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.

eyes twitched a

of them in cages and pens—located in multiple corners of

wild looks in their eyes, and it was clear they

the NightWolves and

and Rey couldn't

enemies if they got the

Orichalcum here, and they launched a counterattack on the

needed to use dirty tricks to win. They were naturally stronger

the NightWolves were probably extremely surprised by the resistance that the Hobgoblins

was a very durable mineral, and it must have helped protect the Hobs from whatever

this became the natural conclusion.' Rey smiled

utterly eliminating the NightWolves, the Hobgoblins kept them

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

Rey saw it, these

to do anything about their

of both Hobgoblins and NightWolves were dumped

and seeing it caused Rey to gag. The Hobgoblins seemed to

had even adapted to

paradise, but I'm sure you've had a good run already.' Rey raised one

hundreds of Hobgoblins draw their Orichalcum weapons and look

gaze touched him slightly, but he wasn't

they holding off on attacking me? Well, if I

looked beyond the three

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

also had a necklace that combined the

fatter than the rest,

more food than the rest, hence making him much stronger

right

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

Monster Cores too?

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

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

can have them,

more motivated with each passing