An Extra’s POV

"ERIC, NO—!!!"

As Adonis stretched out his hand, the moment he saw that Eric had been stabbed by the Dragon General, he felt a dangerous crackle around the boy.

Then—

~BOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

—An overwhelming explosion surged through the area, covering all of Eric's immediate vicinity.

The blast stopped short before reaching the positions of Clark, Alicia, Billy, Trisha, and Justin. Instead, it ascended high into the heavens—like a blazing pillar.

The inferno swirled around and within each other—almost like a torrent of unstoppable power.

"E-Eric…" As Adonis witnessed this, the roaring heat reflecting in his eyes, he had a dazed expression on his face.

He felt instantly ashamed of this thought, but the first thing that came to his mind once he saw the blazing display of power was awe, rather than sorrow.

'To think… he had this much power… so much potential.'

Not all Mages had an equal allocation of latent Mana within them. This pool of dormant Mana was varied in quality and quantity; theorized to be based on the potential of a person.

As such, various Mages harness their respective pools by casting Forced Magic Activation, yet their output would be varied from one another.

Based on what Adonis was seeing alone, Eric could have very well reached the S-Tier as a Mage.

But… all of that was in the realm of memory.

Once the awe wore off, the only thing Adonis felt at that point was grief.

Tears flowed down his eyes as he watched the burning pillar of flames slowly die out, reducing to mere vestiges of sparks and miniature explosions.

"I'm sorry, Eric…" He was reminded by Eric's warnings.

"… I'm so sorry!"

If it wasn't for his hubris, his obsessive desire with saving everyone, then perhaps this wouldn't have happened.

'W-why…? Why did you have to die?'

More tears flowed down Adonis' eyes as he descended and knelt on the ground.

was he constantly protected, even now that he had the

things would be different this time. I thought, after everything—all those sacrifices—there would be no

He had worked so hard to

sure nobody that he cared

this was the reward for all his

Eric…" More sobs echoed from him as he

could not afford to mourn the dead just yet. He should have known that by

comrades who fought alongside him. This sort of thing was not meant

he remembered the times he

whether about Magic, Dungeons, or Adventurers—he could not help but

could not move

But after finally arriving here, in this City, I've decided to make a much more concrete goal!" Adonis remembered what Eric told him when they were

his mind, taking the form of guilt that shackled

the world. We already conquered the Royal Dungeon, so once the war

smile that Eric made as he talked about those dreams of

of us to do it together, you know? Kind of like

kept coming, overlapping with one another—words that Adonis had smiled

the Alliance and

a little skeptical about those words. Lucielle indeed seemed unimpressive by Otherworlder standards, but she was considered the greatest Human Mage of all

by no means a feat just

glorious eruption, Adonis realized that those words—at least, the

he had the potential to

Lucielle and become the

was no longer any more tear left in his moist eyes as he

do it. I couldn't do it like you, Rey…

master did for him, he thought he could help everyone around him. He became a Hero to save the world, but also prevent the tragedy that would

So why…?

get this right?!"

"Why…?"

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as he recollected the past—or rather, a future that once

of his two surviving comrades; Rey and

friend. We're going to change everything!" Those were the words he was

them back then, there was a certain

a heartwarming smile, filled with confidence and encouragement—like

those words were

~BOOOOOOOM!!!~