Emilia South, the Dean of the Star Academy. She was the arguably the strongest expert in the entire city. She looked at each of the people who were standing there in interest. She had never seen anyone till now and was looking at them like she has found interesting new things.
Xavier felt that when she was looking at them, her vision stopped on him for a moment and her eyes flashed. She finished looking at all of them and nodded.
"Now that all of us have gathered here, I'll tell you why I'm personally coming here to tell you about the tournament."
"You all know that every 3 years, there is a intercity tournament and every 5 years, there will be a inter County tournament and finally every 10 years, they will be a Sector tournament."
Everyone, except Xavier nodded. Xavier was a little surprised. He didn't know that there were such tournaments. Well it was not like he was there for a long time in his new life.
"Well this time, for the first time in 7500 years the tournaments have been held, due to some unforeseen circumstances, you'll be directly sent to the Sector to participate in the sector wise tournament there. There will not be the other 2 competitions this time."
When they heard this, everyone asked their surprise. Even all the Vice Deans showed glowing eyes. Most probably, they had also heard about this just now and we quite surprised.
Well almost all the Vice Deans were surprised. Except Reginald Wade. He was not the least bit surprised. It was like he has already recieved information about this.
Even the group from the Snow family did not show any emotions. It seemed like all those who came from the prominent families had all recieved information about them.
"Due to this, the format of the tournament had changed. They will not conduct a preliminary tournament like they usually do but rather, they will conduct of according to the age and cultivation of each indivisual which means all of you will have a chance to participate in this."
She paused for a moment and continued," And that is why you guys, who are freshmen have been selected. You will represent the South Star City Branch of the Star Academy in this tournament and I hope that you can bring some form of achievement to the City."
She looked at the group hopefully but while she said this, her eyes flashed with a sad look. While others may not notice this, Xavier did. As soon as he saw this, he felt his heart going cold.
'System, what is happening?'
[It's the effect of the Scales of Libra host. Due to host drawing Karmic Luck from the targets of the skill 'Friendly Fire' host has developed increased sensitivity to misfortune and fortune.]
'So your saying that this harrowing from that in having us due to some misfortune event which is going to occur and it is related to this tournament.?'
[The system cannot say that host. You have to figure out your skills by yourself.]
'Hmm, that makes sense.' Xavier nodded.
Emilia continued," Now I'll introduce your contemporaries. The students who have gathered here are all freshmen, so you'll be going together for the tournament."
"From the combat department, the two of them are Johnathan and Isaac who are both the best in the class and have a cultivation of 8th level foundation stage."
Xavier looked at the 2 youths who were introduced. He already knew their cultivation levels and nodded. It was good that they had such a level at their ages but it was only in the view of a city like South Star City, which was one of the worst cities on the planet. When compared to the Sector capital, they were very far behind.
"From the mechanical department, we have Xavier and Julia, they both are 1 star mechanics and will be representing the department."
Both Xavier and Julia looked at the others and smiled. Only the girl in the Concocters team smiled back but the other three looked at Xavier and Julia in disdain.
Emilia also looked at Xavier and Julia and a disappointed light flashes through her. She had been trying to develop the mechanical department for the 5 years she was the Dean here but due to various constrains as well as the last of interest from the staff itself has let her down. She now understood why this city was so backward in this field
Emilia continued talking," The representatives in the Concocters department are Randle and Felicia. They are Rank 1 mid level concocter and Rank 1 high level concocter respectively."
While she said that, she looked at Xavier and smiled lightly," And the third one for repainting the concocters department is Xavier Argent."
Everyone was surprised. Especially the students. They looked at the last boy who was with them and it was Xavier, and they were confused. They looked at Emilia.
One of the students, Randoe from the Concocter hall asked," Miss Dean, isn't Xavier a mechanic, why is he going to represent the concocters? Did he even have the qualifications?"
Emilia smiled and looked at the Vice Dean Of the Concocters'department. The lady Vice Dean smiled and said," Xavier is a grade 1 high level concocter already and is close to becoming a grade 2. So, if he doesn't have qualification to represent our academy, I'm afraid nobody does."
When the crowd heard the Vice Dean's statement, everybody was shocked.
'This is fucked up!' This was the thought of all the students who listened to this. They had initially given Xavier looked of disdain but now they seemed to want to just turn time back and smile wide at them when they were introduced.
"Now for the last group. They are from the Snow Clan. They are specially invited to be your trainers for the tournament. This tournament will not only test auxiliary stuff but also combat prowess of all the participants to catch any of those who were missed during the screening and also to weed out those without any potential. So the academy has hired these 3 from the Snow Clan to help you train. "
She paused, looked at everyone for a moment and continued, "You have 3 months till the tournament starts and 1 month to you train. The travel from the city to the sector capital will take at least 10 days and the rest of the days will be used to familiarise yourself with the capital and do some things there. After all, this is a one in a lifetime opportunity."
"Now, everyone's dismissed. Go to the Snow Clan with those 3 and they will train you for 1 month."
She was about to turn around but stored and called out," And, Xavier Argent, you stay back. I need to talk with you about some things."