The Place Where Everything Begins

At a particular wooden house situated nearby the camping area...

After leaving his two knives with the guards outside, Jeremy walked into the wooden house.

*Knock* *Knock*

Jeremy knocked on the working room's door two times, awaiting a reply from the other side.

"Come in..." said the man in his early 20s from within the working room.

Having heard the approval, Jeremy turned the doorknob, opening the door before walking inside.

At this time, Kahn Lochner's working room appeared to be more decorated than Jeremy's last visit.

Except for the table, chair, and weapon hanger, there was another table with a set of four chairs situated some meters away from Kahn's worktable.

"What do you need from me, Mister Samson?" asked Kahn after seeing the middle-aged man, Tommy, come into the room.

Looking around the room for a bit, Jeremy looked Kahn in the eyes and said,

"I want to volunteer for a special scouting mission..."

"Oh?"

Kahn, who was about to write down the paper on his desk, promptly stopped his action and raised his head in wonder.

After all, volunteering to do a dangerous mission on their own was something a sane person would never do, so Kahn looked at the middle-aged man before him deeply as if to gauge the latter's intention.

Shortly after having thought about Tommy's three traits, Kahn finally realized that he himself was too paranoid in this situation. The middle-aged man before him was too good of a person to be suspected.

Kahn knew all too well that he was afraid something unexpected would happen to the camp, causing the human side to lose the kenkus in this life-or-death battle.

After realizing his paranoia, Kahn sighed lightly before opening his mouth,

"Alright, you know the departure time is in thirty minutes, right?"

"I know..." replied Jeremy.

Hearing the reply, Kahn inquired further,

"Which team do you want to join specifically?"

Simultaneously, Jeremy fell into a brief thought, thinking about who he wanted to be teamed up with.

After a few seconds, Jeremy shook his head slightly before answering,

"No, I will be okay with any team you pick for me."

"I understood. Hmm... Then, team 5, it is. I will notify the scout team about your calling to join. Regarding the departure, well, you have to arrive here, in front of this house, within the next 25 minutes. Now, you may go to prepare your own things, farewell."

Upon finishing his words, Kahn started writing down the paper once again, signifying the end of their short meeting.

"Alright..."

Having said goodbye in his own way, Jeremy walked outside the wooden house, retrieving the two knives from the guards before walking back to his tent in the camping area not far from here.

Along the way, Jeremy met Eddie and Mitchell standing in the vicinity of the camping area. The two guys wore full-body leather armor, indicating they would go on a scouting mission today.

When the duo saw Jeremy, they nodded their heads slightly to the latter as Jeremy also nodded back with a smile as a formality.

Afterward, there was no worthy event happening anymore as Jeremy proceeded forward. Soon, he arrived inside his tent.

Having closed the zipper up, Jeremy pondered to himself very profoundly,

'If the event progresses as my past life, which is unlikely to happen because of the butterfly effects, it will be more than ten days before the human side discovers the kenku's camp. Then, an all-out war will happen after that...'

'Still, I have to keep the worst-case possible in mind, which means it will take a very long time before the two sides discover another side's base.'

'However, the longer I let the situation be, the lesser amount of kenkus I can kill. That also means I will receive fewer Kill Points and Rare items.'

*Sigh...*

'If there is no cupid watching over this place, I will just storm the entire kenku camp alone...'

Having thought until this point, Jeremy shook his head dismissingly. There was no point mulling over such a thing he couldn't control.

Simultaneously, Jeremy continued his thought,

'If the brawn doesn't work, then I will use the brain instead...'

'First of all, I cannot attack those creatures directly. If I attack the kenku camp right away without caring shits, killing them until only five hundred of them remain, then the two watchful cupids will surely interfere, and I will be caught red-handed by them.'

'Secondly, there are a wolf den and many gnolls somewhere within this temperate forest of which I know the approximate direction of where the wolf den should be situated. Furthermore, I also know exactly where the kenku camp is situated.'

'Thirdly, the four missions, of which I have to accomplish to get those precious stars, consisting of finding and opening a secret treasure chest, ???, ???, and ???, especially the last one which gives out two white stars.'

'If I consider the various missions' difficulty levels of the first stage compared to the rewards received from accomplishing them, then the difficulty of the second and third mission should be as tough as defeating the Dokkaen in the hard trial and Xildas in the hidden chamber.'

'Regarding the last mission that gives out two white stars reward...'

Jeremy's eyes promptly brightened with hidden glints of light after thinking about what he had to do to gain the two white stars reward before continuing his thought,

'So, I should use that plan...'

'If I use that plan, the only problem is how to sneak away from the scouting group, unsuspected by the team members and undetected by the watchful cupids.'

'Alright, let's do that then...'

After finishing his long thought, Jeremy smiled to himself satisfactorily as he could finally find a way to end all this in one go while leaving behind a big mystery for those related in wonder and puzzlement.

'There are thirteen minutes before the appointed time comes...' Jeremy thought momentarily.

Surprisingly, Jeremy could feel the progress of time from the space fluctuation within the air.

To be honest, such a simple feat like perceiving 'space' was like a piece of cake for Jeremy.

'I will use this remaining timeframe to sort out the items within my spatial storage and prepare some contingency plans in case something goes awry. I will also have to find a good excuse to add the story up...'

Having thought about his following actions, Jeremy proceeded to finish them one by one.