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 stunned

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

what replaced it was a single goblin wearing a mage mantle with an orb

that's how it was supposed to look

the hard ground

a

"W-hat?"

it was all

everyone stared at the body of the goblin that was currently

soon understood what had

a goblin mage. A more evolved and

goblin mage had 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 hunt down

close attention. All they had to do was look for

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

in class, but it was evident that most

nervousness, but it seems like everything that

smile Melissa could muster, looking

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

looking back, Melissa picked up her spear and dashed

at Melissa's disappearing figure, I nodded my head

that's Melissa

Yup...yup...yup

with the most gentle face possible...only

have to say, despite the fact that Melissa was only F ranked, her power was no joke. Even I would have trouble defending

say two to three rings

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

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

"Huuuu..."

followed Mellisa's footsteps, taking

for no

timing was one of the criteria used to assess the performance

the mana inside of my

I moved forwards, with each step I took,

found myself freely running across the dungeon as my speed increased by small increments with each step

-Wooosh!

"W-what was that?"

"Huh?"

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

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

sound of students fighting against goblins appeared

my body slightly, I managed to somewhat dodge the

...and I was right.

appeared

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