Although he had seen the ruins of this city in a crystal ball, Anvis was still amazed by the majesty and beauty of the ruins when he actually visited the site.
The huge ruined city has a slightly crumbling temperament, lying silently in the huge crater.
The long years have dimmed its former glory, but it has also added the charm and accumulation of time to it.
After disembarking from the ship, many students did not enter the ruins immediately. Instead, the deputy dean first gave some basic information about the ruins.
This is to give many students a basic understanding of the existence and danger of the ruins.
Later, under the personal escort of many high-level professionals, everyone officially entered the ruins and gathered in a small square in front of the city's original magic library.
It seems that due to the impact, a huge female elf stone statue holding a staff that originally stood in the center of the square has fallen, creating a shallow crater on the ground on one side.
At this time, the ninth-level vice-principal [Psychedelic Light] Hughes stepped forward, stood on the shoulders of the statue, and announced the rules of the first competition to many students.
"According to the rules of the Pamir Competition, the first step is to form a team."
"Now, all students below the fourth level come out and touch this crystal ball with your college ID card to get your team number."
As his words fell, a huge crystal ball flashing with faint blue light appeared silently, floating beside Hughes.
Many students stepped forward in an orderly manner, touched the crystal ball with their identity badges, and received a random team number in a flash of blue light.
Looking at this scene, Anvis did not make any move, but Fiona, who was standing next to Anvis, looked a little eager to try.
However, when she was about to step forward to draw the number, Anvis gently pulled her and signaled the girl not to go.
"Brother? Why don't we draw numbers?"
Stunned by Anvis's stop, the girl turned her head in confusion and looked at the boy questioningly with her big blue eyes.
"No... Fei, unlike them, we don't need to participate in random team formation."
Shaking his head slightly, Anvis began to explain the reason to the girl in a low voice.
"No matter which team we draw, it will cause a very serious imbalance.
Therefore, not only us, but all the descendants of the four major families and the royal family do not need to participate in the process of forming a team, but can jump directly to the final decisive battle.
This is an unspoken rule that has been handed down since the eleventh Pamir Academy Competition."
In fact, the descendants of the four major families and the royal family usually do not participate in the Pamir Competition. Instead, they serve as honorary judges, working with other high-level professionals to observe which geniuses have emerged in this year's competition.
And after the first place is determined in the competition, it symbolically meets the challenge of the final winning team.
The reason for this situation is very simple. The overall strength gap between the descendants of the five major families in the empire and other Pamir students is too large.
If the descendants of the four major families and the royal family participate in the competition, then there will be no suspense at all, and the top spot will almost certainly be decided among the descendants of these five families.
With the number of competitions increasing, everyone is tired of this situation where the finals are always a civil war between the five teams.
Therefore, when the eleventh Pamir Competition ended, the descendants of the five families at that time finally agreed with each other not to participate in the lottery to form a team.
Since then, the competition has really shown a situation where a hundred schools of thought are contending. From time to time, some civilian geniuses with extraordinary adventures will appear and perform brilliantly in the competition.
"That's it...I know..."
After listening to the boy's answer, Fiona nodded in confusion.
This was the first time she knew that problems would arise if she was too strong.
While Avis was talking to Fiona, most of the low-level students in front of the statue had already been drawn.
"Are there any students below the fourth level who have not yet drawn a team number?"
After looking around for a week and seeing no one responding, Hughes continued to speak.
"Very good. Now, students of level four and above come here to draw team numbers."
At the same time, the color of the crystal ball flashed and turned into dark red.
After all the students had finished drawing, Hughes waved his hand and the crystal ball disappeared again.
"Next, you have a magic hour to get familiar with your temporary teammates. After a magic hour, this Pamir Competition officially begins.
The first stage is a team competition. All teams randomly select opponents and send five players to each other to compete. The team that loses all five players will lose."
“Each team will receive five thousand initial team points. On this basis, one thousand points will be awarded for a victory and one thousand points will be deducted for a failure.
After five matches, the team with the top 20% final points can successfully advance to the next round of semi-finals."
"During this session, except for space items, it is prohibited to use any magic items brought by students.
Only equipment and props made by team members on the spot can be used, and the total volume of team space items must not exceed ten basic space units..."
After explaining the restrictive rules of the competition, Hughes touched the smooth top of his head and watched all the students quickly gather into teams according to their own numbers.
Soon, a magical hour passed quickly.
Taking out another crystal ball, Hughes put the numbers of all teams into it and began to assign opponents to all teams.
This time, the crystal ball lit up with changing colors, and as countless numbers flashed through it, everyone's first battle list was projected into the air.
Although they were prohibited from using their own magic items, everyone had other cards. At this time, they looked at each other and saw a faint confidence in the eyes of others.
Next, many teams began to head to the battle venue for this stage.
The vast majority of teams below the fourth level will compete in the gladiatorial arena that was once the ruins. Each game can accommodate eight teams to compete at the same time.
At first, because the use of their own equipment was prohibited, many students felt a little uncomfortable and were at a loss.
But after watching the first few battles, some smart students reacted and asked the members of the team responsible for equipment and logistics to copy a large number of magic scrolls that required the shortest production time.
The team members responsible for the battle used these scrolls to successfully gain a certain advantage in the subsequent battle.
Seeing what these teams were doing, other teams were not to be outdone, and began to produce large amounts of magic scrolls and some simple one-time alchemy props to compete with each other.
Teams of level four and above have more choices, but after the team's think tank analyzed the pros and cons, they still decided to go all out to create magic scrolls.
In a very short period of time, the income from producing various types of medium and low-level magic scrolls is higher than that of all other props.
Thus, the first day of competition ended with a duel involving a large number of disposable consumables of various types.