An Extra’s POV

"You…"

As Rey's defiant voice rang out in the hall, the Oracle's neutral face depicted a light frown. She furrowed her brows, causing creases to appear on her face while staring hard at the defiant human.

"... You weren't given a choice in the matter."

~ZZZTZ!~

All of a sudden, a glitchy effect manifested around Rey—almost as though space itself was collapsing on him.

However, within the fraction of a moment, he removed himself from that position and teleported a few meters from the spatial disturbance.

Swiftly turning his face from the glitch to The Oracle, he could already deduce what had just happened.

"Tch." Her clicking tongue added more to his suspicions.

"You just tried to evict me by force, didn't you?" Rey asked, a deep glare forming on his face as he began to address The Oracle with enmity.

"Yes. Your purpose here has been consummated, and you have become an eyesore."

Rey gritted his teeth as he watched The Oracle's condescending gaze upon him. A lot of emotions swirled within him, including a certain tinge of regret.

'I shouldn't have brought Esme here. I knew something was shady from the start, but if I could have known it was this bad, then…' He briefly glanced at Esme, who was busy sighing and shaking her head.

"Rey, just stop."

Despite hearing her saying those words to him, he just couldn't stop and listen.

'I know I'm being selfish, Esme. But… we need to talk about this at length first. This is all just happening too fast. We could be making the wrong call here…'

Rey wondered if he was the one being unreasonable? He just didn't want to quickly abandon their bond the moment they found something convenient.

Was that so bad?

Yet, the glares he received from both sides—Esme and The Oracle—somehow told him he was in the wrong.

"If you stubbornly choose to remain here, then…"

Rey's full attention returned to The Oracle as soon as he heard this, but once he turned to her location, she was nowhere to be found.

It was almost as though every trace of her had been removed.

"... You leave me no choice."

his instincts screamed at him, and he

~WHOOSH!~

a bolt of lightning, he dashed away from his position,

~BOOOOOOOOOM!~

to tremble violently. 'Damn… what an impact.' Rey couldn't afford to think, as he swiftly left his position

doing this, trying to sense patterns in the explosions in an attempt to deduce how they worked. He also strained his eyes very hard to seek out The

to at least detect her with my senses. My Eyepatch is off too, so my perception is at

also couldn't understand where the explosions were coming

the destruction

~BOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

no use searching for The Oracle and the cause of

were one and

into his ear, and a hand held his shoulder

'H-huh…?'

~BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

a loud explosion enveloped the area where Rey stood, causing him to fall to

swiftly disappeared thanks to his Class

as he struggled to make sense of everything and find an escape

or anything. The reason I wasn't able to pick her up with my

she stopped moving, an explosion

Until now, that is.

conflict here, Rey Skylar."

he was, and her experience most likely dwarfed his. The only

even those… how far could they really

Esme!" He growled, once again vanishing from his kneeling position before The Oracle could

to get rid of

breath, Rey recognized he had to take the current match completely seriously if

doesn't want to kill me, but that doesn't mean I should get complacent about

this within himself, he decided

first thing he activated was [Divine Power Ascension], which ended up boosting his Stats to a heightened degree. He went on to include all the other Buff Skills he

in his Stats, but their effects stacking up meant that he was

be needing your assistance

~Understood, Master!~

his [Doppel], she could replicate parts of other Monsters and replicate

Divine Ray] might cause her to

was getting so much leeway was because

had to keep it

[Perfect Domain Of The Divine] to create a considerable space around me for the purpose of overall mobility and

still wasn't done with his

point of nigh-nullification, I should be able to actually

[Perfect Divine Form], and [Perfect Divine Adaptability] in his arsenal. Playing his cards well,