In fact, I can add unlimited points

If this kind of achievement happened in Shun Aragaki's previous life, it would definitely be the kind of dream talk that would make a lot of light novel authors shout "Impossible! Absolutely impossible!"

But in this world, although it may not be commonplace in the library, at least for elementary and junior high school students, it is not surprising that they want to become light novel authors and illustrators.

In this case, Aragaki Shun naturally didn't mind getting involved and spending some of his free time to earn more source power for himself.

Before entering Advanced Development High School, he was able to fix talents and skills such as [Danger Omen], [Invulnerability to Poisons], and [Fighting] on his personal panel and improve them to a very advanced level. He was also able to obtain 3 source powers from social influence every month, thanks to his three years of hard work in the field of light novels in junior high school.

Even though he has now entered a highly developed stage, he still hasn't given up this long-term channel for obtaining source power. Naturally, he has to find a way to contact editors outside the school within the school rules and publish his new book reasonably.

So he used his compensation for this purpose, and at the same time saw if he could use this channel to get some personal points.

56. Monthly redemption quota of 56 personal points

In principle, Gaoduyucheng High School does not allow students to contact the outside world.

But principles, as long as they are not rigid rules, can often be compromised in certain special circumstances.

So, Aragaki Shun has been conducting investigations in various areas of the school during this period of time, and found that the school is quite tolerant in this regard.

First of all, you can freely browse various news from the outside world on the Internet, and you can also log in to various websites from the outside world.

Although Gaodu Yucheng has established an on-campus local area network, it has not completely cut off students' channels for obtaining information from the outside world.

This is normal. After all, we live in a rapidly developing modern society. If we really let students study hard for three years without paying attention to anything, it will be difficult for them to become successful after graduation, let alone reintegrate into society.

Therefore, the school only restricts and supervises students' speech on the Internet, and simply searching for information and understanding news and current affairs will not be prohibited.

Shun Aragaki even tried to upload pictures on his personal homepage, but finally found that as long as there were no special text descriptions or the photos involved the school's various special facilities, they would be approved. At most, the review time would be a little long.

But forget about direct text communication, and uploading videos is strictly prohibited.

In addition to external channels on the Internet, the school's various shops also need to update their products. Every once in a while, special transportation personnel will enter the school to supply goods to various stores in the shopping center.

If students cannot find what they want in the shopping mall, the school also allows them to use their personal points to shop online.

However, the above two methods are only indirect communication with the outside world. Students can only stay in the High School of Advanced Development and cannot step out of the school.

It is not something that ordinary students can do to leave the campus with a clear conscience.

According to the information obtained by Aragaki Shun, nowadays only the best students in various clubs can be taken out of school by teachers on the pretext of participating in various off-campus competitions.

All I can say is that no matter how special Gaokou Nurturing High School is, it is just a school and still needs to compete with other schools to prove itself.

Therefore, the school not only supports club students to participate in various off-campus competitions, but also generously gives them generous personal points as rewards once they win good rankings and bring glory to the school.

Since there is such a channel, Aragaki Shun will naturally use it.

So he simply used the compensation given by the board of directors to apply to establish a new society.

The difficulty in this regard is not that high. After all, the requirements for establishing a club are nothing more than the number of people and the club's performance.

In terms of numbers, Aragaki Shun has the support of the entire Class B, and in terms of club performance, the school is also aware of his achievements in the two light novels published to the outside world.

As for whether it is inappropriate to use light novels as the theme of a club... There is no shortage of clubs focusing on light novel research in various universities in Sakurajima. At most, they are externally known as mystery novel research clubs.

Therefore, if all the steps are reasonable and in compliance with the regulations, the application will naturally be approved. Even if you leave the school to participate in the library's activities in the name of club activities, it will not be a big problem.

The school's only concern is probably whether the royalties earned by Shun Aragaki during his time at school can be converted into personal points.

Aragaki Shun simulated the school's thoughts, then looked at Kagurazaka Ayame, who was carefully reviewing the electronic manuscript he had sent. "Since you came to Koukou Ikusei High School, has the school told you what to do with my royalties?"

"Well," Kagurazaka Ayame replied without even looking up, "the principal has already agreed with our library. At your request, the library can transfer 56 yen to the school account every month. They will then convert it into the special currency of Higher Education High School at a 1:1 ratio to cover your living expenses at this school."

"56 yen a month..."

Aragaki Shun clicked his tongue slightly. Although he was a little disappointed, this result was within his expectations at the beginning and was still acceptable.

In Sakurajima, the status of top light novel writers is still quite good. Although they are questioned in the traditional literary field, this still cannot change the reality that this group has a wide influence and considerable economic benefits.

After all, Aragaki Shun is a top figure in the industry at the same level as Senjumura Masashi, so the school naturally supports his small wish to apply for a club on campus to continue his creation.

After all, the purpose of school is to cultivate talents. How can we not support students but instead make things difficult for them when they have proven their talents?

Top light novel writers can already be considered well-known public figures. If they can transform into writing popular novels in the future, their social status can be further improved.

Even if we don't consider the face of the Aragaki family behind Aragaki Shun, the school is still willing to give him some preferential treatment for his achievement at his age.

After all, since Koukou Yucheng High School is a political achievement specially created by the upper echelons, it is natural that it must provide more high-quality graduates to the outside world in order to meet the expectations of society. As for students like Aragaki Shun, who can bring honor to the school just by being promoted, what's the point of giving them a small preferential treatment?

It's easy to simply approve the establishment of a club, but after the club is established, should we allow Shun Aragaki to use his royalties to exchange for personal points? If so, should there be a limit on the amount?

These two questions temporarily stumped the school management who were handling this matter.

You know, in this world, the income that top light novel writers can earn is much more exaggerated than in his previous life.

For a super-bestselling author like Senjumura Masaru, whose works have sold over 14 million copies, the total royalty income is close to 1 billion yen, calculated at 70 yen per book.

This is the pure royalties earned by the other party in the past two or three years, which does not include additional income sources such as animation adaptations and peripheral products. As a light novel writer of the same level as the other party and who debuted two years earlier, Aragaki Shun's annual income is not inferior to that of the other party.

In other words, if the channel for exchanging royalties for personal points is really fully open to him, Aragaki Shun will be able to earn 10 billion personal points just by exchanging royalties within three years.

With such a large amount of money, we can buy a 20 million class transfer package for everyone in Class B, and there will still be ten extra packages.

Forget about the so-called class competition!

It would not be appropriate to completely reject Shun Aragaki's application for royalties redemption. After all, this is indeed the money that the other party can earn within three years in a manner consistent with school rules, which is completely in line with the school's principle of strength first.

Finally, after some debate among the school’s top management, they simply set a monthly exchange limit of 56.

A patch has been added to the campus rules, and similar incidents in the future will be limited to this amount.

57. First meeting with Chairman Sakayanagi

The redemption quota of 560,000 personal points per month, calculated as 36 months over three years, is just over 20 million personal points.

The school's intention is very clear.

That is, since Aragaki Shun has already proven his strength, the school is willing to let him exchange for a direct ticket to Class A, but he should not think that he can use this to interfere with the class competition of other first-year students.

Aragaki Shun could only sigh helplessly, "The school's top brass don't even know how to make money. I'm going to deposit 1 billion yen in royalties into the school's account. If I use all of that 20 million individual points to transfer to other classes, wouldn't that give the school an extra 10 billion yen in budget?"

"Aragaki-san, you seem quite generous by saying 1 billion yen right off the bat. But you only talked about the extra budget for the school, but you didn't mention the extra effort the school will have to put into arranging future plans for the 50 extra graduates in Class A this year!"

A gentle, unfamiliar voice suddenly sounded in the office. The boy turned around and saw a man who looked to be in his forties walking towards him.

The man greeted the two people present very politely with a kind smile on his face. He looked like an ordinary middle-aged or elderly person.

"Excuse me, both of you. I saw the door was open, so I just came in."

Aragaki Shun looked at the man in front of him, whom he met for the first time but was not a stranger to him, and raised his eyebrows slightly.

"Chairman Sakayanagi, I didn't expect you to pay attention to such a trivial matter."

"Aragaki-san is the first person in Advanced Training's history to earn over 10 million personal points in the first month of school. I've been wanting to have a good chat with Aragaki-san for a while now, but I just haven't had much free time."

Even though he had just been tricked by Aragaki Shun, Kanzaki, and Koenji a few days ago, Chairman Sakayanagi in front of him seemed to be completely unconcerned about it, with an extremely casual attitude on his face, as if he was just an ordinary teacher taking care of the school's outstanding students.

But Aragaki Shun naturally wouldn't take it seriously.

However, since the other party showed a kind attitude, there was no need for him to be deliberately cold. So after being polite as usual, he asked curiously:

"I wonder what advice the chairman has for me?"

"It's not really about giving advice, but Aragaki's application to create a club and then his proposal to convert royalties earned during club activities into personal points have caused the school a lot of trouble. I'm not sure if Aragaki has any doubts about the school's final decision, so I thought I'd come here in person to explain."

Chairman Sakayanagi studied Aragaki Shun intently for a few seconds before turning his gaze to Kagurazaka Ayame. "Editor Kagurazaka, you're also welcome to visit our High School of Ikuei. If there's an opportunity in the future, perhaps one of our graduates will come work at your library."

"You're so kind, Director Sakayanagi. With the ability to cultivate high school graduates, if someone truly wishes to work at our library, our president will surely make the most appropriate arrangements."

After exchanging a few pleasantries with Chairman Sakayanagi, Kagurazaka Ayame realized that he still had something to talk to Aragaki Shun about, and since the time given by High-Level Cultivation was almost up, she simply packed up her documents and stood up.

"Now that I have the manuscript of Teacher Aurora's new book, I have to go back and arrange for its publication."

"By the way, Eromanga-sensei contacted me a while ago. She said that if Aurora-sensei's new book comes out, she hopes to continue working as an illustrator. I wonder what Aurora-sensei thinks about this. Does the library need to replace your illustrator?"

When Kagurazaka Ayame said that somewhat bold pen name, the first person that came to Aragaki Shun's mind was a somewhat unruly lady who was alone with her daughter.

But he remembered that the illustrations in the later part of his previous light novel were actually completed by his daughter Sagiri, right?

When she sent these illustrations which were slightly different from the previous ones in details and asked Aragaki Shun whether they were qualified, he was puzzled. Although the level of refinement of these illustrations was still the same as before, why did they suddenly feel less astringent than before?

It was not until the next day when he was invited to visit the other party's home that he was told that these relatively immature illustrations were actually the attempts of the other party's daughter.

Thinking of that timid, slender figure, Aragaki Shun calmly nodded to Kagurazaka Ayame, "The two previous collaborations with Eromanga-sensei were quite pleasant, so there's no need to change illustrators for the new book. Please discuss the terms of cooperation with Eromanga-sensei later."

I vaguely remember that Sagiri seemed to be only twelve years old this year.

However, in this world's ACG industry, such young talents are emerging in endlessly, and Aragaki Shun is not worried at all about the other party's ability as an illustrator.

Anyway, half of the illustrations in the previous book were completed by Sagiri, and there were no mistakes in the middle. So, given Aragaki Shun's personality, if he can continue to cooperate with acquaintances, he will naturally not contact an unfamiliar illustrator.

"I understand. The library will arrange all the publishing work as soon as possible. If Mr. Aurora is free, we can also arrange a few promotional events for your new book. After all, your fans have been hoping that you can hold more autograph sessions."

"We'll talk about this later. I have no intention of leaving school for now."

He waved his hand and sent away Kagurazaka Ayame, who had been obsessed with letting him show up in public. After watching the other party walk out of the office with a helpless look as if it was just as he expected, Aragaki Shun turned his gaze to Chairman Sakayanagi, who had been smiling all the time.

"I'm sorry to have kept you waiting, Chairman. I wonder what you want to talk to me about?"

"Haha, young man, don't be so polite. Didn't I tell you before? I just came to ask if Aragaki-san has any doubts about the school's results?"

Aragaki Shun rolled his eyes in his heart. Even though he knew that the other party would never come over for such a trivial matter, he still had to cooperate with the other party and continue acting.

"Are you referring to the limit on the amount you can redeem for royalties? I understand the school's expectation is that the four classes will compete with each other around Class A and grow through competition, so they set up a personal point system to isolate the influence of external funds."

"Actually, the fact that the school allows me to redeem 56 personal points every month was a bit beyond my initial expectations. I originally thought that the school would only allocate more funds for club activities as a reward after the club achieved results."

If it was just a reward for some community activity funds, it would definitely not be as much as 56 per month.

Even though Koudou Yucheng High School has always been wealthy, the monthly activity funds allocated to sports clubs are only a few hundred thousand personal points, and the cultural clubs are even less, with only tens of thousands of personal points allocated each month.

After achieving good results in off-campus competitions, the school will also reward a large amount of points, but this one-time reward is not available every month.

58. What are the rules set specifically for Aragaki Shun?

To be honest, Gaodu Yucheng is really rich when it comes to distributing personal points to students.

This is not only reflected in the monthly distribution of living expenses to students in each class in proportion to their class points, but can also be seen in the funds for club activities and the teachers' constant search for reasons to give rewards to students.

You know, during the first physical education class of their Class B last week, the physical education teacher awarded individual points to the first place in each event in the name of a competition.

But the problem is that Gaodu Yucheng High School has many teachers, but except for the 12 teachers who are relatively special and serve as class teachers, whose treatment is tied to the class they lead, the other teachers often need to teach multiple classes at the same time and do not need to favor any one class in particular.

In other words, even if their class B wins the class competition, theoretically it is not the business of other teachers except the homeroom teacher. Then it is very delicate for the physical education teacher to use his personal points to give them benefits.

Unless there is profit to be made, who in this academy that advocates the supremacy of strength would do such a thing that harms oneself and benefits others?

Therefore, Xinyuan Shun guessed that these personal points awarded by teachers to students should also be part of some hidden rules that the school tacitly agrees to or even supports. The teachers certainly do not pay for these things out of their own pockets. As long as the reasons are appropriate, the school will most likely provide a certain amount of reimbursement funds.

After clarifying this point, Xinyuan Shun felt that since these were rewards tacitly approved by the school, it would be a waste not to take them. He simply called on all the students in Class B at the class meeting, and in the future, whenever he found an opportunity in class, he could try to ask the teachers of each course to give out some rewards.

However, the bond between ordinary teachers and classes is not very deep after all, and Aragaki Shun does not expect to gain many personal points from them. At most, he wants to use this method to improve the enthusiasm of everyone in Class B in class so that they can earn more pocket money.

If he really wanted to get gold coins from the teacher, he had a more suitable candidate, and that was Chie Hoshinomiya, the homeroom teacher whose treatment was completely tied to Class B.

After all, isn't the other party eager to take the position in Class A and then go to the teacher of Class D to get in trouble?

How could she have the nerve to not provide any support and just sit back and reap the benefits?

Hoshinomiya Chie was at a loss whether to laugh or cry in response to Aragaki Shun's question.

However, they finally agreed that after the end of this month, when all restrictions during the behavioral norms exam were lifted, her share of the class fee would be deposited into Class B's account as proof that she and all the students in Class B were advancing and retreating together.

This agreement is the greatest achievement that Aragaki Shun can get from his teacher.

If you want to continue to seek more personal points, since there are no other special exams this month, you can only set your sights on the clubs that the school strongly supports.

However, at the beginning, he was only confident that after creating his own club, he would be able to obtain a fixed amount of personal points every month, but he did not expect how huge this amount of personal points would be.

If the school's practice is strictly followed, a newly established literary club, even if it includes the names of a dozen students from Class B and has their works outside of school as achievements, would only have about 100,000 or 200,000 yuan in monthly club activity funds plus school rewards.

Now the school allows him to directly exchange his royalties, even if it is limited to 56 per month, to be honest it is still quite surprising.

After all, this kind of high-level training has no precedent in the past, and it is not just a matter of the first-year exam. Even if the chairman is restricted from interfering in the competition of this year's freshmen, he certainly still has a certain say in such matters.

He had made up his mind from the beginning that the royalties exchange plan would be completely unsuccessful.

At the beginning, I just wanted to achieve the best. Even if I couldn’t get too many personal points from the club, it would be good to have an off-campus channel.

But now it seems that Chairman Sakayanagi did not create any obstacles for him in this matter, but instead provided some convenience?

Otherwise, there would be no need for the other party to come and chat with him at this time.