The Place Where Everything Begins

Not long after, when Jeremy had tried to search for his soul within the depth of his mind, he suddenly entered into his sea of consciousness.

It was quite an easy feat for him to access into it because it had already been formed after ever since his breakthrough into an Apprentice Mage stage.

Concurrently, he was standing right in the middle of a white space which was an original shape and structure of most people's sea of consciousness. Its interior was completely white, with a seemingly infinite border distance away from him.

He could only see whiteness in every direction of his sight, the ceiling was white, his left side was white, his right side was also white, even the floor underneath his dashing eggs was white.

He couldn't even fathom that he was standing on a white floor or he was floating still in a white space.

It was just white...

Everything was white...

Seeing those sights, Jeremy suddenly closed his virtual eyes, and imagined a scene from one of his countless memories. It was a very simple scene of a clear light blue sky with solid brown soil underneath. Then he thought about a pond of water in the middle of the land.

Afterwards, he opened his eyes to see that everything was being depicted according to his imagination.

The sky was splendid blue...

The high quality brown soil was astonishingly beautiful...

The moderate size pond was filled with transparent milky white water...

Except...

When he took a look around, he saw that the supposed unlimited white space that should be able to generate an infinite area of land and sky, was changed with only a small circled enclosed part of around 10 acres into a land and sky area.

As for the outside of the 10 acres area, they were still white, and it was clear that there was an invisible wall separating between the sea of consciousness area and the white space into a circle area.

That meant his sea of consciousness was only as big as this land and sky area, and the white space was still inaccessible to him at the moment.

But Jeremy never cared about that, he only took a look around briefly before focusing his sight on the center of the land, the 'pond'.

Right now, the pond of unknown water was situated at around 20 meters away from him.

So, he walked slowly into the direction of the pond. Soon, he reached the edge of the pond. But he never stopped his footsteps at all even after reaching the pond's edge, and without any hesitation, he took a step into the pond...

Step by step...

Until the unknown water submerged his entire body completely.

Then he closed his eyes and tried to recall every piece of information related to Enchantment.

After sometime, a huge amount of information about Enchantment from his past life started to resurface within his mind once again. Starting from knowledge from his acquaintances, books, experiments, ancient sites, and many more.

This information about Enchantment actually belonged to him since his past life. But because of his current soul and mind were too weak to host all of the memory and information, it could only be sealed away within this murky white unknown water.

The water within the pond was acting as an inner layer of his sea of consciousness. Meanwhile, the land was acting as a middle layer, the sky as his soul and will. Lastly, the white space could be called by many names, but it was usually referred to as an outer layer of soul and mind by most people.

Right now...

One by one, the information and details about Enchantment reappeared within Jeremy's mind.

Following that, he discarded every other information unrelated to the second stage of Enchantment by simply willing it using his mind.

Another period of time had passed by, only a sizable part of knowledge remained inside his mind. Then he started to filter out every other Enchantment diagram that wasn't associated or was unusable with his current resources.

Afterwards, there were only 3 diagrams remained inside his mind of which had different synchronization rates with the various materials.

Still, Jeremy wasn't hurry. He kept those 3 diagrams inside his mind for the time being. Then he thought about the related runes for the 3 diagrams, and those runes must be highly compatible with the materials of the 'staff'.

After an unknown amount of time passed by, another huge amount of information started to resurface within his mind once again. However, this time, its sheer amount was so much that Jeremy had a frown appeared on his forehead.

If someone was currently staying near his main body in the basement, they would have seen that Jeremy had several beads of sweat seeping out from his forehead, and his back was also drenched with sweat.

Not wanting to burden himself for long with the vast amount of Runeword knowledge, he started to filter it down by comparing them with the 3 diagrams to see whether they were compatible with one another or not.

Until only some odd thousands of runes remained inside his mind.

After that, he relaxed himself a bit, and started to calculate the synchronization rates of the 3 diagrams with runes and materials.

Some time later, there were only 2 diagrams and almost a thousand of runes remained inside his mind.

With the first diagram that had a comprehensive success rates of 76%, and a synchronization rates with the material and runes of around 82%.

Meanwhile, the second diagram had a 53% success rates, and a synchronization rates with the material and runes of around 94%.

It was clear that there were pros and cons to the 2 diagrams. If he wanted to risk it with the second diagram of 53% success rates, he would get a better staff out of it.

Still, it might fell because of its low success rate...

However, if he decided to play it safe with the first diagram, he would have had a higher chance to successfully enchant the staff for his use. But of course, with a tad bit lower quality than the second diagram.

Jeremy was thinking very seriously about the 2 diagrams...

Furthermore, time was never his ally in his current situations...

Because couldn't manage to gather another set of materials and mana to enchant another staff if this one were to fail.

So...

Right now, Jeremy had to decide about which diagram to be used to create his 'staff'.

Then after some minutes passed by, Jeremy thought relievedly, 'It was not that hard to decide after all... Let's use the first diagram then.'

He only had one chance at it after all...

Right after deciding to use the first diagram and its corresponding sets of Mana Runes to create the 'staff'. Jeremy removed everything about the second diagram from his mind letting it submerge back into the milky white water.

'I'm feeling a bit lightheaded now. I should go back to the outside world for the time being.' Jeremy thought tiringly to himself after his memories about the second diagram got submerged into the water completely.

Then he closed his virtual eyes trying to pull his consciousness back into his real body.

...

Soon, Jeremy who had been closing his eyes while sitting cross-legged in meditation beside the leather doormat the entire time, suddenly opened his ice-cold eyes.

*Fwuuu...*

Jeremy exhaled lightly and thought to himself, 'This task has put quite a toll on my current sea of consciousness. I think, I should take a short rest before proceeding with the Enchanting process then.'

After thinking so, Jeremy took out his phone from the right pants pocket. Then he took a look at the time on the phone, he saw that it was showing 4:43 p.m. of which was almost time for his dinner.

'Hmmm... only 3 minutes has passed by since I did the meditation to access into my sea of consciousness. After that, I spent around 2 minutes and a half to reach the white space, then I only stayed inside my sea of consciousness for around 30 or so seconds to filter my memory about Enchantment...'

Jeremy pondered to himself after seeing that he tried to access into his sea of consciousness at around 4:40 p.m., and the time was 4:43 p.m. right now.

Then he thought further, 'I'm sure that, I had stayed inside my sea of consciousness for more than 12 days... but the outside world's time had just passed by for only some odd 30 seconds...'

'If it were me in my past life, I should have done dozens of times better than this. The time passed by couldn't be more than 2 seconds at all. Still... this is a very good start for me...'

Jeremy lightly smiled, then he stood up, and walked back up the staircase into the living room. He wanted to chill for a bit with some animes before ordering McDonial for his dinner.

Currently, Jeremy was in a very good mood...