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 stronger

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and found some commotion in

it seemed there were a lot more than usual taking patrols in the

probably avoid

of other Skills to blend

course,

shower.

heart, and despite his best efforts

huffed, remembering how BMM made him feel

think I'll be fighting

describe how he felt about it. It

then, but he also recognized that tons of preparations had to

complicated thought process occupied his mind while his heart raced for

a few more guards on his way to the Otherworlders'

guards

did the Nation believe they could take care of themselves, but having guards watch over them that way would make a lot of his classmates uncomfortable , so they

that they can't

felt like this was perhaps the

why are there guards here now? Did I miss

at his chest as he

Fortunately, it wasn't guarded.

what's up.' As Rey opened the door, he

couldn't quite place

since that only alerted him when some kind

felt intuitive—almost

that, Rey

to freshen up and go to the

result, he twisted the knob and ventured into the living

him dead in his tracks as soon as

'W-what's going on…?'

all of his classmates were in

Yes… ALL OF THEM!

ten of them,