An Extra’s POV

It was a completely random encounter.

"Why do you look so troubled, young one?" The voice came from an elderly man who sat on a bench by the roadside. He had red hair, ebony skin, and crimson eyes. He wore a dark robe, holding his walking stick very tightly as he looked at Adonis on that fateful day.

The old man had two horns, which should have made him a lower-middle-class member of society, yet he seemed a little too posh for that. Still, his appearance was the least suspicious thing about him.

It was the way he smiled.

Perhaps it was because Adonis was growing frustrated with planning, or because he was growing increasingly worried about his friends back in the Capital, but he couldn't help but feel uneasy when he looked into the man's eyes.

Still, he knew better than to act on how he felt.

Doing so would only make him appear suspicious, and that would taint his cover.

"It's nothing." Adonis replied with a shrug and began walking away. In his mind, he already crossed the encounter off as completely unimportant, and he had more important things to deal with.

Besides, merely talking to Dragons disgusted him beyond words.

If only he knew how much he would owe to the old man once the next words came out of his mouth… he wouldn't have been so hasty to walk away.

"You remind me of my kid. He's doing his best in the Academy right now… working hard for the sake of the Emperor."

'We look nothing alike! Stop talking nonsense!' Adonis thought to himself, wondering how he could possibly remind him of his son.

The man appeared old, which meant he must have lived for several centuries at least.

How could his kid look like him?

There were so many holes in the old man's words that made Adonis grow increasingly more upset, but he controlled his temper and kept walking away.

He had nothing to say to a senile old Dragon.

"My boy… if he proves himself in that Academy… he could finally be taken to the Capital—to serve the Emperor."

this, he froze in his

'Academy… Capital… Emperor…?!'

the Emperor. It was also where the

surprise that the Chamber Of Ancients existed there

select number of Dragons could live in the Capital, and all of them had one purpose or the other there. They either served their Empire exceptionally well in

Academy being another way for someone to

are you talking

you reach the Third Stage in the Academy, you must go for a compulsory internship within the

Adonis muttered, his eyes wide

working very hard to reach Class A before moving to Stage 3. Ahh… the Capital…

smiled at a Dragon for the first

"Indeed… it is."

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he could find

his amazement,

old man… he

Stage, Class A, could indeed apply for an internship in the Capital. If he could secure a role in his desired location, then he could easily increase the proximity between himself and

that Chamber… the key

with setting up the Ancient Magic Circle back then, so he was confident that he could do it on his own if

in all my reasoning. How long would it have taken me before I thought in that direction?' He still despised Dragons to

he be living a

he was indebted

my Regression… I'll be sure to thank him with a

he could about the school's requirements for entry—which was perhaps the easiest part

order to avoid suspicion, Adonis had to make sure he didn't advance too quickly. At the same

rationale, he developed a roadmap for

scheduled—down to the littlest of details—all to ensure he stuck to his plan and completed everything on

Training. Study. Classes.

for, and Adonis could

a month in Class B—which he got into after his Entrance Exams, he was able to make it to Class A by simply besting everyone else in his