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.

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

had read this particular book before, but that was

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

encountered a bunch of mundane things—like the

done to ensure proper sanitation of the streets and

the Capital. Places such as

limitations and transactional oversights were

complicated for Alicia to grasp in the past, but

found this whole

so much about a

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

doesn't want to go back…

enough to cause her bright smile to

much, though, she quickly brought

placed on previously accepted practices, there were still a few

them was

believe that the Kingdoms used to

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

rise of

the Human Kingdoms began to band together,

was the abolition of the

were still some who engaged in the slave trade—both buying and

the highest kinds of

operated in secret—deep in the inner recesses of the Black

awful… selling humans as

the

it wasn't legal

As Alicia had these

from a mile away, and seeing him made her smile

'R-Rey?!'

for so long now entered the Library and instantly spotted

he doing

night. She still didn't know what he did in his spare time, and while

Rey said with a

'Hmm. Strange…'

her,

'He smells nice!'

this time

Alicia didn't want to

with

to hang out? I was thinking we should go to

her brow

to hang out with her in the library. He was often very interested in reading as much as he could, and he even sought

the current book she was reading once she was