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.

of

this

Cores didn't expire, so they could last for

imagine how Hobgoblin civilizations had come and gone to be able to produce

calculated, the more his

even use these things for? I have

call one of them over to explain this to

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"I-I see…"

teetered between disappointment

trailed as he watched

smart. But not that

on the Monster Cores and closing her

place is their resting spot. That's

night, and Hobgoblins derived a lot of

entire clearing

by sleeping among the piles of Monster Cores, and since they had to close their eyes when sleeping, the Goblins

approaching the room, they would put on

they would leave the room before

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

or even directly absorb the energy that is stored within those Cores… they could have

they didn't think of doing any of

matter of time. If they were under some

was the mother of

their considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never really thought

pretty amusing for Rey, but it also caused him to

I let myself be complacent,

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

let that happen

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

was to become like the very Hobgoblins

you can

tapped the Hob and saw her fidget

she wasn't pretending to be

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be