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.

was almost done with the current book in her hands—a literature text regarding the common practices of

had read this particular book before, but that was

see if she could

encountered a bunch of mundane things—like the outlawing of eating certain

of the streets and to prevent dirtying

applied to high-brow areas like the Capital. Places such as the Adventurer City were

limitations and transactional

grasp in the past, but she understood a

found this whole thing

much about a world that she intended on

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

want to go

was enough to cause

too much, though, she quickly

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

them

to

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

The rise of

Kingdoms began to

them was the abolition

still some who engaged

the highest kinds of criminals in the United

in secret—deep in the inner recesses of the Black

just awful… selling humans

the world, the stain of slavery remained in their

it wasn't legal

some issues with this place.' As Alicia had these thoughts, she

could spot from a mile away,

'R-Rey?!'

thinking of for so long now entered the

doing

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 he approached

'Hmm. Strange…'

got close to her, she usually had one

'He smells nice!'

this time was

least, Alicia didn't want to

responded with

was thinking we should go to the Town

her brow in even

her in the library. He was often very interested in reading as much as he could, and he even sought her consultation on

to the current book she was reading once she