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.

kill from the others. No point in

the rock he was on, Ren quietly moved closer to

really have to do is pretend to attack the monster like the others.

rather secluded area, Ren sat down

attacking the Five-tusked Mammuth now was because it would prove to

other teams to gather before deciding on his next

long after, more and more teams had started to gather. The more teams gathered,

five-rusked Mammuth below, everyone had a similar goal in

monster and

...

and a large explosion shook the

BOOOOM

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

"Keh!"

"Ghh..."

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

—Shwup!

student was injured severely, an

Such scenes appeared everywhere.

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

Unfortunately...

fifty points were deducted from the

—Swooosh! —Swooosh! —Swooosh!

she pulled the string

was currently aiming for

was its main weakness. Letting go of the string, the arrow disappeared. It soon reappeared in front of the

—Clank!

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

—Swooosh!

together with the other teams to

whilst Elonore stood at the back,

"Back me up!"

you would

devastating spells flew towards the Mammuth in the

bicker, but they worked well together as Emma stood at

SHIIIING—!

and deftly moved around the Mammuth's

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

tough the outer layer of the monster was, the best they could do was cause the monster

But that was enough...

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

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

were close

"Huaaa!"

"Hup!"

colored hues enveloped the surroundings as everyone attacked

fierce, Kevin's attack became

going in for the

"Hee..."

a faint

the heavy

very beginning,

was a reason for this. It's because I had a

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

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

the faces of everyone once they see this

on my face

once he realized that

I couldn't wait.

your strongest

and sensing something, Emma suddenly shouted. Following her call, the

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

gathered towards Amanda. Looking at each other,

do you

are you

sweetly. Two short words appeared

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

how you

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

sure got that

me no

pressure intensified manifolds as the red hue around him shrouded everything

see for how long you can hold