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

this

so they could

only imagine how Hobgoblin civilizations had come and gone to be able to produce something

the more his head

use these things for? I have to know!'

call one of them

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"I-I see…"

tone teetered between disappointment

His thoughts trailed as he watched the Hobgoblin

smart. But

front of him was lying down on the Monster Cores and closing

resting spot.

the night, and Hobgoblins derived a lot

entire clearing made for a very

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

approaching the room, they would put on blindfolds

would leave the room before taking off

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

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

they didn't think of doing

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

the mother

to their considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never

pretty amusing for Rey, but

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

they ended up losing sight of what made them rise

that happen to

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

to become like the very

can go

Hob and saw her

wasn't pretending to

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be leaving