After visiting Mira's dorm and waking her up, the duo quickly made their way over to the Capital building.
With their speed, it would only take them a few minutes to reach it.
"What do you think Professor Will wants with us?" Mira asked Alex out of curiosity.
She barely had any time to even properly dress herself, only putting on some casual clothes like Alex before she was literally dragged out of her dorm, still half asleep by him.
Though, she quickly gained energy when she felt the refreshing wind press against her face as she ran through the streets.
"I have no clue, but he sounded pretty serious when he asked to meet." Alex replied, just as clueless as Mira.
Mira looked a little worried at this, but Alex quickly reassured her.
"We haven't done anything wrong, so he can't have called us to reprimand us or anything like that. The most likely case is that he's called us to inform us about something. Maybe it's just something to do with the elite class, or something like that."
Once his words reached Mira's ears, she became as calm as Alex and only felt a strong sense of interest around why Professor Will would drag the two of them out of their beds so early in the morning to meet in one of the most important buildings in the whole federation.
Ding!
While the two were running, Alex's communicator rang out with a notification.
Normally, it wouldn't make any audible noises when he was notified of anything, but Alex had set it so that it would do so if he received any important messages, and he had designated anything Professor Will sends as important.
As expected, it was a message from him.
'Floor 512, hall 2.'
"It's just some instructions telling us where to go when we get there."
Alex replied to Mira, who looked at him with anticipation, only for it to be flushed out as the message was just an ordinary message.
After a short three minute run, the two had reached the central area of the city and soon enough made it to the front doors of the Capital building.
"Wow..."
Everywhere they looked, there were droves of people coming and going from the building.
If they were to count, there were at least 10,000 people walking back and forth in the courtyard alone.
"If this is how busy this place is in the early morning, I wouldn't want to be here in the peak hours..." Alex commented, receiving a chuckle from Mira.
"Let's go in."
Mira said.
Everywhere they looked, they could see lush greenery adorning the walls, ceiling and even a few trees here and there.
This was completely out of Alex's expectations when he first walked into this place, as he thought it would just be a bunch of boring offices.
Instead, he was greeted by basically a miniature ecosystem.
Even Mira was brought out of her bad mood at the sight, her eyes glistening as she looked around at the beautiful scenery.
All of this, couldn't compare to the sight on the other side of the floor to ceiling window though.
At over 2.5 kilometres in the sky, they could see the whole city, and even further beyond that.
'This place is breathtaking!'
Alex was jealous of the people who had the privilege of coming to work in this place every day.
He would have given anything to have a life like this back when he was a simple miner.
Of course, his priorities in life had changed drastically from that point now.
"We should get going." Alex spoke, waking up from the shock of seeing this place for the first time.
Mira gave a simple nod in agreement.
The couple made their way over to a large door, marked 'Hall 2', just like what Professor Will specified in his message, and they entered.
"It's good to see you two in the flesh again."
When they entered, aside from Professor Will, who stood alone in the centre of the room, the whole place was empty except for an odd looking piece of futuristic tech on the floor.
"You two must be wondering why I called you out of the blue to come and meet me in this place."
Alex and Mira both nodded. They were thinking exactly that.
"Well, I think you two have gotten acclimated to university life well enough now. So about that reward I promised you two for achieving first place in the entrance test?"
'So that's it! I completely forgot about that reward!'
Both of their faces lit up when they heard Professor Will's words, as they were reminded of what the reward was.
A Variant class beast core!
'Oh shit! that reminds me, I forgot about the Variant class beast core and soul orb I got from the summoned beast as well!'
A wave of emotions hit Alex and Mira all at once.