As the students stood under the morning sun at the academy square, Oscar was talking about their dean.
"You all need to be careful of Dean Flander. He always remembers grudges, and also…" Oscar continued speaking when he felt the presence behind him again.
"But he's also a fair man!" He blurted out.
"You really understand me, don't you." Flender said as Oscar stood shoulder tp shoulder with everyone else.
"Welcome to Shrek Academy, new students. As you all know, I am your Dean. Later, you all will head to Teacher Li's office to pay your tuition fees. Roughly 100 golden soul coins." Flender explained swiftly.
"Class is dismissed. Your real class starts tomorrow night" he continued before looking Oscar.
"Oscar, twenty laps around the village. If you can't finish before noon, no lunch for you"
"Hah? Dean, do you want me to die?" Oscar said exasperated, this was the first he had to do twenty rounds.
"I am only teaching you according to your curriculum. Do you know what to do in the face of battle? As a support class soul master." Flender asked.
"To… hide behind my teammates?" Oscar replied with confusion.
"That is correct, but the base foundation is running away. A support class soul master that doesn't know how to run away is not a good soul master." He explained and showed his experience and wisdom in the soul master world as he clasped his hands behind his back.
"A step further from danger could mean life and death. Do you understand?" Flender asked Oscar.
"Yes, Dean!"
Flender merely nodded before saying "bring Ning RongRong with you. She is also a support class soul master."
Flender immediately left after that.
Half way through their first lap, Ning RongRong slowed down.
Oscar thinking she was tired used his soul skill to make a sausage for her.
"Eat up, you'll have more energy with it" he offered it to her in goodwill.
Slap
She slapped it away.
"Why did you think I would eat something so disgusting?!" Ning RongRong sneered at Oscar's expectations.
She turned away and used her martial soul. Running towards the Soto city.
"Wait…" Oscar wanted to call for her but decided to just continue running.
By the time they finished the twenty laps, it was in the evening. Flender stood in front of both Oscar and Ning RingRong.
"Did you both finish running twenty laps?" Flender asked to which Oscar immediately replied with a yes.
"I asked both of you, not just you." Flender said before asking again.
"… yes, we both finished." Oscar still said.
Flender placed his hand upon Oscar's shoulder and sealed his martial soul.
"You'll run for twenty more laps, without your martial soul this time. Go." Flender said sternly.
Oscar could only look at Ning RongRong with slight resentment before running again.
Flender turned to her, "did you finish running the twenty laps?" He asked, but with a tone that signified he knew the answer.
She put on an innocent face and said "The laps were too much, and I was hungry so I couldn't finish it" she said with a fake guilty tone.
"So that's why you went into the city, ate a full meal and when shopping too?" Flender suddenly said.
Ning RongRong immediately had a shocked face and yelled "You were following me?!"
"Because I am the dean, I hold responsibility over my students. Oscar could be forgiven because he was lying for his friends. But you not only left the academy grounds without notice, you also didn't follow my instructions and had Oscar lie for you. Unbelievable!" Flender scolded her without holding back.
"You- You're exaggerating! This place is but a lowly academy!" She retorted back.
"Even if it is a lowly academy, it is still my shrek academy." He continued.
"I am the princess of Seven Treasure Glazed Pagoda clan! You, a puny soul saint think you can discipline me?!"
"Even if I were to be the weakest in the soul saint realm. You, Ning RongRong, are still the weakest amongst your classmates! If you do not like it here, the academy exit is right there." Flender said loudly.
"I- I am a prodigy that appeared in my clan after a hundred years. How am I any weaker than them!" She pointed at the students.
"How daring" Xiao Wu whispered in disbelief.
"Dai MuBai, a fifteen years old soul elder. Had the best soul ring age." Flender began stating each student's strength and why they surpassed Ning RongRong.
"Xiao Wu, Tang San. Both of them are the same age as you yet they are close to breaking into soul elder. They might even surpass Dai MuBai."
"Liu Yan, same age as you yet he already surpassed Dai MuBai in soul ring age and is a soul elder."
"Ying Xuan, same situation as Tang San and Xiao Wu, but her attitude makes her more easy to work with and she has talent to dual cultivate and have a fusion skill with Liu Yan."
Ying Xuan smiled lightly at being praised.
"Ma HongJun, though his martial soul has some disadvantages, his ametial doul is still one favoured by the heavens. Few in his power realm could best him in battle."
"Zhu ZhuQing, why did you come to shrek academy?" Flender asked.
"To become stronger!" She replied.
"Though she is the same level as you, she shows a stronger resolve while you, have none."
Ning RongRong was getting frustrated, it was the first time she was being belittled by someone. Even her own father wouldn't do so.
"Then what about Oscar! Surely I'm better than him!" She couldn't help but blurt out.
Flender merely smirked. "Have you ever heard of a food class soul master with innate full soul power?"
"What?! Tha- that's…" she couldn't even finish before Flender continued.
"A support class soul master without a partner is useless. Even your own father would agree" Flender replied.
At this, Ning RongRong teared up and ran away.
Sigh
"MuBai, go tell Oscar to stop running and comfort her. This lesson was necessary." Flender siad as he began walking back to his own small house.
"Such a simple task, but that gurl really needs to fix her attitude. Glad I got her father's permission" Flender muttered as he took out the letter that a representative of the Seven Glazed Treasure Pagoda clan had given him.
In the courtyard of Seven Glazed Treasure Pagoda clan located in TianDou Empire.
"Sect master, the letter has been delivered" a masked figure said to a man in his fourties.
The man was dressed in luxurious clothing.
"Good, you are dismissed now" he said while gazing at the sky holding his cane.
"Sorry, RongRong. But this was the only way. After all, only when a devious girl goes out into the world, can she learn to mature."
"FengZhi, are you sure about sending RongRong to such a rundown place?" A voice sounded as a figure with long grey hair, dressed in clothing you would see on a martial arts master stood on a sword and flew to Ning FengZhi's side.
"I am sure of it. Do not worry, sword uncle. I have people constantly keeping tabs. If anything unforeseen happens, I will order for her to be pulled out immediately."
"I hope you're not wrong with your intuition." The man said as he dropped down from the sword.
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