The Place Where Everything Begins

*Creaks*

*Bam!*

With the noise of the door behind him closing down, Jeremy walked out of the easy-difficulty door.

'Finally, I'm out...' An emotional thought glittered within his mind.

Having come out of the door, Jeremy thought back to a few minutes ago...

After he had walked into the last passageway, he encountered a door looking similar to the same door he used to enter the labyrinth. He also met with the final deathly trap that aimed to kill any careless person whom felt too overwhelmed after finally finding the exit.

In fact, the trap was just that the door was a 'fake' exit. Well, you might be able to call it an exit, but that must be interpreted with a connotation...

Why, you say?

Because after opening the door, you would be seeing nothing but tens of arrows whizzing towards your entire body, capable of transforming you into a porcupine within a split second.

That's why it could be called an 'exit'...

To be exact, it's indeed an exit, a 'figurative' exit to the afterlife...

Right then, Jeremy walked up to the 'side' of the door, then opened it...

*Whizz* x50

Accompanying with the whizzing sounds from an army of the arrows, Jeremy, who stood to the side of the door, was as safe as he could be.

*Clatter* x50

There came the sounds from arrows hitting the wall...

Then Jeremy went to pick up the arrows at the wall behind him and stored them inside his glove.

Afterward, he walked back to the now opened door and looked at the dark space ahead of him, only to see that it was pitch black like a dark void.

Then a notification suddenly popped up in front of his eyes stating that he had earned another 500 SP for successfully finding the 'true' exit.

With that notification projecting in front of him, he walked into the dark space...

As a result, he had gained more than 5,721 SP from this maze alone. It was considered quite a hefty sum even when compared to his past life; he only got around 1200 or so SP at that time, which was almost six times different.

Shaking his head not to think about those things anymore, Jeremy's eyes started shifting to the sight of the far opposite side of him instead.

At the far back right corner of the chamber, Jeremy saw more than 40 people currently fending off against tens of skeleton soldiers and five little flying imps with a long sharp tail each, acting as their weapons.

For reference, the skeleton soldiers only had white bones derived from an unknown bipedal race connected with one another. With their height around 170 cm, they wore nothing, and there were only long bones in their hands as weapons.

As for the imps, they were a little red-skinned creature of around 80 cm height with two short white horns protruding out of their small forehead altogether with a pair of tiny dark-red wings on their back. They looked just like a mischievous little demon from hell. While they wore only a pair of ragged underpants made from some unknown animal leathers, they had a long, sharp, and solid-looking tail as their weapons penetrating out of their ragged underpants.

Upon spotting that most men and some women were struggling and fighting hard against the outlanders, Jeremy turned his head to the duos Eddie and Mitchell, whom were fighting at the forefront valiantly while giving some orders here and there to the people around them.

Meanwhile, some elderly, children, injured people, and scared people who were either too selfish or unable to fight for their lives were huddling and embracing themselves at the corner in the back. They were hoping that the people in front of them would be able to protect them from harm.

Right now, those fighting people were standing in a crescent-shaped formation, clearly protecting the huddling people inside while trying so hard not to let the outlanders intrude into their range successfully.

Fortunately, there were only around 60 skeleton soldiers and five red imps this time round...

Otherwise, if they ever encountered more powerful or coordinated creatures, such as goblins or wolves, with their clumsy and inexperienced skills in wielding weapons together with their loose and makeshift formation, they'd be long dead by now.

'Everything turns out to be the same. Well, except for my absence, that should have been standing at the second defensive line while shaking in fear...'

Jeremy reminisced about his past life...

At that time, it had also played out like this time of which there were two lines of defense with the outer line being the front line fighting bravely with the monsters, while the second line was acting like substitute soldiers waiting for their turns to replace those tired front-liners.

Of course, Jeremy stood at the second line...

It took him quite a few waves of monsters before he could finally accept the reality and decided to fight with his life on the line at the frontline.

However, not even two waves later, he was backstabbed so badly by his 'supposed' comrade and had faced a near-death situation for the first time in his life.

That time, it was also the first time in his life that his good luck had kicked in, or maybe not luck, but the kindness of a good guy that had helped him out of his sure-death situation...

'Alright, enough distraction. Let me help them out a bit.'

Jeremy thought to himself while walking unhurriedly with a long steel spear in hand towards the place where the fight was taking place.

Step by step, Jeremy intended to return a life-saving favor this time around...

...

At the same moment...

*Thump*

After bashing his shield real hard at a skeleton soldier in front of him, Joshua thought to himself, 'Who is that; is it a human or a new enemy?'

As a result of his sight's angle and direction towards those three doors situated at the far-end wall, Joshua was the first to spot Jeremy's black hooded figure walking out of the door with a long spear in his right hand.

"Bob... Hey, Bob"

"Die bitch, die!!"

Having called out his 'new' friend, Bob, to tell him about his immediate discovery, but it seemed like Bob was busily attacking and defending against the annoying little imp that had kept harassing him ever since the start of this fight.

When Joshua saw that Bob was unavailable at the moment, he called out to Eddie, whom was fighting and standing on his left side instead.

"Hey, Eddie. Look over there; a person is walking here."

"Hmm? Where? Really?" Despite being occupied by two skeleton soldiers, Eddie still turned his head to ask Joshua briefly.

"There, at the doors' direct... Ah, shit!"

*Thump*

Joshua didn't even have a chance to finish his sentence; the earlier skeleton soldier returned to attack him again.

After Eddie saw that Joshua was still safe and sound, he turned his head past the Crystal till he finally saw that there was indeed a black-cloaked person holding a plain solid spear while walking into their direction from the doors' direction.

'He is not a skeleton. Maybe, a goblin or hobgoblin stated in the missions list?'

Having thought of this, Eddie signaled towards Mitchell, who was also fighting nearby him, to see the incoming black-cloaked person.

Like a chain effect, everyone started to notice Jeremy one by one. Soon, even those cowering people in the back also noticed him.

Just like that, Jeremy walked slowly to the battlefield...

Not long after, when he was about to walk past the Survival Crystal, Jeremy suddenly stopped...

"Look, that guy stops nearby the Crystal."

"Hmm?'

"What is he trying to do?"

"He is trying to touch the Crystal..."

"What the..."

"Did... did he just buy something? Look, he is placing something on the ground."

To the surprise, shout, perplexity, and amazement of those people, the cloaked man promptly placed down a rectangular-shaped wooden block with a small green button protruding out at the center on the ground.

It was an object bought from the 'shop'...

Then he pressed the green button, then took two steps back...

'Does he look stiff, or am I just hallucinating?' Eddie thought to himself in puzzlement when he saw the cloaked guy moved.

Actually, it was not only him who was thinking like that; many other people were also sharing the same thought as him.

To their surprise, the rectangular object on the ground started to expand horizontally first, then vertically later into the shape of... a public toilet?

At this moment, some people fighting with the skeleton soldiers and imps even slipped up and were attacked by skeletons' long bones, after seeing the sudden appearance of... the toilet.

Right when the green public toilet was erected fully, the black-hooded person hurriedly turned the doorknob and went inside...

And that's it...

'That guy came here only to use a toilet? I feel afraid for nothing then...' Eddie thought relievedly to himself after seeing the guy went inside.

*Bam*

"F*ck! It hurts, bastardized boney son of a bitch!!"

After being smacked on his bald head heavily by a skeleton soldier, Eddie shifted his focus back into the fight. After all, it was not a fight that he could afford to be careless for his and those innocent kids' lives were on the line here...

"Take this!!"

*Crunch*

*Bam*

*Thump*

"No shit, don't bump into me, watch your steps."

"Let me take a short break. You come here, replace me for a bit."

"Alright..."

*Clatter*

*Crunch*

*Bam*

"Argh!! That little shit pierced my arm!"

*Thump*

*Bam*

"Die die die die dieeee!!"

"Begone, thot!"

The intense fight continued with the two sides constantly trading blows like the interlude had never happened before...