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.

constantly protected, even now that he had the power and means to protect

thought… things would be different this time. I thought, after everything—all those

power. He had the knowledge of the future. He had worked so hard to

nobody that he

reward

him as

to mourn the dead just yet. He should have known that

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

he remembered the times he spent with

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

could not

have so many dreams, you know? But after finally arriving here, in this City, I've decided to make a much more concrete

echoed in his mind, taking the form of

once the war is over… I'll return here and explore the one in this city. After that, there'll be

Eric made as he talked about those dreams of his; how he craved

to do it together, you

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

when we retire… I'll return to the Alliance and become the next Grand

disciple in the previous timeline, Adonis had felt a little skeptical about those words. Lucielle indeed seemed unimpressive by Otherworlder standards, but she was considered the greatest Human Mage of all time for a

no means a feat just

seeing Eric's glorious eruption, Adonis realized that those words—at least, the intention

he had the

Lucielle and become the greatest Grand Mage in human

of that is gone.' There was no longer any more tear left in his moist

couldn't do it like you,

best friend and master did for him, he thought he could help everyone around him. He became a Hero to save the world,

So why…?

can't I get this right?!" He

"Why…?"

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breaking as he recollected

of his two

We're going to change everything!" Those

heard them back then, there

such a heartwarming smile, filled with

words were soon

~BOOOOOOOM!!!~