58: Chapter 0058 Review

Humans are social creatures in their essence; this is a unified understanding among Wizards.

No one can exist in isolation from society; once a person leaves society to live in seclusion, they will gradually lose the attributes of being 'human'.

Based on human sociality, most people desire social connections with more individuals, and flying messages can satisfy this need for social development.

Its invention, in every sense, is more brilliant and significant than Li Size's little sorcerer donkey.

It quickly captured the attention of the entire Crimson Soul Duchy, and the topic of conversation among residents of Gele City and surrounding towns quickly shifted from Li Size's "little sorcerer donkey" to flying messages.

Correspondingly, the sell-out rate for Li Size's little sorcerer donkeys this week changed from one day to two days...

Li Size even speculated whether the Feiting Federation's next task for Felina would be to steal the "flying message" technical data.

Of course, it's also possible that the Feiting Federation, like the Crimson Soul Duchy, already possesses "flying message" technology but has tacitly kept it under wraps for now.

There was still no news from the Feiting Federation's Domain experts, and strangely, Viscount Weisman's technicians also went silent.

The rare, eerie calm made Gelia wonder if they had retreated in the face of difficulty and abandoned the mission.

Abandonment was, of course, impossible.

The sudden public release of flying message technology would only increase the value of this eavesdropping technology, and the will of the Feiting Federation's authorities would only become more urgent.

However, in such international relations, it is still somewhat difficult for a Domain expert to illegally enter Crimson Soul from an enemy country without a sound.

Rice's infiltration took half a year from planning to execution.

Rice told the others to remain calm and just prepare patiently.

While this side sought tranquility, a ripple emerged on the other side...

It has been nearly a week since this year's provincial unified final exam, and the results and rankings should be announced in the next day or two.

However, Li Size was met by a special Inspection Team from the Provincial Department of Education's Inspection Department, who would conduct a special review of his final unified exam.

The special Inspection Team was led by Mody, the Vice Dean of the Provincial Department of Education's Examination Institute.

He was a middle-aged man in his fifties with thinning hair, and an Intermediate Wizard Apprentice.

He wore a light red formal suit, with the education System's emblem and slogan on his chest: Crimson Soul Education, Cultivating Talent for the Nation.

The education System should be the institution with the highest rate of Wizard Apprentices within the Crimson Soul Duchy's government System.

There are almost very few ordinary personnel here; this is a characteristic of the Wizard World.

Mody had already learned everything about Li Size from the academy dean and others.

The originally unremarkable son of a blacksmith built a weapons factory within two months, invented the region-wide popular little sorcerer donkey with his mentor, and earned a fortune.

Recently, he even achieved an unprecedented perfect score in this year's Monte Province unified provincial exam!

Not to mention Monte Province, even if expanded to the entire Duchy, there had never been a record of a perfect score since the provincial unified exam System began.

This originally unremarkable kid became the first in history. How did he do it!?

Mody, serving as the Vice Dean of the Examination Institute, reflected the moment he received the transcript:

Could it be that this year's exam questions were too simple?

This was within his scope of responsibility, and he regretted being lazy and not carefully reviewing this year's exam questions.

He quickly took out the exam questions from the cabinet and looked at them.

This wasn't a problem with the exam questions.

The question-setting group was reliable. While secretly relieved, he was even more surprised!

With such exam questions, even he couldn't get a perfect score!

This was too prodigious!

Mody then recalled the internal meeting organized by a Deputy Director the night before last, in which he participated as the leader responsible for question-setting at the Examination Institute.

The atmosphere of the entire meeting was very solemn because Li Size's sudden rise disrupted the Deputy Director's originally perfect plan to align himself with the Count of Monte Province!

"Stingy"!

This was the special Meditation Method, a reward prepared for the first-place winner, which this Deputy Director had pushed through against all objections, under the guise of implementing the Duchy's Ministry of Education's "Five-Year Action Plan for Accelerating Talent Cultivation":

"To provide more cultivation resources to outstanding young talents in the Duchy to help them grow rapidly during the great war, in order to cope with the increasingly intense situational changes in the future."

He appeared righteous, but he had his own ulterior motives:

The former Director of the Department of Education was about to retire, and he needed strong leadership to support him, so he could smoothly take over as Director when the current one retired.

He privately promised Count Bart, who governed Monte Province.

His Genius Young Master would definitely take first place in this provincial unified exam, winning this reward and honor.

A special Meditation Method was extremely precious, even to Count Bart, who governed Monte Province.

What was even rarer was that he had always doted on his intelligent and agile third son, believing his talent to be exceptional, and that with proper cultivation, he might become a Great Wizard of Level Three or higher in the future.

If the wisdom and Genius of his Third Young Master could be spread through this provincial unified exam, he would be very pleased.

As a Count, he would not agree to such a matter and leave a handle, but his silent nod made the Deputy Director ecstatic.

If he had Count Bart's recommendation, wouldn't the Director's position be within his grasp?

Thus, the Deputy Director was particularly invested in this matter, often holding meetings and explicitly stating:

To improve the quality of questions set by the Examination Institute, and not let common, poor questions lower the standard of the Provincial Department of Education, and so on.

He also personally reviewed and approved the most challenging questions for each subject, which resulted in this year's Monte Province final unified exam questions being particularly difficult.

Mody also remembered that three days before the exam, the Deputy Director personally took the exam questions and answer materials from him.

Such cheating incidents are unavoidable in any world.

Even in seemingly fair examination Systems, those with privilege have various means to gain an advantageous position in the exam.

There is no absolute fairness and justice in the world to begin with; the System of the Crimson Soul Duchy is already quite good.

Those who knew about this plan originally thought it was a sure thing, but then...

Li Size: 300 points

Third Young Master: 295 points

The difference between the two was only 5 points. In the final combat assessment, the Third Young Master exceeded the time limit by more than 10 minutes and had three points deducted.

One theoretical common sense question was indeed too obscure, and he didn't remember the answer, so two points were deducted.

But the outcome was vastly different!

This was a case of trying to catch a chicken but losing the Rice!

The few people at the meeting that night were the Deputy Director's confidants, but none dared to face the furious Deputy Director at that moment.

Mody still remembered the Deputy Director roaring at him:

"What kind of question-setting standard do you have at the Examination Institute?

What kind of rubbish questions did you set that a student could get a perfect score?

Is your standard even worse than a low-level student's?"

Mody was helpless, but he dared not retort.

The first half hour of the entire meeting was spent in the Deputy Director's roar.

Finally, another colleague, after the Deputy Director's emotions had somewhat stabilized, suggested:

"I don't think these questions are particularly difficult, but getting a perfect score is still quite impossible.

Moreover, this student's file notes him as an Elementary Wizard Apprentice, and being able to defeat a Puppet of Intermediate Wizard Apprentice level is also abnormal.

I suspect he might have cheated!"