The Author's POV

"Huff...Huff...Huff"

Kneeling on one leg, whilst supporting myself with my sword, which was stabbed on the ground, I gasped for breath.

-Click!

-Kueeeekk!

Before I could even have enough time to catch my breath, a goblin tried to sneak up from behind me, but fortunately, I was still alert and dealt with it in one swift movement.

'And here I was telling myself to keep my arrogance in check.."

Holding the left side of my stomach, I felt my whole body become dizzy. I overexerted myself.

Looking at my surroundings, the area around me was littered with corpses.

My previously clean clothes were now drenched in green blood.

For the past hour, I had been fighting against more than 20 goblins.

At first, I thought that dealing with 20 goblins wouldn't really pose a problem with my current abilities, but I had severely overestimated my capabilities and underestimated the goblin's abilities.

Just because goblins were supposed to be weak, didn't mean they were actually weak.

Yeah sure, maybe in a 1-on-1 they were easy, but not when more than 20 of them were coming at me at the same time.

It also had to be noted that my rank was still G+.

I was inside of an F ranked dungeon, meaning that every monster I was fighting had higher stats than me!

If it weren't for the fact that I practiced the [keiki style], I would've never been able to make it this far.

Although stats were important, they weren't everything.

It had to be said, stats were only a mild representation of one's ability.

If someone with high stats were to fight a highly skilled warrior that had lower stats, but far better battle awareness, then the highly skilled warrior could still win.

It was like in games when fighting a boss.

The boss always had better stats than the main character, but he/she could nevertheless still beat the boss.

As long as you adopt the right strategy, you could win regardless of your stats. Well...given that the disparity in stats was not that different. If the stats of the boss was a lot higher than your game character, then you might as well kiss your game goodbye.

On the off-chance that the boss was stronger, but the difference in stats between boss and character wasn't that big, then you could do several things to beat it.

Like for example, if you hit a monster on their weak spot.

By hitting their weak spot, the monsters will sustain far more damage as compared to a regular strike.

In goblin's cases, their weak spot was was located right on their forehead, just in between their brows.

Because my sword's art was extremely fast, I was able to swiftly deal with the goblins with one quick stab.

It may sound easy, but it really wasn't.

I had to fully concentrate each time, as a slight miss could cause me to lose my rhythm.

Moreover, because there were so many of them coming at me at the same time, I had to kite them for one hour before I could finally kill them all.

It was only after that I dealt with all the goblins, that I felt pathetic for telling myself how I shouldn't become arrogant and always humble myself in the face of danger.

Had there been one or two more goblins, I really might've died.

Mhhh...maybe not died, but I would've at least gotten severely injured.

if we look at this on a positive note, I was almost halfway towards

focused on dealing a singular swift movement at unimaginable speeds, the corpses around me were all in pristine conditions, meaning that I could sell them

I grabbed a goblin and placed

-Sham!

on top of my bracelet,

"Great stuff"

I placed all the goblins that I

"Phewww, 21 goblins huh"

goblin went for 1,000 U, right now I had accumulated a

exclude the 11% clause which would be around

tapped my bracelet

sure

bracelet once, I could put anything inside of

retrieve whatever I stored inside of the bracelet, as long

Truly convenient.

water bottle, I took big

had made me

water, I took out a

after finishing the [Stamina recovery potion], I felt a rush of energy enter

goblins, yet even with that, I was completely drained by the

stop looking for goblins for

face another goblin horde and hunting a single goblin at a time was just a waste

considered weak opponents, boss monsters, which were a lot stronger than regular monsters in dungeons, were considered formidable opponents for those who were of

they have much more health, but each of them also had the

G rank dungeon, a boss monster's strength would be at around G+

that were

It was simple really.

their weak spots while kiting, moreover, because I was being attacked by all sides,

was like doing HIIT cardio for 1 hour

were stronger, I

were that fighting against

were

were many different types of boss monsters, and

sword's art it wouldn't pose as much of a challenge as I could just overwhelm it with my speed. However, if I were to face a similarly fast boss monster

difficulty of a boss monster depended on how well I could counter

although I didn't know the exact location of each boss monster, with my knowledge as the author of

specific set

looking back at it now, I think I may have overcomplicated them

followed a law

was permanent. Meaning that if the balance within the dungeon were to be

external energies inside of the dungeon (monsters + humans), then the dungeon will function without a

thing that could cause a dungeon to break was if the external

understand, let's assume a dungeon was a half-filled balloon, where the air inside of it represented the

balloon increased proportionally to the human's strength. The

suddenly too many humans entered the dungeon, or too much air was blown into the balloon, then the

most basic

was slain, the dungeon will replenish its energy by 'spawning' another monster with

the monsters which were 'respawned' in the dungeon were just monsters that were found in

the process in which a monster was replaced by another inside

of nourishment for monsters, and once a monster inside of the dungeon was killed, a monster would automatically be drawn by

could only draw a monster that fit the 'missing energy

then the dungeon would automatically reject its existence

could no longer 'spawn' monsters, as all

a dungeon by just exceeding its

to the desync, but you would also lose a source of income as the monsters inside of a dungeon

for those that entered, for the most part, they were

want to

inside

the higher the dungeon rank the lower the number of boss monsters present in

each boss covered a certain area inside of the dungeon and each split the dungeon