Mission

This combat assessment also made Lizer realize his own flaws.

Although his agility had reached 4 points, facing combat at the intermediate wizard apprentice level or above, this level of agility was actually very dangerous.

He lacked sufficient dodging and defensive capabilities.

He could continue to increase his agility and constitution attribute points, or he could acquire some rare witchcraft to enhance his dodging and defensive capabilities.

If he could win first place in Gele City this time, the Resistance Boost he would receive could improve his defensive capabilities.

To improve dodging capabilities, there were zero-circle witchcrafts that could boost speed, such as Grease and Lighten Body.

Neither of these two witchcrafts directly increased speed...

Grease created a layer of oil on flat ground, thereby reducing friction during an escape to increase speed.

Lighten Body reduced the wizard's mass parameter, allowing the wizard to gain greater acceleration and initial velocity during the acceleration process.

Both of these witchcrafts involved the essence of human anatomy, motion, and applied forces. Without a certain understanding of the five major branches of mechanics, it would be impossible to learn these two spells.

In addition, he needed to prepare a crowd control ability with a wider area of effect.

Stun bullets required a direct hit to take effect, which was actually quite difficult to utilize against enemies with high speed or high attribute values.

This time, Lizer had exploited the loophole of the Black Magic Iron Golem's rather rigid combat intelligence.

If the same attributes and abilities were placed on a human, Lizer guessed he would have failed long ago.

The golem's zero-circle Web spell was actually quite good.

The Ring of Thorns, rewarded to the top three in Gele City, also induced vines from the ground to entangle and control enemies.

Although its range was slightly smaller than the Web, it still counted as an area-of-effect control ability.

The practical combat assessment was the fastest exam Lizer had completed, taking less than ten minutes in total.

When he walked out of the examination room, even the invigilator from the provincial department gave him a thumbs up; this apprentice's combat power was simply too formidable!

Obviously, this practical exam would definitely be another 100 points!

The other students were still taking their exams, so Lizer had to detour around the lake behind the academy, climb over the wall, and return to his factory apartment.

Felina was resting in the apartment. Seeing Lizer appear at this time, she glanced at the witchcraft clock and asked anxiously:

Hubby, what's wrong?

Why haven't you gone to your exam yet? Don't be late!

Being late will deduct points, and if you're more than 30 minutes late, you'll be disqualified.

Oh my, it's already been 20 minutes, hurry up and run over there!

Hearing this, Lizer laughed heartily:

You silly girl, your hubby has already finished the exam!

Felina looked at him suspiciously upon hearing this: Really?

Was the practical exam so difficult this time that you failed so quickly?

Lizer was amused. He ran to the sofa, picked Felina up, placed her on his lap, and gave her perky buttocks two light smacks.

A faint blush immediately appeared on Felina's bottom:

That's for daring to doubt your hubby!

Felina let out a soft cry and hugged Lizer's arm. Her abundant cleavage pressed against his arm, swaying and revealing a patch of snow-white skin...

She pouted and said:

Hubby, I was wrong...

But since you came back so quickly, how did you actually do on the exam?

Lizer said confidently:

Just like the previous two times, a perfect one hundred points, of course!

Hearing this, stars of admiration popped into Felina's eyes, and she hugged Lizer tightly:

Hubby, you're amazing!

Getting a hundred points in all three subjects—a perfect score is probably the highest score in history since the provincial unified exams began!

It's simply unimaginable!

Lizer rubbed her beautiful hair, stared at her, and gave a wicked smirk:

Then how is my wifey going to reward me?

... (Censored)

A few hours later...

Lizer and Felina were snuggled up together when he noticed a copy of the History of the Crimson Soul Principality dropped on the floor by the sofa.

This was one of the codebooks agreed upon by Felina and Rice...

Lizer asked: Is there news from Feiting again?

Felina nodded upon hearing this. She picked up the fallen piece of paper from the floor and compared it, flipping through the History of the Crimson Soul Principality page by page to find the corresponding text:

I was just deciphering the message!!

It's all your fault for coming back so early, making me worry about you, and tossing me around until I was so exhausted.

Lizer stayed by her side, keeping Felina company as she quietly translated Rice's classified message.

It turned out that Feiting had assigned a mission to Felina through Rice.

The Lurkers organization didn't exactly specify Felina, but rather specified the mission location—Grey Fog Mountain Town.

As the sole member of the Lurkers in Grey Fog Mountain Town, this mission was automatically assigned to Felina.

As for Lizer, he did not exist in the Lurker system roster of Feiting, which might become Felina's vulnerability.

It turned out that the communication technology of the Crimson Soul Principality had made a breakthrough, inventing a wiretapping technology.

A traditional alchemy wizard at the peak of the wizard apprentice stage had developed a technology to duplicate communication nodes half a year ago.

Based on this minor technology, he later achieved real-time wiretapping for zero-level (town-level) communication nodes.

To clarify the principles of this technology, one must understand the communication architecture of the Crimson Soul Principality and even the Feiting Federation:

Node - Center - Node.

For example, if Lizer wanted to contact Felina, the communication node named Lizer would send a command to the communication center to connect to the communication node Felina.

Then, based on the command, the center would plug the mystical network cables of Lizer and Felina together, thereby achieving real-time communication.

This architecture applied to all communication network architectures from level zero to level ten.

However, the technology of this remarkable wizard apprentice would also create a duplicate command after receiving the communication command.

It temporarily duplicated and generated a Felina at a designated node location, meaning there would now be two Felinas.

And Lizer wouldn't know that he was communicating with two Felinas.

Thus, a duplicated communication node covertly intervened in this real-time communication.

Recently, this wiretapping technology was to be loaded into several small towns selected by the Principality's Internal Affairs Bureau for closed testing.

The inconspicuous Grey Fog Mountain was one of the secret experimental sites.

It was unknown how this information was leaked to the Feiting Federation...

Seeing this, Lizer felt that the espionage war between these two countries was quite thrilling.

The two countries were like sieves leaking water everywhere; it seemed that both sides could easily obtain each other's top secrets.

It was like two people completely abandoning defense, just viciously stabbing each other in the vitals!

This bizarre situation was highly abnormal!

Lizer had some doubts and speculations. This might be related to the suzerain state of the two major countries, the Bauhinia Kingdom, but these matters were too far removed from him at present.

Perhaps for both countries, this was just helplessness.

They could only engage in this fateful mutual stabbing, desperately thrusting at each other's vitals, just waiting to see who would fall first...

Returning to the main topic, this wiretapping technology was extremely terrifying.

Lizer, who hailed from the Blue Planet, had heard of the Watergate Scandal and the US Surveillance Scandals, so he knew the nightmarish consequences that wiretapping could bring.

He sighed...

He knew that given the level of communication technology in this world, the invention of the demon known as surveillance technology was only a matter of time.

It was just that he and Felina happened to become some of the historical witnesses to this very invention!

This demonic technology would gradually destroy the trust between people and breed suspicion.

He absolutely loathed this technology!

Felina's mission was obvious:

To cooperate with the organization's experts in the field of communications and acquire this top-secret technology from the Crimson Soul Principality.