"Wu Feng, come outside with me."
The day after the office conversation, in the classroom where the newly assigned classes had just settled in, El stopped Wu Feng as she was about to leave after class.
Since support students and Power Attack System students were in different classes, El decided to ask Wu Feng, Ning Tian's devoted little filial daughter, to pass along a message.
He had a deal he wanted to discuss with Ning Tian.
And since Soul Bones were still relatively rare, El planned to explain the details somewhere without anyone around.
El thought his tone and expression were reasonably friendly.
However...
Wu Feng apparently didn't think so.
"Yes!"
The little Red Dragon girl snapped to attention.
Like an arrow loosed from a bow, Wu Feng sprang out of her seat and instantly straightened up.
The moment El appeared before her, the tension on her face swelled until it seemed ready to overflow, even carrying a trace of barely perceptible fear.
"Hm?"
El raised an eyebrow.
Was he that frightening?
Back in his previous life, the lesser dragons had always jumped up and cheered to welcome him.
If the Dragon God had been the dragon race's emperor, then he, the Radiant Dragon King, had been its prince and grand general.
True Dragons and lesser dragons alike had considered it an honor to meet him.
Alas, the good old days are gone. Now even humans with a little dragon blood mixed into them can give me attitude.
He sighed inwardly, but said nothing more, merely pointing toward the classroom door.
"Follow me."
Ignoring the whispers that arose in the classroom, El led Wu Feng to a secluded spot outside the teaching building.
"I wanted to approach Ning Tian about..."
Before El could finish, Wu Feng reacted like a triggered