Paimon stood on the cliff of Windrise, looking down at the marked spot at the bottom, and asked:
"Amber, as long as I fly down and land smoothly inside that circle, that counts as completing the first stage of the test, right?"
"Yes. Are you ready, Paimon?" Amber asked.
"Ready." Paimon nodded.
"Then everyone in position—three, two, one, start!"
With Amber's command, Paimon leapt straight off the cliff.
Su Yuan and Aether stared at Amber nervously…
Under normal circumstances, this part of the test should be child's play for Paimon, as long as Amber didn't interfere with her.
But to their surprise, Amber didn't make any strange moves at all.
She simply stood there, watching Paimon complete this stage of the test…
"Congratulations, Paimon, you've successfully passed the precision landing test!" Amber said with a smile.
"Well then, let's not waste any time and move on to the next part of the exam…"
In the following moments, Paimon followed Amber's lead and managed to complete every part of the gliding license test with ease, successfully obtaining a Wind Glider license—despite the fact that she didn't even have a Wind Glider…
Su Yuan and Aether exchanged glances.
This all seemed a little too smooth.
Amber hadn't shown any signs of being corrupted at all.
Could it be that she was never tainted in the first place?
"Although there are still many strange things, at the very least, we can basically rule Amber out as a suspect now…" Aether said thoughtfully.
"Yeah… could it be that my intel was wrong?" Su Yuan muttered in puzzlement.
"If Amber really had been corrupted, then according to the intel, she should've tried everything to stop the exam from being completed, right?"
"Forget it, no point overthinking." Su Yuan said.
"Since Amber's no longer a threat, let's stick to our original plan—you go check on Albedo, and I'll continue learning about the gliding license from Amber."
After that, Su Yuan and Aether split up again, each heading off to carry out their planned tasks.
"Amber, the real reason we had Paimon take the gliding license exam earlier… was because we suspected you might have been corrupted by the Eerie force…" Su Yuan confessed to Amber as they continued along the path toward Windrise.
"I was corrupted by the Eerie force?" Amber looked puzzled.
"Yes. The cause of your corruption was most likely tied to someone failing the gliding license exam three times in a row," Su Yuan explained.
"And the condition for dispelling that corruption was probably to complete the exam despite the interference of your Eerie self."
"Oh, I see now. So that's why you had Paimon take my exam!" Amber said with sudden realization.
"Since Paimon can already fly, she wouldn't be in any real danger even if something went wrong."
"Exactly. Now that your suspicion has been cleared, I can finally relax and focus on learning the Wind Glider and taking the license exam myself." Su Yuan smiled.
"To be honest, I've been eyeing the Wind Glider for a long time—it really is such a handy thing!"
With Amber's help, everything proceeded smoothly.
She fitted Su Yuan with a Wind Glider, and he quickly learned how to open and close it.
"Su Yuan, you're a genius just like the Traveler. I'm sure you won't even need any complicated training—you'll be able to pass the gliding exam directly!" Amber said with full confidence.
"Good luck, Su Yuan, I believe in you!"
Su Yuan nodded.
In truth, controlling the Wind Glider was much easier than driving back in his old world.
All he needed to do was open or close it and keep his balance.
So, after taking a deep breath, Su Yuan fixed his eyes on the marked landing spot below the cliff and leapt!
"Unfurl—the Wind Glider!!!"
He muttered the dramatic line in his heart—but the next moment, he realized something was terribly wrong…
Why was he still falling so fast? Why wouldn't the Wind Glider open??
Could it be… that Amber had deceived them all?
That she was still under the Eerie's force after all?
But wait—hadn't Paimon already passed the gliding license exam?
That should've dispelled Amber's corruption, right?
Could it be… that his intel was wrong???
That the condition for lifting Amber's Eerie eerie state wasn't what he thought at all?
Just as Su Yuan was wrestling with this thought, Amber's anxious voice rang out from the top of the cliff:
"Su Yuan, this is bad! It looks like the Wind Glider malfunctioned!"
"Stay calm, don't thrash around—try to slow your fall as much as possible! I'll come save you right away!!!"
Without hesitation, Amber leapt off the cliff.
Like a nimble bird, she soared down with speed and precision, reached Su Yuan in an instant, spread her Wind Glider, and wrapped her arms around him—then carried him safely and flawlessly into the designated landing zone.
At that moment, Su Yuan was gasping heavily, feeling very much like someone who had just survived a brush with death…
Still, he couldn't help but marvel—Amber truly lived up to her title as Mondstadt's gliding champion.
Even in such a dire, urgent situation, she had managed to rescue him with flawless accuracy.
Relieved, Su Yuan thought to himself: it seemed this sudden mishap wasn't the result of Amber being corrupted and tampering with things after all, but rather just an actual Wind Glider malfunction—an unfortunate coincidence.
"It's alright, Su Yuan, you still have two more tries!" Amber said apologetically to comfort him.
"This one's my fault—I did check everything carefully, but somehow this Wind Glider still malfunctioned. Let's try again!"
On his second attempt, the Wind Glider opened smoothly.
Su Yuan adjusted his posture as he descended, realizing that controlling the Wind Glider wasn't all that difficult.
But just as he was about to land neatly in the designated spot, with victory in sight, a sudden violent gust of wind came out of nowhere—throwing him completely off course and sending him crashing outside the target zone…
Su Yuan didn't even know what to say anymore.
All he wanted was to get a gliding license—why did it have to be this difficult???
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