The Place Where Everything Begins

After several seconds passed by, everyone finally came back to their senses.

"Woahhh..."

"Wowww..."

"That's incredible."

"If that thing ever hits me, I'm fucked..."

They exclaimed in astonishment at the detrimental damages caused by a single Mana Bolt spell.

Meanwhile, most people's eyes were radiating fervent heat like devout believers. Within their minds, they thought that with this Mana Bolt spell, they could at least save their own lives when the time came for them to fend for themselves.

Even the 2 younger brothers of Owen's were showing excited expression for them to be able to witness a spell being fired for real like in the games.

Well, a part of those people were showing their dread and anxiety about the danger and hazard of the spell. Within their minds, it was like playing with a bomb. If they didn't handle the thing well, they would be royally doomed.

"Wow! That is awesome! You are SUPERRRR COOOLLLL!!"

Not waiting for long, Charlotte who was thinking that Jeremy was too cool and had already finished his explanations and demonstrations, started to express her thoughts that were running wildly within her mind for quite sometime.

"If I have something like that, I will be able to obliterate anyone whom dares to mess with me!! I will pass the tutorial that you has been speaking of so easily."

With an approving nod, Samuel who was standing beside Charlotte and her friends also expressed his consented opinion.

Everyone else also started to nod their heads one by one in approval at the feasibility of surviving the tutorial.

When Jeremy saw their conformity of thoughts about the usefulness of the spell, he calmly explained further about the reasons why he had chosen this spell.

"As you can see, this left-handed glove needs an activation code to be able to cast the spell. You should have heard that I spoke a single word before a glowing light suddenly came out of the glove's palm, right?"

When he saw that all of them nodded their heads in consent, he continued.

"The code for this left-handed glove is 'Vitas'. As or the right-handed one, it is 'Milos'. This rule is also applied to every single glove within this backpack."

After removing the glove from his hand, he started explaining the rule of how to activate the spell while pointing his index finger at the backpack beside his feet.

Unsurprisingly, within his backpack was filled with around 35 other gloves enough for all people here to wear except for Jeremy of course.

He didn't need something like that when he reached the tutorial zone where the concentration of mana was several hundreds of times higher than Earth.

At that time, he could cast Mana Bolt spell as many times as he wanted...

"Also, keep this in mind... the spell won't work if you don't wear the glove and say the correct activation code of the array engraved on it."

After telling them about how to activate the spell, he also warned them about the 2 requirements to activate the spell.

"Any question?"

Saying till here, Jeremy paused a bit for those people to organize their thoughts and ask him some questions.

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"..."

Right after Jeremy had allowed them to ask questions, dead air had descended upon them.

Most people were looking left and right to see if their family members or friends had any question.

However, that only increased the stalemate of the current situations.

Until some 30 seconds later...

"Why this spell? There is no better spell than Mana Bolt?"

The silent Owen asked quite an important question as always.

Hearing that, everyone else including Jeremy nodded their heads in approval at Owen's question.

"Yes, it is as you have thought. In the past dozens of days, I've thought about what spell should be given to you guys to maximize your probability of survival. After a long debate in my own thoughts, I've decided to pick the Mana Bolt spell because of its versatility in various situations. I also have to consider about the limits of my current strength. So, the best spell for 'our' current situations is Mana Bo..."

"I want to try it!!"

When Jeremy was calmly explaining about the reasons why he had chosen this spell, he was unexpectedly interrupted by the sudden voice of Charlotte's.

'This girl... Sigh...' Jeremy and other people thought in dismay.

Meanwhile, Charlotte who was feeling thrilled from head to toe while ignoring the stumped looks from everyone, she requested Jeremy to try the spell.

Not minding about the fact that those people around her knew that she was the one who had screamed in terror like a little girl in a horror movie earlier when the explosion and crashing sounds rang out.

However, after they saw what feats the glove and the spell could do, they also started to get excited.

Going with the flows was good most of the time after all.

So, they were waiting for Jeremy to let them try it one by one.

Still...

"Don't get overexcited just yet. There was still one flaw with the gloves. Which is... they are consumables with only 2 uses per glove."

Jeremy shut down the energetic Charlotte and everyone else with a few sentences.

"As you can see, the mana used to maintain the functions to keep the spell potency in its original state is quite demanding. Even if I had already used a drop of purest mana fluid to inscribe each one of these gloves. Unfortunately, they could only remain functioning for around 2 months, and each one of them could be used only 2 times."

Even if they were ignorant about 'a drop of purest mana fluid', they still got a gist of it. That was... it must be something very powerful and precious.

Speaking till here, Jeremy paused for a bit, then continued.

"Everyone of you will get a pair of these gloves as welcome gifts to my organization, that means each one of you can cast Mana Bolt spell for a total of 4 times. Oh... by the way, except for you, Charlotte."

Right when Charlotte had heard Jeremy's words, her eyes brightened up once again with hope. Since she was a little princess who really loved special treatments from others.

In other words, she was a spoiled brat...

Also, most people usually preferred special treatments from the person you like, right?

She was also the same...

However...

"You will get this left-handed glove, together with another right-handed one. That will make you have a total usage of 3 times."

Jeremy said with a warm and harmless smile to Charlotte whom was on cloud nine just a moment ago.

But right after hearing Jeremy's words, she fell down into hell nine in mere seconds.

Meanwhile, some people in the group were feeling terror within their minds.

It was not a terror from the limited usage of Mana Bolt spell.

But it was actually a terror from Charlotte's crying…

'The legendary crybaby is coming back...' Frank, Charlotte's father thought horribly.

'Oh no! Not now...' Thought, Charlotte's grandfather, Sebastian Rosenburg.

'Shit!' Samuel cursed in his mind.

Half of the people here knew what exactly would happen if they didn't stop Charlotte from crying.

Shit would get real...

However, when they realized that there was one person who could shut her down with a snap of his finger, they loosened up a bit.

Fortunately, Jeremy wasn't that 'heartless' to his friends, that was a thing for his foes and mortal enemies.

"Well, I'm just kidding with you. I will refill it up before giving the glove to you, okay?"

*Hu-uuk*

When Charlotte heard that Jeremy was just kidding with her, she did the 'hu-uuk' sound, then she miraculously stopped crying.

Her tears had returned back into her lacrimal grands with some unknown methods.

"Rea... Really..?"

Charlotte asked Jeremy meekly like she was being bullied by a hooligan.

"It's real, see? I've already refilled it up a moment ago."

Jeremy said while walking into the garage's entrance direction with a backpack hanging on his back. At the same time, he was swinging the glove in the air for Charlotte to see.

At last, Charlotte calmed down...

In the past, whenever the legendary crybaby Charlotte came back, she would cry relentlessly for a full day until she fell asleep. That's also the reason why they didn't want her to cry ever again in this life.

Even with Jeremy's spells, they were still terrified of her crying within their fragile hearts.

Maybe, that's why they treated her like a princess?

Maybe, they were afraid of her crying?

That's why, when they saw that Charlotte had finally calmed down after being reassured by Jeremy's words, her family members and friends sighed in relieve.

Meanwhile, everyone else started to laugh a bit at the current drama that helped alleviate the mood quite a lot considering that they would face life-threatening dangers soon.

Most of them smiled and laughed warmly at the sudden change of moods.

Not everything was bad after all...