While the others were still puzzled by Shadow of Void's action, new words appeared on the screen.
"Rising Star Competition, 99th place, Galaxy Wanderer."
After this row of words appeared, just like the situation with the Shadow of the Void, a ripple appeared in the center of the screen, and a new card appeared on the screen. Carried by the wind, the card landed on the body of a man wearing a starry sky robe.
People whispered to each other and soon figured out the man's identity.
It was Galaxy Wanderer himself.
After he got the card, he was also stunned for a while. In the end, he didn't wait for others to see what he was doing. He directly rushed out of the border of the square and ran in the direction of the mountain peak.
Seeing this scene, everyone was puzzled.
Could it be that the function of the card was actually to open the boundary of the square, and finally guide people to the peak of the mountain?
Because neither the Shadow of the Void nor the Galaxy of Stars had revealed the truth, everyone could only speculate in their hearts.
Nausica was also thinking. But soon, she forgot about her worries. Another row of words appeared on the screen.
"Rising Star Competition, 98th place, Blackberry King!"
Blackberry, which meant Blackberry Waters. Blackberry King, on the other hand, was the one who conquered Blackberry Waters.
The only one qualified to be called the "Blackberry King" was the great pirate who once roamed the Blackberry Waters — Nausica.
Just like before, a new card appeared on the screen. Then, the new card was blown away by the wind and floated toward Nausica.
Nausica had a lot of guesses and conjectures before she got her hands on the card. But when the card was in her hand, she realized that the answer was quite simple.
The card was thin and had a strange symbol on it. Next to the symbol was Nausica's name.
Clearly, the card was not blown away by the wind. It had been locked onto Nausica since the beginning.
As she held the card in her hand, a strange feeling rose from the depths of her heart.
It was as if someone was calling her from afar. "Come to me."
The calling was gentle and soothing. It felt like "fate" and "guidance". Nausica looked up and saw where the feeling came from.
It was the same path that Void Shadow and Galaxy Wanderer had taken.
Nausica hesitated for a moment and decided to follow the call.
When Nausica made the decision and answered the call with her actions, she felt a sense of joy. She couldn't help but speed up until she broke through the boundary of the plaza and flew toward the mountain peak.
Nausica wasn't the only one. Cards kept appearing on the screen. Every two seconds, a card would land on the ground.
Carried by the cold wind, the cards seemed to be random, but they all eventually fell into the hands of the card's true owner.
Just like Nausica, each contestant followed the guidance of their hearts and walked out of the plaza.
For a moment, the path leading to the mountain peak was filled with people.
Nausica was one of the first to climb the mountain. She thought the final destination would be the top of the mountain. However, when she followed the guidance in her heart and arrived at the Promised Land that had been calling her, she realized that it wasn't the palace at the peak of the mountain, but —
A tall stone pillar on the side of the path.
These stone pillars were scattered all over the path and extended all the way to the mountain peak. Nausica was standing under one of them.
"Do I have to climb up?" Nausica hesitated and looked at the others.
Two people were already standing on two stone pillars near her. They were none other than Void Shadow and Galaxy Roaming. One of them was looking at the palace in the distance, while the other was sitting on a stone pillar with his legs crossed, seemingly thinking about something.
They didn't do anything else. Perhaps the top of the pillar was where they would end up in the match.
Nausica looked along the path and saw stone pillars standing on both sides of the path every once in a while. She made a mental calculation and found that there were about a hundred pillars between here and the palace on the mountain peak. This number corresponded to the number of contestants in the match.
In other words, there would be one person standing on each pillar? The higher the rank, the closer to the palace?
Nausica believed this was the answer.
She sighed in her mind. She was only ranked 98th, so she was at the bottom of the list. If she could win a few more matches, she might be able to get to the top … What a pity.
Nausica shook her head and followed her heart's guidance to climb up the pillar.
Once she stood on the pillar, the guidance disappeared.
Nausica tried moving away from the pillar and found no problem. But as soon as she tried to move forward, a powerful aura pressed down on her and forced her to step back.
Sure enough, as she had guessed, this stone pillar was her final resting place in the Rising Star Competition.
More and more people came. They weren't idiots. Like Nausica, they all knew what would happen when they were guided to the pillars.
After each contestant found the stone pillar they were on, they stayed on top of it. Perhaps some people would be jealous of the ownership of the stone pillars closer to the summit, but jealousy was jealousy. They also knew that the other party had a higher ranking than them. They had earned it in the Rising Star Competition, so they probably deserved it.
At first, people were a little uncomfortable with the way they were categorized into ranks, but in the end, everyone still accepted this setting.
The wizarding world wasn't a utopia where everyone was equal. Even a utopia wouldn't allow people to have no classes.
In a world where strength was everything, such a classification was perfectly normal.
Nausica was at the bottom of the list. She was a little surprised at first, but she soon accepted it. She only joined the wizarding world a few years ago. It was already good enough for her to stand here. Many people who trained for decades couldn't even make it into the top 100. She achieved her goal this time, and that was enough for her.
When Nausica thought about this, she couldn't help but think about Angor.
"That freak Angor doesn't count." Nausica shook her head without hesitation and cast Angor's image out of her mind.
When the pillars that stretched all the way to the top of the mountain were filled with people of all shapes and sizes, they finally realized that there were only 90 pillars in total.
In other words, there were still ten people who didn't climb up.
Seeing this, everyone turned their attention back to the square.
As expected, there were still ten people on the square. They didn't do anything. They were the top ten contestants in the match, led by Onassis.
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