The Place Where Everything Begins

30 minutes later...

Jeremy had been walking and turning in the dimly lit passageways for quite some time. He had met with many junctions, booby traps, and wooden boxes along the way, but he went past them quickly with many windfalls in the form of SP and other things inducing from opening the wooden boxes.

He also saw foods, water, medicine, bandage, and other miscellaneous things from those boxes.

Still, Jeremy ignored most of them because he had already brought those things along with him, storing them inside his left glove since before the First Doom started.

Not to mention that the foods here were composed of only meat and bread. Meanwhile, other things such as medicine and bandage were as low quality as they could be.

The things, which Jeremy had prepared within his left gloves, were countless times better than those things from the boxes. After all, the things he brought were manufactured by the accumulation of modern scientific knowledge.

As for those from within the boxes?

They were like something those people from Earth's Middle Ages regularly used...

So, Jeremy couldn't care less about those things at all...

Right now, Jeremy stopped his footsteps in front of a right intersection.

Upon turning his head to look at the right passageway, he thought to himself, 'According to the map, if I walk into this passageway for around 50 meters, then turn right again, I will be met with a big chamber. Also, inside the chamber, there are two monsters with indistinct race protecting a box.'

Having thought to this point, Jeremy proceeded forward into the right passageway.

Not long after, when Jeremy turned right again, he was met with a spacious squared space together with two bipedal green skin creatures. The height of those two was around Jeremy's chest with two long pointed ears extending upward, a sharp and long nose, thin lips enough to reveal their jagged, sharp teeth, and a somewhat wrinkled green skin like an old tree leaf.

They were wearing ragged old clothes, while in the right hand of each said creature was holding a long knife that should be considered a sword if we compared it to the creatures' height, while along its edge was filled with many chips with some unknown reasons.

They looked sinister and menacing at the very first glance...

Upon spotting those creatures, Jeremy thought lightly to himself, 'Two adult goblins huh...'

Then he turned his head to take a brief look at a box situated behind the creatures; its size was somewhat more extensive than those boxes of his previous encounters. After seeing the box lying there silently, Jeremy turned his head back towards those creatures in his front once again.

Currently, there were around 50 meters of the distance separating Jeremy and the two adult goblins. Meanwhile, the two goblins were talking to one another in one of the goblin's languages; they didn't seem to notice Jeremy for now.

When Jeremy saw that those goblins didn't spot him as of yet, he then walked unhurriedly towards them while the squared inscription on his right-handed glove was glowing in a light-blue color resulting from Jeremy activating its function of pulling out an item from inside the space storage.

After 2 seconds or so, the light-blue color began to expand and lengthen from the inscription on the glove in a horizontal line, bit by bit, forming into a shape of a somewhat long object.

Until 5 seconds later, after the light-blue glow extending itself to its desired long size, a plain-looking long silver-grey spear made out of pure steel with a length of 2 meters suddenly manifested itself within the said horizontal light-blue glow.

It was as if the spear had just come out of nowhere in front of Jeremy's black glove...

That resulted from a miraculous feat inducing from a magic spell with an affinity of space element...

Right now, Jeremy had already reached 30 meters away from the goblins. Simultaneously, the goblin's ears standing on the right side suddenly twitched as if it had heard a sound coming from somewhere nearby; the same thing also happened shortly after to the goblin on the left.

"Shhh... Tatejerki, kahabatei-eah?" The goblin on the right suddenly made a noise for the other to stop talking, and then it asked its partner about its suspicion.

Afterward, the two goblins began to look around in cautiousness while their right hand was holding a long chipped knife tightly.

Not long after, they finally spotted Jeremy, whom was walking slowly with a long spear in his hand towards them.

"Jajeek!" The goblin on the left suddenly called its partner, then pointed its long-nailed finger in Jeremy's direction.

Upon turning its head and saw Jeremy, whom was marching towards them composedly, the goblin on the right turned its head to exchange a glance with its friend. Finally, after making eye contact with one another, they nodded their head as if they were already in a mutual understanding.

Right after that, the two goblins started to walk in Jeremy's direction; they began to increase their speed bit by bit with every step they took until finally, it became a sprint that was as fast as an adult man running at full speed.

Seeing that sight, Jeremy smiled lightly, 'Here it comes, my first blood'.

When the distance between him and those creatures was around 6 meters apart, the goblin on his right suddenly took a sudden change in its sprinting path to flank Jeremy.

It was clear enough that their agreed teamwork tactic was to take down a bigger enemy as fast as possible, with one goblin in the front while another goblin would attack in the flank.

That way, the two goblins would be able to use a continuous attacking method to slowly sap out their opponent's blood, bone, and stamina.

As for the reason they decided to use this method, it was because they could clearly felt that the human in front of them was more robust and tough than them. That's why a tactic was needed to take down their enemy...

However, they still didn't realize the fact that they were underestimating the human in front of them.

By a very large extent at that...

Upon realizing their plan, Jeremy smiled amusingly at them. Meanwhile, he kicked the ground forcefully to propel his body forward to the goblin in his front. At the same time, he loosened his right-hand grip holding the spear at the shaft with the spearhead pointing at around 30 degrees to the ground, slowly letting it slide down his glove until he held the spear at its end.

To be specific, he was now holding the spear at its shoe...

Not even waiting for the goblins to react to his sudden outburst, Jeremy abruptly squatted down his right leg with his left leg in the front while extended his right hand that was holding the long and heavy spear forward to the limits of his arm length.

*Whizz*

*Puchi*

The spearhead went smoothly into the goblin's chest even before it could raise its right arm to prepare for an attack.

The time seemed to slow down for the creature as if it was realizing its imminent doom...

The goblin's chest wound got bigger and bigger with each millimeter forward of the spearhead until the spearhead's transition point, which was also considered the broadest and most fatal point of a spearhead, was reached.

*Plush*

Jeremy retracted the spear back with enough force to make it flew back in a straight line gliding its way along his right palm until he went back into holding the spear at its holding shaft once again.

Meanwhile, he lightly jumped sidestep to the left to avoid a collision with the wounded goblin in his front with its current momentum. After avoiding the said goblin successfully, he turned his head to the goblin on his right side, only to see that it was now around four steps away from him, still sprinting at him madly.

At the moment, the remaining goblin, who sprint madly, now opened its right arm widely while holding a long knife, preparing to strike the human in its front without any caring about its partner's well-doing at all.

Upon seeing the sight of the incoming goblin, Jeremy corrected his postures, then timed his attack aligning with his opponent's distance and speed towards him.

*Whoosh*

He horizontally swung the spear in his hand shortly after...

*Chop*

The head of the incoming goblin flew several centimeters above its body before falling onto the ground with a trail and drops of 'green' blood splashing out everywhere.

*Thud*

*Thud*

Afterward, the body of those goblins dropped down to the ground motionlessly.

They couldn't be more dead...

The fight started really fast, but it ended even quicker, with one was pierced through the heart, whereas another was beheaded cleanly with a sharp spear blade.

When Jeremy saw that the goblins were dead, he proceeded to the box behind the goblin corpses like nothing ever happened.

At the same time, the inscription on his right glove started to glow once again. This time, he would be putting the spear into the glove instead of pulling out an item from it.

At this moment, there was also a transparent interface being projected in front of his face stating...

...

[You have received 59 SP]

[You have received 61 SP]

...

When Jeremy reached the box located at the chamber's center, the spear with its spearhead bathing gleefully in green 'liquid' had already disappeared into the glove.

'Let's see, what is inside this box...' Jeremy thought to himself while squatting down to open this somewhat big box.

*Creaks*

When the box was fully opened, something was lying inside the box that was now catching Jeremy's attention. Its length was about 70 cm like the two goblins' weapons; their shape and size were also the same as the swords of those green creatures.

No doubt, the thing inside the box in front of him was actually a sword that looked exactly the same as the two swords lying beside their owner's corpses right now.

Except for that, the short sword within the box looked brand-new with no chip whatsoever, unlike the chipped swords of those green goblins.

Then a transparent window promptly popped up in front of him again...

...

[You have received 29 SP]

...

After seeing his gain this time, he could only shake his head from side to side. Having to kill two goblins and open a box, he only got 149 SP and a useless sword.

Because he didn't use a sword but a spear to fight...

If it was like this, he preferred the first box that he had opened after coming into this place more, for he could effortlessly get 100 SP from that.

Still, his total gain in the past half an hour was not bad at all. He had already opened seven boxes, avoided more than thirteen traps, picked up some valuable herbs along the way; together with killing two goblins this time, he got more than 652 SP as a result.

Then Jeremy picked the short sword up and kept it inside his right glove. After all, some good items could still be sold at a good price to the Survival Crystal.

*Sigh*

'I have walked for more than 30 minutes and could only explore around 10% of this labyrinth. It seems like I may have to spend more than 5 hours if I want to do a full exploration here after all.'

Jeremy sighed and thought about his current circumstances before proceeding into the passageway in the opposite direction of when he came into this chamber.

He walked unhurriedly but elegantly as always...