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.

look at this on a positive note, I was almost halfway towards reaching my goal of

at unimaginable speeds, the corpses around me were all in pristine conditions, meaning that I

a goblin

-Sham!

on

"Great stuff"

placed all the goblins that I killed inside of the

"Phewww, 21 goblins huh"

U, right now I had accumulated a total of

was if we exclude the 11% clause which would be

sweat that had accumulated on my forehead, I tapped my

sure are handy

once, I could put anything inside of the bracelet as long as it

tapping twice I could retrieve whatever I stored inside of the bracelet, as long as I

Truly convenient.

water bottle,

that exercise had made me

I took out

rush of energy enter

goblins, yet even with that, I was completely drained

to stop looking for goblins for

goblin at a time was just a waste of time, I decided to directly

weak opponents, boss monsters, which were a lot stronger than regular monsters in dungeons,

but each of them also had the strength that

strength would be at around G+ almost nearing F- rank. Making them extremely tough opponents

why deal with a boss monster that were stronger than a

It was simple really.

repeatedly aim for their weak spots while

doing HIIT cardio

although they were stronger,

the boss monster I was going to face, chances were that fighting against them was

monsters were all

there were many different types of boss monsters, and depending on which one I was going to face the difficulty was going

art it wouldn't pose as much of a challenge as I could

of a boss monster depended on how well

with my knowledge as the author of

they followed a specific set of rules which I had set

think I may have overcomplicated them

followed a law

Meaning that if the balance within the dungeon were to be increased, the dungeon

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

dungeon to break was if the external energy increased to the

half-filled balloon, where the air inside of

inside of the balloon increased proportionally to the

was blown into the balloon, then the balloon will pop,

was the first and most basic rule

second rule was that, once a monster was slain, the dungeon will replenish its energy by

a dungeon was located in the demon world, the monsters which were 'respawned' in the dungeon were just

in which a monster was

monster inside of the dungeon was killed, a monster would automatically be drawn by the dungeon to fill

a dungeon could only draw a monster that fit the 'missing energy

was stronger than the monster killed, then the dungeon would automatically reject its existence and prevent it from

only be considered cleared when the dungeon could no longer 'spawn' monsters, as all the ones in the vicinity

its dungeon capacity and

themselves stuck in the demon world, due to the desync, but you would also lose a

for those that entered, for the most part,

would anyone want

third rule, the number of boss monsters present inside of a dungeon differed depending on

rank the lower the number of

boss covered a certain area inside of the dungeon and each