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.

has

he had

master Jin before that

Time was almost up...

behavior. He was much nicer than

mood, nor was he spoken

treated him

thus far, Arnold couldn't help but feel his heart

Acknowledged.

the current

felt that the current Jin had finally acknowledged his hard

hard work had finally

now finally treated him like someone

Ren in the distance, Arnold couldn't help but recall the conversation he had

Jin

Yes...

that he had been acknowledged, he must use anything

cleaning up

to do anything that was asked of

Ren in the

for offending

...

"Hmmm?"

my ear with my pinkie, I noticed a couple of stares coming

couldn't be bothered to

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

inside of the

the novel hence why I knew a lot of what was to come. With Kevin being 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

...this was good.

thus far, I started thinking about what else I could

edge compared to the other

needed to kill

drifting 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 would lose a lot of momentum every time

that drifting steps was still not in the minor realm of mastery. Meaning that I wasn't

...This further complicated things.

wasn't confident in my written score. With me having wasted a

definitely had to score high

monsters wasn't an

What do I do?

please pay

my thoughts was the loud shout

will now open the portal. Once you enter, you will automatically be transported towards your designated post. At the entrance of the dungeon, there will be another instructor that will

student present, the