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.

generates fire. They can use that to

problems facing the Hobgoblins,

this wasn't due to his kind hearted nature

wanted more returns

I should have at least three times more than the initially

these aided a lot

a few Hobgoblin children peeking at him as he

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

cute ones would be

law of the jungle—survival of the

he also had no way to say it was

was just how things

I might as

his

his hands, causing all the groveling Hobgoblins to jump in

desperate stares, but fortunately for them, Rey only made this sound to get their

at the corpses of the dead Hobgoblins and then used [Force] to attract a Hobgoblin that was closer

the air

onlookers gasped in

ability displayed before, and while many of them had

respect their parents and

and what they were currently seeing far surpassed the

result, many of the children quickly respected Rey

was a puzzling sight,

death really means since they're kids.' Rey thought as he noticed these minute

babies making the same mistake—though in

just show them what they need to

catch on quicker, so he made sure he focused

corpse that he

his hand and brought out

A Monster Core.

the ground, and alongside it many

pointed at the other corpses and used sign language to tell the Hobs what he wanted while pointing

understand what I

wanted

do the harvesting for him and put

It was pretty simple.

swiftly moved and reached out to the

on the ground

~SQUELCH!~

~SQUISH!~

~QUELCH!~

did this multiple times, until finally the