Chapter 58 - A Certain Stalker (1/2)

'That's right. I have to find the exit. Then if the exit is really a door, it must be within a house or chamber somewhere within this dimensional space...'

'That simply means I have to find a big, or at least, a conspicuous place.'

Having thought of the likeliness of that plausibility, Jeremy chose another direction to walk in.

Soon, Jeremy disappeared into the whiteness of the winter forest...

...

Three hours later...

Jeremy had been walking without a single rest for almost six hours now.

He walked, walked, and walked nonstop.

Whenever he met lone wolves, he would kill them here and there.

As of now, he reasonably believed this place was a trial that its sole threat consisted of only wolves...

If Jeremy had to count so far, he had killed more than 15 wolves in the span of six hours of staying here.

Considering that he had avoided almost double that amount along the way, he had encountered more than 50 wolves already.

Furthermore, the distance Jeremy had walked till now didn't even reach 10 percent of the total yet. So, if he multiplied the number of wolves he met so far by 10, there would be more than 500 wolves living and roaming in this winter forest.

Then assumed half of those animals somehow came to gang up on Jeremy; there would be nothing left of him anymore.

That was if he didn't use any of his mana...

'Isn't this trial too hard for a single human? Anyone else might starve or freeze to death at this rate...'

Jeremy thought inwardly while shaking his head lightly at the thought of ordinary people taking on this so-called 'normal trial'.

It was akin to an impossible mission for other Earthlings...

However...

Was Jeremy ordinary in any way?

The answer was clear as day, as Jeremy was still walking leisurely while scribbling some marks on the trees along the way like all of this was just an everyday stroll in the park near his house back on Earth.

Regarding the temperature of 20 degrees Fahrenheit or -7 degrees Celsius, Jeremy only felt that it was somewhat cool, that's all.

As for the matter of starving to death, Jeremy had more than enough food to survive more than a month here easily. That's why it was also a no-go.

Thus, the only thing Jeremy had to beware of was actually the 'wolves' as written in the plural form...

As wolves usually lived in 'packs' with each pack led by at most two alpha wolves, one male and one female. Every pack also consisted of the stronger, but few in number beta wolves and the weakest, but many in number omega wolves.

As for the hierarchy, it was clear that alpha wolves stood at the highest point within the pack, followed by beta wolves whose strength and hierarchy were one rank below those of the alphas'. Lastly, the omega wolves were the submissive ones, behaving as obedient subordinates of the former two ranks.

Talking about the number, alpha wolves obviously had the fewest at one or two per pack, while beta wolves had a bit higher in number than the alpha wolves. For the weakest ones within each pack, the omega wolves, their number was usually of that the beta wolves multiplied by ten.