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.

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

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

Interesting...

year before me successfully

affect someone's mood with just

Scary.

was especially so if they were

influence your state of mind. Imagine being in a battle and you suddenly found yourself losing the ability to

in the opponent potentially making more mistakes...Just

help but

in the novel, I couldn't help but be fascinated by his

was definitely

pawn or

to

will briefly explain to

left where a set of gray combat suits were laid on the

bunch of clothes

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

students to make sure they understood what he had said, Benjamin

you will be given a couple of seconds in order to change into those combat clothes. Please make sure you wear them as they

that, Benjamin briefed us on a couple

first part, I pretty much stopped listening. It was just the usual safety precaution rules

Nothing particularly important.

talking for a couple more minutes, smiling, Benjamin glanced

for now. Please change into your combat suits and wait for me at

head, I took a gray suit and

suit, I couldn't help but be reminded of

it wasn't any better

the suit, several black 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,

put in those areas to cover the more vulnerable

it was uncomfortable at first, I quickly got

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

-Bump!

"Huh?"

I turned around. Soon I saw Arnold's figure standing a few meters from where I was standing. Glancing at

dungeon...since there

"...Okay"

head and moved a few meters

still hasn't

That's fine by me.

thought things

his stare back at the ranking evaluation. Compared

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

This was good.