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.

persona is meant to mislead me

been affected—including what happened with

for someone who preaches so much 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 hate the player, if the game was already so

all…' Besides, while he indeed encountered some loss, it wasn't like he gained nothing. 'Thanks to the death of all the Dragons, I have some decent Undead in my army. I even got my hands on

ones who were obliterated by Rey were mere puppets, which meant he had the genuine article. 'I had to sacrifice the Commanders for that, as well as a great deal of the Mana I stored up, but the

essence, he gained and

A certain glint appeared in Adrien's eyes as

I can't help

on a particular entity he could not help thinking

That Slime… it's too fascinating

ended up having a deep conversation, and he got

Things not even

I'm so perplexed about who he really is. Perhaps… I can use this

seeds to guarantee him some measure of rewards in the immediate

He wanted Emil.

I suppose there's also nothing wrong

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

her body hung to the walls of the pitch-black space, her pathetic frame was completely observed by Rey in its

thoughts, despite her being bare before him, and there was nothing about

He was absolutely serious.