Mortalbubby

I just started on gold no problems but my friends are in silver server so i switched. I got to were i need to visit school and fight jackson i fought an lost. Talked to everyone in school and headed towards forest old man says go check out the school and i cant progress pass this point i spent hours leveling before i tried to go past him since i lost to jackson. I don't wanna make a new account and re grind for hours any help with this would be great. Silver server Mortalbubby.