Reborn as an Extra

Inside the SSA.

While everyone was in shock at Meng's insane feat of learning sword intent, the thoughts in Rio's mind were completely different from everyone else.

'Ah, so that's why I felt that this guy seemed familiar to me… now I understand the name 'Qi Meng' sounded so familiar to me earlier…' (Rio)

When Rio read that particular novel in his previous life he never really thought too much about sidekicks and side characters and forgot about their existence very fast. Because none of the side-characters were properly developed.

Moreover, most of the side characters only appeared to praise Fade's achievements for one or two chapters, so they were easily forgettable, but there was one side character who was the most significant side character among them all, he appeared for a full three chapters in that 'three-thousand-chapter' novel. (It was still not completed even with three thousand chapters…)

'That was the character 'The Sword King' title holder Qi Meng… who got horribly…. Cough! Cough!…' (Rio)

Rio didn't dare think further about that traumatizing incident.

…

(Lore Bombs ahead)

The original story would have gone something like this…

Around the first month of the second year in the academy, Fade would have been the rank 1 at that moment. He would have already killed off Link and Riya would have been dead from the start.

Moreover, Lia would have already left the academy and would have already been demonized. Liam would have been beaten into a pulp and would have to drop out of the academy after the first-year final exams.

Thus, Fade would have been the strongest among all the students at that time. (Still at C+ rank though. He would have beaten the B-ranked Link and Liam with plot armor.) 

Being the rank 1 student of the great Freya academy would have made him extremely popular and Meng was one of his fans. He was mesmerized by the fact that Fade achieved such great fame even though Fade was from a humble background.

Several of the teachers had already acknowledged Meng and he would have already gotten the appreciation of many teachers at that time because he had incredible talent in swordsmanship. Without Rio's existence, Meng would have been the most talented swordsman of this era.

Meng had incredible talent for swords he was personally given the title of 'The soon-to-be Sword King' by Raji Croft herself and he wanted to awaken 'Sword Intent' to become strong. 

Every sword user dreams of awakening 'Sword Intent' one day, Meng was no different. Meng's biggest mistake was that he chose the wrong person to teach him.

Fade had achieved 'Mana field' which is the Mage's version of 'Sword Intent'. 

(Just like 'Sword Intent' is the ultimate ability for sword users, 'Mana field' is a very rare and unique ability that makes the user's spells more strong and effective, similarly 'Dao rhythm' is the ultimate ability for martial artists like Link and others. It varies in different forms and shapes 'spear intent', 'saber intent' etc… There are many forms of it, but it's near impossible to achieve even one…)

Meng decided to take advice from Fade and that turned out to be his biggest mistake in life. Meng had survived years of torture and hard work but he was not able to survive taking advice from a protagonist. (Friendly reminder: Talking and staying near a protagonist can affect your luck badly, don't ever do that.)

…

Unfortunately for Meng, Fade agreed to his request and told him that he would help Meng in awakening his 'Sword Intent' on the basis that Meng would have to give him the location of a hidden dungeon gate that Meng found.

Fade took Meng and Kira to that dungeon, he simply wanted to farm exp but who would have known that a dungeon wave would occur and thousands of monsters would have rushed out of that dungeon.

In the first chapter, Meng was caught by hordes of Orc's rushing out of that dungeon, Fade had to retreat due to there being too many enemies for him to handle alone. Kira used a teleportation scroll to save Fade's life but Meng was taken away by those Orcs. (As you all would have already guessed what those Orcs did with that poor Little Meng I don't need to tell you about it…)

In the second chapter, Meng would have been demonized and would have started to spread terror everywhere. The demon possessing his body would use his talent and slaughter thousands of people in just a few hours. 

Eventually, S-rankers would arrive, but even they would have been helpless because Meng would have awakened an imperfect version of sword intent with the help of that demon. (Just dragging the plot further…)

In the third chapter, when everyone is helpless against that sword's intent, Fade appears as a hero and uses his 'Mana Field' to counter him, thus saving everyone and boosting his reputation further up. (I mean… all this happened just to boost his reputation in the first place… saving a huge population and becoming a hero is the best way to increase fame after all…)

Thus comes the end of the tale of 'The soon-to-be sword king'. Meng dies a horrible and untimely death just because of one mistake he made. Well even if he went to that dungeon on his own, the same would have happened anyway. The name of that dungeon was 'The Orc Valley'. 

But now, all this has changed because of the appearance of an Anomaly named Rio Flash. (Truthfully speaking Rio's presence has changed many fates including Link, Riya, Lia, Liam, and many more extras who have been influenced just like Meng. All this happened without Rio even doing anything actively and just his indirect involvement has changed many things.)

(Lore Bomb ends)

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'Now that I think about it, wasn't that dungeon 'The Orc's Valley' also one of Fade's lucky chance spots, hmm… I would go there to steal after this event is finished… sigh~ I have become a master thief at this point…' (Rio)

'Let's finish this fight for now…' (Rio)

While everyone was in shock, Rio boarded his sword and used his 'Sword Intent' to fly. Before anyone could react Rio caught Meng's shirt's collar and dragged him up in the air.

Rio took out an advanced healing potion from his space ring and forcefully made Meng drink it.

"Wha!? Gulp*… cough!..." (Meng)

After pouring the whole potion into Meng's mouth, Rio threw Meng toward the surviving trio of first-years like a ball, while saying.

"Go my pok*mon! Slaughter them all!" (Rio) (Just a joke don't take it seriously...)

"whaaaaaaaaaa~" (Meng) 

While Meng was screaming and falling his right hand regenerated and all of his injuries healed, then he heard Rio's voice from above.

"Use 'Sword Intent' or I will kick your a*s before you even fall …" (Rio)

Hearing Rio, Meng immediately covered his sword with sword intent.

'It's too thin! I will die!' (Meng)

That fear of death made him surpass his limit and Meng was finally able to control his sword intent to a barely usable extent.

[Sword Intent: Wind type!]

Just before Meng was about to reach the ground he finally used his sword intent and was able to use his sword to fly in the air, just like Rio. An excited look appeared on his face and he laughed happily.

"I did it!" (Meng)

Meng used his sword intent to land in front of Lenn and others, he clenched his sword in his hand and took his stance, determination appeared in his eyes and a smile adorned his usual depression-filled face.

At that moment Meng had found his path, he had achieved a long dream of his, and now he had a place in the world and a unique path to walk.

…

In the sky, Rio looked at Meng and a rare smile appeared on his expressionless face. 

'Hmm, this little guy… he has a promising future it seems…' (Rio)

As if sensing that rare surge of emotion in Rio, his sword started to tremble again, caught off guard Rio almost fell, before he barely maintained his balance.

'What happened now… what a headache…. Sigh~' (Rio)

To avoid falling Rio decided to go down and face the four who were still trying to recover from the previous damage he had done.

'Let's end this now.' (Rio)

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Author's notes.

Yo! Your beloved author is here. Well, even I was surprised by Rio's smiling face. Although he looks ordinary a smile indeed brings a rare charm to him. I nearly escaped being charmed by him.

Question of the day.

Would you have taken the risk of taking the advice from Fade?

1. No (I wouldn't want to be used as a stepping stone.)

2. Yes (Are you even fine in the mind bro, why are you choosing an obvious trap?)

3. Other (Kill this guy Fade! I want to torture him horribly!!)

By the way, recently I found out that people have been pirating my novel. I request everyone that whoever is reading this novel please read it from Webnovel only, otherwise, your support will not reach this poor author.