An Extra’s POV

Adrien was sincerely impressed with Rey.

At first, he didn't really have an opinion of him—just as he didn't have an opinion of anyone else. He had no clue if he could 'use' him, or if he had to be wary of him.

In the end, it turned out the latter was the case.

Their relationship had somewhat evolved and devolved over the months that were spent in H'Trae, but at the moment Adrien was in a rather complicated position when it came to Rey Skylar.

'He's brilliant, and he's outsmarted me in many instances already… almost as though he is a completely different person from the one I am used to.'

Still, anytime he interacted with Rey, something seemed off.

'He seems just like the Rey I had profiled. All those features… his easily-readable expressions, incredible agitation and aversion towards me, and a bunch of other staple things I had associated with him after our interactions.'

Yet… those observed characteristics ran contrary to a lot of Rey's actions.

It was so puzzling.

'That version of Rey would not have been able to manipulate all of these scenarios to such a level of sophistication.'

Not only was he easy to read, but his scope of knowledge seemed very lacking. He expected the competent Manipulator that pushed him to such an extent to be much more knowledgeable and mature, but Rey showed no such thing.

The entire thing almost felt like Adrien was dealing with two different people.

maybe he is doing all of this intentionally. It's possible that his current persona is meant to mislead me into profiling him

many of his predictions had been affected—including what happened with the Dungeon he was

about morals, he is quite the monster.' Adrien didn't particularly despise Rey for any of his actions, and he didn't think much would change about how he viewed Rey if all of these premises were true. He couldn't

like he gained nothing. 'Thanks to the death of all the Dragons, I have some decent Undead in my army. I even

as well as a great deal of the Mana I stored up, but the results were worth it. Now that I have more powerful pawns in my arsenal, I should be able to achieve a

essence, he gained and

prospects in sight. But…' A certain glint appeared in Adrien's eyes as his

can't help

mind fell on a particular entity he could not help thinking about ever since

Slime… it's too fascinating and

Rey—they ended up having a deep conversation, and he got to know a lot about

even Rey knew

another reason why I'm so perplexed about who he really is. Perhaps… I can use this current scenario to

their interactions, he was able to sow enough seeds to guarantee him some measure of rewards

He wanted Emil.

there's also

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surrounded by darkness, having no one around him except for a single

over her face, and her body hung to the walls of the pitch-black space,

being bare before him, and there was nothing about his countenance that displayed

He was absolutely serious.