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>Literacy
Over the course of the next couple weeks, you go personally request to Ryota to learn how to read.
"<span class="mu-s">Well, on one hand it fit the Quiet Word name you chose. However, I told you weaning the young beast would be good for the sect as the onslaught of newcomers will come.
So tell me. Why should I indulge in this fancy of yours instead of beating your up and requesting to do your duties?</span>"
An unprepared disciple would had gulp. But you have a better-than-most inner understanding of the navigation of the intricate web of social relationship.
"Well first, you will be personally very busy with the upcoming new crop of Disciple. So you won't really have time to teach me in the next months.
Then, every disciples can wean beast. How much requested to learn literacy?
Last, you told me as a first lesson I'll need to be literate. So drop the pretense, old man."
Ryota smiles, as both of you recall his words : Politics is Warfare. He probed, you answered by placing your argument like deployed soldier to take the brunt of his attack, circle him, and lend the decisive strike.
Over the next month, you are instructed every day about the secrets of inks and paper. Of course, the matter is eased by both your young age - kid learn more easily, and your status of "cultivator", even though of the lowest of ranks, grants extraordinary abilities. Your progress is not half bad.
>You can now read roughly a 100 of the most common words, while being able to write around half of them.
>Work on your Spear Style
Most of your time, over the course of this month, is devoted to work on your Spear style.
However, despite the help of the <span class="mu-s">Cosmic Snake Spear</span>, and the fact you're advanced enough in your cultivation, you make little to no progress.
You can't help but think the wolf master from the Wilds was setting you for failure with such a difficult style. But you've learned it. You feel you can actually benefit a great lot from this style.
Still, your failure sting twice : the Qi and Blood threads you gathered every day and saved for this training where burn to nothingness.
The road of cultivation is full of progress and setback. Looks like this was a setback. This stings hard.
