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.

book in her hands—a literature text regarding the common practices of the people

but that was so

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

of mundane things—like the outlawing of eating certain foods out in the

to ensure proper sanitation of the streets and to prevent dirtying

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

couple of financial limitations and transactional oversights were

might have been too complicated for Alicia to grasp in the

she found this

much about a

get back, I should write a novel about all of this…' As she chuckled, a dark thought suddenly appeared in her

doesn't want to go back…

enough to cause her

she could dwell on it too much, though, she quickly

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

them

the Kingdoms used to practice slavery

conflict beteeen the Humans and other Races, as well as

The rise

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

was the

to the book, there were still some who engaged in the slave trade—both buying

they were considered among the highest kinds of criminals

in secret—deep in the

just awful… selling humans as a

matter the world, the

it wasn't

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

familiar presence she could spot from a mile away, and seeing him made her

'R-Rey?!'

so long now entered the Library and

he doing here so

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

said with a smile as he approached

'Hmm. Strange…'

close to her, she usually had one

'He smells nice!'

time was

wasn't like he smelled or anything—at least, Alicia didn't want to think he did—but he

She responded with a

out? I was thinking

her brow in even more

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

even been thinking of introducing him to the current book