The Place Where Everything Begins

*Fwoosh* *Puchi*

*Bam* *Crack*

"Arff..."

*Whoosh*

*Slash*

"Grurr!!"

On the bloody, sanguinary battlefield, two 'big' wolves stood face-to-face with a human holding a spear.

While blood, guts, and organs of many, many wolves were littering around the white snowy ground, causing it to be pink-red in color now.

Predictably, those unpleasant things dyeing the snow-white ground in reddish color were formed with the winter wolves killed by the human.

As for the perpetrator, it was undoubtedly the black-cloaked man holding the spear, Jeremy. Right now, he was facing the last two wolves.

Considering their body sizes, Jeremy was sure the two of them must be beta or even alpha wolves.

When the bloody fight commenced earlier, those two wolves had only stood at the sidelines howling and growling now and then as if giving orders to the omega wolves around.

"Well, there are still some big wolves, after all."

Having said that in English, Jeremy thought inwardly,

'It seems like the difficulty of this trial still cannot be underestimated. Alright, let's finish this fast; I'm a bit tired now.'

Then Jeremy clutched the spear shaft securely, readying himself to attack the wolves...

"Grurrr!!"

At the same time, the two large white wolves ran in separate directions, trying to attack Jeremy's flanks.

'As always... What a boring tactic.'

When Jeremy finished his thought, he dashed directly at the large wolf coming from his left side.

As the wolves were quite bigger, stronger and faster than the others, Jeremy had to be a bit more aggressive than usual.

Upon seeing the human had suddenly dashed in its direction, the wolf got surprised and tried its best to slow the speed down.

But it was too late, as the spear slash was coming its way very fast...

The only thing it could do right now was jumping as high as possible, so it did.

When the big wolf jumped high towards its 'prey', its upper body and forelegs had avoided the spear strike successfully...

However...

*Slash*

Unfortunately, its hind legs were not so lucky, as they were bisected in half, dropping to the ground independently followed shortly after by their owner's large body.

*Thud*

"Arf..."

*Puchi*

Jeremy pierced the wolf's neck mercilessly before turning his body to the fast-approaching, last wolf with a clenched left fist.

"Grurrr!!"

The last big wolf was already in mid-air, leaping towards Jeremy's right side with its front legs extending far and wide, preparing to maul the abominable human into pieces.

'You are pretty fast. But...'

Jeremy had already prepared for this coming scenario as he had already prepared his posture and stance with his clenched left fist.

Jeremy turned his body half round swiftly towards the right side with the clenched fist while swinging the said powerful fist aiming directly at the wolf's big skull in mid-air.

*Bam*

The one-meter-and-a-half-long wolf's momentum was changed and directed to another direction with its body went past Jeremy's right side promptly.

*Thud* *Thud*

As its large body rolled two rounds on the reddish snowy ground stopping at around ten meters behind Jeremy, which was a result of its body's momentum sliding with the snowy ground, creating a big and long groove along the way.

Then it struggled up shakily from the ground with somewhat difficulty...

"Graa..."

With a hard shake of its head, the big white wolf stared at Jeremy hatefully while growling with hate.

Then it kicked the ground with explosive force, dashing abruptly towards Jeremy again...

Despite its sudden concussion from the powerful punch earlier, it still didn't give up on revenge just yet.

It wanted revenge, for its new lover to be killed and its newly-acquired subordinates to be slaughtered by the hateful black, tall creature.

"Grurrr!!"

*Shuffle* *Shuffle* *Shuffle*

With the sudden adrenaline rush, the large wolf broke its whole life's speed records...

When it reached the optimum distance from its enemy, it condensed every iota of its weight, centering them at the four legs before propelling itself towards the tall, black creature with fearful, gaping maw.

Upon seeing the large animal's final struggle, Jeremy shook his head while retracting the spear towards his body.

Then with a quick thrust together with taking a simple sidestep to the left to avoid the large wolf, the spearhead traveled through the air at an almost untraceable speed.

*Puchi*

With the attacking-range advantage, the spear blade went directly inside the leaping wolf's gaping mouth, penetrating every obstructing organ in its way.

*Plush*

Afterward, Jeremy pulled the bloody spear out from the now-dead white wolf...

Then Jeremy took a look around the battlefield to see if there was any lucky 'survivor' or not.

Right now, the scene was depicted as such more than 30 wolves were lying and littering motionlessly on the ground with wet blood still oozing out from their fatal wounds constantly.

As for the white snowy ground from before the fight, there was no more...

The snowflakes on the ground within the battlefield's vicinity were already dyed in pink-reddish color for some time.

Meanwhile, the very perpetrator and sole painter of this 'panorama of the carnage', Jeremy, was standing still, having his black-cloaked soaked with iron-fishy blood and appalling gore of the wolves.

He looked just like a ruthless murderer coming straight out from a grade B horror movie back on Earth...

As the atmosphere around Jeremy was deadly silent, it seemed like no wolf dared to intrude into this cursed place for now.

'It is entertaining... indeed...'

During the bloody fight earlier, Jeremy's mana field projection had been automatically activated more than three times to protect him, as the omega wolves came from every direction at the same time, causing Jeremy to be unable to fend off some simultaneous attacks.

'There are 87% of mana left within my dantians...'

As a result, Jeremy had lost 2% of the 'inferior-quality mana' in the battle...

Nonetheless, he still won the fight, unscratched.

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[You have received 44 SP]

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[You have received 94 SP]

[You have received 97 SP]

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Soon, more than 30 notifications popped up in front of Jeremy, signifying the bloody fight had come to an eventual end.

'From this fight alone, I've got more than 1,500 SP. Moreover, my thought was wrong about this trial. It wasn't that hard, after all. If it is like this for every other pack of wolves, there should be around two or three bigger wolves among them. By the way... are they beta or alpha wolves?'

'Strange...'

Jeremy thought ponderingly with a slight frown to himself after receiving the rewards from hosting an eventful massacre earlier.

'My senses are telling me that something doesn't make sense here... But what is it?'

While thinking of those dilemmas, Jeremy receded away from the slaughtering, bloody battleground slowly, intending to find an empty clearing to take a short rest after a long journey and many fights.