An Extra’s POV

"There is no need to feel shame."

The Head Warrior, Brutus, approached the fallen Billy and stretched forth his hand.

"You did well for your first battle. You possess powerful Skills and the potential to surpass me." For the first time ever, something was tugging at the corners of Brutus' face.

It was… a smile!

Brutus was smiling, and it was a very warm grin.

"That is why you need training. So, what do you say… Grand Knight? Do you wish to grow strong and defeat me one day?"

The hand of the Head Warrior remained outstretched as Billy looked at it with widened eyes.

Following Brutus' words were a round of applause. It started with Lucielle, followed by Adonis, and before long… everyone was clapping.

'For me? They're clapping for me?'

Billy's face shifted slightly as his widened eyes bulged even further as he noticed a particular girl clapping as she smiled.

'Alicia is also clapping? She's even smiling at me!'

It made him feel immensely happy. The experience just now had humbled him, but this… this had now raised his spirits.

From a trembling form to a smile, Billy returned his gaze to the Head Knight and nodded.

"I wish to grow strong!"

Billy reached out for Brutus' hand, and the Head Warrior pulled him up with relative ease.

Both warriors stared at each other with a measure of respect and honor attributed respectively.

It was like a new bond had been forged—one between a mentor and his protege.

"Good. I look forward to your training."

*******

'I see now…'

Rey smiled as he observed all that happened from beginning to end.

'Our Skills are only as effective as our mastery over them, and our Levels. It's just as Lucielle said.'

A Level 1 A-Tier Skill user would never be able to defeat a Level 10 B-Tier Skill user.

'I think this much is fair. Also, there seems to be some kind of power cap. It's likely that the B-Tier Skill will stagnate at some point, while the A-Tier one will keep improving.'

Also, Rey theorized that a Level 1 A-Tier was no doubt going to defeat a B-Tier of the same level.

the end, it's just better to

training was about to begin, Rey decided

need to become

the people of

the strong and despises the weak…

his seemingly overpowered classmates, Rey could already guess some challenges that would come

well… I have

***********

[A Week Later]

"Huff… huff…."

escaped the lips

as a football field, the Beta students were

five laps, and even that

it

"Huff… huff… haaa… haaa…"

threshold.

one wanted

who struggled to keep up, and were barely hanging on, there was one student

It was Rey.

am

his hardest to be as average as he could. That was why he was pretending to be tired, like most people

even his steamy

exhausted

group students are undergoing tougher and more complex training, yet I'm stuck with

first day, the

had all the immensely

like Adonis, Alicia, and Billy were the students in the group. There were a total of nine of them—a small number compared to the

didn't make the cut. In everyone's eyes, I'm as average

argue that they thought

twenty of us were put in the Beta group and are made to improve on our

the curriculum of the

exercise and Basic

to the

to

students talking about training, and

of the Alpha students learning Magic because that meant they would spend more time with the gorgeous

in his eyes, but that wasn't his priority

the Skills!' His eyes widened as he intentionally slowed down his

to

naturally awaken more Skills if we practice hard enough and have

vexed him most about this

physical stress very quickly. The first few days were hell, sure, but I've pretty much obtained the Stats that make

he didn't know the Stats of the rest of his classmates, but he was certain he was currently on the

learning what they're

now, he couldn't afford to stir the hornet's nest