Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

After a while, the remaining team members arrived one after another, a total of 5 people, who became Hughes's companions during this period.

Seeing that everyone had arrived, Elena opened her eyes, slowly stood up, and said in a cool voice, "Alright, since everyone is here, let's introduce ourselves."

Upon hearing Elena's voice, everyone instinctively looked at her, clearly puzzled by her sudden statement.

Seeing everyone looking at her, Irene was the first to speak:

"My name is Elena Morsold, a third-class wizard apprentice, specializing in ice elemental magic, and I am the captain of your team for this mission."

Everyone was startled, for they were all apprentices in the same cohort as Elena, and also the latest cohort in the Everfrost Spire.

They had heard of Elena Mosolde, who possessed a 5th-grade aptitude and a 5th-grade affinity for ice elements. It was also said that she had high affinity for several other attributes. However, what was most enviable was that she had reportedly mastered the family's intermediate meditation technique.

They never expected that just a few years later, one of their fellow apprentices would be promoted to a third-class wizard apprentice.

Hughes, standing to the side, wasn't as shocked. The world wasn't just the Oren Plane; there were even more monstrous geniuses out there. There would be many more outrageous things to come, after all, even things like time travel existed.

No sooner had Elena finished speaking than a serious-looking rock elf spoke first:

"My name is Jovin Kthow, a second-class wizard apprentice. I specialize in earth elemental magic and follow the path of a body-refining wizard. I was granted a spell by the Tree of Life—Petrifying Ray, which is a pretty good control spell."

Upon hearing Jovin's self-introduction, Hughes raised his head with interest, not because he had seen him before at Rice's Shadowweaver Society.

Rather, it was because he had always been curious about the Rock Elves, since they were the most obsessed with minerals of all the elven subspecies, even more so than the dwarves.

However, the so-called elven crafts are powerful magical artifacts with distinctive elven cultural characteristics. These are not forged by rock elves, but by orthodox elves. In fact, only magical artifacts forged by orthodox elves can be called elven crafts.

However, with the development over the years, there have been more and more subspecies of elves, and the Tree of Life has also bestowed upon them some knowledge of weapon crafting. As a result, more and more elven magical artifacts have flowed into the wizarding world. Fortunately, we will not go into further detail, since we can appreciate the orthodox elven craftsmanship anyway.

Hughes scrutinized him for a few moments. Jovin was also handsome, with short brown hair. As a pure-blooded elf, his ears were naturally much more pointed than those of Mor and the others.

Most notably, he has an earth-yellow eye pattern on his forehead, which should be the magic bestowed upon him by the Tree of Life.

He was wearing a set of runic heavy armor. It is worth mentioning that rock elves often use rare metals to forge their magical equipment, and some even have many precious gems inlaid in it.

Joven's rune armor, on the other hand, is relatively simple, made of a very common material: rock crystal, known for its hardness.

As body-refining wizards, they cultivate their bodies' adaptability to elements, so they generally don't wear thick armor. They prefer to use their bare bodies to withstand attacks in order to better train their physical bodies.

However, this is war, so it's better to be safe.

The only girl among the five spoke up. Her face was fair and delicate, and she said in a gentle tone, "My name is Vivian Nodira, a second-class wizard apprentice. I am skilled in plant magic and am... a flower fairy."

After hearing this, everyone looked at her curiously. Flower fairies are a type of demonic creature with an extremely low probability of appearing. They are only born when a demonic plant absorbs substances rich in life force.

Flower fairies are naturally plant-affinity wizards, and they also have a special racial ability—they can communicate with plants, but this communication is not verbal, but a kind of telepathic communication.

Hughes also glanced at Vivian. The flower fairies all chose their own names, and some might even be the names of creatures they had seen.

What intrigued Hughes was that Vivian looked just like a human girl, with long pink hair, a delicate, small face, and a petite body draped in a green wizard's robe.

However, she exudes a strong floral fragrance, which she suspects will be noticed by others over time, so she took the initiative to explain, not wanting to hide it from her future teammates.

Flower fairies, these humanoid creatures, not only don't look like humans, but even among their own kind, they look quite different, depending on what kind of plant they were before they were born.

It seems that Vivian used some means to disguise her appearance so that she could better integrate into society. However, flower fairies are very united creatures; they will even help their "sisters" from before their birth to absorb substances rich in life force.

The flower fairies of the Oren plane have almost all joined an organization—the Thorn Sisterhood.

It is composed of several powerful flower fairies who protect the weaker flower fairies; it is the true paradise of the flower fairies.

Of course, there are always exceptions, and Hughes didn't want to delve too deeply into it. The fact that someone could enter the Everfrost Spire and become a second-class wizard apprentice proved that they had their own way of surviving.

Another male apprentice also spoke up:

"My name is Heleto Padilder, a second-class wizard apprentice, skilled in dark and light elemental magic. I am a runemaster, but not yet at the level of a low-level runemaster. I am good at setting up some very practical arrays and inscribing runes on magical artifacts..."

Heleto wore a well-tailored black robe with dark gold stripes and runes winding across it. Some of the gold runes seemed dull and lifeless, as if the robe were a defective product.

He wore a monocle over his right eye, a magical tool commonly used by rune masters to help them see elemental particles more clearly.

Because Hughes studied Gabriel's book, "The Esso Manifesto," he was very familiar with these basic runes.

After a few glances, he immediately recognized that the mismatched golden runes on Heleto's robes must have some function of enhancing the gathering of light elements. However, the runes were not very well engraved and probably wouldn't last long.

Finally, it was Hughes' turn. Seeing everyone looking at him, Hughes slowly began to speak:

"My name is Hughes Craig, a second-class wizard apprentice, specializing in ice elemental magic. I am a potion master, but not yet at the level of a low-level potion master. I recently successfully crafted Blazing Ointment, which is a good thing for dealing with Frostskin Dwarves. You can buy blood tonics and nutrient solutions from me."

Hughes spoke very briefly, unlike Heleto who said much more, and everyone had heard that he was a potion master.

After everyone had introduced themselves, Elena led them to the base for the next few days.