"What a marvelous story..."
The Headmaster gazed at him with a beaming smile. His golden jelly face had narrowed into a slit, making him look utterly comical, but Sabo didn't dare lower his guard in the slightest. On the contrary, a rare trace of respect appeared on Sabo's face.
"Sabo Nuhaste, paying my respects to you, senior!"
"Oh ho ho ho..." The Headmaster accepted the salute without hesitation. Narrowing his eyes, he carefully sensed the overwhelming energy surging from the other man and chuckled. "The younger generation is truly formidable!"
The other man was speaking to him with the bearing of an elder, yet Sabo wasn't annoyed. Instead, he found it perfectly normal. In terms of seniority, the other man was indeed his senior. As for strength, Sabo didn't think he was merely a decaying old man. On the contrary, he believed this man might be even more troublesome than Demon Hunter Ranger Vayne.
After all, this was a super ruthless figure who had reached the Star-level realm starting from the lowest-grade Slime bloodline...
In this world, none of the beings who could advance to become Star-level Lifeforms were simple. This was especially true of ruthless figures who had reached this step through inferior life genes.
Sabo wasn't a direct heir and had never received preferential family resources. To reach where he was today, he had relied not only on his own relentless efforts but also on several extraordinarily fortuitous opportunities. He knew all too well how difficult that journey had been. Yet even so, his starting point had been higher than this fellow's. After all, he had been born a Blood Demon noble, carrying genes that his parents had spent tens of millions of years refining. The fellow before him, however, had started as a lowest-grade Slime and forcefully