The Place Where Everything Begins

『 You have received 4x★ for successfully finding and using a secret teleportation circle 』

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『 Tutorial Mission: Survive I 』

⎯ Survive until only 15 people remain (★) (Completed)

⎯ Survive 10 monster hordes (★★) (Completed)

⎯ Complete 4 missions from the Survival Crystal (★★★) (Completed)

⎯ Find and use a secret teleportation circle (★★★★) (Completed)

⎯ Kill a no-named foot soldier of Noir Keista (★★★★★) (Completed)

⎯ Kill the supervisor of the tutorial zone 82,364, Xildas Lichtenburg (✰) (Completed)

『 After finishing one of the Tutorial Missions, you can choose to be teleported into the next stage 』

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Upon seeing the sudden four-black-star reward and the tutorial missions interface before him, Jeremy thought wonderingly,

'Oh? The interface even projects by itself... This should be the System's doings. Hmm... Like this, I have already completed every mission possible within the first stage.'

'I wonder how high my final rewards and evaluation will be...'

Jeremy finished his thought with a smile.

When the interface finally faded away from his view, another one suddenly showed up...

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[Leaderboard]

Zone: 82,364

Survivors: 2,236

Your Ranking: 1st Place ?

[Your ranking has been ranked according to your total Survival Points earned]

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After seeing the Leaderboard being projected out of the blue the same as the tutorial missions' one, Jeremy thought to himself with a slight frown,

'Hmm... I'm still ranked first... Also, only ten or so hours have passed since then, but more than three hundred people had died already.'

'In the second stage, the skirmishes should be very bloody... Still, I remember vaguely that in my past life, the battle with the Kenku race was not intense to this degree.'

'Heh... Do the survival of Eddie, Mitchell, Joshua, Bob, and others create butterfly effects in the second stage somehow?'

'Interesting, I really want to enter the fray now... but before that, my rewards first...'

Right when Jeremy had finished his momentarily thought, another interface containing his 'overpowered' rewards promptly showed up...

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『 Congratulations! You have passed the first stage of the tutorial 』

『 The System will initiate the evaluating process by comparing the Le'Liac species' strength standards to your achievements and calculating the respective rewards 』

『 You rank first in the tutorial zone 82,364 - Rank 3 achievement 』

『 You have completed every mission in the Crystal's missions list - Rank 5 achievement 』

『 You have cleared the hidden mission in Easy Trial - Rank 4 achievement 』

『 You have cleared the hidden mission in Normal Trial - Rank 6 achievement 』

『 You have cleared the hidden mission in Hard Trial - Rank 8 achievement 』

『 You have completed every mission in the Tutorial Missions list - Rank 6 achievement 』

『 You have cleared the hidden mission in the Tutorial Missions list - Rank 8 achievement 』

『 Calculating your appropriate rewards; please wait... 』

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'Oh my... I've accomplished quite an amount of achievements,' thought Jeremy in excitement after seeing his achievements and their respective ranks.

The former sage couldn't help but feel excited on occasion like this...

Then Jeremy suddenly thought of something,

'Come to think about it, my past life's achievement in the first stage was... well, it was 'none'... I had accomplished nothing at all back then...'

It couldn't be helped that Jeremy had not achieved any great feat in his past life. After all, he was only a normal NEET when he was suddenly 'kidnapped' back then. His physical body was only considered 'average' at most.

However, Jeremy was completely different than the past him this time around. Moreover, he came fully prepared for the tutorial...

'By the way, why does the System take so long to calculate my rewards? It's been thirty seconds already...'

While Jeremy was thinking here and there, the interface before him suddenly spotted some changes...

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『 Calculating complete... 』

『 You have received the first qualification to enter Pantheon 』

『 Your Ortus' citizenship is upgraded to Grade A-9 』

『 You have received a Rank 8 title, The Unnatural Blender 』

『 You have received a Rank 9 title, The Undestined One 』

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'What the... hell...?'

Jeremy bumbled to himself after seeing the four rewards as he hadn't expected a rank-9 title or the so-called qualification at all.

Regarding Jeremy's rewards this time, starting with 'the first qualification to enter Pantheon', as the name suggested, it was the first out of the three qualifications for one to enter Pantheon, the place where most elites assembled.

Pantheon was the place where elites among geniuses from various races gathered to win more resources and fame for themselves.

The Advent of the End, aka Final War where Jeremy was stabbed in the heart, also took place in a remote area of Pantheon.

In the past, Jeremy had received the first qualification when he successfully breakthrough to class 6 Archmage.

The second qualification was when he became the first being in the universe to reach class-7 of the mage pathway, Sage.

The last qualification was when Jeremy obliterated the entire 'town' together with a certain dragon's life. Well, the 'town' on the planet Ortus usually had more than one billion lifeforms inhabited...

That's why Jeremy felt quite surprised that he had suddenly obtained the first qualification here; after all, it was ten eras before his past life.

However, Jeremy's surprise didn't end there as the rewards were getting bigger and bigger as he swept his eyes down the interface...

Jeremy's second reward was something called Grade A-9 citizenship, which simply meant he would have more rights than people with lower grades than him.

For example, the people with Grade A-8, A-7, A-6, ..., A-1, B-9, B-8, and so on would not be able to request the System for an exchange or trade for Jeremy's personal information.

Only the people with Grade S-1, S-2, S-3 citizenship onwards would be able to request the stuff related to Jeremy from the System.

Even so, those people still had to pay a very hefty sum in the form of black and white stars for the exchange. Such an exchange was not something a sane person would do because 'stars' were too hard to earn after arriving at Ortus.

Furthermore, 'stars' couldn't be gifted, sold, or exchanged between organisms. The only way to exchange 'stars' was with the System.

'Like this, my private information will be safe for the time being...' thought Jeremy with a genuinely happy smile.

Then he looked at the third and fourth rewards...