Violent Loli

That afternoon, outside the Assessment Zone beside the Spirit Fighting Zone, Wang Yan entered with Chen Yuan.

The Assessment Zone was filled with a vast expanse of partitions. Yes, partitions.

Shrek Academy's Outer Court Assessment Zone was essentially an absurdly huge arena—so large it could practically be called an empty field.

The partitions divided the arena into roughly fifty square areas of equal size. Each area had a teacher responsible for supervision and student safety.

Each area would hold three assessments today. Once the round-robin matches ended, everyone except the top 150 teams—a total of 450 people—would be expelled.

When Chen Yuan had taken the Freshman Assessment, he had happened to be level thirty and had not even had time to obtain a Soul Ring. Fortunately, there had not been a single Soul Elder in his class that year.

As a Soul Grandmaster with a Millennium Soul Ring, he had utterly dominated the Freshman Assessment among his peers.

"How does it feel? Coming back here again, are you feeling sentimental?"

"I am, but couldn't the dean be any stingier? That pit over there is one I made more than three years ago. Why hasn't it been repaired yet?"

"Ahem, well... perhaps the maintenance staff in charge of the Spirit Fighting Zone never reported it?"

Even as he said it, Wang Yan could feel his own guilt. As a teacher, he could not join Chen Yuan in badmouthing the dean.

"Alright, the matches are about to begin. Chen Yuan, go take a look elsewhere. I've already spoken with the other teachers, so I'll leave the records to you."

"Alright. See you later, Teacher Wang."

After watching Chen Yuan leave, Wang Yan let out a breath of relief.

After waiting for a while, six full teams of students arrived one after another in the area Wang Yan was supervising.

Wang Yan flipped through the folder in his hands and found the list of students for the first round-robin match in this area.

"There are six teams participating in the assessment here. Since everyone has arrived, let me introduce myself first."

"My name is Wang Yan, and I'll be your assessment teacher for the next two days."

"Alright, alright, no need to be so nervous. You won't be able to perform at your best if you're tense."

Wang Yan smiled at the six teams before him. He had always been rather gentle toward students.

"The Freshman Assessment will determine whether you can remain at Shrek Academy to continue studying. In the end, this is only an assessment. You must not cripple or seriously injure your opponents during the match. Otherwise, I can only report it to the academy and ask that person to leave."

Hearing this, the six teams nodded solemnly. They understood Wang Yan's meaning. Shrek Academy would never accept a student who casually crippled classmates during the Freshman Assessment.

As for the Inner Court, that was already Shrek's core division, equivalent to the inner sect of a clan. Naturally, it did not need to follow the Outer Court's rules.

Seeing how nervous the students were, Wang Yan nodded in satisfaction. He did not want to see students getting crippled in a mere assessment.

"It's about time. Let's begin."

"Each team will only fight one match today. Finish early so you can return early and get in some more practice."

"First assessment: Freshman Class Nine—Huo Yuhao, Wang Dong'er, Xiao Xiao. Freshman Class Three—Ouyang Junyi, Chen Junfeng, Zhao Haochen. The six of you, step forward and prepare."

Because their homeroom teacher, Mu Jin, had previously said that the Control System and Power Attack System would still remain in the same class after being separated, Xiao Xiao had not reported that she had changed systems.

She was still registered as a Control System Soul Master, just as it had been written in her letter of recommendation and initial registration.

In Chen Yuan's words, knocking every enemy unconscious was also a form of control.

Because she had not reported her change of system, Xiao Xiao still formed a team with Huo Yuhao and Wang Dong'er, just like in the original story.

Only, the atmosphere was certainly not as good as it had been in the original.

The main reason was that Huo Yuhao's cultivation was too low. At first, Wang Dong'er had strongly resisted teaming up with him, afraid that he would hold her back.

It was only after she experienced Huo Yuhao's Soul Skill that her dissatisfaction with Mu Jin's class assignments finally vanished.

As for Xiao Xiao, she had never had much presence in class to begin with. She had spent the past three months cultivating and had barely interacted with her classmates. Unfortunately, she still had not broken through to level twenty-five.

Mu Jin had actually wanted to put Ning Tian and Wang Dong'er on the same team. Wang Dong'er, who possessed a Millennium Soul Ring, was far stronger than Wu Feng.

Unfortunately, Ning Tian rejected Mu Jin's proposal on the grounds that she and Wu Feng had grown up together and had better coordination.

"Alright, the assessment... begins!"

The moment Wang Yan finished speaking, the three on Xiao Xiao's side released their martial souls almost simultaneously.

Three large cauldrons that looked ancient and solemn appeared behind Xiao Xiao, while two yellow Soul Rings pulsed behind her.

Wang Dong'er released her Light Goddess Butterfly martial soul and flew into the air. The butterfly wings on her back were incomparably dazzling, blue-purple in color and adorned with brilliantly shining golden patterns.

One yellow and one purple Soul Ring appeared. Whether it was her Soul Ring that exceeded its age limit or Wang Dong'er's beautiful appearance and martial soul, all of it firmly drew the attention of the three opponents and Wang Yan.

By comparison, Huo Yuhao, with only a flash of golden light appearing in his eyes and a single white Soul Ring emerging beside him, seemed utterly ordinary.

The match had clearly already begun, yet the three opponents had not even released their martial souls.

But Xiao Xiao's team was not foolish enough to wait for them to react. With Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing, everything in the Assessment Zone transformed into a precise three-dimensional model in Xiao Xiao and Wang Dong'er's minds.

The first to react was Zhao Haochen, standing at the rear. After releasing his martial soul, he immediately shouted his soul incantation.

"Come forth, my big chicken legs!"

A yellow Soul Ring rippled beneath his feet, and two red-braised chicken legs that looked quite tasty appeared in his hands.

A Food System Soul Master, and even one specializing in meat-based food. Unfortunately, his cultivation was a little low, and the stage for a Food System Soul Master was the battlefield, not an arena match.

Just as Zhao Haochen was about to hand the chicken legs to his two companions, he discovered that two large cauldrons had already collided with his teammates.

They gave him no chance at all to pass the chicken legs to them.

Seeing this, Wang Dong'er's two pairs of butterfly wings beat as she rapidly approached Zhao Haochen.

In a team battle, take out the support first. That was common sense.

Wang Dong'er, who could fly, faced no danger at all in this assessment. The other two opponents both had Agility Attack System martial souls: one had a flexible sword, while the other had a hummingbird.

Unfortunately, their cultivation was insufficient, and they could not fly at all. Otherwise, they might have caused Wang Dong'er some trouble.

Seeing Wang Dong'er charge toward their teammate, Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng were just about to move away from the cauldrons in front of them and fall back to defend.

"First Soul Skill, Cauldron Tremor!"

The two cauldrons let out a thunderous hum. Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng were shaken until their arms went numb, while intense dizziness flooded their minds.

The two cauldrons did not charge about wildly. Instead, under Xiao Xiao's control, they moved above the two men's heads. Looking carefully, there were not two cauldrons at all, but three!

The three cauldrons fused into one, and an even larger Soul Suppressing Cauldron appeared above the two men.

Xiao Xiao swung both hands downward, and the Soul Suppressing Cauldron smashed toward the two below.

Neither of them was willing to simply wait for death. With such a huge cauldron crashing down, it would probably hurt quite a bit.

At that moment, the speed advantage of the two Agility Attack System Soul Masters revealed itself. They were quickly about to escape the Soul Suppressing Cauldron's attack range.

But just as one of Ouyang Junyi's feet stepped out from beneath the cauldron's shadow, Wang Dong'er, who had already eliminated one person, had been waiting there for him.

"First Soul Skill, Wing Blade!"

Her seemingly fragile wings became incomparably hard, and with a single strike, she sent Ouyang Junyi back. As for Chen Junfeng, no one knew what had happened to him; he was standing there clutching his head in agony, unable to move.

With Huo Yuhao's Spiritual Detection Sharing, Wang Dong'er and Xiao Xiao's attacks were incomparably precise. They did not even accidentally injure one another.

Ouyang Junyi and Chen Junfeng crashed into each other and stumbled to the ground. The Soul Suppressing Cauldron above them came down accordingly.

With a thunderous boom, dust filled the air over the field. When the dust dispersed, the Soul Suppressing Cauldron had not struck its targets, because Wang Yan had intervened.

Wang Yan's talent was indeed poor, but dealing with an attack from a Soul Grandmaster was still effortless for him.

Wang Yan's intervention also meant that Xiao Xiao's team had won the battle.

Holding the Coiling Dragon Staff, Wang Yan looked at the Soul Suppressing Cauldron and the freshly smashed pit in the ground, then helplessly shook his head. That cauldron had been truly astonishingly heavy. He had nearly staggered himself.

He truly did not understand how such a petite and adorable child could have such a domineering way of attacking.