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 with less risk by going for low-ranked Quests,

make the high-ranking Quests suffer a

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

with the fact that he didn't want any unnecessary deaths--which was why he intervened in

he

would have done if I didn't say anything. Did she also consider the long-term effects of their deaths, or was she willing to adhere to the original plan?' He had no

was that his deep consideration now had severe consequences since

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

and it only worked on one target at a time. Rey figured it would be weird,

up

really shouldn't use any Skill beyond my

many as they could onto the

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

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

pathetic

grind for these people, yet they expect her to

He

But…

fine. Let's just keep up with it for

beside him, like a

her direction and found her smiling softly while nodding. It was at this moment that he realized that Esme must have also been thinking about the issue, and she noticed

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

smiled at her, and she

almost immediately. 'I shouldn't have thought

Richard's voice brought Rey back to reality, and he gazed at

direction. He made

do