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.

end, it's just better

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

become stronger… and

by his classmates, the people of this world… as well as

despises

among all his seemingly overpowered classmates, Rey could already guess

I have

***********

[A Week Later]

"Huff… huff…."

steamy breaths escaped the lips

field, the Beta students were being made

off as five laps, and even

it was

"Huff… huff… haaa… haaa…"

of breath already, despite only passing the fifty lap threshold. Others were sweating profusely, but they still had their

one wanted

up, and were barely hanging on, there was one student

It was Rey.

sucks. What am I doing

now, he was trying his hardest to be as average as he could. That was why he was pretending to be tired, like most people in the Beta group,

his steamy breath was him

this training exhausted him in the

tougher and more complex training, yet I'm stuck with this.

training concluded on the first day, the students were divided into

all the immensely talented and

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

the cut. In everyone's eyes, I'm as average as

they thought he was less

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

the curriculum of the Beta group involved two

exercise and

yet!' It pained Rey to

had to remain

A-Tier students talking about training, and apparently

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

in his eyes,

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

to outrun

more Skills if we practice hard enough and have enough

vexed him most about this training. It

make my body naturally acclimate to physical stress very quickly. The first few days were hell, sure, but I've pretty

rest of his classmates, but he was certain he was

be learning what they're

now, he