The Place Where Everything Begins - Chapter 175: Jeremy's Adventure (1)

In front of a small rocky mountain somewhere within the green temperate forest…

‘Those wolves that can run 50 to 60 kilometers per hour can’t even keep up with fifteen percent of my full speed. If so, isn’t my fastest speed is more than 300 kilometers per hour?’

Jeremy thought in pleasant surprise at his physical upgrade as he had shaken those wolves off very easily earlier.

At the end of the day, if Jeremy ever sprinted at his fastest speed, he would be even quicker than an arrow traveling through the air.

Jeremy realized all his physical improvement was mainly consequential to his race being upgraded to intermediate rank.

Right now, it could be said that Jeremy was a man faster than an arrow…

‘Alright, let’s go on with some adventure…’

After finishing his momentarily thought, Jeremy promptly closed his eyes to feel the space fluctuation around him.

A short while later, Jeremy opened his limpid blue eyes and turned his in a particular direction before walking that way.

Not before long, Jeremy’s figure disappeared into the green forest…

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Half an hour later…

A middle-aged man with average appearance and moderate height, having a kind-looking face, appeared to be looking around the forestation as if to find something.

‘Hmm… Where is it? According to the report, I think the hole is around here…’ thought Jeremy as he was trying to find a ‘hole’.

In Jeremy’s past life, a scout team had encountered a ‘hole’, of which the team leader decided to send five people inside to explore.

Regrettably, those five people never returned from the hole ever again; subsequently, the team leader ordered the team to retreat back to the camp.

After arriving back at the camp, the scout team leader reported to Kahn about their findings.

The following day, Kahn told every team to beware of the so-called hole as they shouldn’t venture inside if they wanted to live for another day.

At the time, Kahn also told everyone about the approximate location and direction of the hole so that everyone could avoid being killed by the creature residing within the cavity.

As Jeremy had remembered it vaguely about where the hole was and how the creature would appear to be, he had decided to prepare something specifically for the hole.

The measure he had prepared here was a thick steel shield with a weight of almost one hundred kilograms.

Jeremy knew if there was a hole, there must be a pretty limited space to venture into, which meant with a big shield guarding in front of him, he would be safe from any possible danger down there.

However…

It appeared that the shield shouldn’t be of any use for Jeremy anymore as his race had already evolved to another level, making his physical strength to be something else entirely.

‘As the shield’s size and weight were pretty significant and ate up too much space within the storage, should I still keep it in my glove or dump it somewhere?’

Jeremy thought briefly about the almost-five-centimeters-thick steel shield with a height of almost two meters, lying dormant within his right glove.

Shaking his head slightly to discard the thought for now, Jeremy proceeded to find the hole.

After twenty minutes…

Surprisingly, Jeremy stood in the middle of a clearing…

By the word ‘clearing’, it meant there was no tree or significant vegetation around the place Jeremy stood at all.

The area of one hundred meters around Jeremy was made entirely of fertile soil, yet there were only small gravels everywhere with only some traces of small weeds growing all around. Except for those, there was not even a silhouette of an insect.

Meanwhile, in front of Jeremy was a slanting hole the size of more than five meters in diameter, leading deep into the dark underground.

‘Well, the environment looks pretty suspicious…’

Jeremy wondered inwardly after seeing the dark hole before him before continuing his thought,

‘The smoothness at some places on the round partition signifies the hole is most likely a man-made one. Also, there must be something living deep down there…’

To be exact, it should be monster-made instead…

‘I wonder why the cupids even bother putting the hole here; it’s not even close to the two camps.’

Jeremy thought in puzzlement as he shook his head at the little angels’ logic in creating the Tutorial.

After all, if they wanted to make the Tutorial more challenging for the humans and kenkus, they ought to put this hole in the exact middle between the two camps.

Nonetheless, this hole was situated almost at the farthest place instead…

‘So, it looks like those cupids either want to make the thing down there a hidden boss of the second stage or don’t want the thing to interfere with the battle between the two camps, subsequently disrupting their bet.’

Jeremy thought as he tried to find a reasonable explanation behind the cupids putting the hole here.

Still, Jeremy wasn’t quite sure about the cupids’ notions, as the more Jeremy knew about Ortus, the more unreasonable the cupids’ actions appeared to be so far.

Having finished his brief thought, Jeremy activated his skill while looking into the hole,

‘[Third Eye]’

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Third Eye (High Advance – Active Skill): Upon activating, your eyes will see through the veil of space itself and be able to see into a very faraway distance. [Caution: Beware of the information overload.]

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Jeremy’s eyes simultaneously brightened up with blue glows like illuminating stars in the night sky after the skill was activated.

His blue eyes looked sharper as if they were trying to penetrate into the darkened environment within the hole itself.

At the same time, the sight before Jeremy had utterly changed as the scene zoomed in like he was looking at the hole through a telescope.

Meanwhile, the dark hole before Jeremy was not pitch-black in color anymore but appeared to be light grey instead as the light was not necessary for his sight anymore.

*Sigh…*

Having zoomed his sight too much into the not so dark hole, Jeremy promptly sighed as he thought inwardly,

‘Even though this skill is a skill of wonder with cheat-like abilities that can even penetrate the space itself, yet here we go, another disadvantage of this skill. That is… I can only look in a linear direction…’

Jeremy thought in depression after zooming in too much until he almost saw the soil’s molecules.

After all, the hole was not in a straight line. At some point inside, the hole’s structure gradually shifted left and right until ultimately changing the direction in the end, causing Jeremy’s sight to be stuck at the soil partition, making him couldn’t see any further inside the hole.

Suddenly, Jeremy’s eyes looked a bit dazed as his eyes were still staring at the big version of the soil’s particles before him.

Simultaneously, Jeremy promptly blinked his eyes as he hurriedly deactivated Third Eye before thinking with a slight frown on his face,

‘My mind went blank for a split second after focusing too much on the soil’s molecules… Heh… So, is this how information overload looks like?’

At this time, Jeremy finally understood how the information overload worked as it would not happen when he looked at a broad space before him. However, it would happen when Jeremy zoomed his sight into a single object too much, leading his brain to process the highly sensitive and in-depth information.

Consequently, something called information overload would happen to his brain…

Even with Jeremy’s enhanced physical capabilities, including his brain, from the racial evolution, he still couldn’t utilize Third Eye to its fullest potential.

‘More or less, anyway, I think I figure out most of the advantages and disadvantages of Third Eye,’ thought Jeremy as he crouched down on the ground.

Afterward, Jeremy put his right ear attached to the ground and closed his eyes, trying to use his other senses instead of eyesight.

With his enhanced senses from the racial evolution and Sixth Sense skill, Jeremy could feel some vibration coming from deep within the ground.

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Sixth Sense (High Advance – Passive Skill): Boost your five senses by 100%, and you will have an additional talent, Sixth Sense.

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Even though Jeremy couldn’t quite pinpoint the distance, he could still feel something enormous down there as it even made the ground above oscillate a bit with its movement from such a distance.

Having finished his probe, Jeremy stood up from the ground and thought to himself,

‘It’s time to play some sliding game…’

With that thought in mind, Jeremy jumped into the slating dark hole without further ado.

As the angle was roughly seventy to eighty degrees to the ground, Jeremy’s leather armor slid on the brown soil, sliding down all the way into the deep hole.

*Schrooch…*

The noise generated from the leather armor sliding against the soil rang out, echoing into the dark hole below.

After almost ten seconds of sliding left and right within the tunnel-like hole, the highly slanting angle from earlier became smaller and smaller, causing Jeremy’s high speed from earlier also to slow down accordingly.

‘It’s completely dark with utterly zero light down here. Moreover, the oxygen is very little, whereas the air around me appeared to be a bit damper…’

Jeremy analyzed the environment inside while descending into the long tunnel,

The deeper Jeremy descended down the underground, the more he could feel the environment around him becoming more inhabitable.

Albeit Jeremy couldn’t see anything from the lack of light, he could still use his other senses to feel the surrounding around him pretty clearly.

At this time, Jeremy should have been more than one hundred meters underground as his speed had been slowing down significantly, making him think he could stop any time soon.

‘It is no wonder that those five people never came back out of this place, as the hole is too deep and the angle is highly slanting…’

While Jeremy was thinking about random topics within his head, he finally saw something ahead of him.

At the place supposed to be his destination, there was a spot of light shining dimly, making Jeremy see the tunnel’s wall vaguely.

Having seen the light, illuminating from the tunnel’s entrance, Jeremy thought in relief to himself,

‘At least the cupids have put some light sources here after all…’

After some seconds, the dimmed light from earlier started becoming more prominent and brighter as Jeremy came closer to it.

‘Here we go…’ thought Jeremy briefly.

Shortly after, Jeremy finally emerged outside the tunnel’s entrance, as he adjusted his body in the air slightly to land on the solid rocky ground, creating a thudding noise within the quiet underground hall.

Even though Jeremy’s landing noise was not loud, it appeared that the sound had managed to echo to almost every nook and cranny of the hall.

Simultaneously, Jeremy, who had just landed, used this chance to inspect his surroundings.