Reborn as an Extra

Chapter 789: Heading Home. Part-3.

"You don’t have to blame yourself for all this..."

"Sigh, I am not good at consoling others either, so I can only say that you should look at the bigger picture and keep in mind that if you remain depressed in this situation, it would affect the nation too..."

"The leader of a nation cannot show weakness; otherwise, the nation will also feel weakened and demotivated..."

"But of course, no one expects you to be ’perfect,’ as nobody in the universe is ’perfect’..."

Rio grew up with barely any friends and had no family in either life; Lia was the only person that he had ever been close with on a personal level, and thus Rio has never had much experience consoling others or motivating them.

At most Rio could only give a few words of consolation to Ashtel and didn’t know what to say at all.

All he could do was ask Ashtel not to blame himself too much for the incident.

’I wonder if I would have felt guilty and regretful for the loss of so many lives too if I had normal human emotions in me...’

For the current him, imagining himself getting depressed over the death of random unknown people was starting to get difficult.

The farther he drifted from his humanity, the more difficult Rio found it to relate with the rest of his peers.

"Sigh... you are right. I can’t always remain depressed. So what if I got defeated once? I just need to make up for it the next time! I am Ashtel Rex! I can’t just admit defeat like this!"

"I will have to keep improving myself just like I have always done before! So that I can eventually figure out a counter for the demon king too!..."

Ashtel knew that Rio was trying to console him despite it being quite an awkward topic for him, so he didn’t make things difficult for Rio and agreed to Rio’s words pretty easily.

"A legendary skill... sigh, to geniuses like you, awakening them is quite easy, but for people like me who aren’t particularly favored by the ’laws’ of the ’world,’ it’s almost impossible to get that..."

In terms of physique, world authority, combat capabilities, combat techniques, skill, etc. Ashtel had a slight upper hand when compared to the demon king actually.

The main reason why Ashtel lost to Dahaka was simple and straightforward: the Demon King had a powerful legendary skill, while he didn’t!

Even the pseudo world blessing that Ashtel had was completely ineffective against the Demon King’s powerful legendary skill.

"In the past century, I have also tried to awaken a legendary skill many times... but I still can’t get a grasp of it..."

"In this aspect, I can’t even compete with Link and Riya, let alone you and the Demon King, who have insanely high mastery over your legendary skills..."

Ashtel had a feeling that he was likely never going to get a legendary skill, at least in this life, as the ’laws’ of the ’world’ were too indifferent to him!

"Can a person still learn a legendary skill despite not being favored by the ’Laws’ of the ’world’...?"

Hearing that question, Rio actually nodded his head and replied in a solemn tone,

"It’s not easy, but it’s actually possible..."

"For example, look at Riya; she wasn’t supposed to have a legendary skill, but with her powerful understanding of the healing magic and her insane determination to improve..."

"She forced the ’Law’ of ’Care and Protection’ to acknowledge her and grant her the legendary power..."

Rio took a sip of the tea from his cup and spoke,

"Aside from this, there’s also the method of temporary manifestation that Professor Jin used during his battle against Alverto to force Alverto into a sealed state."

During the Ascension Spire Incident, Rio and others only managed to restrain and defeat Alverto because Jin had sacrificed his everything to seal Alverto’s connection with the Spire of Ascension and had forced him to become weaker.

If not for that sacrifice, Alverto would have remained as strong as an SS-ranker while inside the spire of ascension, due to which Rio and the others would have never been able to defeat him.

Back then Rio had no confidence in fighting an SS-ranker, and there was certainly no way for Rio to even withstand a few blows from him.

In a powerful SS-ranker form, Alverto, who was already equipped with powerful abilities like the legendary skill ’Soul Resonance,’ would have become an unstoppable nightmare!

To be able to stop someone like him, Jin had proved to the world that he was indeed not to be underestimated.

Although he had sacrificed his everything for that temporary manifestation of power, he had proved that this path was also feasible for those who had no other possibility of having a legendary skill in their lifetime.

But of course, such a radical path wasn’t what Rio would recommend anyone taking, as the side effects of walking down this type of road were too severe.

Jin Walt was lucky that Riya was present when he had only been injured a few minutes ago, and she managed to stabilize him before things could escalate.

Moreover, Rio and Riya both had to work together to barely heal him to be able to live a normal life again, and even that was at the cost of never being able to utilize mana properly for the rest of his life.

If Ashtel chose to do the same thing as Jin, the possibility of things becoming severe was too high; the risk was simply incalculable.

Rio, Lia, and Riya could work together to save people who were dead and had their souls shattered, but if someone sacrificed their existence and their very strings of destiny broke apart completely, even Rio wouldn’t be able to do anything.

’Even the Demon King can’t save someone who has had their ’anchor’ to the world shattered like that even with his legendary skill ’Destined Fate’...’

’So it’s better not to take risks like these unless the situation is too dire...’