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

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

was before them was no longer visible, and what replaced it was a single goblin wearing a mage mantle with an orb

it was supposed to look

on the hard ground with a spear imbued on top of its

that a goblin

"W-hat?"

it was

their bearing somewhat, everyone stared at the body of the goblin

soon understood

A more evolved and rarer version of a

thinking that they were currently facing a horde of goblins. It was a fairly common

hard to spot if one paid close attention. All they had to do was look for

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

in class, but it was evident that most

nervousness, but it seems

smile Melissa could muster, looking back

the paths for others. You're honestly a nuisance, so please either die

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

Melissa's disappearing

that's Melissa for

Yup...yup...yup

gentle face possible...only Melissa could pull it

say, despite the fact that Melissa was only F ranked, her power was no joke. Even I

two to three

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

woke up from

"Huuuu..."

followed Mellisa's footsteps, taking a deep breath I

waited for no

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

inside of my body, I activated drifting

each step I took, the wind psyons beneath my feet

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

-Wooosh!

"W-what was that?"

"Huh?"

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!

forward, the loud sound

to somewhat dodge the battles...but I knew that avoiding

...and I was right.

goblins soon appeared before me. Obstructing

to stop. Hence, briefly glancing towards my surroundings to make sure no one was looking, I lightly tapped on the