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.

get a lot stronger

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and

didn't know what was happening, but it seemed there were a lot more than usual taking patrols in the

should probably

array of other Skills to blend in

matter of course, he was successful

need a shower. I hope everything is fine,

his heart, and despite his best efforts to calm himself, the feeling

the leftover tension from earlier…' He huffed, remembering how BMM made

think I'll be fighting stronger Monsters

describe how he felt about it. It was a mix

and then, but he also recognized that tons

while his heart raced for some

found a few more guards on his way to the Otherworlders'

no guards stationed this

themselves, but having guards watch over them that way would make a lot of his classmates uncomfortable ,

that they can't

perhaps the

here now? Did

also nervousness, rugged at his chest as he approached the

Fortunately, it wasn't guarded.

Trisha what's up.' As Rey opened the door, he had a slight inclination that perhaps

quite

only alerted him when some

felt

Rey

need to freshen up and go to

knob and ventured into

however, stopped him dead in his tracks

'W-what's going on…?'

of his classmates were in the Living

Yes… ALL OF THEM!

there—about ten of them, all of them looking like