Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

Having made his plans, Hughes set the materials aside and prepared to place his research on the Shadow Breath Liquid after his research on the Nutrients and Antidotes.

Because Shadow Breath Elixir is much more difficult to make than these two potions.

Next, I had to check the autopsy report on the servant that my father had sent.

Open the water package; inside is a small recording crystal and a small box. The recording crystal is similar to a crystal ball for recording knowledge, except that it can only be viewed and cannot form runes to exist in the consciousness space.

The box is nothing special, but it's very small; it can only hold something about half the size of an index finger.

Hughes opened the small box and was shocked to find a tiny insect inside.

It was entirely black, encased in segments of shell that decreased in size from large to small. Its two mouthparts were of different lengths and had an eerie bluish-purple color. At this moment, it was a dried-up corpse, seemingly about to crumble at the slightest touch.

After recalling the information, Hughes realized there was no information about this creature. He deduced that the worm must be a special creature that had been specially cultivated by a wizard.

The record crystal contained detailed information about the servant's autopsy and the true nature of the little insect.

First, regarding the autopsy of the servant, the servant was not killed by the resurrected Hughes. When Hughes woke up, he found the servant beside him, seemingly looking for something.

After Hughes' memories of his two lives merged, he immediately realized that the servant had poisoned him. Hughes, who had the strength of a knight, quickly subdued the servant. As a result, the servant died shortly after being captured, with black blood flowing from his eyes.

It's exactly the same scene as Booker's before.

The autopsy revealed that the servant was poisoned by the black blood flowing from his eyes, which originated from the insect.

As for this insect, it's called a Blood Pact Tick, a cursed creature, which is one of the mediums through which curse-wielding wizards cast curses.

There are many mediums through which curses can be cast, but those that use living beings as a medium are collectively called cursed creatures.

Cursed wizards store them in their blood, where they rest. When a wizard wants to cast a curse, they use their mental power to activate the blood-pledge ticks and find a way to put them into the body of the person being cursed.

Blood ticks penetrate deep into the body upon contact. What's terrifying is that they enter the host's body by burrowing, and while burrowing, they release a nerve-paralyzing toxin so that they don't attract the host's attention.

The Blood Pact Tick will slowly grow segment by segment inside the cursed person's body, and its short proboscis will emit sound waves to interfere with the cursed person's consciousness after being activated by the wizard's spirit knife.

The wizard would issue commands in the form of mental energy, which would then be received by the long mouthpiece and transmitted to the person under the spell. The person under the spell would then complete the command under the influence.

Finally, the blood tick's life comes to an end, and after death, it will expel the black blood from its body, poisoning its host.

Although its abilities seem impressive, the Blood Pact Tick grows slowly and only becomes powerful when it is encased in a triple shell. It is also easily detected by a wizard's mental power.

Therefore, it can generally only be used against certain wizard apprentices below the third rank, and cursed creatures can only survive and hibernate in blood containing curse attributes.

"It seems a cursed wizard targeted me," Hughes thought, and began to ponder the cursed wizards he knew.

There aren't many curse-wielding wizards in Corera and Everfrost Spire, and pure curse affinity is rare, so this kind of knowledge is scarce.

This is also why Rice is ridiculed; his path is quite narrow. However, there are methods available. Nowadays, many wizards choose biological modification to strengthen their bloodlines.

The bloodline of some demonic creatures can increase a wizard's affinity with certain attributes.

Of course, it's easy for a level two wizard to acquire this knowledge of curses, but the Morsold family also has a level five aptitude named Elena, so the family's focus will definitely be on Elena.

Moreover, their family isn't without curse wizards; they don't need another one like Rice. The main problem is that Rice's only curse affinity is only level three.

"Could it be Rice?" Hughes wondered.

But he and she had never crossed paths before entering the Everfrost Spire, unless…

"Does the Esold family know about that ring?"

Hughes' pupils dilated slightly, a bead of cold sweat trickled down his forehead, and he touched his storage bag with his right hand.

That makes sense. With formal wizard training, they could just give the Blood Pact Tick to Rice to command. But with a level two wizard present, why not just steal it directly, or simply wipe out their entire family in secret?

Actually, there's another possibility. A glint flashed in Hughes's eyes: someone had concealed their affinity attribute during casual conversation...

Inside a room, Moore was meditating in the bathroom, next to a bathtub filled with icy water that emitted a slight chill.

Beside him was a bottle of medicine, which Moore had drunk in one gulp, and the bottle lay overturned beside him.

If Hughes were nearby, he would surely recognize this potion as a precious spiritual potion based on the remaining medicinal stains in the bottle!

His mental power surged, and the surrounding magic rushed towards him frantically. Some elemental particles also slowly entered his body, most of which were light blue and black magic.

However, among these elemental particles, one can also faintly sense some special black particles, which are surrounded by a distorted halo, like a group of twisting orbs of light.

After finishing his meditation, Moore slowly opened his eyes, his face filled with surprise.

"The fifth rune, the Whisper of the Flame Potion is really effective, uh!" Mor murmured, but his body temperature suddenly rose sharply, and Mor collapsed to the ground in pain.

The Whisper of the Flame Potion is a spiritual potion that Mor's brother, Tyr Kiss, found in the knowledge bestowed upon him by the Tree of Life.

And since there happened to be a potion maker in their family, they refined it according to the recipe.

The Whisper of the Flame Potion increases the meditative efficiency of the user by 1.5 times, and for a fire-elemental-affinity wizard, it can even increase it by 2 times.

Most mental potions, while providing varying degrees of enhancement to mental strength and meditation efficiency, also come with different side effects.

The side effect of the Whisper of the Flame Tree potion is that the user's temperature will rise sharply after the effect ends, which can even lead to death if not treated in time.

Despite the burning sensation throughout his body, Moore forced himself to sit up and climb into the bathtub, which had been filled with ice water.

"Phew, first time using it, I didn't expect it to be so uncomfortable." With the cooling effect of the ice water, the burning sensation on Mo'er's body finally subsided to a tolerable level.

"Ha...haha!! The Tree of Life truly favors my Chiss family!" Mor laughed, sensing the surge in his spiritual power.

"At the same time... there's that holy relic. The primary goal now is to get the other part from that guy Hughes... but where is it?" Mor asked, puzzled.