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.

students who seemed to have suddenly magically recovered from their nausea, I fell into deep thought. Glancing at the air around me, I soon

us increased...I see, the second-year student must have embedded

Interesting...

me successfully

affect someone's mood with

Scary.

if they were against

being in a battle and you suddenly found yourself

mistakes...Just

with interest, I couldn't help but think of recruiting him into my mercenary

novel, I couldn't

power was definitely

or an

to

is Benjamin Hor and as you can see from my uniform I'm a second-year student. I will briefly explain to you a couple

of gray combat suits

a bunch of clothes that you will need to wear when crossing the

are equipped with a tracking device as well as a defense mechanism that is able to withstand blows coming from E ranked monsters at least once. This way we can preserve your life in case a

at the students to make sure they understood what he had said,

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

that, Benjamin briefed us on a couple more

the usual safety precaution

Nothing particularly important.

a couple more minutes, smiling, Benjamin glanced at all of the

now. Please change into your combat suits and wait for me at the starting line of

my head, I took a gray suit and quickly changed

I put on the suit, I couldn't help

it wasn't any

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

specifically put in those areas to cover the

moved around with the suit on, though it was uncomfortable

dungeon, I did

-Bump!

"Huh?"

I saw Arnold's figure standing a few meters from where I was standing. Glancing at me with

the dungeon...since there are no

"...Okay"

nodded my head and moved a few

still hasn't given

That's fine by me.

already thought things through

many other stares, I had noticed his stare back at the ranking evaluation. Compared

had happened back in Hollberg. Maybe because it slipped his mind

This was good.