At eight o'clock in the morning, a special dark golden floating boat shaped like a whale slowly floated over the square.
The ninth-level Dean Pamir personally appeared for the first time and explained to many students the development history of the Pamir Competition over thousands of years, as well as the rules of this competition.
Pamir's college competition adopts a points system, which is divided into two types: individual points and group points. The points for each mode are calculated separately to judge the students' comprehensive ability.
The competition is conducted in team mode, and the maximum number of people in each team is ten. All members of the winning team will receive the same team points.
On this basis, combat points and logistics points will be subdivided according to the students' specific training schools, and will be distributed to individuals based on their specific contributions.
When the dean finished speaking, everyone applauded enthusiastically.
Then, the hull of the ship glowed brightly, teleporting everyone in the square into the ship. The huge floating ship slowly climbed up and disappeared into the clouds.
The specific location of the meteorite ruins is located in the Magna Province in the southeast of the empire. According to the speed of this special floating ship, it will take about two magic hours to reach it.
On the floating ship, after helping Fiona find her cabin, Avis unexpectedly met Claire.
The pure-blond half-elf stood in front of a porthole, holding the silver window frame with both hands, leaning the center of gravity of his upper body slightly forward, quietly looking out the window, still looking lonely.
The moment he noticed the girl, Anvis' first reaction was to glance out the window.
Fortunately, since this ship now has more than one ninth-level escort, all the flying monsters that wanted to pounce on it have been basically driven away.
Abnormal celestial phenomena, thunderstorm clouds, spatial dislocations, elemental turbulence, etc. near the route were all wiped away by the ninth level on the ship just as they started to appear.
"Hello, Claire—"
After confirming this, Anvis felt relieved again and stepped forward to say hello to the girl.
"Anvis?"
Suddenly hearing a familiar voice, the girl turned her head, her clear eyes like the sea couldn't help but reveal a hint of joy.
"Speaking of which, is this the second time we've ridden a floating vehicle together?"
Walking to Claire's side, Anvis looked out the window at the scenery 10,000 meters high in the sky and spoke in a relaxed tone.
"the second time?"
The half-elf girl tilted her head slightly, her white pointed ears twitching, a little confused.
"Yes, the second time. Senior sister, do you still remember the 'Silver Spotted Flower' airship that was attacked by a swarm of flying monsters during the Freshman Festival last year?"
Looking out the window from a distance, a group of small black dots that were about to approach suddenly changed direction, and Anvis spoke in a gloomy tone.
"Were you also on that airship at that time?"
Hearing Anvis' answer, Claire looked at him in surprise.
"...Wait a minute! Did you send someone to drive away those gray-winged moas?"
Saying that, the girl suddenly reacted.
"Yes, it was my guard who took action at that time."
Looking at the girl's eyes that suddenly changed from doubt to surprise, Anvis smiled happily and answered the girl's question.
Next, Avis and Claire continued to chat casually in front of the window for a while.
Anvis has past life memories, and he also likes to read, and has a very rich knowledge reserve.
Due to her own 'curse' and having grown up in a mage tower, Claire has also read a lot of knowledge about various continents.
The content of the chat between the two covered all over the world, from the prehistoric biomes in the sea of ruins to the eternal night aurora above the Arctic ice sheet.
By the end of the conversation, both of them were surprised by the other's breadth of knowledge, and they felt as if they had met close friends.
It wasn't until the airship was about to arrive at the ruins that Fiona carried Kate out to look for Anvis, and the two people talking came to their senses.
"Let me introduce you, this is Claire, my senior in the mysterious branch."
"This is my sister, Fiona."
"Hello" x2
Anvis introduced the two of them to each other, and the two girls shook hands in the same friendly manner.
"Meow~~"
When shaking hands, Kate also stretched out a fluffy little paw to say hello to the half-elf girl.
"Her name is Kate, and she seems to like you very much."
Noticing the reaction of the blue-gray kitten in her arms, Fiona looked at the half-elf girl curiously.
"……Yeah?"
Claire blinked, and after thinking for a moment, she suddenly stretched out two fingers and shook hands with the kitten.
"Meow~"
Kate screamed cutely again and seemed very happy.
"Senior Claire, when I'm not with Fiona, can you help me take care of her to a certain extent?"
Watching the interaction between the two girls, Anvis suddenly spoke, with a harmless smile on his face.
"Of course there is no problem, but I may not even be able to take care of myself well a lot of the time."
The half-elf girl was stunned for a moment, a little confused, but she still agreed.
"It doesn't matter, senior sister, just do your best."
Hearing Claire's reply, Avis nodded, seemingly happy that the girl could agree.
"Brother, it doesn't have to be like this! I've grown up and can take care of myself!"
At this time, Fiona also spoke, expressing dissatisfaction with Anvis' words.
Glancing at Claire who was at the 'Level 3 Beginner' next to her, she still couldn't help but say that she was about to break through to Level 4, and she was even better than you, brother.
"Yes, Fiona has grown up too."
After being stunned for a moment, Anvis showed a soft smile and nodded to the girl holding the kitten.
"Then, that's it."
At this time, the scenery outside the window suddenly began to fade.
During the conversation between the three, the airship completely arrived at the meteorite ruins.
.….….
To be honest, it feels strange to be in the same boat as so many Pamir students.
Among Pamir's students, there are many children of all kinds of destiny. A large group of heroes and heroines who are growing up are riding on the same boat. If there were not more than one ninth-level people accompanying them to hold them down, there would have been an accident long ago.
For Anvis, whose level of prophet is infinitely close to the advanced level, because he can faintly sense the huge destiny energy on the ship,
It's like an ordinary person sitting on a missile made of gold, a little greedy and a little frightened.
At this time, after many students disembarked, Avis could even faintly feel that the web of fate seemed to be generating weak fluctuations.
But soon, his attention was attracted by the ruins in front of him.
In a huge crater that is nearly a hundred kilometers long, an irregular city ruins with a length of tens of kilometers is inserted obliquely into it.
This is the result of the ninth-order empires trying to reduce the destructive force of the impact as much as possible. Otherwise, this impact would be enough to cause another major tear in the entire continent of Yal.
The ruins remained basically intact due to an unknown force, with one side showing irregular tear-like traces. From the cracks, some internal structures could still be vaguely seen.
Judging from the external architecture, this ruins indeed has a strong Sky City style.