Chapter 74: Arrival On Zen Utopia
Light flooded in as he stepped out of the spacecraft to see a flood of colours. The sky was covered in rainbow clouds that looked like cotton candy, the air smelled cleaner than it did on his home planet or on the spacecraft, there were hundreds of skyscrapers across the massive city, that was the capital of the planet.
And many signboards that beamed brightly the most eccentric one was a massive signboard with the words "WELCOME TO ZEN UTOPIA" written in gold. In the sky were flying space cars hovering a few hundred meters from the surface of the planet, they followed an ordered line in the sky. When Alto looked closer he could see a glass like road in the sky that criss-crossed across the city, leading across the city sky.
It was unlike anything he had seen in his life, the city was bustling with life and people in every corner. There were activities everywhere he looked and a over that was the huge holographic screen-like version of a banner that featured the competition.
It carried the image of a silver mech and on top the name. "ZEN UTOPIA INTERSTELLAR CUP", underneath it were the images of six young adults, on the left were three figures who were aspiring mech pilots that would be the future generation of mech pilots and in the right were the three supposed who would be the future of mech designers. Apparently they had all graduated at the top of their class in the Zen Utopia University that bred the greatest of minds in their world.
If they were entering the competitin Alto knew there would be more from the school too, and if they grew up on the planet it meant that they were well versed in the their fields and able to predict what they might have to face in the competition.
"Why are there mech pilots on the banner too?" Alto asked.
Eleven gave him a cold stare and said. "Did you really think the mech designer section was the main event of the show? No one wants to sit down and watch mech designers build a mech for hours or watch them solve equations, but everyone wants to see mechs battle each other. This competition will feature both sides, the mech designers shine by designing great models which will be piloted by potential mech pilot candidates. It’s opens up and revenue for young geniuses of both field to be discovered and offered contracts by big organizations."
Alto felt even more excited, the anxiety of earlier washing over him over the thought of competiting on suc a grand stage. "I never once thought I would compete in a world stage."
Eleven ruffled his hair and continued forward. "Calm down, you haven’t even passed the qualifiers yet. There’s still a few days till the competitin starts, best we get you signed in now." Eleven led the way forward, thought a huge crowd in front of them.