"Senior, just call me Yuhao."
Huo Yuhao did not know whether to laugh or cry at Shi Xing calling him a Young Grand Secretary, and spoke up.
"Ah, those are the rules. Junior, since you've already passed the assessment for prospective pavilion elders, naturally, I must address you as an elder. I'm a few years older than you, so calling you a Young Grand Secretary is already taking liberties."
Shi Xing spoke with a solemn expression, leaving Huo Yuhao thoroughly embarrassed.
City Lord Shi Xing was good in every other respect; he was simply a little rigid about certain things. Everything else was fine.
Compared with that, Huo Yuhao was actually more curious about what Shi Xing would call Chen Ping if he appeared before him right now.
Young Pavilion Master?
After letting his imagination wander briefly, Huo Yuhao steadied himself and called out, "Listen to my command! First, Second, and Third Corps of the Shrek City Guard, proceed to the designated exercise positions. Once you arrive, assume combat readiness and await orders."
As Huo Yuhao's orders went out, the three corps below soon began advancing toward the Star Dou Forest in orderly fashion.
Huo Yuhao darted forward, activating the Flying Soul Tool on his back and heading toward the assembly point at an even greater speed.
Although the Academy had raised him according to the ultimate individual soldier program, as Shrek's reserves of blueprints, rare metals, soul engineers, and various technologies grew increasingly abundant, even the Soul Tool Department gradually abandoned the idea of relying on an ultimate individual soldier to turn the tide of battle.
To put it bluntly, there had been just one reason they had pursued the ultimate individual soldier program back then: poverty!
Shrek had been too poor. It could not afford to assemble Soul