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

in cages and pens—located in

wild looks in their eyes, and it was

the NightWolves and turned them into their

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

just go around killing their enemies if they got the chance to, but

had to guess, they learned how to use the Orichalcum here, and they launched a counterattack on the NightWolves

win. They were naturally stronger than their prey, so it

were probably extremely surprised by the resistance that the Hobgoblins put

it must have helped protect the Hobs from whatever Skills the NightWolves were dependent

few months… maybe years… and this became the natural conclusion.'

utterly eliminating the NightWolves, the Hobgoblins kept them

way, the Hobs won't need to starve or feed off

the way Rey saw it,

they were yet to do anything about

and NightWolves were dumped in a corner and left

to gag. The Hobgoblins seemed to be enjoying

had even adapted

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

could see the hundreds of Hobgoblins draw their Orichalcum weapons

slightly, but he wasn't

on attacking me? Well, if I

his face and looked beyond the three hundred

pure Orichalcum was a Hobgoblin that was coated in Nightwolf fur. He had a crown that seemed like a mixture of Orichalcum

also had a necklace that combined the fangs

than the rest, and he

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

and right

raised the scepter in his hand—a stick made from

Monster Cores too?

the current numbers of the NightWolves, Rey could tell that the Hobgoblins would have had

how long they had domesticated the NightWolves, Rey could

have them, it'll be

began to grow more motivated