An Extra’s POV

Three hundred years ago, things were very different.

Human civilization was fragmented into various nations, and so there were various opposing factions with their individual self-interests at play.

The only exception to this… was the Adventurer's Guild.

Adventurers were neutral parties amongst the scuffle among nations. They weren't involved in politics, and their simple lives were unaffected by the embers of conflict spreading amongst the other nations.

They were strong enough to make their own city—a haven free from the rigors of nationalism—and became the very embodiment of freedom.

"An Adventurer serves no one but himself."

This embodied the spirit of everyone who chose the path.

As long as you obeyed the basic rules of conduct necessary for living in a civilization, there was no restriction to what you could or couldn't do.

As far as their economy went, individual Adventurers sold Monster Cores and special ores gotten from their land to the highest bidder. The Guild received their cut and maintained the City in return.

Jobs gotten through the Guild made them entitled to more profit, but the payment and security of the job would also be guaranteed.

There was more to the trade, but that was essentially it.

While the ideal of freedom had a lot of benefits to the Adventurers, there were some consequences to their hubris.

When chaos struck, or calamity arose… the Adventurers would find themselves alone.

Without any affiliation to a nation, they could not opt for support or seek out aid. As a result, the Adventurers were doomed to fall on their own.

This was especially true when the Grand Calamity Class Dungeon emerged.

Of the five thousand and ninety-nine Adventurers who charged in for the Raid—no, the Dungeon Conquest—only two-thousand and nine hundred made it out alive. A few hundred were unable to recover from their injuries and died not long after they escaped the Dungeon.

It was the greatest loss the Adventurer City ever faced in history, even till date.

They suffered a heavy blow that day, and when they requested the aid of the neighboring nations—the same nations that often used the strength of the Adventurers to get rid of Monsters of assist in all kinds of tasks in their respective territories—they completely ignored the Adventurer's City.

Perhaps they thought if the Adventurers became desperate enough, they would finally succumb and sign an Affiliation Treaty.

When that didn't happen, out of frustration, the Nations decided to take what they wanted by force. The Adventurers were a major threat, since they were too strong for any sole Nation to handle.

their weakened state, they were

Or so the Nations

found out that day—at the time

could form a faction of their own, without any external interference, was not simply because of their collective

due to the power of one

the first Heroic Rank Adventurer… the strongest Adventurer in

Zephyr, the

warded off the armies that charged at his

thanks to Jet Zephyr that the Adventurer City was spared that day. He saved them all…

an ideal that

*********

get the point, right?" Conrad sighed, feeling a bit drained after going on and on about the complicated

didn't know of it, so he thought he

up being

that the Adventurers hate your guts despite being an Alliance, and they often act as a separate entity from you even though you're on the same side against the Dragons." Eric spoke up, flexing his glasses

"Yes. Precisely tha—"

what the Nations did to them all those years ago."

move, man. Dick move." Justin

We know it was a… dick move, you called it? But, a lot has changed since that time." Conrad said,

forte, so he shifted his gaze to the expert and pleaded for

it's a messy history for sure, but times have

atrocities that some nations have committed against one another back on Earth. That didn't stop

go of the past and embracing the future was

Adventurer City can see that now." Adonis added

Royal Council and the Adventurer City's highest authority were then

Dungeon Conquest

Even after what happened

fazed. Instead, he took his time to

more high-ranked Adventurers in the City. Their numbers are a lot more than what they had three hundred years ago. They believe they have

ensure the success

they

nine days. They want to begin the Conquest as soon as possible in order to guarantee maximum results and success." Adonis paused upon seeing a hand

really necessary to risk their lives like this? Can't they just wait for

face that Belle gave made everyone's heart melt. It was obvious how worried she was about the fine Adventurers of the

it was that simple…"

preserving your life is pretty simple, though." Justin added, but Adonis shook his head

that a Dungeon