Wu Feng shuddered. Proud as she had always been, a chill involuntarily crept down her spine the moment she heard Huo Yuhao speak.
"Huo... Huo Yuhao, what do you want?"
Wu Feng swallowed and mustered the courage to ask.
Huo Yuhao said calmly, "I don't want anything. Teacher Xuan has full authority over the Third Laboratory. Here, we all follow his arrangements."
"Shrek Academy has plenty of assessments every semester, doesn't it? I think you know what you should do when you fail a teacher's assessment."
Xuan Ziwen said nothing, quietly observing from the side. He had already realized that Huo Yuhao knew the two girls opposite him and wanted to see what attitude Huo Yuhao would take.
If they were close, turning a blind eye would be no big deal.
But this student named Wu Feng had rather poor fundamentals, and he had no patience to teach her from scratch.
Even setting aside any outstanding innovation, the Level 3 Core Array she had just engraved was utterly substandard. Perhaps he had given her too little time, but a Level 3 Soul Engineer should not have made so many elementary mistakes.
Xuan Ziwen could not help questioning Shrek Academy's standards for grading soul engineers.
"This... this is no assessment. You're clearly making things difficult for me," Wu Feng retorted guiltily.
Huo Yuhao glanced at the Core Array Wu Feng had just engraved. "Teacher Xuan may have been too tactful to say it outright, so let me tell you now. Based on your performance just now, you don't qualify as a competent Level 3 Soul Engineer at all."
"I don't know many senior students in Shrek's Soul Tool Department, but there should be quite a few Level 4 and Level 5 Soul Engineers. I'm very curious why they sent a sham