The Place Where Everything Begins

*Creaks*

*Bam!*

With the door-closing sounds rang out behind him, Jeremy didn't even turn his head to look at it this time, as he knew the 'door' had by now disappeared into nothingness.

Currently, Jeremy was in a separate dimension like last time when he had undergone the easy trial within easy-difficulty door...

As for the environment...

Jeremy frowned slightly and thought to himself,

'It is a bit cold. Maybe around 20 degrees Fahrenheit. Hmm... This is a... winter forest?'

[A/N: Approximately -7 degrees Celsius.]

At this moment, Jeremy was standing in the middle of a forest covered with countless snowflakes building up to become snow mounds at some places.

Even the ground was built up with more than five centimeters thick of snow.

The trees here were pretty tall, but their appearances were those of the dried-up trees with no leaves on their branches, no flowers on their leaves, and no fruits on their flowers.

'No wonder, I have never heard of anyone passing this normal-difficulty door, as the climate is not ideal for any living thing at all, let alone fighting with outlanders.'

Meanwhile, Jeremy took a look around himself...

Unfortunately, no matter where he turned his head to, he would only see whiteness originated from snow and countless parched tall trees everywhere.

It was an ideal 'winter forest' with nothing more, nothing less...

*Sigh*

'In a place this vast, my 1st tier exploration spell is utterly inefficient, as it will consume most of my mana with no noticeable result at all. If I knew it would be like this, I would have bought [Eagles Eyes] skill instead.'

With a sigh of regret, Jeremy thought about the advantages and benefits of the skill, [Eagles Eyes] in this situation.

Still, there was no point crying over spilled milk...

Then Jeremy turned his head up to the bright white sky that had no cloud, sun, or even traces of a star at all, but he knew intuitively from his feeling about the space's fluctuation that it was daytime right now.

Jeremy's past life as a space sage had benefited him with many things; and one of the most important of them all was his knowledge from various researches he had done when being bored.

That's why Jeremy could tell intuitively that this separate dimension had its own cycle of day and night with some specific hours between them.

'It shouldn't be more than 6 hours before nighttime.'

Jeremy estimated each cycle time to be around 6 hours or less.

Right when Jeremy prepared to take a step forward, an interface suddenly popped up...

...

『 Normal Trial 』

『 Objective: Find an exit 』

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'The same mission as in easy-difficulty trial, huh. If it is like this, it is easy then...'

After seeing the projecting interface, Jeremy thought and smiled to himself mysteriously.

Right now, he was thinking the mission as one of the puzzles he had to solve before being able to leave this place.

Well, this was indeed a 'puzzle' for Jeremy and an easy one at that. After all, he had acquired a rank 6 title, Mystery Decipherer, in his past life by solving various mysterious puzzles and problems.

As for what the puzzle was about, it was simple...

After Jeremy had connected the dots about the word 'exit' with the easy-difficulty trial earlier, he would know that 'exit and entrance' tended to be 'interchangeable'.

That simply meant Jeremy only had to find another door to exit this place like in the easy trial.

There was also another case in which the 'exit' was not actually a 'door', but the chances of that happening were relatively lower than in the former case.

Because Jeremy's intuition told him strongly that he had to find a 'door' to leave this winter forest...

'Good, I finally have my priority.'

After thinking about his priority, Jeremy suddenly frowned with an abrupt realization. Then his left glove promptly shone with a white glow into a shape of a small rounded object.

Almost ten seconds later, a rounded compass with a red magnetized needle came out of his left glove's space storage.

Then Jeremy held the compass in front of him, looking at the red magnetized needle, which was supposed to always point towards the north magnetic pole if it was on Earth.

Unfortunately, the red needle within the compass acted like a chaotic, busy clock's needle, moving nonstop, signifying there was no north magnetic pole here, in this separate dimension.

Jeremy had already expected this result even before bringing out the compass; he had just tried his luck, that's all.

Upon knowing this place had no magnetic field, Jeremy knew he was royally fucked...

As he wouldn't know which direction to tread on, he would then walk in a circle like a lost boy...

With a deep, thoughtful frown between his eyebrows, Jeremy thought to himself,

'For god's sake. I don't know the fucking direction at all. No sun, no moon, no star, no magnetic field, no nothing.'

'So, that left me with only one way huh...'

When Jeremy finished those depressing thoughts, he brought out an ordinary dagger from his glove's storage.

Then he chose a direction on his right side and started walking in that direction.

With a certain interval of distance, whenever Jeremy met with a tree, he would leave a 'mark' on the said tree.

If Jeremy didn't want to waste his mana on the exploration spell, this was indeed the only way left for him.

Thus, he kept walking on the thick snow and continued marking the trees along the way like a machine.

It was such an arduous job, even for someone like him...

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[A/N: This is an important announcement, so I decide to put it here. Guess what? This book has just been contracted successfully. That means we're going premium soon! Let us celebrate together with some Golden Tickets and Power Stones... Anyhow, thank you for everyone's accompaniment. I'm very happy to have you guys with me here. Cheers!!]

[Good News: As I'm trying to write more chapters daily, I think I can increase the updating rates to 2 chapters per day after September 20, 2021. I don't know if I can do it or not, but I will try my best. So, you guys will see 9-11 chapters for 2 more weeks. After that, it will be increased accordingly.]