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.

from the

Ren quietly

pretend to attack the monster like the others. Since our

down and waited for his team to

Five-tusked Mammuth now

other teams to gather before

not long after, more and more teams had started to gather. The

everyone had a similar goal in

boss monster and emerge

...

since then and a large explosion shook

BOOOOM

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

"Keh!"

"Ghh..."

a fit of rage. Wherever it went,

—Shwup!

student was injured severely, an instructor would quickly

Such scenes appeared everywhere.

a special artifact beforehand, so in case they received a blow that could threaten their

Unfortunately...

this happened, fifty points were deducted from

—Swooosh! —Swooosh! —Swooosh!

large rock, stood Amanda with her bow drawn. Whenever she pulled the string of her bow back a

aiming for its

the string, the arrow disappeared. It soon reappeared in front

—Clank!

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

—Swooosh!

and Eleonore worked together with the other teams to deal

shortswords whilst Elonore stood at the back,

"Back me up!"

would

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

well together as Emma stood at the front and Eleonore

SHIIIING—!

to them, Aaron and Kevin swiftly and

spilled. They were aiming for the joints and legs of

monster was, the best

But that was enough...

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

surely the Mammuth was slowing down. Its movements had started to become

were close to killing

"Huaaa!"

"Hup!"

colored hues enveloped the surroundings

fierce, Kevin's attack

going in for the

"Hee..."

from them, a faint

on, keep lowering its health. Do the heavy job and leave the lightwork

the very beginning,

this. It's because I

deal their last blow I would quickly send a

it won't completely block their attacks, it would be enough to delay them. I

everyone

on my

he realized

I couldn't wait.

dead! Amanda, use your

the Five-tusked Mammoth and sensing something, Emma suddenly shouted. Following her call, the Mammuth roared towards the sky as one of its

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

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

where do you think you're

are you doing

before Kevin, Emma smiled sweetly. Two short words appeared

but, I, unfortunately, have to hold you back here. How about this,

this how you want

to hold him back. Emma's smile deepened as

sure got

me

hue

see for how long you