"Elder Ling, why did you agree to let Shrek participate in the youth division of the Skysea Alliance Tournament?"
"Isn't that just handing the prize over to them on a silver platter?"
Long Huantian, president of Skysea Academy, looked at the white-haired elder seated at the very center, his face full of confusion.
Increasing the promotional budget for the Skysea Alliance Tournament and raising the caliber of the prizes all seemed perfectly reasonable to Long Huantian. He had even felt a faint sense of delight.
After all, past champions had all come from Skysea Academy, so he had often regarded that soul bone as already theirs.
Although the soul bone would ultimately go to a student, it was also one of his honors.
Skysea Academy had even played an indispensable role in getting those resolutions passed.
However.
All those expectations had turned to dust the instant the man before him approved Shrek's proposal.
That was why Long Huantian truly could not understand it.
Wasn't this simply making a wedding dress for someone else?
Logically, the elder before him should not have failed to see that.
"President Long, please remain calm." The elder known as Elder Ling smiled as he comforted Long Huantian.
Ling He, a Rank 91 Titled Douluo, had been born in the Skysea Alliance and had once served in the Skysea Alliance Ministry of Education.
He had made exceptionally outstanding contributions to the Skysea Alliance's educational cause and was one of the few Titled Douluo to emerge from the Skysea Alliance.
But the Sun Moon Federation's Ministry of Education... those who knew, knew.
In name, it wielded great authority and governed every academy in the Federation.
In reality, aside from several academies established after the Federation's founding, the Ministry of Education had almost no say over the high-level