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 him,

~WHOOSH!~

away from his position, only to find it exploding a tiny moment

~BOOOOOOOOOM!~

in any direction, but the loud 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

attempt to deduce how they worked. He also strained his

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

understand where the explosions were coming

to avoid the destruction that would certainly not be very

~BOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

that there was no use searching for The Oracle and

one and the

a word whisper into his ear, and a hand held

'H-huh…?'

~BOOOOOOOOOOOOOM!!!~

the area where Rey stood, causing him to fall to his knees in

it swiftly

make sense of everything and find an escape from the situation he found

pick her up with my eyes was because she was simply moving

moving, an explosion would occur,

Until now, that is.

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

most likely dwarfed his. The only thing

far

vanishing from

going to get rid of me that

if he was out of breath, Rey recognized he had to take the

Divine Beast. I'm lucky that she doesn't want to kill me, but that doesn't

this within himself, he decided to go

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

only caused a small increase in his Stats, but their effects stacking up meant

be needing your assistance

~Understood, Master!~

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

Divine Ray] might cause her to get very lethal with me, since it's a kill move. I don't want her to get too

could tell that the reason he was getting

to keep it that

our domains, so while I can't possess everything here, I'll use [Perfect Domain Of The Divine] to create a considerable space

still wasn't done

mitigated to the point of nigh-nullification, I should be able to actually withstand some of her attacks

Adaptability] in his arsenal. Playing his cards well, he could find a way to somewhat keep up with The Oracle if he dragged things out