An Extra’s POV

[The Next Day]

"Good morning, Esteemed Otherworlders. It's really good to see you all in good health."

Right now, Rey and his classmates were standing in the open fields of their training ground.

All twenty-eight of them were facing Grandmaster Conrad, who had Brutus and Lucielle to his right and left respectively.

Conrad had a calm smile on his face as his long hair danced with the wind.

As usual, he was adorned in expensive jewelry and pristine clothing. There was no one who would doubt that this man was royalty.

"I am grateful for you being accommodating and understanding. You've been subjected to a lot of restrictions, and I am deeply honored that you chose to be patient with us."

Truthfully, if it hadn't been for Adonis calming the students down, there would have been a lot more resistance to the actions of the Royal Council.

After Adam's demise, it was clear that something had changed in the power balance.

The desperation of the United Human Alliance began to show, while the students grew a lot more uneasy about their place in the Estate.

This ultimately led to a shift in the status quo.

Right now, it was clear that the United Human Alliance had more to lose from letting the students go, and they had to be a lot more active in their management of their champions.

That was why Conrad—Grandmaster that he was—was standing out in the open to address the Otherworlders.

"All of that changes today. We will cease the barriers, and we will even allow you to explore outside the Royal Estate as you please."

As Conrad said all this, the annoyed countenance of a lot of students began to change.

Smiles and little chuckles began to reveal themselves among the dreary ones.

It felt like a miracle.

As the students murmured among one another in excitement, one of them was also grinning like an idiot, though his thoughts were far from what he showed.

'What a farce…'

Rey was the one who had this thought, and for good reason.

'He's making it sound like he's doing us a favor when, in fact, he has no other option.'

classmates—that is, the Esteemed Otherworlders—were nearing the limits of

clear that they had to

power the Grand Barrier, or they're pretty

the way Conrad made it sound, one would think it was

almost sad how desperate these people are once you

a Nation that

Adonis recognizes that too. That's why he's still on their side despite how crafty

these

here that will suffer if the Dragons aren't stopped. Millions of people, if not more,

conscience was geared towards helping out

gotten all I can get from these

people here and obtained their useful Skills, and he

enough about this world that he was fairly confident he could survive in this world

had

take account for future events, then maybe I can benefit a thing or

wasn't certain about,

could get my own place and operate on

without the prying eyes and sniveling noses of

though, he would finally

useless to me at this point… and honestly, I could better

Monsters, he was guaranteed to get

even a necessarily selfish

I am, the more useful I can be to

essence, it was for their

'But… not yet.'

was yet to cut off ties

reason to him was his desire to identify the true

death, and

felt too unnatural and coordinated that Rey couldn't shake off the feeling that someone was behind

that framed me isn't Adam. It couldn't have been him. There's a good chance that they manipulated Adam and made him take the fall so they could cover

convenient was it that they were able to nab Adam for everything

couldn't get it out of

leave everyone with the malefactor

really care much for his classmates, but that didn't mean

relationship with a few people during the

Adonis, Trisha… and

him to the second, more sentimental reason, why he