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.

fire. They can use that to cook or roast

problems facing the Hobgoblins, the more he developed solutions for

course, this wasn't due to

just wanted more returns for his

at least three

like these aided a lot when it came

children peeking at him

admit, they were pretty

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

these cute ones would be feasting on my flesh

the law of the

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

was just

this world. I might as well

was his

causing all the groveling

but fortunately for them, Rey only made this sound

and then used [Force] to attract a Hobgoblin that

corpse easily swept through the air

onlookers

an ability displayed before, and while many of them had fear embedded in their eyes, most also had expressions of admiration within

respect their parents and other adults due to

have parents to show them power, and what they were currently seeing far surpassed the meager strength they

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

a puzzling sight,

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

human babies making the same mistake—though

just show them what they

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

hand into the corpse that he

he did so, he removed his hand and brought out a glowing red stone from

A Monster Core.

dropped the Core on the ground, and alongside

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

should understand what

he wanted

put all

It was pretty simple.

out to the corpse of a

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

~SQUELCH!~

~SQUISH!~

~QUELCH!~

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