The Dean's Office at Shrek Academy.
Associations and shops canceled their partnerships, teachers resigned one after another... Bad news surged toward Flender like a rising tide.
At that moment, his desk was piled high with documents terminating the shops' contracts.
Those shops sold Soul Master resources. Selling under the banner of an Advanced Soul Master Academy could draw plenty of Soul Masters to their doors.
Advertising slogans such as "Even XX Academy approves" and "Warmly recommended by XX Academy" could only be used after a shop signed a partnership agreement with the academy.
Commercial partnerships were also a major source of income for Advanced Soul Master Academies.
Now that Blue Tyrant Academy had changed its name-and to a notorious one at that-the shops naturally refused to recognize it, much less maintain their partnerships.
Most importantly, Flender, the dean himself, had not even known that the academy had this source of income.
That was hardly surprising. Liu Erlong had never concerned herself with administrative affairs, so the teachers had handled these partnerships. With so many teachers resigning, naturally, no one had told Flender about the advertising agreements.
The canceled shop contracts were manageable. Once the storm surrounding Shrek Academy passed, he could lower the rates and find new partners. But the mass resignation of teachers was undoubtedly uprooting the academy's very foundations.
Could an academy without teachers still be called an academy?
Yet the predicament awaiting Shrek Academy clearly did not end there.
Soon, a large crowd of students gathered outside the Dean's Office. Some came alone, while others arrived accompanied by their families.
Without exception, they had come to withdraw from the academy.
Flender rubbed his brow and forced a smile onto his face before stepping outside to face the students and parents.
"Dean Flender, Shrek Academy's reputation has long