The Place Where Everything Begins

"You are capable enough to make me bleed."

Upon hearing the young Goron's exclamation, Jeremy's eyes went dazed for a split second...

'What the hell... How in the world can I make it bleed like that? I haven't scratched even its yellow skin yet.' Jeremy thought in bafflement.

Indeed, the outlander's bleeding forehead was clearly caused by its own two hands, for Jeremy had only jumped away to avoid its rolling body, that's all.

Furthermore, Jeremy still hadn't gone past the creature's solid external defensive layers yet.

How could he make it bleed in the first place?

Nonetheless, Jeremy's thoughts were all unbeknownst to the ignorant Goron right now as it continued talking with an admiring expression,

"I have to say that you are pretty strong... well, that is, strong enough for a mere human."

Unfortunately, the lady luck was not on the young Goron's side, for it had just made the biggest mistake it could have ever made in its entire short lifespan...

"Hmm...?"

"A mere human?" Jeremy exclaimed and replied with a light smile, but his eyes started narrowing dangerously at the word 'mere'.

How could a descendant creature of the now-extinct race say such an insulting word towards him, the former great sage?

If it were so like the creature had said, wouldn't Jeremy become a former sage of the 'mere' humanity now?

The yellow skin outlander was simply courting death with its unthoughtful and unmindful wording...

Well...

As if still not realizing that Jeremy didn't ask for an answer when he replied to it earlier, the ignorant Goron added even further,

"Yes, your human race is supposed to be weak... Way weaker physically and elementally than us, the elemental races. Thus, it is very strange to see a human has so much strength capable of contending with me."

To be honest, the young Goron's general knowledge related to Ortus and the races living on the said planet should be pretty limited. The reason it was this short-sighted and simple-minded should be that the System had only input a minimal amount of knowledge inside the creature's brain for simplicity's sake.

But who have known that the said 'simplicity's sake' would backfire on the young Goron instead...

Still, when Jeremy had heard those words, his narrowly dangerous eyes seemed to be shooting a laser beam out all of a sudden.

Anyhow, it couldn't be denied that Jeremy's pride was a bit 'disturbed' from the creature's truthful words, for humans were indeed within the weaker side 'physically' compared to most races on Ortus.

However, for the human race to survive 'this long' on the giant planet full of beasts and monsters had clearly signified that it ought to have some unique ways of cultivation and technique to maintain and make itself strong enough to fend off any incoming dangers.

Shortly after, Jeremy finally changed his altitude back to his casual one of the same old harmless-looking smile that somehow felt so dangerous to any onlooker, and then he spoke to the Goron informatively,

"Your statement is only partly correct, uneducated outlander. In fact, humans are not all physically weak as you have said... It is just that... we, humans have too many paths to tread upon. And unfortunately, only one or two paths from those many paths will truly lead to an increase in our physical body strength. Also, regarding the elemental affinity, you are indeed mostly correct, but there ought to be some exceptions no matter where it is within this universe... You know about the world too little, ignorant creature."

Actually, Jeremy's words were primarily correct, whether it be the part of 'uneducated outlander', 'physical body strength', or 'the exceptions of everything'. However, the ignorant Goron didn't think so in the least, for it to have too little knowledge.

Upon receiving such a sudden and long educational speech from an inferior human, the Goron promptly felt dissatisfied, so it replied in scorn while clearly showing an unpleased expression on its rounded face,

"Is that so? Hmph! But no matter how good the so-called exceptions of your race's elemental affinities are, they will never be higher than ours, elemental races' affinities."

When Jeremy had heard those self-centered words, he could only shake his head and thought to within his mind in sarcasm as he didn't want to talk with it any further,

'That exception is me... idiot... And how can you self-proclaim yourself as one of the elemental races anyway?'

'You are nothing but a weak grub of a half-elemental race, the descendant race of the long-extinct pure elemental race.'

'The more I argue with a kid, the more nuts I become...'

After thinking so, Jeremy shook his head slightly as he decided to cut to the chase with no further arguing with the young Goron anymore...

"Now, can we continue our battle?" Jeremy said towards the young Goron, who had a slight bleeding wound on its head.

After hearing a sudden challenge from the somewhat strong human, the yellow skin outlander replied with confidence,

"Hahaha! Good, I will show you what an elemental race like us can do."

Right when the Goron had prepared to dash towards Jeremy, the latter spoke up once again,

"Before that... Anyhow, do you believe in magic?"

Upon hearing such a strange term, the young Goron felt confused, so it asked,

"Magic? What is that?"

To be frank, it couldn't be helped that some uneducated creatures didn't know about the term 'Magic', for it to be something very unique for the human race.

Also, the information and knowledge imparted to it from the System were not that much in amount, so the yellow skin outlander was truly clueless, like when Jeremy had asked about its name.

Actually, the said 'Magic' could also be called by another name as 'Spell'...

When Jeremy saw the Goron shaking its head in denial regarding the terms of magic, he smiled mysteriously and spoke up,

"Alright then, how about taking a look at this thing?"

Having finished saying so, mana particles from Jeremy's three dantians promptly rushed towards his right palm at the same time.