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.

They can use that

Rey thought about the problems facing the Hobgoblins, the more he

due to his kind hearted nature

wanted more returns for his

at least three times more than the initially

aided a lot when

children peeking at him as he considered

to admit, they were pretty cute

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

ones would be feasting on

of the jungle—survival of the

right, but he also had no way to

was just how things

this world. I might as well survive in

was his

hands, causing all the groveling Hobgoblins to jump

but fortunately for them, Rey only

then used [Force] to attract a Hobgoblin that

swept through the air and landed

of the onlookers gasped

before, and while many of them had fear embedded in their eyes, most also had expressions

Hobgoblins grew to respect their parents and

them power, and what they were currently seeing far surpassed the meager strength they had

result, many of the children quickly respected Rey more than they did their

was a

guess they really don't understand what death really means since they're kids.' Rey

could imagine human babies making the same mistake—though

just show them what

catch on quicker, so he made sure he

his unoccupied hand into the corpse that he tightly held, causing stale blood to spurt out

did so, he removed his hand and brought

A Monster Core.

on the ground,

to tell the Hobs what he

should understand what

wanted was

and put all the Monster Cores into the sacs he had

It was pretty simple.

out to the corpse

took hold of one of the weapons that was lying on the ground and

~SQUELCH!~

~SQUISH!~

~QUELCH!~

this multiple times, until finally the maimed flesh was torn into multiple