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

real training was about to begin, Rey decided to

need to become stronger… and

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

and despises the weak…

his seemingly overpowered classmates, Rey could

well… I

***********

[A Week Later]

"Huff… huff…."

of steamy breaths escaped the lips of the students who

the Beta students were being made to run round

as five

it was a

"Huff… huff… haaa… haaa…"

passing the fifty lap threshold. Others were sweating profusely, but they still

one wanted to

hanging on, there was

It was Rey.

sucks. What am I doing

as average as he could. That was why he was pretending to be tired, like

himself to sweat, and even his steamy

exhausted him

and more complex

first day, the students were divided into two groups—Alpha

all the

and Billy were the students in the group. There were a

the cut. In everyone's eyes,

he could argue that they thought he

are made to improve on our foundations, while the Alpha group has gone ahead to learn more

the Beta group involved two major

and Basic Skill

Magic yet!' It pained Rey to the

to remain

the A-Tier students talking about training, and apparently

Beta students would get jealous of the Alpha students learning Magic because that meant they would spend more time with the gorgeous Lucielle, but that wasn't

his eyes, but that wasn't his priority

eyes widened as he

want to

can naturally awaken more Skills if we practice hard enough and have enough

most about

Passive Skills that make my body naturally acclimate to physical stress very quickly. The first few days were hell, sure, but I've pretty much obtained the Stats that make me capable of enduring something of

Stats of the rest of his classmates, but he was certain he was currently on the level of the

should be learning what

he told himself to exercise patience. Right now, he couldn't afford to stir the hornet's nest too