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.

Her muffled whispers quietly echoed in the

Everyone ignored her too.

had been sobbing like this for a while now, and since she showed no signs of stopping anytime soon—despite the initial attempts to pacify her—they all gave up on

few students still shot her concerned looks, but most just paid

He has a lot on his plate, and he did previously mention that he was going to

please, let us all cooperate and

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

transporting them to the checkpoint, the duplicate was to spew out exposition about the Adventurers City, as

done with the task, the clone transported

feel like he should have at least lodged

Justin yelled out, though he was

it a bit irresponsible on his part, as an adult, to just drop us off in a City we've never been to before? What do you think,

you, Alicia." Rey responded to the inquiry with a sharp, almost preplanned tone. "It's pretty late. It's not safe for us to be out so late at

a way, Rey just rephrased everything Alicia complained about, yet somehow managing to make it

not really what I…" Alicia slightly slapped

completely

Sir Ralyks was generous enough to save us days of travel by transporting us here despite his busy schedule." Adonis spoke up, finally gaining everyone's

focus on

them realized just how wrong they were in

blame their ignorance,

or lodged them into an inn, was because the man behind the mask didn't want his face to

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

he could escape such accusations by claiming to be in disguise, Rey didn't want to take the risk of drawing attention to Ralyks—especially

he was still unsure if Adrien was pulling the strings

plan, it was better to dissociate Ralyks from the Adventurers City, instead placing the focus on Jet and from

safety of his plan, it was better to dissociate