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 what they could take from the Royal

clear that they had to

out of Mana Crystals to power the Grand Barrier, or they're pretty low on their supply.

made it sound, one would think it was a voluntary

through you guys. It's almost sad how desperate

all that finesse was a Nation that

why he's still on

end, these

if the Dragons aren't

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

all I can

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

he could survive in this

speaking, they had nothing else to

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

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

get my own place

life without the prying eyes and sniveling noses of his

would finally have more time on

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

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

this wasn't even a necessarily

useful I

was

'But… not yet.'

to cut off

reason to him was his desire to identify the

death,

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

been him. There's a good chance that they manipulated

Adam for everything and solve the mystery of

fishy, and Rey couldn't get it out

just leave everyone with the

that didn't mean he was

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

Trisha… and

sentimental reason, why