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.

to steal kill from the others. No point in fighting

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

all we really have to do is pretend to attack the monster like

a rather secluded area, Ren sat down

the Five-tusked Mammuth now was because it

had to wait for the other teams to gather before deciding

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

Mammuth below, everyone had a

and emerge as number

...

then and a large explosion

BOOOOM

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

"Keh!"

"Ghh..."

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

—Shwup!

student was injured severely, an instructor would quickly appear and take them

Such scenes appeared everywhere.

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

Unfortunately...

happened, fifty points were deducted from the overall team's

—Swooosh! —Swooosh! —Swooosh!

Whenever she pulled the string of her bow back a blue translucent arrow would appear. Like that she aimed for the

aiming for

go of the string, the arrow disappeared. It

—Clank!

the plain and Amanda's arrow disintegrated. Unbothered by this, Amanda once again drew her

—Swooosh!

the other teams to deal as much damage as

used her shortswords whilst Elonore stood at the back, casting different types of

"Back me up!"

would need my

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

bicker, but they worked well together as

SHIIIING—!

and deftly moved around the Mammuth's lower

They were aiming

how tough the outer layer of the monster was, the

But that was enough...

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

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

close to killing

"Huaaa!"

"Hup!"

this, everyone stopped holding back. Different colored hues enveloped the surroundings as everyone

Kevin's attack

was going in

"Hee..."

not far from them, a

Do the heavy job and leave the lightwork

very beginning, I had

a reason for this.

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

block their attacks, it would be enough to delay them.

imaging the faces of everyone once they see

on my

Kevin's face once he realized

I couldn't wait.

almost dead! Amanda, use your strongest move! Eleonore

something, Emma suddenly shouted. Following her call, the Mammuth roared

"bahruuuuuuhhhhaaaaa—!"

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

do you

you

before Kevin, Emma smiled sweetly. Two short words appeared in her

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

how you

situation. They were trying to hold him back. Emma's smile deepened as she

sure got

me

intensified manifolds as the red hue around him shrouded everything within a ten-meter

how long you can