Chapter 43: Introduction to Synchronicity
A devastated training ground lay barren before the eyes: destroyed, burning, chipped and craters present all around.
Signs of many great battles were present in this rather small training ground, however, the outside was the only place that was tattered today.
The inside hall of the Sungrade castle was damaged unlike anything the family had seen in the last three decades.
The walls that could not be damaged were bruised by the spells that came from young children that had not even entered any schools of taming.
Many beasts and children shed blood today, many were injured, and many were even sent to the infirmary on the upper floors.
Lady Isha, in charge of the clinics, was shocked when she received so many patients today and had to come down herself to see the commotion that everyone was talking about.
-Shhhhh...
Night had already greeted the east, and the city that had faced a demonic attack not long ago was falling asleep.
However, in the main castle of the sungrades, the lights of the infirmary rooms were still on.
The treatment of the children who were injured was complete and they were good to go as well, but, they were not leaving their beds.
Most of the ones who came with worse injuries were in deep concentration right now. They were thinking back to the moment they received these injuries.
They contemplated the things that Prism spoke to them, his voice, his instructions, the feeling of the sensation that they felt when they learned something they had not known anything about until that point.
They were thinking, and they were learning in their thoughts.
They were making everything that came to them as enlightenment, an element of their aspects.
"How did you do it, Sam?"
In the common terms of the tamers, an enlightenment was called [Aspect Awakening]. Each time a tamer learned something new by themselves, they would awaken to a new aspect of the bond they shared with their tamed beasts.
It was a phenomenon that was rarely seen even in places with smart children. But, in just a few hours that he spent devastating the Sungrade training hall, he had helped not one, not two, but almost two dozen children earn enlightenments.
All of these children challenged him and fought him following the first boy that came to the infirmary. And if they included that boy, in merely a few hours, the Sungrades had produced three (tier-2) mages.
"What happened down there?" Lady Isha saw a few of the last fights until she had to stop them all and close down the training ground for the day.
The destruction of the training hall would be fixed, but if someone was injured in the process of training, she didn’t know what she’d do to the child she had been sleeplessly looking after until just recently.
"I was just helping them, Lady Isha." Prism went down there to train, but he ended up doing what he did the best: teach others.
The standards of the teachings of the Sungrades were not low in any manner. However, they were too soft and too generic.
It wasn’t a fault of theirs either. All the noble houses have their ways to train the people under them. We are no different.
But we most certainly are outdated.
"I had no intention to harm any of them." He was still feeling guilty.
"I treated them. Who would know that better than me, child?" But the lady sitting beside him wasn’t angry at him.
She merely wanted to know how he was able to help so many of these children in such a short amount of time?
"Your methods were unorthodox, but they worked. And they worked wonders, I’d say." Lady Maarkeet was already looking at the aftermath of their battles down in the training ground and she shared the same opinion as her.
You don’t receive enlightenment out of the blue. It’s not some divine revelation. It’s something that comes from a culminated experience and the right kind of training.
If it were a few people, then they could have attributed it to their talents. But so many people don’t just realise the gaps between their skills and techniques in one battle.
"What are we doing wrong, Sam?" The results were right there before their eyes.
He did something to trigger the children, and they unconsciously filled the gaps that had appeared because of the lack of right teaching in the Sungrade teaching system.
It wasn’t all about the child sitting with her. The family fundamentally was doing something wrong.
"I can’t tell you the answer to something like that, m’Lady. You’re asking me what the family is doing wrong while teaching the children, and you’re asking me what mistakes the patriarch has been overlooking. I cannot speak against the authority of the Lord."
As much as he wanted to answer her question with rough words, he could not do that as someone still under the protection of his family.
He was bound by many things. And answers to fundamental questions like these was one of the things that would insult those bounds.
"Ah..." Lady Isha realised the wrongness of her question instantly.
And thanks to that, she once again realised just how different this child was from what she had imagined while looking at him from afar all this time.
"Right. It was wrong of me to ask such a question." She nodded and looked in the front, beyond the glass window, seeing the children who were coming out of their meditative states with smiles brighter than the midday sun present on their faces.
"Then..." She looked at the boy with blue hair once again, realising an answer to a question she had not even asked yet.
"Oh."
She asked him how he did that and not why. He could have just done his thing, or beaten these children one sidedly, or even ignored them completely.
But, he did not do that. He left his own training, spent his time and energy helping these children, and he was still feeling guilty despite hurting them just enough to help them realise their potential.
’He’s just like his mother.’
The pretty face of his late mother came to her mind at that moment, her smile brighter than the summer sun, and her heart bigger than the deep blue. Though a commoner, she was an epic.
"Lady Isha?"
"Hmm? Oh, yes." She was lost in her thoughts, in the memories of the past, but his voice pulled her back.
"Right. I should rephrase my question." She then shook her head, cleaning the older feelings before filling her mind with the present.
"Prism, do you have any ideas that can help us improve our training system?" Now that, a suggestion, was the right question appropriate for a son and a Sungrade.
"Yes. Yes, of course." If they were asking for his opinions, he could suggest quite a few improvements.
In fact, he was planning to do just that when he went to the elders that looked after the training of the younger people.
He was going to present a few pointers from the Introductory Chapters of the doctrine of synchronicity.
Abruptly changing the training system that had grown over centuries would be impossible.
So, if he wanted to introduce the methods of synchronicity, a demonstration of which he had shown to the people of this house already, he knew he would have to leave his ’suggestions’ into capable hands.
"Very well then." But all of that can happen later on. "Go and get some sleep for now. You have worked hard enough for the day."
Prism knew that wasn’t some suggestion but an open threat. He must go and get some rest. The sweet smile on the lady’s face wasn’t something one should ever take for granted.
"At once, m’Lady." He bowed to her and ran off with Lexie, going straight to his room for the day.
He may not have trained today, but he certainly tested the special glasses they had created. And thanks to that, he was in a pretty good mood.
Also, teaching others after so long had rejuvenated his old spirit. He was happy now. He almost wanted to go and dance in his room.
But then again, he was tired as well.
"We should get some sleep first." They needed to go and pick a new item from the treasury as well. Early in the morning, so, some rest was much needed.
-Swiiiiiiiiiiiiish...
The night was windy today.
"How does it look, Mark?"
"Absurd, Issy. Absurd."
The ladies still had a lot of things to take care of in the tattered training ground.
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