The Place Where Everything Begins

At this time, the teleportation diagram was still working and lighting up the same as earlier, like someone was still standing in the middle of it.

The strange thing was, no one was on the platform currently...

Even though there was no one on the platform, but if someone else were there within the hidden chamber right now, they would undoubtedly discover something being placed at the center of the diagram on the platform.

The thing, which was placed in the middle of the diagram, was surprisingly... a magical torch...

Undoubtedly, it was the magical torch that Jeremy had brought here along with him...

Evidently, Jeremy had left the torch there, not to let the teleportation process be interrupted midway while being activated.

That meant the reason why the diagram still glowed so brightly right now was all due to the magical torch placed on the diagram.

At this time, Jeremy was already on his way towards the corner while avoiding not to go past the chamber's entrance because he didn't want the ambusher to notice and realize that he still hadn't departed from here yet.

Shortly after, Jeremy finally arrived at the corner; he promptly put his left hand inside the black cloak and brought out a rolled brown leather from within.

The said thing appeared to be the same animal leather Jeremy had inscribed within the black tent before coming here.

Afterward, Jeremy outspread the animal leather on the floor below and crouched down on one knee before reaching his left palm to place it on the leather's middle area.

Then Jeremy mumbled noiselessly,

"Théto's enérgeian"

Simultaneously, the inscription on the animal leather started shining brightly, letting out white light to the surrounding areas. Also, the light on the inscription appeared to be covering Jeremy's palm as if it was absorbed into his body ever so slowly.

However, the light originating from the inscription was nothing compared to the current bright light illuminating out from the teleportation circle at all.

Thus, the light coming out from the inscription was not noticeable to the unaware ambusher hiding outside the hidden chamber in the least.

After seeing the expected white light coming out from the inscription, Jeremy started mumbling inaudibly in an unknown language to cast a particular spell.

*Mumble* *Mumble*

Jeremy continued mumbling soundlessly at the corner for some time...

Ten seconds later...

The light from the teleportation circle finally started to dim down, and Jeremy had also finished the incantation at this time, as he eventually stopped mumbling and started proceeding on to finish the chant with the last two words,

"Se Krátisi"

Jeremy mumbled without letting a sound out from his mouth.

Simultaneously, the inscription's light on the diagram attached to the leather's surface suddenly consolidated up like it would come to life at any moment.

Then the consolidated arrays and runes on the leather's surface started changing and morphing into a clump of light, and then went directly into Jeremy's palm and moved to his entire body swiftly like when he practiced the ritual of exchange not long ago.

After the clump of light finally went inside his body until leaving no trace behind, the diagram, arrays, and runes on the brown leather had also vanished from the leather's surface entirely at this time.

When all the processes were done, Jeremy knew the spell was now ready to be activated...

*Fwuu...*

Jeremy promptly let out a long breath and thought inwardly,

'What a tiring job to do a high-speed casting of tier-1 spell with my sea of consciousness is still in that shape...'

It appeared that the animal leather Jeremy used to practice the ritual of exchange and communion had behaved as a fuel, containing enough mana and space elemental energy to cast a tier-1 space elemental spell.

After that, Jeremy had chanted a tier-1 spell a moment ago by placing his left hand on the leather's surface using the 'fuel' contained within the animal leather's inscription to cast the tier-1 spell.

As a result, Jeremy had now finished preparing the spell, and it was now ready to be activated at any time.

Concurrently, Jeremy stood up from the crouching position and kept the brown leather, which was now empty and had no inscription attached on the surface anymore, back inside his black cloak.

Then Jeremy turned to look at the teleportation circle and saw it was now back to normal again and had no light coming out whatsoever.

Meanwhile, the magical torch Jeremy had left on the teleportation diagram was nowhere to be seen as it appeared that the torch had already been teleported to an unknown destination.

Upon seeing that, Jeremy nodded his head slightly at the expected results as everything was unfolding according to his plan right now.

Afterward, Jeremy mumbled inaudibly to activate the prepared spell,

"[Space Elemental Spell - Space Distortion]"

Simultaneously, without any sign of any kind, Jeremy's body started fading away and eventually disappeared into thin air from within the hidden chamber in a few seconds, not leaving any trace nor trail behind.

There was neither mana fluctuation, turbulence within the air, flashiness from the mana, nor the higher space elemental concentration occurring within the vicinity at all.

At this moment, there was only the sudden disappearance of Jeremy's entire figure; even the steel spear in his hand had vanished into thin air along with him.

The entire process was truly bizarre, as if Jeremy had never been there before in the first place.

Consequently, the corner where Jeremy stood before appeared to be empty and desolate now.

'This is what a real spell looks like, mister ambusher...'

The now-invisible Jeremy thought amusingly within his mind while waiting patiently for his opponent to be caught in this deadly spring trap...

...

Two minutes later, within the hidden chamber...

Jeremy, who stood at the corner invisibly, suddenly felt a mana wave coming into the chamber from the outside, going past him and moving towards every corner of the room swiftly...

'A detection spell...'

Jeremy thought wonderingly while raising one of his eyebrows as it was clear that his enemy should be quite capable of casting a detection spell, which was at the very least equal or higher than a tier-1 spell.

The spell's effect was quite similar to the [Mana Wave Detection - Exploration] spell that Jeremy had used within the easy trial.

'But that won't work with my [Space Distortion] spell in the least. You need a higher level spell than that if you want to find me...'

Jeremy thought with a light smile.

To be frank, the spell the ambusher had used was also a tier-1 spell, the same as Jeremy's [Space Distortion]. Also, the enemy's detection spell was a null-elemental spell, or in other words, an elemental-less spell just like Jeremy's [Mana Wave Detection - Exploration] spell.

However, our former sage had already calculated thoroughly beforehand that the enemy would use an exploration spell of some sort to check if he was still here or not. So, he had chosen the best spell in preparation for such a situation not to make himself being discovered by the enemy.

Additionally, the space element was considered a rare-ranked element, which was ranked at the highest level of all elements... that was if the Divinity wasn't counted here.

As one of the highest-ranked elements, the space element tended to have a very unique side to it, which was in the early tiers of the space elemental spells, more than 80% of them would be auxiliary spells, whereas another 20% would be offensive and defensive spells, with only the minority of them being buff and debuff spells.

That meant Jeremy didn't have that many useful offensive space elemental spells to use against his enemy currently, as the space elemental spells he could use right now mainly were auxiliary spells.

Thus, Jeremy decided to go with an auxiliary spell that could counter the enemy's detection spell and, at the same time, was capable of hiding him inside the room to give the enemy a 'surprise' attack.

Concurrently, Jeremy's decision was proven to be right so far as the enemy's detection spell didn't discover him in the least as it only went past him like he was thin air.

As of now, the mana wave seemed to finish its work, causing the room to become normal and tranquil again.

However, such a serene atmosphere didn't last long as it was finally broken by the sudden footsteps of a certain someone...

*Flip-flop*

*Flip-flop*

The footsteps rang out from outside the hidden chamber, as it appeared that the noises were coming from the big chamber next to it.

The sounds came closer and closer with each passing second...

Soon, a figure wearing a black cloak stood at roughly six feet tall, promptly emerged from the hidden chamber's entrance.

Surprisingly, the emerging figure was actually... a male human.

'A human, huh. Not surprising at all, as I've guessed that such a clumsy spell casting like that should have come from a human, no less. Even a black dokkaebi can do better than that. What a disgrace...'

Upon seeing the ambusher, which happened to be a fellow human mage, Jeremy thought while shaking his head in disappointment at the man's inept spell casting, dark energy utilizing, and mana controlling capability.

Right now, the man seemed to be unaware of the looming danger lingering around him at all as he continued walking into the hidden chamber slowly until he finally arrived inside.

Simultaneously, Jeremy also used this chance to scrutinize the man, whom had just come inside the chamber and now stood roughly five meters away from him.