An Extra’s POV

"Oh?"

Rey was currently looking at the new and improved Hobgoblin civilization he had helped kickstart, and a look of pride was radiating through his face.

"It's been like four days since I last came here. You guys are doing well for yourselves."

For the first time, the place didn't smell—at least, not too much—when he entered the clearing.

And even now that he was standing among the kneeling Hobs, he could notice a lot of changes.

'Everywhere is so clean. They've made the pots as per instruction, and they're properly taking care of their waste.'

Everything was in perfect order.

'A few more things—like good clothing and variety of food—would be nice, but it's not a necessity for them to be useful to me.'

As a result, Rey decided to leave that thought at the back burner.

Right now, he had bigger fish to fry.

'Right now, this is the safest place for me and my property…'

He had initially thought it was a good move to take Monster Cores from the Hobs and hide them in his room, but now he could see how foolish that line of reasoning was.

'There's no better place to keep them than this place.'

If he hadn't caught the perpetrator, or if the malefactor had been someone else, he would have been in a lot more hot water.

Rey recognized that very well.

'From now on, I'll be hiding my stuff here…'

Of course, it wouldn't be a temporary measure.

'Once I get enough Spatial Rings—apart from the one I gave Noah for business—I'll store them in there and keep them with me at all times.'

was a limited size of objects he could

Spatial Ring. I'll put as many Spatial Rings in a sac… and they'll only

least hundreds of Platinum Coins for the sake of getting

deal of finally being able to harvest all the heaps of Cores that greeted his sight every day, it was

I'll just hide my

days to completely clear all the Monster

to the event for

attention wasn't on

reason for

I need to get a lot stronger. I

since they would give him

there was another

the next floor!' Rey's eyes beamed with delight

dismissed the kneeling Hobs and used [Flight] to swiftly approach

an elevated position, and right

it up, but recognized it was of importance, so they built their

little stuck

I go in now,

and while they were on and about in their activities, they were also looking

settles it.

much nothing more he could do for the Hobs. He just had to plunder their reserve of Monster Cores while waiting for

for his attention now was the

was

'Let's go!'

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natural habitat of the

"G-guh!"

and fell to his knees as he took in the unwanted stimulus for the first

that he needed time to acclimate to this new

felt

it had to be a lot worse since the Hobs had practically lived in darkness for most

It hurt still.

him very long before