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.

Why was he constantly protected, even now

different this time. I thought, after everything—all those sacrifices—there

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

nobody that he cared about

reward for all his

Eric…" More sobs echoed from him as he shuddered with

could not afford to mourn the dead just yet.

fought alongside him. This sort of

remembered the times he

whether about Magic, Dungeons, or Adventurers—he could not help but feel an overwhelming weight

could not move

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 alone in the Adventurers

his mind, taking the form of

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

remembered the wide smile that Eric made as he talked about those dreams of his; how he craved adventure

you know? Kind of like

another—words that Adonis had smiled

I'll return to the Alliance and

Lucielle's 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

her was by no means a

eruption, Adonis realized that those words—at

the potential to

Lucielle and become the greatest Grand Mage in

no longer any more tear left in his moist eyes as he stared at the charred crater that oozed smoke and tiny fragments of

couldn't do it like you, Rey…

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

So why…?

I get this

"Why…?"

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his mind breaking as he recollected the past—or

of his two surviving comrades; Rey and

We're going to change everything!" Those were

heard them back then, there was a

give such a heartwarming smile, filled

words were soon followed

~BOOOOOOOM!!!~