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.

hands—a literature text regarding the common

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

so she wanted to revisit the literature and see if she could have

mundane things—like the outlawing of eating certain

was done to ensure proper sanitation of the streets

high-brow areas like the Capital. Places such

of financial limitations and transactional oversights were also mentioned in the

too complicated for Alicia to grasp in the past,

she found this

a world that she intended on leaving very

I should write a novel about all of this…' As she

doesn't want to go back…

cause

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

placed on previously accepted practices, there were

of them was

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

the Humans and other Races, as

rise of the

began to band together, a lot of reforms

the

who engaged

among the highest kinds of criminals in

operated in secret—deep in the

is just awful… selling humans as

world, the stain of slavery remained in

it wasn't

this place.' As Alicia had these thoughts, she noticed someone enter

mile away, and seeing him made her

'R-Rey?!'

been thinking of for so long now entered the Library

he doing here

to the 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 about it, Alicia didn't think it was the right

with a

'Hmm. Strange…'

close to her, she

'He smells nice!'

this time

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

responded with a smile

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

raised her brow in even more

library. He was often very interested in reading as much as he could, and he even sought

introducing him to the