59: Chapter 59: Arriving at Pamir 59: Chapter 59: Arriving at Pamir Listening to her younger brother’s cold and rational analysis, Shirley’s originally flushed face gradually lost its color.

The words of Orbins struck a fact she had instinctively been trying to escape.

The surname of Anvis might very well be Olivendi!

That noble family which reigned high above, ruling over Karlars Province for thousands of years!

The disparity in their identities was as vast as the stars above the sky compared to ants on fallen leaves.

Orbins did not stop speaking due to the girl’s reaction; instead, he delved further, directly revealing the key point Shirley had been desperately avoiding.

“Such a person has been dining with us night after night for several days, even declining others’ invitations for this.

Sister, do you really think he does that without any ulterior motive?”

“But…

but if Anvis has such a background, what could he possibly see in us?”

The girl’s body wavered slightly, her fingers unconsciously twining around her hair, murmuring with an air of being at her wit’s end.

“Now at this moment, are you still choosing to escape, my dear sister?

What exactly can we rely on to have become freshmen at Pamir Academy?”

—A direct hit to the bullseye—

The last layer of paper was torn off, and the girl instinctively took a couple of steps back, her face turning pale.

Then, like a drowning person desperately struggling, trying to grasp a lifeline, the girl began to speak hesitantly.

“That…

might he genuinely just want to be friends with us?”

Orbins hesitated for a moment, wanting to say something but then noticing the pleading in the girl’s eyes.

Eventually, he just sighed softly and did not continue to speak.

How could the Crystal Birds soaring in the boundless sky ever pause for a sparrow on the branches?

This is simply the principle of ‘like attracts like’.

……

“Five days should be sufficient to leave an initial impression.”

“Given Shirley’s temperament, she might not suspect anything, but it’s not certain with Orbins.

Perhaps, he is already suspecting my motives…”

In the room, Anvis tapped his fingers lightly on a silvery-white table surface, his face revealing a mysterious smile as he murmured to himself.

“After all, how could a commoner with enough talent to enter Pamir Academy not have encountered a stroke of providence?

And once one experiences such fortune, one will instinctively become cautious before fully maturing.”

“So next, is the second step of the plan…

However, speaking of which, there didn’t seem to be any news about Shirley in my past life, what exactly happened to her I wonder?”

“According to the information from my family in a previous life, after Orbins grew up, he personally and very rarely took action and utterly annihilated a mid-sized family at the bloodline level, there must be some connection there…”

Meanwhile, a pigeon perched on a desk nearby, looking oddly at Anvis as he talked to himself.

“Are you talking to me, coo?”

“No, my dear pigeon, I am merely talking to myself.”

Anvis glanced at the pigeon, clueless of the situation, and explained with a smile.

Since no one else could see it, Anvis was happy to chat with it from time to time.

“Coo?”

The pigeon tilted its head in confusion, its bright red eyes blinked.

“That’s a strange habit, coo.”

“Strange, isn’t it?”

Anvis smiled faintly, extending a finger to stroked the pigeon’s pristine and lustrous feathers.

It was as if he was explaining to the pigeon, yet it seemed he was also simply expressing his feelings.

“Humans, are indeed a peculiar species—”

……

The next day, at dawn, 6:23 AM.

The Floating Ship began to slow down and eventually came to a complete halt in the skies, ten thousand meters above ground.

At that moment, the sun Seya had already risen from the horizon, its golden-red radiance igniting the distant horizon and casting a brilliant golden sheen over the silver behemoth.

“Have we arrived?

Pamir Academy?”

Standing before the ship’s metallic transparent porthole, Anvis stood with hands clasped behind his back, overlooking the scenery outside.

From the surface, the Floating Ship appeared to hover over a desolate, uninhabited land.

Below was nothing but an endless expanse of verdant primeval forest and a stretch of ancient red-brown rock mountain ranges extending into the distance.

The environment was bleak, so much so that not even a single bird in flight could be seen.

But Anvis was well aware that all of this was merely a facade.

As an academy personally established under the supervision of the Great Emperor Gloria, the entire Pamir Academy was shrouded in a massive Mystery Lock of Radiance.

The Ninth Rank Limit Mage who set up this Mystery Lock had to fully burn out the souls of two true Ninth Rank Professionals as the cost to successfully establish it.

Professionals below the Seventh Rank, not recognized by the Mystery Lock, would be unable to peer through the lock from the outside to see the academy’s actual location.

Even if they inadvertently entered the range of the Mystery Lock during their exploration, they would be disturbed by its mental influence and end up mysteriously circling back to where they started.

During the Floating Ship’s descent, all new students were ordered to stay inside their own cabins.

When the altitude dropped to a certain level, the air around the ship undulated without warning.

In a large circular area below, the environment abruptly changed.

The verdant primeval forest vanished like a bubble, replaced by a magnificent city standing amidst the forest—

Yes, a city!

That was Anvis’s first impression of Pamir Academy.

Majestic and elegant ancient edifices stood orderly among the trees, their ivory white walls having naturally yellowed over the span of thousands of years.

Lush vines climbed the weathered walls, and figures clad in academy cloaks flew back and forth between the beautiful and mysterious towers.

On the meticulously manicured magic power lawns, students gathered in groups, exchanging and debating their insights, occasionally performing changing hand gestures and unleashing spells of various-colored magic glows.

The scenery was utterly magical and tranquil, filled with a rich atmosphere of learning.

Pamir Academy adopted a system of segregated colleges, comprising dozens of separate institutions including Pamir Knight College, Pamir Transformation College, Pamir War College, and Pamir Queen College.

Each different profession and magic school had its own independent college.

The new students were to enter the college that corresponded to the discipline they had chosen.

Depending on the characteristics of each school, the architecture of the various colleges differed.

However, what they had in common was that aside from some schools that rose later on, the majority of the college buildings maintained the ancient style from the Gloria period.

Shortly thereafter, the Floating Ship gently descended and docked at the specially designed aerial ship dock.

Under the guidance of the Academy Mages, the new students disembarked in an orderly fashion, looking for the reception points of their respective colleges.

Once everyone had assembled, they followed the college guides together, heading to their respective colleges.

Goo——→recommendation ticket