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nWithout further ado, Jeremy thought to himself while staring at the floating Crystal in the middle of the chamber,

n'It's time to claim rewards, alright...'

nThen Jeremy walked with the Forsaken Branch in hand towards the floating Crystal at the chamber's center...

nAfter a short time, Jeremy finally arrived before the green Crystal, and then he reached out his left hand to touch it.

nSimultaneously, a light-blue interface popped up...

n...

nShop

nMission

nLeaderboard

n...

nUpon seeing the three options, Jeremy used his mind to choose the Mission option to report the missions and claim the rewards first and for all.

nThen the interface instantly changed into another one...

n...

nWould you like to report the missions and claim the rewards for completing them?

nYes │ No

n...

nAfter seeing the options asking whether to receive the rewards or not, Jeremy chose the 'Yes' option.

nSoon after, the window switched to another one...

n...

nYou have received 1400 SP for completing the mission, 'Kill 5 humans'

nYou have received 5x★ for completing the mission, 'Pass the hard-difficulty door'

nYou have received 1x✰ for completing the mission, 'Complete every mission in the list'

n...

nWhen Jeremy saw the third notification, his eyes suddenly lit up as he suddenly got another priceless white star into his already big wallet.

n'As I've thought, the cupid must be too lazy to put the last mission as something too complicated. That's why the last mission, aka the hidden mission, must be something related to all the previous missions.'

nJeremy thought with a smile after thinking about the simple-minded and lazy cupid.

nAfter a few seconds, the interface stating about the current missions finally showed up...

n...

nYour Current Missions

n— Kill 10 skeleton soldiers (Completed)

n— Kill 10 imps (Completed)

n— Kill 8 wolves (Completed)

n— Kill 5 goblins (Completed)

n— Kill 5 humans (Completed)

n— Kill 2 hobgoblins (Completed)

n— Pass the easy-difficulty door (Completed)

n— Pass the normal-difficulty door (Completed)

n— Pass the hard-difficulty door (Completed)

n— Complete every mission in the list (Completed)

n...

nUpon seeing everything was right in place, with the end result being perfect scores, Jeremy nodded his head in satisfaction.

nWho didn't like perfect scores anyway?

nThen Jeremy thought fleetingly to himself after dismissing the mission interface,

n'After most people had been teleported away as they should have earned some SP from the second stage already, I wonder my ranking still remains the same or not...'

nHaving finished thinking so, Jeremy shook his head at the absurd notion that another Earthling might have overtaken his ranking.

nHe knew it wasn't possible in the least unless the said Earthling somehow razed the entire second stage aflame.

n'Let's see...' Jeremy thought briefly.

nAfterward, Jeremy focused his mind on accessing the Leaderboard option to check his current ranking...

n...

nLeaderboard

nZone: 82,364

nSurvivors: 2,548

nYour Ranking: 1st Place ?

nYour ranking has been ranked according to your total Survival Points earned

n...

nNo doubt, even after most people within the tutorial zone 82,364 had been teleported to the second stage, Jeremy was still ranked first out of the remaining 2,548 Earthlings of this zone.

nAlso, it was a matter of course that he would be ranked first. After all, Jeremy had already accumulated at least 50,000 SP so far.

nActually, such a massive amount of SP should have already broken all the previous records in existence on Ortus...

nUpon seeing the current numbers of Earthlings, Jeremy contemplated to himself,

n'Hmm... In my past life, the total amount of survivors should also be pretty close to this number but not quite the same if I don't remember wrong, that is...'

n'Either way, having thought about more than 2,500 people living together within the same camp in the second stage makes me have quite a bad taste in my mouth.'

nWhen Jeremy thought till here, he shook his head slightly as he really didn't appreciate the crowded place.

nAfterward, Jeremy accessed the Shop option, intending to buy more skills from there to upgrade his fighting power.

nSoon, another transparent window popped up in front of him...

n...

nWeapons

nClothes

nMiscellaneous

nSkills

nYour Current Balance: 17,213 SP

n...

nAfter seeing the current SP balance, Jeremy thought to himself while raising an eyebrow,

n'Well, I've only 17,213 SP... It is even less than when I've completed the normal trial... Whatever, I don't really care about SP anymore at this point as I've already acquired most useful skills from the Shop.'

nAs in Jeremy's mind, he always thought that earning more stars was always the best outcome regardless of the amount of SP earned from the trials.

nHereafter seeing the four options to be chosen from, Jeremy accessed the Skill option first...

nAfter the skills list appeared before him, Jeremy directly scrolled down to skill no.160 onwards as he didn't see any usefulness in the low-level skills anymore...

n...

nSkill no.163, Called Shot

nSkill no.164, Knife Throwing

nSkill no.165, Martial Arts

nSkill no.166, Charge (Sold out)

nSkill no.169, Hibernate

nSkill no.174, Focus

nSkill no.179, Hypnotism

nSkill no.180, Analyze (Sold out)

nSkill no.181, Fast Hands

nSkill no.182, Marksmanship (Sold out)

nSkill no.183, Stealth (Sold out)

nSkill no.184, Balancing Feats

nSkill no.185, Breathing Control (Sold out)

nSkill no.186, Eagles Eyes (Sold out)

n...

n'Hmm... only two skills from no.160 onwards were bought by other people... Not bad, but also not that good of a performance either.'

nJeremy thought after seeing not many skills were bought from the skills list as it clearly appeared that Earthlings didn't excel in physical prowess, so they could only do this much.

nIn fact, to have two skills of more than number 160 being bought was already considered impressive enough.

nRight now, Jeremy was sweeping his eyes at the skill names quickly while musing to himself,

n'After being teleported into the second stage, the Survival Points cannot be used to buy skills anymore but will be used to buy 'those things' instead. Hmm... Then it will be for the best if I just spend most SP now while leaving some to spare in an emergency situation.'

nAfterward, Jeremy fell into deep thought as he was thinking about the skills that would benefit him the most in the short-run and long-run of his journey on Ortus.

nJust like that, Jeremy stood there with a moderately deep frown on his forehead for two full minutes before finally deciding on the skills to buy....

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