Wu Mengying sat in the leather swivel chair, trying her best to maintain dignity, but couldn't help the corners of her mouth from curling up.
As a veteran Secret Realm agent, she naturally hoped for promising juniors within the organization. Moreover, as the chairperson of the Baili Association's municipal branch, if a new star could rise in the organization she managed, it would have a significant positive impact on her career.
The existence of the organization is to resist the influence of Extraordinary Power on reality, which requires powerful Secret Realm agents.
She placed the phone to her ear. After three rings, the other side picked up, and she promptly said, "Chairman Song, it's Xiaowu."
"Xiaowu, what's the matter?"
The voice of President Song came through. Although he was the overall head of the Baili Association in Donglin Province, his tone was always quite gentle.
"Do you remember the ten-star Demon Wind Temple Secret Realm, and the matter with Li Rui?"
"I remember, and we just received the system notification about an error in the Secret Realm, and the department has already asked us to investigate what's going on. I was waiting for you to contact me."
Wu Mengying silently chuckled a bit, "This is it, he successfully passed through the Secret Realm, his agent level has increased to level 6. According to him, he used world NPCs to clear all the events of the Secret Realm and even killed the boss of the following major version, which caused the system error."
The phone was silent for a full ten seconds.
This kind of silence was very rare for President Song, obviously indicating he was experiencing a strong and persistent shock.
"Mark his detailed information to me immediately."
The old man's tone turned serious, and his speech involuntarily quickened, "I need to convey it to the committee."
The committee is the highest authority body of the Baili Association, directly responsible to the Superpower Division.
Wu Mengying reminded, "Chairman, should we be mindful of the influence range? I'm worried about other organizations poaching....."
"Hm, you make a good point. I will handle it."
After hanging up the phone, Wu Mengying let out a long sigh of relief.
She had bet correctly. In President Song's eyes, she had long seen the extraordinary nature of Li Rui and had proposed using the Spirit Embrace Branch in advance, which was undoubtedly an excellent option.
She looked at the information on the custom tablet of the Baili Association, pondering how to cultivate and protect this new recruit.
Putting emotions aside and speaking purely from a pragmatic perspective, if he could steadily grow to level 30, almost certainly someone from the provincial general meeting would come specifically to liaise then, and by that time, Wu Mengying's resume would look quite impressive, which would be beneficial to her promotion.
Knock, knock, knock.
A knock on the door sounded.
"Come in." Wu Mengying put away the tablet.
A young man walked in carrying a stack of files, "Principal Wu, here are the documents Principal Zhang left before leaving. Please sign here."
"Hm." Wu Mengying picked up the file and began to look through it. She wouldn't just sign her name on anything casually, "Introduce to me the basic situation of each academy."
.....
If Li Rui were to start writing a diary now, he would definitely begin with, 'The sky is clear, and a gentle breeze blows.'
Because it really feels great.
Tackled a dungeon, and it was done while riding on the coat-tails of someone significant. The basic salary then jumped by thirty percent, who wouldn't be thrilled about that.
"Xiaorui, from now on you'll team up with me."
Wusun remained as straightforward as ever.
This person typically wears a suit and acts dignified outside but behaves quite the opposite within.
After passing through the first dungeon and not dying, Li Rui became an official agent and was assigned specific groupings, following the usual practice of veterans guiding newcomers.
Li Rui asked, "If there's a spatial distortion, can I go on field missions with you too?"
Wusun chuckled, "Nope. You need to be level 10 and change professions afterward; that's for your safety."
Li Rui asked, "But my current attributes are no worse than a level 10 agent."
Wusun was momentarily stunned and realized it was true. This kid had dozens of attribute points, and they were all in physique and spirit, his combat strength was not bad.
In fact, many agents who drew combat professions would choose to allocate their points this way, as direct combat power was the most advantageous guarantee for clearing levels.
He pondered for a few seconds and responded, "It's safer after changing professions and acquiring new skills."
"But I already have two skills."
"....."
Wusun suddenly felt envious; even he himself had only one skill that came with his profession.
He found that the newcomer he was supposed to guide had two skills even before changing professions, and one of them was of Legendary Level rarity.
Thinking it over, he couldn't find any more reasons, so he could only reply in frustration, "That's the rule! Discipline, understand? You have to be level 10."
Li Rui shrugged helplessly. Although he was clearly a potential rising star, he was only level 6 and still had to respect his seniors within the organization, mainly because the senior was level 15, and he couldn't beat him.
"Then I'm free now, I'm going back to school, as there are exams these days."
"Go on then," Wusun replied with a cheerful tone, "Call if you need anything."
"Alright."
Li Rui sat on the bus, organizing the items he brought back from the dungeon.
Spirit Recovery Potion x8, Golden Wound Medicine x10, these items are quite common but very useful, replenishing spiritual power and healing injuries. However, Golden Wound Medicine, a healing type of potion, doesn't have any eternal affixes and can only be used within dungeons. Additionally, there was a large number of miscellaneous temporary consumables and materials with unknown use; Wen Yan mentioned taking the opportunity to teach about them when there was time in a few days.
Besides these, there were also four whiteboard equipment items, covering the wrist, waist, shoes, and pants.
All these items together provided 15 defense points, and coupled with the administrator's coat, if worn altogether, the 25 physique points Li Rui wouldn't suffer more than skin-deep scratches even when standing still against a snake-headed Demon Monk.
Apart from these, there was also one skill point and a talent quality upgrade voucher.
Li Rui didn't rush to use the skill point, considering that for his level, Great Immortal Fist lv2 was already sufficient, so he preferred to save it and use it when needed.
As for the talent quality upgrade voucher, there was even less urgency to use it.
Sitting by the window, after organizing all his loot, the bus just happened to reach the school entrance.
Li Rui had a very important task to do: review.
This time coincided with the final exams, and he needed to finish everything to peacefully welcome the summer vacation.
He arrived at a classroom where some friends he usually played ball with had agreed to study together.
Entering the empty classroom, he saw familiar faces; unsurprisingly, everyone's desk was filled with stationery, notebooks, highlighted textbooks, Red Bull or coffee, yet all were busy playing on their phones.
"I brought your backpack. All because of you not showing up early; the guys couldn't bear to start without you, so we played a match while waiting."
The flat-topped tall guy closest to the door said without even looking up; his name was Zheng Hao, usually the closest to Li Rui and knew who it was just by the sound of footsteps.
"You're quite good at making excuses; I was only 5 minutes late."
Li Rui helplessly shook his head, "Come on, let's start studying if we don't want to retake exams."
However, no one paid him any mind as they were starting a team battle.
Seeing this, Li Rui had no choice but to take out his books from his backpack and line them up. He didn't rush to read, instead used the backpack as a cover to take out a small bottle from the item slot.
This thing was one of the many miscellaneous temporary potions from the dungeon.
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