Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

Just as Bryce was about to finish drawing the runes, he seemed to sense something, sighed slightly, and stopped what he was doing. Seeing Bryce's action, Dis panicked.

"My lord wizard, what...uh...ahhh!!"

The Void Arm Spirit's arm began to melt. The Void energy did not fuse well with Dis. The energy continued to surge within Dis's body, destroying his body, seemingly preparing for a fight to the death.

"Plop..."

Bryce gathered ice elements to form an ice spike, which pierced a vital spot and took Dis's life, sparing the unfortunate apprentice from suffering.

……

The most difficult part of the transplant process is the body's adaptation to the void energy and the blood symbolizing the void race. This step has already killed countless test subjects.

After disposing of Dis's corpse, Bryce turned around and continued studying the Void Arm Spirit's arm.

The remaining apprentices in the corner felt a chill run down their spines as the fear of death gradually crept into their hearts. But it was too late for regrets; they couldn't escape.

……

"ah!!"

Another test subject died, but this time it was a high knight bought from the slave quarters. Perhaps because he was not a third-class wizard apprentice, his death was even more gruesome.

However, Bryce didn't have high hopes; he just wanted to test the data.

Of course, the test subjects couldn't just be wizard apprentices. Wizard apprentices were an indispensable part of Everfrost Spire, and the tasks that were posted to recruit wizard apprentices to assist in experiments all required an application.

Clearly, the death of the first third-class wizard apprentice has put some pressure on Bryce, and now he can only make improvements based on the experimental data.

It was Renault's turn. There were no successful test subjects yet. Renault glanced at his wound, thought of the looks people were giving him, and got up to walk towards the experimental table.

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"Hmm... Let me see... 20 bottles of qualified blood-replenishing potions, 10 bottles of qualified nutritional potions, and 15 bottles of high-quality blood-replenishing potions!? Oh my god, Hughes, you are absolutely a genius. Quite a few potion shops are already trying to steal my supplies."

Beryl sat in the cubicle, overjoyed. With these potions, his little treasury would be even fuller.

"Stop talking nonsense and give me the magic stones," Hughes said.

A qualified nutrient solution can be sold to a potion shop for 1 magic stone, while a high-quality blood-replenishing solution is worth a full 7 magic stones!

On this trip, Hughes obtained 200 magic stones from Behr (which he then sold to Bohr privately), not including the potions that Hughes openly sold to Bohr.

Hughes picked up the magic stone and walked out the door. After these days of trading, his pockets were getting fuller and he already had 231 magic stones. Hughes also gained experience in making blood-replenishing potions and successfully made a nutritional potion.

Hughes has now gained some fame, and some families have even extended invitations to him, but he has declined them all.

After that, Hughes bought a crystal ball that could test aptitude and attribute affinity, and the test confirmed Hughes's idea.

Hughes's mental strength aptitude has become level four, but Hughes can feel that it will no longer increase. Although his attribute affinity has not changed, he has gained a level three affinity for the necromantic attribute!

Hughes was also wondering why he felt an increasing attraction to a type of particle he didn't recognize during his meditation.

Hughes speculated that it was due to the complete fusion of his two incarnations' souls, and that his affinity for necromancy was probably because he had "died" once and was familiar with this kind of energy.

A few days ago, Hughes suddenly felt that he had changed a bit, that he had completely integrated into this plane and become a native of this plane.

With his high affinity for the necromantic attribute, he not only finds it easier and more powerful to cast necromantic spells, but also greatly increases the success rate of creating necromancy.

However, the Ling Shu Workshop has a relatively large amount of necromancy magic. Hughes plans to buy a few from the black market someday. Now that Hughes has come to the black market, he can feel many eyes watching him.

In order to avoid arousing suspicion that the Bird-Beaked Potions Master was a necromancer's apprentice, Hughes could use this opportunity to create the illusion that the Bird-Beaked Potions Master was a necromancer's apprentice.

Back in his room, Hughes began meditating. He had now successfully meditated his sixth mental rune and was preparing to outline his seventh.

However, Hughes had already sensed a bottleneck. Outlining the seventh rune was much more difficult than before, and he had been meditating for many days without being able to draw a single stroke.

Hughes was also preparing to buy some mental potions to aid his meditation, and... he would have to make a trip to the black market when he had time. Hughes weighed Booker's storage bag, which contained many potions that Hughes had concocted.

These quantities are too exaggerated to sell openly, so I'll just buy a larger storage bag while I'm at it.

After finishing his meditation, it was already late at night. Hughes was preparing to go to bed when there was a knock on the door.

"Thump...thump...thump"

Hughes understood; this was the code he and Holt had agreed upon, so it seemed they had discovered something.

Holt opened the door and walked in.

"Oh, esteemed potion master, I have brought you intelligence," Holt said, handing over a crystal.

"This recording crystal can record images; it's worth 2 magic stones. You have to give it to me."

Hughes gave Holt a bottle of qualified blood-replenishing potion, which Holt took and quickly put into his storage bag before leaving.

Hughes checked the record crystal, which showed Moore's recent schedule: ordinary classes, dissection experiments, and then there was the fact that Moore had suddenly bought a freezing spell scroll? ...

One point in the footage was marked by Holt. Hughes glanced at it and saw that it was the scene where he clashed with Booker on the training field. Moore was hiding in a corner watching quietly.

Hughes noticed that there was a rune on Mor's hand, so it was probably this guy. Either he and Rice were working together to mess with him, or Mor also had a curse affinity.

However, there is one last scene in the recording crystal, which is the admission information of Moore that Holt managed to obtain. It was something that Hughes had asked Holt to get a few days ago.

I glanced at it.

"Oh…"

Hughes's crimson eyes radiated killing intent, and clearly showed that Mor possessed a fourth-level curse attribute affinity!

It seems the result is quite obvious. It was Mor who controlled Booker to cause him trouble back then. As for the curse? It must have been the Chiss family. We'll find out where their blood pact ticks came from.

As for their purpose? Hughes had begun to suspect that the Chiss family, who had moved all the way from the east to Corera and had two formal wizards living in the central city, were here for the Circle!

The question now is whether the Chiss family and the Mosold family have joined forces. However, the Craig family has not suffered any persecution in recent years, so the Mosold family should be unaware of this.

It's highly likely that they weren't sure of the exact location of the ring, or that the Chiss family didn't dare to cause trouble in front of a level two wizard. It's probably because Hughes took the storage bag from the family treasury that they were able to sense the ring.

Hughes prepared to write to his father, warning him to be wary of the Chiss family, but he wrote that the reason was that Moore was jealous of his potion-making talent.

Hughes planned to take his revenge slowly, figuring out first how to secretly eliminate Mor.