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.

text regarding the common practices of the people of H'Trae which

was so long ago—back

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

things—like the outlawing

was done to ensure proper sanitation of the streets and to prevent dirtying

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

transactional oversights were also mentioned in the

too complicated for Alicia to grasp in

a way, she found this

so much about a world that she intended on leaving

about all of

want to go back…

enough to cause her bright

much, though, she quickly

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

them was

hard to believe that the Kingdoms used to practice

trade was the rising conflict beteeen the Humans and other Races, as

rise of the

began to band together, a lot

them was the abolition

there were still some who engaged in

highest kinds of criminals in the

in secret—deep in the

selling humans

the world, the stain of slavery

wasn't legal

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

spot from a mile

'R-Rey?!'

she had been thinking of for so long now entered the

doing

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

a

'Hmm. Strange…'

her, she usually had

'He smells nice!'

this time

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

with

hang out? I was thinking

raised her brow

in the library. He was often very interested in reading as much

to the current book she was reading once she