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Translator/Editor: Satori
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◈ Healers Are Not Tools ◈
Chapter 18: If You Fail at Sniping, You Deserve to Get Stomped, Right?
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“Things did get a little ugly, but that's all for Lost of Fantasy today!”
Kang Minseo forced some energy into her voice and pressed ESC, ready to log out.
Her character was still a ghost after being brutally murdered.
《You need to repair your equipment!》
She'd died so many times that a bright red warning had appeared.
She'd died so damn much today that viewers were joking she was throwing games to lower her rank.
- Sigh. You did your best, Minseo.
- Everyone who sniped her today, grab your dicks and reflect on yourselves. That was boring as fuck lol
- You call this fun? lol Camp her corpse, kill her ten times, and that's it.
- These fuckers live and breathe Apex Legends.
The mood had been so awful that not only Minseo's fans, the Low-Rank Squad, but even ordinary viewers were swearing.
Still, anyone who streamed long enough would run into days like this.
Minseo tried to comfort herself and took hold of her mouse.
Ba-dum!
《‘PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut’ has invited you to a party》
“Huh?”
The party invitation arrived just before she clicked the left mouse button, leaving her genuinely confused.
‘The paladin would never send one by mistake...’
In Minseo's mind, Jeong Hana was a pretty cool, smart person.
She knew every dungeon strategy and never bothered with unnecessary small talk or socializing.
Even ten minutes earlier, when Minseo had announced she was leaving the party, Hana hadn't whispered any of the usual pleasantries about having fun or being sorry to see her go.
Yet that same Hana had suddenly sent her a party invitation.
“H-hold on a second, everyone...”
Feeling her heart race, Minseo accepted.
There were already other guests in Hana's party.
『PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut』
『FireFrog』
Today was the first time she'd seen Im Harin's username, FireFrog. But much like Hana, the Warlock had quietly hunted without chatting much, which had left Minseo with a good impression.
『SolVenusianCoin』
『SquirrelsEye』
“Huh?”
Sky and SquirrelThunder.
The two streamers she'd partied with last time were already in Hana's group.
[SolVenusianCoin]
「Come on now. What are you doing? Hm? Get in here, Minseo.」
At the message, Minseo checked Discord. Seeing that both were already in the channel they'd used for their last joint stream, she hurried to join.
“Wh-what's going on?”
At this point, she changed her settings to show the game on her stream.
- ???
- What's happening all of a sudden?
- Why the hell is Sky here?
- A joint stream out of nowhere?
“What else? People came to help you, Minseo.”
“Oh, seriously. Minseo, that's complete bullshit. Don't believe it.”
Neither answer cleared anything up, leaving her confused.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「I'll switch us to a raid group now.」
‘What's a raid group?’
As if answering her question, Hana immediately changed the party type to “raid group” and quickly invited the people she'd been keeping an eye on.
“Uh, wow. Huh? Wow?”
Five people to a party.
Ten of those parties.
In an instant, more than fifty people had formed a single raid group.
As soon as she'd created it, Hana even dumped the raid leader position straight onto Minseo.
- Wait, fifty people?
- Fuck, there are so many I can't even see all the health bars.
- What is this?
- What the fuck lmaooo
Ding!
With a distinctive bell sound, text in a shade close to orange-red appeared in the chat window.
[Deputy Raid Leader]
「If you haven't changed your health bar settings, each horizontal row of five, starting from the far left, is one party.」
「Think of them as Party 1, Party 2, Party 3 going down.」
「Gunners in Parties 1 and 2, just run in while using your AoE skills. Minseo, once everyone gets there, resurrect where you are.」
“Wow...”
Once they roughly understood the situation from Hana's instructions, people began moving in a crowd.
Of course, they weren't perfectly organized.
Most of the people in the raid had come over from the community forum, and some simply hated taking orders.
Still, they did have instructions now.
The gunners in Parties 1 and 2 had nothing to lose by following them, so they charged ahead into the village, where no NPCs remained, firing off area attacks.
“Oh... They're backing off. It hurts, so they're backing off. They're actually retreating!”
Minseo clapped. Then, once allies really had gathered around her, she pressed the resurrection button and got up.
“All right, let's go, Minseo.”
“Wh-where? Where are we going? What are we doing? Nobody told me anything!”
“Wait, Minseo. You really haven't heard anything? We're doing a leader raid? Ah, is that what it's called? Anyway, Guts said we were doing something like that.”
“What's that?!”
Minseo genuinely knew nothing, but unlike before, her voice was now bursting with excitement.
“Well, apparently if you kill something called a faction leader, you get an achievement for it. Guts said we might as well do that while we're all together.”
“Oh... But what's a faction leader?”
“Guts said earlier that it's like getting fountain kills.”
“Isn't that basically teabagging?!”
Fountain kills were a common show of dominance in Legend of League, something you could do after completely crushing the enemy team.
The idea that they could do something similar here filled Minseo with anticipation.
[Deputy Raid Leader]
「Has everyone bought the 100-gold mount? Raise your hand or type 1 if you haven't.」
“Ah... It looked kind of crappy, so I didn't buy it...”
Minseo clicked her tongue, remembering the Brown Horse, the first mount players could buy for one hundred gold.
「Anon donated 1,000 won」
[Minseo, for fuck's sake, that's why I told you to stop being cheap and just buy it lol]
「PantyThiefQueenMinseo donated 1,000 won」
[You called it a shitty horse and all that, but why would you skip a mount? lol It's faster than walking lol]
“Come on, everyone! Do you know how much a hundred gold is in real money? You're needling me even though you know, right? It's a waste! A waste, I tell you! It's not even pretty!”
Minseo hadn't wanted to complete a quest that cost a hundred gold only to give her something like a Brown Horse, the sort found in practically any game.
「What's the 100-gold mount?」
「1」
「Think they mean the shitty horse you get by giving the mount NPC a hundred gold?」
「Isn't that a fucking scam quest? Too expensive, didn't do it.」
「Learning skills costs gold. Who's spending money on a shitty horse?」
「Hand up.」
Fortunately, apart from eight of the fifty people, most hadn't bought the 100-gold mount.
[Deputy Raid Leader]
「Confirmed.」
「Then we'll go on foot to kill their faction leader.」
「Follow me for the route.」
“Wow, our paladin is seriously amazing. How does she know all these routes?”
- Seriously, it's wild.
- You can find your way by opening the map, but how does she know where that leader thing is?
- So what gear does it drop?
- Coalition players are suddenly in full panic mode lol
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Raid leader?」
「Open your map and look at the far left, at nine o'clock.」
「Yggdrasil, the World Tree.」
「Just lead the way down there, like you're walking all the way to that spot.」
“Oh... Yes! Yes! Let's go! Let's go! You're all dead!!! Yes!! Fuggin'...! You trapped me and beat me up for a whole hour, so now it's your turn to suffer! You sons of bitches!! You're all dead!!!”
With her excitement off the charts and her voice almost a scream, Minseo started running as Hana had instructed.
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“Goddammit...”
The man let out a hollow sigh and scratched his greasy hair with his right hand.
A heap of cigarettes lay in front of him.
“What the hell is this? We're getting completely fucking wrecked.”
“Why isn't anyone coming to help us? Seriously, is it just the people in this Discord?”
“They're too good. We can't even pick off their healers.”
“No! Fuck! They won't die!!”
Irritated by the screams coming through Discord, the man put out the cigarette he'd been holding in his mouth.
ToolAbandonYourEgo.
A notorious stream sniper in Legend of League, he was so infamous that the community had shortened his name to Dojabeo.
Naturally, he hated Kang Minseo, who'd reached the same rank as him.
He didn't merely dislike her. He openly despised her.
Whenever she ended up as his support, blaming her for losing the match before it had even started, right there in champion selection, was standard practice.
Once the game began, he criticized everything, from the placement of a single ward to her items and every bit of spell tracking. That was how much he hated her.
“Ah... Seriously, this is how it went wrong last time, too.”
That was why, as soon as Minseo started Lost of Fantasy, Dojabeo had created a character in the opposing faction.
He'd leveled an Assassination Rogue after hearing it was the best class for PvP, and that had absolutely been the right decision.
His Assassination Rogue had quite literally toyed with Minseo in one-on-one fights.
Even when she screamed and fought back, her damage was weak. His combos, opening with long stuns and powerful skills, were practically unbeatable in a duel.
“We're so fucking screwed.”
“These bastards are actually coming all the way into Yggdrasil.”
“Fuck, we have to stop that. They're saying we'll be the first ones to lose a leader out of all the servers.”
“Oh, fuck off. No way. Didn't you say our faction was dominant on this server? That we had more players?”
On Murmur, the Allied Coalition had a modest population advantage, with a ratio of roughly six to four.
There were definitely more Allied Coalition players, but that wasn't really a major problem.
On some servers, the Allied Coalition outnumbered the other side eight to two.
On the most unbalanced servers, the Demon King's Army could have a nine-to-one advantage.
“This shit's only happening on our server?”
Yet something that hadn't happened on any of those many servers, even ones with far worse population imbalances than Murmur, was happening here.
The fifty people under Jeong Hana's command.
By now, the attacking force from the Demon King's Army had grown to well over a hundred. They knew their objective more clearly than anyone and moved at incredible speed, as if they were a single body.
“Isn't our main base getting overrun?”
“No, our main base is, what's it called, Olympia? It's there.”
“The fact is, we're the first server to have Yggdrasil overrun.”
Hana had done far more than one or two leader raids. She knew every route.
She knew exactly which way to enter to take fewer attacks from NPCs and leave the enemy unable to mount a defense.
“What the fuck!! How?! How do these bastards know every side path? They're only coming through places with no guards!”
At yet another scream, Dojabeo finally reached for another cigarette.
“Hey... Hey, someone go make a post on the forum or something.”
“Fuck, we're getting pushed back so hard it's basically rape.”
“I feel like we could win if we just had a few more people.”
The members of the stream-sniping Discord, still unwilling to give up their fun, didn't understand the truth.
Ten years.
Hana had poured more than that into Lost of Fantasy. Against her, people whose entire tactical knowledge amounted to pressing 1, 2, 3, and 4 whenever they saw something red weren't going to win just because they had more bodies.
“If the high elf village falls, people are going to screenshot this and shame us forever...”
Yggdrasil, the World Tree.
The village where high elf players of the Allied Coalition began their tutorial.
Naturally, since it had been designed for beginners, the village had extremely powerful level-sixty NPCs.
That made killing the High Elf Queen, a major figure in the story who resided in the deepest part of the village, quite difficult.
With the NPCs helping the defenders, it normally wasn't something attackers could easily pull off if both sides had similar numbers.
“How... Fuck, how did it end up like this...? One support bitch throwing a tantrum shouldn't be enough to cause this...”
Lighting the cigarette in his mouth, Dojabeo sank deep into thought.
《PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut》
Hana's username, which he'd seen last time too, suddenly came to mind. He took a deep drag and pushed the thought away.
‘How much could some ordinary player who isn't even a pro possibly do...?’
Common sense said that an ordinary person like Hana couldn't have created a situation like this.
She'd interfered with his stream sniping last time and had done it again today. He could only think it was a coincidence.
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