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 debris cleared up, the students couldn't

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

no longer visible, and what replaced it was a single goblin wearing a mage mantle

how it was supposed to look

its body was lifelessly sitting on the hard ground with a spear

that a goblin

"W-hat?"

was all an

at the body of the

soon understood what

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

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

also not that hard to spot if one paid close attention. All they had to do was look for the reflection that the orb the

spotted the orb, you could instantly find where the goblin

but it was evident that most students had

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

could muster, looking

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

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

Melissa's disappearing figure, I nodded

that's Melissa for

Yup...yup...yup

words with the most gentle face possible...only Melissa could

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

to three rings

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

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

"Huuuu..."

some of the students that followed Mellisa's footsteps, taking a

waited for

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

the mana inside of my body,

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

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

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

sound of students fighting against

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

...and I was right.

of goblins soon appeared before

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