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.

couldn't

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

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

that's how it was supposed to look

ground with

a goblin

"W-hat?"

was all an

their bearing somewhat, everyone stared at the body of the

understood what had

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

facing a horde of goblins. It was a fairly common strategy they used

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

spotted the orb, you could instantly find where the

had learned this in class, but it was evident that

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

ahead of everyone, with the most gentle smile Melissa could muster, looking back at

nuisance, so please either die or move out of the way.

looking back, Melissa picked up her spear and dashed deeper into

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

Melissa for

Yup...yup...yup

gentle face possible...only Melissa could pull

that Melissa was only F ranked, her

say two to three rings would do the

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

up from their daze and immediately

"Huuuu..."

students that followed Mellisa's footsteps, taking

waited for no

the criteria used to assess the performance of the students,

mana inside of my body, I

I took, the wind psyons beneath

after I activated drifting steps, I found myself freely running across the dungeon as my speed increased by small increments with each step

-Wooosh!

"W-what was that?"

"Huh?"

a streak of light, I quickly and swiftly surpassed some of the students who were running ahead. Though I was still far from

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

I moved forward, the loud sound of students fighting against

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

...and I was right.

soon appeared before

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