The Place Where Everything Begins

*Hiss!*

All of a sudden, the struggling giant spider let out a hissing noise from its distorted mouth...

'Well, a beast's final struggle...?'

Jeremy exclaimed inwardly and hurriedly rolled to the right side to avoid the enemy's attack...

Sure enough...

*Squelch*

The noise, generated from a nasty-looking purple substance hitting against the solid cave-like floor at some meters away, suddenly rang out as the substance went past Jeremy's body dangerously...

It appeared that the severely wounded forsaker was resilient enough and still had a will to fight with the hateful human.

However, this should have been its last effort already, as after letting out the acidic liquid from the mouth, the giant spider's body promptly swayed left and right before its four legs eventually became jelly and ultimately gave out.

*Thud*

The giant spider's head suddenly fell onto the ground along with its upper torso as its body weight became imbalanced from the loss of four front legs...

*Thump*

Simultaneously, the spider's enormous belly also dropped heavily onto the floor, creating a thumping noise within the quiet chamber.

Meanwhile...

*Sizizizizi*

The place where the purple substance landed earlier suddenly let out a sizzling noise because of the stone being corroded heavily.

At this time, Jeremy had already stood up from the ground and started walking towards the giant spider.

When he arrived two meters away from the limping half-dead creature, Jeremy stared directly into the latter's remaining eyes.

To be honest, Jeremy's eyes didn't contain pity, empathy, or compassion in them at all, as those limpid blue eyes were rather indifferent and emotionless...

Then, with those impassive eyes, Jeremy lightly plunged the spear blade towards the spider's head, at exactly where its brain was situated.

*Puchi*

The spear blade went inside the forsaker's forehead smoothly with a 'puchi' noise...

After all, Jeremy's physical strength was at least three or four times stronger than an ordinary human. So, his 'lightly' strike might appear to be a full-force strike from other humans.

That's why the spear blade went inside the spider's head, penetrating through its white skull, and embedded itself within the creature's brain smoothly...

At this moment, the giant spider's large body started convulsing agitatedly while its four long legs also thrashed on the ground creating the grating noise constantly.

*Plush*

Jeremy pulled the spear back lightly as the black blood trail came permeating out from the creature's forehead.

Simultaneously, the convulsing giant spider also stopped thrashing as its limbs became limp and dropped weakly to the ground with thudding noises.

Afterward, the spider ceased all of its movements entirely; even its heart also stopped beating slower and slower at this moment, until it eventually stopped after a few seconds...

The last boss of the whole ten hordes of monsters had finally been slain... by a single human...

Shortly after, a window of notifications suddenly popped up in front of Jeremy...

...

[You have received 1,523 SP]

[You have received 6x★ for successfully killing a no-named foot soldier of Noir Keista]

...

'Not bad for the exchange of my precious mana...' Jeremy thought momentarily and nodded satisfactorily after seeing his rewards received from slaying the giant spider.

After the interface disappeared, Jeremy turned to look at the spear blade, as some chunks of the black brain were stuck gruesomely on the blade's body that had just come out from inside the monster's skull.

It appeared that even the creature's brain was also black in color, the same as its blood...

Afterward, Jeremy turned back towards the spider's cold corpse before raising the spear into the air.

Then, out of nowhere, he swung the spear downward diagonally from above the spider's head...

*Whoosh*

The spear was swung down powerfully as the brain chunks on the spear blade were flung out with the passing wind.

A split second later...

*Splitch*

The sound of thick flesh and bones being sliced apart rang out within the silent tutorial chamber...

The dead spider's head was bisected in half, as the left and right parts dropped towards the two sides like a watermelon sliced in half by a kitchen knife.

Meanwhile, the perpetrator, Jeremy, didn't show any expression at all after doing and seeing such an obnoxious thing.

'Let's see...'

Jeremy thought briefly while looking scrutinizingly at the creature's brain parts that were now split open in two, clearly exposing the black brain clumps inside the white skull.

Then Jeremy used the spear blade to rake and poke all around the creature's brain areas as if wanting to play with the brain.

However, Jeremy was, in fact, finding something within the brain clumps, not playing with it in any way...

*Splat*

*Splat*

The unpleasant noises rang out as Jeremy continued to poke left and right...

Until...

'Oh, there it is...'

Jeremy exclaimed inwardly after finally seeing something within the black brain mush. It was a small transparent prismatic crystal the size of a person's pinky nail embedded inside the mashed brain.

Well, due to Jeremy poking here and there inside the creature's skull, the brain chunks inside now looked unlike typical brains anymore, but it was more like a disgusting black paste instead.

Afterward, Jeremy used the spear blade to rake out the crystal from the disgusting black brain...

*Cling...*

The almost inaudible clinging noise rang out when the tiny transparent crystal fell on the floor.

Surprisingly enough for the black brain and blood of the contaminated forsaker to have a transparent crystal embedded within.

Also, the crystal looked as pure as it could be; it was indeed bizarre to have such a pure thing stay together with one of the most corrupted things like this.

Right now, Jeremy was looking at the crystal with a light smile as he scrutinized its looks carefully...

Albeit still being covered by some black blood stains and tiny brain pieces, Jeremy could still roughly see its looks somehow...

From the crystal's outer appearance, if it were on Earth, the prismatic crystal should be surely called 'Doubly Terminated Crystal' as it had two natural terminations on both ends of its body.

At first glance, the crystal looked very ordinary and typical, just like any other crystal in the market, which was not expensive at all. At most, it would be sold at a moderate price to any lady that wanted to supplement her own beauty.

However, the little thing lying on the ground ahead of Jeremy was another story entirely, as the crystal on Earth and this one here couldn't even be placed at the same level in the first place.

Whether it be in the aspect of usefulness, price, or rarity, the transparent crystal on the ground had clearly exceeded the one from Earth by a large margin.

After all, the transparent crystal was one of the main currencies used by most races on Ortus.

It simply meant if a person somehow carried enough amount of the said crystal and moved to live in another race's territory, the person would be able to buy literally anything he wanted by spending the crystal he had.

'An unexpected windfall, huh...'

'Like this, it looks like my last battle here will be a lot easier than I've initially thought...'

Jeremy thought with a mysterious smile while looking silently at the nail-sized crystal lying on the ground....