Admission Notice for Guaranteed Entry to Monte Higher Academy
For the nearly one million students in the Crimson Soul Principality who took the entrance qualification exam every year, this was a massive opportunity.
But Lizer felt it was just so-so. However, Lizer didn't throw it in the trash; he kept it purely as a souvenir so his old man could use it to brag.
Beneath the admission notice was a certificate:
This is to certify that student Lizer has won first place in the provincial unified examination of the year 3729 of the Crimson Soul Calendar.
According to the relevant rules and regulations of the Department of Education, he is entitled to a one-time, 7-day exploration right in an official Zero-Ring low-level resource secret realm within the Monte territory.
Certified by the Department of Education of Monte Province.
This certificate was much better than the stingy admission notice; it was a tangible benefit.
Due to their environments, these resource secret realms were rich in various rare resources that were difficult to find on the market.
Some unique pharmaceutical and alchemical raw materials were much easier to find in these resource secret realms, such as sorcery recording crystals.
Later, when Lizer needed specific resources, he could simply choose a suitable low-level resource secret realm to explore.
Lizer picked it up and set it aside, his mood growing increasingly excited...
Stinginess
We are poor, and many hope to become richer, but I seek stinginess instead. -- Verst
This line was written on the title page of the meditation technique. At first glance, Lizer didn't quite understand its meaning, but it left him deep in thought.
[Detected rare meditation technique "Stinginess" (Fragmented/Apprentice). Consumes 1000 energy points to analyze.]
Holy crap!
This was the first time Lizer had encountered a skill that cost so many energy points.
Fortunately, since the exam, Lizer hadn't used any gold coins unless absolutely necessary.
His income of over 400 gold coins from the past few consecutive weeks had all been saved. After consuming a portion just now, he still had over 200 gold coins left.
If he didn't have enough gold coins and couldn't analyze it immediately, Lizer felt he would definitely go crazy.
Thank goodness!
Lizer took a deep breath and chose to analyze. Over 1000 energy points rapidly drained away like flowing water.
About two hours later, Lizer, who had been immersed in the meditation technique, regained his senses and understood the meaning on the title page.
Most sorcerers pursued higher spiritual power and more powerful sorcery effects.
Yet this powerful sorcerer of unknown name and rank had embarked on a path to find a balance between spiritual power consumption and sorcery consumption.
To achieve the same effect with less spiritual power, and to achieve a stronger effect with more spiritual power.
The upper limit of the stability of the consciousness space shaped by the meditation technique invented by this sorcerer was increased by nearly a factor of two.
Just the apprentice-stage portion alone could already withstand the intensity of a First-Ring sorcery model.
More importantly, this meditation technique had two bizarre special effects that forged its immense power:
Special Effect 1:
Stinginess
By learning the "Stinginess" meditation technique, a sorcerer can achieve the same sorcery and sorcery artifact effects using less spiritual power or fewer materials. At the entry level, consumption can be reduced to 80 percent.
Special Effect 2:
Generosity
Extremes breed reversals. By learning the "Stinginess" meditation technique, a sorcerer can achieve higher sorcery and sorcery artifact effects by using more spiritual power or materials.
The entry-level effect consumes 1.4 times the spiritual power or resources, which can increase the overall effect by 20 percent.
As expected of a special meditation technique, these two special effects were absolutely mind-blowing.
Moreover, they didn't just apply to sorcery; they were applicable to all of a sorcerer's crafts, including alchemy, potion-making, runic arrays, and so on.
It truly lived up to its concluding remark:
Because I am stingy, I am strong!
Having familiarized himself with the meditation technique's special effects and confirming that it could apply to everything a sorcerer did, Lizer suddenly had a hypothesis:
The special effects might work on his innate soul ability, [Pay-to-Win]!
Lizer hurriedly gave it a try:
[Consumed 3.2 energy points, Meditation Technique "Stinginess" (Fragmented/Apprentice) proficiency +1. Current proficiency: Entry-level 21/100]
Originally, the proficiency of his basic meditation technique was Entry-level 90/100. After replacing it with the Stinginess meditation technique, his proficiency plummeted to 20/100.
However, this result made Lizer ecstatic!
The meditation technique's special effect indeed worked on the [Pay-to-Win] ability. This was freaking awesome!
If he had obtained this meditation technique earlier, he probably would have saved hundreds of gold coins by now!
Unfortunately, he was currently out of gold coins!
According to the analysis prompt, if he wanted to upgrade it to the proficient level to further enhance the meditation's special effects, he needed 40 gold coins to increase his proficiency and 20 gold coins to promote its tier. With the special effect applied, he would still need 48 gold coins.
What a pity. He could only wait until next week!
Lizer licked his lips, still wanting more, and excitedly rushed out of his meditation room.
He had been in the meditation room for a whole day and reaped massive rewards. He had to find Felina to celebrate.
Like a little boy who had just received his favorite toy, he shouted in the apartment:
"Felina! Felina!"
In her meditation room, Felina, who was studying the "Corpse Interrogation Spell," was deeply engrossed in mysterious sorcery knowledge.
This unique sorcery involved knowledge of soul studies, human anatomy, necromantic energy particle studies, and more.
It was not just a new Zero-Ring sorcery, but also a further perfection of her knowledge system in necromantic sorcery.
Unfortunately, just like the sorcery knowledge she obtained from the academy, it was restricted from being leaked to anyone else, otherwise, she definitely would have taught these spells to Lizer.
She had already been studying this sorcery in the meditation room for a day.
Thanks to her long-term dedication to necromantic sorcery, learning this Zero-Ring sorcery wasn't as difficult as she had imagined.
She estimated that she would be able to grasp the basics of casting this sorcery within a sorcery week.
However, the effects of a newly learned sorcery were unstable, and the spiritual power consumed would be artificially high.
If she wanted to stabilize the sorcery's effects and reduce the spiritual power consumption, she would need at least one to two months of continuous study and tireless practice.
And if she wanted to further hone this sorcery, enhancing its effects and lowering the spiritual power drain even more, it would require years of research.
Felina's progress was actually already quite excellent.
But she had a monstrous husband who could learn anything at a single glance, and Felina didn't know whether that was a blessing or a curse.
Thinking of this, Felina looked up at the window of the meditation room; the horizon was already tinged with a faint twilight.
Their intimate interactions over the past few days had given her an instinctive reliance on his presence.
When Lizer's voice drifted over, her fingertips trembled slightly, and a soft throb rippled through her heart, making her breathing grow a bit lighter.
She subconsciously gathered the hem of her skirt. When she stood up, her footsteps carried a hint of urgency, and her voice held a subtle, sweet softness:
"Hubby, I'm right here."
Both heard each other's voices and quickly rushed toward one another, wanting to share their joyous souls...
...
Once they had calmed down, Felina kissed Lizer's cheek and asked softly:
"The final exams are over, and we have a month and a half of vacation.
Darling, what are your plans?"
Lizer thought about it; of course, he wanted to take Felina out for a trip.
In addition, his new sorcery potion "Spirit of Swiftness" required raw materials to be gathered, and the setup of the Zero-Ring energy-gathering array also needed raw materials.
I won't be able to gather all of these at Grey Mist Mountain. I'll have to make a trip outside...
ap a wealthy young lady? Or else I'll be eliminated by the system? Ye Feng, who awakened the Kidnapper System, originally wanted to live a peaceful life but never imagined he would become a kidnapper of young women. However, after some time, he discovered that all the girls the system ordered him to kidnap were far from ordinary. "Big brother Ye Feng~ You've kidnapped my heart, and now you're not allowed to leave me ever again~" "Ye Feng~ You kidnapped me back then, now it's my turn to capture you♡" "Little Feng, you're mine! You can only be mine!" "Ye Feng, none of them deserve you. Only I love you the most♡" ... This is madness, they've all gone mad! Wait, what? Why are all the girls I kidnapped yanderes?!
young master of the Shen family—a figure of immense power and wealth beyond measure—and awakened the "Destined Ultimate Villain System"! His starting scenario? Running into his icy fiancée who shows up with a mountain-descending divine doctor to break off their engagement. The divine doctor arrogantly taunts: "What does your Shen family have besides a bit of stinking money? You're not even worthy of tying Qingxue's shoelaces!" Shen Fei just smiled. He completely defied the usual script: "Fine, I agree to break off the engagement. Also, notify the finance department to withdraw all investments from the Su family." Minutes later, with its capital chain severed, the Su Group teetered on the brink of bankruptcy! The once aloof and proud ice queen CEO was thrown into utter panic. That very night, she went to Shen Fei's villa, casting aside all dignity to beg and plead desperately... From then on, in this world teeming with Sons of Destiny, Shen Fei embarked on a path of extreme dimensional suppression! A mountain-descending divine doctor? Peerless medical skills? Shen Fei: "Reporting you for practicing medicine without a license! I'll gladly take your ancient medicinal cauldron and twin sister assassins." The Crooked-Smiling Dragon King? Commanding a hundred thousand soldiers with a single order? Shen Fei: "Illegal assembly and suspected treason! Let a fleet of attack helicopters sanitize the area and teach you what the state apparatus really means!" A reborn tycoon? Knows all the golden opportunities of the next decade? Shen Fei: "A trillion in capital to reverse and pump the stock market, making you blow your margin and jump on the very first day of your rebirth!" What Chosen Ones? What bearers of Heavenly Fortune? In Shen Fei's eyes, they're all just chives (i.e., suckers/marks) waiting to be harvested! Shen Fei: "Sorry, but as the Destined Ultimate Villain, I don't play by the rules of honor. I only play the game of dimensional suppression."
end. Thus one must continue to cultivate, and become a saint or great emperor, in order to prolong one's life. Chen Xia, however, completely reversed this. Since his transmigration, he has gained immortality, and also a system that awards him with attribute points for every year he lives. Thus between the myriad worlds, the legend of an unparalleled senior appeared. "A gentleman takes revenge; it is never too late even after ten thousand years." "When you were at your peak I yielded, now in your old age I shall trample on you." - Chen Xia
ive and Ruthless] Before his transmigration, Ye Xuan was playing a game called "Severing Emotions to Attain the Dao." The game's core wasn't about leveling up by fighting monsters, but about conquering various "bad women" with wicked personalities and cold, fickle natures. There was only one method to conquer them: stay unwaveringly by their side, then die at a critical moment, driving them to madness after losing the protagonist. The higher their level of regret, the higher the player's score. To dominate the server, Ye Xuan conquered all the bad women. In the early stages, he showered them with boundless tenderness, only to choose to sacrifice himself for them later, making them weep bitterly and drown in regret. Among them were: Xia Lengyue, the unfaithful immortal wife who chased after powerful men and discarded her husband like trash. Ye Qingcheng, the Demonic Venerable of the Joyous Union Sect, who appeared pure and innocent but was, in reality, promiscuous. Wu Lingxiao, the Empress of the Great Xia Dynasty, who lusted after men and loved maintaining a harem. Bai Qiangu of the Endless Demonic Sect: a bloodthirsty mass murderer. However, when the protagonist transmigrated into the game world, he made a horrifying discovery. Eight hundred years had already passed. The bad women he had conquered had now each become deities and revered ancestors. Faced with the endless stream of toxic women coming for him, Ye Xuan could only rely on his god-tier acting skills to carve a path of survival through this world of treacherous women.
