The next morning.
A minister compiled the casualties, damage to buildings, property losses, and other consequences of yesterday's battle between Ye Yufei and Xuan Zi, then submitted the report.
After reading through it, Xu Jiawei felt a splitting headache coming on.
Shrek really was a magnet for trouble.
The property losses at the earlier auction still made his heart ache.
Yet only a few days had passed.
And now something like this had happened again.
The Minister of Revenue offered a fanciful suggestion. "Your Majesty, the Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek Academy should bear full responsibility for compensating these losses."
"Who are we supposed to bill?"
"The Sun Moon Royal Soul Engineer Academy and Shrek?"
"Are you still half asleep?"
Xu Jiawei snapped irritably at the Minister of Revenue.
He would already be burning incense in gratitude if those Shrek fellows simply stopped making his life difficult.
Getting them to cover the losses was nothing but a daydream.
As for Sun Moon, that was even further out of the question.
Whether by reason or fairness, they had done nothing wrong.
At its root, Shrek had tried to snatch someone in public, forcing the other side to act to protect their student.
Of course, the Star Luo Empire could be as shameless as Shrek.
It could forcibly pin some of the responsibility on Sun Moon and demand compensation.
But he did not dare.
After all, the intimidation radiating from that Level 9 Soul Tool called the Sun Moon Divine Needle...
Even now.
It still left him with lingering fear.
What if he angered those Sun Moon fellows, and they aimed a shot at Star Luo City?
"Hiss—!"
He sucked in a breath of cold air, not daring to think any further.
After a moment's contemplation.
Xu Jiawei had