The Place Where Everything Begins

Before long, the cupid spoke once again.

"Ahemm.. Ahemm.. Listen here everyone"

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"!!!"

Having heard that sentence, everyone's body trembled instinctively, they then thought to themselves, 'It is the f*cking same speech! That cupid, he is acting like nothing has happened at all'.

Consequently, everyone felt more and more fearful towards the cupid.

As a result, within their eyes, he was not a 4 years old cute little cupid anymore. Right now, he was more of a devil who had disguised himself as a cupid instead.

After realizing that everyone was finally quiet and everything was in order as he wished, the cupid then continued his speech, not caring for what other people below were thinking within their mind.

"I will say it only this once. So, listen carefully..."

"Now, all of you, a total of 10,000 people.. err.. no, I mean a total of 9,914 people were standing in a place called Tutorial. This place will help you adapt yourselves and make you qualified enough to live in your new home, Ortus. Well... only if you 'survive' the Tutorial, that is..."

"You might be curious about why all of you have to pass the tutorial before you can live on Ortus, right? The answer is simple... it's because the resources on Ortus is very limited. If your entire human race goes and lives there, most of you will die or become slaves instead."

"So, here we come!! The tutorial to make you get stronger and be qualified to live on Ortus without having to face 'too many' problems."

When the cupid had finished its speech with a cold light radiating from his two narrowed green eyes, he asked further, "Am I clear?".

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After not seeing any negative response from the 'clowns'. He felt satisfied with himself, then he continued his speech.

"Then I'll introduce you to some basic pieces of information that all of you should know beforehand. First of all, every living and non-living thing on Ortus, also includes this Tutorial, will have their own status window that will be showing them the name, race, class, title, elements, talents, traits, and achievements that can only be viewed by the owner, unless you want to share it to others, nobody can see it."

"Now, you can call for the status window by saying the word 'Status' or 'Status Window' within your mind, or you can say it out loud. It's up to you."

Not long after, the room was filled with noise and murmuring again. It was a result of those people experiencing something very amazing.

Most of the people right now, had an almost transparent status window at almost 1 meter in front of them.

As for Jeremy, he was also looking at his own status window that was showing...

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Name: Jeremy Caesar Lakota

Race: Human (Le'Liac - Low Rank Organism)

Class: Journeyman Mage (Peak - Substage 4 of Class 1 Mage)

Title: Mage of Origin (Rank 10 - Inactive), Prodigy Mage (Rank 8 - Inactive), First Mage (Rank 5 - Inactive), NEET (Rank 0 - Inactive)

Affinity:

- Fire (Common): 45.2%

- Darkness (Uncommon): 34.8%

- Space (Rare): 89.9%

- Divinity (Unique): 0.1%

Talent: Prodigy of Magic

Trait: Objective

Achievement:

1. For you, who is the fastest of your own kind to shed a mortal skin, and become the first person to tread in a long and arduous path of truth seeking. The system shall grant you with the title of 'First Mage'.

2. For you, who were born a Prodigy. For you, who is destined to be standing at the very top of the universe's food chain. The system shall grant you with the title of 'Prodigy Mage'.

3. For you, who achieves the impossible. For you, who defies the universe's rules. For you, who had reached first substage of a Class 1 Mage within a mana-less world. This is an attainment that can never be duplicated by anyone for eternity, even the Gods feel helpless with its plausibility. It is thus considered as an achievement that shall be chronicled at the highest level of Akashic Records forevermore. The universe itself shall grant you with the title of 'Mage of Origin'.

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"!!!"

"What... the... actual... f*ck?"

Jeremy mumbled dumbfoundedly after seeing his own status window. He had never seen something like that before. Even the demigods, dragons, and other exotic races, they shouldn't be able to possess something like that, a rank 10 title...

'Is that a rank 10 title, furthermore, granted by the universe itself? My traits and talents, aren't they looking too godly for a starter? After all, they are my traits and talents from when I was the former sage. And... is that a f*cking Divinity? Am I a god or something now? Are my eyes pulling a prank on me? Holy... shit...'

As far as Jeremy knew, only those self-proclaimed gods had rank 9 titles, and also those same gods had Divinity powers when they wielded their power. But, it was only rumors after all... No sane god would exposed their secret to mortal.

When he saw his own status, he was very startled that he had actually received a rank 10 title which was unheard of before in his entire life... no... it was unheard of before in the entire Ortus.

Meanwhile, he was in doubt and suspicious about that tad bit 0.1% of divinity affinity.

'Something is fishy here... really... really fishy...' Jeremy thought to himself frowningly.

He then thought and thought about many possibilities. Starting from the time before his demise, when he suddenly 'feel' the purest mana particle on Earth, until today, when he actually saw his own status window.

Suddenly...

*Click*

Jeremy felt like something was clicked inside his mind. It was like someone had just unlocked the door to the enlightened road for him.

"!!!"

Jeremy's brain was running at light speed until it was almost imploded.

'So... it is like this huh? Now, that I have thought about it, then if I combine those jigsaws together...'

'The small stone that I accidentally acquired...'

'The sudden inspiration of the time reversal spell...'

'The too smooth assassination on me....'

'The process of casting the 9th circle spell that has a very low chance of success rates, but I actually succeeded...'

'The mana that has miraculously presented on Earth...'

'The scheming self-proclaimed Gods...'

'The Divinity Affinity in my status window...'

'The ignorant Akashic Records that should originally be an Omniscient existence...'

'And lastly the universe itself... the Omnipresent one has even granted me a title personally.'

The more he thought about it, the more wide his eyes became. He was currently utterly shocked to the core.

He was feeling so shock to suddenly know about the grand scheme that might have fooled 'every single one' in the universe.

*Sighhh...*

Jeremy let out a long sigh.

'Now, I see... 'They' had really played me a big time. Additionally, I didn't even realize anything back then. If it is not for my smart brain, I might still be as ignorant as 'Them'.' Jeremy thought relievedly to himself.

It was good that he actually realized about the scheme fast enough. If he had ever entered Ortus without realizing this fact, he might just be played and toyed with like his last life.

'Anyway, it is of no use to think about those things right now. Let's focus on the priorities first.'

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'Let's see, hmm... my Prodigy Mage title and Prodigy of Magic talent still remain the same. In my past life, they actually appeared after I had meditated for the first time. But this time, I guess that because I've meditated since months ago. That's why they have already been within my status window.'

'Unfortunately, my other 4 talents, Unrivaled Wisdom, Imaginative Thinker, Polyglot Expert, and Seventh Sense are nowhere to be seen. It seems like I will have to get them back by doing the same thing, or maybe I should get something better instead of those talents. Also, my rank 6 title, Mystery Decipherer, and other low ranks titles also disappear...'

'And my 4 traits, Unfathomable, Mysterious, Leader, Greedy also do not appear on my status window. Nevermind it then, they are not that important anyway. I can get even better traits if my actions are in the right paths'

'As for my elemental affinity, except for the additional 0.1% Divinity, everything else was the same.'

Even after rechecking his status window many times, Jeremy was still being skeptical about his own stats. He also believed that the moment he clicked activate his rank 5, 8, and 10 titles, the d*mn cupid would notice him and try its hardest to kill him.

'After all, 'They' don't want any variable to pop up and ruin their grand plan after all.' Jeremy thought to himself, and then calmed his mind down in an instant to not cause any suspicious to the cupid.

Currently, Jeremy's reaction was quite normal and average when being compared to those people around him whom were wondering and being amazed by the Status Window.

Well... most people were grumbling and cursing about their trash rank 0 titles, trash talents, and trash traits.

Jeremy even saw someone activating their rank 0 titles, such as Street Thug, Bookworm, Otaku, Sleeper, and Slut.

He saw many kinds of titles being displayed above those people's heads. And to not stand out or attract any attention, he decided not to show his title for now.

'A sage like me doesn't deserve that NEET title. And no way in hell or after my death that I will show it to anyone. My pride can not tolerate that shame and insult.'

After the white room was filled with noisy sounds once again causing the cupid to also feel agitated from the current atmosphere.

Thus, the chilling sensation was descending upon the crowd one more time.

That made the people below to remember that there was a terrifying cold-blooded cupid still hovering above their heads.

They had to shut up now or never...

When the quietness reigned in once again. The cupid continued its explanations about the basic information to the 9,900 or so Earthlings.

"As you can see, I'm not talking bullsh*t to you guys. It is up to you guys to improve those stats in your Status Window and climb the predatory ladders by yourselves. From now on, you are going to undergo a period of selection called Tutorial. As for how the tutorials are going to be like, I can only say that they are random... completely random."

After pausing for 3 seconds waiting for the people below to digest the information. The cupid continued.

"The system will randomly generate the tutorial for you guys to undergo together. It might be, killing one another until 100 of you remain, defending a town from the hordes of monsters, raiding a dangerous dungeon together, or being divided into groups, then competing with one another... only until one group remains. I cannot be so sure about anything regarding the tutorial that you guys are going to face..."

"But there is one thing that I can be very sure of, that is, at least more than 90% of you will be dead, and the rest will be living on Ortus forevermore. My words are so true... So, remember it well..."

Then it continued with its final sentence.

"I believe that you must have too many questions that want to be answered, but sadly, I'm not your babysitter. All of your answers will be waiting for you in the Tutorial and lastly... Ortus. I hope that we will see each other again. Bye-bye."

Not waiting for the people below to come out from their stupors. The cupid clapped its small hands together, then the people within the white room were teleported away once again.

Before Jeremy was teleported, he thought while grinning widely, 'Same speech huh... Well, I hope that the tutorial will also be the sam...'

*Whoosh*

Jeremy's body disappeared simultaneously with the crowd...