Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

At this moment, "Sotadia" was completely different from before. His original hair and eyes had been dyed scarlet, and even the corners of his eyes had several blood-red lines.

The black robe he wore was like two giant bat wings, completely enveloping his entire body.

"Whoosh—whoosh whoosh—"

Suddenly, in the pitch-black darkness, several wisps of black mist surged in.

The black mist quickly drifted to Sotadia's front and then dissipated, revealing several human figures.

Each of their faces exuded an eerie quality, and two sharp fangs hidden between their lips gleamed with a chilling light in the dim light.

As soon as the apprentices appeared, they all knelt on one knee, bowing their heads in the most respectful manner, and paid their respects to "Sotadia" in front of them.

"Lord Bevic, you succeeded?!" (Vampire language) (The rest is also in vampire language)

The apprentice at the front spoke, his voice filled with barely suppressed excitement, his body trembling uncontrollably.

"Well, barely. But I'm parasitizing a beginner apprentice. The formal wizard I originally chose was too cunning and actually broke my spell."

suddenly.

"Buzz—!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a powerful surge of blood energy suddenly erupted from Bevic's body and swept towards the apprentices in front of him. In the blink of an eye, they collapsed to the ground, their breathing becoming labored.

"Tell me! Where did that brat Imos go?!"

Bevik said coldly, and the blood energy in the arena suddenly intensified.

"I...we don't know...but Imos's soul crystal has...shattered."

It was the apprentice at the front who answered again. He gritted his teeth and reported the situation to Bevik, word by word.

As soon as he finished speaking, the blood energy suppressing them suddenly dissipated.

"call……"

Everyone breathed heavily, careful not to upset Bevik again.

"Hmph! A bunch of useless trash," Bevic sneered.

A moment later, he looked up at the crowd, a sinister glint in his eyes, and then said in a deep voice:

"You probably all guessed why I called you here."

As soon as he finished speaking, the apprentices trembled slightly, but they gritted their teeth and forcibly suppressed their unease.

Bevik was pleased with their reaction, nodded slightly, and then spoke:

"As we were informed beforehand, besides participating in the 'ritual' with them, we have another mission to carry out..."

"..."

Bevik's voice was exceptionally loud, standing out prominently in the deathly silent cave.

The phrase "Five Crown Trials" appeared particularly frequently in the conversation.

……

"Teacher, I would like to learn about the process of becoming a full-fledged wizard."

After the inspection, Hughes asked Serafina about her promotion to a full-fledged wizard.

Although the method for becoming a full-fledged wizard is common knowledge, it is said that if an apprentice has an academy mentor, it is best to consult the mentor to avoid many detours.

"Oh? That's right. With the talent you've shown, you certainly have the qualifications to become a full-fledged wizard."

Upon hearing this, Serafim immediately showed a look of understanding on his face, and then patiently explained to Hughes the matter of becoming a formal wizard.

"Now that you're practicing meditation, you're barely increasing your mental strength anymore, right?"

As she spoke, Serafina slowly turned around, walked to an old cabinet, opened the cabinet door, and began rummaging through something.

"Uh, yes, it only barely works if you need a mental potion."

Hughes was taken aback at first, then quickly swallowed back the words that were about to come out of his mouth and changed his words to answer Serafina.

He was about to say that his mental strength had improved slightly by practicing meditation, but then he remembered that the other person thought he was practicing the academy's low-level meditation method, so he admitted the other person's guess.

"To become a full-fledged wizard, there are two steps: first, expand your consciousness space into a consciousness world; second, construct a magic pool within it."

"Specifically, the first step is to train your mental power to the limit, and then unleash all your mental power runes to expand your consciousness space into a consciousness world."

Serafina took a crystal ball from the cabinet, turned around and handed it to Hughes.

"However, everyone's limits are different; you need to feel them for yourself. As for how to determine the specific total amount of mental energy..."

Then, she pointed to the crystal ball and explained:

"This is the magical tool that can detect your current total spiritual power. You can go back and test it to see what level you've reached."

"But remember, always make sure you've reached your limit before unleashing your burst, and also, don't use bursting agents."

"Once you reach the level of a formal wizard, the quality of your mental strength will also be a very important part of the battle. The burst agent is actually a forced catalysis of your mental strength during your apprenticeship, which will greatly reduce the quality of your mental strength."

As she spoke, a hint of disgust flashed in Serafina's eyes, and she said in a deep voice:

"These things are being deliberately kept secret because some of the families involved in the Golden Crown are in this business."

Hughes was shocked to hear this. He never expected that the bursting agent that the apprentices had spent all their money to buy would actually affect their future path as wizards.

"Because you've practiced a basic meditation method, the extent to which meditation can help you is probably limited."

"However, given your outstanding talent in alchemy over the past few years, I can apply to the academy to give you the opportunity to exchange low-level battle merits for intermediate-level meditation techniques."

Serafim thought for a moment and then spoke.

"Then I thank Professor Serafina for her guidance," Hughes readily agreed.

"Well, I suggest you switch to another major later, so as not to delay the Five Crown Trials."

It would take a long time for an apprentice to switch to meditation, but he himself is probably already practicing advanced meditation, so he doesn't need to switch. This intermediate meditation method can serve as a cover for him.

As for those apprentices who don't have intermediate meditation techniques? Their method is to work hard to earn magic stones and exchange them for mental potions.

Some even undergo biological modifications to their bodies, which is one of the reasons why biological modification is so popular in the wizarding world.

"The second step is to construct a magic pool in your own consciousness world. Currently, there is no normal shortcut in the Oren plane. You can only open it up yourself. But compared to the first step, this is simpler."

As she spoke, Serafina also gave Hughes a brief explanation of the function of the magic pool and the conventional construction method.

Hughes also summarized some of the secrets of the body of a formal wizard from this.

Before their advancement, wizard apprentices store their magic in their physical bodies. As their bodies and magic adapt to each other over time, they gradually form a cyclical system that can automatically generate magic.

However, the storage capacity of the physical body is naturally very limited, which is why many apprentices have an increased upper limit of magic power after undergoing biological modification.

Most apprentices will choose to use the magic contained in the environment to transform elements, or directly use elements in the environment to cast spells.

This is highly dependent on the environment and is not conducive to diverse interdimensional warfare.

The magic pool is where formal wizards use to call upon and generate large amounts of magic power; it is a magic power circulation system with an extremely high upper limit.

This is also why formal wizards can still perform witchcraft even when they go to other planes without similar magical substances, because their magic is self-sufficient.