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.

a lot of

this

they could last

and gone to be able to produce something

he calculated, the more his

these things for? I

of them

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"I-I see…"

teetered between disappointment and

known…' His thoughts trailed as he watched the Hobgoblin he

smart. But not

in front of him was lying down on the Monster

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

the night, and Hobgoblins

a result, this entire clearing made for a very comfortable

warm by sleeping among the piles of Monster Cores, and since they had to close

approaching the room, they would put on

arrived, they would leave the

he nodded his head, but also shook his head in

energy that is stored

a shame that they didn't think of doing

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

mother of invention, after

their considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never really thought of the Cores as anything

for Rey, but it also caused him to

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

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

that happen

eventually be stomped down by some supreme power that

last thing he wanted was to become like the very Hobgoblins he had

can go

the Hob and saw her fidget

pretending to

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be