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◈ Healers Are Not Tools ◈
Chapter 15: Who's the Last Customer for Fast Leveling?
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“Wow... I guess nobody knows about this place, Hana. We're the only two people here. Where is everyone?”
“Most people go to Halphas Hill because it's close to the Demon King's Castle, or somewhere near the final zone. Mana Plains is a pain to get to, so people don't naturally think of it.”
“You make it sound like you know everything.”
Anyone listening might have thought Im Harin was picking a fight, but from her point of view, it was a fair thing to say.
To me, these were facts backed by over ten years of accumulated data. In Jeong Hana's world, they were pure guesswork.
“Games like this are always the same. Unless someone tells you otherwise, you just go wherever you can see.”
“So I get to have it easy thanks to you!”
Humming to herself, Harin finally got off the gargoyle and stretched both arms high above her head.
...She's got more of a chest than I thought.
“Mmm...! So, Hana, what level can we reach today?”
“Probably fifty-four if we finish all the quests here? Fifty-three if we're unlucky. We can get the remaining levels by picking off elites at Halphas Hill. There are plenty of ways to level, so don't worry.”
“This part of the game seems kind of annoying. They should just let you get all the levels you need in one zone.”
That would naturally get fixed later, but Harin's complaint was perfectly reasonable back in the original version.
That was how they'd designed it.
“Anyway, complaining isn't going to make them run a double XP event. First, what kind of warlock are you? Not a Demonology Warlock, right?”
“No. That looked like total crap, so I went with Destruction Warlock.”
“Destruction is normally the right choice, but let's hunt as Demonology just for today.”
“Uh... why?”
There was no complaint in Harin's voice, only genuine curiosity.
“Starting here in Mana Plains, the monsters hit ridiculously hard. You can survive if I heal you, but then we'd need lots of water-bread, and that would slow us down.”
“...What's water-bread? Some kind of bread?”
“Food. I mean food.”
“Food?”
She didn't know?
Actually, of course she wouldn't.
“Inns and shops sell food. It restores your health and mana when you sit down and eat it.”
“Huh? Really? This is the first I've heard of that! Nobody on YouTube mentioned it. They said to use either bandages or potions when you get hurt.”
“Anyway, we don't have a mage. Buying all that water-bread would cost money, and sitting down to eat after every fight would take too long. So you'll go Demonology and have your demon tank.”
“Oh... But what does a mage have to do with it?”
She didn't even kno... Of course she wouldn't. Right.
“Mages get a skill called Create Food when they finish their class quest. It gives them free food. It looks like a cup of water and a bowl of bread, so people call it water-bread.”
“Oh... Oh... But I've never seen anyone call it that.”
“That's mages for you. They're all shameless. They never tell you about the good stuff they get.”
“Pfft...!”
Harin burst out laughing, clutching her stomach with both hands.
“But, but, Hana. Do only mages get something that awesome? Don't I get anything? A class... class quest?”
“You do. But let's do it later. We'll level first today.”
“Oh... What is it? What do I get?”
“There's something you learn at level forty called Create Healthstone. Not having it won't make hunting difficult right now. It's basically a free potion.”
Harin let out an impressed “Oh,” but obediently trudged after me toward the class trainer NPC.
“First, change your specialization to Demonology Warlock. Most of the skills are the same. There are a few you won't be able to use, but I'll explain...”
As I headed toward the NPC and explained, I spotted Ssangmun-dongFireShield passing in front of us.
She wasn't just walking past, either. She was bouncing along in a series of jumps, so it was impossible to miss her.
“Huh? What's wrong, Hana?”
“Hold on... Let me rethink this.”
The truth was, Demonology Warlocks weren't actually all that good.
In Lost of Fantasy, classes built around summoning had never been good, right up until the day the servers shut down.
Thanks to their summoning gimmick, they were convenient for solo play or leveling. That was about it.
And even that convenience mostly came down to not needing the water-bread I'd mentioned...
“What is it? What are you thinking about?”
“That shield warrior who just went past. I know her.”
“...She's a streamer, isn't she?”
“I know that. But we've been in a party together a few times. She acted like she knew me then...”
“Uh, no...”
Harin gave me a very strange look.
“Isn't it usually the other way around? You'd recognize her because she's a streamer.”
“I didn't know she was a streamer.”
“...Whoa.”
“Anyway, she seems to like me a little. Maybe I could put her to use...”
Harin's expression grew even stranger.
“You're going to put a streamer to u-use? She's really famous, Hana! She hit Master as a support bot. Practically everyone knows her!”
“Really?”
“Yeah. Back when she hit Master, some pro gamers made fun of her. They said if she could reach Master just pressing E from the back, she'd hit Challenger playing something like Minotaur...”
Apparently, there had been some little incident like that, but to me, she was just Random Streamer A passing by.
“Well, none of that really matters to me. What matters right now is that she's a tank.”
“Whoa. She has hundreds of thousands of subscribers! Say that somewhere else and people will bury you.”
“Be honest. You don't want to spend money changing specializations either.”
Harin glanced at me and grinned.
“Wait here. Let me give it a shot.”
Ssangmun-dongFireShield seemed to have just arrived by gargoyle. She was busy running around talking to NPCs.
“Let's see...”
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Hey, Warrior.」
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Gasp」
「Yes??? What's up?」
What was with that reaction?
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Want to hunt with us?」
「A lot of the quests here involve elite monsters, so it'll be faster with three people.」
That should be enough to sell her on it...
“Wow! No way!!! G-Guts messaged me first, and now she's asking me to party with her! I should say yes, right? Right? She's a healer, but she's leveling just as fast as I am!”
“...Hey?”
I turned toward the streamer's voice that had suddenly filled the air. Harin was smiling, with QueenMinseo's stream open.
“I wanted to see her reaction! She must really like you!”
“No, you... Did you really have to open her stream to watch that?”
“Of course! How could I resist?!”
Maybe... try resisting...
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Yes! I'd love to!」
「Let's party up!」
I could practically hear her beaming voice through the chat already, but Harin's open stream made it even more vivid.
Ah... This was kind of embarrassing.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Then pick up all the quests from the NPCs here.」
「And buy a Skinning Knife from the NPC next to you.」
「There's a quest to skin things, and the knife makes it much faster.」
“Wow, Low-Rank Squad! Look! See? I told you she knows her stuff! She's already telling me how to finish quests faster!”
- But how does she know?
- What's a Skinning Knife?
- Isn't this her first time picking up these quests?
- Wow, so that's why a healer is keeping up with her level lol
“Hey... Could you... turn that off?”
“No. It's so much fun watching her freak out every time you tell her something.”
Well, it's super embarrassing for me, you know???
Harin kept grinning, so I couldn't exactly snatch her mouse away and shut the stream off.
Anyway, QueenMinseo, or rather, Kang Minseo, picked up all the nearby quests as I'd told her and came back to us.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「I've got them all.」
「What do we kill first?」
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「You picked up eleven quests here, right?」
“Oh... She's such a pro. Look at her checking...”
Please... I knew she couldn't leave dead air on a stream, but did she have to be amazed by every single line I typed?
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Yes, eleven!」
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Then come over here.」
「You can talk to this NPC, right?」
“Huh? Hana, what quest is that? I didn't get that one.”
“You and I can't get it. It's a warrior class quest.”
“...You even know the warrior class quests?”
Of course I did.
I'd seen plenty of idiots come to raids without doing this one.
“Huh? What's this? There really is a quest here! Whoa... No way. What is it?”
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Paladin」
「What's this? What kind of quest is it? What does it give you?」
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「You get skills when you finish the whole thing.」
「You can't finish it all in this zone,」
「but we can't go straight to the level fifty-five zone anyway, so you can finish it at Halphas Hill.」
「It teaches you Defensive Stance and Battle Stance, so make sure you do it.」
“I swear, there's nothing she doesn't know... Wow, this is seriously amazing. How does she know all this...?”
- Those sound like important skills.
- Wow lol, she really hit the jackpot meeting her.
- So will people who don't learn those get named and shamed later?
- Holy shit, she's a paladin. Why does she know the warrior class quests???
“Hana, you're like a total superstar. None of the viewers are trashing you. They usually do.”
“Ah... I-I don't know. Whatever. I don't want to know.”
“Gasp, are you embarrassed right now? Are you shy because people are noticing you?”
Answering would only get me dragged into more teasing, so I had no choice but to ignore her and let out a heavy sigh.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「If you've picked everything up, we'll head toward twelve o'clock first.」
“I can finally get some leveling done. Ah, seriously, I'm so glad I came here. I even got to meet Guts! At this rate, I might hit max level today...!”
“Please... Just turn the stream off, okay?”
Harin rejected my final plea by sticking her tongue out at me.
Ugh!
Honestly, up until that point, I was just a little embarrassed.
There was no way I could have predicted the trouble I'd get dragged into afterward.
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