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.

cleared up, the students couldn't help but be

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

visible, and what replaced it was a single goblin

how it was supposed to

the hard ground with

a goblin

"W-hat?"

it was all an

at the body of the goblin

soon understood what had

was the works of a goblin mage. A more evolved and rarer version of a regular

to scare the students into thinking that they were currently facing a horde of goblins. It was

spot if one paid close attention. All they had to do was look for the reflection that the orb the goblin

as you spotted the orb, you could instantly

this in class, but it was

nervousness, but it seems like everything that the students had learned in class was

of everyone, with the most gentle smile Melissa could muster, looking back at the students at the front

nuisance, so please either die or move out of the way. Thank you very

Melissa picked up

looking at Melissa's disappearing figure, I

that's Melissa for

Yup...yup...yup

most gentle face possible...only Melissa could

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

say two to three rings

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

Mellissa leave, some of the students woke up from their daze and immediately followed from

"Huuuu..."

Mellisa's footsteps, taking a deep breath I

for

assess the performance of the students, I couldn't

mana inside of my

each step I took, the

after I activated drifting steps, I found myself freely running across the dungeon as my speed increased by small increments with

-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

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

the loud sound

to somewhat dodge the battles...but

...and I was right.

appeared

I was moving so fast, I didn't have enough time to stop. Hence, briefly glancing towards my surroundings to make sure no one