manynovel Chapter 16 First Encounter with Wang Dong at the Academy
Chapter 16 First Encounter with Wang Dong at the Academy
After helping Dai Youheng complete the registration procedures, the Wind Wolf Guard took his leave decisively and returned to Star Luo City to report back.
Dai Youheng stood inside the magnificent gates of Shrek Academy, looking at the bustling, youthful, and energetic students around him, and frowned slightly.
He realized he had made a mistake, though not a big one. Although he had devoured the soul power, martial soul, and even soul ring of that sycophant Youheng, he had not absorbed his memories!
"What a blunder..." he thought to himself. "Which class is this guy in? What's his dorm number? And who are his roommates?"
As he stood there, trying to glean this everyday information from the few remaining fragments of the sycophant's soul, an anxious yet clear voice came from behind him, "Dai Youheng!!"
Dai Youheng turned around and saw a man rushing towards him. The man was wearing Shrek Academy's uniform, but it couldn't hide his unparalleled good looks.
She had short, light blue hair, fair skin, and exquisite features that seemed like the most perfect masterpiece of heaven. Her large eyes were now watery with anxiety.
Her beauty was so striking that many women felt ashamed of their own appearance.
Dai Youheng's appearance was also quite good, but compared to this person, he was indeed inferior.
He was wondering who this person was when they rushed up to him, urgently asking, "Dai Youheng! Have you seen Yuhao? Today is the last day of registration for the new semester, but he hasn't come back yet! Where did he go?"
I was initially a little confused about who the person was.
But upon hearing the other party's urgent search for Huo Yuhao, coupled with their beauty that surpassed even that of a woman, Dai Youheng immediately understood the identity of the person. Who else could it be but Wang Dong, the owner of the Goddess of Light Butterfly Martial Soul, who shared a dormitory with Huo Yuhao and had an extremely close relationship with him?
He remembered the original plot: after the first year, Huo Yuhao went to the far north to obtain his second martial soul, the Ice Jade Emperor Scorpion, and with the help of the Heavenly Dream Ice Silkworm and the Ice Emperor, he hunted down the second soul ring of the Spirit Eye. This process took a considerable amount of time, which caused him to be late in the end.
It seems that Wang Dong is currently in a state of extreme anxiety because he cannot find Huo Yuhao.
"Don't worry, Huo Yuhao will be fine," Dai Youheng replied calmly. "He'll be back soon. By the way, Wang Dong, I have a question for you. Does our college have a rule about changing dormitories for the new semester?"
Wang Dong was taken aback upon hearing this, keenly sensing something amiss. Dai Youheng used to be exceptionally warm and affectionate when mentioning Huo Yuhao, always calling him "Yuhao" or "Little Brother Yuhao." When had she ever addressed him by his full name in such a flat tone?
Moreover, he actually asked a basic, common-sense question like, "Does the college have any rules about changing dormitories?"
"Change dorms?" Although Wang Dong was puzzled, he was more worried about Huo Yuhao at the moment, so he replied irritably, "Of course not! Once the dorms are assigned, they won't change until graduation! Don't you even know that?"
"Oh, so my dorm is still in...?" Dai Youheng deliberately slowed down her speech, pretending to be trying hard to remember.
Wang Dong was extremely anxious at the moment, and was urgently looking for Huo Yuhao. She didn't have the patience to wait for him to finish speaking, and interrupted him directly, "Of course it's still room 107! It's next to room 108, which is next to Yuhao's and my dorm! How could you forget that?" Her tone was obviously impatient.
"Thank you!" Dai Youheng got the information she wanted, and a faint smile appeared on her lips, but her tone of thanks sounded somewhat perfunctory.
"This guy's acting strange today," Wang Dong frowned slightly as she watched Dai Youheng turn and leave. Although he was thanking her, his tone lacked his usual flattery and enthusiasm; instead, it carried a sense of detachment and indifference.
"Forget it, what does it matter to me what happens to him!" Wang Dong shook her head, putting her doubts aside. "The most important thing is to find Yuhao first!" She immediately turned around and continued to look for information from Huo Yuhao's acquaintances, such as Bei Bei, Tang Ya, and Xiao Xiao.
Following the road signs, Dai Youheng successfully found the freshman dormitory building and went straight to the door of room 107.
He pushed open the door. It was a standard double dormitory room, simply but neatly furnished. By the window, a boy was sitting at his desk, intently reading a thick book that emitted a faint fluctuation of soul power.
The book was quite peculiar, with an antique cover. Only the first two pages featured detailed illustrations of some kind of spirit beast, accompanied by textual descriptions, while the rest of the pages were blank.
Hearing the door open, the boy looked up and saw Dai Youheng. A friendly smile appeared on his face: "Youheng, you're here. How was your holiday?"
Dai Youheng's gaze swept over the peculiar book, and he quickly analyzed it in his mind, "This is no ordinary book, but a martial soul! This person's soul power level is over twenty, and he possesses two soul rings, which is why his book only has content on the first two pages. In Huo Yuhao's generation, there is only one person with a book-type martial soul, and one with this characteristic!"
A perfectly timed smile appeared on his face as he put down his luggage and said naturally, "Zhou Sichen, long time no see. You're really working hard, even at this time you're quietly researching your martial spirit."
Upon hearing this, the boy named Zhou Sichen smiled somewhat embarrassedly, closed the martial spirit manual in his hand, and said, "Sigh, don't mention it. Although my martial spirit is praised by my teacher as a top-tier weapon martial spirit, there are just too many directions for its development. Its strong plasticity makes it difficult to decide. My teacher has been telling me to think carefully about which direction I should take."
His magical spirit book is extremely special; it can absorb the soul power of various soul beasts and transform it into soul skills within the pages.
In other words, whatever spirit beast he hunts, he can summon that same spirit beast to fight in battle. His current two spirit skills summon the powerful offensive Earth Demon Bear and Flame Demon Tiger, so he is currently struggling with the choice of his third spirit ring.
Some suggested that since his first two soul skills were both offensive, he should go all the way down this path and collect nine offensive summons to maximize his attack power.
Some people also feel that since the Treasure Book Martial Soul is so rare and interesting, it should be developed in all aspects, with the addition of defensive, control, and even support-type summoned beasts to make the combat style more varied and flexible.
Zhou Sichen was struggling with this dilemma when her roommate returned. She instinctively wanted to hear his opinion. "Youheng, you're just in time. Given that my first two soul skills are both offensive, what do you think my next path should be? Should I continue focusing on offensive skills, or start transitioning?"
Dai Youheng was making the bed, and without looking up, simply replied with two words, "Whatever."