Meeting the Standard

Outside the window, heavy snow fluttered in the air, but inside Felina's apartment, the atmosphere was as warm and vibrant as spring...

After a period of tender intimacy, time quietly slipped away to the afternoon class hours. Felina had no choice but to reluctantly let Lizer go, rushing off to find the dean to ask about the progress of the intellectual property rights application for the Little Witch Donkey and the three-wheeler.

This big cake of intellectual property rights was managed by the Intellectual Property Protection Department of the Ministry of Education. Being within the same educational system, the academy enjoyed quite a few minor privileges in the field of intellectual property.

Felina specifically asked the dean for help, contacting his old classmate from the higher academy who worked in the department.

With this senior stepping in and putting in a word with the Monte Province Department of Education, it was green lights all the way without any obstacles!

Hey, the efficiency was incredibly high!

In just a short week, Lizer and Felina's protection rights application was securely delivered to the Intellectual Property Protection Department, and it was currently at the most critical review stage.

That senior sent word that colleagues in the department all felt the concept was quite creative, and it should have no problem being rated as a general invention.

However, the products involved were not considered high-end, nor were they particularly important to the principality. Following standard procedures, they could probably get a 20-year protection right.

But since they were all part of the education system family, the senior patted his chest and promised to do his best to fight for a 30-year protection right!

Not important to the principality?

Felina shook her head inwardly.

Lizer had long described to her the wondrous military applications of the three-wheeler!

Furthermore, in the invention documents Felina submitted, the power core modules of the Little Witch Donkey and the three-wheeler covered speeds soaring from 40 km/h all the way up to 250 km/h!

Just inspired by Lizer, Felina could imagine that if every soldier in the army had a Little Witch Donkey, their mobility would be unbelievably strong!

But of course, she would not foolishly go and argue the point. It was better if others thought it was unimportant! Quietly securing the intellectual property certification was the perfect outcome.

On the other side, Lizer was comfortably lying in bed, resting and building up his energy...

With a grand wave of his hand, he converted all 80 gold coins into energy points, raking in a full 4000 points in one breath!

The feeling of being rich was absolutely exhilarating!

What was there to hesitate about? Time to spend!

Consumed 200 energy points, Spirit +0.1, current Spirit 2.0

Consumed 200 energy points, Spirit +0.1, current Spirit 2.1

......

Swish, swish, swish!

Lizer's Spirit soared all the way to 3.0, leaving him with 1800 energy points.

At this moment, the Pay-to-Win system prompted: To continue upgrading Spirit, the energy points required for every 0.1 points had increased to 400.

He had obtained the admission ticket to the wizarding world, but there was still no sign of a meditation technique.

Stubbornly grinding Spirit at this point felt a bit uneconomical.

His eyes darted around as he began pondering over upgrading his other attribute points...

Being entangled by Felina these past few days, he had suffered enough from having rock-bottom Constitution and Strength!

With poor Constitution, he felt completely hollowed out every time they finished.

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

Weighing the two evils, Constitution was still more important.

Without another word, Lizer generously threw down 1600 energy points, directly maxing out Constitution, the most lagging of his four main attributes, from a pitiful 1.4 to 3.0!

This was his second attribute to reach the Knight stage!

His body's recovery rate and resistance to various abnormal status effects were instantly pushed almost to their limits.

If he encountered a low-level ghost like little Bobby again, trying to possess him?

No way in hell!

He just did not know...

Did that kind of special status count as an abnormal status?

Would it also increase his sensitive spots? Chuckles

Lizer now felt full of vigor, confident he could battle Felina for three days and three nights without even panting!

He also wanted to spend his way up to 3.0 Strength to restore his manly dominance, but alas... his wallet of energy points had hit rock bottom.

Sigh, spending once feels good, spending always feels good!

Unfortunately, with his energy points running low, Lizer deeply felt the overflowing malice of the Pay-to-Win system.

Earn to spend, spend what you earn, don't even think about taking a single cent home...

Truly words of wisdom!

However, the surge in Constitution at least allowed Lizer to bid a complete farewell to his sense of weakness.

He leaped out of bed with a kip-up and swiftly dashed toward the teaching area.

After school, he still had to rush to the police station to contact Captain Sven of Gele City using the dedicated line! He felt like he had less and less time, not even wanting to attend classes anymore.

In fact, he had long discovered that the Pay-to-Win ability could completely handle these basic subjects!

By spending just 1 to 10 energy points, he could analyze and burn the knowledge into his memory sectors. Relying on his soul talent, the effect was exactly the same as learning it himself.

This Pay-to-Win system had really learned to be bad!

The previous auxiliary chip, Mohist, was a diligent and conscientious colleague. Its specialties like memory assistance and knowledge transmission only required a quick recharge. How could it be like this now, desperately demanding money?

He wondered who the Pay-to-Win system learned this from, being so greedy for wealth?

Could it be Gloria? Suspicious face

Regarding using the Pay-to-Win analysis function for self-study, he was previously too poor, unable to even scrape together enough energy points to meet the Spirit standard, so where would he find the surplus to do this?

Now that he was gradually becoming more affluent, this matter seemed exceptionally necessary.

What Lizer needed was more time, rather than saving those few energy points.

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

So, for today, Lizer honestly finished his academy classes.

When communicating with Captain Sven, Lizer poured out all the intelligence about Rice that he had obtained through Felina:

This included how Rice, with intelligence support from the Feiting Federation, had successfully developed 5 new spies.

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

The situation was similar to Felina and Wilson back then; basically, they took the bait every time and were incited to defect without much effort.

However, Lizer and Felina had already reminded Rice that among these 5 people, there was very likely an informant planted by the Feiting Federation to monitor him.

According to the original plan, Rice only assigned the tasks from the Feiting Federation to these 5 people.

And these 5 unlucky fools?

They would always think of themselves as nails planted in Gele City of the Crimson Soul Principality by the Feiting Federation's lurkers.

Rice's true core strength actually relied on those potential insiders recommended by Sven.

Meanwhile, every move of these 5 obvious chess pieces was already under the strict surveillance of the Internal Affairs Bureau!

As for the so-called tasks they completed, they were probably mostly scripts carefully orchestrated by the Internal Affairs Bureau.

Tsk tsk, this was exactly like a uniquely crafted spy blockbuster!

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

Each spy identity is worth 10 merit points. Rice takes 4 points exclusively, while you and Felina get 3 points each.

Sven's voice came through.

Gloria was on the side, currently maintaining the police station's dedicated level-one communication node.

A level-one communication node could achieve real-time communication across the entire Gele City, but it required a human battery of apprentice level or above to preside over the node's operation.

Lizer was not yet a wizard apprentice, so he could only ask Gloria for a friendly favor.

Level Zero, also known as the town-level communication node, could only cover real-time communication within the town.

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

Of course not!

The answer came down to two things:

Pay more!

Wait!

Paying more was easy to understand; cross-regional communication required paying an extra toll out of pocket.

Waiting meant the message could only be passed along like a relay baton, level by level.

The town-level communication node would first send the message to the town communication center, and then the center would use a specific Level One communication node to forward it to the Level One node designated by the recipient.

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