63: Chapter 0063 Promotion

Gelia arranged for the remaining Patrol Officers to be stationed outside the communications center, providing strict protection.

She left the communications center first. As a beautiful Deputy Director, she certainly couldn't stay up all night for this matter.

As that kid Li Size said, it makes you age faster...

Thinking of Li Size, a faint smile appeared at the corner of Gelia's mouth as she rode her witchcraft motorcycle back to the police station...

The two experts from different places left overnight...

Who knows what other troubles might arise later, after the communications center had gone through such a disastrous night.

However, Li Size, Felina, and the others finally returned to their shameless, absurd, and peaceful life.

This mission involved complex forces from three parties. Felina and Li Size had to complete it in a 'hard' and 'natural' way.

Making the Feiting Federation's Lurkers unable to detect anything abnormal... that was quite a challenge...

Currently, the feedback received from both Rice and Sven was quite positive.

Sven specifically arranged for two members not from the Flame Fox team precisely to make the entire process appear more authentic. To deceive others, you must first deceive your own people...

After these two Internal Affairs Department colleagues returned to the Gele City headquarters, to lessen their responsibility for the mission's failure, they described the enemy as powerful and insidious.

They dutifully blocked the first wave of enemies attempting to infiltrate outside the communications center, thwarting their attempt to steal secrets, and they even tried to capture the enemy.

However, while they were in the process of apprehending the enemy, a second wave of enemies exploited the gap, disguised themselves as allies, and infiltrated the communications center.

But they were quickly exposed upon their return, leading to a fierce confrontation. Because the enemy was too powerful,

under emergency circumstances, and with the help of local Patrol Officers, they managed to protect the communications center from further infiltration...

The mission report submitted by the Internal Affairs Department roughly conveyed this meaning: the enemy was very powerful, we tried our best, we gave it our all and were even severely injured...

Looking at this bizarre report, Sven found it amusing, but his 'Counter-Espionage' plan had managed to survive another crisis, and had even made significant progress.

For Sven, the mission arranged by the Feiting Federation was originally a crisis.

It was quite an achievement for Li Size to successfully fool both sides.

However, surviving this crisis and completing this mission yielded enormous rewards!

That secret spatial beacon was reportedly personally deployed by a powerful third-level liquefaction wizard specializing in spatial geometry research.

It was a dormant beacon constructed using specific runes and components within the eavesdropping device.

On one hand, for the Feiting Federation to replicate the eavesdropping device, they must replicate these components; they are an integral part of the device itself.

Without these runes and components, the eavesdropping device would also fail.

On the other hand, this spatial beacon is incomplete, lacking a crucial part.

Only when others activate specific components within a certain range will the entire spatial beacon be activated, releasing the precise spatial coordinates.

From now on, all of the Feiting Federation's communications centers, whether overt or covert, will have their map fog completely cleared for the Crimson Soul Duchy.

When needed, the Crimson Soul Duchy can promptly organize forces to sabotage Feiting's communication hubs.

Of course, the rewards weren't limited to just this dormant spatial beacon. The Internal Affairs Department also successfully left a hidden backdoor using the rune combinations from the eavesdropping device.

This allowed the Crimson Soul Duchy to use this backdoor for secondary eavesdropping. The Feiting Duchy began experimenting with this eavesdropping technology two days ago.

The Internal Affairs Department's special infiltration branch, 'Dark Soul', located far within the Feiting Federation, can already perform secondary eavesdropping through the technical backdoor and has learned some of Feiting's experimental processes.

Due to his hard work and outstanding merit, Sven was exceptionally promoted ahead of schedule to Deputy Director of the Gele City Internal Affairs Department.

To thank Felina and the others for his promotion and their contributions to the Duchy, he personally went to Gray Mist Mountain Town to thank the three of them and brought the latest appointment documents:

Specially promoting Rice to Captain of the Special Operations Team for the 'Counter-Espionage' plan, Felina as deputy captain, and both Li Size and Gelia were promoted to full members.

The confidentiality level of the 'Counter-Espionage' plan was raised to 'Bureau' level. This means that from now on, besides Sven, only Internal Affairs Department leaders at the Bureau level or above can inquire about specific details.

The level of autonomous authority is extremely high!

Most importantly, with his changed status, Li Size could not only legally carry a gun,

but also, with his Internal Affairs Department credentials, he could basically strut around the country with impunity, outranking officials by one level. That's the kind of face a special agent has...

The Internal Affairs Department organization rewarded Rice with 200 merit points, Felina with 100, and both Gelia and Li Size with 50 merit points.

This was already enough to exchange for the Duchy's unique sorcery, 'Resistance Enhancement'.

Since Gelia had cast this Zero-Ring Sorcery on him multiple times, each time it made him feel particularly secure.

He had long had his eye on 'Resistance Enhancement'. It was currently the only defensive-type sorcery he could obtain, and he wanted to make up for his shortcomings in this area...

However, Li Size had won the provincial top scholar this time. The first-place reward from Gele City included the 'Resistance Enhancement' sorcery, so Li Size could exchange his merit points for something else.

Li Size originally had some ideas about a peculiar Zero Ring Necromancy System sorcery called 'Corpse Questioning Art', which could allow him to obtain more and more accurate information under certain special circumstances.

However, Felina told Li Size that she had also exchanged for this sorcery.

merit points were hard to come by. Li Size felt that since they were essentially a unit, there was no need to duplicate the exchange of such special sorceries unnecessarily for the time being.

His merit point exchange handbook, however, remained unchanged; it was still the staff-level merit point exchange handbook.

He was quite familiar with the items available for exchange in it.

Given his current situation, he actually had fewer opportunities for missions. So, exchanging for some sorcery tools wasn't very meaningful. He preferred exchange items that could increase his foundational knowledge or were sorcery-related.

Such items were also few and far between in the staff-level exchange handbook. The Firebolt Spell and Ice Arrow Spell that Li Size had already learned were also listed there.

Along with the Bone Arrow Spell, Thorn Vine, Lesser Healing Spell...

The Lesser Healing Spell was quite good; it could heal most injuries short of dismemberment. But it actually overlapped with Gele City's first-place reward again.

Li Size thought to himself, could the top three rewards from Gele City be provided by the Internal Affairs Department?

Finally, after looking over and over, Li Size did see one reward that was barely passable:

'Zero-Ring Energy Concentration Array'.

By setting up this Sorcery Array, it could increase the concentration of energy particles within a certain range.

The Zero Ring effect could increase the concentration by about fifty percent, covering a maximum area of one room. It could greatly accelerate a Wizard Apprentice's meditation effectiveness.

However, the drawback was that learning Sorcery Arrays was extremely difficult. Most wizards considered Sorcery Arrays a more challenging discipline than alchemy.

If most Wizard Apprentices need to learn a bit of alchemy, then out of a hundred Wizard Apprentices, probably no more than the number of fingers on both hands would have the ability to research Sorcery Arrays.

Even if one exchanged for this Sorcery Array knowledge, a typical apprentice wouldn't learn much without two or three years of serious study.