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 NightWolf Monster Cores, but not to this

was… this

so they could last for years

civilizations had come and gone to

the more his head

even use these things

one of them over to explain

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"I-I see…"

tone teetered between disappointment and

watched the Hobgoblin he

But

lying down on the

resting spot. That's

cold in the night, and Hobgoblins derived

entire clearing

and since they had to close their eyes when sleeping, the Goblins weren't bothered

would

would leave the room before taking

nodded his head, but also

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

shame that they didn't think

only a matter of time. If they were under some kind of

mother

considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never really thought of the

pretty amusing for Rey, but it also

of power. If I let myself be complacent,

up losing sight

let that happen to

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

thing he wanted was to become like the very

can go

and saw

she wasn't pretending to be asleep

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be