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.'

shortage problem, but what of in 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 would stop doing

would, in turn, make the high-ranking Quests suffer a severe

to increase the incentives on the high-ranking missions

course, considered all of these factors--along with the fact that he didn't want any unnecessary deaths--which was why he

he told

long-term effects of their deaths, or was she willing to

deep consideration now had severe consequences since the weaklings were now deciding

would be tempted to use

that was an A-Tier Skill, and it only worked on one target at a time. Rey figured it would

would pick up

any Skill beyond

have to endure and carry as many as they could onto the next stage, and probably the

die later on after bothering to save them

for seizing the opportunity of a lifetime by relying on the more powerful to protect, something about the situation

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

grind for these people, yet they expect her to do it again and again

present. He wanted to thoroughly rebuke the crowd and, even if it was by

But…

fine. Let's just keep up with it for

beside him, like a soft whisper entering

It was at this moment that he realized that Esme must have also been thinking about the issue, and

Don't get too worked up.' He told himself, allowing his racing

her, and she nodded, pulling out

immediately. 'I shouldn't have thought her

Richard's voice brought Rey

surprise, the Guildmaster looked in his direction. He made a sympathetic

them do what