An Extra’s POV

"Now then…"

Rey walked away from the Hobgoblin bunch and left them to their duties while he explored something else he had noticed in the process of fighting the Hobs and freeing the rest.

It was an opening that led somewhere else.

'I'm curious…'

One of the reasons for that was because the place was open. That meant it had to be available to the general populace.

Other than that, it was also glowing a little, so that meant it had to be special.

'Let's check it out!' Rey smiled as he approached the entrance.

He had to bend a little since it wasn't originally designed to fit a human. However, all things considered, the experience wasn't too uncomfortable.

The closer Rey approached the end of the hallway, he could sense what awaited him was.

'Don't tell me… no way!'

His eyes widened, but he quickly squinted them thanks to the light that radiated from the end.

Finally, Rey reached the end of the hallway and emerged into another massive clearing.

"Hehe… hehehehe…"

Rey slowly opened his eyes, ensuring he acclimated well to the light as he took in the ambiance that greeted him.

"Hahahahahaha…"

As his eyes now flickered open, he graced his sight with piles of Monster Cores.

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!"

His laughter echoed throughout the great clearing, and his eyes could not stop shedding tears as he watched the immense stockpile of Monster Cores.

It was insane!

'There's at least hundreds of thousands of them here!'

They were in so many piles, and it was crazy just how abundant they were.

kept a lot of NightWolf Monster Cores,

was… this was

so they could last for years upon

could only imagine how Hobgoblin civilizations had come and gone to be

the

do they even use these things for? I

of them over to explain this to

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"I-I see…"

disappointment and an underlying

have known…' His thoughts trailed as he watched the Hobgoblin

smart. But not

him was lying down on the Monster Cores and closing her

their resting spot. That's what

crazy cold in the night, and Hobgoblins

entire clearing

and since they

would

would leave the room before

Rey learned, the more he nodded his head, but

refine, or even directly absorb the energy that is stored within those Cores… they could have become much stronger than they

a shame that they didn't think of doing any of

a matter of time. If they were under some kind of major

mother of invention, after

to their considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never really thought of the Cores

Rey, but it also caused

have a lot of power. If I let myself be complacent, I could become like these

the food chain, they ended up losing sight of what made them rise to that position in the first

let that happen

keep improving—grinding—all so he wouldn't eventually be stomped down by some supreme power that he

thing he wanted was to become like the

you can

Hob and saw her fidget

to be

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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I should