Chapter 4: learn to create:

After travelling for 2 days and searching around for perfect place to train and stay Noah finds an abandoned hut between two hills of a mountain, it seemed like someone left that place in a jiffy because there were some personal belongings too. Not worrying about it he gets on with settling himself in the place, have some food and rest and start to train from that scrolls as soon as possible. He gets some water from a water trail nearby and gets his vegetables out of his sack which he secretly took from his master's house. After having some food and a power nap he picks up a beige coloured scroll and puts it on his waist bag and left for nearby woods to find a spot to train. He finds a place which seemed like one from the master's place. He kept his water and snack box on side and took a seat on the ground and opened his first scroll, he read it with an intense look on his face. The scroll had some Sanskrit writings and some mudras. Noah studies it all and rolls back the scroll and put it on the side with other belongings. The writing and mudra in the scroll help one to get power of teleporting in nearby places and it takes lots or power and focus, only few from old ages could have done it. Noah practices it for days on days and unlike the root chakra meditation, this time he succeeds at par. He heard a sound like an alarm and realized it is time for him to get back to real world once again, it was dinner time when he got out of his room and his mother was in the hall drinking wine and watching tv, Noah enters the hall and her mother turns around and asks him to come and sit with her for a while "give your mom some time too, would ya?" his mom said. He chuckles and sat next to her, "so how are you doing in school lately?" mom asked, "yeah it is going good, I hope it gets better after they reopen and have some sessions to reconstruct those kids too" Noah replied. "You shouldn't care about people you don't like, anyways how is Amelie, she is a good friend of yours isn't it?" his mom asked. "Ya she is fine too; she is gone to her relatives place". "Ok mom I'm going now need to deal with some project work" Noah said while getting off the couch. "don't forget our deal, out of house once a day, and dinner is on the table, please eat it while its hot" mom replied. Noah sits down to have some food, he checks his phone while eating and there were loads of messages from Amelie, he texted back- "wassup, was asleep the whole day", "oh so you finally took some time out for me, well I just wanted to tell that I'll be back day after tomorrow so he better be ready to finish their game before school reopens" Amelie quickly replies back. Noah smiles and out of nowhere a stroke of headache hits him hard, he holds and presses his head to supress it, it was like his nerves were bursting one by one. Then he wakes up and find himself in his bed, in the same state when he felt like his nerves bursting a while ago, he was in shock because it was morning when he looked out the window, he jumps out of bed and reaches for his VR setup, as he enters it he finds himself a little more powerful, he tries to attempt the combat skills he was working on, and, surprisingly now he was almost a master in them, he was still not convinces that it could really happen, so he tried his teleportation move, and guess what, he was able to perform it better than ever before. He gets off the VR and is still in denial that yes, he really has started missing time, forgetting that he played the whole night, all he can remember is his texting Amelie and all of a sudden, a head pain boom straight on the bed, he picks his phone up to check if there were more chats with anyone, but disappointed to find no answers there too. He now realizes that the game is putting its impact on him, so he better deal with his things quickly and stop going so slow in the game from now on. He enters the game in a little fear and a little anger, he opens his eyes in the game and rushes to get the other 2 scrolls, he decided not to waste any more time, he adapts discipline in his routine using the concentration he gained from root chakra, he started polishing his combat skills and blade skills, along with it, he did regular meditation to unlock his root chakra at fullest. And not to forget the practice routine to learn powers from other two Sanskrit scripted scrolls. The other scrolls had key to gain power related to terrains and spirits. He had practiced too hard to get some control over this power to make him powerful, after balancing time between real and virtual life, Noah was getting back to his hut carrying the scrolls, but this training for powers and meditation to be connected to nature and surroundings as oneself has certainly changed the game for Noah. How he is not just running on thrust of revenge but now has more clarity in his goals, and keeping focus only on one at a time, the next mission of his is to get back to the city and find that homeless man with truths. Noah gets his belongings and was ready to leave the hut, he takes a step and a 3-sided blade falls right in front of me, at first, he thought it was an attack, but he then hears some voices from top of the hills, he believes there must be a breakout between someone and the blade was not to attack him. He decided to go and have a look there, but discreetly, he don't want to be caught up where he doesn't belong. Noah climbs the mountain using the roots coming out of mountain spaces, it was a surprise that he can actually do that now, all that practice did mean something this time around. He reaches on the top and discreetly observing from a tree. Two people, other players, were in a combat over something. From all the chat he could hear, he figured out that one of them has some herb which the other one wants badly. Noah decides to leave the area and move ahead for the city. While he was leaving, he dropped a scroll behind him, but he realized such after some time. He disappointedly was returning to the possible place he could have dropped it and had only one question in mind, that if had anyone got hands on it yet. He gets back on the same hill where he stopped by, there he saw that the fight was already over, one of the players was lying on the ground waiting his death to knock by. The other one had the herbs tied to his waist and he was reading the scroll which Noah dropped. From intense expressions of the other player, it seemed to Noah that this player is having problem in understanding it, but its just a maybe, he threw a star blade on the other player, the other player doges it but drops the scroll, Noah without losing the chance get hold of it. The other player smiles and said "I don't like to be disturbed when I'm focusing on something, and you did just that", "you should not seek things which don't belong to you" Noah replied. "knowledge and power doesn't belong to anyone, its everyone's, though the inscriptions in the scroll are ancient and unique, where did you get them from?" the other player asked, "I don't see a reason to tell you that, so just get back on your way" Noah replied; "if that's the case here, then we have got a problem my friend, I need to get what I want, or, It haunts me in the night" said the other player, "I didn't want this, but you are asking it desperately, you will regret this, I'm not like the other one you laid down" Noah replies in calm. Both of them looks each other, Noah wishes a distilled face and the other player with a witty smile and hairs shading the eyes. The other player first folds his hand and stood straight, then takes foot forward, a hand behind the back and they other hand in the front, making a hand mudra, with upside down palm the thumb and index finger joining while the other three facing Noah, on his gamer tag, he can view the inside out of Noah, as his mudra and concentration absorbs the aura connection of Noah's power. The other player suddenly had an expression of tension and confusion. "I don't want you to hurt for now, that power doesn't suit my style, is what I can say from whatever I read, so you are lucky this time" the other player retreated from the fight and abandoned the area in a breath. Noah was in confused state too, the lines on his forehead could tell, he wanted to know that why did he retreat from the fight that he himself announced, and what was all about the ancient inscription stuff. With all this in his mind he also knows he cannot waste time to overthink it, he started moving again towards the city route. Noah decided to re-route and have a little de tour to ask some questions to his master.