Chapitre 34: Chapter 34: Special Treatment?
The opening ceremony on Eastsea Academy's huge plaza. It was only during this ceremony that both clusters of students from the Advanced Academy and Intermediate Academy met.
Being one of the tallest students there, Xiu Ye and Tang Wulin were positioned at the back. This gave them ample opportunity to observe the whole plaza, as well as all of the students within the academy.
At the intermediate academy, there were around a hundred students within each grade, totalling up to a rough figure of seven to eight hundred students in all. Compared with the intermediate academy, the group at the advanced academy was significantly smaller as there were close to two hundred students. Students in the advanced academy were divided into three grades. It was thus an arduous task to get into the advanced academy that only had a small succession rate of 20% of students coming from the Intermediate Academy.
"Good day students. We shall now begin the Eastsea Academy's annually held opening ceremony. The President of Eastsea Academy has been invited to the ceremony and he will be making a speech shortly."
Eastsea Academy's President was a senior who looked to be about sixty years old. He had a medium build and didn't look that exceptional. He gave off a bookish atmosphere with his head full of white hair and pair of eyeglasses.
"Welcome to the academy, students. Every single year at this time, I feel a bit sad that students from the intermediate and advanced divisions have graduated, and have left us. However, some of the intermediate students will enter the advanced academy in addition to our new students."
"As I see it, academies are like the blood of society. It receives individuals into the academy and later delivers them into society. In the near future, I hope all of you can..."
The President was very eloquent in his speech. In fact, he didn't even have a script to read off of. He spoke excellently for a full hour before he brought his speech to a close.
The pinnacle of the opening ceremony proceeded right after the President's speech: class assignment.
Students who did not need a class assigned to them were slowly making their way out from the crowded plaza. Fresh faces from the advanced academy left towards their academy for their own class assignment. What was left within the plaza were the new students of the intermediate academy.
"We will proceed with the class assignment. It is known that within Eastsea Academy, the smaller the class number, the more prestigious class. Though that is a fact, we too hope for exceptions where students from the last class will work harder and perform better. We have a total of one hundred and eight new students today, divided up into five classes. The students whom I will call up next are in class one..."
Xiu Ye tuned out the rest and turned towards a dejected looking Tang Wulin. Dejected at not being at the same class as his cousin.
Xiu Ye lightly smiled and gave a weak punch at his cousin's shoulder. "Hey, don't worry cuz. We'll meet with each other once in a while, also, try to make friends this time."
Tang Wulin shot him an odd look. "What do you mean 'make friends this time?'"
Xiu Ye's expression turned deadpanned. "Bro, during our three years of elementary you only had me and Na'er as friends and that fatty knife user as a minion. You need to socialize man." This time, Tang Wulin shot him an incredulous look.
Socialize? You hypocrite. What right do you have about telling me to socialize, when you also haven't got any friends except me and Na'er? You're much worse, cause at least I had a minion.
Some meters away from the two chatting boys, a slightly bruised face familiar boy squinted his eyes for a moment and widened.
'I-It's him! The bastard who kicked my bodyguards' and my ass! Damnit, I didn't want to encounter him...' He inwardly cursed, still feeling the phantom pain of being tossed down easily.
"Xiu Ye, Wei Xiaofeng, Zhang Yangzi, Wang Jinxi..." Hearing his name being called, Xiu Ye headed over towards the group of students that was designated in class one and stood besides his roommates, who was coincidentally in the same class as him. There were forty students in class one.
"Class teachers, please direct your students to their classes and help them familiarize themselves within the academy."
Five teachers appeared before the crowd as the announcement ended. One of those five teachers headed towards the direction of class one.
Most of the boys in class one stared with wide eyes and slightly flushed expressions.
She was a beautiful young woman. Her height exceeded 170 centimeters, her figure was superb, and her eyes were fiery and yet slightly chilly. She has a long light green hair that reached her firm plump buttocks and, with the addition of her fair skin, oval face, and cherry mouth, many would find it believable if they were told she was just an advanced academy student!
Her eyes narrowed, scanning her students over while ignoring most of the boys trying to puff out their chests and acting stupid, her gaze landed on a certain red head.
This wasn't because she had an interest in cute boys, although he was really handsome for a boy his age, but the real reason was because the order she got from her superior, the president himself, just before the opening ceremony.
And it all has something to do with the boy she was staring.
"Hello everyone, my name is Ye Yingluo, your teacher of class one. Normally I would guide you all towards our classroom and start our session. But there's a... special case, going on. Student Xiu Ye." Xiu Ye blinked his eyes, hearing his name being called, and then felt everyone of his classmates' eyes on him. "You have been given a special privilege by the academy to able to not attend any classes. You will not be regarded as absent and your grades will remain zero until your semester exam scores, which you have to be present in exam day to have them, will be counted and totalled with bonus points if you meet a certain criteria."
"That is all. You can be dismissed."
Simple and direct. Ye Yingluo didn't beat around the bush and directly told Xiu Ye, in front of everyone, the special privilege he's been given.
Of course this special privilege had came from Cen Yue, a favor that Xiu Ye had asked instead of the change he'll get for the other thing he wanted.
The former at first didn't want to give the boy special treatment, as that would soon invite incompetency and being complacent. But he was convinced by the latter that he had enough knowledge and the brains to equal an advanced academy student, so him being in an intermediate academy was unnecessary.
Xiu Ye nodded and politely said. "Thank you for the privilege teacher Ye Yingluo."
Ye Yingluo let out a sigh and waved her hand around. "Don't give your appreciation to me, I was just doing my job, instead, give it to one who really given you this privilege. Truthfully, I want to know who's backing you but that's not any of my business."
Xiu Ye lips twitched into a soft smile, it momentarily stunned Ye Yingluo of the innocent and honest smile the boy displayed. "Nonetheless, I just want to thank you that you were okay with the arrangement. Well then, I will be going."
Saying that, he took a step forward and walked passed Ye Yingluo and ignored the intense stares the surrounding people around him was giving him.
The students and some of the teachers had their eyes widened in utter shock and surprise of the entire conversation that took place, which was heard by them all since Ye Yingluo wasn't really soft spoken when she delivered the announcement she gave to Xiu Ye.
It took a single breath of time that the students had erupted into sudden chaos, especially class one.
"Wait, what? How come that guy gets special treatment?!"
"Xiu Ye, is that his name? I've never heard of him or any other bigshots in this city that has 'Xiu' in their name..."
"This isn't fair!"
Ye Yingluo and some of the teachers stared at the students, blinking owlishly at their chaotic reactions. Not really expecting this kind of violent reactions.
It wasn't really a surprise though. Most children in the world, at the age of twelve below, wanted to be specially treated and especially if they get to not attend school without any consequences.
A class one student, with average looks and build, and shorter than Xiu Ye by several inches, stepped forward with a slightly flushed face from anger and pointed his finger at Xiu Ye. "You! How come you get special treatment compared to the rest of us?! You don't look any special, heck, I think you just had gotten in this class by luck and the reason for the special treatment is because you're weaker than anyone else here."
Xiu Ye stopped in his steps. In that moment, the air around everyone felt dry, really, really dry.
The students and teachers suddenly felt a foreboding feeling.
"Do you wanna know why?"
The heat temperature suddenly rose so high that sweat had already started to dripped like it was a downpour of rain on the student who confronted Xiu Ye.
The ground around them started to ignite in flames, scaring almost everyone in the huge plaza as the flames continued to expand around them.
In everybody's eyes, they momentarily thought that they saw hell on earth literally in front of them.
"It's because I'm strong."
A sudden oppressive pressure of soul power appeared around them all, heavy pressure bearing down on their bodies.
Almost all the students, except Tang Wulin and some others, had their faces quickly drained of all colors and their legs went weak and limp. Some of them went down on their knees while most had already passed out on the ground, with some pissed.
All of the teachers had felt the domineering soul pressure bearing down on them all. Most of the teachers followed their students in kneeling and just one of them remained unaffected.
This unaffected teacher was standing by the side of class five students, who were looked to be about 27 or 28 years old. He stood at a staggering height of over 1.9 meters along with a pair of lanky arms and a thin waist. White trousers accentuated his long legs. Though he looked thin, the combination of that along with his brightly lit eyes, well-set nose, and thin lips gave off an image of height and intelligence. The mass of hair was swept to the back of his head. A random current of wind caught on his lake-blue tresses and rested them on his waistline, affirming the length of his hair.
His pupils were of a smoky green and the colour matched well with his blue hair, giving off a strange temperament. His face was expressionless, his gaze was icy since he stood quietly by the class five students, they were all under a dome of icy blue soul power negating the effects of the fiery soul power pressure around. Which was why they were the only students that weren't affected.
His icy gaze changed into disbelief.
'That aura and soul power, soul ancestor?'
Suddenly the oppressive soul power pressure disappeared into nothing, the blazing flames around the plaza as well, as if nothing had happened.
But the students on the ground, who we're all unconscious, the other students and teachers being coated in their own sweat, were all evidence that it was all real.
Ye Yingluo panted, out of breath, sweat staining her clothes and made it slightly see through, leaving deep impressions on certain students that were still awake. Those students had blood running down their nose and fainted soon after. She took deep breaths to calm herself from the sudden soul power pressure that caught her entirely out of guard.
Thankfully she had covered her body in soul power at the last moment to dissipate most of the soul power suppression.
Her eyes were filled with fear as she stared at the back of Xiu Ye, he remained standing still and his back against her and the other class one students.
That power... what was that?! That power shouldn't be possible for a nine year old boy! She could only think of high ranked soul ancestors could have that much soul power, and yet it came from the boy.
To her and the others, it was like looking at the back of a demon king. The actions he showed off today imprinted deep impressions they had on him.
It was especially so for Ye Yingluo, she felt like Xiu Ye was a two-faced little bastard! At one moment, he would don an angelic expression that shows anyone that he's innocent and in the next, he becomes the devil.
Xiu Ye pinched the bridge of his nose and let out a deep sigh of frustration at himself for using too much of his strength.
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