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.

her hands—a literature text regarding

but that was so long ago—back

wanted to revisit the literature and see if she could have a new, more

she had encountered a bunch of mundane things—like the outlawing of eating certain foods out

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

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

couple of financial limitations and transactional oversights were also mentioned in the

for Alicia to grasp in the past, but she understood

found this whole thing

learning so much about a world

when I get back, I should write a novel about all of this…' As she chuckled, a dark

to go

enough to cause her bright

though,

inconsequential regulations recently placed on previously accepted practices, there were still a few that were big

them was

believe that the Kingdoms used to practice slavery up till even a

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

rise

the Human Kingdoms began to band together,

of them was the abolition of

some who

kinds of criminals in the

secret—deep in the inner recesses of the

selling humans as a

no matter the world, the

wasn't

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

was a familiar presence she could spot from a mile away, and

'R-Rey?!'

for so long now entered the Library and instantly

he doing here so

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 to ask

a smile as he approached

'Hmm. Strange…'

to her, she usually

'He smells nice!'

this time was

Alicia didn't want to think he

responded with a

was thinking we should go to

brow

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

thinking of introducing him to the current