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.

just better

their real training was about to begin, Rey decided to

need to become

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

despises the weak…

overpowered classmates, Rey could already guess

well… I have to

***********

[A Week Later]

"Huff… huff…."

escaped the lips of the students who were jogging

students were

off as five laps, and even that was

it

"Huff… huff… haaa… haaa…"

were out of breath already, despite only passing the fifty lap threshold. Others were sweating

wanted to

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

It was Rey.

am

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

had to force himself to sweat, and even his steamy

about this training exhausted him in

Alpha group students are undergoing tougher and more complex training, yet

on the first day, the students

all the immensely talented and

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

the cut. In everyone's eyes,

they

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

curriculum of the Beta group involved two major

exercise and

yet!' It pained Rey to the depths of his soul, but

had to remain

the A-Tier students talking about training, and apparently they have started

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

eyes, but that wasn't

as he intentionally slowed down his

didn't want to outrun

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

most about

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

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

be learning what

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