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.'

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

the high-ranking Quests suffer a severe lack of

things at that point would be to increase the incentives on the high-ranking missions as well, which will just bring about the same issues and continue

with the fact that he didn't

rather, he

consider the long-term effects of their deaths, or was

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

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

have [Compulsion], but that was an A-Tier Skill, and it only worked on one target at a time. Rey figured it

up on it

use any Skill beyond my persona's

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

them all die later on after bothering to save them here...' He sighed and

relying on the more powerful

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

tempted to speak his mind in front of everyone present. He wanted to thoroughly rebuke the crowd and, even if

But…

keep up with it for

voice came from beside him, like

he realized that Esme must have also been thinking about the

too worked up.' He told

smiled at her, and

chuckled almost immediately. 'I shouldn't

decided to continue the Conquest…" Richard's voice brought Rey back to reality, and he gazed

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

do what they