Beyond the garden stood Ye Ai with a white plump rabbit on her embrace.
"It's time, Little Bai."
"Squeak?"
"Do you want to see a wonderful show?" she smiled as she looked down to that white rabbit. "I'll let you and Xiaoyi witness a magnificent destruction."
"...squeak?"
"Xiaoyi's a bit busy but it'll be back soon. It needs time with the upgrade."
Because of System 3611's low authority level, Ye Ai was forced to use a cheat. Upgrading of system's level not only meant increase in privileges like accessing particular information but also increase in control when in mission. Xiaoyi at most can only access basic information in the task worlds and guide its host. It can't even hide Ye Ai from the world law if she tried using her abilities here so she can't yet act rampantly.
So using the Beginner's Package's gift, the Elder Scroll, as a cover-up, Ye Ai made Xiaoyi believed that they just received a huge experience points enough for them to level up.
Ye Ai has zero [Luck] which meant it would definitely affect her fortune especially when opening these kinds of boxes from the system. Any rewards would turn into trash whatever level it would be. So she asked Xiaoyi to shut its system down the moment they opened the system gift. Supposedly, this should have her status values unrecognizable for a split second thus overriding the zero value of her luck. In return, they could at least receive a fair reward instead of some trash. The baby system trusted its host and followed the plan. And so, Xiaoyi was dumbstruck when they received something never heard from a single Elder scroll—a thousand worth of experience points!
What her little system didn't know was Ye Ai reprogrammed the codes of that Elder Scroll and had it give the thing they most needed at the moment—points. Experience points to be exact. She needed to fatten up her system while she's collecting her compensation after being imprisoned. Until then, patience it should be. She promised not to let go of another friend this time.
In these mission worlds, she may affect the mind of its native without the world law noticing, well unless she overdid it; on the other hand, she knew reprogramming from the system may be noticed not only by her own System 3611 but also with the network which will definitely be reported in those administrators. She can't have that yet, though. That's why she had Xiaoyi shut down for a second thus disconnecting her traces from the network through her system. In that mere second, she injected her energy to another link from the network and reprogrammed the said codes. It needed to be quick and was sure hard-work for her especially she's yet to familiarize herself again with everything but she knew the risk was well worth it. Now, Xiaoyi should be above the constant monitoring of the network due to being a baby system.
Originally, items like an Elder scroll at maximum may give a cheat skill of one time use like Meteor Storm or Inter-dimensional Teleportation or maybe provide a limited use cheat weapon; but never such an amount of experience points. With a little mouth-talent Ye Ai was able to convince her system that they simply hit the jackpot.
She recalled her status:
Name: Ye Ai
Experience: Apprentice (1,000/10,000)
Contribution Points: 100
Special Skills: ???, ??? , ???, |=,=| ???,
Strength: 10
Constitution: 10
Charm: 0
Luck: 0
Talent: 10
Power: 1
Items: Apprentice Lucky Box
Titles: [World Destroyer]
Looking closely, Ye Ai's skills turned into unreadable '???' from the |=| or box when she first returned as a host. She wasn't sure which of her transcended skills were noted by the system but she has a fair idea which were since she's able to use four of them already in this world, although sparingly. She wondered now what the last two in the list were. Anyway, what she needed to make sure that these unreadable '???' be kept as jargon against the administrators and the blabbermouth network. This will be tested when they returned the space after this mission.
After leveling from Novice level, she needed another 9,000 experience points to pass Apprentice level and finally reached the Advanced level. The next should be the Master level then Expert and finally the so called Legendary which should be her cue to freedom. But with the personality of those maggot administrators, she doubted they didn't create their escape plan against their Covenant. It's just too bad she can't do the same trick with the reward box again since Xiaoyi will have much more difficulty of convincing the second time and those administrators will surely find out this anomaly. It's already fortunate that the system charter forbade any administrator from influencing the world, and also the system and its host when they're in a mission, and this included monitoring. They may only look into the final reports. Hah!
Also, since the consumable Elder scroll was used it's no longer in the Item box but another package appeared. The renowned Apprentice Lucky Box. But Ye Ai has much lesser hope on this item since her luck was still flat zero and also since her name was under restrictions from receiving any god-like items. She found it out when she hacked into the system. In fact, she had so many restrictions according to the network's database. A particular one was very horrible that she's yet to get her heads out of it.
She may actually reprogram these restrictions or any particular codes, maybe delete these restraints or upgrade her status and rank, but she didn't want to. Status and fame, these weren't her reason for accepting the covenant not to mention she has no use for mediocre things. What she needed was these worlds. And thus, she has no plans on opening any boxes or rewards from today on. She wondered if she can sell them? If she will open one, though, she'll wait for Xiaoyi just so she can hear the cute outburst of her system once more. She wondered what her system will scream out when the reward box gave out a simple health potion.
"Squeak?"
"Hm?"
"Squeak?"
"Do you really think I understand you?"
"Squeak!" the small rabbit seemed to puff its chest.
"I don't."
"..." it was like a popped balloon now.
"Well now that the preparations were done, it's time to harvest," she murmured as she tossed the rabbit into the grassy patches and then held the tray of snacks and coffee that came from who knows where.
That day, the royal family received an anonymous information of the illicit assembly planning to overturn the current government. It wasn't completely informed of who were or where the assembly meets but there was a hint that there would be a 'stage play' on the upcoming annual reporting of the fief lords and other noblemen and ladies.
Because of this warning, the royal family came prepared on the expected day. The Grand Duke was actually very angry with the annulment of the engagement but was happy that the remuneration he received can be used at these moments. He not only held the power over the border army, he also received quite a wealth thus he's able to get this much support from other nobilities. He proudly presented his proposals, originally given by his daughter, Althea. These proposals would open the channels to what they called globalization and will let their kingdom soar to the new world. Although it wasn't directly stated in these proposals, the king and his closest aides discovered the traps under these pretty words. If it wasn't for that anonymous report they received earlier, they wouldn't notice the barbs in the patches of green pastures. They watched as these actors of nobilities continued praising what they marginalized as freedom of speech and actions.
The royal family didn't flare-up nor immediately reject the proposals and instead accepted them for further study and reconsideration. What everyone didn't know, the Royal Family has already noted those treacherous people who had hands on these underhanded campaigns. And while these nobles celebrated on the success of their first attempt, the wise among them also felt that the acceptance of the Crown seemed a bit suspicious. There were some who started raising their guards up, there were some who became uncertain of their resolve and there were also others who stayed ignorant, waiting for their slaughter and their nine generations.