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There are lots of stories of under valued members been given the boot, only for the booted person to be the unknown linchpin who comes into his own and succeeds while the former companions fail and collapse.This is not one of them.The MC knows his value from the start, and what he is capable of, from the start, just did not feel the need to hog credit or the lime light (his skills and talents are strongest in training, and that is where he focuses, not management). His actions are more adapting to the betrayal (and it was a massive one) He was not undervalued by his former companions, in fact there are key members who are not happy he was given the boot, and some feel is it needed by the group enough to complain about it.The main antagonist, who booted the MC, does know his value. The booting is due to politics and hatred not alack of understanding. He used a technicality to boot the MC, because he is power hungry, and the MC is a threat to his position. Then leverages his too much power in an attempt to oppress the MC and drive him out of the city (you do not force the guild to unofficially black list someone you see as useless). The jerk has also been deliberately holding back members connected to the MC, for fear that if they started to shine it would draw attention and praise to the MC weakening his own power base.The booting was a move to try and secure his position of power, and remove a source of competition, now that their organization has grown to the point he feels they no longer need the MC. It just backfires due to a chance encounter of the MC giving him a new route to take.Not that there are no idiotic characters, but antagonists are more letting their pride and arrogance lead them to their doom, then just being idiots. Spoiler
The worst I found was the appraiser for a competing guild that the MC starts working with. He has a high ability but lesser then the MC, and knows it. Yet complains that the MC wants to train people in tactics/skills that his info says are the wrong path to take for those individuals without asking what else the MC sees that makes him think this is the path to take (the person in question has a unique ability they do not know about, but the MC can see and help them develop, that more then makes up for the weakness that caused this appraiser to reject that path)
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