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?'

their hands

the letter back to Ater after reading it one

he means by this letter? Do you have any idea where he went, or where

where he's headed to, or where he is at this moment, Master." Ater said with a slight bow. "As for the meaning of this letter, it is possible that

running away from the

running towards the problem…"

mean the Northern

a guess—an observation on my part, if you may." The way the Familiar shrugged in nonchalance made

seemed to take

leave? Is it because I was unconscious?"

"...."

don't get it, honestly. With Alicia in her coma, and everyone in the current state they're in… I expected Adonis to at least… be

it didn't seem like something the

as much as I thought I did.' Rey smiled sadly, once again interrupted by

went to the Adventurers City just a few days ago. She said she was done with the training she could receive here, and she wanted more practical experiences with large monsters

and the Divine Beast, Rey's classmates had

didn't plunge into despair or quit

and are soon going to conclude their training with Brutus. Once that's done, they'll be heading to the

the only ones

is currently an Apprentice under Lucielle, and she's also almost done with her Magic Training. Once all of them are done, they'll pick up Trisha on their way to the front lines and head straight to

Rey as he still tried his hardest

be addressed very slowly in order not to rush past the significance of the events

come in, but if he dismissed them too swiftly, he would miss out on the true meaning behind their

such, he had to constantly chew the details he

'How strenuous…'

long before they head to the front lines?" Rey finally asked after a

"Less than a month."

very surprised. In fact, he was more surprised that they could have waited that long despite what recently happened in

fact that Brutus and Lucielle could have stayed back for so long means

was severe. But, surprisingly, the attacks dwindled significantly after the calamity that befell

met

wasn't expecting this

Rey expected a full-blown retaliation

being a lot more cautious with the humans; taking time to amass their forces to prepare for an all-out war. In