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 help but be

"W-what?"

"Huh?"

visible, and what replaced it was a single goblin wearing

that's how it was supposed

on the hard ground

that a

"W-hat?"

it was all

bearing somewhat, everyone stared at the body of the goblin that was currently lifelessly laying

soon understood what had

mage. A more evolved and rarer version of a regular

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 their

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

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

was evident that most students had forgotten

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

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

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

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

at the back, looking at Melissa's disappearing

that's Melissa for

Yup...yup...yup

the most gentle face possible...only Melissa could

only F ranked,

two to three rings would

"Let's go"

"Follow her"

up from their

"Huuuu..."

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

waited for no

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

mana inside of my

forwards, with each step I took, the wind

I found myself freely running across the dungeon as my speed increased

-Wooosh!

"W-what was that?"

"Huh?"

the students who were running ahead. Though I was still far from the first placed

-Clank! -Clank! -Clank!

sound of

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

...and I was right.

soon appeared before me. Obstructing my

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