Wizard: Starts with Advanced Meditation

Just as the two were facing off—"BOOM!!"

The massive explosion drew their attention.

"It's Heleto's side!" Hughes said in a deep voice, his tone carrying a hint of seriousness that was hard to detect. But he immediately realized what was happening and a dark ray shot silently toward Green.

"ah!!"

Before Green could react, the dark ray pierced through his left shoulder, instantly tearing a gruesome hole in the flesh.

Meanwhile, the situation on Heleto's side suddenly changed. While Heleto was dealing with Laila, Hack seized the opportunity and suddenly condensed a fireball the size of a washbasin in his palm. The flames rolled and brought out scorching heat waves in all directions.

Huck pushed his palms forward with a sudden burst, and the fireball seemed to have eyes, accurately predicting Heleto's trajectory and hitting him squarely. With a loud "bang," the fireball exploded.

This fireball was "compressed" by Hack. The violent energy instantly shattered Heleto's protection. The protective membrane around him, which was originally glowing faintly, instantly shattered like a spider web, turning into specks of light and dissipating into the air.

Heleto was violently thrown over by the force of the impact, crashing heavily to the ground. His body scraped against the rough earth, leaving a long trail in the scorched soil, leaving him a mess.

Ignoring the scorch marks on his body, he quickly erected another light shield. At the same time, several green fireballs came whistling in, crashing heavily onto the light shield one after another with dull thuds.

The fireballs exploded on the surface of the light shield, instantly bursting into eerie green flames. The flames frantically licked at the light shield, causing the already unstable shield to shake violently, with fine cracks even appearing at the edges, as if it might collapse at any moment.

The moment the flamethrower exploded, a thick cloud of smoke rose up, but before the smoke had completely dissipated, a fireball suddenly shot out—it was Hack who had made the move.

Although the attack was not charged, its momentum was still swift. The fireball exploded, and the violent energy slammed into the light shield. With a crisp "crack", the already shattered light shield collapsed, and the fragments turned into specks of light and dissipated in the air.

As the smoke cleared, Hack's figure slowly appeared in front of Heleto. At this moment, both of their magical powers were nearly exhausted, but in Hack's eyes, Heleto was already at his limit and no longer posed any threat.

A fierce glint flashed in his eyes. Without hesitation, he lunged forward, intending to take this opportunity to finish off his opponent. Heleto trembled as he fired arrows of light at Hack, but Hack dodged them all.

Just as Hack was only a few steps away from Heleto, his fist almost touching him— "Ah!!"

A piercing scream suddenly came from afar. Hack looked in the direction of the sound and saw that Laila had fallen heavily to the ground, barely alive.

Behind her, Hughes stood quietly, his face expressionless, holding a dark green dagger in his hand, the blade gleaming with a dark green luster.

……

While Hughes and Billy were locked in combat, Green had already fired countless wind projectiles. By now, his magical power was completely depleted, and he could only rely on the magical tools in his hands to barely defend against Hughes's attacks.

"Tch—Ugh!"

Soon, a dark ray pierced through Green's left chest, completely shattering his heart. Green's body stiffened abruptly, a look of bewilderment flashing in his eyes, before he crashed heavily to the ground like a puppet with its strings cut.

After dealing with Green, Hughes coldly glanced at Heleto's side—Hark and Lyra were completely focused on dealing with Heleto and were oblivious to the battle around them.

He silently cast Shadow Step, and two dense dark elements emanated, climbing up Hughes' boots like living things.

After the three of them had exhausted their magic, while Hack walked toward Heleto, Hughes slowly walked toward Lyra, the dark elements swallowing up the sound of each step he took.

Hughes slowly approached Lyra, his Dark Absorbing Robe releasing a large amount of dark elemental energy that enveloped him, making his figure almost blend into the surrounding shadows, like a hunter slowly approaching his prey.

Lyra was observing the battle ahead while slowly recovering her magic power. She was confident in Billy and Green's strength and was completely unaware that a shadow had quietly approached behind her, and the aura of death was silently creeping in.

Without the slightest hesitation, Hughes pulled "Fang" from his storage bag, and with a flick of his wrist, "Fang" plunged towards her unsuspecting back—"Swoosh!"

The "Fang" dagger pierced her back smoothly. The soft sound of the dagger entering flesh was particularly jarring in the silence. The poison inside the dagger was quietly released and quickly spread throughout her body.

Leila felt a sharp pain in her back. She instinctively tried to turn around to check, but before she could even turn her neck, an excruciating pain exploded in her back, quickly spreading through her veins and causing her to collapse to the ground.

She glared at Hughes, knowing she was going to die. With her last remaining strength, she opened her mouth and screamed, hoping to get Hack's attention. After a piercing scream, her head lolled to the side, and she stopped breathing.

Hearing this shrill roar, Hughes frowned and inwardly cried out in alarm.

However, looking at Hack who was angrily rushing towards him, Hughes showed no panic. Hack's magic power had long been exhausted, while his magic power was still abundant.

Hughes slowly raised his hand, and three ice arrows appeared in front of him. These were not ice arrows activated by witchcraft, but were arrows made purely of ice elements. Although the arrows also emitted a chilling aura, their power was far inferior to that of witchcraft.

However, its advantage is that it is easy to control. Hughes controlled three arrows and shot them at Hack from three different directions. The angles of these three arrows were very tricky, sealing off all of Hack's dodge space and leaving him with no way to avoid them.

Seeing this, Hack quickly dodged to the side, but the trajectory of the ice arrow was too tricky, and his body was also quite large.

"puff--"

An ice arrow pierced his left shoulder, and the biting cold instantly spread along the wound, causing him to groan and momentarily freeze.

Hughes gently clenched his right hand, and the ice arrow embedded in Hark's left shoulder emitted a cold light. With a muffled "bang," the power of the Ice Explosion spell suddenly exploded, and shattered ice fragments mixed with blood and flesh flew everywhere.

Hack's left shoulder was blown to pieces, and his left arm, having lost all support, hung heavily like a kite with a broken string. Blood gushed out from the wound, instantly staining half of Hack's body red.

Hack collapsed to the ground in agony. He tried to take out a blood-replenishing potion from his storage bag to treat himself, but an ice arrow immediately pierced his forehead. Hack's movements froze abruptly, and the pain and struggle in his eyes vanished instantly, leaving only a deathly silence.