An Extra’s POV

[The Night Before]

'So far, I have a total of 85 Skills…'

Rey sprawled lazily across his luxurious bed, his gaze fixated on the luminous Status Window displaying a tally of his abilities—85 Skills and counting.

Despite being an average nobody, he was still able to get a luxurious treatment just for being an Otherworlder.

He wondered if this would change once the higher-ups found out about his apparent incompetence, but Rey soon shrugged it off as unimportant.

Rey dismissed the concern with a nonchalant shrug. 'I'll figure it out somehow. They won't ditch me from the team, not if Adonis keeps backing me.'

Adonis, in Rey's eyes, retained an aura of respect. He was not someone he idolized, but he acknowledged the power behind Adonis's position and intended to use it as his own shield.

'Alicia,' he thought, 'wasn't exactly mean or condescending, but she didn't exactly speak up for me either. She mostly seemed uncomfortable about the whole thing…'

Rey harbored no grudge against Alicia, yet he found maintaining a neutral stance with her to be the wisest choice. When it boiled down to it, Adonis remained his strongest ally.

'Then there's someone else who caught me off guard…' Rey's thoughts drifted to his supposed best friend, Billy McGuire.

'He joined in on their mockery of me. I get why he did it though.' Billy held an A-Tier Class and boasted five remarkably decent Skills, positioning him at the upper echelons of their class solely based on his stats.

'I guess he's graduated from being the underdog who sticks by my side…' Rey let out a wistful smile, a mere flicker of emotion while he maintained his lounging position on the bed.

'It hurts a bit.' His hand instinctively moved to his chest, clutching at it with a tinge of ache.

He should have seen this coming, considering the track record Bill had as a people pleaser who always tried to get on everyone's good side.

'His Karma Points must have skyrocketed from all that effort to win everyone's favor.' Rey acknowledged the probable reason behind Billy's success.

In the end, it paid off for him.

'And the one person who was his friend was thrown to the side, huh? That's brutal, man…' Rey's hand, having gripped his chest moments ago, now rested at his side as he released a soft sigh.

"It's not worth it. Let's focus on what's important now." His words sounded rehearsed, almost mechanical, a deliberate attempt to bury his emotions rather than confront them head-on. But time was a luxury he couldn't afford.

'Everyone has amazing Classes, which means they have a head-start in this world. I can't afford to be lazy.' Rey repeated the mantra to himself, determination flickering in his eyes, reigniting his resolve.

'I've categorized my Skills into two lists: Useful and Obsolete.'

Rey meticulously examined his Skill inventory, noting the stark contrast between the Useful and Obsolete ones.

The former boasted high-tier abilities, each excelling in their respective domains, while the latter consisted of watered-down versions.

For example, Rey possessed a B-Tier Skill called [Greater Battle Aura], but there was an inferior Skill in his collection which was called [Battle Aura], a C-Tier Skill.

His Skill list was rife with more examples like this.

ones served no purpose other than cluttering his repository. 'To make room for

of his Skills dwindled before his eyes, freeing up space for the

[Limit Count: 49]

49 of the initial

had similar or inferior versions of the top ones of our class.

that he had streamlined his Skillset, Rey focused on the next step: further classification.

straight into the Attack Category.' Rey mentally sorted through his

Defense], find their place in the Defense Category.'

Aura] and other related skills fall

assigned Skills like [Divine Beast Summon],

of accomplishment washing over him as he completed the meticulous categorization of his

carefully placing all of them in their categories,

~ Attack Category: 27

~ Defense Category: 9

~ Buff Category: 10

~ Miscellaneous: 3

'Well… that's that.'

sure to

wait to start

his abilities in front of his classmates, but Rey figured his chance would

to look

excited about this

*******

[The Present Day]

condition—the United Human Alliance pledged to fulfill any reasonable desire of the students

beforehand, the swift fulfillment of their

delivered fresh garments, including clothing and underwear, while any accessories they had asked for promptly

reach, but this was as close to perfect as a medieval world could

in this realm, but nestled in their privileged status, they found

worry remained an alien concept to the students. They possessed a

support

anyone seen Adonis around?" Justin's voice echoed through the parlor, his brows furrowed in search of their prominent

and Alicia are off hashing things out with the Chief Warrior, probably sorting our

seemed out of place among the 'cool

surface, Billy's appearance might have slated him as an outsider, but

his Skills and Class, he ascended to a different rank in their collective

him access

Adonis?" Jade's voice held

breakup, but nope, she's relentless," another student chimed in, echoing

Once you scaled the social ladder in school, it meant either adoration from

Adonis basked in admiration, Alicia found herself squarely in

So what? She has terrible

bossy and overbearing

does she think

every fan and supporter Alicia had, there lurked a multitude harboring envy and