Giant Skateboard, Hidden Mission

Perhaps, with the abilities the system had given her so far, she could accomplish something even if she left Shrek Academy.

Ning Rongrong could choose to withdraw from the academy.

But then she would never earn another Identity Point from the system.

Because it was bound to the original Ning Rongrong's identity.

If she left Shrek Academy now, it would amount to changing the entire course of her original life. How could she possibly complete Identity Missions then?

(P.S. Injuring Ma Hongjun was only a minor episode along the way and did not affect the overall course.)

She could ignore Flender, but she still had to strive for better rewards.

She began running laps around the village with Oscar.

Ning Rongrong did a quick calculation.

One lap around the village was about three kilometers, making twenty laps sixty kilometers, while fifty laps came to a terrifying 150 kilometers.

It was around six in the morning.

That meant she had to run 150 kilometers in six hours.

This...

It really was difficult.

Ning Rongrong suddenly regretted agreeing so readily.

But since there was no room to maneuver anymore, she had to look for a breakthrough herself.

As they ran.

At that moment.

Oscar glanced back at Ning Rongrong, who had not said a word, and said with a wry smile, "Ning Rongrong, you know it too. For us to run twenty laps in six hours is practically impossible, and you have to run fifty. That's even harder."

"So?" Ning Rongrong asked irritably.

The damn task was already demanding enough.

Yet Oscar couldn't just focus on running and kept spouting nonsense.

Was he trying to hit on her?

"But don't be afraid. We're both Support System Soul Masters, so why worry about going hungry? Want something to eat?"

Ning Rongrong glanced at him. Although she was still young, her icy gaze held a touch of innocent charm.

That glance made Oscar's bones go a little soft. As if presenting a treasure, he murmured, "I Have a Big Sausage."

With a flash of light, an indescribable Big Sausage appeared in his hand, and he offered it to Ning Rongrong.

"..."

It was beyond words.

Ning Rongrong gave Oscar a strange look. "Do you know how a Soul Master becomes trash? By having no ambition to improve. If you don't work hard to finish, how do you know you can't?"

Turning down Oscar's Big Sausage, Ning Rongrong immediately released her Martial Soul. Her Second Soul Ring lit up. "From the Ten Treasures comes glazed light. The Ten Treasures have names. Second: Speed."

Two streams of emerald-green light entered her and Oscar's bodies respectively.

Both received an eighty percent speed boost.

Their speed quickly picked up.

Oscar was left speechless by her words. Then, feeling how fast he had suddenly become, he laughed in shock. "Rongrong, too fast, too fast! I can barely take it!"

"Shut up! One more word and I'll kill you." Ning Rongrong's gaze turned cold, cowing Oscar.

She wasn't the real Ning Rongrong, and she wasn't falling for Oscar's act.

Oscar had heard how fierce Ning Rongrong could be, and he immediately fell silent, afraid to speak again.

Even so.

The two focused on running.

It still took a long time to complete a lap.

With Oscar in the lead, their efficiency suffered greatly.

Oscar's stamina was simply too poor.

It was even worse than that of an ordinary person who exercised regularly in her previous life.

A normal person needed about fifteen to twenty minutes to run a three-kilometer lap.

Yet even after she used her Soul Skill to speed them up, with Oscar leading, it still took them fifteen minutes.

In other words, without the speed boost, Oscar needed thirty minutes to run three kilometers.

And that was only the first lap.

The farther a person ran, the worse their stamina became.

Oscar would only get slower and slower.

At their current pace, never mind her completing the task-even Oscar wouldn't be able to finish his.

So, starting with the second lap, Ning Rongrong had to urge Oscar to use his First Soul Skill to make Big Sausages to restore his stamina.

But even then, Oscar still slowed down.

The second lap.

The third lap.

By the eighth lap.

Oscar's pace had dropped to forty minutes per lap.

So by the time they finished the eighth lap, the two of them had already spent three hours.

Oscar was exhausted, panting like a dog. "I can't run anymore. I really can't. Even if you kill me, I... I really can't run anymore."

At the start of the ninth lap, Oscar finally couldn't keep going. His Soul Power was almost completely depleted, and he staggered even as he walked.

Seeing that more than half their time had passed, Ning Rongrong had to rethink her strategy.

How could she keep Oscar in the lead while multiplying his speed several times over?

Ning Rongrong thought for a while. When she saw some logs and planks by the roadside, cut by who knew whose household, she finally came up with a good idea.

"Oscar, have you ever heard of something called a skateboard?"

With a mischievous smile, Ning Rongrong took two logs and a plank from the roadside.

"Huh? What... what's a skateboard?"

Oscar asked in confusion.

Ning Rongrong didn't answer. Instead, she set about making one, raising and lowering the Ten Treasures Glazed Sword.

Crack-crack-crack-crack-

After several cuts, four wheels and two axles were ready. She used brute force to secure the axles to the wheels. As for the plank, she had already bored two holes in it before fastening the wheels and axles, using the sharp blade of her sword in a twisting motion.

Before long, a giant, simple skateboard longer than either of them was tall was complete.

The deck was wider than a person, and the wheels were bigger than Oscar's head...

"Get on," Ning Rongrong ordered. She then planted a foot on the back of the giant skateboard to hold it in place.

"..."

Although Oscar had never seen anything like it, he didn't dare disobey Ning Rongrong's order and stepped onto the front of the giant skateboard.

Once Oscar was on, Ning Rongrong kindly reminded him, "Try to keep your balance. Don't fall off."

"What... what do you mean... ah-"

"Hmph."

Before Oscar could finish asking, Ning Rongrong smiled mischievously and called out, "From the Ten Treasures comes glazed light. The Ten Treasures have names. Second: Divine Speed!"

Boom-

An even denser emerald-green light surged into her body.

With Divine Speed active, her speed increased by 350 percent. Without explaining anything further to Oscar, she pushed off lightly with her left foot, and the giant skateboard set off.

With the three-and-a-half-times speed boost and the skateboard, the two of them shot around the outskirts of the village like the wind, leaving dust flying in their wake.

"Holy shit, what's that?"

"Are the teachers from Shrek Academy out running too?"

"Too fast!"

The two of them "ran" around the village again. Their tremendous increase in speed made the villagers cry out in disbelief, thinking a Soul Saint-level expert had come out for a run.

Under Ning Rongrong's control, the time it took them to circle the village also dropped sharply.

Before, with Oscar leading, a lap had taken forty minutes.

Now a lap took just five minutes.

After all, Ning Rongrong still had Soul Power and stamina left, as well as a three-and-a-half-times speed boost. Even using the skateboard for propulsion, it could still be converted into a three-and-a-half-times frequency.

Next came the ninth lap, the tenth lap...

The twentieth lap.

By the time they finished the twentieth lap, they had spent only about another hour.

That meant they had successfully circled the village twenty times in four hours. Of course, they hadn't run most of the way.

After twenty laps, Oscar got off and vomited uncontrollably. He had done his utmost to keep himself from falling, but the sensation was truly strange. It made him feel as if heaven and earth were spinning, and he couldn't take it.

But seeing that Oscar was otherwise all right despite his vomiting, Ning Rongrong briefly checked on him, then set off at a sprint again.

Without Oscar's weight holding her back, she became considerably faster...

Although her stamina and Soul Power were declining, she could still maintain an average of about four minutes per lap. Another thirty laps would take exactly two hours.

A full six hours, 150 kilometers.

By the time she finished.

The sun was directly overhead.

Ning Rongrong's stamina and Soul Power were finally almost exhausted.

She began trudging toward Shrek Academy with heavy steps.

Just then, the system's voice rang out.

"Ding~"

"Congratulations, Host, on completing the hidden mission-Flender's Obstruction."

"Ding~"

"Congratulations, Host, on receiving the reward-"