The Author's POV

"1...2...3...8...15...23...47...53"

Counting the students present in the line designated for the ranked students, the professor quickly scribbled something onto the tablet in his hand, and lightly mumbled to himself

"...that's a significant increase compared to last year's batch"

Nodding his head in satisfaction, putting the tablet away, in a stern tone, the professor spoke up.

"Alright, all of the 53 students in the level difficulty, please listen up."

"As I have already explained the rules before, I won't go into too much detail with regards to what you need to do. However, I do have to remind you that you will all be sent to the same dungeon at the same time. Meaning that, yes, you can cooperate with one another..."

"We won't stop you from collaborating with someone since, in real dungeons, such situations often occur."

Pausing slightly, the professor squinted his eyes and his voice turned serious

"...and yes, with the fact that you can collaborate with the other students, it also means that you can also interfere with another persons' progress. After all, the person who reaches first also gets an additional bonus point."

"So, not only do you have to watch out for the monsters inside of the dungeon, but you also have to watch out for the people next to you."

Pausing and glancing at all of the students before him, smirking slightly, the professor said

"You better watch out...in dungeons, no rules exist. What may seem like your teammate moments before can quickly turn and backstab you when you least expect it...such situations aren't very rare occurrences inside of dungeons"

With dungeons being places that had no cameras, situations where your ally would betray you as soon as the chance presented itself wouldn't be all that surprising. Especially if something tempted them into doing so-

As the professor's words flowed through everyone's ears, all the students present took a step away from the person near them. Their eyes were full of vigilance.

Human greed was boundless...You never know what would happen if you weren't alert.

Glancing at the students who were now wary of each other, a satisfied smile appeared on the professor's face.

"Enough of that. I'm going to go brief the other students now. You have five minutes to prepare yourselves...if you're planning on choosing a teammate you better choose yours carefully...bye now"

Finished with what he wanted to say, turning off his tablet, the professor headed towards the next group.

Watching the professor leave, with his arms crossed, Arnold glanced at the students beside him.

Immediately disdain appeared on his face. None of them were worthy of teaming up with him.

...in fact, he didn't need to team up with anyone. Arnold was confident no one would be able to beat him.

That's how confident he was in his abilities.

To him. No one was a competitor.

As he was looking at the students, Arnold's eyes soon paused on a certain individual.

Snorting to himself, Arnold couldn't help but clench his fists.

that bug has also

had previously disdained had reached

since he had promised young master Jin before that he would've taken

Time was almost up...

behavior. He was much nicer than he had

bad mood, nor was he spoken to as if

treated him like

but feel his heart thumping in

Acknowledged.

how the

felt that the current Jin had

of his hard work

now finally treated him like someone who was worthy of

but recall the conversation he had with Jin two months prior.

Jin

Yes...

had asked for it, now that he had been acknowledged, he must use anything within

to cleaning

do anything that was asked of

in the distance, Arnold licked his

a price for offending someone you

...

"Hmmm?"

noticed a couple of

couldn't be bothered to check who

already focused on what was to

what I remembered writing in the novel, this dungeon was located in a cave-like setting, meaning that there wasn't much room to

visibility inside of the dungeon

rank, the level of difficulty was on a much harder level. Though I didn't know the full layout of the dungeon as I never dwelled too deeply

...this was good.

thinking about what else I could do to optimize my

an edge compared to the other students, however, there was

needed to kill

steps, because the speed increased as time progressed. If each time I ran, I killed a monster, I would definitely lose all the momentum I had gathered.

would lose a lot of momentum every time I killed a

to be noted that drifting steps was still not in the minor realm of mastery. Meaning that I wasn't very adept at using this

...This further complicated things.

take into account the fact that I wasn't confident in my written score. With me having wasted a lot of

score high on

killing monsters wasn't an

What do I do?

everyone please pay attention

was

dungeon, there will be another instructor that will

glancing at every student present, the professor's tone became incomparably