Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

Hughes continued exploring the ice plains. Ice Plains Cracked Claw Beasts are social magical beasts that generally live in caves. The Ice Plains Cracked Claw Beast he had just seen must have gone out alone to find food.

Hughes planned to follow the footprints of the Icefield Cracked Claw Beast to find the cave. Today, a cold wind was blowing across the icefield, and the biting wind made Hughes' face sting. Generally, second-class apprentices do not have the ability to resist extreme environments.

The cold wind scattered the footprints in the snow, and the clue ended there. However, Hughes could also test his "new invention".

Hughes pulled a small bottle from his robe, inside which was a small, bright red insect, especially large in size with black mouthparts.

This is a Bloodseeker worm that has been modified by Hughes. Bloodseeker worms can find the blood of the same creature based on the blood they have eaten, but they are too weak to digest blood with magical properties.

Therefore, Hughes modified the Bloodseeker's mouthparts and digestive system to filter and digest magic to the greatest extent possible.

Hughes separated a small piece of the Icefield Cracked Claw Beast's heart, crushed the fragments to extract the blood, and fed it to the modified Bloodseeker.

The Bloodseeker was unusually excited after eating the blood of a low-level magical beast, and immediately flapped its wings to fly towards the place where the Icefield Pawclaw Beast was.

Hughes took out a pocket watch and followed the bloodworm.

Although this was Hughes' first official use of the modified Bloodseeker, previous experiments had proven that the modified Bloodseeker had the ability to find the blood of low-level magical beasts, so Hughes had great confidence in it.

After walking for more than ten minutes, the Bloodseekers flew into a cave. Hughes looked around and judged that either all the Icefield Crack Claw Beasts were inside the cave or they had all gone out to forage for food.

He took a small lantern out of his storage bag, clipped it to his waist, and pressed the switch. The lantern emitted a dim light, illuminating the area around Hughes.

The ice-covered stone wall came into view, along with a small pool of blood on the ground, and the remains of blood-seeking worms on the blood.

The current blood-seeking worms cannot withstand the high-intensity, powerful blood of low-level magical beasts, even after filtering out most of the magic power.

Fortunately, this time it lasted long enough. After putting away the pocket watch and recording the time the Bloodseeker survived, Hughes used Shadow Step, and two black shadows emerged from the ground and covered Hughes's feet.

Hughes tried taking a few steps and found that walking in the shadows made no sound at all.

Moreover, the shadows were connected to the ground, making Hughes feel even more as if he were walking on a normal, flat road rather than on a rugged stone surface.

Exploring along the stone walls inside the cave, fearing that the dim light might attract a sudden attack from the Icefield Claw Beasts, Hughes also put on a short-range protective membrane, a layer of luminous energy film that adhered tightly to Hughes' body.

Hughes was careless this time. Many magical beasts have night vision, and the Icefield Cracked Claw Beast is one of them. Wizards have also invented many magical artifacts and potions that enable night vision based on this. As a result, Hughes only bought a small lamp.

The passages inside the cave were not complicated. Hughes searched for the fur and droppings of the Icefield Cracked Claw Beast and soon found one at a fork in the road.

Hughes used his mental power to lock onto the Icefield Claw Beast and unleashed six Frost Bullets at it in one go. The fork in the road where the Icefield Claw Beast was located was very narrow, and it could not dodge.

Seeing six ice balls radiating cold air shooting towards it, the Icefield Claw Beast roared and frantically swung its claws.

"Bang bang bang bang—puff puff!!"

Its large claws shattered four frost bullets, while the other two struck its face and chest, one hitting it directly.

The frost bullets struck its body, forming a thick layer of frost that froze the mouth of the Icefield Crackclaw Beast.

Hughes knew that the howl was calling for its companions. Hughes dared not linger in the fight and cast Frost Blast to shatter the ice, blowing the mouth and chest of the Icefield Claw Beast to smithereens.

Enraged, the Icefield Claw Beast charged at Hughes while it still had the strength. Hughes drew his cross sword, imbuing the blade with Frost Blast, instantly enveloping it in a room full of ice and emitting icy blue elemental particles.

Because of its injury, the Icefield Claw Beast's movements slowed down. Hughes dodged the attack from the left claw, and the Frostbreath Robe automatically cast an Ice Crystal Barrier to block the attack from the right claw.

Taking advantage of the opportunity, Hughes thrust the tip of his sword toward the heart of the Icefield Crack Claw Beast.

"Bang—"

The Icefield Cracked Claw Beast lay in a pool of blood, staining the ground crimson.

After killing the beast, Hughes heard several howls of the Icefield Cracked Claw Beast, and Hughes judged that three more Icefield Cracked Claw Beasts were on their way.

……

Three Icefield Crackclaw Beasts arrived at the fork in the road one after another. They saw the corpse of their companion on the ground, exchanged glances, and then went to the corpse.

The corpse of the Iceborne Crackclaw Beast was mangled and covered with a thick layer of frost. An Iceborne Crackclaw Beast looked down to examine it.

Suddenly—"Bang!"

Hughes cast a frost spell from the shadows, and a massive explosion of frost directly destroyed the head of the Icefield Claw Beast that was looking down. The entire fork in the road was filled with icy mist scattered by the explosion.

"Whoosh—"

A dark ray shot swiftly toward an Icefield Crackclaw Beast. Because the ice mist obscured its vision, the dark ray successfully severed its left arm.

As the icy mist dissipated, another Icefield Crack Claw Beast spotted Hughes and charged at him.

Hughes unleashed a fireball at the charging monster, but the Icefield Cracked Claw Beast dodged it and suddenly lunged forward.

He approached Hughes.

Frostbreath Robe activated the Ice Crystal Barrier, and a layer of ice crystal wall rose up to block the Icefield Claw Beast. The Icefield Claw Beast's muscles bulged, and its claws swung rapidly against the ice crystal wall, creating a series of rapid claw strikes.

"Bang! Bang! Bang!..."

The ice crystal wall was quickly shattered, and Hughes was already prepared to shoot the spinning ice spike at the Icefield Crack Claw Beast, but another Icefield Crack Claw Beast rushed over.

Hughes had no time to dodge.