An Extra’s POV

~VWUUSH~

A swirling blue portal, like a vortex imprinted in midair, appeared a short distance from the Southern Gate of the Adventurer City.

For a moment, it merely stood still, merely illuminating the night with its bright hue and causing the air around it to tremble.

Then, silhouettes began to emerge from within it.

Nine humans, along with a rabbit, marched out of the spatial rift. There was purpose in their aura, and their footsteps interrupted the silence that filled the barren path.

Once they all came out, the warbling space collapsed on itself and vanished from sight.

In no time at all, the darkened path returned to the way it was, save for the ten strangers that now stood there.

"I can't believe Sir Ralyks just dropped us off without even bothering to show us around." The first to speak was, of course, Justin Blake.

His face dragged around as he complained, pointing towards the entrance of the city that stood at least a hundred meters away from them.

"The least he could do was transport us straight to the entrance."

Everyone ignored Justin's complaints. They knew the true reason why he was complaining, and that was because Ralyks didn't respond to any of his jokes.

Even when he was being serious, he was treated coldly.

Of course, the same applied to everyone, but it seemed Justin took it personally.

The only one who reacted as strongly as he did—perhaps a bit more extreme—was Belle Vanitas.

cold to me?" Her muffled whispers quietly echoed in the

Everyone ignored her too.

this for a while now, and since she showed no signs of stopping anytime soon—despite the initial attempts to pacify her—they all

looks, but most just paid attention to the task

Ralyks was probably busy. He has a lot on his plate, and he did previously mention that he was going to be investigating some matters." Adonis had to speak up and address everyone, even though he already did so

let us all cooperate

but the real reason 'Ralyks' didn't speak to them was because he was a mere duplicate hurriedly charged with bringing the students to the Adventurers City after a specified

the checkpoint, the duplicate was to spew out exposition about the Adventurers City, as well as to once again guide the actions

task, the clone

he was busy, I feel like he should have at least lodged us somewhere." Alicia spoke up, her tone hinting a little

Alicia gets it!" Justin yelled out, though he was ignored

as an adult, to just drop us off in a City we've never been to before?

almost preplanned tone. "It's pretty late. It's not safe for us to be out so late at night

everything Alicia complained about, yet somehow managing to make

what I…" Alicia slightly slapped her

had completely

enough to save us days of travel by

and focus on the

none of them realized just how wrong

blame their ignorance,

City, or lodged them into an inn, was because the man behind the mask

were high that he would be exposed as a fraud once the Otherworlders noticed that no one was paying him any mind, despite supposedly

the risk of drawing attention to Ralyks—especially when he wasn't in full control of the version he sent

was still unsure if Adrien was pulling the

better to dissociate Ralyks from the

his plan, it was better