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,

was… this was

so they could last

how Hobgoblin civilizations had come and gone to be able to produce something of such

calculated, the more his head

things for? I

them over to explain this to

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"I-I see…"

tone teetered between disappointment and an

watched the Hobgoblin he called interact

smart. But not that

of him was lying down on the Monster Cores and closing her eyes,

place is their resting spot.

night, and Hobgoblins derived

entire clearing made for a very comfortable

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

room, they would put on blindfolds and

morning arrived, they would leave the room before

his

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

that they didn't think of doing any of

I think it's only a matter of time. If they were under some kind of major threat, they would have figured it out

was the mother of invention, after

to their considerably comfortable lifestyle, they never really thought of the Cores

amusing for Rey, but it also caused him to

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

chain, they ended up losing sight of what made them rise to

let that happen

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

was to become like the very

can

tapped the Hob and saw her fidget

pretending to be asleep

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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I should be