Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

"..."

A few minutes later, a muffled sound suddenly came from inside the cave.

...Boom! Boom boom!!

The next second, spiderweb-like cracks instantly spread across the surface of its rock face.

"Click—click-click..."

"Boom—!!!!!"

In an instant, the entire cave exploded, large chunks of rock flew everywhere, and a corner of the mountain collapsed.

"Whoosh, whoosh!!"

Suddenly, two figures flew out of the ruins; they were Hughes and Aldek.

The cave was clearly unable to withstand the battle between the two wizards, so they tacitly changed the battlefield and rose into the air.

"..."

The atmosphere was extremely heavy. Even though neither of them made a move, the collision of their surging killing intents had almost frozen the surrounding air.

Blood mist surged around Aldek. Thanks to the transformation of the symbolic blood, the intensity of his blood energy increased significantly, even comparable to that of a demonic element.

Not only that, it also allowed him to develop other abilities...

Although Hughes's surroundings appeared calm, invisible spatial energy had quietly seeped in, blocking all of his spatial escape routes.

Suddenly, he spoke:

"You... received a transplant of Valerius's symbolic blood?"

After the brief exchange, he understood that his opponent's transformation stemmed from an advancement in his bloodline.

But at this point, Hughes's expression... became strange.

"snort!"

However, Aldek did not answer. His eyes were cold, and a fierce blood energy surged into the sky.

"boom--!!"

The blood energy rapidly converged in the air, instantly condensing into enormous blood-red meteorites.

"Today I..."

Aldek slowly rose into the air and flew among the floating meteorites.

"You despicable traitor, you must be punished for the vampire clan!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than meteorites rained down from the sky like a torrential downpour.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh whoosh!!!"

Although this Blood Meteor Technique is only at level one, the power caused by each meteorite should not be underestimated.

Hughes immediately deployed a deflection field, deflecting all the incoming meteorites toward the ground.

...Boom! Boom boom boom boom!!!

Below, the impact of the meteorite caused a series of explosions, tearing the hard ground apart in an instant and leaving behind rows of hideous, blood-red ravines.

"Whoosh—"

Above, Hughes suddenly flashed with silver light and instantly teleported in front of Aldek.

"What?!"

Aldek was immediately alarmed and raised his hands to assume a defensive stance.

However, Hughes's attack was even faster. The Extreme Freeze Annihilation had been rapidly gathering in his hands, and he unleashed it with a roar as he raised his hand.

"Whoosh—!"

The next second, a violent torrent of ice elemental energy surged forth and crashed directly into Aldek.

"Crack—bang! Bang bang!!"

The piercing impacts exploded one after another on his body, accompanied by a crackling sound of freezing, and his body was instantly frozen stiff, with a chilling aura spreading out.

——!

Suddenly, a pair of scarlet eyes lit up.

Immediately afterwards, Aldek's roar came from inside.

"ah--!"

The next second, the surrounding blood energy surged into his limbs and bones, actually shattering the solid ice crystals frozen on his body.

"Aaaaaah—!!!"

But that wasn't the end of it. Aldek's body began to be reshaped by blood energy, and every drop of his blood and every bit of his flesh gradually transformed under the scouring of blood energy.

Upon seeing this, Houston sensed something was wrong.

He was about to stop them when a large number of blood beasts suddenly condensed into form in the surrounding blood mist.

The countless blood beasts pounced one after another, completely blocking his path.

He intended to teleport directly there, but discovered that the robe on which he had placed the teleportation point had completely vanished under the wash of blood energy.

Helpless, Hughes had no choice but to deal with the blood beast first.

To avoid being caught in a one-against-many predicament, he had a sudden thought and immediately began to condense the secret source of ice element.

"Whoosh! Whoosh whoosh!!"

In the blink of an eye, large and small blue particles appeared out of thin air around him.

Then, a large amount of ice element was poured into it, and in an instant, various ice element life forms took shape one after another.

Driven by Hughes, they immediately rushed outwards and engaged in fierce combat with the attacking blood beasts.

"Click, click-click—"

On the other side, Aldek's bones made a series of cracking sounds, and his limbs grew again, becoming unusually long.

His skin gradually turned scarlet, and his veins suddenly bulged out, like vines embedded in his body.

"Hiss—"

Suddenly, his fingernails pierced through the flesh, transforming into crescent-shaped, blood-red claws.

"Pfft! Pfft!"

Immediately afterwards, a pair of thin, blood-red bat wings grew from his back, and with a gentle flap, they could stir up gusts of bloody wind.

"..."

At this moment, Aldek's face had completely degenerated from human form.

His eye sockets were deep-set, and his eyes turned into two leaping scarlet flames.

Two thick fangs protruded from the corners of his mouth, gleaming with a chilling light.

This is the price of transplanting something of a higher level, even if... it's only a single drop.

——！

Aldek looked down at his arms, then raised his hand to touch his face.

Sensing the change, he immediately looked up to the sky and roared:

"No--!!"

In an instant, the crimson mist exploded, and violent mental energy fluctuations surged outwards.

Aldek could not accept his own mutation, and he knew that there was no way to reverse it.

Then, he suddenly looked at Hughes, the flames in his eyes flickering violently.

"All of this... is because of you!!"

No sooner had he finished speaking than his wings flapped suddenly from behind.

“Pah!”

The next moment, he transformed into a blood-red afterimage and shot forward.

"Whoosh—!!!!"

……

Meanwhile, with Hughes's help, the ice elemental lifeforms had almost wiped out the group of blood beasts.

They are beings at the level of "living entities," and their level is naturally far higher than these temporary puppets that are simply formed from blood energy.

"Whoosh—!!!"

Suddenly, a blood-red afterimage surged into the battlefield and rushed straight ahead.

"Bang! Bang bang!!"

With just one beam of light, the ice elemental lifeforms along the way, as well as several enormous blood beasts, were instantly scattered.

"Whoosh—!"

However, after breaking through the obstacle, the speed of the afterimage actually increased instead of decreasing, like a blood-red arrow, rushing straight towards Hughes in front.

Upon seeing this, Hughes immediately took off, intending to break away from the opponent's flight path.

"Snap—" (The wings flapped again)

Unexpectedly, the afterimage suddenly made a loud bang, its flight trajectory instantly deviated, and it crashed straight into Hughes.

At this critical moment, Hughes' eyes suddenly narrowed, and he vanished from his spot in an instant.

"Whoosh—!"