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

was… this was

so they could last

how Hobgoblin civilizations had come and gone to be able

more he calculated, the more his head

use these things for? I have to know!'

should call one of them over

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"I-I see…"

tone teetered between disappointment and an

thoughts trailed as he watched the Hobgoblin he called interact with the

are smart. But not that

front of him was lying down on the Monster

spot.

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

result, this entire clearing made for

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

approaching the room, they would

leave the room before

more Rey learned, the more he nodded his head, but

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

they didn't think of doing any

think it's only a matter of time. If they were under some kind of

was the mother of

their considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never

Rey,

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

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

let that

had to keep improving—grinding—all so he wouldn't eventually be stomped

to become like the very

you can go back

the Hob and saw her

to be asleep at

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be