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

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

Interesting...

me successfully caught

affect someone's mood with

Scary.

especially so if they were against

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

potentially making more mistakes...Just like what had happened with

I couldn't help but think of recruiting him into my

the novel, I couldn't help but

was

pawn or

to

see from my uniform I'm a second-year student. I will briefly explain to you a couple of important things that you will need to know to ensure your safety as you start the examination, so please

set of gray combat suits were laid on

a bunch of clothes that you

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

make sure

finish briefing you on a couple of more things, you will be given a couple of seconds in order to change into those combat clothes. Please make sure you wear them as

that, Benjamin briefed us on a

the usual safety

Nothing particularly important.

couple more minutes, smiling, Benjamin glanced at all of the students and

everything for now. Please change into your combat suits and wait

gray suit and quickly changed

men and one for women. As I put on the suit, I couldn't help but

wasn't any better as I felt my body

the chest and abdomen areas of the suit, as well as the knees and elbows, and other

were specifically put in those areas to cover

it was uncomfortable at

line of the dungeon, I did a few stretches to

-Bump!

"Huh?"

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

dungeon...since there are no cameras you never

"...Okay"

my head and

hasn't

That's fine by me.

thought things

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

what had happened back in Hollberg. Maybe because it slipped his mind or because he thought my rank was higher, Jin

This was good.