Shawn watched the world evolve while sitting on a couch but beside him lay a figure with four legs, a tail and silver grey skin. It was none other than Blan who was now bound to Shawn and could stay with him as he watched the world go by. Still seated on the couch, Shane pondered about his ongoing quest, “what action to perform on the world?” he repeated.
"It could be a one time thing or maybe a series of events that would happen as a pattern or at a certain time, either way it has to be something," he said before beginning to feign a headache.
Unbeknownst to him, Blan had been troubled by his uncalled shouts earlier.
"What bothers you master?" The Wolf Ancestor asked.
"Nothing, I'm just wondering what I should implement in the world for its development" Shawn answered.
All of a sudden, a bright light descended down to the duo's sight and revealed a figure upon dimming , it was none other than Kadan.
"It seems I should put out an information regulation system here," Shawn thought to himself.
*You wouldn't dare*
"Oh really, in that case, try me then" he taunted.
He was about to continue when he felt a hand tapping his elbow. "What is Kadan?"
"Master" Kadan lowered his head.
"I hope that I didn't interrupt you?"
"No you didn't" Shawn replied with a bashful smile.
"I've come to seek your advice. This stuff of gathering followers to believe in gaining knowledge and moving on the path towards enlightenment. I've chosen a group of people to travel across through the inland north where I plan to spread my thoughts to the other races,"
Shawn placed a hand on his chin pretending to contemplate, “Well if you think your way of enlightenment is ideal then you might be wrong,"
Kadan raised his eyebrows in surprise, "Really how?"
"The word enlightenment cannot be based on just traveling and journeys alone. It also involves knowing how the world works through the ideas formed from a given medium. Here's an example, a person who uses the staff and also a mage would not know that the ideal method he uses is true until he sees the different ways that the staffs are used by another mage of the same or different race.
If he observes well enough, he’d be able to discover that the effects are the same, it is just that the movements are different and their similarities is to be used in casting mana,"
"Thank you master," Kadan bowed. "You're welcome," Shawn smiled in response as a bright yellow light flashed in his eyes as Kadan disappeared.
*Time to log off*
"I was already wondering when that would come as I stood here for an unusually long time," he thought.
*3, 2, 1*
Like that, he left the world with his current progress and woke up.
This time however, he didn't hear an alarm and so he checked the clock and discovered that he had been asleep for more than 15 minutes since when the alarm rang."What the heck!" he hastily rose from his bed and ran to the bathroom. Fortunately, his mother didn't wake him up this time so he cleaned his face, brushed his teeth and got into the bathing room before rushing towards the dining where the meals had already been prepared.
His mum was busy cooking the morning meals for the family, Lucas always took himself to school. "You are quite behind schedule today," Emily said while looking at the table as Shane rushed the stairs.
"Mum I've got to get ready for school" he said as he started to eat and hurriedly ran to his room to pack things including his laptop. Today was the day that the school had a special class dedicated to Coding and he would have to take his PC since he had one
went to the car to wait for his dad. A few minutes later, Nick came to the car and drove off from the compound to the street and off to school.
When they reached the school, Shawn got down, thanked his father, took his younger sister to school and went to class.
Thankfully, he didn't see the guy named Richard as he walked into the classroom and headed to his desk which was the third seat in the second row from the door before dropping his bag on the table surface. There were students in class already so he greeted them even though they didn't answer and took his note for the assembly which will officially start at 7:45 am. A few minutes later, the bell rang and the students hurried to the school hall. There he stayed in line at where his classmates stood. Some students would just walk over to the hall if they had nothing to do in their classrooms before the bell was rang.
Others who came after 7:45 am would have to drop their items in the late students section at the school gate and drop their bags before taking their notes, pen and heading straight for the hall. The morning procession began with the singing of hymns by the choir. Other activities such as the daily prayer would come afterwards with students sitting down on their chairs to be given a morning talk by the teachers which must be penned down.
Next was a daily presentation on any topic anyone had in mind and it could be electronic or oral.
Then after that, one of the high ranking teachers would come forth to give information and notices from the school. With that done, the students then went back to their classes for the periods to begin. The first two periods would be dedicated to coding which was one of Shawn's favorite programs.
He always wanted to design a program and use it to make money. That way he could have extra money to spend except for that which was given to him by his parents. The instructor for the class arrived and gave a series of exercises after teaching which they had to master. One period for teaching and the other for testing and problem identification.
That was what the school management intended by putting the class but the way how it will be done would depend entirely on which teacher was teaching. The teacher for the day was Edwin Rogers. Mr Edwin happened to be a very sound programmer and an excellent teacher of programming languages. After that, the bell rang, telling the students to leave the classroom for another batch to come.
Returning back to their classrooms, the next class was a joint class for the entire grade for the classrooms A and B. Upon returning, Shawn heard a voice calling out to him and upon identifying who it was, his face went through a drastic change and it looked like he had just eaten a fly. Richard Dawson had just approached the poor boy, "Where is it? Today is the day, Surely you shouldn't have forgotten it at home" Richard said with a mocking grin.
Shawn cursed internally,"Damn it!"
He wondered how he could perfectly counter Richard, after looking at the latter for a few seconds, he decided to say "You see, a student from the other class came to ask that I teach him how to solve the questions which I did.”
“How is that?”
“I went to the other class while holding my notes for reference.
The math teacher who happened to have his eyes on me demanded that I submit my assignment on his table and I agreed as a reply to him. I taught the guy and proceeded to drop my note at the math teacher's office,”
"You really did explain in detail huh" he thought to himself while looking at Richard.
"So basically what you are saying is that you have submitted your assignment?" Richard questioned with a raised eyebrow.
"Yes I have,” Shawn answered.
"Then how come you taught the guy before you went to submit?" Richard asked a second with the eyebrow still raised.
"Do you think that I didn't consider it?"
He gave an answer, "You see, the question was only a single question left before I went to his office"
Richard, seeing that he could not find any constructive argument, decided to leave but not before glaring at Shawn “Since you couldn't wait to not give me your note, why don't you help with your brains and memory. Since we have a class, tomorrow would be a good start” he said while walking away with a grin.
"He came to bother you again?" Stephanie asked before appearing from his side.
"I think he did this time but I won with reasoning," Shawn replied with jubilation in his mind.
"That's good because Richard never attacks unless he has a strong reason or loophole to take advantage of,"
“What a strange kind of bully,” She shrugged.
Regardless, Shawn was still scared. His math assignment was still with him and he hadn't submitted it. He had just told the lie to get the bully away. If the teacher should come check everyone's homework and Richard saw his own being given a nod then he was in trouble.
"What am I going to do?" He screamed in his mind. Remembering his mum's words concerning situations like this.
"Always be cool, calm and collected or you'll just fall into internal turmoil and agitation". He repeated those words as everyone sat at their
chairs and sat in front of their desks because the classes had started.