An Extra’s POV

"Urgh!"

A putrid odor wafted past Rey's nose as he reached the entrance of the Hobgoblin's base.

The clearing was right before him, and he already felt sick to his stomach.

'Goblins aren't particularly known for their hygiene, but this is on another level…' Rey crinkled his nose and narrowed his gaze.

His heightened perception made it difficult for him to ignore the stench, so he just had to endure it.

'Whatever! Let's just get this over with.'

Rey walked right past the entrance and soon found himself in a clearing.

The hallway had been plenty large enough, but compared to the massive auditorium he now stood in, it might have as well been a tightened compartment.

The expanse was large enough to contain thousands upon thousands of adult humans, with tons more room to spare.

And occupying this space were a horde of Hobgoblins waiting for him.

About three hundred of them.

'It's not surprising, considering how massive this place is…'

Rey thought that, but his eyes still widened at the sight of so many monsters in a single location.

Hobgoblins were a cooperative race, but this number was considerably large for a civilization.

'External factors such as disease, predators, and other things ensure that Goblin populations naturally dwindle.'

Adding that to their short lifespan, and they gave a perfect brew of why there weren't too many Goblins in the world.

'These ones don't have predators any longer, so that greatly improves their numbers…'

The question, however, was what happened to the previous apex predators of this Floor?

Rey only had to look around for a brief instant to know the answer.

His eyes

see dog-like creatures—all of them in cages and pens—located in

and it was clear

the NightWolves and turned

quite an efficient system, and Rey couldn't help but

if they

to use the Orichalcum here, and they

needed to use dirty tricks to win. They were naturally stronger than their prey, so it was a

were probably extremely surprised by

helped

years… and this became the natural conclusion.' Rey

of utterly eliminating the NightWolves, the Hobgoblins kept

have realized they could use them as an endless source of food. This way, the Hobs won't need to starve or feed off of dirt

way Rey saw it, these monsters were currently

yet to do anything

both Hobgoblins and NightWolves were dumped in a corner and

to gag. The Hobgoblins

even adapted

bad for ruining your paradise, but I'm sure you've had a good run already.' Rey raised

the hundreds of Hobgoblins draw their Orichalcum weapons and look at him with

touched him slightly, but he

off on attacking me? Well, if

beyond the three hundred Hobgoblins

throne carved from pure Orichalcum was a Hobgoblin that was coated in Nightwolf fur.

combined the fangs and

the rest, and

access to more food than the rest, hence making him much stronger than the

and right now, he's

the scepter in his hand—a stick made from Orichalcum, with a NightWolf Monster Core

can harvest Monster Cores too?

could tell that the Hobgoblins would

long they had domesticated the NightWolves, Rey could imagine

have them,

more motivated