The Place Where Everything Begins

Chapter 29 - Missions

After being teleported into the cave-like room, which was considered the real tutorial place, everyone's status window would have an additional option, ' Mission', whose content could be viewed by willing it using their mind.

Right now, Jeremy was checking his main missions of the tutorial...

...

? Tutorial Mission: Survive I?

? Survive until only 15 people remain (?)

? Survive 10 monster hordes (??)

? Complete 4 missions from the Survival Crystal (???)

? Find and use a secret teleportation circle (????)

? Kill a no-named foot soldier of Noir Keista (?????)

? ??? (?)

? After finishing one of the tutorial missions, you can choose to be teleported into the next stage.?

...

After seeing that the content of the primary missions from the tutorial remained the same, Jeremy walked unhurriedly to the floating light green Survival Crystal at the center of the room.

But soon, he realized that most people were swarming the crystal, giving no room for him to touch the crystal at all.

As the space around the crystal was limited, but everyone wanted to see its content with their own eyes, causing the place to be crowded in a blink of an eye.

Soon, the commotions broke out within the vicinity of the crystal...

"Hey! Let me in first; I want to see it. You... f*ck off!!"

A man in his 30s with casual clothes was the one who started the chaotic mess.

"You come later than us; why don't you wait in line for your own turn?"

A woman in her 40s who had been to the crystal faster said directly to the impudent man. However, that would only make the entire situation getting even worse.

*Sigh*

Jeremy let out a light sigh; he already knew what would have happened in the next few seconds from his previous life.

After the man bickered back at the woman, other 30 people who also didn't come fast enough to touch the crystal would start to get irritated for fear that those early people would snatch good items and good missions.

However, the people who had come in contact early with the crystal wouldn't back down and tell those late people to wait in line.

After that came the shout, push, and pull, until finally, violence commenced right after.

And when the commotion died down, those people would be divided into two main groups and many small groups.

That was only the start of tragedy that would befall them in the name of monster hordes...

If it were in normal situations like staying in line for the queue on Earth, the circumstances wouldn't get escalated until that point. At most, those late people would feel upset and complain to those early people. Afterward, they would wait in line for their respective queue.

However...

Every one of them had just experienced bizarre and horror-like situations causing them to be irrational and reckless.

That's why the matters would escalate into a huge mess of violence.

Until they divided themselves into groups...

Not waiting for the situation to intensify any further when he saw that no one was focusing their eyes on him, Jeremy raised his left and right index fingers into the air and started to draw runes. Meanwhile, his mouth was mumbling an unknown language to complement his spell casting process.

When he finished preparing the spell, Jeremy cast the two spells at almost the same time. They were a 'Sleep Spell' and a 'Hush Spell', causing the people to feel sleepy and sluggish suddenly.

Together with the quietness from the surroundings inducing from the 'Hush Spell', not even 10 seconds later, everyone except for Jeremy fell asleep at the place where they were standing before.

It was pretty good that they had flopped down onto the ground first before going to sleep later. Otherwise, if those people fell head-first onto the floor, they might get their heads bloodied as a result of that.

For ordinary people like them who had not even become a class 0 Scholar, Fighter, Soldier, Archer, etc., it was as easy as breathing for Jeremy to put them under his arsenal of spells.

They didn't have anything to defend or fend off Jeremy's spells at all...

Then Jeremy walked up to the floating crystal while casting his 'Mana Barrier Spell' to push away those people who were lying in front of him.

Every step he took was steady; every step he took had pushed away yet another person out of his path.

Just like that, he reached the crystal and then touched it.

...

Right in front of Jeremy, a transparent interface with three options suddenly projected there.

[Shop]

[Mission]

[Leaderboard]

Then Jeremy willed about the [Mission] option. Simultaneously, the interface changed into a new one that focused only on various missions from the Survival Crystal.

As for the missions' content, they were divided into two sections, six by 4. As a result, there were precisely six missions for the first section, four missions for the second section, and those missions were arranged from the easiest mission at the top to the hardest mission at the bottom.

Starting from the first section, which was to kill 10 skeleton soldiers, kill 10 imps, kill 8 wolves, kill 5 goblins, kill 5 humans, and kill 2 hobgoblins.

Then the second section contained four missions. Those missions were to pass the easy difficulty door, pass the normal difficulty door, pass the hard difficulty door, and lastly, ???.

The last mission was actually written in 3 question marks which meant that everyone had to explore it on their own.

That was... if they were able to complete it in the first place...

All of the missions had a specific number of Survival Point, or SP displayed behind the mission titles.

Started by killing ten skeleton soldiers; they would get 400 SP by completing the mission. That didn't even include the SP they would get from killing an individual skeleton soldier as of yet. It meant that if they were to finish this mission successfully, they would get more than just 400 SP.

Moreover, the harder the mission was, the higher the SP they would get from completing it. Except for the last mission, that was '???', the reward they would get from completing it was actually written as '???' as well.

Furthermore, from the arrangement of the two sections' missions, it could only be said that exploring missions were harder than killing missions because the exploring missions were situated right below the killing missions.

'Hmmm... mission number 1 to 6 were about killing the lowest and low-rank organism. As for missions number 7 to 10, they were about exploring this place. Nothing is out of place here... Let's check the [Shop] option then.'

When he finished scrutinizing the missions, Jeremy tried searching for the items that could be bought by using SP.

After all, it was already a very long time ago that he had undergone the tutorial.

Right now, he was even wondering that would he be able to recall those items' information from his sea of consciousness or not. Let's assume that he could; still, it might require an arduous effort from him, and it might have put a heavy burden upon his mind for no reason.

So, for something trivial like this, he better check it himself, which required less effort than accessing it by using his sea of consciousness.

After Jeremy willed about the [Shop] option, there were two options left which were [Buy] and [Sell]. For now, he didn't want to sell anything. So, he accessed the [Buy] option; the interface changed once again.

Currently, there were four options to be chosen from. They were...

[Weapons]

[Clothes]

[Miscellaneous]

[Skills]

After seeing the four options, Jeremy decided to ignore [Weapons], [Clothes], and [Miscellaneous] for now because within the [Weapons] option, there were only common rank items which were a whopping two ranks below his rare ranked staff.

Furthermore, he also had his own steel spear for close combat, which ranked at a very high grade for a common rank item.

As for [Clothes] option, there were only clothing-related kinds of stuff necessary for a person to wear and change daily. There was no magical clothing within the shop at all.

Even if there were one, everyone right here wouldn't have enough SP to buy it anyway. Its price should be sky-high as an Eiffel Tower.

At most, there should be some good-grade armors to fend off the various physical attacks that they would be receiving from the monsters' claws.

As for [Miscellaneous] option, there were various personal care products from toothpaste, shampoo, soap, foods, rations, tent, lipstick, powder, toilet, and even small hut.

This one was quite special because it contained necessary items, such as a toilet or a small hut which had a water system and waste disposal system within. It was like this because everyone here needed to attend to their routine 'activities'...

That's why there were more than one thousand items in this option, of which Jeremy had already prepared his own miscellaneous items, that was... except for the toilet...

Concurrently, Jeremy was using the mind command to access the [Skills] option. Instantly after, the interface changed into a new one.

Right now, there was a long row list of skills projected on the interface. Looking at the right top corner of the interface, Jeremy saw a number of 186. That meant 186 skills were currently purchasable.

Additionally, behind those skills, there were numbers signifying the remaining buyable times that could be bought from, while behind those numbers, there stated the price of each skill ranging from the cheapest one at the top to the most expensive one at the bottom.

Unsurprisingly, most skills right there were passive skills with only some active skills that mostly mingled in the middle and last section of the skills.

Jeremy was currently scrolling down while skimming the skill names.

He saw many skills being projected past by his retinas, such as fishing, boxing, sword-wielding, spear-wielding, cooking, talking, stealth, and many more.

The sounds of sword-wielding or stealth skill might seem extraordinary at first glance, but Jeremy knew that they were only at the very basic level of which the person who bought those skills had to hone and train in them for a very long time before they could level them up further.

So, Jeremy ignored most of the skills that could be easily acquired by putting in some efforts for now.

He kept scrolling down and down, passing the middle section, but he still saw nothing that might be useful for him.

Right when he was scrolling down casually, not expecting to see anything that would be able to surprise him anymore.

Jeremy's eyes abruptly widened...