"How did she manage that?" Qin Mo murmured.
"What do you mean by her suddenly bringing up Lance’s brother?"
"It’s definitely not as simple as she says."
Su Ye pointed to himself, then to Lin Fu in the distance, and to Nolan who was frolicking with others, and finally rested on Qin Mo, "Four of the Seven Guardian Families are already here, only Stuart, Grihuade, Mesfield, and Xia Family are missing."
"Mervin and Celia couldn’t attend the freshmen competition due to an assassination attempt. What about Lance’s brother? Since he is a freshman at the Royal Starship Academy this year, he surely wouldn’t miss the competition."
Without turning his head, Qin Mo gestured behind him, instructing someone to check.
"Could someone from the Xia Family also be here?"
"All core members of the Seven Guardian Families gathered? Such a gathering hasn’t happened for many years!"
Qin Mo didn’t believe a punctuation of his statement.
"If I had known, I should have visited my cousin a few days ago." Su Ye expressed his regret.
"This year is really lively!" Qin Mo said meaningfully, "I was looking forward to competing against Mervin again, but it’s such a pity that he was assassinated."
"But Lin Fu reminded me," a thoughtful look flashed in Su Ye’s eyes, "there might be something here that we don’t yet know about."
After their conversation, they didn’t delay any longer and left the cafeteria first to contact their families separately.
The competition continued, this was the final heavyweight match using the Simulation Chamber—gunnery. Interstellar era gunnery was different from that of the Ancient Earth Era, with a wide variety of weapons types used in star battles, not just anyone could handle them.
Only those with relevant expertise could.
Especially, a gunnery officer aboard a starship could almost decide the victory of a battle, accuracy was not determined by the Commander, but by the gunnery officer.
Any qualified Commander would want to have an Artillery Master on their team.
Inside the venue, everyone together watched a thrilling encounter of gunnery, and finally, the first place was taken by Saint Desa Artillery Academy, a military school specializing in training Artillery Masters; artillery was their major, and countless Artillery Masters had graduated from there.
Young people in the Galaxy Empire interested in gunnery always chose this military school as their first option.
So, it was not surprising at all that they won first place.
Elbert only made it into the top ten, and other military academies from the Seven Guardian Star Systems secured a few of the remaining top scores. Fortunately, the Royal Starship Academy and the First Military Command College also didn’t fare well, so Elbert’s rank didn’t drop.
He was still ranked second overall.
But Archer, who secured the first place in artillery, felt very guilty and apologized to everyone in a very dismayed tone, after returning to the hotel following the competition.
All other specialties had achieved good results, only their field of artillery hadn’t, which made all students in that specialty feel ashamed.
The next day, the remaining students directly returned to their schools.
Only the land combat soldiers and the first of every other type remained behind, participating in the upcoming group battles.
At the press conference—
It was still the same newsroom as the start, even the seats for representatives of each military school hadn’t changed, the event spokesperson was handling questions from journalists, most of which questioned why the most important land combat soldiers and group events were scheduled to be held on Helheim Star.