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.'

the limits of what they could take from

power weakening, it was clear that they had

power the Grand Barrier, or they're pretty low on their supply. That's why

way Conrad made it sound, one would think it was a

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

a Nation that desperately

recognizes that too. That's why he's still on their side

the end, these people required

people here that will suffer if the Dragons

towards helping out more than it was directed towards

I can

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

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

speaking, they had nothing

take account for future events, then maybe I

he still wasn't certain about, there were concrete

place

meant he could live his life without the prying eyes

finally have more time

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

spent more time fighting Monsters, he

wasn't even

the more useful I can be to

was

'But… not yet.'

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

obvious reason to him was his desire to identify

Adam's death,

Rey couldn't shake off the feeling that someone was behind

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

Adam for

was fishy, and Rey couldn't get it out

just leave everyone with the malefactor among

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

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

Trisha… and then…

second, more sentimental reason, why he was