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.

can use that

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

this wasn't due to his

just wanted more

I should have at least three times more than the initially expected

changes like these aided a lot

peeking at him as he considered a bunch of

admit, they were

the same qualities, but would end up becoming apex predators

these cute ones would be feasting

law of

particularly think it was right, but he also had no way to say it was

just how

to this world. I might as well survive in

his

clapped his hands, causing all the groveling Hobgoblins to

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

of the dead Hobgoblins and then used [Force]

swept through the air and landed in

the onlookers

had fear embedded in their eyes, most also had expressions of admiration within their innocent

Hobgoblins grew to respect their parents and other adults due

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

many of the children quickly respected Rey more

was a puzzling sight,

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

babies making the same mistake—though in

just show them what

quicker, so he made sure he focused

his unoccupied hand into the corpse that he

he removed his hand and brought out a glowing red

A Monster Core.

on the ground, and alongside it

sign language to tell the

understand what I

wanted

for him and put all the Monster Cores into

It was pretty simple.

and reached out to the corpse of a random Hobgoblin

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

~SQUELCH!~

~SQUISH!~

~QUELCH!~

until finally the maimed