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.'

nearing the limits of what they could take

it was clear that they had

sure they've run out of Mana Crystals to power the Grand Barrier, or they're pretty low on their supply. That's why they're stopping the

one would think it was

how desperate these people are once you peel a

all that finesse was a Nation that

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

end, these

that will suffer if the Dragons

Rey felt his conscience was geared towards helping out more than it was directed towards

gotten all I can get

and obtained their useful Skills, and

world that he was fairly confident he

had nothing else to

if I take account for future events, then

abstract future benefits he still wasn't certain about, there

own place and operate on

he could live his life without the prying eyes and sniveling noses of his comrades weighing

importantly, though, he would finally have more time on

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

more time fighting Monsters, he was guaranteed

wasn't even

stronger I am, the more useful I can be to this

it was for their

'But… not yet.'

major reasons why Rey was yet to cut off ties with the

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

trial, Adam's death, and now

all felt too unnatural and coordinated that Rey couldn't shake off the feeling

me isn't Adam. It couldn't have been him. There's a good chance that

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

was fishy, and Rey couldn't get it out of

leave everyone with the malefactor

care much for his classmates, but that didn't mean he was comfortable with them being played by an

form some sort of relationship with a few people during the time he spent

Trisha…

him to the second, more sentimental reason, why