The Place Where Everything Begins

At a particular oval amphitheater inside a separate dimension...

At this moment, a full-body armor warrior appeared to have a spear blade protruding out through his neck while fresh blood was seeping out from the wound gaps ceaselessly...

*Plush*

*Thud*

The spear was pulled out from the warrior's neck swiftly, causing the man's body to drop to the ground with a thudding sound...

*Gurgle*

*Gurgle*

Fresh blood oozed out from the big wound on the warrior's neck incessantly with the gurgling sounds as his body jerked and convulsed constantly.

While the convulsing warrior on the ground was also using his two hands to prevent the blood from coming out, but it was pointless...

Shortly after, the man finally stopped moving...

"Woahhh!!!"

"KILLL!!!"

"He won again!!"

"Blood, more!!!"

"Yeahhh!!!"

The cheering noises resounded out sonorously within the arena once again after seeing the sight of someone's death...

*Fwuu...*

Upon exhaling a long breath of cold air, Jeremy thought to himself while some sweat droplets seeped out from his forehead,

'The man can really give me a decent fight, huh...'

Indeed, the battle earlier had given Jeremy quite a challenge because he was attacked twice caused by the warrior's skills and somewhat superior strength, causing Jeremy's mana field to be projected twice in a short time of six or seven minutes.

Then a transparent window popped up in front of him...

...

[You have received 986 SP]

[You have received 4x★ for successfully killing a no-named Initiate Warrior]

[You have 10 minutes for recuperating]

...

'A no-named initiate warrior?' Jeremy thought to himself as his blue eyes lightened up.

Then after the notifications stating about the rewards disappeared from Jeremy's sight, other ones showed up instead...

...

[You have received 10,000 SP for successfully meeting the trial's objective]

[Would you like to be teleported outside?]

[Yes │ No]

...

'Well... the answer is obvious...'

After thinking so, Jeremy used his mind to choose the 'No' option, and then the interface promptly faded out from his view.

Upon looking briefly at the notifications, Jeremy thought further,

'If the boost of battle prowess continues increasing with this trend... Then, my next enemy should be as strong as the gnoll or even a bit stronger.'

'I might have to use magic to lessen the mana consumption from activating the mana field projection...'

After thinking about his future opponent and how to handle them, Jeremy crouched down to touch the dead warrior's cold body...

'Analyze'

Simultaneously, a small window popped up in front of him...

...

Race: Human (Artificial Species - Low-Rank Organism)

Class: Initiate Warrior (Substage 1 of Class 1 Warrior)

Status: Dead — Assumed to be dead because of blood loss caused by a sharp object penetrating through his neck.

Description: A low-rank organism that is decently familiar with an Aura energy particle, leading his physical body to be developed and more potent than his peers of the same class.

...

'Indeed, from the description alone has stated clearly that the man is stronger than the previous enemy. Then, the following one should be someone I cannot underestimate...' Jeremy thought with a slight frown.

Then without further dawdling, Jeremy walked back towards the arena's centermost area before bringing out the same wooden chair from his left glove.

Afterward, Jeremy sat down on the chair and waited patiently for the next battle...

...

Almost ten minutes later...

The black-cloaked Jeremy was seen standing with a spear in hand while looking silently at the dark passageway in front of him.

To be exact, he was staring at the black silhouette which was coming out from the inside.

*Flip-flop*

*Flip-flop*

When the creature's appearance became more apparent, the crowd's cheering came once again like a big tide.

However, Jeremy ignored those audiences and focused his mind entirely on the creature ahead of him.

'It wears such a minimal amount of clothes. Does it have a fetish of exhibitionism or what? Hmm... it doesn't wear shoes either...'

Jeremy thought while scrutinizing the creature carefully...

The incoming creature was only around one meter and a half in height. Even though it was somewhat short compared to humans, it had two long arms which should almost reach the ground if extended fully.

It had an almost rounded head, dark-purple eyes, long rocky eyebrows, yellow-brown skin, and a somewhat muscular yet plump body.

Behind the creature's back were rough hides comprised of rocks instead of skins like humans. It had light-brown rocky hair, round black eyes, and strange white tattoos spanning its entire body.

'Not a human? Hmm... from the looks, considering that pure elemental races are now extinct, the one in front of me should be a half-elemental race.'

Jeremy pondered to himself while using his left hand to scratch his chin lightly. Then he tilted his head a bit to the side and thought while still scratching his chin,

'Well, it looks familiar. I think I know its race... what is it again?'

'Hmm...'

'Right! It's a Goron from the Goron race, which is specialized in Earth element.'

[A/N: This is how a Goron looks like.]

After some seconds, Jeremy finally knew what the creature actually was. Fortunately, the information regarding the half-elemental race was still with him instead of inside his soul.

Pertaining to the so-called half-elemental races, they were the outlander races specialized in their respective elements inherited from the pure elemental races since birth.

All of the half-elemental races were born from some 'deeds' of the ancient pure elemental races, which were now extinct several tens of eras ago.

The reason why those pure elemental races were extinct was still a 'mystery' until now. Most people on Ortus only knew that those races suddenly disappeared one day and were never to be seen again.

Anyhow, for Jeremy, who had the Mystery Decipherer title, the word like 'mystery' didn't really exist in his dictionary as he knew why the elemental races disappeared from Ortus.

At this moment, it could be seen that the half-elemental creature in front of Jeremy was closely related to the Earth element simply because of the rocky hides stuck behind the creature's back and above its head.

'Even though it is just a young one, this will be a real tough battle...'

Jeremy thought with a slight frown after thinking about how a half-elemental creature could do.

To be honest, even the Goron in front of him had this 'tiny' body size, 'childish' appearance, and behind the Goron had only a 'minimal' amount of rocks, it would still pose a threat to Jeremy if he didn't take it seriously.

Also, if Jeremy really had to face the older one than the Goron ahead of him, he might think that this trial was a total scam, intending to reap Earthlings' lives with no way out for them.

'Let's see...'

Jeremy thought while looking at the now-stopping Goron. Then he opened his mouth to talk to it,

"Hi, young one. How are you?"

"..."

The young Goron widened his eyes in surprise upon hearing Jeremy's words, not expecting the human ahead could actually speak a universal language.

"I know that you understand me. Won't we talk for a bit before we start?" Jeremy added with a smile after seeing no response from his astonished opponent.

"..."

"..."

The two sides stood in a deadlock while staring at one another in the eyes for quite some seconds...