The Place Where Everything Begins

Chapter 53 - I Will Be Back

"Well, I don't know."

Jeremy replied casually as always.

As Jeremy really didn't know if it would be okay or not to use this lineup to fight against those outlanders.

However, for his own greed and gain, aka Survival Points, in exchange for increasing everyone's survival chances, Jeremy decided to propose this condition to Mitchell.

Jeremy knew there would definitely be some outlanders slipped through him, so he decided to bring ten more people to back him up as an assurance.

If it were like this, Jeremy would be able to fight to his heart's content without caring about other people, as there were more than ten people on standby behind him, waiting to kill any leftover outlanders anytime.

Still, after everyone had heard Jeremy's words, aka the words of the man who proposed the plan to them as he was not even sure about the plausibility of the plan himself, everyone fell silent.

"..."

"..."

Their faces looked uncertain...

Should they call for reinforcements from the other side?

What should they do?

They didn't want to die like this, after all.

Upon seeing those ten people's expressions, especially Greedy Pig and Bad Mouther's ones were clearly expressing their utmost hesitation to be standing here, Jeremy decided to assure them a bit,

"Listen, all of you. I promise you that no more than 20% of those monsters will bypass me. You have my words. So, don't be so down, alright?"

"But Mister..."

"It is still..."

"There are too many..."

"Will you be okay? Should we..."

"We should fight them toge..."

"I think this idea is not good..."

Upon hearing so many people speaking various annoying words one after another, Jeremy thought to himself depressingly,

'Even after me, the former sage had stated my promise to them, lowly peasants, they still were unsatisfied? It seems like my credibility also reduces after going back in time. If it were my past life, these people wouldn't dare object to my words like this. For fuck sake."

Then Jeremy suddenly let out a sigh...

*Sigh*

The sigh that sounded normal yet felt so cold...

"..."

"..."

As everyone suddenly fell silent, like they felt something would go haywire immediately if they didn't close their mouths.

"Don't make me repeat myself. Just stand here and do your own duty. Isn't that clear?"

The words spoken by Jeremy echoed out within the quiet atmosphere as everyone felt the sudden shudder originated from their very spines.

Jeremy's words were imbued with a strong will and filled with absolute, undeniable authority. At the same time, they felt so cold akin to deep abyss' temperature, while his abyss ice-cold blue eyes were staring at everyone coldly.

They couldn't help but held their breath after suffering from his cold glimpse firsthand, as their hearts skip a beat or two, almost causing them sudden heart attacks.

"..."

"..."

After seeing that everyone was obedient as they could be, Jeremy finally spoke satisfactorily, "Good, it seems like you guys are all clear. Proceed as planned then."

With those words being said, the countdown timer above the Crystal also hit zero...

00:00:00:01...

00:00:00:00...

...

? Be prepared. The third horde of monsters is coming. Good luck. ?

...

As the timer ended, everyone who was currently feeling deep spine-chilling feelings from Jeremy's aura suddenly came out of their stupors.

They started to panic instead...

"Tha, they are coming!"

"Be ready!"

"Bob, be ready."

"Look! They are coming..."

"Mister Jeremy..."

When Jeremy saw those people's reactions, he could only shake his head in disappointment.

'They are even worse than a nobody on Ortus...'

Meanwhile, Jeremy said, "You guys wait here and make sure that those creatures won't breach the barricades. I will be back soon."

Without further ado or waiting for other people to voice their opinions and reasons, Jeremy dashed out quickly in the dimly lit entrance's direction.

The entrance had a width of more than 5 to 6 meters, enough for 6 or 7 monsters to march out side by side, while the others could only stand in the second, third, and fourth line.

Right now, ahead of the now-rushing Jeremy was an army comprised of dozens of skeleton soldiers, eight imps, and five wolves.

At the same time, the monster's army was also marching towards Jeremy, their 'supposed' first prey.

With five wolves running very fast at the forefront, skeleton soldiers lining up while marching slowly at the back, and five little red imps flying above left and right sides, they looked just like an army arisen from hell.

However, Jeremy couldn't care less about their looks and formation at all...

*Growl* *Growl*

"Wooolff!!!"

As the five wolves growling and wolfing sounds rang out ceaselessly as if trying to scare Jeremy, soon they reached five meters away from one another.

Upon seeing that they would crash soon, Jeremy gripped the spear tightly in his right hand while spinning the spear left and right deftly to create the initial momentum for the first swing.

Right when the distance between the two sides had reached around three meters away, both sides were already situating about some meters ahead of the passageway's entrance.

"Welcome to your future cemetery."

Jeremy said grinningly while looking at the five wolves.

When those five wolves finally came out of the entrance, they were suddenly met with Jeremy's welcome speech and a spear blade.

*Fwhoosh*

Jeremy slashed with almost full force horizontally, with broad spear movement enough to create a semi-circle sphere around himself.

It might look amateur with a wide swing like that. However, the slash was proved quite effective as five wolves rushed side-by-side towards him at their full speed.

As the wind produced by the swing had created a terrifying sound and chaotic wind wave, anyone could imagine the destructive power behind this swing.

As a result...

Even before those five wolves could jump at their 'prey', they were caught in a deadly situation.

Two wolves on Jeremy's right didn't have time to dodge at all, as one of them was met with the sharp spearhead slashing through its jaw, while another one had tried to jump up towards Jeremy, but its neck area was sliced in half instead.

As the two wolves dropped down to the ground, unmoving soon after.

It was very fortunate for the other three wolves, as they could dodge the slashing attack in time because the attack had come from the other side of their positions.

"Not fast enough."

Jeremy suddenly pulled his spear back to his body, then plunged it towards the wolf in front of him.

*Puchi*

The spearhead went smoothly into the wolf's left eye socket, penetrating its brain directly, as its skull in the left eye's area was cracked and broken with the sheer thrusting force of the spearhead.

In a blink of an eye, three wolves were killed by Jeremy...

After those two wolves saw 'the human' had finally let out an opening, they hurriedly pounced towards his vacancy on the left side.

At the same time, Jeremy saw that sight clearly, as he had already calculated his next moves even before dashing here.

Thus, while retracting the spear back, Jeremy took his left foot one step to the front, acting as a foothold, then he kicked his right foot as hard as he could towards the wolf's body on the right.

*Bam*

"Arff..."

*Thud*

It flew several meters away at a fast speed and fell to the ground with a thudding sound.

After kicking that wolf away, Jeremy didn't even glance in its flying direction as another wolf was coming for his neck quickly.

Currently, the last wolf was in midair, opening its mouth widely towards Jeremy's neck.

'My neck is for only hot women to lick. It's not for you, plebeian creature.'

With those thoughts in mind, Jeremy brought his retracted spear shaft to his front, causing it to be aligned with the wolf's disgusting wide mouth.

As a result, the wolf bit directly at the spear shaft...

*Clatter*

With the sound of the wolf's teeth clattering against the steel spear shaft, Jeremy clenched his left fist tightly before giving the wolf an uppercut.

*Bam!*

*Crack*

It seemed like the wolf's jawbone was broken in half as it was biting the spear shaft earlier but later was hit so suddenly by an uppercut at the jawbone area.

*Thud*

Then it dropped to the ground powerlessly.

"Graa..."

Without further ado, Jeremy pierced its neck and ended its life quickly.

*Puchi*

'That's not even considered a warm-up yet.'

Jeremy thought casually while looking at the incoming sluggish skeleton soldiers and somewhat agile imps.

Then he walked forward fearlessly...