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.'

Esteemed Otherworlders—were nearing the limits of what they could take from

power weakening, it was clear that they

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

sound, one would think it was a

can see through you guys. It's almost sad how desperate these people

all that finesse was a Nation that desperately needed

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

these

here that will suffer if the

reason alone, Rey felt his conscience was geared towards helping out more than it was

gotten all I can get from these people

useful Skills, and he now had

was fairly confident he could survive in this

speaking, they had nothing

if I take account for future events, then maybe I can

future benefits he still wasn't certain about,

own place and operate on

without the prying eyes and sniveling noses of his comrades weighing

importantly, though, he would finally have more time on his

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

fighting Monsters, he was guaranteed

wasn't even a

more useful I can be to this

it was

'But… not yet.'

yet to cut off ties with the Royal Estate

to identify the true malefactor of the

death, and now

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

framed me isn't Adam. It couldn't have been him. There's a good chance that they manipulated Adam and made him take the

was it that they were able to nab Adam

fishy, and Rey couldn't

leave everyone

much for his classmates, but that didn't mean

with

Trisha… and then…

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