30: Chapter 0030 Achieving the Standard

Snow fluttered outside the window, but inside Felina's apartment, it felt like spring was in full bloom...

After a period of intimacy, time quietly slipped away to the afternoon class hour. Felina reluctantly let Li Size go and hurriedly went to find the Dean to inquire about the progress of the intellectual property rights application for the little sorcerer donkey and the three-wheeler.

The big cake of intellectual property rights is managed by the Intellectual Property Protection Division of the Ministry of Education. Being within the education System, the academy holds quite a few small privileges in the Domain of intellectual property.

Felina specifically asked the Dean for help, and he contacted an old classmate from the Higher Academy who now worked in that division.

With this Senior stepping in and sending word to the Monte Province Department of Education, it was green lights all the way, completely unobstructed!

Hey, the efficiency was incredibly high!

In just one short week, Li Size and Felina's protection rights application had been safely delivered to the Intellectual Property Protection Division, and it was currently at the most critical stage: the review process.

Word came back from that Senior that his colleagues in the division felt the concept was quite creative; grading it as a "General Invention" should be no problem.

However, since the products involved weren't high-end and weren't considered particularly important to the Duchy, following the standard rules would likely grant them 20 years of protection.

But since they were all part of the education System family, the Senior patted his chest and promised he would do his best to fight for 30 years of protection!

"Not important to the Duchy"?

Felina shook her head inwardly.

Li Size had already described to her the wonderful military applications of the tricycle!

Moreover, in the invention documents Felina submitted, the power core modules for the little sorcerer donkey and the three-wheeler covered speeds ranging from 40 km/h all the way up to 250 km/h!

Just from Li Size's inspiration, Felina could imagine how powerful the mobility would be if every soldier in the Army had a little sorcerer donkey!

But of course, she wouldn't be so foolish as to argue. It was better if others thought it was unimportant! Quietly getting the intellectual property certification in hand—that was what she called perfection.

On the other side, Li Size was comfortably lying in bed, recharging his energy...

With a wave of his hand, he converted all 80 gold coins into energy points, gaining a full 4,000 points in one go!

This feeling of being rich was simply exhilarating!

Why hesitate? Pay-to-Win!

[Consumed 200 energy points, Mental Energy +0.1, current Mental Energy 2.0]

[Consumed 200 energy points, Mental Energy +0.1, current Mental Energy 2.1]

...

Swish, swish, swish!

Li Size's Mental Energy soared all the way to 3.0, with 1,800 energy points remaining.

At this moment, the Pay-to-Win System prompted: To continue increasing Mental Energy, the energy points required for every 0.1 point had already risen to 400.

He had obtained the admission ticket to the Wizard World, but there was still no sign of a meditation method.

Stubbornly pushing Mental Energy further right now felt a bit uneconomical.

His eyes darted around as he began to contemplate raising other attribute points...

After being "entangled" by Felina these past few days, he had truly had enough of the suffering caused by his bottom-tier Physique and Strength!

With poor Physique, every time they were "finished," he felt like his body had been hollowed out.

With weak Strength, he was easily suppressed beneath Felina every single time...

Choosing between two evils, Physique was still more important.

Without another word, Li Size splurged 1,600 energy points to max out the Physique attribute—the biggest laggard among his four stats—from a pitiful 1.4 straight to 3.0!

This was his second attribute to reach the Knight level!

His body's recovery rate and resistance to various abnormal statuses were instantly pushed almost to the limit.

If he encountered a low-level ghost like little Bobby again and they tried to possess him?

Not a chance!

He just wondered...

Did that "special state" count as an abnormal status?

Would it also increase his "sensitivity threshold"? (Chuckles)

Li Size now felt full of vigor, as if he could battle Felina for three days and three nights without losing his breath!

He also wanted to Pay-to-Win his Strength to 3.0 to re-establish his husbandly authority, but unfortunately... his wallet (energy points) was already empty.

Sigh, Pay-to-Win for a moment, feel good for a moment; Pay-to-Win forever, feel good forever!

Unfortunately, with energy points running low, Li Size deeply felt the "malice" inherent in Pay-to-Win.

Earn money for Pay-to-Win, spend it on Pay-to-Win, don't expect to take a single cent home...

Truly a wise saying!

However, the surge in Physique at least allowed Li Size to completely say goodbye to that feeling of weakness.

He performed a carp leap off the bed and quickly dashed toward the teaching area.

After school, he still had to rush to the police station to use the private line to contact Captain Sven in Gele City! He felt like time was becoming increasingly scarce, so much so that he didn't even want to attend classes anymore.

In fact, he had long discovered that the Pay-to-Win ability could completely handle this basic knowledge for him!

He only needed to spend 1 to 10 energy points to have the knowledge analyzed and engraved into his memory sector. Relying on his Soul talent, the effect was exactly the same as if he had learned it himself.

This Pay-to-Win System had really learned to be "bad"!

The previous auxiliary chip, Mozhe, was a diligent and good colleague; for specialties like memory assistance and knowledge transfer, it only needed a recharge. How could it be like this current one, constantly demanding money?

He wondered who Pay-to-Win had learned this greed from?

Could it be Gelia? (Suspicious face)

Regarding using the Pay-to-Win Analysis function for self-study, he had been so dirt-poor before that he couldn't even scrape together the energy points to reach the required Mental Energy standard, so how could he have spare resources for this?

Now that his hands were gradually becoming fuller, this matter seemed exceptionally necessary.

What Li Size needed was more time, not to save those few energy points.

He planned to discuss it with Felina tonight; this matter still required the support of his mentor.

So, today, Li Size still obediently finished his academy classes.

When contacting Captain Sven, Li Size poured out all the intelligence regarding Rice that he had obtained through Felina:

This included the fact that Rice, with the intelligence support of the Feiting Federation, had successfully developed five new spies.

These spies were all "talents" carefully selected by the Feiting Federation Intelligence Center.

The situation was similar to that of Felina and Wilson back then; they were basically hooked as soon as the bait was cast, turned without much effort.

However, Li Size and Felina had already warned Rice that among these five people, it was very likely that some were eyes planted by the Feiting Federation to monitor him.

Following the original plan, Rice only assigned Feiting Federation tasks to these five people.

And those five unlucky Souls?

They would always believe they were nails planted by The Lurkers of the Feiting Federation in Gele City of the Crimson Soul Duchy.

Rice's true core strength actually relied on those promising people of their own recommended by Sven.

Meanwhile, every move of these five "exposed pieces" was already under the strict surveillance of the Internal Affairs Department!

As for the so-called "tasks" they completed, they were likely mostly scripts meticulously choreographed by the Internal Affairs Department.

Tsk tsk, this was truly a unique spy thriller blockbuster!

"Learning the identities of enemy spies and reporting them is a long-term task of the organization, and the merit points are particularly high!

Each spy's identity is worth 10 merit points. Rice takes 4 points for himself, while you and Felina get 3 points each."

Sven's voice came through.

Gelia was beside him, maintaining the police station's dedicated Level 1 transmission node.

A Level 1 transmission node could achieve real-time communication across the entire Gele City area, but it required a "human battery" of Wizard Apprentice level or higher to preside over the node's operation.

Li Size was not yet a Wizard Apprentice, so he could only ask Gelia for her friendly assistance.

A Level 0, or town-level, transmission node could only cover real-time communication within its own town.

So, if someone in a town wanted to use Level 0 communication to contact a friend in the city, were they out of luck?

Of course not!

The answer was just two things:

Pay more!

Wait!

Paying more was easy to understand; cross-Domain communication required extra out-of-pocket "tolls."

Waiting meant that information could only be passed like a relay baton, level by level.

A town-level transmission node would first send the information to the town communication center, which would then send it through a specific Level 1 transmission node to the Level 1 node designated by the recipient.

Or, in the same manner, it would continue to be sent up to even higher-level nodes.

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