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.

Orichalcum together generates fire. They can use that to cook or

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

due to

more returns

of the month, I should have at least three

lot when it came

see a few Hobgoblin children peeking at him as he considered a

had to admit, they were pretty cute

recognize that even lion cubs had the same qualities, but would end up becoming apex predators that tore through their prey without

than them, these cute ones would be feasting on my

of the jungle—survival of the

particularly think it was right, but he also

was just how

I might as well survive

was his

hands, causing all the

gave him desperate stares, but fortunately for them, Rey only made this

then used [Force] to attract a Hobgoblin that was

corpse easily swept through the air and landed in

of the onlookers

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

grew to respect their parents and other adults

them power, and what they were currently seeing far

a result, many of the children quickly

a puzzling sight,

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

babies making the same

just show them what they need to

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

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

and brought out a

A Monster Core.

on the ground, and alongside it

pointed at the other corpses and used sign language to tell

should understand

he wanted was

the harvesting for him and put all the Monster Cores

It was pretty simple.

moved and reached out to the corpse of a random Hobgoblin

of one of the weapons that was lying on the ground and used it

~SQUELCH!~

~SQUISH!~

~QUELCH!~

multiple times, until finally the maimed flesh