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.

have kept a lot of

was… this

Cores didn't expire, so they could

Hobgoblin civilizations had come and gone to be able to produce something

calculated, the more his

things

call one of them over to

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"I-I see…"

teetered between disappointment and

have known…' His thoughts trailed as he watched the

smart. But

on the Monster Cores and closing her

resting spot. That's

the night, and Hobgoblins derived a lot

clearing made for a very

piles of Monster Cores, and since they had to close their eyes when sleeping, the Goblins weren't

the room, they would put on

the room before

Rey learned, the more he nodded his head,

knew how to refine, or even directly absorb the energy that is stored within

they didn't think of doing any

If they were under some kind

the mother of invention, after

to their considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never really

for Rey, but it also caused him to

If I

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

let that happen to

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

he wanted was to become like the very

you can

Hob and saw

pretending to be

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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I should