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.

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

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

literature and see

a bunch of mundane things—like the outlawing of

was done to ensure proper sanitation of the streets and

like the Capital. Places such as

financial limitations and transactional oversights were also

concepts might have been too complicated for Alicia to grasp in the past, but she understood a

she found

was she learning so much about a world that

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

to

to cause her bright

on it too much, though, she quickly brought her attention back

lot of mundane, inconsequential regulations recently placed on previously accepted practices, there were

them

believe that the Kingdoms used to practice slavery up till even a decade

for stopping the slave trade was the rising conflict beteeen the Humans and other Races, as well as the

rise of the

invaded, and the Human Kingdoms began to band together, a lot of

of them was the abolition of the

were still some who engaged in the

considered among the highest kinds of criminals in the United Human

in secret—deep in the

is just awful… selling humans as

world, the stain of slavery

it wasn't

some issues with this place.' As Alicia had these thoughts, she

she could spot from a mile away, and seeing him

'R-Rey?!'

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

a smile

'Hmm. Strange…'

Rey got close to her, she usually had

'He smells nice!'

this time was

want to

responded with

hang out? I was thinking we should go to the Town

her brow in even more

out with her in the library. He was often very interested in reading as much as he could, and he even sought her consultation

the current book she