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 twitched a

dog-like creatures—all of them in cages and pens—located in multiple corners of the

wild looks in their eyes, and it was clear they were monsters, but

Hobgoblins conquered the NightWolves and turned

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

enemies if they got the chance to, but the

use the Orichalcum here,

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

probably extremely surprised by the resistance that

mineral, and it must have helped protect the Hobs from

maybe years… and this became the natural conclusion.' Rey

eliminating the NightWolves, the Hobgoblins

of food. This way, the Hobs won't need to starve or feed off

it,

were yet to

of both Hobgoblins and NightWolves were dumped in a corner and left to

seeing it caused Rey to gag. The Hobgoblins seemed to be enjoying themselves regardless,

nose had even adapted to like the

you've had a good run already.' Rey raised one of

could see the hundreds of Hobgoblins draw their Orichalcum weapons

but he wasn't

they holding off on attacking me? Well, if

his face and looked beyond the three hundred Hobgoblins before

Orichalcum was a Hobgoblin that was coated in Nightwolf fur. He had a crown that

also had a necklace that combined the

important-looking Hobgoblin was fatter than the rest, and

more food than the rest, hence making him much stronger

right

his hand—a stick made from Orichalcum, with a NightWolf Monster Core sitting on top of

can harvest Monster Cores too?

Rey could tell that the Hobgoblins would have had the chance of

long they had domesticated the NightWolves, Rey could imagine the Hobs possessing

have them, it'll be epic

began to grow more motivated with each