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.

it's just better

everything, and observing that their real training was about to begin, Rey decided to give it

to become stronger… and

not to be controlled by his classmates, the people of this world… as well as the

respects the strong and despises the

his seemingly overpowered classmates, Rey could already guess some challenges

well… I

***********

[A Week Later]

"Huff… huff…."

of steamy breaths escaped the lips of the students who were

the vast training grounds, as large as a football field, the Beta students were being made to run round it for a hundred times in one

as five laps, and even that was

now… it was a

"Huff… huff… haaa… haaa…"

the fifty lap threshold. Others were

one wanted to give

the many who struggled to keep up, and were barely hanging on, there was

It was Rey.

What am

now, he was trying his hardest to be as average as he could. That was why he was pretending to be

force himself to sweat, and even his steamy breath was him trying hard to increase

this training exhausted

more complex training, yet I'm stuck

the students were divided into two groups—Alpha and

all the immensely talented and powerful members

in the group. There were a total of nine of them—a small number compared to the twenty-nine students

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

he could argue that they

were put in the Beta group and are made to improve on our foundations, while the Alpha group has gone ahead to

now, the curriculum of the Beta group involved two major

and Basic

It pained Rey to the depths of his soul, but what could

had to remain

students talking about training, and apparently they have started

because that meant they would spend more time with the gorgeous

Lucielle was immensely attractive in his eyes, but that wasn't his priority

Skills!' His eyes widened as he intentionally slowed down

to outrun everyone

we practice hard enough and have enough

about

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

classmates, but he was certain he

be learning what

patience. Right now, he