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◈ Healers Are Not Tools ◈
Chapter 5: Guys, Low-Level Dungeons Only Take One Button Press
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The Alphadisco Excavation Site had only two bosses, just as you’d expect from an ordinary low-level dungeon.
That made sense, since this dungeon was a kind of tutorial.
As players explored the open world and completed quests, they would eventually reach the point where they needed to enter it.
Players who wanted to finish their quests would gather at the entrance, form parties, and clear the dungeon.
In the process, they would learn how tanks, DPS, and healers worked together, along with the joy of getting loot.
Even kids knew those concepts these days, but the dungeon was designed to teach them naturally.
[ZxL33tMagexZ]
「so we just hit stuff?」
[OohOohMyWeaponGotBigger]
「gogogogo」
Anyway, the dungeon was designed to be so easy that you didn’t need to know any strategies in advance.
Even now, our DPS players were charging in and pounding on the trash mobs without a problem.
[OohOohMyWeaponGotBigger]
「?」
「wtf is that damage? one hit took 30%」
...Okay, not completely without a problem.
The DPS players had excitedly attacked before the tank could draw aggro. Sure enough, huge chunks of their HP disappeared.
I’d seen this happen so often in my old world that I wasn’t even angry.
It was a low-level dungeon, anyway.
Despite its reputation on the forums, where people called it hard and hurled insults about each other’s parents, even the layout of the Alphadisco Excavation Site was simple.
There were a few trash mobs along the tunnel leading inside, followed by the first boss in a large room.
After that, you followed a linear path that somehow felt as if it wound around in circles, then killed the second boss in a room full of junk.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「guys, gather these」
About four Moongazer plants grew along the path to the first boss. Gathering them was always a good idea.
[ZxL33tMagexZ]
「can we just go?」
「speedrun gogogogo」
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「what are these for?」
[WaaahUnit01]
「worth a chicken dinner?」
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「once you finish the quest that gives you gear, that NPC asks you to gather these」
The moment I answered, L33tMage stopped jumping around in protest and started gathering.
Unlike the original, multiple people could gather from the same plant here. That was convenient.
People used to fight over these things.
Anyway, with the Moongazers gathered, we entered the first boss’s room without any trouble.
[OohOohMyWeaponGotBigger]
「heard this is hard. can we clear it?」
The first boss standing in the room was a male human character holding two shields made of scrap metal.
He was a completely ordinary boss without any special mechanics.
[ZxL33tMagexZ]
「my combat power’s 90」
「should be more than enough」
[WaaahUnit01]
「saw on the forum」
「apparently it’s hard even at 105 combat power」
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「if the shield warrior goes in and hits him first, we can clear this in our sleep」
[OohOohMyWeaponGotBigger]
「fr???」
As expected, nobody seemed to believe me.
Then again, all three players I’d casually accepted had either 85 or 90 combat power.
Other parties only accepted people with at least 100. They’d clearly joined mine because even a crooked cart was worth boarding if it went where they wanted to go.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「ok」
Ssangmun-dongFireShield charged straight in... No, she hadn’t learned Charge yet.
Anyway, she trudged over and started hitting the first boss.
The fight was predictable, really.
What could a low-level dungeon possibly throw at us?
I just had to click on Ssangmun-dongFireShield and leisurely press my heal once or twice. That was my entire job.
“Filthy insects! I’ll pound you into mush!”
Of course, the first boss didn’t just stand there doing nothing.
When his mana reached 100, he brought his shields down hard on our tank’s head.
And, just as expected, our tank failed to use a proper defensive skill and took the full force of it.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
《Health: 35%》
But she didn’t die.
As long as someone wasn’t dead, I could heal them back up.
There was no way our tank would die if I just kept spamming small heals...
“Oh, come on. What are you doing?”
Perhaps our tank didn’t trust me, because she hurriedly took a bandage out of her bag and started wrapping it around herself.
Sure, you should bandage yourself when you’re hurt. But do you know that getting attacked interrupts that?
“Aaaargh! Guh...!!! You filthy...”
There was a minor screwup at the end, but... the first boss died in under a minute.
Nobody had died, and none of the DPS players were screaming about getting hurt.
[ZxL33tMagexZ]
「???」
「is it dead?」
[WaaahUnit01]
「heard this guy hits hard」
「never got hit lol」
[OohOohMyWeaponGotBigger]
「people were just overreacting」
「what a fucking pushover????」
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「wow, awesome」
Did our tank even realize I’d kept her alive?
While everyone celebrated, I touched the first boss’s corpse to collect the loot.
《Distribute the loot》
『Shining Copper One-Handed Sword』
「Grade: Uncommon」
「Combat Power: 5」
「Strength 10」
[WaaahUnit01]
「why can’t i get this???」
Because you’re a gunner.
If you asked whether you could equip one sold in a shop, then yes, you could, but...
Gunners were a class that primarily used ranged weapons, such as bows and guns.
[ZxL33tMagexZ]
「i can’t either」
That’s because you’re a mage!
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「i can roll」
「i just press the dice button, right?」
[OohOohMyWeaponGotBigger]
「ooh ooh, i wanna roll too」
「oh, got 97」
Unless you changed the settings, Lost of Fantasy decided who received items through dice rolls like these.
By default, players who could equip an item right away had priority.
If nobody could equip it right away, everyone got a chance to roll.
《Ssangmun-dongFireShield rolled a 99!》
[OohOohMyWeaponGotBigger]
「???」
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「aw yeah lmaoooooo」
Wow. She won it with a 99?
Ssangmun-dongFireShield was apparently so happy about getting the item that she jumped up and down before equipping it immediately.
[ZxL33tMagexZ]
「god, i’m so fucking mad」
「final boss is gonna drop a staff though」
「speedrun gogogogogo」
And you were muttering about how hard this might be when we first came in!
Anyway, I felt a little relieved to learn that it was just as easy as I remembered.
I would’ve been disappointed if this were Lost of Fantasy in name only, some shitty game where combat power was everything and you cleared dungeons with five DPS players.
* * *
Though she had no idea, Jeong Hana’s actions had caused a small ripple.
Like a stone tossed into a still lake, it had begun with nothing more than forming a party and having fun. Yet that was enough to change the direction of the community.
No, not just the community.
It made most of the people playing Lost of Fantasy rethink things.
“Wow, Minseo was right.”
“I’m telling you, bro. A Master player’s on another level.”
“I didn’t understand what Rice meant last time, but this was it!”
- wait, people are praising minseo?
- is this the same minseo who always got carried and got told to stop only pressing E?
- guys, is the age of QueenMinseo finally here?
- wow lol if we hadn’t figured this out, we’d have kept smacking rocks till we fucking quit
From level 15 to level 20.
From level 20 to level 25.
As Kang Minseo steadily leveled up and entered different dungeons, she stopped running viewer parties and started happily playing with other streamers.
They were all people she already knew, and they all played DPS, so they needed a tank and a healer. Naturally, Kang Minseo joined them, since she was the only streamer leveling a tank.
“Hehehe. Guys! See? I was right! I watched Rice’s video too! Apparently, from this level on, you need a proper tank-DPS-healer setup to clear dungeons!”
“Wow... That worked out well. Should we keep partying up like this, then?”
“Minseo, you can keep being our tank. We can just get a viewer to heal.”
Hearing praise for the first time in a while brought a smile to Kang Minseo’s face.
“Minseo’s really good at tanking. You took all those hard hits and held on in that last dungeon.”
“Hey, Minseo’s not just any tank. Her running dungeons with a tank-DPS-healer setup changed the whole paradigm. The paradigm!”
“Oh, come on... Now you’re making a fuss. Weren’t you asking if we’d be short on damage if we brought Minseo?”
“Hey! Hey! Hey!”
‘Anyway... You too, chat! At first, you kept giving me crap for choosing a shield warrior!’
She was getting the recognition she’d wanted.
She was glad she’d picked a tank. Unlike playing support, it somehow felt as if she was doing something more impressive, something cool.
“Great! Then shall we keep partying up and running together?”
“Sounds good. I heard once we hit max level, we can do raids or something too.”
“Then let’s be partners, bro. You said you’d be sticking with Lost of Fantasy.”
She grew closer to the streamers she sometimes teamed up with for tournaments.
- wow, since when was minseo this good at tanking lol
- bet she’d be good at playing Colossus top too
- was she secretly a top-lane psycho instead of a support princess all along?
- hell yeah lol that’s the Master difference
Her viewers’ opinion of her had shifted in exactly the way Kang Minseo wanted.
“But there are only four of us. Bro, do you know anyone who plays a healer?”
The streamer’s question immediately brought Jeong Hana to mind.
But she couldn’t recommend her.
Jeong Hana wasn’t a streamer, just an ordinary player.
‘Guts was really good... Somehow, she even knew all about getting items.’
Thanks to the Moongazers Jeong Hana had casually pointed out for them to gather, Kang Minseo hadn’t needed to go through the hassle of clearing the same dungeon twice.
Screenshots of that scene had even circulated on the forums before spreading to YouTube Shorts under titles like “LoF Pro Tips.txt.”
“Oh, of course I do. You know Sonia, right?”
“Sonia? Isn’t that a support princess? Even in Darkwatch 2, a support bit...”
“Hey, hey! Hey! Hey!”
Despite the noisy voices, Kang Minseo barely reacted. She rested her chin on her hand, thinking about Jeong Hana.
“Ah... Other healers aren’t very good at healing me...”
It would be quite some time before she realized the problem wasn’t the other players, but her own failure to use her defensive skills properly.
* * *
“...It’s itchy.”
Level 29.
Having reached a level I could brag about a little even on the forums, I got up before moving on to the next region.
“Ugh, this is driving me crazy. Can’t I... do something about it?”
It had already been about five days since I became Jeong Hana.
Honestly, being a woman hadn’t caused me any real inconvenience.
After all, the first thing I’d done after becoming Jeong Hana was get out of bed and set off on a journey of self-discovery. As soon as I discovered I could use my smartphone just fine, I’d ordered fried chicken and started playing computer games.
Using the bathroom? That wasn’t hard. Neither was showering or washing my hair. There was nothing I couldn’t do.
“...Ha.”
Anyway, I’d ignored the itching and irritation until now.
But enough was enough. If I kept living without a bra, I’d end up scratching my boobs while gaming.
Jeong Hana herself apparently thought she could get by without wearing one. But having lived my whole life as a man, I found these big breasts got in the way too much. I needed to put something on.
“Just go outside. Go.”
I grabbed the first windbreaker I saw, put it on, and stuck out my tongue.
Thinking about it, maybe I had been overspending.
There was only so much money in my account. Constantly ordering delivery when I had no income was way too wasteful, wasn’t it?
Should I buy some groceries? It would be nice if there was a supermarket or something nearby...
Ding-dong! Bang! Bang! Bang!
“Eek! Oh my god...!”
Just as I was about to open the front door and step outside, loud knocking suddenly came from the other side.
“Miss Hana? Hana? Goodness! Hana! You’re alive in there, aren’t you? Goodness, why won’t this girl ever come out? Hana?”
The older woman’s voice sounded warm, even pleasantly down-to-earth, but I couldn’t relax.
“Um... Who is it?”
In a way, it was obvious who the woman visiting this late in the evening was.
But I never would have guessed why she’d come to see me.
Footnotes:
“Worth a chicken dinner?” refers to selling loot for enough real money to buy delivery fried chicken, a common informal price comparison among Korean gamers.
“Support princess” represents a derogatory Korean gaming stereotype about women who play support characters and get carried. The interrupted Darkwatch 2 remark begins another gendered insult.
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