An Extra’s POV

The day that Adonis was confirmed to be missing, they found a letter in his room.

The thing seemed to have been written in a hurry, and it was addressed to everyone—his classmates, the Royal Council, and all who cared to see.

It was:

~I am deeply sorry it has to be this way, and that it took me so long to see, but I finally realize my mistakes.

I thought I could help everyone, and save this world, but my calculations were wrong. I made so many errors, and those miscalculations cost us so many lives.

I can see those mistakes now… and I know I have to rectify them.

Don't bother searching for me. You won't be able to find me. I now recognize that for me to truly save everyone—even those who have fallen—I need far more strength than I currently possess.

A journey beckons to me. It will be fraught with danger, but I shall overcome. I shall survive and return once again; a much more experienced and capable Hero.

Do not fear… Rey, Lucielle, everyone. You no longer need to worry about me or yourselves. Even though I will shoulder this responsibility alone, it will yield the best of results.

Wish me good fortune. I will save you all!~

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"H-huh…?" Rey found the gears in his head turning as he read through the contents of the letter.

He was stunned by what he was reading—what appeared to be some sort of childish manifesto from Adonis.

"Is he stupid? How can he think to do this alone?"

Those were the first words that Rey uttered after seeing the letter's contents. It was a rhetorical question, considering how he was well aware of Adonis' intelligence.

'He's always been the most intuitive out of all of us.' Rey itched his head as he re-read the message on the paper in his hands.

'Even after seeing everything that went down, he really wants to go at it alone?'

In the end, he could not resonate with the Hero's reasoning. The most logical solution to the matter at hand would be for everyone to recoup their strength and figure out a way to ward off the inevitable external aggression to come.

"And what's this BS about us not worrying about him and ourselves? If an invasion happens now, what are we supposed to do?'

they just fold their hands and wait for his

back to Ater after reading

letter? Do you have

slight bow. "As for the meaning of this letter, it is possible that he feels somewhat responsible for what happened in the Capital and desires

away

likely, he'll be running towards the problem…" Ater

you mean the Northern

Empire, actually. It's merely a guess—an observation on my part, if you may." The way the Familiar shrugged

to take

still chose to leave? Is it because I was unconscious?" The teenager muttered, a

"...."

coma, and everyone in the current state they're in… I expected Adonis to at least… be

behind… it didn't seem

him as much as I thought I did.' Rey smiled sadly, once again interrupted by Ater's deep

to the Adventurers City just a few days ago. She said she was done with the training she

and the Divine Beast, Rey's classmates

into despair

are soon going to conclude their training with

ones

Training. Once all of them are done, they'll pick up Trisha on their

information bombarded Rey as he still tried his hardest to process

the emotional weight of everything had to be addressed very slowly in order not to rush past the significance of the events that had taken

heavily, the System would come in, but if he dismissed them

to constantly chew the details he was receiving in order to

'How strenuous…'

front lines?" Rey finally asked after a few seconds

"Less than a month."

I see." Rey didn't seem very surprised. In fact, he was more surprised that they could have waited

the fact that Brutus and Lucielle could have stayed back

dwindled significantly after the calamity that befell

was met with another surprising

expecting this

the death of a Dragon Lord?' Rey expected a full-blown retaliation from the

for an all-out