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."

instincts screamed at

~WHOOSH!~

he dashed away from his position, only to

~BOOOOOOOOOM!~

explosion caused the entire area to tremble violently. 'Damn… what an impact.' Rey couldn't afford to think, as he swiftly left his position once again, only for blasts

this, trying to sense patterns in the explosions in an attempt to deduce how they worked.

Divine Form, I should be able to at least detect her with my senses. My Eyepatch is off too, so my perception is at its peak right now.

couldn't understand where the explosions were coming

kept racing away to avoid the destruction that would certainly not be very

~BOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

was that there was no

were one and

futile." He heard a word whisper into his ear, and

'H-huh…?'

~BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

Rey stood, causing him to fall to his knees

pain, but it swiftly disappeared thanks to

entered overdrive as he struggled to make sense of everything and find an escape from the situation he found himself

her up with my eyes was because she was simply moving

stopped moving, an explosion

Until now, that is.

to be any sort of conflict here, Rey Skylar." The Oracle sounded like she couldn't

much stronger than he was, and her experience most likely dwarfed his. The only thing he had going

how far could they really

here without Esme!" He growled, once again vanishing from his kneeling position before The Oracle could send him back to the

going to get

out of breath, Rey recognized he had to take

want

this within himself, he decided to

Ascension], which ended up boosting his Stats to a heightened degree. He went on to include all the other

a small increase in his Stats, but their effects stacking

needing your

~Understood, Master!~

could replicate parts of other Monsters and replicate their

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 move.

reason he was getting

to keep it

The

done with

the point of nigh-nullification,

arsenal. Playing his cards well, he could find a way to somewhat keep up with The Oracle if he