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

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

made it sound, one would think it

desperate these

a

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

the end, these people required

and the people here that will suffer if the Dragons aren't

geared towards helping out more than it was directed

gotten all I can get from these people right

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

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

speaking, they had nothing

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

he still wasn't certain about,

own place and operate on

without the prying eyes

finally

become pretty useless to me at this point… and honestly, I could better spend my time grinding in the Dungeon.' Rey

time fighting Monsters, he was guaranteed

even a necessarily

stronger I am, the more useful I can be to

essence, it was for

'But… not yet.'

was yet to cut off ties with the Royal Estate and his

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

death, and now

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

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

were able to nab Adam for everything and solve the mystery

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

can't just leave everyone with the

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

form some sort of relationship with a few people during

Adonis, Trisha… and

him to the second, more sentimental reason, why he was hesitant to