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.

steal kill from the others. No point in fighting

on, Ren quietly moved closer to

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

rather secluded area, Ren sat down and waited for his

attacking the Five-tusked Mammuth now was because

the other teams to

had started to gather. The more teams gathered, the more the tensions

everyone had a similar goal

and emerge

...

had passed since then and a large explosion shook the

BOOOOM

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

"Keh!"

"Ghh..."

debris flew everywhere as the five-tusked Mammoth flew into a fit of rage.

—Shwup!

an instructor would quickly appear

Such scenes appeared everywhere.

given a special artifact beforehand, so in case they received a blow that could threaten their life it would activate and protect

Unfortunately...

were deducted

—Swooosh! —Swooosh! —Swooosh!

bow drawn. Whenever she pulled the string of her bow back a blue translucent arrow

was currently aiming for its

of the string, the arrow disappeared. It soon reappeared in front of the Mammuth who quickly

—Clank!

and Amanda's arrow disintegrated. Unbothered by this, Amanda once again drew her bow. Once

—Swooosh!

together with the other teams

her shortswords whilst Elonore stood at the back, casting

"Back me up!"

would need

devastating spells flew towards the Mammuth in the distance as Eleonore

as Emma stood at the front and Eleonore

SHIIIING—!

swiftly and deftly moved around the Mammuth's lower

sword slashed, blood spilled. They were aiming for the joints and

was, the best they could do was

But that was enough...

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

Its movements had started to become more and

were close to

"Huaaa!"

"Hup!"

back. Different colored hues enveloped the surroundings as everyone attacked more

attack became more powerful, Amanda's arrow

was going in for

"Hee..."

from them, a faint smile appeared on my

health. Do the

the very beginning, I had not

a reason for this. It's

their last blow I would quickly send a ring in front of

it would be enough to delay them. I would then swoop in and take

just imaging the faces of everyone once they see this makes

smile on

thinking of Kevin's face once he realized that I stole

I couldn't wait.

use your

and sensing something, Emma suddenly shouted. Following her call, the Mammuth roared towards the sky as one of

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

of power gathered towards Amanda. Looking at each

where do you think you're

are you doing

sweetly. Two short words appeared in her

back here. How about this, I'll let you go once Amanda is

this how you want to

trying to hold

got that

me

pressure intensified manifolds as the red hue around

see for how long