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.

of NightWolf Monster Cores, but not to

was… this was

Cores didn't expire, so they could

how Hobgoblin civilizations had come and gone

more he calculated, the more his head

they even use these things for? I

of them over to explain this to

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"I-I see…"

tone teetered between disappointment and an underlying

watched the Hobgoblin he called

But

him was lying down on the Monster Cores and closing her eyes,

their resting spot. That's what

and Hobgoblins derived a lot of

entire clearing made

warm by sleeping among the piles of Monster Cores, and since they

the room, they would put on blindfolds and

they would leave the room before taking off

the more he nodded his head,

guys knew how to refine, or even directly absorb the energy that is stored within those Cores… they could have

they didn't think of doing any of

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

the mother

considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never really

for Rey, but it also

I let myself be complacent, I could become like

ended up losing sight of what made them rise to that position in the

that

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

to become like

you can

the Hob and saw her

she wasn't pretending to be asleep at

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be