Sure enough, Wang Yan froze upon hearing Ye Luochen's answer.
Then he asked in utter disbelief:
"Sun Moon Imperial Soul Engineer Academy? How could it be them?
Could it be that there wasn't a single academy among the original three countries that you considered suitable?"
Wang Yan did not suspect in the slightest that the academies of the original three countries had refused to accept Ye Luochen. With strength enough to compete for a Shrek Seven Monsters reserve spot even at Shrek Academy, Ye Luochen would have been highly sought after by any other academy.
That left only one possibility.
Ye Luochen did not think highly of them—or rather, he simply did not want to go.
As it turned out, Wang Yan's guess was entirely correct.
Ye Luochen slowly said:
"There was no point. Shrek was already the number one academy among the original three countries.
If I couldn't obtain what I wanted there, then going to any other academy would naturally be meaningless."
"So you went to Sun Moon..."
What Wang Yan had wanted to say was: So you chose Sun Moon, a place that had once stood against the entire continent and was regarded as foreign invaders?
Could the things the academies of the original three countries could not offer really be found there?
But just like before, the words reached his lips, yet Wang Yan did not say them.
After giving it some thought, he realized that it might actually be true.
Shrek stood in a league of its own among all the academies of the original three countries. Not a single academy could even come close to matching it.
That unquestioned supremacy had lasted for ten thousand years.
Until the Sun Moon Continent appeared in the sea, and the people of the Sun Moon Empire used