The Author's POV

-Vuuuuam!

Taking a step into the dungeon, I felt the world around me twist.

It first started with my eyesight...everything became black.

Then it was my hearing, my sense of touch followed soon after....thereafter all my remaining senses disappeared.

I felt nothing.

It felt as if I was an insignificant speck of dust drifting in a lonely space.

I soon after lost my sense of time.

...What may have been seconds felt like an eternity.

-Vuuuuam!

"Fuuuuuu...."

Finally, after an unknown period of time, hearing the faint sound of my breathing, I knew that my senses were returning.

Because I had been through this situation before, back in the black market dungeon, I was somewhat able to adjust to the shift in sensations.

Unlike last time, I didn't puke this time.

Opening my eyelids, I found myself inside of a damp and dark environment.

Instantly, a heavy scent of granite invaded my nostrils. Soon after, a cold gush of air brushed against my skin.

Glancing around, I found many students grimacing and holding onto their stomachs—Trying their best to not puke.

-Blaaargh! -Blaaargh! -Blaaargh!

...well, there was always bound to be a few who people who couldn't hold out.

With dungeons being off-limit to people who didn't have Hero licenses, apart from a few, most of the students present had never been inside of a dungeon. Their reaction was understandable.

Arriving and standing before us, a second-year student with a green Lock uniform, warmly smiled towards us.

The student had short curly black hair that gently fell towards the side of his face, and his deep black eyes that seemed to carry a hit of warmth perfectly complemented his hair. He didn't look particularly outstanding, but he seemed to be an amiable person instantly giving people a good impression of him.

As he spoke, his deep yet pleasant voice traveled through each of the student's ears calming them down.

"Alright, fellow students, I'll give you five minutes to recover before I'll start the next briefing."

As soon as his words entered the student's ears, most of the students managed to regain their bearing.

nausea, I fell into deep thought. Glancing at the air

of the mana around us increased...I see, the second-year student must have embedded mana into his

Interesting...

second year before me

affect someone's mood

Scary.

especially so if they were

a battle and you suddenly found yourself losing the ability to think properly

more mistakes...Just like what had

help but think of recruiting him into my mercenary

he never appeared in the novel, I

power was

or an

to observe

see from my uniform I'm a second-year student. I will briefly explain to

left where a set of gray combat

here, are a bunch of clothes that you

mechanism that is able to withstand blows coming from E ranked monsters at

to make sure

a couple of seconds in order to change into those combat clothes. Please make sure you

that, Benjamin briefed us on a

It was just the usual safety precaution rules that I was briefed back in the dungeon

Nothing particularly important.

couple more minutes, smiling, Benjamin glanced at

change into your combat suits and

my head, I took a gray suit and quickly changed

women. As I put on the suit, I couldn't help but be reminded of the suit I was made to wear back in the virtual reality

it wasn't any better as I felt my

shock-absorbing materials were attached to the chest and abdomen areas of the suit, as well as the knees and elbows, and other important areas of

to

the suit on, though it was uncomfortable at first, I quickly got used to

the starting line of the dungeon, I did a few stretches to

-Bump!

"Huh?"

stretching, feeling someone bump into me, I turned around. Soon I saw Arnold's figure standing a

dungeon...since there are no cameras

"...Okay"

head and moved

hasn't

That's fine by me.

already thought things

back at the ranking evaluation. Compared to the other stares, his was the only one that contained obvious malicious intentions

had told him about what had happened back in Hollberg. Maybe because it slipped his mind or because he thought my rank was higher, Jin still hadn't told Arnold about

This was good.