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.

to have kept a lot of NightWolf Monster Cores, but

was… this was

Cores didn't expire, so they could last for

come and gone to be able to produce something of

the more his head

these things for?

should call one of them over to explain this to

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"I-I see…"

teetered between disappointment

as he watched the Hobgoblin

But

was lying down on the Monster

their resting spot. That's

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

this entire clearing made for a very

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

would put on blindfolds and

morning arrived, they would leave the room before taking off

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

only these guys knew how to refine, or even directly absorb the energy that is stored within those Cores… they could have

was a shame that they didn't think of doing any of

of time. If they were under some kind of major threat, they would

mother of invention, after

considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never

for Rey, but it also caused

of power. If I let myself be complacent, I

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

can't let that happen

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

last thing he wanted was to become like the

can

the Hob and saw her fidget

wasn't pretending to be

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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