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.

lot of NightWolf Monster Cores,

was… this

Cores didn't expire, so they could last for years

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

more he calculated, the

use these things for? I have

should call one of them over to explain this

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"I-I see…"

disappointment and an

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

are smart. But

down on the Monster

their resting spot. That's what she's telling

crazy cold in the night, and Hobgoblins derived a

entire clearing made for

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

room, they would put on blindfolds

morning arrived, they would leave the room

learned, the more he nodded his head, but

to refine, or even directly absorb the energy that is

was a shame that they didn't think of doing any of

under some kind of major threat, they would

mother of

never really

all pretty amusing for Rey, but it also caused him to

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 in the first

can't let that

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

wanted was to become

can go

tapped the Hob and saw her

pretending to be

She was actually sleeping!

'What the fu—!'

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should be