The Place Where Everything Begins

『 You have received 2,223 SP 』

『 You have received 1x✰ and 1x★ for successfully killing a Dokkaen warrior 』

『 You have received 1x✰ and 3x★ for completing the trial's hidden objective 』

『 You will be teleported outside within 15 seconds 』

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When Jeremy saw the rewards, his eyes widened in shock, for this type of blanket was unique only to the System.

That meant the rewards he received this time were calculated fairly and delivered to him directly by the System itself.

Consequently, even the former sage, Jeremy, could not contain his feelings at this moment as his face started morphing into delight, then excitement in the end.

How could he not?

After all, Jeremy had received a total of two white stars and four black stars from this battle alone...

The black stars, which were considered too precious to miss, and the even more priceless white stars that could not be earned easily even when Jeremy was the great sage back then...

"This is good!! The System is fair indeed; it is more than worth it to cast more than four mana bolts earlier. I had never felt this good before, ever since I killed that dragon... HAHAHAHAHA!!!"

Surprising enough, Jeremy, who had never talked to himself more than half a sentence before, blurted out long lines of words and laughed sonorously while standing there, in front of the hobgoblin's cold corpse.

Meanwhile, the human audiences had kept quiet ever since the Dokkaen's death and were now in a dazed mode like wooden dummies as if they didn't realize a man was standing and laughing to himself within the arena at all.

After laughing to himself heartily for five full seconds, Jeremy finally stopped as the Forsaken Branch's passive spell [Soothing Mind] came into effect, causing his mind to become calm and serene like a still river...

At this time, the timer had already been counting in reverse, and Jeremy would be teleported out of here soon enough...

9...

8...

Suddenly, Jeremy's hunch was triggered once again, causing his mind to jerk up in alertness,

'Wait... Did I forget something?'

Jeremy frowned slightly at the sudden feeling of something missing from his unignorable hunch, so he thought hard about to himself...

Meanwhile, time was also ticking without stopping...

Second by second...

7...

6...

'I don't have time to take the weapons and armors anymore, so it's not about those things... Hmm... The monster corpses? No... not that either. Then what is stimulating my hunch right now...?'

Currently, Jeremy's smart brain seemed to work at light speed as he discarded the thoughts and notions from his mind one by one.

After all, Jeremy didn't want to miss something out because of his own carelessness...

So, think hard, he did...

5...

4...

*Click*

As if something had clicked in his mind and opened a holy door of enlightenment for him, Jeremy had finally thought of something.

Afterward, his eyes widened in shock once again, but this time it was more like being shocked because he had realized the thing almost too late...

And that particular something was...

'I have to kill five humans!'

Jeremy thought while inhaling a deep breath to the end of his lungs.

Having finally realized so, Jeremy hurriedly mumbled the magical words while the staff in his right hand also moved ceaselessly, creating afterglow in the air...

3...

2...

1...

Shortly after, Jeremy promptly finished the mana bolt spell, which should already be considered the sixth one in this trial.

Without further delay, Jeremy hurriedly used his mind to form and hurl the mana bolt towards the closest group of audiences...

*BOOOMMMM!!!*

0...

Following the deafening noise generated from the mana bolt exploding, the timer also hit zero simultaneously.

Subsequently, Jeremy and his belongings eventually disappeared from the hard-difficulty trial altogether...

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A split second later...

'Everything is black again...' Jeremy thought to himself after looking around his surroundings.

Right now, he was standing in the middle of nowhere, of which everything around him was pitch black in color.

Then Jeremy turned his head left and right, hoping to see something out of the ordinary from this place.

Suddenly...

...

[You have received 7 SP]

[You have received 6 SP]

[You have received 6 SP]

[You have received 7 SP]

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'Oh...'

*Fwuu...*

Upon seeing the four notifications stating about his meager rewards, Jeremy let out a breath of relief from his mouth, as he knew what those four notifications signified...

It meant he had just killed four artificial humans with the mana bolt earlier. As a result, he felt so relieved that he wouldn't feel regret later on.

After the notifications disappeared from his sight, Jeremy finally had a chance to look around him once again.

Well, everything was still black like a moment ago...

Upon looking left and right for a short while...

'Oh, what is that light for?' Jeremy thought in wonder after finally seeing something to his far right.

Having finished his fleeting thought, Jeremy soon started walking towards the light source, which happened to have the shape of a two-meter-tall rectangular white light... like a door's shape.

Around one minute later...

True enough...

After Jeremy finally arrived and stood before the rectangular-shaped light, the said light suddenly opened up...

*Creaks!*

Followed the creaking noise of the 'door' opened, the view behind the 'door' was finally reviewed itself to Jeremy...

From the first glance, it was a familiar place of a cave-like chamber that had countless monster corpses scattering almost everywhere inside.

Meanwhile, in the chamber's centermost area floated a large green Crystal that above it spotted a countdown timer ticking backward every second, and on the left and right side of the said Crystal were two dark passageways that led to unknown destinations.

Upon seeing the same old sight in front of him, Jeremy knew he was finally back to the tutorial chamber, which right now didn't have Earthling anymore because they should have left for the second stage by now.

Afterward, Jeremy walked inside the tutorial chamber...

*Bam!*

The hard-difficulty door closed shut behind Jeremy as he was finally back inside the tutorial chamber....