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,

this

they could last

and gone to be able

the more his head

even use these things for? I have to know!' Rey

should call one of them over to explain this

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"I-I see…"

teetered between disappointment and

His thoughts trailed as he watched the Hobgoblin he called interact with the Monster

But not

was lying down on the Monster Cores and closing her eyes, pretending to

resting spot. That's

got crazy cold in the night, and Hobgoblins derived a lot of warmth from the

this entire clearing made for a very comfortable

and since they had to close their eyes when sleeping, the Goblins

room, they would

would leave the

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

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

they didn't think of doing any of

time. If they were under some kind of major

was the mother

lifestyle, they never really thought of the Cores as anything

pretty amusing for Rey, but it also

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

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

can't let that happen to

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

to become

you can go back

and saw her fidget

to be asleep

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be