Liu Yan opened his eyes slowly, the last thing he remembered was reaching Soto City's entrance.
He moved his hand around before realising that he was in a herbal bath.
"Such expensives herbs… Dean Flender is going to broke soon." He muttered softly.
"Whoever did this, it's definitely not our Dean!" Fatty said loudly as he snacked onto some fried chicken.
"Well, since we're here. Might as well enjoy it." Liu Yan replied as he leaned back and enjoyed his moment of relaxation.
Ma HongJun looked around, seeing his two brothers snickering while crouching at the corner, he stood up and walked over.
"Oi, what are you doing?" He asked.
Dai MuBai smirked and pointed at the unlocked door that led to the girl's bathroom.
"Let me ask you something, what do you think the girls are doing."
Splash
The girls seemed to be splashing water at each other.
"Bathing?" Ma HongJun said loudly but had his mouth covered immediately.
"Not so loud." Dai MuBai didn't want to expose so quickly.
"What are you on about?" He grew more and more confused.
"It's a great chance, don't you think? We can peek at them." He gestured towards the door.
"Peek at what?" A light slush of water sounded as Tang San leaned over.
"Nothing, nothing!" Dai MuBai, Oscar and Ma HongJun acted innocent.
"I wouldn't do that if I were you but… knock yourself out." Liu Yan gave his advice and kept quiet.
"Heh, alright." The three of sneaked off towards the door.
Outside the bathrooms, Flender and Grandmaster were conversing, or rather, Flender was screaming about the cost of everything.
"Didn't you say you'll solve the financial problems? You're just adding to them now! First class suites and herbal baths. It's all in my name!" Flender yelled at his friend. He had promised a way to solve the problems, now he had even more on his plate.
"Don't worry, we can get it back soon." Grandmaster replied.
"When is soon? This is going to put us in so much debt." Flender huffed.
Crack
The wall beside them suddenly cracked and broke.
There stood Zhu ZhuQing in a bathrobe carrying Dai MuBai and Oscar by the hair while stepping on Ma HongJun.
"They were trying to peek." She replied coolly.
Grandmaster merely gave an amused smile while Flender screamed internally at more debt.
After everyone had gotten dressed, they quickly gathered.
"Now commences, step two of the intensive training. Every night, you all shall enter the colosseum to enter a team match, and a one on one match." Grandmaster explained.
"There are two goals of this training. One, to earn money from your battles, which will be used to pay for the academy's debt." Grandmaster said while the students became dejected. They couldn't use the money they won to buy what they want.
"Two, to earn a silver level spirit badge."
Everyone had collectively recalled when Dean Flender first brought them to the colosseum. Explaining that to graduate from Shrek academy, one must achieve the silver level spirit badge.
"Do you understand?" Grandmaster looked at everyone.
They all nodded in unison.
"However, there are two rules you all must abide to. Firstly, no hidden weapons whatsoever."
"Why is that?" Xiao Wu protested.
"Even if I tell you now, you won't understand." Grandmaster replied before telling the second rule he had set.
"Secondly, you all must wear masks, and use nicknames. You are not allowed to use your real names. This is to prevent people who had lost their money to send people after you." Grandmaster was extra serious with this rule.
"For two VS two matches, you may choose the names. For individual nicknames. I have picked them out already."
"Dai MuBai, Viscious White Tiger"
"Oscar, Food God"
"Tang San, Asura Demon"
"Ma HongJun, Hellfire Phoenix"
"Liu Yan, Diamond Dusk"
"Xiao Wu, Charming Soft Boned Rabbit"
"Ning RongRong, Seven Treasure Glass"
"Zhu ZhuQing, Quiet Nether Cat"
"Ying Xuan, Silent Ember"
With that, they all put on their masks and headed straight for the battle colosseum.
"Look at those people. They look so cool" a lady whispered to her boyfriend while pointing at the people passing by.
"Must be a group of anonymous soul masters." The guy replied as he watched them enter the colosseum.
The man at the reception table looked up as he saw a group of people approach. Putting on his best working look, he asked them, "Registering as a team?"
"Yes!"
"Please pay the fees, what will the name of your team be?" The receptionist gestured to the box before preparing to registee the team.
"The nine devils of Shrek" Dai MuBai answered.
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Hello my readers!
This is a shorter chapter sadly.
But the next chapter is the start of a new arc, so yeah.
As always, hope you all enjoyed this chapter and have a great day!