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

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

grabbed a goblin and placed it on top of my

-Sham!

after placing the goblin on top of my bracelet,

"Great stuff"

I placed all the

"Phewww, 21 goblins huh"

U, right now I had accumulated a total of 21,000

the 11% clause which would be around 2310

accumulated on my forehead, I tapped my bracelet twice and a water bottle suddenly appeared in

storages sure are handy

put anything inside of

stored inside of the bracelet, as long as I

Truly convenient.

water bottle, I

had made me

water, I took out

potion], I felt a rush of energy enter my body, making my previous fatigued expression turn

the goblins, yet even with that, I was completely

decided to stop looking

hunting a single goblin at a time was just a waste of time, I decided to directly look for

strength were considered weak opponents, boss monsters, which were a lot stronger than

health, but each of them also had

dungeon, a boss monster's strength would be at around G+ almost nearing F- rank. Making

boss monster that

It was simple really.

weak spots while kiting, moreover, because

doing HIIT cardio for 1

boss monsters, although they were stronger, I

that fighting against them was

monsters were all

strong, there were many different types of boss monsters, and depending on which one I was

my 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

depended on how well I

around 25 bosses, and although I didn't know the exact location of each boss monster, with my knowledge as the author of this novel, I

different, they followed a specific set of rules

it now, I think I may have overcomplicated them a

a law

was permanent. Meaning that if the

capacity remained greater or equal to the external energies inside of the dungeon (monsters + humans), then the dungeon will

constant, so the only thing that could cause a dungeon to break was if the external energy increased to the point that the overall energy exceeded the

half-filled balloon, where the air inside of it represented the total number of monster energy inside of

human entered a dungeon, the amount of air inside of the balloon increased proportionally to the human's strength.

blown into the balloon, then the balloon

the first and most basic rule of a

rule was that, once a monster was slain, the dungeon will replenish

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

in which a monster was replaced by another

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

a monster that fit the

killed, then the dungeon would automatically reject its existence and prevent

could no longer 'spawn' monsters,

dungeon by just exceeding its

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

were only dangerous for those that entered, for

want

inside of a dungeon differed depending on the

the dungeon rank the lower the

a certain area inside of the dungeon and each split the