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.

lot of NightWolf Monster Cores, but not to

this was

didn't expire, so they could

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

the more his

they even use these things for? I have to

one of them

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"I-I see…"

disappointment and

His thoughts trailed as he watched the Hobgoblin

are smart. But not

him was lying down on the

spot. That's what she's telling

Hobgoblins derived a lot of warmth from the Monster

entire clearing made

among the piles of Monster Cores, and since they had to close their eyes when sleeping,

would put

arrived, they would leave the

Rey learned, the more he nodded his

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

was a shame that they didn't think of

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

was the mother of invention, after

lifestyle, they never really thought of the Cores as

for Rey,

lot of power. If I let myself

up losing

can't let that happen to

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

wanted was to become like

can

Hob and saw her

to be asleep

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be