The Author's POV

"Five-tusked Mammoth? How can we defeat that?"

Kevin and his team looked down below them. An enormous elephant-looking creature with five tusks extending from its mouth leisurely walked across the area below them.

Five-tusked Mammoth, a ranked creature famous for its tremendous strength and tough outer layer.

"T-that's the boss monster isn't it?"

Standing beside Kevin a tall individual spoke. He had brown eyes and black hair. His name was Ray and he came from Lutwik academy.

"It is"

Feeling the tremendous pressure coming from the monster, Kevin knew without a doubt that that was the boss monster.

'Can I defeat it by myself?'

Despite being D ranked himself, Kevin was unsure. Simply put, the pressure exuding from the monster was terrifying. Thinking along those lines, he decided to stay put.

"Let's wait for the other teams to come"

"Other teams?"

"Yeah, at the moment, even if we can try to defeat the monster, without a doubt the other teams will come and may try to steal the kill from us"

If once they were close to defeating the monster the other teams came and stole their kill, Kevin would be pretty pissed.

"Look another team is here"

Suddenly Ray pointed out as he looked towards the distance. Turning around, Kevin looked towards the direction of where Ray was pointing.

"That's Jin...oh, and him"

Kevin instantly spotted Jin standing in the middle of the group. Besides him, was Aaron.

Immediately his eyes narrowed.

He did not have a good impression of Aaron. From the small interaction he had with him, Kevin knew that he was targeting him.

"Hm?"

On the opposite side, sensing something, Aaron turned his head around. A smile emerged on his lips.

"Look who we've got here..."

Aaron's and Kevin's eyes interlocked. Sparks flew in the air. The tension between the two rose.

"Oh, I definitely remember writing this part..."

Whilst Kevin and Aaron were busy looking at each other, on the opposite side, a black-haired blue-eyed youth looked at them with an amused expression.

"Writing what part?"

"Wha-the!"

Startling Ren, Aerin appeared next to him. Placing his hand on his chest, Ren waved his hand.

"Jeezus, don't scare people like that"

"I'm sorry, but what were you talking about before?"

"Hm? Oh nothing, I was just referring to the notes I had made on the five tusked Mammuth"

"Oh, what have you got?"

Aerin instantly got curious.

From what she figured out so far regarding Ren after interacting with him for a bit during the dungeon run was that he had good knowledge of the monsters within the dungeon.

Like their weaknesses and behavioral patterns.

"I forgot"

In response to Aerin's question, Ren shook his head. Aerin was left speechless as a result.

"..."

"What? It doesn't really matter anyway"

Noticing her reaction, Ren rolled his eyes.

the

off the rock he was on, Ren quietly

to do is pretend to attack the monster like the others. Since our goal is killing it, we

sat down and waited

now was because it would prove to be a

the other teams to gather

to gather. The more teams gathered, the more

the five-rusked Mammuth below, everyone had

and emerge as

...

had passed since then and a

BOOOOM

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

"Keh!"

"Ghh..."

everywhere as the five-tusked Mammoth flew into a fit of rage. Wherever it went, students would be

—Shwup!

severely, an instructor

Such scenes appeared everywhere.

received a blow that could threaten their life it would

Unfortunately...

points were deducted

—Swooosh! —Swooosh! —Swooosh!

small large rock, stood Amanda with her bow drawn. Whenever she pulled the string of her bow back a blue translucent arrow would appear. Like that she

was currently aiming for its

the string, the arrow disappeared. It soon reappeared

—Clank!

large sound reverberated across the plain and Amanda's arrow disintegrated. Unbothered by this, Amanda once again drew her bow. Once again

—Swooosh!

Eleonore worked together with the other teams to deal

her shortswords whilst Elonore stood at the back, casting different types

"Back me up!"

would

sorts of colorful yet devastating spells flew towards the Mammuth in the distance as Eleonore

but they worked well together as Emma stood at the front and Eleonore helped

SHIIIING—!

Kevin swiftly and deftly moved around the Mammuth's lower

aiming for the joints and legs of the

how tough the outer layer of the monster was, the best they

But that was enough...

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

had started to become more and

were close

"Huaaa!"

"Hup!"

hues enveloped the surroundings as everyone

attack became more fierce, Kevin's attack became more powerful, Amanda's arrow became

was going in for the

"Hee..."

them, a faint smile appeared on my

lowering its health. Do the

very beginning, I had not

this. It's

plan was quite simple. Just when everyone was about to deal their last blow I

won't completely block their attacks, it would be enough to

imaging the faces of everyone once they see

on my

of Kevin's face once he

I couldn't wait.

Amanda, use your strongest move! Eleonore

shouted. Following her call,

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

head, a tremendous amount of power gathered towards Amanda. Looking at

do you think you're

you

Two

to hold you back here. How about this, I'll

how you want

were trying to hold him back. Emma's smile deepened as

got

give me no

pressure intensified manifolds as the red hue around him shrouded everything

long you