The first-day mood gradually faded after a few days. The joy of familiar faces reuniting also turned cold beneath the weight of heavy classes. Minds began to settle as the new semester's studies began.
The Sea God Pavilion's decision had not been officially announced yet. A change on this scale was not simple. It was a transformation from the root, and it was bound to affect many people's lives. For example, those Martial Soul Department teachers who had been coasting along would be affected, or even lose their jobs.
These people actually had little ability. They only had their positions because of their family backgrounds. Simply put, the descendants of certain people received great preferential treatment. Not all of Shrek's teachers had graduated from Shrek. The vast majority of people in the world were not qualified to enter this academy.
But the academy needed many teaching assistants. The students who graduated each year were not enough to support so many tasks. Many people had families to inherit, so it was impossible for them to stay at the academy as teachers. Most of those who stayed were naturally commoner students, and there were already not many commoners to begin with; a large portion of them were then recruited away by scions of noble families. If they went off to marry into those families, there was no need for them to do this work.
This led to some people without real strength entering Shrek Academy. Their strength could not be too low, of course, but compared to the strongest students, it was still lacking. Those students were all existences capable of fighting above their level.
Although this fact existed, there was still no way to stop some useless teachers from feeling resentful. It was precisely because they were not qualified to enter