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.

them to have kept a lot of NightWolf Monster Cores, but not to this

this

Cores didn't expire, so they could last for

come and

calculated, the more

use these things for?

should call one of them

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"I-I see…"

between disappointment and an underlying

should have known…' His thoughts trailed as he watched

are smart. But

the Monster Cores and closing her eyes,

is their resting spot. That's

the night, and Hobgoblins derived a lot of warmth from the Monster

this entire clearing made

and since they had to close their eyes when sleeping,

the room, they would put on

would leave the room before taking off their

nodded his head, but also shook his head

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

shame that they didn't

were under some kind of major threat, they would have figured it out

mother

they never really thought of the Cores as

Rey, but it also caused him to

power. If I let myself be complacent, I could become like

food chain, they ended up losing sight of what

that happen

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

to become like the very Hobgoblins he had

can go

tapped the Hob and

wasn't pretending to

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should