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.

was almost done with the current book in her hands—a literature text regarding the common practices of the people of H'Trae which had now

read this particular book before, but that was so long ago—back when she

revisit the literature and see if she could have a new, more

things—like the outlawing of eating certain foods

was done to ensure proper sanitation of the streets and to

applied to high-brow areas like the Capital. Places such as the Adventurer City were

couple of financial limitations and transactional oversights were also mentioned in the

have been too complicated for Alicia to grasp in the past,

she found

much about a world that

novel about all of this…' As she chuckled, a dark thought

to go

was enough to cause her bright smile

though, she quickly

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

them

that the Kingdoms used to practice slavery up till

the Humans and other Races,

The rise

and the Human Kingdoms began to band

of them was the abolition of the

book, there were still some who engaged in the

they were considered among the highest kinds of

secret—deep in the inner recesses of the

awful… selling humans as a

world, the stain of

wasn't

this place.' As

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

'R-Rey?!'

she had been thinking of for so long now entered

he doing here

Library in the night. She still didn't know what he did in his spare time, and while she had been meaning to ask him

Rey said with a smile

'Hmm. Strange…'

Rey got close to her,

'He smells nice!'

time was

or anything—at least, Alicia didn't want to think he did—but he just

responded with

thinking we should go to

her brow in even more

interested in reading as much as he could, and he

the current book she was reading