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.

expected them to have kept a lot of NightWolf Monster Cores, but not to this

was… this

so they could last

had come and gone to be

calculated, the more his head

do they even use these things for? I have

call one of them over to

*******

"I-I see…"

tone teetered between disappointment and an

he watched the Hobgoblin he called interact with the

smart. But not that

Hobgoblin in front of him was lying down on the Monster Cores and closing her eyes, pretending to be

is their resting spot. That's

Hobgoblins derived a lot of warmth

entire clearing made for a

since they had to close their eyes when sleeping,

approaching the room, they would

the room

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

guys knew how to refine, or even directly absorb the energy that is stored within those Cores…

they didn't think of doing any of

under some kind of major threat, they would have figured it out

the mother

to their considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never really

was all pretty amusing for Rey, but it

now, I have a lot of power. If I let myself

chain, they ended up losing sight

can't let that happen

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 go back

tapped the Hob and saw

pretending to be asleep

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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I should be leaving