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.'

Not only would the Guild be losing a lot of money due to this additional incentive they were providing, Adventurers would see that they

in turn, make the high-ranking

to increase the incentives on the high-ranking missions as well, which will just bring about the same issues and continue the vicious

the fact that he didn't want any unnecessary deaths--which

he told Esme

also consider the long-term effects of

now

would be tempted to use it on these people, but sadly I do

[Compulsion], but that was an A-Tier Skill, and 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

pick up on

any Skill

as many as they could onto the next stage, and probably the one after

can't let them all die later on after bothering to

blame the Adventurers for seizing the opportunity of a lifetime by relying on

were using his kindness against him, and they were being pathetic leeches who simply wanted to gain all

her Level-Up grind for these people, yet they

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

But…

keep up with

voice came from beside him, like

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

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

her,

chuckled almost immediately. 'I shouldn't have thought her

everyone has decided to continue the Conquest…" Richard's voice brought Rey back to

the Guildmaster looked in his direction. He made a sympathetic

them do