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 not to this

was… this

expire, so they could last for years

civilizations had come and gone to be able to

he calculated, the more his head

use these things

call one of them over

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"I-I see…"

between disappointment and an underlying

should have known…' His thoughts trailed as he watched the Hobgoblin he called interact with

But not that

lying down on the Monster Cores and

is their resting spot. That's what

and Hobgoblins derived a lot of warmth from

this entire clearing made

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

they would put

morning arrived, they would leave the room

he nodded his head, but also shook

or even directly absorb the energy that is stored within

that they didn't

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

mother

comfortable lifestyle, they never really thought of the

all pretty amusing for Rey, but it also

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

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

that

had to keep improving—grinding—all so he wouldn't eventually be stomped down by some supreme power

thing he wanted was to become like the very Hobgoblins

you can

tapped the Hob and

wasn't pretending to be asleep

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be leaving