After the scene twisted and disintegrated, Zaki found himself in another scenario, this time in his Uncle's Lapidary workshop/home.

In the moment, he was being taught Lapidary skills by his uncle, who was also sculpted from a stone, specifically Onyx.

As a practice, his uncle gave him low-quality gem ores to cut, grind, polish, or drill, as well as some other skills a lapidarist would require.

But the problem was that the number of ores he had to practice with was unlimited, and neither Zaki nor his Uncle seemed to realize how absurd it was.

Similar to the previous scenes, after a growing sense of discomfort Zaki sensed the Mystic stone and broke the scene.

But it took longer for Zaki to sense the discomfort, in the previous scene he sensed the discomfort after a couple of hours, but in this scene, it took him an entire day.

An entire day of polishing, grinding, sanding, and other stuff nonstop until he sensed the stone and broke the scene.

In the next scene, he was 13yr old and in a class learning English.

The scene first started in the English course, but it then changed into Computer Courses which started from hardware to software and programming.

It then changed into physics, then engineering, then mechanical engineering, and then other subjects.

It was pretty evident that other than English courses Zaki didn't learn the other subjects in a class, he had learnt it all in books, movies, television, YouTube videos and even short videos in Tiktok and other apps.

And when Zaki was 13, which was around 2014, there was no such trend as a short videos.

But in this scene all of that were compiled refined and taught systematically by famous figures as teachers sculpted by gems.

The physics was taught by the Gem version of Einstein, the computers was by Charles babbage and mechanical engineering by James watt.

All the while, Zaki didn't feel anything was off, whether it was being taught by the 'fathers' of their respective subjects, or that the things he was being taught weren't even invented when those figures were alive; they basically knew knowledge that was 50 to 100, or even more, years beyond their time, and it was all being taught in a single class in a loop.

It began with English, then moved on to computer and programming, then physics, engineering, and other subjects, before looping back to English and repeating the process, but with each loop, the teachers used various examples and perspectives.

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And none of the Gem teachers, students, or Zaki had saw anything wrong with the situation.

Unlike the last scene that took a day, this time it took seven days until Zaki started feeling the familiar discomfort.

Clearly the "scenes" or illusion was getting more complex and sophisticated.

Soon the discomfort grew and Zaki broke through the fourth Scene, and the next one was much more strange, Zaki found himself in one of his favourite anime series.

Clearly this was from the phase of his life where he started getting addicted to novels, anime and other novelty in the internet.

This scene was in a village in middle of a lush forest.

Even though it was called a village, it was quite large, larger than most towns.

There is an Academy in the village that teaches children the ways of the ninja.

Inside the Academy, Zaki was sitting in the same spot he'd been sitting in since he enrolled.

There were twenty-nine other students in his class, all of whom were sculpted from gemstones.

Every morning, a Gem-sculpted teacher explains and praises something called the "will of fire."

Following that, another Gem-teacher would begin teaching hand-to-hand combat, or "taijutsu" as they call it.

And in afternoon a gem-teacher would teach hand movements call hand seals or sometimes hand signs.

There was 108 hand signs in total according to the teacher, and if anyone failed to learn and use all of if within a month, they would fail their entire semester.

Zaki thought the number of hand signs weren't that many in that anime, but a moment later he strangely ignored it, completely snuffing out that thought.

Then at night he'd black out and open his eyes to see morning sunlight peering through the window into the classroom.

He'd then go through the same thing again.

Time passed and it was the end of the month exam, the 108 hand signs was easy to learn but it was complicated and confusing when one had to form all the 108 hand signs in succession in the exam, and in comparison, the Taijustu and will of fire was easier.

Out of the thirty students only 9 of them managed to pass the test, Zaki included.

After the exam was over Zaki blacked out and found himself sitting on his seat again in the same classroom along with the eight other gem students and twenty-one new faces.

A new Gem teacher showed up and this time the lessons was different, it was more advanced.

Time passed and the familiar discomfort appeared again, but this time it took even longer, it took six months for Zaki to break the scene, well it wasn't exactly Zaki doing it, as it's always the stone that breaks it just by it's presence.

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Zak opened his eyes feeling the familiar yet unfamiliar undulations, he looked around him seeing the crew in their usual antics.

Suddenly he dodged to the side and 'woosh' he he saw a familiar figure sculpted from red and blue gems wearing a straw yellow sapphire hat smash his head through the bow of the ship, and strangely his gem hat didn't break and was flexible like a straw hat.

'what did he do this time' Zaki thought, then looked towards an orange gemstone woman yelling at the guy she sent flying.

Zaki looked at the goat's head figurine at the prow of the ship he was on and at the figure that was sent flying sitting on top of it, then at the three swords strapped to his waist, he sighed and thought to himself for the umpteenth time ' how did I get myself into this again?'.