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.

her hands—a literature text regarding the common practices of the

this particular book before, but that was so long ago—back

then, and so she wanted to revisit the literature and see if

bunch of mundane things—like the outlawing of eating certain

proper sanitation of the streets and to prevent dirtying

the Capital. Places

and transactional oversights were also mentioned in the

to grasp in the past, but she

found this whole thing

a world that

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

want to go back…

cause

much, though, she quickly brought her attention back to

lot of mundane, inconsequential regulations recently placed on

them

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

the slave trade was the rising conflict beteeen the Humans and other Races, as well as the most important one

rise of

Dragons invaded, and the Human Kingdoms began to

of them was the abolition of

there were still some who engaged in the

were considered among the highest kinds of criminals in

usually operated in secret—deep in the inner

selling humans as

world, the stain of

it wasn't

have some issues with this place.' As

from a mile away, and seeing him made her smile

'R-Rey?!'

for so

he doing

know what he did in his spare time, and while she had

a smile as he approached

'Hmm. Strange…'

her,

'He smells nice!'

this time was

anything—at least, Alicia didn't want to think he did—but he

responded with a

to hang out? I was thinking we should

her brow in

in reading as much as

introducing him to the current book she was reading once