"Want to take a look inside the Sea God Pavilion?"
Mu En asked in return.
"Yep."
El answered with a light chuckle.
"Who wouldn't be curious?"
"After all, I heard a saying a long time ago:
every change and conflict on this continent ultimately comes back to two places: Shrek Academy's Sea God Pavilion and the Sun Moon Empire's imperial palace."
Mu En's expression changed.
He wanted to speak, but did not know what to say.
As the man at Shrek's helm, he knew that, in a certain sense, this saying was true.
"Shrek has already begun to stop being an academy."
In the end, Mu En could only sigh.
How could he not know?
As the man steering the ship, he understood better than anyone what road Shrek was heading down.
An academy, as its name implied, should be a place for teaching and nurturing students. Yet Shrek had been blinded by its standing as the greatest on the continent, the leader of the righteous path.
Shrek had already begun placing its own will above the royal families of the various nations.
It wanted an academy's lofty detachment from worldly affairs, its purity as immaculate as ice and jade, yet also longed to extend its influence across the entire continent, leaving even royal families with no choice but to follow Shrek's lead.
For now, with the Sun Moon Empire eyeing them like a tiger stalking its prey, the nations still needed to rely on Shrek, so the conflict had yet to come to the surface.
But what about the future?
After the Sun Moon Empire disappeared, or... after the Douluo Three Kingdoms disappeared?
What exactly should Shrek Academy do then?
Only heaven knew.
Mu En wanted to turn things around, but his strength fell short of his intentions.
He