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Translator/Editor: Satori
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◈ Healers Are Not Tools ◈
Chapter 3: Dungeons Beat Grinding for Leveling, but Dungeons Mean Meeting People
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'Ssangmun-dongFireShield.'
The streamer behind that name, which was so old-fashioned it had gone past charming and straight into dated, averaged four thousand viewers.
- Minseo, Minseo, what the fuck lmao. You couldn't even learn your skills without asking someone?
- Didn't she definitely say she read up on the game before starting?
- Minseo, are you actually insane? And you say you're done being a support princess?
- How's someone like this supposed to tank? Seriously, just play support forever.
- Wait lmao. If her savior hadn't come along, would she have spent her whole life using level 1 skills?
The insults racing up the chat were nothing new to Kang Minseo.
"Oh, come on!!! Guys! This game came out today! Today!!"
「Anon donated 1,000 won」
[Minseo, Minseo, how are you planning to tank when you can't even learn your skills???]
「MinseoEatYourFood donated 1,000 won」
[Minseo~ Minseo~ The quest earlier literally told you how to learn skills~ Are you a complete moron???]
"Okay, enough!! Do you guys get everything right after being told once? If you're all that good, your ranks wouldn't be lower than mine! Anyone below Master, shut your mouths~~"
Kang Minseo's streams always went like this.
She'd unintentionally more or less revealed her real name when she started streaming. Now she spent her time trading complaints and insults with her viewers.
But today, on her first day playing Lost of Fantasy, she'd met someone who actually helped her. She was a little touched.
《PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut》
"Seriously... Sure, the username's a bit scary, but look how nice she is compared to the Low-Rank Squad. You guys should learn a thing or two. Okay?"
- That username's really something, though lmao.
- Minseo!!! Just how pathetic did you look for someone passing by to stop and help?
- Honestly, she probably helped because she thought you were a world-class moron.
- Is she actually nice, though? She rejected your friend request lmao.
"Let's see... There's something else I learned... I watched Rice's whole class overview too, you know..."
Ignoring the flood of insults, Kang Minseo quickly typed into chat.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Hey, hey, adding me would be great for you.」
「I'm going to play a shield warrior.」
"Now, then~! For those of you who didn't do your homework, warriors can develop in three different directions, okay? Shield warriors are tanks! Tanks! You know those tough characters you guys play in top lane? Exactly like that!"
Kang Minseo had reached Master in Legend of League, but she had a small insecurity.
- Why not just play support like you did in Legend of League lmao?
- Can you even play something tanky? Won't you just die?
- Isn't she bad at engage champs even in bot lane, so she only plays support-princess stuff?
- A professional freeloader who got carried to Master playing support princesses wants to tank? Lmao.
Kang Minseo's main role was support.
What's more, she almost never played aggressive champions or ones that took the lead in winning the lane.
Still, reaching Master meant she was a skilled gamer. People just weren't willing to give her much credit.
And she wasn't satisfied either.
"I'm seriously going to prove myself this time. You'd better brace yourselves, Low-Rank Squad, okay? I remember everyone who made promises in the fan cafe last time, calling it a safe investment and all that."
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Okay. Good luck leveling.」
「You can do it.」
"Uh..."
Tanks were already starting to get a reputation as an important role in Lost of Fantasy.
She'd proudly announced that she was going to play that precious role, only to receive such a cold response that she was left speechless.
- Is she part of the Low-Rank Squad?
- Lmao holy shit, that's cold.
- Aren't paladins trash anyway?
- Some people don't accept friend requests in Legend of League either.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Hey, I don't think you know this」
「But tanks are really important in this game, okay?」
「If we're friends, later, when we do an instant dungeon? I can carry」
"Ah...! What?! This person! She disappeared before I even finished typing!!!"
Kang Minseo had been busily typing away when Jeong Hana vanished from right in front of her. She was lost for words.
"Wh-what the heck! Seriously! What a total weirdo!"
- Didn't she run away because you kept pestering her?
- If you need a healer, shouldn't you find a priest anyway?
- It's fine, paladins suck.
- First time I've seen her get rejected lmao. Does that girl not watch streams?
And so, with Kang Minseo making an embarrassing pest of herself and getting nowhere, their long, long history together began.
* * *
The level cap in Lost of Fantasy was 60.
And unlike in other games, your starting area depended on the race you chose.
In other words, each race had a different level 1 to 5 section, which served as the tutorial.
But it wasn't just the beginning that differed. Your faction also determined your later quest lines and some of the dungeons you would tackle.
Of course, not every dungeon or leveling quest was different.
《Northern Crash Zone》
Anyway, unless they'd made some unusual, bizarre choice, players who picked the Demon King's Army generally gathered in the Northern Crash Zone after finishing the tutorial.
「Whoa lmao, fur lmaooo」
「Is your class good? That gun looks cool. What's it called?」
「Wow, they actually made this a playable character?」
「It looks so fucking horrifying. Should I just delete it and make a human girl?」
As expected, people encountering the other races for the first time couldn't stop marveling at their strange appearances.
The players who had chosen the relatively attractive demon race were especially shocked. It was just like the old days.
「Holy shit, that's literally a Khajiit lmaoooo」
「I'm a rogue too, so don't mess with me」
「Wow, how is your actual job being a thief?」
The original version of the game had four races in the Demon King's Army.
The demon race, which I'd chosen.
The Hosgar, whom everyone passing by was busy making fun of.
The Jadekin, who immediately brought orcs and goblins to mind.
And finally, the Immortals, who looked like typical undead.
As you could probably tell from those descriptions, the other three races in the Demon King's Army had distinctive looks that you absolutely couldn't call attractive.
「Didn't this fucker just pick that because they're a furry?」
「Bullshit, I picked it for the stats」
「How's a Khajiit a pick for the stats? That Sans over there looks better」
「What's so good about a pile of bones with Corpse Eating as its racial ability?」
「Ooh! Bawss! We ain't got no dicks!」
Seeing people jumping around in front of NPCs and chatting instead of leveling made me feel nostalgic in a good way.
Really, you could call this part of the Lost of Fantasy experience...
Like the days when people fought over the Demon King's Army and the Allied Coalition on community forums...
You just didn't get that kind of charm anymore.
[ILoveMoonSugar]
「hey」
While I was sorting through my bags, a Hosgar walked up and spoke to me. Their custom appearance made them look as if they'd crawled out of a sewer.
They looked truly awful. On top of that, they apparently didn't even understand the basics of equipping items, so their random mix of leather and chain mail made them look even more like a beggar.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「?」
[ILoveMoonSugar]
「what class is that?」
Maybe it was because the game had only just launched, but everyone seemed really interested in other people.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Paladin.」
[ILoveMoonSugar]
「oh」
「doesn't that suck?」
...What was this person's deal?
Had they asked even though they knew I was a paladin, just to take a jab at me?
[ILoveMoonSugar]
「saw it on YouTube」
「they said it wasn't good」
「leveling's hard in this game」
「probably better to change classes now?」
...Wait, were they trying to help rather than pick a fight?
Did they think I was leveling some completely fucked, trash-tier character and want me to get out while I could?
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Nah.」
「I like this class.」
[ILoveMoonSugar]
「oh」
「are you one of those?」
「like a paladin one-trick?」
「i'm a Hekle one-trick in Legend of League too」
Ah, so that was it.
Instead of playing an overpowered character, they picked some weird, garbage character and played thousands upon thousands of matches until people called them a specialist...
They didn't want to go through that again here, or see anyone else do it. That was why they'd warned me that paladins were bad.
I supposed it was kind of them. Though without knowing the circumstances, it was the sort of thing that might make you tell them to fuck off.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「What kind of rogue are you going to play, then?」
Rogues also came in three varieties.
Combat rogues, marksman rogues, and infiltration rogues.
And the absolute worst of the three was...
[ILoveMoonSugar]
「infiltration rogue」
「going into stealth and hitting hard is just like Hassan, so it's cool」
Ah. They did say hipsters picked hipster options wherever they went...
Unfortunately, the rogue in front of me had announced that they would play an infiltration rogue. It wasn't just the worst option; even in PvP, people would hesitate to call it any good.
Of course, you could change your specialization freely within the same class. You could level as an infiltration rogue and switch to marksman or combat later.
But the play styles of each specialization were so different that plenty of people treated them as separate classes, even though they all filled the same DPS role.
Sadly... even if everyone pointed at ILoveMoonSugar and called infiltration rogues complete fucking trash, they would probably stick with it to the very end.
[ILoveMoonSugar]
「hey」
「my friends want to do a dungeon, so i'm off」
「bye bye」
Just as things were getting a little awkward, ILoveMoonSugar used the greeting emote in front of me, then actually trudged off toward their friends.
A dungeon you could visit with friends in the Northern Crash Zone... Was it that one?
They were probably heading to the Alphadisco Excavation Site.
That dungeon was surprisingly sprawling, with lots of vertical levels, which made it confusing and difficult. Would they be okay?
If they'd started with the Allied Coalition, the level 15 dungeon was so generous it was practically a joke, which made leveling easi...
"Huh?"
While I'd briefly been lost in old memories, ILoveMoonSugar's friends came into view.
There were five of them, including MoonSugar, but there was a problem with their classes.
Two rogues, one mage, one priest, and one gunner.
I could assume the priest would heal, but they didn't have a tank.
"...Surely they're not planning to go into a dungeon without a tank-DPS-healer setup?"
That was impossible by my standards, but...
The same nonsense DPS players spouted in my world was simply being treated as the right answer in Jeong Hana's world.
It was bullshit that wouldn't last long, though.
Footnotes:
Khajiit and moon sugar reference The Elder Scrolls. Sans is a skeleton character from Undertale, while Hassan refers to an assassin from the Fate series.
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