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

was so long ago—back

lot had happened since then, and so she wanted to revisit the literature and see if she could have a new, more informed, grasp on what she had read

far, she had encountered a bunch of mundane things—like the outlawing of eating

sanitation of the streets and to prevent dirtying the

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

couple of financial limitations and transactional oversights were also mentioned in

have been too complicated for Alicia to grasp in the past, but she understood a lot

she found

a world

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

doesn't want to go

to cause her bright smile to

dwell on it too much, though, she quickly brought her

a lot of mundane, inconsequential regulations recently placed on previously accepted practices, there were still a few that

them

Kingdoms used to practice slavery up till even a

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

rise

the Dragons invaded, and the Human Kingdoms began to band together, a lot of reforms were

was the abolition of

were still some who

the highest kinds of criminals in the United Human

usually operated in secret—deep in the

just awful… selling

matter the world, the stain of slavery remained in their

it wasn't

was, I'd have some issues with this place.' As Alicia

could spot from a mile away, and seeing him made her smile return almost

'R-Rey?!'

thinking of for so long now

he doing here

She still didn't know what he did in his spare time, and while she had been meaning to ask him about it, Alicia

said with a smile as he

'Hmm. Strange…'

got close to her, she usually

'He smells nice!'

this time

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

with

out? I was thinking we

raised her brow in

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

thinking of introducing him to the current book she was reading once she was