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.

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

that was so

revisit the literature and see if she could have a new, more informed, grasp

encountered a bunch of mundane things—like

to ensure proper sanitation of the streets

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

couple of financial limitations and transactional oversights

grasp in the past, but she understood

found

so much about a world that she intended on leaving very

novel about all of this…' As she chuckled, a dark thought suddenly

doesn't want to go back…

cause

too much, though, she quickly brought her attention back

on previously accepted practices,

of them was

that the Kingdoms used to practice

catalyst for stopping the slave trade was the rising conflict beteeen the Humans

rise of the

Human Kingdoms began to band together, a lot of reforms

of them was the abolition of

some who engaged

were considered among the highest kinds

in secret—deep in the

is just awful… selling humans

matter the world, the stain of slavery remained in their

it wasn't

was, I'd have some issues with this place.' As Alicia had these thoughts, she noticed someone enter

from a mile away, and

'R-Rey?!'

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

doing

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

Rey said with a smile as

'Hmm. Strange…'

her, she usually had

'He smells nice!'

time was

smelled or anything—at least, Alicia didn't want to

She responded with a

to hang out? I was thinking we

raised her brow

with her in the library. He was often very interested in reading as

him to the