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.'

limits of

their power weakening, it was clear that

I'm sure they've run out of Mana Crystals to power the Grand Barrier, or they're

way Conrad made it sound, one would think it was

It's almost sad how desperate these people are once you peel a

that finesse was a Nation that desperately needed

why he's still on their side despite how crafty they

end, these people

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

that reason alone, Rey felt his conscience was geared towards helping out more than it was directed towards his selfish

pretty much gotten all I can get from

had used [Doppel] on the strongest people here and obtained their useful Skills, and he now had access to the abilities of

confident he

speaking, they had nothing else to

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

compared to the abstract future benefits he still wasn't certain

my own place and

meant he could live his life without the prying eyes and sniveling

importantly, though, he would finally

has become pretty useless to me at this point… and honestly, I could better spend my

he spent more time fighting Monsters, he was guaranteed to get more

wasn't even a necessarily selfish

more useful I can be to this

essence, it was for their own

'But… not yet.'

to cut off ties

obvious reason to him was his desire to identify the true malefactor of the

Adam's death, and now

shake off the feeling that someone was behind all

good chance that they manipulated Adam and made him take the fall so they could cover their

convenient was it that they were able to nab Adam for everything and solve the mystery

Rey couldn't get it

just leave everyone with

much for his classmates, but that didn't mean he was comfortable

some sort of relationship with a few people

Adonis, Trisha…

second, more sentimental reason, why he was