An Extra’s POV

"Huu…"

Once Rey was done collecting all the Monster Cores, he heaved a heavy sigh.

As misty breaths escaped his lips and nostrils, he could clearly see the gateway to the next Floor.

The doorway existed at the furthest end of the ring—almost as if it was being guarded by the Boss Rey had just defeated.

That was his next destination.

"I Leveled Up three times just now…" Rey mumbled, realizing just how much EXP he must have received from the Boss and his minions.

With every Level Up, it got increasingly difficult to do so again.

Considering the fact that Rey had Leveled Up a total of five times before reaching the Boss Room by killing hundreds upon hundreds of BigFoot Monsters, it was surprising that he was able to Level Up three times just from a hundred others and a Boss.

'The BigFoot Monsters here were holding weapons, so they're probably stronger than the ones I faced outside…' Was Rey's line of reasoning.

The Boss had to also be quite strong.

With those thoughts in mind, Rey was happy he didn't dawdle at all.

'I still have about two hours left. I can still challenge the next Floor, right?'

Rey knew he was pushing it, but he liked his current streak.

He didn't want to ruin the momentum.

'If I can reach Level 30—no, Level 35—today… I'll be satisfied!'

He stared at the black gate that led to the next Floor. It wasn't covered in frost or anything, which surprised Rey.

That had to mean that the gate had special properties, or… the Floor that it led to was extremely hot.

Rey braced himself more for the second possibility.

"I'll have to speedrun this one…" He whispered, more white clouds of cold air escaping his lungs.

Time wasn't on his side.

*******

Alicia silently read her book in the library, flipping through the pages with a small smile on her face.

She wasn't smiling due to what she was reading, but because of something else.

… Someone else.

'In a few more hours, Rey will come here.' She didn't want to explicitly admit to herself why she was happy about this prospect.

But she was.

done with the current book in her hands—a literature text regarding the common practices of the

before, but that was so long ago—back when she just started frequenting

then, and so she wanted to revisit the literature and see if she

far, she had encountered a bunch of mundane things—like the outlawing of eating certain foods

ensure proper sanitation of the streets and to prevent dirtying

the Capital. Places such as the Adventurer City were exempt from

and transactional oversights

to grasp in the past, but she understood a lot

way, she found this whole

she learning so much about a world that she intended

I get back, I should write a novel about all of this…' As she chuckled,

want to go

cause her bright smile

too much, though, she quickly brought her

of mundane, inconsequential regulations recently placed on previously accepted practices, there were still a few that were big

of them was

hard to believe that the Kingdoms used to practice

was the rising conflict beteeen the Humans and other Races, as well as

The rise of the

Dragons invaded, and the Human Kingdoms began to band

was the abolition

there were still some who

considered among the highest kinds of criminals in the United

in secret—deep in the

just awful… selling humans as

the stain of slavery remained in their

it wasn't legal

with this place.' As Alicia had these

a familiar presence she could spot from a mile away, and seeing him

'R-Rey?!'

of for so long now

doing

spare time, and while she had been meaning to ask him about it, Alicia didn't

said with a smile as he approached

'Hmm. Strange…'

got close to her, she usually had one

'He smells nice!'

this time was

anything—at least, Alicia didn't want to think he

She responded with

was thinking we

brow in even

to hang out with her in the library. He was often very interested in reading as much as he could,

had even been thinking of introducing him to the current book she was reading