Chapter 65 - The Creator And The Designer (1/2)

A being that had direct relationships with Akashic Records...

There was no doubt...

The actual creator of the tutorials was the sole and only 'System', the very helper of every living thing on Ortus itself.

However...

There was another hidden secret that only people on Ortus knew about. The mysterious secret that was not so secret after one arrived at Ortus.

That was 'missions'...

The missions were assigned by the System itself.

They were the missions entrusted towards assistant creators, aka 'designers' of each tutorial space.

What did that even mean?

It simply meant there were 'people' who had received missions from the System to design the outlooks, Crystal's missions, places, monsters, and various things within the Tutorials.

All those tutorial-related things were according to only one and sole purpose, 'for the newcomers to adapt and survive on Ortus'...

Right now, Jeremy was indeed shocked to realize there were masterminds behind all these Tutorials so suddenly.

Jeremy had never been in control or charge of the tutorial processes, related events, or whatsoever in his past life.

However, Jeremy had quite an in-depth and intensive knowledge regarding these topics from his various researches, including self-research, torture, observation, stalk, and more.

But, all those knowledge was kept too deep within his soul, as he never suspected one bit about the word 'creator' until some moments ago...

'Now, I finally know what I'm fighting against.'

'Designers or the so-called Cupids are the big bosses who only play a minor to no role after they had sent us here, as they only design these tutorials and be done with it. Right now, they should be relaxing leisurely somewhere else on their turfs.'

'Starting from the moment we were teleported from the white Tutorial Space, Earthlings were let free from the cupids' jurisdiction, but there would be other people 'caring' for us instead.'

'Those people are... and they...'

'As for the three doors, the crystal, the monster waves, and the missions, the cupids design them. While later, those people would supervise the tutorials instead as they had also received missions from the System just like the cupids.'

'Regarding this place, normal difficulty... Haaa, it is a total scam. It seems like I feel afraid for nothing.'

'What a scaredy cat of me to think there are halflings in this normal-difficulty trial. If there is one here for real, how are Earthlings supposed to adapt and survive? They will be massacred within seconds...'

'About this normal trial's purpose, from the looks of it so far, it is just designed to be testing only the contestant's survival skills within the harsh, winter wilderness filled with quick-nose predators readily to hunt anyone down. Well, there might be some luck's element in corresponding with that, as one might be able to luckily walk in the correct direction towards the brick house from the get-go.'

'Hmm... Come to think of it, even though I can't fight the cupid yet, I can still kill those people...'

When Jeremy thought till here, his virtual blue eyes suddenly brightened up with a cold glint...

'Alright, it is time to leave before I kick the bucket from the mind's implosion.'

Having finished pondering long and profound thoughts within his own soul, Jeremy hurriedly came out of the 'pond'.

After coming out, Jeremy took a brief look around his sea of consciousness and discovered some big and small cracks present throughout the protective layer of the land and sky areas.

Like Jeremy's inner world would be crumbling down at any moment...

That was clearly the result of overloading and overclocking his weak mind with too much high-end information...

Upon seeing such a heartbreaking sight of his own sea of consciousness having cracks in various places, Jeremy thought depressingly,

'Well, how long will it take to recover this time? By the way, do the land and sky areas get bigger? Hmm... around 14 acres. It seems like my mind power has gotten a bit stronger.'

'Hehh... This is the first time I have discovered a cheat-like method to enhance mind power.'

'I can utilize this method the next time...'

When Jeremy saw his sea of consciousness becoming more extensive and having more space, he finally felt a bit better.

After seeing there was nothing worth taking note of anymore, Jeremy willed his mind to the outside world.

A short time later, Jeremy was seen to be sitting cross-legged with eyes closed on the cold, snowy ground...

'How much time has passed?'

Then he closed his blue eyes a bit to 'feel' the fluctuation in the space, using his high-level of space affinity to his advantage; Jeremy pondered to himself,

'Only 3 minutes have passed since I did the meditation to access my sea of consciousness, whereas I spent two and a half minutes to enter the sea of consciousness and stayed inside for around 40 or so seconds to filter all those memories.'

Then Jeremy thought further,

'I'm sure the time within my sea of consciousness had gone by more than 20 days as the time there moves faster than the outside world... but the outside world's time had just passed by only some 40 seconds...'

Even though he could do better than this dozens of times in his past life, this was still considered good progress...

Good progress meant when compared to the previous time that Jeremy had accessed his sea of consciousness for the Enchantment method.