The Author's POV

-Khuala! -Khuaka! -Khuaka!

Like a tsunami, green-like creatures of shorter-than-human stature with flat and long hooked noses, bat-like ears, and malevolent expressions with twisted smiles appeared from every corner of the cave.

"W-hat's that?"

"Are th-ose globins?"

"Hiiii"

Surprised by the unexpected development, the students at the front immediately stopped running and huddled up together.

With their backs against each other, they each raised their weapons and nervously looked towards their surroundings. Goblins appeared en masse everywhere they looked.

"W-what do we do?"

"I-i don't know"

Despite goblins being the most common monsters inside of dungeons, they were still dangerous creatures.

With their excellent sense of smell, hearing, and tendency to hunt in groups, many aspiring heroes fell because of them

...lest needed to be said about students who had no experience of being inside of dungeons.

"We-re sorroun-ded"

Staring at the numerous goblins blocking their paths, one of the students couldn't help but say as his voice shook.

"S-something is defi-netly wrong. H-how can there possibly be so many goblins inside of a ranked dungeon. W-we're all going to die!"

He wasn't the only one who thought of it that way, as almost everyone at the front shook in fear.

I mean, although it was dark, the number of goblins before them counted to at least a thousand. How were they supposed to fight with that many goblins?

"Move aside you bunch of wimpy primates"

Indifferently walking ahead of the students, Melissa's figure appeared holding onto a long metal spear with flame engraving at the tip of the spear.

Without giving a chance for the students to figure out what was going on, leaning backward, Melissa adjusted her position and proceeded to throw the spear in her hand.

-Swoooosh!

Like a bolt of lightning, the spear traveled through the sea of goblins leaving behind a red trail of flames...

-Kacha!

-Booom!

Soon after, an explosion reverberated across the whole dungeon. The cave shook, and debris and dust flew everywhere.

the debris cleared up, the students couldn't help but

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

before them was no longer visible, and what replaced it was a single goblin wearing

was supposed to look

ground with a spear imbued

a

"W-hat?"

was all an

body of the goblin that was currently lifelessly laying

soon understood

mage. A

created an illusion to scare the students into thinking that they were currently facing a horde of goblins. It was a fairly common strategy they used to

paid close attention. All they had to do was look for the reflection that the

soon as you spotted the orb, you could instantly find where the goblin mage was and thereafter kill

it was evident that most students

it seems like everything that the students had learned in

most gentle smile Melissa could muster, looking back at the students

a nuisance, so please either die or move out

without looking back, Melissa picked up her spear and

Melissa's

that's Melissa

Yup...yup...yup

with the most gentle

that Melissa was only F ranked, her power was no joke. Even I would have trouble

three rings would do

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

some of the students woke up from their daze and immediately followed from behind

"Huuuu..."

of the students that followed Mellisa's footsteps, taking a

waited for

used to assess the performance of the students, I couldn't waste any more time lazing

the mana inside of my body, I activated drifting

moved forwards, with each step I took, the wind psyons beneath my feet would

found myself freely running across the dungeon as my

-Wooosh!

"W-what was that?"

"Huh?"

a streak of light, I quickly and swiftly surpassed some of the students who were running ahead. Though I was still far from the first placed people, I was confident that I would soon catch up

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

loud sound

dodge the battles...but I

...and I was right.

of goblins soon appeared before me.

I was moving so fast, I didn't have enough time to stop. Hence, briefly glancing towards my