Unlike Meldor, she had not been subjected to the brunt of Fred’s aura. However, memories of how Meldor and the white-robed man paled at Fred’s mere glance were still fresh in her mind. Despite the solemn expression, Rita still nodded earnestly and slowly made her way over to Fred.Fred gave her a slight nod of acknowledgment before turning to Meldor. “You’ve helped me quite a bit these days, so come along. And you two can watch out for each other as well.”“Me too?!” Meldor felt both terrified and overjoyed.Terrified, because he was still traumatized by Fred’s overwhelming and crushing presence. He honestly did not want to be subjected to that again. At the same time, he was also overjoyed by the opportunity. As a warlord, Meldor knew that staying beside Fred and being subjected to steady pressure long-term was extremely beneficial for training and future battles. Not only would it help fortify his warlord’s will, but the best results were mostly achieved under just the right

'All I’ve felt here is how weak I am, compared to Fred, who’s practically a god, and Meldor who’s stronger than I am! With this trial combat, I can finally show off and feel strong for once!' Rita thought.She rolled her sleeves up and marched behind Fred, like she was preparing herself for a great fight.Meldor shook his head at her excitement, already pitying the other students at the trial combat that she would be fighting against. After all, Meldor knew that even the other teachers in the academy were just rank 2 or rank 3 warlords. The so-called “powerful” students of the academy were about as strong as rank 4 warlords.Putting into context what he told Fred earlier, Rita could easily hold herself against the teachers and completely annihilate the students.…Less than 20 minutes later, Fred arrived at the arena where Warlord Academy would be hosting their trial combat.Fred was the last teacher to arrive, and there had been rumors of him being the weakest teacher in the a

Conner Stone, a disciple of the Four Icons Sect and Meldor’s martial brother, smiled immediately. “Mhmm, that's my student Sullivan. Haha, I have to say, Sullivan truly is my most talented student! It’s only been four months and he’s already one of the strongest ones in Area B. I’m sure that in less than three years, he’ll become a rank 1 warlord.”Everyone began to congratulate Conner, seeing as most of them needed at least five years before they were qualified enough to be given a ranking. According to Conner, Sullivan only needed three.“Then you must be confident that he'll win, Mr. Stone,” said another teacher.　Conner chuckled. “I wouldn’t guarantee, not when there are always stronger people, but… Compared to a certain someone who has their head too far up their ass to see reality, it won’t be much of a fight for Sullivan.”All the other teachers turned to look at Fred mockingly. There was no doubt that Conner was talking about Fred.‘Won’t be much of a fight, huh?’ Fred tho

Of course, given Rita's proud and arrogant nature, she would not breathe a word about this to Fred at all. After glaring at Sullivan, she turned to Fred with a smile and said, "What do you think? The other teachers must have definitely been so surprised that their eyes almost popped out, right?""Pretty much," Fred replied with a smile.Rita asked again, "So, who's my next opponent?""Does it matter?" Fred countered.When Rita heard this, she was momentarily taken aback. She then laughed after that and replied, "Not really, no. Whoever they are, I’ll just knock them out.”With that, she and Fred exchanged a smile before they returned to their respective positions. Soon enough, the commotion caused by the first match died down. None of the teachers present bought Conner’s claims about Fred’s student using seduction tactics and sneak attacks. Instead, they mostly thought that Rita's victory had been largely due to Sullivan's carelessness.After all, it appeared that Sullivan had

Crystal finally heaved a sigh of relief after Massimo left.After exchanging a few words with Rita, she then made her way to Fred and said somewhat worriedly, "Master Hoffman, judging from the way Massimo looked, it doesn't seem like he's going to just let you off the hook easily." Anyone could tell just now that Massimo truly had murderous intent toward Rita. Massimo would have given in to his rage and struck Rita down if not for Crystal shielding her and reminding Massimo that he was presently at the Warlord Academy!Of course, Crystal was not actually worried about Rita's safety even if Massimo had actually struck. Since Fred was Rita's teacher, it would be impossible for Massimo to actually be able to kill Rita in front of Fred even if he did try. Instead, what actually worried her was that his action might piss off Fred, who was a living legend. She dared not imagine the consequences if that were to happen.So, whatever she said earlier could be regarded as a preventive mea