An Extra’s POV

"G-Guruika… Gurik K-Kanika…"

Once all the women and children Hobgoblins saw the corpses of their men, they bowed and pleaded with the annihilator to spare their lives.

They already knew they could not win.

As they trembled in fear, the one who had caused such destruction gazed upon them with benevolence.

'Of course, I'm not going to kill them!' Rey thought to himself.

If he did that, how was he any different from a mindless monster?

'Even Hobgoblins have enough sense to spare their enemies and domesticate them. How can I display any lesser level of intelligence?'

Right now, Rey already had a training spot in the Sixth Floor.

He only descended to the Seventh for some EXP, and also to test out his Skills.

'And I think I've been able to make sufficient progress for now.'

Killing off the rest of the Hobgoblins would be a waste.

'Instead, I should leave them here so they can just repopulate and produce more adults for me to kill later on.'

Hobgoblin Adults gave more EXP, so the only ones worth killing at all were the women.

But women were necessary for producing more Hobgoblins, so eliminating them would be foolish on his part.

'Hobgoblins have a very fast birth rate, and they also grow pretty quickly.'

Within a month, he would be able to see tons more adult Hobgoblins.

'The only reason there aren't any more Hobs present is because a lot of these kids die pretty early thanks to disease, and even the most healthy Hobgoblin adult doesn't live past a year.'

Rey couldn't do anything about the latter, since it was simply the biology of Goblins. They had an extremely short lifespan.

However, he knew precisely where to start from when it came to the disease aspect.

'For one… good hygiene.'

He looked at the pile of feces and cringed once more.

'I'll have to burn all of that and teach them how to do the same.'

All they had to do was gather the feces to a secluded area and burn them.

Perhaps also teaching them how to burn their meat before eating it would also help.

use that

about the problems facing the Hobgoblins,

course, this wasn't due to his

wanted more returns

I should have at least three times more

these aided a lot when it

see a few Hobgoblin children peeking at him as he

had to admit, they

recognize that even lion cubs had the same qualities, but would end up becoming apex predators that tore through their prey

I was weaker than them, these cute ones

the law of the jungle—survival

right, but he

just

to this world. I might as well survive in

was his current

his hands, causing all the groveling

for them, Rey only

of the dead Hobgoblins and then used [Force] to attract a

corpse easily swept through the

onlookers gasped in

displayed before, and while many of them had fear

their parents and

now, they didn't have parents to show them power, and what they were currently seeing far surpassed the meager strength they had previously

of the children quickly respected Rey more

a puzzling

death really means since they're

could imagine human babies making the same mistake—though

just show them what they need

catch on quicker, so he made sure he focused on the adult Goblins when making

hand into the corpse that he tightly held, causing stale blood to

so, he removed his hand and brought out a glowing red

A Monster Core.

on the ground,

language to

should understand what I

he wanted

put all the Monster Cores

It was pretty simple.

the female Goblins swiftly moved and reached out to the

the weapons that was lying on the ground and used it to stab the chest of

~SQUELCH!~

~SQUISH!~

~QUELCH!~

finally the maimed flesh