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.

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

singular swift movement at unimaginable speeds, the corpses around me were all in pristine conditions,

I grabbed a goblin and

-Sham!

goblin on top of my bracelet, it

"Great stuff"

I placed all the

"Phewww, 21 goblins huh"

now I had accumulated

we exclude the 11% clause which would be around 2310

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

sure are handy

bracelet once, I could put anything inside of the bracelet as long as it didn't

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

Truly convenient.

bottle, I took big

had made

out a [Stamina recovery potion]

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

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

stop looking for

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

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

did they have much more health, but each of

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

monster that were stronger

It was simple really.

weak spots while kiting, moreover, because I was being attacked by all sides, I barely had enough time

was like doing HIIT

they were stronger, I could have more room to

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

monsters were all

fast, some were tanky, some were super strong, there were many different types of boss monsters, and depending on which

I were to face a really strong boss that had limited mobility, against my sword's art it wouldn't pose as much of a

on how well I could counter its

location of each boss monster, with my knowledge as the author of this novel, I could more or less get a basic idea of

dungeon was different, they followed a specific set of rules which I had

think I may have overcomplicated

a law

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

energies inside of the dungeon (monsters +

energy was always 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 dungeon

the air inside of it represented the total

increased proportionally to the human's strength. The stronger the

into the balloon, then the

was the first and most basic rule of

was slain, the dungeon will replenish its energy by

demon world, the monsters which were 'respawned'

process in which a monster

of nourishment for monsters, and once a monster inside of the dungeon

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

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

the dungeon could no longer 'spawn' monsters,

a dungeon by just exceeding its dungeon capacity and causing

the hunters inside of the dungeon find themselves stuck in the demon world, due to the desync, but you would also lose a source of income as the monsters inside of a dungeon went for a lot of money due to their tough

dungeons were only dangerous for those that entered, for the most part,

would anyone want to

monsters present inside of a dungeon differed depending on

the lower the number of boss monsters present in

certain area inside of the dungeon