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 students couldn't help but be

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

visible, and what replaced it was a single

that's how it was

hard ground with

a

"W-hat?"

it was

body of the goblin that was currently lifelessly laying on the

understood what had

was the works of a goblin mage. A more

goblin mage had created an illusion to scare the students into thinking that they were currently facing a horde of goblins. It was a

was also not that hard to spot if one paid close attention. All they had to do was

you could instantly find where the goblin mage

had learned this in class, but it was evident

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

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

time you're scared, don't block the paths for others. You're honestly a nuisance, so please either die or move out of the way.

picked up her spear and dashed deeper

looking at Melissa's disappearing figure, I nodded my

Melissa for

Yup...yup...yup

the most gentle face possible...only

Melissa was only F ranked, her power was no

two to three rings would

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

students woke up from their daze and immediately followed from

"Huuuu..."

at some of the students that followed Mellisa's footsteps, taking a deep breath I

for

one of the criteria used to assess the performance of the

inside of my body, I activated drifting

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

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

-Wooosh!

"W-what was that?"

"Huh?"

and swiftly surpassed some of the students who were running ahead. Though I

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

loud sound of students fighting against goblins

my body slightly, I managed to somewhat dodge the battles...but I knew

...and I was right.

appeared before

stop. Hence, briefly glancing towards my surroundings to make sure no