The Place Where Everything Begins

Soon, Jeremy finally emerged from within the passageway...

It appeared that there was no barrier preventing him from going in, so Jeremy strolled inside the hall leisurely.

A transparent window simultaneously appeared in front of him right after...

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『 You have received 1x★ for discovering another tutorial chamber 』

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Not long after, the window gradually disappeared from his sight...

At this moment, Jeremy was seen to be standing just right inside the spacious chamber, and the ambusher should be hiding around the corner's area in his far left.

To be frank, Jeremy had even expected a sneak attack to come straight at him directly the moment he stepped foot here. However, to his surprise, the 'being' in hiding didn't take any action whatsoever.

After realizing his enemy had no notion of attacking him just yet, Jeremy decided to act ignorant and play along with the ambusher.

'You want to play a game? If so, I will play along to your heart's content then...'

Jeremy thought with an emotionless face; in contrast, he grinned like an evil within his mind right now.

Upon finishing his thought, the 'ignorant' Jeremy swept his gaze quickly around the chamber just like any other person would do after coming inside such a place.

Obviously, he chose to start with the place where his supposed ambusher was hiding first.

Thus, Jeremy turned his head sideway towards his left side, and unsurprisingly, he saw... nothing...

It appeared that nothing was present at the said corner at all...

Meanwhile, Jeremy thought in realization after the brief observation on the area,

'Hnn... Mana fluctuation and higher darkness elemental concentration... The opponent is an amateur or something?'

In fact, if not for the mana fluctuation coming out from the place constantly, and some darkness elemental energy was thicker at the place than anywhere within the chamber, Jeremy would have thought he was imagining things too much.

Fortunately, Jeremy had both mana and darkness elemental affinity, so he could clearly feel the two anomalies coming out from the corner.

Despite his meager level of darkness affinity of 34.8%, Jeremy still felt the peculiarity and strangeness of dark energy lingering at the place somehow.

On the contrary, Jeremy's mana affinity was something else entirely as he could feel the mana fluctuation at the corner clear as day ever since when he stood within the dark passageway, which was more than dozens of meters away from the fluctuation's site.

Right now, he could feel it even more apparent than before...

His affinity level with mana was monstrous after all...

At this moment, Jeremy's brain was working at light speed; idea after idea, possibility after possibility, started rushing into his head endlessly.

Currently, he was gauging the opponent's race, species, alignment, and the approximated level of fighting prowess.

Subsequently, many possibilities were kept inside, and many were thrown away at light speed...

'Considering the tutorial is being held in the name of light faction... and the ambusher chooses not to attack for some reasons...'

'The combination of mana and darkness element... the weak manipulation over mana and element...'

'Hmm...'

'Then the being should be one of the five races, no doubt... human mage, black dokkaebi, tabaxi, night elf, and the most unlikely one, baby draconian.'

Even while thinking so...

For the smoothness' sake, as he wanted his behavior to look as flawless as possible, Jeremy's eyes only stopped at the said corner for a split second before shifting to look at the other places within the chamber.

Thus, Jeremy finally had time to examine the chamber carefully...

Surprisingly, it appeared that the chamber was almost the same as the tutorial chamber where the tutorial took place, with the only difference being the crystals' colors. The one in this hall was red, whereas the one in the tutorial chamber was green in color.

Meanwhile, behind the Crystal ahead of Jeremy was another dark passageway with an unknown destination looking similar to the passageway he came out from a moment ago.

Soon, his eyes swept past the red Crystal, dark passageway, and then towards the chamber's right side...

Right about then, Jeremy promptly discovered something again...

'What a surprise... There is also a slight mana fluctuation coming out from there, behind the wall...'

'Hmm... It is exactly like the hidden boss chamber back in the easy-difficulty door...'

Having thought for a brief moment, Jeremy finally finished inspecting the entire chamber.

Then...

"Damn, so there is nothing here at all except for this strange Crystal..."

Jeremy cursed lightly and mumbled disappointedly to himself, but accidentally, his voice was loud enough for the ambusher on his left side to hear very clearly.

Evidently, Jeremy had intentionally said those words to lower the ambusher's vigilance. After all, if he decided to play along, he would have to make it more believable.

Still, talking to himself like an idiot was not to his taste in the least...

After acting like an idiot, Jeremy walked directly towards the red Crystal floating ahead of him.

In fact, ever since the moment before Jeremy came into this chamber, even while walking or talking to himself earlier, his focus had never left and always concentrated on the left corner where the ambusher hid using an unknown spell.

Truthfully, Jeremy was ready to flare up and counterattack the sneaky ambusher at any given time if he felt even a tad bit of anomaly occurred from there.

Whether it be fortunate or unfortunate, the ambusher had somehow chosen not to attack him. So, Jeremy thought it was better to play along for now.

Well, he was ready to flip the table at any time anyway if he saw the situation unfold in a strange and unfavorable direction.

After some seconds of walking, Jeremy finally arrived before the Crystal...

Then he placed the magical torch down on the solid ground before reaching his left hand to touch the ruby-like Crystal ahead of him...

One second passed...

Five seconds passed...

Ten seconds passed...

"..."

'Well...'

Jeremy exclaimed within his mind shortly.