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."

screamed at him,

~WHOOSH!~

away from his position, only to

~BOOOOOOOOOM!~

but the loud explosion caused the entire area to tremble violently. 'Damn… what an impact.' Rey couldn't afford

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

at least detect her with my senses. My Eyepatch is off too, so my perception is at its peak right now. Yet… why

also couldn't understand where the

racing away to avoid the destruction that

~BOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

that there was no use searching for The Oracle and the cause of

were one and the

He heard a word whisper into his ear, and a hand held his shoulder very

'H-huh…?'

~BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

Rey stood, causing him to fall to his knees in a mere

swiftly disappeared thanks to his

as he struggled to make sense of

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

she stopped moving, an explosion would occur, which Rey

Until now, that is.

be any sort of conflict here, Rey Skylar." The Oracle sounded like she

was, and her experience most likely dwarfed his. The only thing he had going for him

even those… how far could they really

not leaving here without Esme!" He growled, once again vanishing from his kneeling position before The Oracle could send him back

going to get rid of

he had to take the current match completely seriously if he was ever going to win—or

that she doesn't want to kill me, but that doesn't mean I

Rey resolved this within himself, he

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

expected, they only caused a small increase in his Stats,

needing

~Understood, Master!~

the Skills he stockpiled in his [Doppel], she could replicate parts of other

both stalemated on the Magic front, so that's canceled. Using [Perfect Divine Ray] might cause her to get very lethal with me, since it's a kill

getting so much

had to keep

Of The Divine] to create a considerable space around me for the purpose of overall mobility and also to help

done with his

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

was to focus on benefits, he had [Perfect Divine Martial Supremacy], [Perfect Divine Form], and [Perfect Divine Adaptability] in his arsenal. Playing his cards well, he could find a way to somewhat