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Chapter 8 - On the way

Naawu city, one of the 3 bigest City that supplies and transport goods at the west pole. Naawu city has vast expanses of farmlands than the two cities, ending it a popular name, and the most awarded city for transporting goods at the west pole. Due to this, civilians in Naawu city find no difficulties in finding food. And also it is one of the cities with good schools to train a talent across all the four Poles, ending it a wide fame. Every year, the powerful kingdoms at each pole, hold a voting contest to select the best traders that supplied much more goods to sell, to feed the people, and also help to participate in the world market contest, where all powerful kingdoms are called to a big aution house, to trade goods and foodstuffs. This has brought a big competition among traders at each pole, and everytime people selected as the traders to stand for a kingdom is from a city, yet still the traders in the towns and villages try their best to compete.

"Zion School, the second best shool for alchemy at the west pole" Kwasi said as he appeared at the Centre market, holding a yellow map, only looking into it. The bustling market was enough to break down a mountain, but Kwasi was still not destructed when he was reading prescriptions of the map.

Kwasi looked diffrent now. He wore a well fitting red dress, his long black hair tied in a ponytail with a silver band. His face too has completly changed, and he appeared more handsome.

"I would like to further my alchemist career, and also advance my cultivation level to the peak. With both knowledge, i will stand a chance to avenge mama and grandma" Kwasi said and looked up to the bright sky. A carriage transporting goods to Zion School bypassed Kwasi, who was standing in the main road for carriages and horses, but because he was too much absorbed by his thought of furthering his alchemist career and cultivation level, he seemed to have forgotten he was standing in the main road. "Hey kid, watch out" the carriage rider said in a loud, but weak voice as he rode Pass kwasi. That is when Kwasi came back to his senses, and run out from the main road looking at the passerby who starred at him. The carriage transporting goods to Zion School stopped at a restaurant 8 metres ahead Kwasi and the rider jumped down and rushed into the restaurant to sit by a table and ordered for a bowl of rice. The rider has not eaten for two days, and his last energy left in him to survive is what he spoke out with, "Hey kid, watch out". Kwasi too came into the same restaurant to sit by a table and ordered for a bowl of soup.

When Kwasi saw the carriage rider, he stood up to him and thanked him infront of everyone present there at the restaurant. "Kid, i also thank you" the carriage rider said waving his hand. "For what?" Kwasi asked in mind as he turned to walk to his seat. [A total number of 16 customers were present at the restaurant. Four tables and around each table are four chairs].

"Hah, it's good i came eat. Now i can continue my transport to Zion School" the carriage rider said as he stood up. He has emptied his bowl of rice. "Zion School?" Kwasi muttered and stoped beside his table when the waiter served his bowl of soup. "Sir please your bowl of soup is served". Kwasi noded as he threw a bronze coin into the opened hands of the waiter. The waiter caught the bronze coin, almost falling down. Kwasi drank his soup and followed the carriage rider who was walking out. "Sir please i heard you are going to Zion School?" the carriage rider was asked. "Yes kid" the carriage rider answered as he jumped onto the saddle. "What a coincidence. I'm also going to Zion School" Kwasi said. "Okay, so are you asking for a rider?", "If you would, then yes". "Then i won't, so bye". "Hey,hey,hey, yes,yes, am asking for a ride", "You're now talking. Okay get on".

Kwasi noded as he looked around the carriage rider and saw no empty seat, "but sir, where should i sit?". "Ha(sighs), get into the carriage then". "Ok" Kwasi said as he walked to the back of the carriage and opened the locked door. "Ahh, where to sit?" he asked when he saw foodstuffs fully packed in the carriage, and saw no empty space to sit. He closed the carriage and walked back to the carriage rider, "thank you sir, it seems your carriage is full and there's no space me, so i will walk on foot, you can go". "Okay kid, if you've seen it that there's no space for you, then i am going, just like you said. You're the wisest one today. I met people who are older than you, even when they saw foodstuffs where stored in the carriage, they still wanted to get in" the carriage man said as he whipped the horse to move forward.

"Guess i will have to take forest road to Zion" Kwasi said as he removed the yellow map from his pokect and looked on tracing the way to Zion School with his index finger on the map. "A day to walk" he sighed and put back the yellow map into his pokect.

2 hours later, Kwasi was walking in a forest, looking around and whistling with his mouth. The birds chirping flew here and there in the bright sky. The tall and short evergreen trees provided shade to the undergrowth grasses. "A whole day walk?. then i will be exhausted" Kwasi said turning his head to his left side, and saw a a ray of light reflecting on a tree. Kwasi stoped, and slowly walked to hide behind a tree, nearest to the one been reflected by a ray of light. The bush infront of Kwasi didn't give him a clear picture of where the ray of light light was coming from, so he slowly walked into the bush with caution, making way with his hands.

A beautiful lady was badly wounded and lying in a lake. Her golden braclet emanated the ray of light, reflecting on a tree. "A girl?" Kwasi appeared to the lake. He looked around to check if anybody was around, but no one was there. He tried calling out the lady "hey!,hey" but no response came. "ayh, should i go and.... no,no,no. Yes go Kwasi, she's wounded. Go and help her" Kwasi noded and run to the lake with fast footsteps. He steped into the lake and took the lady, making a quick turn back from the lake. Kwasi lay the beautiful lady on the ground and called out," you're out now, wake up". The lady was drowned by water. Kwasi was looking around, so he didn't see it until he turned to look at the lady's face. "Oh my.." Kwasi bent down to the lady and checked if she was dead. No cells in her body was responding to Life, "is she dead?." Either a question or a statement, it was not sure what Kwasi said.

Slowly he stood up and a feeling of nervousness well in him. Kwasi started to feel anxious about the girl, that he himself didn't know why. "Calm down, calm down" he said to himself as he closed his eyes and took in a long breathe and exhaled slowly; he repeated that for 3 times. When he opened his eyes, the mood of nervousness and anxious had dissapeared from him. Kwasi looked down to the lady and said, "fox teleport skill". He made just a step forward and dissapeared.

The drown lady lie on the ground lifeless, as her face changed to a white face. Kwasi had dissapeared a minute ago, and when he returned, his hands was full of herbs and five green apples. He gathered them on the ground, and searched for sticks nearby to set fire when night falls and he has not been able to treat the beautiful lady and settle his scores with her. Kwasi picked the needed herbs for the treament, "it Will take sometime. No cells responding to Life...., i should still try. As the elders say; if you haven't tried Your hands on a work, you will never get to know the workdone".

The Tucana constellation was present in the dark sky, giving the sky a beautiful look. And as we know, the fireflies litghted their yellow colour in the forest.

Kwasi had set fire with sticks, serving as a source of light, as he sat beside the beautiful lady and poured a potion into her opened mouth. "I have spent more than 10 hours treating you lady" Kwasi said as he wiped the sweat on his forehead with his index finger. He stood up to sit by the fire, looking at the noisy lake. Kwasi sat there for more than 30 minutes before standing up to sit by the beautiful lady and poured another potion into her opened mouth. The lady's cells came back to Life when Kwasi checked, using his medical hand technique.

Medical hand technique is one of the most powerful techniques to perform medical and other treatments. It has 3 major duties it performs. One, to stop the spread of poison through one's body. Two, it is use to check if one's cells or organs are responding or not responding to Life. And the third, is to help insert acupunture needles to the joints to joints in human beings without one's hand been harmed by the needle, when it mistakely cut the hands. The medical hands technique has other duties it perform, but this three are considered as its major duties.

Kwasi learnt about medecine , sugery, and other treatment skills and techniques when he was in the alchemy school. This increased his knowledge and way of thinking about alchemy than anybody else he was with in school. Kwasi connected himself to an old monk, who stayed next to the alchemy school. He acquired much-more knowledge from the monk, apart from the knowledge he acquired about medicine, surgery, and other treatment skills. Such of that is behavior, futher knowledge about alchemy, cultivation and other secret skills, like the phantom body switch skill. It was sad to hear the old monk passed away one morning. Kwasi was busy teaching students about alchemy when a friend of his reported to him the sad news. Kwasi run out from the alchemy school to the old monk's house in a hurry. The old monk's dead body held an enormous sword in his hands sitting on his wooden bed with a note, that stated that the sword was a gift left by him for Kwasi. And he knew he would die, so Kwasi should shed no tears, and he is proud having a student like Kwasi to pass on his knowledge to. After Kwasi read the note, he wiped his tears and bowed to the monk, three times, before taking the body out for a good burial.

This memories of Kwasi strucked in his head as he stood up from the beautiful lady to stand by the fire and looked up to the beautiful sky. He gazed only at the sky and after a minute, his consiousness in the physical world lost, into the spititual world. Kwasi found himself in a dark place, standing infront of a very big closed eyes. He turned to look around and back to the big eyes when he heard a roaring sound. The big eyes opened, starring its glint yellow eyes at Kwasi. When Kwasi saw the eyes, he felt like his concious was given a shock as his physical concious woke up to reality. Kwasi went four steps backwards, holding his head and shool it. "What was that?" he asked as he raised up his he and looked up to the beautiful sky again. "That yellow eyes, who was that?..... could it be my...".

"Please can i eat the fruits?" the beautiful girl woke up and asked.