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?'

hands and wait for

handing the letter back to Ater after reading it one

you have any idea where

with a slight bow. "As for the meaning of this letter, it is possible that he

running away from the

towards the problem…" Ater said

Northern Continent? The

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

really seemed to take most things

my power was exposed… he still chose to leave? Is it because I was unconscious?" The teenager muttered, a crestfallen expression on

"...."

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

behind… it didn't seem like something

guess I didn't know him as much as I thought I did.' Rey smiled sadly, once again

the only one that left, though. Trisha also 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

and the Divine Beast, Rey's

into despair or quit

military and are soon going to conclude

weren't the only ones

them are

he still tried his hardest to process the

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

too heavily, the System would come in, but if he dismissed them too swiftly, he would miss out on the

chew the details he was receiving in order to

'How strenuous…'

to the front lines?" Rey finally asked after

"Less than a month."

more surprised

Brutus and Lucielle could have stayed back for so long means that the situation at the front lines isn't as

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

was met

wasn't expecting this

a Dragon Lord?' Rey expected a full-blown retaliation from the Dragons,

prepare for an all-out war. In any case, we should also begin to make preparations on our end." Ater said with