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

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

lot had happened since then, and so she wanted to revisit the literature and see if she

things—like the outlawing of eating certain foods

of the

to high-brow areas like the Capital.

couple of financial limitations and transactional oversights

to grasp in the past,

a way, she found this

about a world that she

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

to go

was enough to cause her bright smile to

dwell on it too much, though, she quickly brought her

recently placed on previously accepted practices, there were still a few that

of them was

to practice

beteeen the Humans and other Races, as well as the most

rise

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

the

there were still some who

kinds of

in secret—deep in the inner recesses of the Black

selling humans

the world, the stain of slavery

it wasn't legal

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

a mile away, and seeing him

'R-Rey?!'

she had been thinking of for so long now entered the Library and instantly spotted

he doing

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

Rey said with a smile as he

'Hmm. Strange…'

close to her, she usually

'He smells nice!'

this time

anything—at least, Alicia didn't want

She responded with

was thinking we should

raised her brow in

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

even been thinking of introducing him to the current