An Extra’s POV

'I messed up!'

Rey could already sense the expectations of the audience directed towards him and Esme--specifically Esme.

'Because of our actions, most of them aren't turning back.'

There just wasn't enough casualties or despair to drive the weak away. For that very reason, many of them thought they had a chance.

'But was I supposed to? Watch as all of them got wiped out?'

If he did that, the number of casualties would have exceeded what the Guilldmaster had projected in his grand plan.

Pretty much anyone who was a Veteran would have died.

'That would be an extremely negative blow on the entire Conquest. The Veterans might have chosen to leave at that point.'

Even after the Conquest was over, the deaths of those thousands was bound to negatively affect the Adventurers Guild.

'The Guild earns a certain percentage from the Quest Rewards that Adventurers get directly from them. Also, Adventurers pay taxes too...'

The entire Quest system would also be compromised since there would be a severe shortage in the number of low-ranked Adventurers to take on low-ranked jobs.

Higher-ranking Adventurers would never want to want to take on those jobs since the pay would pale in comparison to the Quests that existed normally in their purview. Not only that, but their pride as higher-ranking Adventurers wouldn't let them stoop so low.

If this imbalance festered for long enough, many more problems would rear its head.

'The only way the Guild can combat things by then is to raise the reward of those missions on order to make them appealing to the top Adventurers.'

the long run? Not only would the Guild be losing a lot of money due to this additional incentive they were providing, Adventurers would see that they could earn a sizeable sum with less risk by going for low-ranked Quests, so they

make the high-ranking Quests suffer a severe lack

be to increase the incentives on the high-ranking missions as well, which will just bring about the

of course, considered all of these factors--along with the fact that he

rather, he

also consider the long-term effects of their deaths, or was she willing to adhere

knew for certain, however, was that his deep consideration now had severe

I had [Absolute Mental Control], I would be tempted to use it on these people, but

it only worked on one target at a time. Rey figured it would be weird, and even incredibly unrealistic, if he went around and used the Skill on

would pick up on it

any Skill

just seemed like they would have to endure and carry as many as they could onto the next stage, and probably the one after

them all die later on after bothering to save

opportunity of a lifetime by relying on the more powerful to protect, something about the situation left a bad taste in his

though they were using his kindness against him, and they were being pathetic leeches who simply wanted to gain all the benefit while making

people, yet they expect her to do it again

speak his mind in front of everyone present. He wanted to thoroughly rebuke the crowd and, even if it was by force, make them leave the

But…

just keep up

from beside him,

her smiling softly while nodding. It was at this moment that he realized that Esme

up.' He told himself, allowing his racing

her, and

chuckled almost immediately. 'I shouldn't

since everyone has decided to continue the Conquest…" Richard's voice brought Rey back to reality, and he gazed at the older

in his direction. He made a sympathetic

do