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.

aiming to steal kill from the

rock he was on, Ren quietly moved closer to where the boss monster

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

a rather secluded area, Ren sat down and waited for his

the Five-tusked Mammuth now was because

teams

and more teams had started to

Mammuth below, everyone

monster and emerge as number

...

since then and

BOOOOM

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

"Keh!"

"Ghh..."

five-tusked Mammoth flew into a fit of rage. Wherever it went,

—Shwup!

a student was injured severely, an

Such scenes appeared everywhere.

received a blow that could threaten their life it would activate and protect

Unfortunately...

points were deducted

—Swooosh! —Swooosh! —Swooosh!

stood Amanda with her bow drawn. Whenever she pulled the string of her bow back a blue

currently aiming for

Letting go of the string, the arrow disappeared. It soon reappeared in front of

—Clank!

across the plain and Amanda's arrow disintegrated. Unbothered by this, Amanda once

—Swooosh!

and Eleonore worked together with the other teams to deal as

whilst Elonore stood at

"Back me up!"

you would need

Mammuth in the distance as Eleonore cast spells as if she was

would bicker, but they worked well together as Emma stood at the

SHIIIING—!

and Kevin swiftly and deftly moved around the Mammuth's lower

spilled. They were aiming for the joints and

the monster was, the best they could

But that was enough...

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

the Mammuth was slowing down. Its movements had started to become more and more predictable. Everyone could

were close

"Huaaa!"

"Hup!"

colored hues enveloped the surroundings

attack became more powerful,

in

"Hee..."

a

the heavy job and leave

the very beginning,

for this. It's because I had a

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

be enough to delay them. I would then swoop

just imaging the faces of everyone once

on my

once he realized that I

I couldn't wait.

Amanda, use your strongest move!

call, the Mammuth roared towards the sky as one of

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

of power gathered towards Amanda. Looking at each other, Eleonore and Emma quickly separated

do you

you

Kevin, Emma smiled sweetly. Two short words appeared in

I, unfortunately, have to hold you back here. How about this, I'll let you go once

how you

were trying to hold him back. Emma's smile deepened as she didn't deny

sure got that

me no

Kevin's pressure intensified manifolds as the red hue around him shrouded everything within a

long you can hold