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

this was

so they could last for years upon

civilizations had come and gone to

the

these things for?

of them over to explain this to

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"I-I see…"

teetered between disappointment and an

thoughts trailed as he watched

smart. But

the

is their resting spot. That's what

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

result, this entire clearing

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

the room before taking

Rey learned, the more he nodded his head, but

refine, or even directly absorb the energy that is stored within those Cores… they

shame that they didn't think of doing any

matter of time. If they were under

mother of invention,

never really thought of the Cores

was all pretty amusing for Rey, but it

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

losing sight of what made them rise to that position in

that happen

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

become like the very Hobgoblins he had

you can go back

and saw her

to

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should