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 others. No point in fighting it

was on, Ren quietly moved closer to where

to do is pretend to attack the monster like the others. Since our goal is killing it, we should naturally hold back once

area, Ren sat down and waited for his team to catch

he wasn't attacking the Five-tusked Mammuth now was because it would prove to be a fruitless

had to wait for the other teams to gather before deciding

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

at the five-rusked Mammuth below, everyone had a similar goal

the boss monster and emerge

...

since then and a large explosion shook

BOOOOM

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

"Keh!"

"Ghh..."

Mammoth flew into a fit of rage. Wherever it went, students would

—Shwup!

whenever a student was injured severely, an instructor would quickly appear and

Such scenes appeared everywhere.

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

Unfortunately...

happened, fifty points were

—Swooosh! —Swooosh! —Swooosh!

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

aiming for its

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

—Clank!

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

—Swooosh!

her, Emma and Eleonore worked together with the other teams to

stood at

"Back me up!"

would

in the distance

worked well together as Emma stood at the

SHIIIING—!

Kevin swiftly and deftly moved around

blood spilled. They were aiming for the

the monster was, the best they could do was

But that was enough...

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

had started to

close

"Huaaa!"

"Hup!"

colored hues enveloped the surroundings as everyone attacked

attack became more fierce, Kevin's attack became

going in

"Hee..."

from them, a faint

keep lowering its health. Do the heavy job and

very beginning, I had not

for this. It's because I

deal their last blow I would quickly send a ring in front of them to block

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

everyone once they see this

smile on

once he realized that I stole his

I couldn't wait.

almost dead! Amanda, use your

call, the Mammuth roared towards the sky

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

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

do you think

you doing

Emma smiled sweetly. Two short words appeared

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

how you

the gist of the situation. They were trying to hold him back. Emma's smile deepened

sure got that

me

manifolds as the red hue around him

see for how long you can hold