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 become

by his classmates, the people of this world… as

and despises

Extra among all his seemingly overpowered classmates, Rey could already

I have

***********

[A Week Later]

"Huff… huff…."

escaped the lips of the students who

vast training grounds, as large as a football field, the Beta students were being made to run round

five laps, and

now… it

"Huff… huff… haaa… haaa…"

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

one wanted to

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

It was Rey.

What am

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

himself to sweat, and even his steamy breath was

exhausted him

more

on the first day, the students were divided into

group had all the immensely talented

Adonis, Alicia, and Billy were the students in the group. There were a total of nine of them—a

In everyone's eyes, I'm

he could argue that they thought he was less than

made to improve on our foundations, while the Alpha

the curriculum of the Beta group involved

and Basic Skill

It pained Rey to the depths of his soul, but

to

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

the Alpha students learning Magic because that meant they would

eyes,

Skills!' His eyes widened as

want to

if we practice hard enough and have enough

vexed him most about

were hell, sure, but I've pretty much obtained the Stats that make me capable of

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

learning

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