly is due to the blue aura emitted by the rune plate made of metal.

Cyrus arrived at the front door of the cabin and grabbed the metal plaque hanging above. The words "Starlight and Manuscript" were gone, replaced by streaks of blue light.

Cyrus manipulated the metal plate, and the next moment, with two faint "humming" sounds, the edge of the blue circle flickered, and two smaller blue halos appeared.

Cyrus was the first to step on one, followed closely by Hughes.

"Use your mental power to sense and manipulate the movement of this circle of light."

As soon as he finished speaking, Cyrus plummeted downwards with a "whoosh," disappearing through the cloud puppet.

Seeing this, Booth waved goodbye to Hughes, who was standing next to the cabin. Hughes waved back to Booth and then probed into the cabin with his mental energy.

Soon, his mental energy found the "control lever" on the light circle, and under his control, the light circle under Hughes' feet began to slowly descend.

Hughes's body also fell, passing through the cloud puppet and arriving in the air.

Hughes slowly looked up, and the wooden house above looked like a giant cloud, quietly suspended in the sea of ​​clouds.

As for below, Hughes looked down and could only see some different colored blocks.

Hughes tried it again and found that this small aperture, like the large aperture, could move objects in the air.

This is much better than flying magic tools; Hughes had no intention of buying flying magic tools during his apprenticeship.

Because the principle of flying magical artifacts is "flying", it is difficult for land-walking races to maintain a flying posture in the air, not to mention that magical artifacts in the apprentice stage can only fly at low altitudes.

Only formal wizards can "walk" in the air using magic, while second-level wizards can control themselves to move freely in the air using only their mental power.