Promotion

Gloria arranged for the remaining patrol officers to station outside the communication center under strict guard.

She herself left the communication center first. As a beautiful deputy chief, it was naturally impossible for her to stay up all night for this matter.

According to that kid Lizer, it makes one age faster...

Thinking of Lizer, Gloria, who was riding her sorcery motorcycle back to the police station, revealed a faint smile at the corners of her mouth...

The two experts from different places left overnight...

It was unknown whether the communication center, having experienced such a disastrous night, would face any other storms later.

However, Lizer, Felina, and the others finally resumed their shamelessly absurd yet peaceful lives.

This mission involved complex three-party forces. Felina and Lizer had to complete this task arduously and naturally.

Making the undercover agents of the Feiting Federation fail to notice anything unusual was quite difficult...

So far, the feedback received from both Rice and Sven was quite good.

Sven specifically arranged for two non-Flame Fox squad members just to make the whole process seem more realistic. To deceive others, one must first deceive their own people...

After returning to the Gele City headquarters, these two Internal Affairs colleagues described the enemy as powerful and sinister in order to lessen their responsibility for failing the mission.

They dutifully blocked the first wave of enemies attempting to infiltrate outside the communication center, destroying their attempt to steal secrets, and even tried to capture them.

As a result, while they were on their way to capture the enemies, a second wave of enemies took advantage of the gap, disguised themselves as allies, and sneaked into the communication center.

But they were quickly seen through by the returning agents, who engaged in a fierce battle with the enemy. Because the enemy was too strong,

under emergency circumstances, they only managed to protect the communication center from further infiltration with the help of local patrol officers...

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

Looking at this bizarre report, Sven found it amusing, but his Counter-Espionage plan had finally survived another ordeal and made tremendous progress.

For Sven, the mission arranged by the Feiting Federation was originally a disaster waiting to happen.

It was quite a feat for Lizer to smoothly fool both sides.

However, overcoming this hurdle and completing the mission yielded immense rewards!

The hidden spatial beacon was said to have been personally created by a powerful Rank 3 Liquefied Sorcerer specializing in spatial geometry.

It was a dormant beacon constructed using specific runes and parts from the eavesdropping device.

On the one hand, if the Feiting Federation wanted to replicate the eavesdropping device, they had to replicate these parts, which were inherently part of the device itself.

Without these runes and parts, the eavesdropping device would fail.

On the other hand, this spatial beacon was incomplete, missing a crucial component.

Only when someone else activated specific parts within a certain range would the entire spatial beacon be activated, releasing specific spatial coordinates.

From then on, whether public or hidden, all of the Feiting Federation's communication centers would have their map fog fully lifted for the Crimson Soul Principality.

Whenever necessary, the Crimson Soul Principality could immediately organize forces to destroy Feiting's communication hubs.

Of course, the harvest was not limited to this dormant spatial beacon; Internal Affairs also successfully left a hidden backdoor using the rune combinations of the eavesdropping device.

This allowed the Crimson Soul Principality to use the backdoor to achieve secondary eavesdropping. The Feiting Federation had begun experimenting with this eavesdropping technology two days ago.

Dark Soul, the special infiltration branch of Internal Affairs stationed far away in the Feiting Federation, could already achieve secondary eavesdropping through the technical backdoor, learning about some of Feiting's experimental processes.

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

To thank Felina and the others for their contributions to his promotion and the principality, he specially went to Gray Mist Mountain Town to thank the three in person and brought the latest appointment documents:

Rice was specially promoted to Captain of the Counter-Espionage Plan Special Operations Team, Felina to Vice-Captain, and both Lizer and Gloria were promoted to official members.

The confidentiality level of the Counter-Espionage plan was raised to the Department level, meaning that besides Sven, only leaders above the department level in Internal Affairs could inquire about the specific details from now on.

The autonomy was extremely high!

Most importantly, with his change in status, Lizer could not only legally carry a gun,

but he could also practically walk sideways across the country with his Internal Affairs ID. He outranked regular officials by a grade; that was just how prestigious special agents were...

The Internal Affairs organization rewarded Rice with 200 merit points, Felina with 100 merit points, and both Gloria and Lizer with 50 merit points.

This was already enough merit points to exchange for the principality's unique sorcery, Enhance Resistance.

Ever since Gloria cast this Rank 0 sorcery on him multiple times, it had given him a special sense of security every time.

He had long set his sights on Enhance Resistance. It was the only defensive sorcery he could currently obtain, and he wanted to make up for his shortcomings in this area...

However, since Lizer won first place in the entire province this time, the first-place reward given by Gele City included the Enhance Resistance sorcery, so Lizer could exchange his merit points for something else.

Lizer originally had some thoughts about a peculiar Rank 0 Necromancy sorcery called Corpse Interrogation, which could allow him to obtain more accurate information in certain special situations.

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

Merit points were hard to come by. Lizer felt that since the two of them were essentially one entity, there was no need to redundantly exchange for such special sorcery unless necessary.

His merit exchange manual had not changed; it was still the member-level merit exchange manual.

He basically knew what items were available for exchange in it.

In his current situation, he actually had fewer opportunities to go on missions, so exchanging for some sorcery items was quite meaningless. He preferred knowledge or sorcery-type exchange items that could increase his foundational strength.

Items of this category were also scarce in the member-level exchange manual. The Fire Arrow and Ice Arrow sorceries that Lizer had already learned were also in there.

There was also Bone Arrow, Thorny Vines, Lesser Healing...

Lesser Healing was not bad; it could heal most injuries below the level of a severed limb. However, it surprisingly overlapped with Gele City's first-place reward again.

Lizer secretly wondered, could the top three rewards of Gele City have been provided by Internal Affairs?

Finally, after looking and looking, Lizer saw a reward that was barely passable:

Rank 0 Energy Gathering Array.

By setting up this sorcery array, one could increase the concentration of energy particles within a certain range.

The Rank 0 effect could increase the concentration by about fifty percent, and the maximum coverage area was only one room. It could greatly accelerate the meditation effects of a sorcerer apprentice.

However, the downside was that learning sorcery arrays was extremely difficult. Most sorcerers considered sorcery arrays to be a discipline even harder than alchemy.

If the majority of sorcerer apprentices had to learn a little bit of alchemy, perhaps out of a hundred apprentices, the number capable of studying sorcery arrays would not exceed the fingers on two hands.

Even if one exchanged for this sorcery array knowledge, a typical apprentice would not learn anything without two or three years of serious contemplation.