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.

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

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

so she wanted to revisit the literature and see

she had encountered a bunch of mundane things—like the

proper sanitation of the streets and to

applied to high-brow areas like the Capital. Places

and transactional

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

a way, she found this

a world that she intended on

I should write a novel about all of this…' As she chuckled, a dark thought suddenly appeared in

doesn't want to go

cause

she could dwell on it too much, though, she quickly

on previously accepted practices, there were still a

them was

that the Kingdoms used to practice slavery up till even

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

The rise

Human Kingdoms began to

of them was the abolition of the

book, there were still some who engaged in the slave trade—both buying

considered among the highest kinds of criminals in the United Human

the inner recesses

awful… selling humans

the world, the stain of slavery

wasn't

As Alicia had these thoughts, she noticed someone enter

was a familiar presence she could spot from a mile away,

'R-Rey?!'

so long now entered the Library and instantly

he doing

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

Rey said with a smile as he approached

'Hmm. Strange…'

got close to her, she usually had one

'He smells nice!'

time

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

She responded with a smile

to hang out? I was thinking we

her brow in even

would want to hang out with her in the library. He was often very interested in reading

him to the current book she was reading once she