The Place Where Everything Begins

At this time, Jeremy seemed to be within a world of his own as he even ignored the wounded Xildas and the latter\'s Status Window entirely.

It appeared that after knowing and seeing the man\'s darkness element and how near the affinity level between him and the man was, Jeremy suddenly had an epiphany, and new plans started coming into his head endlessly.

\'Darkness element...\'

\'Special access to the System,...\'

\'War of the Ten Eras....\'

\'World of the Crystal...\'

\'War of the Worlds...\'

\'Gods and ruling races...\'

\'Advent of the end...\'

It appeared that Jeremy now experienced some kind of sudden enlightenment as plan after plan, scheme after scheme, possibility after possibility, came rushing into his head like tidal waves.

Simultaneously, all those plans started to weave and combine with one another...

Eventually, a grand scheme started to form within Jeremy\'s mind. Its detail also became more and more solid with each passing split second until gradually morphing into a logical and consistent one.

At long last, a single grand scheme ultimately remained within Jeremy\'s mind...

The said scheme within his head was such a scheme that would help Jeremy achieve a greater power level where he could contend with those self-proclaimed gods and the ruling races without being discovered by them before the time was right...

It was such a scheme that could overturn Ortus if given enough time...

Concurrently, the plan was finally in shape within Jeremy\'s head; the only thing left to be done was that he had to carry it out.

Simultaneously, Jeremy\'s eyes seemed to brighten up at this moment as he finally came out from the epiphany moment.

After that, Jeremy thought to himself,

\'What a coincidence I have here to meet with a fellow mage, whom has the same darkness elemental affinity.\'

\'Who would have thought my previous plan couldn\'t be compared to the new one in the least? Like this, it looks like I can give those arrogant people a very grand surprise...\'

\'Furthermore, I can escape the cupid\'s search with this method... What a sage-sent opportunity...\'

\'It looks like I will have to ask many, many questions from him...\'

Jeremy finished his thoughts with a hidden evil glint within his eyes and turned to look at the wounded man. Then he proceeded with the first step of his plan,

"Oh? You are from Rekonia, Academy of Wizardry situated in the Reswia Kingdom?"

When the wounded man, Xildas, had heard Jeremy\'s word, his eyes widened in shock for a bit before answering,

"Yes... So, you know about the kingdom I\'m living in."

"Of course, I\'m also a human; I ought to know such a basic thing as the number three academy in one of the ten human kingdoms." Jeremy spoke with a \'matter of fact\' smile.

"That\'s true..."

Xildas replied while struggling up from the ground with difficulty to lean his body against the cave-like wall, as it appeared that lying on the ground had made him go dizzy and lightheaded.

After all, the man, Xildas, had been wounded pretty severely from the explosion, and he still lost blood continually from the gash on his left leg. Not to talk about the shattered mana field projection that would affect his mind very negatively.

Upon seeing the man finally leaned on the wall, Jeremy proceeded with the plan without any caring to the man\'s condition,

"Now, show me the tutorial mission."

*Sigh...*

Without further argument, Xildas sighed helplessly before projecting his tutorial mission for the hateful man to see...

...

『 Tutorial Mission: Surpervise 』

⎯ Supervise the Le\'liac human species in zone 82,364 (Two Level-1 Mystic Shells)

『 You cannot leave the tutorial chamber until six hours after the tenth horde of monsters has ended 』

...

Upon seeing such a simplistic tutorial mission interface, Jeremy scoffed slightly and said towards the leaning man,

"The reason why you are still here is because of the System\'s restriction? Also, your rewards are only two mystic shells of the lowest rank?"

"Yes..."

Xildas replied meekly at the daylight mockery directed towards him. In the end, it was the harsh truth as he couldn\'t deny that it was a meager amount of rewards.

However, he didn\'t have any choice, for he was just an orphan that had to earn a living by his own two hands.

Even the allowance he received as scholarship funds from the mage academy was not quite adequate for him to live and meditate comfortably.

Furthermore, he needed those two mystic shells to level up to the advance true mage.

Without caring for the wounded man\'s feelings whatsoever, Jeremy continued his interrogation,

"How do you get the mission?"

"Sir Yuriy sent his representative to our academy to recruit us..." Xildas replied honestly after recalling the event when someone suddenly came to recruit them.

Upon hearing about the guy named Sir Yuriy for the second time, Jeremy finally asked to clear his doubt,

"Who is the so-called Sir Yuriy?"

"He is a cupid from the main light faction..."

Upon hearing Xildas\' reply, Jeremy\'s eyes promptly lit up as he had finally found one of his must-kill targets.

\'I\'ve finally found you...\'

Jeremy thought to himself with a hidden glint reflected deeply within his eyes.

In fact, Jeremy really wanted to kill the cupid...

However, the reason he wanted to kill the cupid wasn\'t that he desired to take revenge on the nonsensical design of the tutorial or something like that.

Well, that was only a very tiny part that couldn\'t be held a grudge against...

The actual reason Jeremy wanted to kill the cupid was that the latter was the designer of this place, the tutorial zone 82,364.

Be that as it may, the designer of a tutorial would have accessibility to all of the participants\' information of the said tutorial without a doubt, of which Jeremy\'s information was also no exception here.

Even though the cupid, Yuriy, wouldn\'t know Jeremy\'s stats or personal information within his Status Window. However, it would at the very least receive a general report from the System stating that a human named Jeremy Caesar Lakota had miraculously cleared all three trials that it had designed with heart and bones.

To be honest, no matter one looked at the issue from which side, such a thing as completing all three trials with the Earthlings\' strength standards was impossible to happen in the first place...

Even a class-1 of human\'s various cultivation pathways would have to lose more than a buckle of sweat and blood to clear all three doors.

Then how could a newly arrived human from an unknown distant planet accomplish such a feat?

It was impossible to happen to begin with...

Afterward, Jeremy shook his head slightly to discard the thoughts as he didn\'t need to put the cupid as the priority to kill anymore because his new plan should be flawless enough to cover everything.

Then Jeremy asked Xildas further,

"Oh... I see. The next question; which district do you live in?"

"Third district..."

"Have you joined the War of the Worlds?"

"No..."

"That\'s perfect. Do you live alone or with someone else?"

"Perfect? Well, I live in the Academy dorm... alone..."

The back and forth of questions and answers session continued for quite some time, with Jeremy asking and Xildas answering, whereas the latter\'s face started becoming more and more confused with the passing time...

\'Why the heck does this man ask me these things for? He wants to make my biography or what? Whatever...\'

Xildas thought inwardly while answering Jeremy\'s questions nonstop...

...

Five minutes later...

Jeremy was seen to be sitting on a wooden chair while looking at Xildas, whom was leaning on the rocky wall.

"Do you have any friends?" Jeremy asked the wounded man.

Upon hearing Jeremy\'s question for the nth time, Xildas finally snapped as he really had no clue why the hateful man even bothered to ask him so many questions,

"I... I have... Why!? Why do you even ask me these things? I know you won\'t spare me anyway, so just kill me!" Xildas spoke while gritting his teeth in hatred towards the \'interrogator\'.

However, Jeremy seemed to be uncaring as always and spoke up in return shortly,

"Well... You haven\'t answered my question..."

After Xildas had heard the man\'s words, he finally couldn\'t control his emotions anymore as the overflowing feelings within his chest exploded out uncontrollably like a broken dam...

*Sob* *Sob*

"WHY!!"

He cried and shouted in sadness and sorrow at his own fate and at the man whom was responsible for making his fate become like this...

\'This annoying jerk...\' Jeremy thought in vexation at the crying baby.

Upon seeing the young man in front of him crying like a kid for quite some seconds, Jeremy shrugged his shoulder slightly with a \'what the fuck?\' expression plastered on his face.

"Alright then."

Jeremy said lightly while plunging the spear out, without any prior sign or anything, towards the crying man\'s right leg...

*Puchi*

*Plush*

The spear blade went inside and was retracted back from the sobbing man\'s leg swiftly...

"Aarghhh!!"

"It hurts!! Why!!!?"

Xildas screamed loudly and looked at the perpetrator hatefully after feeling the sudden pain in his leg.

The pain on his two legs felt pretty unbearable, together with the blood loss, he appeared ready to be losing consciousness at any time.

\'This guy is pretty honest indeed... honest to his own feelings...\'

Jeremy thought amusingly to himself after seeing Xildas\' behaviors.

After all, Jeremy couldn\'t care less about the man\'s revengeful expression or health conditions at all as they were just strangers towards each other in the end.

Right after finishing his momentarily thought, Jeremy spoke up with an indifferent face and cold voice towards Xildas,

"Now, answer my question."