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.

together generates fire. They can use

the problems facing the Hobgoblins, the more he developed solutions for

to his kind

more returns

should have at least three times more than the

a lot when it

peeking at him as he considered a bunch of

they

even lion cubs had the same qualities, but would end up becoming apex predators

weaker than them, these cute ones would be feasting on my flesh by

was the law of the jungle—survival of the

think it was right, but he also had

just how things

I might as well survive in

his

all the groveling Hobgoblins to

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

at the corpses of the dead Hobgoblins and then

the air and

onlookers gasped in

never seen such an ability displayed before, and while many of them had fear embedded in their eyes, most also had expressions of admiration

and

to show them power, and what they were currently seeing far surpassed

of the children quickly respected Rey more than

was a puzzling sight,

since they're kids.' Rey thought

babies making the same mistake—though

what

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

dug his unoccupied hand into the corpse that he

did so, he removed his hand and

A Monster Core.

dropped the Core on the ground, and alongside it

and used sign language to tell the Hobs

should understand what

he wanted was

should do the harvesting for him and put all the Monster

It was pretty simple.

female Goblins swiftly moved and reached out to

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

~SQUELCH!~

~SQUISH!~

~QUELCH!~

this multiple times, until finally the maimed flesh was