Censorship

Humanity, at its core, is a social creature; this is a unified consensus among wizards.

No individual can exist isolated from society. Once a person disconnects from society and lives in solitude, they gradually lose their human attributes.

Based on this social nature, the vast majority of people crave social connections with others, and Feixun can satisfy this developmental need for socialization.

Its invention, in every sense, is far more brilliant and significant than Lizer's Little Wizard Donkey.

It quickly captured the attention of the public across the entire Crimson Soul Principality. The conversations of the residents in Gele City and the surrounding towns swiftly shifted from Lizer's Little Wizard Donkey to Feixun.

Consequently, the rate at which Lizer's Little Wizard Donkeys sold out this week slowed from one day to two days...

Lizer even speculated whether the next mission assigned to Felina by the Feiting Federation would be to steal the technical data for Feixun.

Of course, it was also possible that the Feiting Federation, much like the Crimson Soul Principality, already possessed the Feixun technology, but tacitly chose to keep it hidden for now.

There was still no news of the domain experts from the Feiting Federation, and strangely, Viscount Weissman's technical personnel had also gone silent.

This rare and eerie calmness led Gloria to guess whether they had backed down in the face of difficulty and abandoned the mission.

Abandoning it was, of course, impossible.

The sudden announcement of the Feixun technology would only increase the value of this surveillance technology, making the desires of the Feiting Federation's authorities even more urgent.

However, given the current international relations, it would be quite difficult for a domain expert to illegally and silently infiltrate the Crimson Soul Principality from an enemy nation.

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

Rice told the others to stay calm and patiently make their preparations.

While things sought tranquility on this side, ripples were stirring on the other...

It had been nearly a week since this year's provincial final unified examination, and the results and rankings were expected to be announced within a day or two.

Lizer, however, was greeted by a special inspection team from the Inspection Department of the Provincial Department of Education, who were set to conduct a special review of his final exam.

The special inspection team was led by Modi, the Vice Dean of the Examination Academy under the Provincial Department of Education.

He was a middle-aged man in his fifties with gradually thinning hair, who was also an intermediate wizard apprentice.

He wore a light red formal suit, and on his chest was the emblem and slogan of the education system: Crimson Soul Education, Cultivating Talents to Serve the Country.

The education system was likely the institution with the highest ratio of wizard apprentices within the Crimson Soul Principality's government.

There were barely any ordinary people in it; this was a characteristic of the wizarding world.

Modi had already learned everything about Lizer from the academy's dean and a few others.

Originally an unremarkable boy from a blacksmith's shop, he had built a weapons factory within two months, co-invented the Little Wizard Donkey that swept the region with his mentor, and made a fortune.

Recently, in this year's Monte Province unified examination, he had miraculously achieved an unprecedented perfect score!

Let alone Monte Province, even expanding to the entire principality, there had never been a record of a perfect score since the provincial unified examination system was established.

This originally ordinary boy had become the historical first place, on what grounds!?

Serving as the Vice Dean of the Examination Academy, Modi's first thought upon receiving the transcript was a reflection:

Were the exam questions for this cohort too easy?

This fell under his functional jurisdiction, and he only regretted being lazy and not carefully reviewing the exam questions for this cohort.

He hurriedly took out the exam question sheet from his cabinet, and after a quick look:

It wasn't a problem with the questions.

The question-setting committee was reliable after all. While he secretly breathed a sigh of relief, he grew even more astonished!

With questions like these, even if he were to take the exam himself, it would be impossible to get a perfect score!

This was simply monstrous!

Modi recalled an internal meeting organized by a Deputy Director the night before last, which he attended as the leading official responsible for the Examination Academy's question setting.

The atmosphere of the entire meeting was extremely solemn, because Lizer's sudden rise had ruined the Deputy Director's originally perfect plan to cozy up to the Earl of Monte Province!

Avarice!

This was what the Deputy Director had prepared under the guise of implementing the Principality's Ministry of Education's Five-Year Action Plan for Accelerating Talent Cultivation:

Under the pretext of providing more cultivation resources to the principality's outstanding young talents, helping them grow rapidly on the eve of the great war to cope with the increasingly fierce changes in the future situation.

He had overcome all objections to make an exception and prepare a reward for the first place: a special meditation technique.

He appeared to speak with the force of justice, but he had his own little calculations:

The current Director of the Department of Education was about to retire, and he needed a powerful leader to give him a hand so he could smoothly take the position upon the Director's retirement.

He had privately made a promise to Earl Bart, who ruled Monte Province.

The Earl's genius youngest son would definitely take first place in this provincial unified exam and obtain this reward and honor.

A special meditation technique was exceptionally precious, even to Earl Bart, who ruled Monte Province.

What was more, he had always favored his smart and agile third son, believing him to possess outstanding talent. If nurtured well, he might become a Great Wizard of the third rank or higher in the future.

If he could use the provincial unified exam to spread the fame of the third son's wisdom and genius, he would be very pleased in his heart.

As an Earl, he would not explicitly nod and agree to do such a thing, leaving behind evidence, but his silent acquiescence was enough to make the Deputy Director ecstatic.

With Earl Bart's recommendation, wouldn't the Director's position be easily within his grasp?

Therefore, the Deputy Director paid special attention to this matter, frequently holding meetings and explicitly stating:

They needed to improve the Examination Academy's question-setting standards and not let common, street-level questions lower the standards of the Provincial Department of Education, and so on.

He even personally reviewed and gatekept the finale questions for each subject, which resulted in the questions for this year's Monte Province final unified exam being particularly difficult.

Modi still remembered that three days before the exam, the Deputy Director personally took the exam questions and answer materials from his hands.

Such cheating incidents were unavoidable in any world.

Even in seemingly fair examination systems, the privileged had their own various means to put themselves in a more advantageous position during the exam.

There was no absolute fairness and justice in the world to begin with; the Crimson Soul Principality's system was already quite good.

Those who knew of this plan originally thought it was a sure thing, but as a result...

Lizer: 300 points

The Third Son: 295 points

The two were only separated by 5 points. In the final practical combat, the third son exceeded the time limit by 10 minutes and had three points deducted.

One of the theoretical common sense questions was indeed too obscure; he didn't remember the answer and had two points deducted.

But the result was worlds apart!

This was a case of going for wool and coming home shorn!

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

Modi still remembered the Deputy Director roaring at him:

What kind of question-setting standard does your Examination Academy have?

What kind of garbage questions did you come up with that a student could score a perfect mark?

Are your standards not even up to par with a low-level student?

Modi was very helpless, but he didn't dare to retort.

The first half hour of the entire meeting was spent amidst the Deputy Director's roars.

Finally, another colleague spoke up after the Deputy Director's emotions had stabilized slightly:

I think these questions, while perhaps not extremely difficult, are still nearly impossible to score perfectly on.

Moreover, this student's profile notes he is only an elementary wizard apprentice. For him to defeat a puppet with the capabilities of an intermediate apprentice is also abnormal.

I suspect he may have cheated!