The Place Where Everything Begins

Some minutes later...

*Flip-flop*

*Flip-flop*

The footsteps echoed out from a dark passageway leading to the tutorial chamber with a green Crystal in the middle.

'He is honest indeed; at least he didn't lie to me about the interconnection between the two tutorial chambers...'

Jeremy thought to himself after finally seeing the floating green Crystal in the distance.

It appeared the two tutorial chambers were connected with one another in a full circle..

However, Jeremy didn't feel like he had been walking in a circle because the whole place was an enclosed space.

Due to such enclosed space, a person's sense of direction was significantly distorted, making the person unaware that they walked in a straight line or a circle.

At this moment, Jeremy was finally back inside the main tutorial chamber. Then, he proceeded towards the giant Crystal without further ado.

Upon arriving before the green Crystal, Jeremy reached out his hand to touch it.

Then the three options, [Shop], [Mission], and [Leaderboard], showed up before Jeremy as he chose the [Shop] option first and foremost...

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[Weapons]

[Clothes]

[Miscellaneous]

[Skills]

[Your Current Balance: 1,672 SP]

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After seeing his own SP remaining from buying the skills the previous time combined with the 1,500 or so SP from killing the giant spider, Jeremy promptly thought to himself,

'Alright, let's buy some clothes of which people won't recognize me...'

Having thought so, Jeremy chose the [Clothes] option...

Afterward, he browsed through various types of clothing within the Shop.

Shortly after, Jeremy finally decided on two sets of plain-looking black combat suits, using more than 120 SP to buy both of them.

With the remaining 1,552 SP, Jeremy proceeded to the main objective he had come here for, which was the [Skills] option.

Simultaneously, a new interface containing almost two hundred skills showed up before Jeremy.

Afterward, he scrolled down to the skill number in the mid-50s, which was those skills that could be bought many times, unlike the skill number 100 onwards.

Upon finally seeing the skill he wanted, Jeremy chose to buy it without any hesitation...

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[Would you like to buy Skill no.54, [Mimic Voice] for 1,225 SP?]

[Yes │ No]

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After choosing 'Yes', a new interface suddenly popped up before Jeremy...

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[A total of 1,225 SP have been deducted from your SP account]

[You have received the [Mimic Voice] skill]

[You currently have 327 SP remaining]

[There will be no explanation about how to upgrade the skills further; you have to explore and upgrade those skills by your own self. Good luck.]

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After buying the things he came here for, Jeremy retracted his hand back and thought,

'Now, the only thing left is to leave here via the teleportation circle, which will lead me to somewhere within the second stage; even XIldas doesn't know about the specific destination... After that, a chance for me to use the special access will come...'

Having thought about his following steps, Jeremy walked back into the passageway he had just come out from.

'Let's try the new skill...'

Jeremy thought while looking at the small window in front of him...

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Mimic Voice (Basic - Active Skill): Upon activating, you can adjust your voice as you wish for 5 minutes. (Cooldown 1 hour)

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After dismissing the interface, Jeremy commanded within his mind,

'[Mimic Voice]'

Simultaneously, Jeremy felt itchy within his throat for a split second, signifying the skill had been activated successfully.

"Ahem..." Jeremy cleared his throat for a bit before testing his voice,

"Test, one, two, three..."

After hearing the strange and sonorous voice coming out of his mouth, Jeremy furrowed his eyebrows before thinking to himself,

'Hmm... Not this one...'

Upon thinking so, Jeremy tried another voice right away...

"Ahem... Test, test, hello..."

'Almost there...'

"Ahem... Hello, I'm Xildas Lichtenburg from Rekonia Academy."

'Alright! This one, it is.'

Having tested and adjusted his voice a few times, Jeremy nodded his head in satisfaction as he could finally imitate Xildas' voice.

Jeremy continued walking in the dark passageway for some minutes before he finally arrived back inside the tutorial chamber with red Crystal.

Without further ado, Jeremy walked into the secret chamber where the brief battle took place.

Afterward, he brought out one of the black combat suits he had bought from the Shop earlier, and then wore it.

At the same time, Jeremy kept the rekonia brooch, his current clothes, and the steel spear back inside the glove.

Meanwhile, the red crystal necklace was also snuck within the suit's collar, making it unable to be seen by others.

Regarding the wristwatch, as it was a spatial storage item, it couldn't be kept within another spatial storage item, so Jeremy decided to put it within a suit's pocket instead.

After promptly bringing two short knives out from the glove and attached them to the suit's sheathes, Jeremy thought shortly,

'Everything is ready...'

Having thought so, he walked to stand on the teleportation's circle like the previous time.

Simultaneously, the inscription on the platform lit up once again, creating the illuminating white light shining on the surroundings.

The teleportation circle's mechanisms operated like Jeremy's two gloves and also using the same method of Array-Enchantment inscription to create. So, it could be used continuously until the auto-refill function and stored mana ran dry.

Just like that, Jeremy's body was engulfed wholly by white light generated from the inscription.

Not even ten seconds later, Jeremy's figure disappeared from the chamber without a trace.

He finally left the tutorial's first stage after being here and battling continually for more than 61 hours...

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*Whoosh*

Jeremy's body suddenly appeared out of thin air within a completely dark space, but strangely, he could clearly see every part of his body.

The situation was just like when he was teleported to and fro from the hard trial...

'Alright, my most favorite place of the entire tutorial...' thought Jeremy upon opening his eyes slowly to look around.

At this time, Jeremy couldn't see anything around him at all, that was, except for his body.

It was fortunate that the status quo didn't remain like that for long as an interface suddenly popped up before Jeremy...