Chapter 271

"Are you sure?"

Hearing Asande say this, Lin Ke was still quite surprised.

The last time in the Fairy World, Asande had revealed to Lin Ke when sending him off that he had already been promoted to Level 3 Wizard.

A Level 3 Wizard joining an organization whose founder was only a Level 2 Wizard is even more surprising than Sandra joining.

"I'm sure!"

Asande nodded very firmly, affirming it, his tone decisive and unyielding.

Upon hearing this, Lin Ke fell silent, not knowing how to respond for a moment.

It wasn't that Lin Ke dared not agree to Asande's request to join, or worried that Asande's joining would impact his position in "Do Whatever Is Free."

Nor was it that he hadn't yet figured out why, after leaving the Paro Sage Legion, Asande hadn't chosen to develop within the Clark Family.

What he was thinking was, if Asande truly joined "Do Whatever Is Free," what help could "Do Whatever Is Free" or he, Linke Grand, offer Asande?

Mo Li, who had been sitting quietly nearby, interjected at this point, asking: "Could you explain your reasons and motivations for wanting to join 'Do Whatever Is Free'?"

After a pause, Mo Li explained: "You know, 'Do Whatever Is Free' has always been managed by me. Even now, the reports from the homeland are sent to me regularly every week."

Since Asande wanted to join, of course he had investigated and understood this point.

He knew that Molly Kidman, this girlfriend of Linke Grand, was also a great help in his career.

Whether it was "Do Whatever Is Free" or the Grand Potion Shop, their good development was largely due to Mo Li's great contribution.

One could even say she was the greatest contributor!

Asande, facing Mo Li's questioning gaze, said calmly: "Because joining the Clark Family is my worst choice. Cody Sage did invite me to join his legion, but I declined. The reasons, you already understand without me saying."

After a pause, Asande emphasized:

"I believe that my joining 'Do Whatever Is Free' can play a complementary role.

You two are currently studying at the Academy Headquarters, and need to complete two years before returning to the homeland.

During this period, relying solely on a group of Level 1 Wizards cannot sustain Lin Ke's growing fame and the thriving development trend of 'Do Whatever Is Free.'

I wish to nominate myself, believing that if I become the frontline representative of 'Do Whatever Is Free,' I can fully uphold the hard-earned fame and development trend."

These words were very reasonable.

The Benevolent Brother Group and the Social Anxiety Group are the second-tier teams of "Do Whatever Is Free," both consisting of Level 1 Wizards.

They wish to advance to Level 2 Wizard, and the fastest estimate is also three to five years.

Indeed, there is a faint feeling of being unable to uphold the surface.

Asande joining is just timely.

"I have no objection."

Mo Li understands the current state of "Do Whatever Is Free" better than Lin Ke does.

She knows that even if Asande has ulterior motives, after joining, the help he can bring to "Do Whatever Is Free" and to Lin Ke will be very great.

"I also agree."

At this point, Lin Ke had figured it out: pushing Asande to become the frontline representative of "Do Whatever Is Free" is the greatest reward for Asande.

Thus, he will have a respectable title and identity at the upcoming wedding with Renee Clark.

"Mo Li, you prepare the appointment and seal; I will write a letter to Ba Ke, Lynn, and the others, explaining the specific situation."

Having made the decision, we shall execute it immediately.

Lin Ke has always been this decisive, never dragging his feet in doing things.

Asande, at this moment, instead waited quietly.

Not long after, Lin Ke's handwritten letter was finished, and Mo Li's appointment document and seal were ready.

The appointment document and seal were directly handed to Asande, while the handwritten letter was sent via another channel, directly mailed to Ba Ke, Lynn, and the others.

"Asande."

Without waiting for Asande to continue communicating with Lin Ke and Mo Li, the Paro Sage who had left Selin Sage's office issued a "summons."

"Time is tight, I'll leave first. Subsequent video communications will report progress to you."

Asande immediately stood up and walked out, speaking as he went.

He presented his identity extremely properly, using the phrase "report progress" instead of "contact."

Lin Ke and Mo Li saw him off downstairs, and in passing bade farewell to the Paro Sage.

After the two figures had completely disappeared from sight, Lin Ke and Mo Li were again summoned by Selin Sage to her office.

In the office.

Selin Sage had a blank expression, silently gazing at the two composed Lin Ke and Mo Li.

After a long while, Selin Sage spoke, her tone indifferent, asking: "Don't you want to explain something?"

Lin Ke and Mo Li exchanged a glance, then immediately countered in confusion: "Explain what? Did we do anything special?"

Well, this counter-question directly left Selin Sage speechless.

How could she say it?

Say that Lin Ke and Mo Li shouldn't have discussed her and Paro's entanglement in the manner of inner voices?

Such that Paro learned of her attitude and, following advice, really started to cling and pester her?

Just now, she actually didn't care at all, chatting about past events.

When the interest arose, she even used acceleration witchcraft, taking advantage of her unpreparedness to secretly kiss her forehead?

Not to mention that she and Paro hearing the inner voices belongs to the nature of eavesdropping on privacy.

Solely discussing the subsequent developments, it indeed aligns more with her wishes in this regard.

The things Lin Ke and Mo Li did seem, appear, and indeed are beneficial to her with a hundred advantages and no harm.

"Forget it, you guys go ahead."

Selin Sage was exhausted, originally wanting to confront and reprimand, but ended up being CPU'd herself.

Seeing this pair before her, she felt annoyed.

Lin Ke chuckled, and with Mo Li, left Selin Sage's office.

Afterwards, finally no trivial matters disturbed them.

The two continued onward to complete the unfinished research work before heading to the Level 3 Zerg World, pushing the progress.

Immersed in various experiments and a mountain of data, Lin Ke had already forgotten the passage of time, forgotten everything around him.

Until he heard a muffled, hollow voice, only then did he snap back to awareness.

Experimental material, Luoken, finally arrived at the Experimental Building before noon.

Lin Ke took a deep breath, suddenly becoming excited.

"You're here again."

Mo Li sensed Lin Ke's change, speechlessly retorting.

Over these two months, Lin Ke's dedication to the Potion Research Group's work was largely due to being able to justifiably torment Luoken.

Literal torment!

Luoken cannot refuse, cannot resist, no matter how outrageous, Luoken must accept it all without exception—such torment.

As long as Lin Ke, after tormenting Luoken, can produce phased results related to optimizing and innovating combat potions for Body Refining Wizards.

"Opportunity must not be lost, time will not come again. Must seize it well."

Lin Ke smiled in response to Mo Li's retort.

He never concealed his desire to torment Luoken.

This is known not only to Mo Li, but also to Selin Sage, and even Luoken himself knows.

"First finish the task at hand, then go seek fun."

Mo Li did not stop Lin Ke, merely making a reasonable request.

"Of course."

Lin Ke readily agreed, then sped up his actions.

"You!"

Luoken, undergoing detailed physical data detection under Tina Wizard's leadership, saw Lin Ke enter and immediately greeted him.

Using just a pronoun, it expressed Luoken's angry mood and helpless situation.

"What about me? I'm fine, how have you been lately?"

Lin Ke chuckled in response to the greeting, then walked to Tina Wizard's side and asked, "Tina sis, how is the material today? I have a great idea needing a high-intensity trial, unsure if the material can withstand it?"

Tina Wizard gave Lin Ke a sideways glance, saying unhappily: "Just settle down. It's only because you've been away these few days that Luoken Wizard's body got adjusted, not like before when it was severely overdrawn." "Okay, okay, I'll be gentler later."

Lin Ke ignored Luoken's glare, chuckling while making a useless promise.

Joking aside, and not mentioning his personal grudge with Luoken.

Simply because Luoken has been pursuing Selin Sage, even deliberately breaking away from the Paro Sage Legion, preferring to come as experimental material to the Academy Headquarters—this fact.

As a junior highly valued by Paro Sage in recent years, having received much care and protection from Paro Sage, Lin Ke, even if Paro Sage hasn't mentioned it, must proactively do something.

Selin Sage observed Lin Ke's behavior, but didn't say much.

Everything is Luoken's own choice, so Luoken must bear the responsibility himself.

"What trick are you trying again? Come on, even a grunt counts as me bowing and admitting defeat to you!"

Luoken knew his glare was useless, couldn't make Lin Ke change his mind, so could only put on a tough guy stance.

"Don't worry, it's not some bad trick, this time it won't hurt. And it'll help you a lot."

Lin Ke dropped a line, turned and left the examination room.

Arriving at the comprehensive experimental zone allocated by Selin Sage for the Body Refining Wizard combat potion optimization and innovation team, the entire third basement floor.

Mo Li had already arrived here when Lin Ke went to the examination room to provoke Luoken, preparing in advance.

This experiment is actually Mo Li's inspiration.

After thoroughly understanding Luoken's combat system composition, strengths and weaknesses, especially flaws, she has consistently thought from an objective, neutral standpoint on how to improve Luoken's combat performance.

Finally, Mo Li proposed, since Luoken lacks flexibility, which is very hard to improve.

Why not directly ignore this flaw, and maximize the strengths of strength and physique?

This idea immediately inspired Lin Ke, making him recall two creatures:

Gorilla Vajra, and the Green Giant.

Whether Vajra or Green Giant, even if their speed is not lacking, their flexibility is far inferior to their strength and physique.

Since these two can rely on strength and physique to roam freely.

Then Luoken can too!

As long as physique is high enough, strength strong enough!

So Lin Ke has been thinking about how to maximally surge, during war, the strength and physique of Body Refining Wizards represented by Luoken.

It all still comes down to the "Empowerment" potion.

Based on Lin Ke's prior research, the "Empowerment" project promoted in the Fairy World follows the path of permanent enhancement.

Slightly modified, it can pursue temporary enhancement, seeking timeliness rather than qualitative change—completely feasible.

However, the source of the ability to be granted to users cannot be the Fairy World's fairies.

Lin Ke this time chose a bovine-type magic beast from the Wizard World that is about to go extinct.

This bovine-type magic beast is strong, enduring, robust in physique, gentle in temperament, not easily agitated—most suitable for Lin Ke's "new Empowerment" potion.

"Ready?"

Through the speaker, Lin Ke asked the Luoken Wizard who had entered the isolation room with super-strong defensive capabilities.

"Come on."

The Luoken Wizard, bare-chested and revealing strong muscles, lifted his head and roared in a deep, resonant voice.

"Hehe..."

Lin Ke chuckled lightly, controlled the intelligent machine, and delivered the "New Empowerment Potion" prepared by Mo Li into Luoken's hand.

"Hmph!"

Luoken pulled out the potion stopper, tilted his head back, and drank the emerald-green potion.

"Roar!"

The potion's effect was very significant; as soon as it entered his stomach, it immediately took effect.

Luoken clenched his fists, veins bulging all over his body, and let out a battle cry by straining his throat.

Without transforming, entering the Body Refining Wizard's frenzied combat mode, Luoken's physique suddenly grew taller and broader, directly increasing by three sizes.

Standing nearly four meters tall, with thigh circumference wider than the average woman's hips, every detail showed this was a formidable little giant!

With a booming sound.

Without using the Body Refining Wizard's exclusive witchcraft, while calming his mind and suppressing the manic energy and destructive urge in his chest, Luoken faintly showed a tendency to lose control of his violent impulses.

He suddenly punched the one-way transparent glass.

The entire isolation room, all five walls and the transparent glass, trembled slightly.

Even the one-way transparent glass developed a tiny pit and crack.

The power of this punch made Tina Wizard's mouth gape wide in shock.

The isolation room's construction specifications were extremely high; all five walls and the transparent glass could withstand a full-power strike from a large-caliber Annihilation Cannon without any damage.

Selin Sage's full-force attack also required several Third Ring Wizard Spells to break the one-way transparent glass.

Fourth Ring Wizard Spells involve a slight application of Rule Power and cannot be used to accurately measure the defensive strength of the transparent glass.

Luoken's casual punch just now actually caused damage to the transparent glass—what does this indicate?

This indicates that after taking the "New Empowerment" potion, Luoken's casual punch already possesses the attack and destructive power of an ordinary Third Ring Wizard Spell.

This indicates that Lin Ke's "New Empowerment" potion has tremendous research value and extremely high practicality.

"Roar!"

At this moment, Luoken used transformation, his body swayed, and he turned into a giant nearly eight meters tall.

After the howl, as many as seven wizard spells instantly stacked upon him, comprehensively enhancing strength, constitution, and speed, with additional effects like spell-breaking, penetration, and tremor, and then he threw another simple, unadorned punch.

A sharp, piercing sonic boom erupted inside the isolation room.

In the blink of an eye, the fist made second intimate contact with the transparent glass.

This time, there was no expected "boom" sound.

Tina Wizard's mouth opened even wider.

She actually saw the transparent glass crack with spiderweb-like fissures.

Just one more punch, and the transparent glass that could withstand several Third Ring Wizard Spells from Selin Sage would shatter!

"Luoken, stay calm!"

Selin Sage sensed the disturbance, rushed over in time, and shouted to stop the already-overwhelmed Luoken, who was preparing to smash the transparent glass in one go and engage in a heated, blood-pumping fist-to-flesh battle with Lin Ke!

"Roar!"

Luoken unwillingly glared at the fearless Lin Ke, then actively dispelled his transformation.

However, the effect of the "New Empowerment" potion lingered, keeping his physique at a size three levels larger than usual.

Muscles bulged all over his body, looking formidable at a glance—he was a reckless man.

"Tina, organize the related data. Lin Ke, hand me the original report on the potion."

Selin Sage ignored Luoken and issued commands.

Lin Ke spread his right hand to the side, and Mo Li immediately handed over the documents she had organized that morning.

"Heh, you two were already prepared."

Selin Wizard watched the two's tacit understanding — the silent rapport between them — their thoughts subtly aligned.

Tina Wizard quickly retrieved all test data from before and after Luoken took the "New Empowerment" potion, compiled it into a report, and handed it to Selin Sage.

"I need to carefully study this content; you each attend to your own affairs."

Selin Sage obtained the desired data and report, walked outward while saying, "Luoken, rest and recover properly. Lin Ke, no messing around."

"Yes."

Lin Ke and Luoken actually responded in unison.

Those who didn't know would even think their relationship was very good.

After glaring fiercely at Lin Ke, Luoken walked out of the isolation room and headed toward the recuperation chamber.

Lin Ke then exchanged pleasantries with Tina Wizard and took Mo Li back to his own villa.

After a brief lunch and a short rest,

the two came again to the laboratory gifted by Dean Forrester, each attending to their own tasks.

Mo Li needed to busy herself cultivating the Mother Nest Seed to enhance her strength.

Lin Ke, on the other hand, was reviewing relevant materials and literature on alchemy, wanting to utilize the damaged Mother Nest stored in the "Small World."

He had an idea for a combat-type Wizard Tool; perhaps by remodeling the damaged Mother Nest, it could be realized.

The problem was, his knowledge reserves in alchemy were still insufficient.

The road ahead is long and far, ah.