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.

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

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

no longer visible, and what replaced

that's how it was

sitting on the hard ground with

a

"W-hat?"

was all an

somewhat, everyone stared at the body of

soon understood what had

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

that they were currently facing a horde of

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

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

had learned this in class, but it was evident that most students had forgotten

it seems like everything that the students had learned in class was completely

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

You're honestly a nuisance, so please either die or move out of the way. Thank

that, without looking back, Melissa picked up her spear and dashed deeper

the back, looking at Melissa's disappearing figure, I nodded my head

Melissa for

Yup...yup...yup

most gentle face

have to say, despite the fact that Melissa was only F ranked, her power was no

say two to three rings

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

woke up

"Huuuu..."

students that followed Mellisa's footsteps, taking

waited for

to assess the performance of the

inside of my body, I activated

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

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

-Wooosh!

"W-what was that?"

"Huh?"

running ahead. Though I was still far from the first placed people, I was confident that I would

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

sound of students fighting against goblins

my body slightly, I managed to somewhat dodge the battles...but I knew that avoiding fights wasn't an

...and I was right.

of goblins soon appeared before me. Obstructing my

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