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 practices of

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

to revisit the literature and see if

bunch of mundane things—like the outlawing of

of the streets and to

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

limitations and transactional oversights were also mentioned

to grasp in the past, but she understood a lot more

way, she found this whole

much about a world that

I get back, I should write a novel about all of this…'

want to

to cause

on it too much, though, she quickly

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

them

hard to believe that the Kingdoms used to practice slavery up

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

The rise

and the Human Kingdoms began to band

the abolition of the

book, there were still some who

they were considered among the highest kinds of criminals in the United Human

in secret—deep in the inner recesses of the Black

is just awful… selling

the stain of

it wasn't legal

this place.' As Alicia had these

spot from a mile

'R-Rey?!'

been thinking of for so long

he doing

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

a smile as he approached

'Hmm. Strange…'

to her, she usually had one

'He smells nice!'

time

didn't want to think he did—but he

responded with a smile

out? I was thinking we should go

brow in

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

had even been thinking of introducing him to the current book she was reading