The Place Where Everything Begins

10 days later...

Within Jeremy's house basement.

Currently, Jeremy was sitting on a chair in front of a working bench while cutting some bits and parts of the trees that he had collected from the ancient trees since weeks ago.

If one took a look closely at him, they would only see that Jeremy was cutting, splitting, trimming, and carving those wooden parts randomly.

However, if that same person took a look carefully at the working bench in front of Jeremy, they would see that the bits and parts of countless trees were orderly placed in a straight line. Well, if they had to count those pieces, they would be accounted to more than 500-600 pieces in big and small size.

As for how those pieces looked like when they were placed on the table. One could only say that, if they were to be accounted separately, every piece of them would look really random. However, if they were to be combined with one another, it would be as if they could become a long staff of more than 170 cm in length.

And exactly that...

Jeremy's real purpose of cutting so many pieces from various trees, was to create a staff for himself.

Speaking of the way to create a staff, the method that Jeremy had chosen to combine and craft the staff was 'Enchantment'.

Enchantment was one of the many auxiliary branches of Magic System, and it was actually one of the most important branch at that.

As for the reason, it was because Enchantment was the only way for the feeble mage to craft a magical item for their own use.

Of course, there were also many exceptions to that. For example, a mage who learned how to smith instead of Enchantment. That way, the mage needed to learn a secondary class as a Blacksmith, and they must have quite a decent fire affinity at that, to be able to create a magical item without using the Enchantment method.

There was also another example of when a mage learn a secondary class as a Crafter, Tailor, Mechanic, etc.

However, all those secondary classes required much more patient, dedication, and requirements than using Enchantment method of which by using the Enchantment method, the mage didn't need to learn a secondary class and didn't need to complete many requirements as those methods.

That's why Jeremy had chosen the Enchantment method as the way to craft his weapon, the staff.

'Finally, the last piece is done...' Jeremy thought to himself after finishing the last part of the staff.

Then he placed the part at the top of the 'staff', the piece actually looked like an ordinary toothpick with a bit of curve here and there. But when it was placed at the top of the 'staff', it surprisingly looked harmonious and concordant with the rest of the pieces.

He was currently admiring and checking the beautiful pieces of art that he had spent more than 10 days of arduous work to finish.

Thereafter, Jeremy brought out a furless animal leather doormat from under the working table the size of 2x3 meters, then spread it on the floor. It was the thing, he had ordered from Amazon several days ago.

Then he started to bring the pieces of the 'staff' down placing them piece by piece on the doormat.

He did the job very carefully, not to miss or misplace any piece, or else his staff might be crippled in the Enchantment process.

Afterwards, with the last piece being placed on the doormat, he brought out a dazzling round golden orb the size of 5 cm in diameters with the weight of around 4 kg from his backpack situated on the working bench.

Thus, it was now reflecting the beautiful yellow dusk like ray from the light bulbs on the basement's ceiling into every direction causing the walls in the basement to shine in a light yellow color.

Right now, even Jeremy who was looking directly at the orb on his right palm in a fascinating expression, his ice-cold eyes was radiating its yellow light halo.

One of the purest gold on Earth, it was just that mesmerizing and captivating...

After bringing out the orb, Jeremy placed it at the top center of the 'staff' that was being left empty until now.

Then he checked every nook and cranny of the 'staff' to see if there was anything missing or being misplaced or not.

*Fwuuu...*

When he realized that there was nothing wrong with the 'staff', Jeremy exhaled a long breath of cold air.

Then Jeremy thought ponderingly to himself while taking a deep look at the 'staff', 'Now, the last thing to do is to set up an Enchantment Diagram for this staff, then inscript the runes on the diagram. Hmmm... It seems like the first stage of Enchantment won't be anywhere nearly enough to fuse those pieces together.'

'That makes it the second stage then... A bit hard with my current soul strength, but with the help of my sea of consciousness, it should be somewhat possible.'

'Alright, from the looks of it, around 30-31 mL of mana fluid should be enough. But... which diagram will be best for this staff?'

Jeremy, who had been thinking until this point, started to consider about the resources he currently had, and what enchantment method to be used.

Even after thinking for sometime, he still couldn't come up with the best diagram for the 'staff'.

So, he decided to sit down on the spot and closed his eyes preparing to do meditation.

Not long after, he entered into a meditating state of which, right after that, he tried to access into his sea of consciousness.

Actually, a sea of consciousness's main function was to govern one's mind. It was clearly different from soul strength that was closely related to one's will.

It could be said that, the body was the outer layer of a person. Then within one's body, there situated a sea of consciousness that directly influenced a person's mind. Lastly, at the center of the sea of consciousness, there was something called 'soul' residing there which was the source of a person's will.

A sea of consciousness could also act as the first layer of defense for a person's mind and soul. It could also be used to observe the internal and external world of a person of which would be increased accordingly with higher cultivation or higher class.

For those reasons alone, a person's sea of consciousness must be as strong as their body and soul if not stronger to protect the person's achilles heel, the soul.

That meant, even if a person's personal strength was heaven defying, but their sea of consciousness was weak, that person might be easily killed by a weaker cultivator or class with stronger soul and sea of consciousness.

That's why, most of the time, a sea of consciousness could only be accessed by high ranked classes. Only those higher ranked classes had the privilege of attacking and invading others' mind and soul with only some few exceptions for certain races and classes.

In Jeremy's case, it was somewhat different from others. In his past life, he had accessed into his sea of consciousness when he reached a Class 3 Grand Mage. Meanwhile, other people had to struggle to access into their sea of consciousness even after they reached a Class 4 of their respective pathway.

However...

In this life, Jeremy could already enter into his sea of consciousness since when he had tried to breakthrough into an Apprentice Mage stage. It happened at the time when his mind and body were completely exhausted that he achieved a breakthrough.

As for the reason why he never bothered to enter into his sea of consciousness was because, there was no need to access into it at all. Because right now, his sea of consciousness was very small, and it couldn't be used to attack anyone.

At most, it could only be used to defend against a mild mind strike, search his dormant memories, and also scan a small area around himself with his mind sense that was directly related to his sea of consciousness.

Let's come back to the current situations...

As of now, Jeremy was sitting cross-legged while doing meditation.

Not long after, he...