The Legend of the Dragon King - Chapter 288

Chapter 288

Chapter 288 – The Status of a Working Student

Since the main school building was so enormous, Tang Wulin thought that their dormitory would be as well . Reality, however, begged to differ .

Shen Yi brought them to a building in a forest west of Spirit Ice Plaza .

“This is the dormitory for working students,” she told them “Go find the room corresponding to the number on your key . Classes will start for you tomorrow . In the meantime, you can complete the job you were just assigned . I’ll be leaving now . ”

Shen Yi left while Tang Wulin and the others were in the middle of exchanging looks of dismay .

All of them thought the same thing .

Isn’t this building a bit too crude? It’s basically a slum compared to the school building!

The building only had one floor and was extremely run-down . It sat in the middle of the forest, but it was now clear that this was done to hide the building and save face for the academy .

It was a truly unsettling place .

There seemed to be about twenty or so rooms in the mottled building . Some of the rooms didn’t even have windows . They had long since broken, the wood around them completely rotten .

Checking the numbers on their keys, they soon discovered that they had only been given a single room .

This room had no walls to separate the boys from the girls . It was about thirty square meters in area . Although it wasn’t small, there were only two metal-frames of bunk beds in the room . Other than that, it was completely bare .

A thick layer of dust covered the floor and two of the windows were broken . A single string dangled from the light bulb in the ceiling . Considering the state of the room, determining whether that bulb was a useless ornament or a functional light source was a coin toss .

“This… isn’t this just too cruel? Are we sure we’re currently in Shrek Academy and not a slum?” Xie Xie was dumbstruck . Compared to their dormitory at Eastsea Academy, the difference was like heaven and earth! No basic necessities were provided, not even a mattress .

“Quit complaining . If you have spare time, spend it tidying up instead,” Tang Wulin said . Since they were here now, they might as well make the best of things . He knew that working students wouldn’t have it as good as normal students, but he was still shocked at the conditions of their dormitory .

“Captain, how are all of us supposed to live in just a single room? Men and women shouldn’t be in the same room,” Xu Xiaoyan said with a hint of worry .

Xie Xie laughed . “How old do you think you are? You haven’t even kissed anyone yet . ”

“Hmph!” Xu Xiaoyan looked to Gu Yue for support, but Gu Yue only had eyes for Tang Wulin .

Tang Wulin stood rooted in place, his face pensive . “Since we’ve been assigned to this room, all we can do is make the most of it . Let’s get our basic necessities in order first . We can start by cleaning this place up and getting something to cover the broken windows . We can then use some curtains to separate the room in halves, one side for the boys and the other for the girls . Yeah, let’s start with that and improve things as we go . ”

“Alright,” Gu Yue said .

It was clear how much Tang Wulin’s teammates trusted him . Everyone immediately leaped into action . As soul masters, it wouldn’t take them long to clean up .

As they tidied the place, they began to understand the pain of being a working student .

Their only source of clean water was a single faucet meant for the entire dormitory . It didn’t even provide any hot water . They had to go to the school building to get hot water and bath .

Aside from that… well, they didn’t have anything else . There were no other facilities at the dormitory for working students . The dining hall could be found in the main school building, so they had to cross the enormous plaza each visit .

With the four of them working together, the room was soon neat and tidy . They even found a cloth to cover up the windows . As for curtains to separate the room with, they would buy them in the evening .

“Let’s go clean the plaza now . ”

Since they were working students, they still had to complete their job .

Spirit Ice Plaza was truly enormous . They had to start sweeping early in the morning if they wanted to finish by the evening of the same day .

When they went get some water to clean with, they discovered that someone was already using the faucet . That someone was a frail-looking boy . He had a towel draped over his shoulder as he collected water in a bucket .

Upon seeing this boy, astonishment filled Tang Wulin and the others .

Xie Xie gulped . He was particularly taken aback because he knew the boy more intimately than the others .

This boy was student number two, the one who had beaten Xie Xie in the entrance exam with explosive power . He was a mighty power-type soul master and the greatest three-ringed soul master that they had encountered thus far . Even Gu Yue’s chances of defeating him were slim . His martial soul was simply too powerful and overwhelming .

Carrying a bucket, Tang Wulin walked over to the other student’s side and flashed a radiant smile .

“Hi!” he said . “We meet again . I’m Tang Wulin . ”

The youth gave him an apathetic look, and only acknowledging him with a slight nod .

His bucket was nearly full, so he picked it up, nodded to Tang Wulin once more, and left .

Four sets of eyes followed him until he was out of sight .

Xie Xie looked at his companions in shock . “That guy’s a working student too? He’s so amazing… yet he’s a working student? I thought he was an inner court student!”

Tang Wulin contemplated this realization .

“Do you guys remember what the administrator said before we left?” he asked . “He told us not to bring shame to the working students . I think there’s some secret about working students that we don’t know about . Well, we can think about it after finishing our task . ”

“The administrator didn’t say we couldn’t use our martial souls to clean, right?” Gu Yue interjected .

Tang Wulin shook his head . “He didn’t . I don’t think it would be possible without the use of martial souls anyway . ”

“Then we don’t need to bring water . I’ll be enough . ” A faint smile appeared on Gu Yue’s lips, her eyes shining .

“Hm?” Tang Wulin’s eyes lit up in understanding, and he grinned . “Alright!”

Gu Yue turned and began marching toward Spirit Ice Plaza, her three companions in tow . Xie Xie and Xu Xiaoyan bubbled with excitement as they also understood her intentions .

Gu Yue stopped beside the plaza . She took a deep breath, narrowed her eyes, then summoned her three soul rings .

Her first soul ring lit up as she activated Elemental Tide .

She held her hands up in the air, gathering specks of green light in her palms . Blue light soon followed until the two equally-sized lights swirled in her palms .

She exuded an aura of serenity as she manipulated the two elements . She moved much slower than she would if she were in combat .

However, Tang Wulin could sense how stable the elements she gathered had become . They were far stabler than usual .

Moreover, she was currently only using her first soul skill .

The green and blue lights grew ever brighter as they spiraled within her hands, transforming into a tiny whirlpool . It rotated faster and faster until the two elements completely mixed .

Gu Yue’s second soul ring lit up and the elements poured into the whirlpool faster than before . With both Elemental Control’s amplification and her spiritual power in the Spirit Sea realm, the whirlpool of elements soon grew two meters tall and didn’t stop there .

Her third soul ring then lit up and she activated Elemental Fusion . The two elements completely fused into one . Armed with her mighty spiritual power, she had absolute control over the swirling elements . She was one of a handful of people who possessed three soul rings and had reached the Spirit Sea realm .