Hogwarts starts with stealing power.

Chapter 316: Encrypted permissions, determined topics, rapid learning

To view more advanced information, you need to spend research points.

Requesting help from a fellow official researcher requires spending research points.

Requesting the Researchers Association to switch to a more advanced research site will allow you to gain a deeper understanding of the secret knowledge you are researching, but this requires research points.

Some advanced experimental equipment requires research points.

If you want to improve your living environment, you also need to do some research.

……

Lin Xia looked at them all. In short, the internal currency in the Researchers Association is research points.

Without research points, you can't move forward.

Lin Xia thought for a while, and suddenly asked: "Mo Ling, you said that the Researchers Association provides basic experimental equipment and related basic knowledge to members for free. Can I know how basic it is?"

The blue light screen in front of her changed, listing the various basic services provided by the Researchers Association.

Lin Xia's frown relaxed slightly.

She didn't know what other researchers were researching, but the basic services provided by the association were able to meet all her requirements.

When Lin Xia joined the Researchers Association this time, he already had a topic he wanted to research, which was to create an audio version of the Guardian Rune.

In fact, she had already completed half of this project at the end of last semester.

If it weren't for the holiday, she would have been able to break through within two months according to the plan.

This topic is like a fantasy to wizards who have never been exposed to ancient magic words and the related sound spell communication studies.

But it was not a difficult task for Lin Xia.

The only difficulty she found was that the ancient demonic texts were too hard to find, and many of them were very complicated.

Most of the nobles were too frivolous to show them to her.

This forced her to buy some basic ancient magic runes that most nobles knew from the black market at high prices.

Half of the ancient magic runes she collected were given to her directly by the Malfoy family.

Originally, Lin Xia planned to wait until the new semester started, then take Professor Babel's class to see if she could find some time in private to ask the professor for some basic ancient magic texts.

But now Lin Xia's eyes flickered slightly as he looked at the contents on the light screen.

There were many basic ancient magic words on it that she had never seen before, and this part of knowledge was regarded as a basic service by the Researchers Association and was open to researchers for free!
Lin Xia thought: For researchers, just these basic knowledge bases make the Researchers Association a temple where they can obtain knowledge for free.

She didn't know how strict the requirements were to become a formal researcher. Did every researcher possess a vast amount of knowledge, so they looked down on these basic contents?

But these contents are very helpful to her now.

Lin Xia said without hesitation: "Demon Spirit, increase my data encryption permissions!"

Monster: "Official Researcher Lin Xia, would you like to spend 10 research points to encrypt your data?"

Lin Xia: “Yes.”

After a while, the gentle voice of the demon came: "It has been deducted, and it has been promoted."

Lin Xia’s office is very big, and if you open one of the rooms you’ll find the laboratory.

The experimental equipment inside was very complete, and there were many instruments that Lin Xia had never seen before.

She only uses those she knows.

Soon, Lin Xia devoted himself to the research of the audio version of the talisman.

The Researchers Association does not proactively assign research projects to researchers. Everything is initiated by the researchers, who are then assessed by the Researchers Association based on the research value of the project and the impact of the results, and receive corresponding research points.

If researchers are willing to share the results of their research projects with the Researchers Association, they will receive more research points.

But if you don’t want to, it’s okay, you can hold it in your own hands.

However, there is a prerequisite here. The initiation and completion of each project must be registered and filed.

Therefore, even if the researchers are unwilling to share the project results with the association, the association can still get some understanding of the progress through the name of the project.

At the same time, this information will be made public so that other researchers can know about it.

If other researchers' projects require this knowledge, they can come to us to discuss the price of our help.

This model gave Lin Xia other ideas.

Although research points are circulated within the association, during the communication process among researchers, they may promise something more valuable than research points.

While Lin Xia was in the laboratory, the project she initiated had been approved by Mo Ling and simultaneously updated on the internal website of the Researchers Association.

Some researchers who have just finished a project or are immersed in a project and have made no progress, have nothing to do, so they go to the intranet to check the news.

Upon closer look, I discovered that the association had actually introduced a new official member.

Moreover, this member determined the research topic on the first day.

"She's so young. Doesn't she need to think about it again? Is it worthwhile to study such a basic field as the guardian amulet?"

"A low-level amulet has no effect in preventing the higher-level evil god's whispers!"

"Shouldn't the Researchers Association temporarily consider all research content on the battlefield? How to achieve victory is what we should do."

Other researchers have expressed different opinions.

"The demon spirit has passed, proving that her research ideas are feasible and can also be helpful on the battlefield."

"I'm not saying it's not possible, I just think it's a waste of resources and research points on this kind of topic."

"Such a basic topic doesn't require any research points. Maybe she didn't use any?"

A researcher with an octopus-like head but a human body said in a strange voice:

"You are so interested in the newcomer, then once the novice protection period is over today, use your authority to check her identity information. As long as it is not encrypted, you can find out everything. Let's see who this person is."

Other researchers said, "Since you have joined the association, you are our colleagues after all. There is no need to do this."

The other researchers laughed. "It's still unclear whether she can survive the first experiment!"

Some researchers asked Pun curiously during dinner.

"Pun, this is the researcher you introduced. Didn't you tell her the importance of the topic?"

Puen's magnetic voice sounded: "Experiments are free and should not be constrained by the Researchers Association. She is still young and has unlimited possibilities.

I just reminded her to earn more research points. I guess it was for this reason that she decided on the research topic so quickly and started the experiment."

After Pun leaves.

The other researchers gathered in silence, whispering.

"Skull Pun must have set his sights on that new researcher and wants her to work for him."

"She is a formal researcher, unanimously recognized by the research association. She is not the same as those assistants and errand boys. If it were you, wouldn't you be tempted?" "What on earth is there about the new formal member that is worthy of Mo Ling's consideration? She is too young!"

"She must have many secrets..."

Lin Xia didn't know that her young age and the speed with which she established the research topic on the first day made some members of the Researchers Association secretly pay attention to her.

After using the association's own laboratory, she became clear about one thing.

The Researchers Association must have some kind of special magic array that gathers all kinds of special magic within the association.

She was more comfortable doing research than she had been doing in the Golden Cabin.

You have to know that the Golden House is not an ordinary item. It ranks among the best in Hogwarts. However, compared with the laboratories provided by the Researchers' Association, it becomes weaker.

Lin Xia looked around the laboratory and shook her head regretfully.

She couldn't discover what technique was used.

If only she knew, she wouldn't mind remodeling the golden wooden house.

After a short rest, she continued to study the ancient demon language.

"Ancient magic, a long-lost spell, extremely complex, one word has more than ten interpretations, and as long as the hand gestures and tone of voice change, it will become a different meaning."

Lin Xia couldn't help but sigh: "The ancient demon language is really too complicated!"

But these ancient magic words were open to her without reservation, which enabled her to learn at a rapid speed. She became addicted to them, and the sparks of inspiration in her mind became more and more intense.

All it needs is an opportunity to bloom.

At one o'clock, the time announcement sounded in the laboratory.

This was a timer she set specially so that the demon spirit could remind her when the time came. It was quite useful.

Lin Xia put down the book, walked out of the laboratory, and went to look at several other rooms. Finally, he chose a room with a very high concentration of magic power and began to practice "Nine Heavens Mysterious Yang Secret Records: The Furnace".

This is a compulsory course that must be done every day and cannot be stopped for a day.

And when Lin Xia was practicing.

The wizards who were secretly plotting against her all used their authority to check Lin Xia's identity information.

But they all received the same reply that the demon spirit did not have enough authority.

This surprised the formal researchers.

"She upgraded the encryption permissions of her own data!"

"A newcomer is so decisive that she puts all her research focus on data encryption. Doesn't she worry about problems with her experiment?"

"As long as the research points become negative, she will have to work for the Researchers Association!"

Although I was surprised at the witch's courage.

But what Lin Xia did was telling others that her identity information was not simple, so she wanted to keep her secret.

I’m afraid these secrets will be coveted by others!
Pun was also a member of the investigation, but he was not surprised by the result at all.

From the moment he got on the magic bus, he felt that this little witch was smart and bold, yet alert and cautious, and that she had a strange quality that very much attracted him.

At that time, Pun thought that they would definitely meet again, but no one expected that the second meeting would come so soon.

"I can't contact Anier from Transfiguration Today. Could it be because of Lin Xia?"

Pun muttered to himself in the office.

His hand gently stroked the skull on the table, and his voice was eerily soft, as if he was talking to a lover.

"She's a very interesting little witch, isn't she? I have a feeling that she will bring me many surprises...but she's the one that Babel has chosen. It's a pity that I can't win her over."

He said it was a pity, but his empty eye sockets were flashing blue light, giving off a strange sense of determination.
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While Lin Xia was doing his research, Fudge also started working.

The first task of the Noble Anti-Corruption Investigation Department is to question the nobles.

The Aurors gave Fudge a long list. Fudge glanced at it quickly and his eyelids twitched.

The families on these lists are all well-known families in the British Ministry of Magic.

They have a deep heritage, all of them are pure blood, and have been passed down for more than 10 generations.

He couldn't help but complain in his heart: What's wrong with Dumbledore? He has been enduring for so long, and now he is finally going to take action against these nobles?

Fudge had worked in the Ministry of Magic for many years, and had heard more than once that the nobles despised the Ministry of Magic and believed that the Ministry's rule over the British wizarding world should be overthrown and that the country should return to an era when the nobles were in power.

Every few years, there is an aristocratic revival movement.

But if the nobles did not put forward someone who could have an equal dialogue with Dumbledore, nothing would come of it in the end.

In accordance with the regulations, Fudge first sent inquiry letters to these nobles, requiring them to go to the Anti-Corruption Investigation Department for questioning in a certain year and month.

However, when the time came, no noble showed up.

Fudge waited from morning to noon, from noon to afternoon, and finally to evening, but the Noble Anti-Corruption Investigation Department was deserted.

Fudge suppressed his anger and said, "This is too much! They are challenging the authority of the Ministry of Magic and resisting Dumbledore's will!"

Umbridge on the side echoed, "Yes, those nobles are still living a life of drunkenness and dreaming, thinking that this is still the aristocratic era of centuries ago. How can they ignore the inquiry of Director Fudge?"

The Noble Anti-Corruption Investigation Department has only one director, Fudge, and no other employees, and no one has come to apply for the job.

Fudge didn't want to do everything himself, so he borrowed the Auror Department's approach and transferred Umbridge from the Foreign Affairs Department, putting her under the Auror Department and working in the Anti-Corruption Investigation Department.

There are two salaries and two subsidies.

Fudge took a cut of the money, and he accepted the high-paying job and high salary at the Auror Department.

There was no way. All the money had been borrowed by his subordinates and he was poor.

Under Umbridge's flattery, Fudge also began to hate those nobles who were seriously corrupt.

"No, we can't let them go like this!"

Umbridge asked respectfully, "Director Fudge, what are you going to do?"

Fudge groaned and said, "I will dispatch a group of Aurors to go directly to the nobles and ask them if they have any guilty conscience!"

Umbridge praised loudly, "This method is great. Director Fudge is worthy of being a person favored by both the Auror Department and the Foreign Affairs Department. The great Dumbledore will definitely make use of you!"

Fudge submitted the application and the Auror Department quickly approved it and assigned five Aurors to him, and they were to go to the noble family together tomorrow.

same moment.

As for the nobles, because the Ministry of Magic established a new department to target the corruption of the nobles, some nobles who felt guilty immediately held a meeting to discuss countermeasures.

Among them was the Malfoy family.

(End of this chapter)