Walking through the halls and reaching the next classroom I sighed as time began once more, I walked inside noticing that I felt a little dizzy thought it probably was the side effects of what happened earlier, once I actually began looking around I noticed hundreds of glares which weren't the welcoming kind, though that wasn't really any of my concern, it was the fact the teacher who looked extremely old had the same glare as the others. At this point I already knew there was a rumor about me going around in the school, one which wasn't good in the slightest though I could care less about something like that, It was probably from Europa and Ganymede. Either way I sat down on an empty seat, even when the girl next to me pulled the seat away I had created a space which could hold my weight up which clearly angered the girl next to me even more though she didn't attack which already shows the fact what I did when I was transported into the wrong time period had done something to change, otherwise I feel like this would've been a very messy and destructive place.
"Let us begin since everyone is here. It is nice to meet you all. My name is Asahi. I'll be teaching you Cultivation Methods, but In reality only the ones which have actually paid me-"
[Inverse Tempera]
Time would flow backwards before he spoke as I began recording what he said without letting him notice.
"paid me to actually learn, everyone else which is only 8 people will be made to leave this classroom and go to another one."
"And done."
"Excuse me young lady, what do you mean?"
"You realize using students for money isn't allowed and it's illegal right? I already know the pay here is high considering that Mo- Gaia wouldn't be so neglectful if she can take care of eight billion people."
"And how do you expect her to believe you? Why would she believe a random student compared to a teacher who's worked here for years?"
He would laugh with the students here snickering and some on the other side of the room gossiping.
"Because I just sent her a video recording of you telling me that you'll only teach the people who've paid you. Now that I check school policy for teachers it's actually illegal to take money from students to teach them at least here, in other places it would've been fine but you decided the place where your pay is enough to get you an entire skyscraper."
"H-How the hell did you know I was gonna say that!?!? Did another student tell you or something-"
"A magician never reveals her secrets."
I would wait while sitting, It took a few minutes but soon enough Gaia had come running in looking for me to see if anything happened which nothing had changed other than the fact the teacher was shouting at me even saying I'm the reason why women didn't have the ability to do anything because of how I acted and how I snitched on him acting like a kid throwing out all kinds of insults at me at which point Gaia had a sigh of relief seeing I was fine which I didn't think I would be considering the amount of students who were giving a death glare but as I had looked around I saw the fact they were to scared to even move a muscle.
"Looks like you're fine hon, I'll be taking him with me though, I'll have a Very... Long... Talk."
She walked over to the teacher or well I can say former teacher who would be grabbed by her and had immediately became quiet once Gaia began talking out of sheer horror of her being here so fast, once she left with him. I got up and left the classroom with the students doing nothing which could be pitched up to them realizing I knew the literal founder of this academy.
Thinking for a bit I hadn't checked up on Titan, Titania, Callisto and Io. Since I had time to do that I would've turned on Mana Detection to single them out, my vision had changed drastically from seeing light to some infrared vision which detected the amount of Mana inside of someone, or in this case Qi, since there was no one in the halls I could see through the walls and see everyone inside there, I had singled out each one of them seeing all of them in different rooms, I didn't enter the room since they were clearly in class so I had waited for about a hour or so in which I first saw a the entire class leaving with Titan near the end, I moved to stand against the wall with my eyes closed and yet I could still see where he was, waiting for a while I opened my eye as Titan walked right past me only to feel my hand touch his shoulder in which he stopped in place looking over at me and gulping.
"W-What is it?"
"What's wrong? I just wanted to check in on you to see if you're doing good or not."
"Oh- I thought I did something which warranted you waiting for me- But if that's the case then I'm doing good Kai how about you?"
"Decent to say the least, I got a teacher probably fired for trying to sell his teachings to his students and all others which didn't would be kicked out instantly."
"How the hell did you get him fired? I thought he had connections with Elders which made him nearly untouchable."
"I sent mom the video."
"Mom?"
"Ah...-"
I began blushing out of embarrassment furiously, I wasn't angry or anything it was just my face turning red from the fact I called Gaia mom, though it wasn't wrong to call her that considering she treated me as her child so I was simply respecting her wishes.
"I meant... Gaia."
"I mean you're technically her granddaughter since you got adopted by Saturn but seeing you blush like this from a mistake was funny."
He chuckled looking at me, now that I think about it, he wasn't as tall as me, it was just me thinking he was, he looked at me smug but also was quite short I think about 5'9 or 5'10 which was a average height I'd assume for this place and for people his age. I actually hoped the average height for his age group wasn't like six feet or something. I would've then seen Callisto and Io leave their classroom and shortly after would Titania do the same, they had all grouped around me with only Io being just about my height if not a little taller, he'd already grown a lot though I think that's because he aged another hundred years or something.
"So what do we do now?"
I asked them considering they weren't speaking much on anything and were waiting for someone to initiate a conversation.
"God y'all are introverts, No wonder you all are friends you can't get any outside of this group here."
"HEY! Well- Okay you aren't wrong we don't like talking with people outside of our friend group yes but you don't have to be so blunt about it..."
"I kinda do, if you don't wanna seem like some sort of loner friend group then you have to talk more, though that's your choice, you can just ignore what others think about you."
They would all just look at me without saying anything and feel confused on why I was giving them advice while also advising them against using it.
"You told us to talk more but are also telling us to do what he wants to do so it conflicts with what you said."
"If it conflicts with what I said then that should be how it works, you can do something, it's just if you want to, you have free will so that's entirely your choice... If I get told that you don't have free fucking will I am going to lose it."
"No No we have free will, it's just… It took a second for me to realize what you said."
Hearing Io speak up he sounded a lot older now as if he'd hit puberty or something I looked at him and saw something appear, a red line directly at Io's head I didn't think much of it but as soon as I heard the sound barrier itself break would I grab Io's hand and pull to my side as what was a bullet flew right past where Io originally was. Turning directly over to the location I tried to see what person was there only to see them disappear almost instantly as I could only get a glimpse of them with the use of Mana Detection. I knew they were stronger than all of us, which meant I couldn't go ahead and fight them.
"What did you pull me over for? The bullet wouldn't have harmed me."
"I mean yeah bullets do almost no damage to cultivators unless they can create a bullet with Mana but people wouldn't waste mana doing that and would instead just use Mana to create fire or other elements as ranged attacks or use it to coat around their weapon."
I would turn towards them, sighing before walking over to where the bullet was supposed to hit and show there was no damage done to the wall along with the fact there was no bullet visible anywhere.
"Yeah, they wouldn't waste Mana on that, whatever, just be more careful from now onwards I don't want to see y'all get hurt or anything."
I left them alone feeling they were gonna do better without me interrupting, especially since I had definitely stopped an event which was supposed to happen but I didn't really care about something like that. I continued through the academy which was now filled with students considering every class had finished and we were supposed to go to our dorms. I would tell you how I got Gaia's number but I doubt any of you would even care about something like that.
[Realities True Emperor is not amused]
[Pinnacle of Transcendence is giggling]
[God's Laziest Messenger watches quietly]
"HGWAH"
Holy shit that was a fucking jumpscare and a half, Tell me when you're gonna show up or something I don't expect something like that to happened man.
[Supreme Ruler of Annihilation grins casting an illusion]
"HEGSZS FUCK"
[Tempera]
"God Dammit you have to stop that I do not like that shit."
Getting Jumpscared by Deities was not on my bucket list nor was it something I wanted to happen in general. I took a few breaths before starting time once more and continued walking while the so called Gods were talking in my head all just out of their amusement which I was deciding to ignore, Finally reaching my room I would open it already seeing Gaia there looking with a smile, it wasn't some evil smile or anything more a welcoming and motherly smile, honestly something I've never felt so I feel extremely grateful to have even met her. As I walked over to the bed smiling at her as well I would lie down but before I went to actually sleep I would ask something which I wouldn't blurt out normally, It felt weird to say it but it felt natural, I mean I was technically raised on her head right? Well I can't really say "Raised" I never had any parents since my mom seemed to rather want to kill herself then raise me in general at least that's what my aunts and uncles said.
"Could I call you mom? I know it's random but you're the first person to ever treat me like an actual child and care for me like a mother."
Gaia didn't say anything yet but from the feeling I got she was okay with it, I didn't sleep and after an hour I finally heard her speak to me.
"You should go sleep now child, And yes you can, I hope I can make you feel even better than you're doing now."