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◈ Healers Are Not Tools ◈
Chapter 10: Just Do What the Healer Tells You
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“Ohhh, so ‘threat’ is ‘aggro’ in English?”
Drawing aggro.
These days, everyone knew the concept. But in Jeong Hana’s world, where Lost of Fantasy had only just appeared, it was completely unfamiliar.
“Oh, what? So if Minseo holds aggro properly, we won’t get dragged around by the hook?”
“Seems that way. But I’ve never seen anyone mention this on YouTube...”
That was only natural.
Hana didn’t call Lost of Fantasy a game that started at max level for nothing. Ironically, though, getting from level one to max level took quite a while, too.
The influencers who had tried the game in advance at the company’s headquarters hadn’t played for very long.
They couldn’t possibly compare to Hana, who had played Lost of Fantasy for over ten years.
“Oh, that’s it. Now I get it. Our healer studied abroad.”
Kang Minseo burst out laughing at Sky’s ridiculous joke.
“Right, right. Sky’s got it. Using all that English? Definitely studied abroad.”
“True. Even back in Legend of League, people who played on the North American server kept using the English item names.”
“What the hell is BT?! What’s IE?! What’s BC?!”
The eleventh attempt.
They had been getting their asses kicked and dropping dead whenever the boss used a mechanic, without any clear answers. Then Hana had arrived.
Her explanation was a huge relief to everyone.
“Then let’s go right away! I’ll do what the healer told me!!! One! Two! Three!”
- There she goes counting out loud again
- Minseo, Minseo, the healer can’t hear you, remember?
- That overseas-trained healer’s gonna start swearing at you lol
- Hold that aggroooooooo!
Minseo charged at the boss again and began using the combo that came to mind.
‘Just like Guts said... Use Sunder Armor five times, then just keep the stacks up...’
Following Hana’s instructions, Minseo calmly used her skills. Unlike before, she pressed Taunt at the end to keep her aggro high.
“Oh, what? What? This feels completely different. This bastard isn’t using the hook!”
“This is great. Wow. Earlier, whenever the boss used its hook and moved, I had to go whoosh, whoosh, whoosh after it just to stab it in the ass. My damage loss was legendary. So much easier when it stays still.”
- Are they actually gonna clear this?
- Their damage is going in way faster now that the boss isn’t going apeshit
- Hell yeah lol with their ranks, this is a joke if they can just stand there and attack
- They’ve already taken off over 60% of its health?
“The moonlight always makes us stronger!”
“Uh, uh... Here comes the big one. It’s doing it again!”
“Minseo! You’re not dying this time, right?”
“Right! I won’t die! The healer will keep me alive!”
Unlike before, Minseo felt at ease.
“Ah, shit! Why me again? What is this?! Why does it always pick me?”
Daydream snapped as the molten metal flew at him once more.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Gunner, go beside the tank.」
「Rogue, back off for a moment.」
“Huh?”
“What?”
If a ground effect appeared under you, you moved away from your allies.
They understood area damage, of course, so both Daydream and Minseo were startled.
“Wait...”
Naturally, Daydream hesitated.
Molten metal was burning beneath his character’s feet.
When it exploded, it would do massive damage.
And he was supposed to go stand beside the tank while he had that on him?
“...The support will keep me alive, I guess.”
It wouldn’t be my fault anyway.
Making up his mind at once, Daydream rushed over to Minseo with the molten metal still beneath him.
“I’m gonna di... Ah! Whatever! I’ll live! She wouldn’t tell you to come over if I was going to die!”
Sizzzzle!
The moment the burning moonlight reached twelve o’clock, the molten metal vanished with a bang.
“Huh? What? I took less damage.”
“Looks like the damage gets split?”
Minseo took the damage Daydream had been spared, keeping him from dropping to a sliver of health.
But Hana instantly healed the health Minseo had lost, so there was no problem at all.
“Wait, doesn’t this mean Minseo’s going to die? I stopped attacking, too.”
Sky sounded worried as he moved behind the boss again and drove his daggers into it.
It was a reasonable assessment of the incoming damage.
Until now, Minseo had never survived the boss’s attacks after the molten metal exploded.
“Ah, if I die here, this is gonna be so fucking embarrass... Huh?”
Which defensive cooldown should she press first?
As she worried over that, Minseo was startled to see her character block every one of the boss’s attacks with a series of metallic sounds. Ting, ting, tang, tang!
“Oh, what? Minseo! Minseo!! You’re totally that thing right now! Colossus with Randuin’s and Thornmail!”
“What’s with this absolute unit? Her health isn’t going down!”
Minseo was baffled by her unexplained toughness.
‘Wh-what? Why am I alive? What’s going on?’
Surviving was good, but she still wanted to know why.
She wanted to figure out how she was managing to hold out.
That desire was what had made her a high-ranked gamer in the first place.
“The moonlight always makes us stronger!”
“Oh! Minseo! It’s on me this time. I’ll come over, too, okay?”
“Ah, yes! Come on over! I’m not going to die anyway!”
Sizzzzle! Bang!
They handled the same mechanic exactly as Hana had instructed, and once again, no one died.
“Wh-what’s going on...?”
After going through the mechanic a second time, Minseo realized something.
‘Couldn’t I just sit here drinking coffee and still tank this?’
Even without using defensive skills that consumed resources, her character somehow blocked every basic attack from the boss with her shield.
Noticing that right away, Minseo casually pressed 1, 2, and 3 on her keyboard while looking around the screen.
“Ah, this is it!”
【Tempered x 2】
『You have been tempered by moonlight!』
『Your chance to parry and block with a shield increases by 25%. Your armor increases by 50%.』
“What is it? What did you find that surprised you so much?”
“Sky, look! When I take the molten metal, I get a buff that helps me tank.”
“Oh, what? So a DPS taking it alone was basically trolling.”
“So that’s why you kept going down like soft tofu?”
While everyone marveled, the boss raised its hand to launch its third batch of molten metal.
But it didn’t have enough health left to withstand their more-than-sufficient damage. Its health dropped to a sliver, then it died.
“The moonlight... has abandoned me...”
- Wow lmaoooooo
- That was so fucking easy, what?
- Shit, it was a total fucking pushover?
- Hell yeah lol use your brain and save yourself the pain
“Wow, that was so fucking easy. What a fucking pushover.”
“How can it be this easy?”
They were impressed, but it also felt strangely hollow.
The streamers other than Minseo made an extra show of laughing and acting surprised as they hurried to click the corpse, check the items, and roll for loot.
“Wow... What were those eleven attempts even for...?”
「HonkHonkSquad donated 1,000 won.」
[But how’d she figure out the strat~? Wouldn’t you have to troll the hell out of your allies by bringing the AoE over to them to find out?]
- For real lmaoooo
- Seriously, how did she know?
- The wild part is that the strat actually works lol
- Wow, this game’s easy if you know what to do, but if you don’t, you just get squashed like a bug lol
They had beaten a boss they’d failed at eleven times in less than three minutes. Minseo was feeling a little mellow, a sort of post-nut clarity.
“All right, let’s hurry up and clear the next one. Next boss.”
“Come on, rushing won’t make your dagger drop.”
“You never know. Maybe we’ll get a dagger with Intelligence like yesterday.”
“Why does it even have Intelligence? Huh? How do you put Intelligence on a dagger~?! Huh?! Fuck, what even is an Intelligence dagger? Does holding it make you smarter?”
The jokes brought Minseo back to her senses. Before moving on to the next boss, she put her hands on the keyboard.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Healer.」
「Could you explain the next boss to us, too?」
Knowing the strategy didn’t guarantee a smooth run.
Knowing an item build and reading a famous guide didn’t make everyone a Challenger.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Yeah.」
Hana couldn’t have been more casual about agreeing to the request.
* * *
“Ah! Minseo, what’s this? One dungeon run and you get two items all to yourself?”
- Lmaooooooo
- Shit, tank gets everything?
- Minseo, Minseo, how can you take both the weapon and the shield?
- This is fucking hilarious lol how did two shields drop?
With Hana’s precise instructions, Minseo’s streamer party cleared the dungeon cleanly, without any more major struggles.
“Hah... Hard to believe this is the same dungeon we spent two hours recruiting for, dying in, and struggling through today.”
“The difference between knowing the strategy and not knowing it is ridiculous.”
Minseo strongly agreed.
‘Something got put on me during the last boss, too...’
Hana’s style was to deal with everything that fell to her without explaining any of it.
‘If we’d brought a healer who didn’t know that mechanic, we definitely would’ve panicked and wiped, just like on the first boss.’
But Hana had simply cleared it, as though that mechanic didn’t exist at all.
「WhyAreYouTakingThat donated 1,000 won.」
[Minseo~ Minseo~ Be honest, the healer carried this dungeon. You admit it?]
“Yep~ I admit it. I’d be trash if I didn’t admit I got carried~”
- For real lol
- She got you past something you failed eleven times, of course she’s your savior
- Yeah lol what good is having damage to spare if you can’t clear without knowing the strat?
“Oh, by the way, Minseo.”
“Yes? What is it, Sky?”
“This healer... She’s a real find. Since you know her, couldn’t you, you know, work something out?”
“Oh~ You want to make her a regular member and bring her along on viewer runs?”
Finding a healer was harder than plucking a star from the sky.
‘Honestly, finding a healer is incredibly hard, and Guts isn’t just any hard-to-find healer. She studied abroad...’
Hana wasn’t the sort to hurt the stream with a bad attitude. On the contrary, she was an incredibly valuable player who helped them clear.
“...That’ll probably be hard, though.”
But Minseo knew Hana’s personality, so her answer was firm.
“Oh, come on. What’s so hard about it? Hm? You just, uh, type a little message like this...”
[SolVenusianCoin]
「Hey, you seem pretty good.」
「Want to do the next zone’s dungeon with us, too?」
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Nope.」
《‘PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut’ has left the party.》
- What a brutal rejection
- Lmao fuck, look at her leave right away
- So cool lmaoooo
- As expected from someone who studied abroad, keeping business and personal life separate
- Just left right away
- Maybe she doesn’t know it’s a streamer party?
“Wait, wow... She’s ruthless. Just up and left. That kinda hurts.”
“Actually, I kinda like her style. Not clingy at all. That’s a huge plus.”
“Guys, none of that matters.”
Knowing this was everyone else’s first time meeting Hana, Minseo couldn’t help puffing out her chest.
“She’s always that cool~!”
She had a connection none of the others did. The thought made Minseo feel rather smug.
* * *
After casually making her escape from the streamer party, Hana carried on playing.
A new zone had opened, so she picked up fresh quests and started grinding monsters. She also sought out quests other people easily forgot, raising her Combat Power a little more.
While she was busy playing, a small stir was spreading through the Lost of Fantasy Forum.
[★ Streamer stuff, but what’s this? They’re clearing Mooncloud Smeltery so easily?]
What’s going on?
Unlike the forum guide, the DPS aren’t popping defensive cooldowns and taking the hit alone. They’re taking it together?
Not sure what they did on the last boss, either, but the DPS aren’t losing damage.
The tank isn’t dropping dead out of nowhere, either.
What is this?
「You’re right, what’s going on?」
「Holy shit, that was the last boss strat? Now that I’ve seen it, I get it lol」
『▶ What is it?』
『▶▶ Looks like they’re dispelling the debuff the boss applies?』
「Wow, is it because they’re a streamer party? They’re clearing it so fucking easily.」
「We could just leave this in the top posts, right? I thought the smeltery was hard as hell, but watching this is seriously helpful.」
「But is this a streamer party? Who’s the healer? I wanna watch her stream.」
『▶ Just a regular player, yeah.』
『▶▶ A regular player??? She’s fucking amazing. Not a pro?』
『▶▶▶ Apparently she studied abroad? Guess she knows her stuff from playing on the North American server.』
『▶▶▶▶ What the fuck are you talking about? It’s not like the North American server opened a week before ours.』
PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut.
Whether Hana wanted it or not, she was slowly becoming famous.
Footnotes:
The streamers mistake Hana’s unfamiliar English gaming jargon for evidence that she studied abroad. BT, IE, and BC refer to Bloodthirster, Infinity Edge, and Black Cleaver, items from League of Legends, which Legend of League parodies.
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