An Extra’s POV

Once Rey left the Eighth Floor and returned to the Hobgoblin Clearing, he was once again welcomed by their subservient bows.

Rey was already so used to this that he merely waved his hand and they respectfully dispersed to fulfill their respective roles.

He called for competent-looking Hobgoblins—twelve in number—and decided that they would be the team responsible for his Monster Core Harvesting.

Spending the rest of his limited time bringing them down to the Eighth Floor and explaining how they were to trail straight down and harvest all the Monster Cores that were left there, Rey could see that the Hobs understood him.

'Is it just me, or have they grown more intelligent?'

He shrugged it off as nothing, deciding to remain as skeptical as possible.

'I'll come back tomorrow to see how they fare. Hopefully they get this on their first try.'

That would remove a lot of hassle from his future endeavors.

'I would have told them to burn the corpses, but I don't want them to start a fire down there…'

It was better to give them one instruction at a time.

To ensure the Hobs could make it down and back up, Rey provided them with a rope long enough for such.

They would use the rope to descend and ascend—a task pretty simple for Hobs.

He knew it would be harder to climb back up due to the load of Monster Cores on their backs, but Rey didn't think it would be an issue.

"I should get going now…" Rey caressed BMM's Monster Core as he shoved it into his [Subspace], right beside his rack of Platinum Coins.

There were some items he just had to fit into his [Subspace], and not just leave them in the Hobgoblin Hideout.

'About forty-five sacs of Monster Core should remain with me in [Sunspace]…'

And then his Spatial Ring was also locked in there along with more stashes of Monster Core, his Platinum Coins, and finally… BMM's Monster Core.

'That leaves only three free spaces in [Subspace]'s Slots, but that's no big deal.

He already had the Royal Dungeon's staple mask and goggles on, so Rey proceeded to make his exit.

a lot

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in the Royal Estate and found some commotion in the

seemed there were a lot more than usual taking patrols

probably

Skills to blend

a matter of course, he was successful

shower. I

and despite his best efforts to calm himself, the feeling

tension from earlier…' He huffed, remembering how BMM made him feel

I'll be fighting stronger Monsters than

felt about it. It was a mix of fear

recognized that tons of preparations had to be made before

process occupied his mind while

guards on his way to the Otherworlders' Living Quarters, which

no guards stationed this close

take care of themselves, but having guards watch over them that way would make

the fact that they can't afford to waste all

perhaps the most influential reason

here now? Did I miss

rugged at his

Fortunately, it wasn't guarded.

the door, he had

couldn't quite

wasn't [Danger Sense], since that only alerted him when

feeling felt intuitive—almost

Rey

really need to freshen up and go to

twisted the knob

however, stopped him dead

'W-what's going on…?'

now, all of his classmates were in

Yes… ALL OF THEM!

ten of them, all of them looking like