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 help but be

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

sea of goblins that was before them was no longer visible, and what replaced it was a single goblin wearing a

that's how it was supposed

was lifelessly sitting on the hard ground with a spear imbued on top of its

a goblin

"W-hat?"

it was all an

somewhat, everyone stared at the body of

soon understood what had

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

the students into thinking that they were currently facing a horde of goblins.

one paid close attention. All they had to do was look for the reflection that the orb the goblin

you could instantly find

had learned this in class, but it was evident

due to their excitement or their nervousness, but it seems like everything that the students had learned

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

a nuisance, so please either die or move out of the

that, without looking back, Melissa picked up

Melissa's disappearing figure,

that's Melissa

Yup...yup...yup

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

to say, despite the fact that Melissa was only F ranked, her

say two to three rings

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

of the students woke up from their daze and immediately followed

"Huuuu..."

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

waited for no

timing was one of the criteria used to assess the performance of the students, I couldn't waste any

of my body,

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

the

-Wooosh!

"W-what was that?"

"Huh?"

light, I 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

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

loud sound of students fighting

somewhat dodge the battles...but I knew that avoiding fights wasn't

...and I was right.

soon appeared before me.

glancing towards my surroundings