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.'

Otherworlders—were nearing the limits of what they

weakening, it was clear that they had to

power the Grand

Conrad made it sound, one would think it

It's almost sad how desperate these people are

a Nation

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

the end, these people

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

conscience was geared towards helping

pretty much gotten all I can get

strongest people here and obtained their useful Skills, and he now had access to the abilities of

this world that he was fairly confident he could survive in this world with the current knowledge

speaking, they had nothing

then maybe I can benefit a thing or

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

my own place and

the prying eyes and sniveling noses of his comrades weighing

importantly, though, he would finally

me at this point… and honestly, I could better

fighting Monsters, he was guaranteed to get

this wasn't even a necessarily selfish

am, the more useful I can be

it was for their

'But… not yet.'

was yet to cut off ties with the

desire to identify the true malefactor

trial, Adam's death,

unnatural and coordinated that Rey couldn't shake off the feeling that someone was behind all of

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

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

and Rey couldn't get it out of his

everyone with the

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

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

Adonis, Trisha… and then…

the second, more sentimental reason, why he was hesitant