Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

That night, the Nister family discovered the dead Fernand and the frozen statue of Figg. They didn't speculate much, assuming that the Black Ring assassins had killed them while infiltrating the area.

The Nister family quickly returned to normalcy. Although Bewick was heartbroken, he had many children, so the family line did not end.

Following their notification, the Slynford and Lombney families from Midtown Manhattan also came to claim the bodies.

Furthermore, under coercion from the Nister family, they had no choice but to agree to conceal the Black Ring assassins' activities.

……

"Hey, Gillis, do you really believe that the Black Ring Crown was behind this?"

On the way back, Rachel, the patriarch of the Lumbini family, turned his head and asked Gillis, the patriarch of the Slymford family, with gritted teeth.

Perhaps the blow of the successive deaths of their heirs was too heavy, and the heads of the two small families temporarily put aside their generational grudges and fell into a sorrowful atmosphere.

"Didn't the Nister family say that the assassins from the Black Ring Crown appeared directly in their family's main hall, and then..."

Gillis sighed, not wanting to continue. Compared to the patriarch of the Lumbini family, he could even see the look of terror on his son Dylan's face when facing death.

As for Tilanie of the Lumbini family, it is clear that Hughes did not take her head with him.

"No, I still can't accept it. Our Tilanie will provoke the Black Ring Crown," Rachel said angrily.

His beloved daughter was not even left with a complete body in the end; her body was covered with scorch marks, clearly indicating that she had suffered greatly at the hands of her killer before her death.

"I got caught in the crossfire. Maybe their original target was that kid Camps, but it ended up dragging my Dylan down with them. Damn it... Why are the other families so lucky?"

Suddenly, he thought of something and said to Rachel:

"But speaking of other families, Dylan mentioned to me in a letter that the eldest daughter of the Craig family was also a student of his teacher."

He also said that their teacher encouraged his apprentices to fight to the death, and the final winner would receive a reward.

"Do you think it's possible that it was actually the eldest daughter of the Craig family who did it?"

As he spoke, a dangerous glint flashed in his eyes.

"If all three of them die, then the reward will be hers."

"Impossible. He's just a newly promoted apprentice. How could he possibly have such strength?"

Rachel immediately denied the other party's guess, her tone very certain.

"but……"

His tone shifted abruptly, his ferocious expression relaxing slightly, and he said in a sinister tone:

"If that wizard's reward really ends up with that little girl, then it's really too good for her, hehe."

Rachel's meaning was clear: with the heirs of both of their small families dead, it would be impossible for them to ever be promoted to the Golden Ring family again.

If the Craig family succeeds in the future, they will inevitably face retaliation.

"Indeed... how come only our two families are suffering?" Gillis chuckled.

"Besides, since I can't teach the people with the Black Ring Crown a lesson, I need to find a substitute to vent my anger."

The two reached a tacit agreement to make the Craig family a scapegoat and vent their anger over the murder of their heir.

"However, the siblings in their family have never returned to Corera, and Jones is watching closely if things get too big."

As he spoke, Gillis cautiously pointed to the wizard tower in the sky.

The lord of a wizarding city has one duty: to prevent any student from dying in his city's higher wizarding academy.

This is also why the major wizarding academies agreed to allow wizarding towns to be established within their spheres of influence.

"No, there's one chance... Do you remember, every few years, we Corella almost always..."

Rachel's eyes darted around, and she reminded Gillis.

"You mean—!"

Upon hearing this, Gillis, who was standing beside him, quickly recognized the meaning behind it.

Meanwhile, at the main house of the Nister family, at Bex's command, family members moved Campos's body to a side hall in the house.

This was a deliberate act by Bex, intended to curry favor with the Black Ring Crown and make it easier for the mysterious assassin to retrieve his token.

At the same time, this was also a test; he wanted to personally verify whether the murderer who killed his son could really enter and leave their home so easily and escape his notice.

If that's the case, then without a doubt, their family will need to strengthen their defenses.

Inside a room, Bex sat quietly in a chair, his mental power gradually spreading throughout the entire territory, capturing any movement within its range.

However, if the last mental energy was a violent impact, then this mental energy was like a gentle stream of water, and even the apprentices patrolling nearby did not feel any discomfort.

This is the kind of transformation of mental power that can only be accessed after one has advanced to become a formal wizard.

After an unknown amount of time, a very faint ripple suddenly appeared in the air around Camps's palm, and a tiny point of light suddenly lit up on the black ring glove.

"Buzz—"

The next moment, with a flash of silver light, Hughes, enveloped in a shadow, instantly appeared next to Campos's corpse.

"Oh……"

Hughes naturally sensed a subtle probing, but he knew that the other party was hesitant to act rashly because of the power of the "Black Ring Crown" behind him.

Of course, Hughes didn't dare to linger. Without hesitation, with a slight movement of his fingertips, the black glove on the corpse's hand was drawn by his mental power and steadily fell into his palm.

"Buzz—"

Soon, with a flash of silver light, Hughes' figure suddenly disappeared from the spot, and in Bex's perception, the other party had simply vanished from his perception range.

"Crunch—"

"Space Wizard!"

Upon seeing this, Bex was so shocked that he sprang up from his chair. The spatial energy emanating from the other party's body during the teleportation was so intense that even he could not see through it.

Without a doubt, the fluctuations emanating from the other party must be an illusion. Someone capable of setting up teleportation points and making multiple teleportations must be at least a formal wizard.

"As expected... they all hid, they're still here!"

……

"Buzz—"

"Phew... I feel much better now."

After retrieving his Black Ring token, Hughes teleported directly from the teleportation point near Corera to his alchemy room.

Perhaps because he had already tried teleporting over extremely long distances several times, Hughes did not experience any discomfort this time, and he also briefly intimidated the Nister family with the Black Ring Crown.

With this, Nora's troubles came to a temporary end, and the highly anticipated Five Crown Trials began its countdown as the Ultimate Apprentices returned one after another.