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.

to have kept a lot of NightWolf Monster Cores,

was… this

expire, so they could last for

and

he calculated, the

even use these things for? I have to know!'

one of them over to explain

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"I-I see…"

teetered between disappointment and an underlying

he watched

are smart. But not that

Hobgoblin in front of him was lying down on the Monster Cores and closing her

is their resting spot. That's what she's

crazy cold in the night, and Hobgoblins derived a lot of warmth

a result, this entire clearing made

and since they had to close their eyes when sleeping, the Goblins

approaching the room, they would put on blindfolds and

would leave the room before taking off their

nodded his head, but also shook

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

didn't think of doing any

think it's only a matter of time. If they were under some kind of major threat, they would have figured it

mother of invention,

comfortable lifestyle, they never really thought

was all pretty amusing for Rey, but

I have a lot of power. If I let myself be complacent,

to the top of the food chain, they ended up losing sight of what made them

that happen

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

wanted was to become like the very

you can go

the Hob and saw

she wasn't pretending to be

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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I should be