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

training was

to become

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

world respects the strong and despises the weak… just like

among all his seemingly overpowered classmates, Rey could

well… I have

***********

[A Week Later]

"Huff… huff…."

lips of the students who were jogging

grounds, as large as a football field, the Beta students were being made to run round it for a hundred

initially started off as five laps, and even

it was a

"Huff… huff… haaa… haaa…"

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

wanted

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

It was Rey.

What am

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

his steamy breath was

about this training exhausted him in the

and more complex

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

Alpha group had all the immensely talented

a total

didn't make the cut. In

argue that they thought he was less

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

curriculum of the Beta group involved

exercise and Basic

Magic yet!' It pained Rey to the depths of his

had to

about training, and apparently they have started

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

eyes, but that wasn't

widened as he

to

more Skills if we practice hard enough and have

about this training. It was meaningless to

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

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

should be learning what

Right now, he couldn't afford to stir the