The Place Where Everything Begins

One hour later...

The dawn had finally come as the darkness in the sky receded bit by bit...

Currently, Jeremy was roaming in the brightening winter forest with his face looked quite depressed.

The reason?

The wolves... every wolf avoided Jeremy whenever they saw even a shadow of the black-cloaked human, no wolf stayed, as they would run as fast as they could away from the wolf slaughterer.

It appeared that when the System had notified him about the wolf slaughterer of the great-something tribe, it also caused the wolves within the winter forest to be afraid of him.

As a result, from the aimless wander since an hour ago, Jeremy had killed only three wolves, no more, no less.

Even when he had tortured the three pitiful wolves to call forth their comrades and packs, it was utterly useless. No wolf came...

That's why Jeremy looked very depressed right now...

His second priority about gathering more SP had finally come to an eventual end.

*Fwuuu...*

'If I didn't kill that gnoll but left him half-dead instead, would those wolves still run away from me?'

'Well...'

'Whatever... I should have got more than ten thousand SP anyway. It should be enough to buy at least two skills.'

Upon thinking so, Jeremy could only shake his head slightly in regret.

The reason for his regret was simple...

Because the easy-difficulty trial gave him more than 13,000 SP because Jeremy had cleared every nook and cranny within the trial, causing him to earn the maximum amount possible from the said trial.

But this time...

There were still almost half of the wolves left, which meant more than 10,000 SP was waiting to be harvested by Jeremy.

The amount he missed was almost the same as the entire easy trial's amount of SP...

However, Jeremy couldn't waste days or even months to hunt those cowardly wolves within this 80 square miles winter forest, could he?

It was almost a thankless job even for the greedy Jeremy himself...

'Those people in the tutorial chamber should be facing the 7th wave soon. If I hurry back, I might make it in time and get some SP from killing the outlanders.' Jeremy thought to himself ponderingly...

Afterward, Jeremy walked back in the brick house's direction.

It was finally time for him to go out of this somewhat cold place...

...

Inside the Tutorial Chamber...

Currently, there was a bloody battle between two sides ongoing here...

The battles took place in front of the two passageways, with one side comprised of only humans, while another side consisted of many races, which were skeleton soldiers, imps, wolves, and even some goblins.

Meanwhile, every human combatant wore sturdy bronze and steel armors while carrying various common ranked weapons. However, the outlanders also didn't lose out as skeleton soldiers, imps, and goblins also wore good-quality armor and held sharp weapons in their hands.

Well, two or three goblins even had bows within their hands, aiming towards humans constantly.

Regarding the number of the two sides, the outlanders clearly outnumbered the humans for around 3 to 1.

As a result, humans could only defend and fight against the outlanders passively while using various traps and barricades to their advantage.

Despite the fact that they were utilizing their sharp and solid hand-made traps and barricades, those outlanders still found some gaps to give a decent melee struggle with humans.

The life-and-death fight fell into a stalemate...

At this time, in front of the left passageway...

*Thump* *Thump*

"Ah, fucking shit goblins."

Joshua cursed at the two goblins, whom were using their maces to strike his shield incessantly.

Then he turned his turned and shouted towards someone on his left side,

"Bob! Kill this one for me."

"Die bitch, die!!"

Upon seeing that Bob, who was the only one around him with a long weapon, was busily attacking another goblin in front of him, Joshua could only grit his teeth and received another two attacks from the goblins.

*Thump* *Thump*

"Damn it." Joshua cursed at the goblins.

"Giee..."

*Huff* *Huff*

It seemed like the goblin on Joshua's right side felt a bit numb on its arm from the continuous bombarding on his solid shield as it suddenly let out huffing noises.

Upon seeing that sight, Joshua's eyes lit up so suddenly, and he started his counterattack by using the short steel sword in his right hand, slashing at the huffing green creature's neck...

"Annoying green dwarf. Die!!"

*Whoosh*

The short sword generated a whooshing sound as it moved towards the shocked goblin quickly.

However...

*Clang*

Joshua's short sword was unexpectedly clashed with by the mace of another goblin that had assaulted him earlier.

'Shit...'

Joshua cursed inwardly while hurriedly pulled his left arm back behind the shield...

*Thump* *Thump*

Thus, the two annoying goblins' barraging continued, whereas Joshua could only keep on defending against them, trying to find another opening.

*Thump* *Thump*

'Ahh... My arm is so fucking numb.'

Having thought so, Joshua turned his head to look at Bob, only to see that he was now busy with an imp instead after he had somehow pierced the goblin he had fought earlier with the long spear.

"Die bitch, die!!" Bob roared towards the little, flying imp.

After seeing Bob was still unavailable, Joshua turned to his head towards the right side to request help from a man who looked like a street thug, William, instead.

But Joshua's eyes suddenly widened in shock...

Because William had a long fork stabbed hazardously at the left side of his body.

That was naturally the doings of an imp...

"Aargh!! Diee!!"

William shouted painfully while swinging his mace with full force at the flying imp...

*Bam*

The insolent imp dropped dead to the ground with its entire body's bones fractured from the impact.

However, William also didn't look good either as the fork had penetrated deep into his side.

It happened that in this wave, those annoying imps suddenly got new weapons, forks, with a length of around 50 centimeters.

Thus, when the sharp forks combined with the annoying capabilities of the imps, they created a true nightmare for every combatant inside the clearing.

"No... William!!" Joshua shouted with eyes widened.

*Thump* *Thump*

Still, he couldn't do anything at all after seeing his comrade being punctured with a sharp fork.

'What to do...'

Joshua thought while seeing William fell on one knee towards the ground.

At that moment...

"It looks like you guys want some help."

The voice of a certain someone rang out from behind Joshua and William.

The voice was akin to a heavenly bell ringing in a time of unholy crisis, as the hellish plight seemed to recede and retreat away from the sacred sounds.

Obviously, it was none other than Jeremy's voice...

When Jeremy finished saying those words, he didn't wait for those dazed people's reply at all as he rushed into the fray with the spear in hand.

Soon after Jeremy had joined the fray, the outlander's number reduced at a fast pace, for they to be killed easily by Jeremy's artfully spearmanship...

*Whoosh* *Crunch*

*Puchi* *Bam*

Jeremy attacked left and right while rushing into the middle of the enemy's frontline...

Jeremy alone turned the tide of the battle into another direction...