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◈ Healers Are Not Tools ◈
Chapter 9: We Can Clear It With This Healer... Probably?
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「BloodLordQueenMinseo donated 1,000 won.」
[Minseo~ Minseo~ If it’s not the same party wiping, but every party you join, isn’t it pretty obvious whose fault it is~?]
「Anon donated 1,000 won.」
[Minseo, fuck, it really looks like you’re the problem. Stop dragging everyone down and make it up to us with some ranked games.]
“Come ooon! Everyone, be quiet! They said this dungeon was hard! Everyone! There’s nothing we can do about that!”
Kang Minseo squeezed her eyes shut and shouted. She was stuck camping outside the entrance to Mooncloud Smeltery.
- Well, you switched parties and failed three more times. There’s your answer~
- Hmm, whose fault could this be? Weird. The tank keeps dying, so isn’t it the tank’s fault?
- Like switching parties is gonna get you a clear lol
- Minseo, Minseo, you could’ve leveled up by grinding mobs instead of wasting all this time trying to clear the dungeon.
Her tenth failure.
Kang Minseo had wiped ten times without even beating the first boss. Her stream’s chat was on the verge of exploding.
The mood had already been strangely hostile because she wasn’t playing Legend of League. She wasn’t breezing through the dungeon, and the casual chatter wasn’t going well either. Instead, she kept charging in and wiping in a weirdly shitty atmosphere. After ten runs like that, of course the viewers weren’t happy.
“Come on, can’t we do something? Huh? Couldn’t we get a viewer to join or something? We just need one healer.”
“Seriously, Sky. Who levels a tool? How are you gonna find one among your viewers?”
The only reason Kang Minseo’s stream hadn’t blown up yet was that she was waiting for the next healer with three other streamers, making this something of a joint stream.
“Healers, seriously... Can’t they make a matchmaking system that uses MMR, like Legend of League? How much longer do we have to wait? Seriously.”
“Sky, you can’t say that in front of Minseo. She’s been waiting three hours to find a healer.”
“Ah... Right. Well... Sorry.”
Sky and SquirrelThunder were desperately trying to keep the conversation going, but Kang Minseo was too worn out to answer.
“Seriously, aren’t there any decent tools around? Can’t they just give us a bot? A bot? What about bandages? Bandages?”
“I tried that... But getting hit cancels the bandaging, so we need a healer. We really can’t clear it without one.”
Kang Minseo rested her chin on her hand and stared blankly at the messages scrolling past.
「LF healer for Mooncloud Smeltery. Combat Power 300+」
「Mooncloud farming party LF Priest. (NO Resto Druids/Resto Shamans/Holy Pallies)」
「Smeltery party LF tank. Combat Power 330+」
「Fucking dogshit game, is this for real? Find a tank and someone poaches them. Find a healer and they fucking leave. I quit.」
“I’ve been thinking... This game has too many DPS classes. There are so many that, just by design, there have to be fewer healers and tanks.”
“Daydream. Are you really saying that while playing a Gunner?”
“Come on, I’m right, though. Am I wrong? Fuck, just look at Mages, Warlocks, and Gunners. All three specializations are DPS, aren’t they? Even Warriors have one tank spec and two DPS specs.”
- fr there are fuck all healers
- Aren’t there only like two tank specs too?
- I’m saying the population structure itself creates a healer shortage.
- seriously tho no fucking healers anywhere
“Well, at least our party’s better off than those parties with nothing but three DPS. We have Minseo, too.”
“Oh, well~ You and Thunder are good, Sky, and so is Daydream. I came along hoping you’d carry me.”
“But from what I saw earlier, you were doing well, Minseo... I think the tools are the problem. The tools.”
By now, Kang Minseo didn’t care whether they were tools or whatever else. She just wanted to find any healer and clear the dungeon.
‘If I clear this, I’ll level up... Then I can learn a new skill and go to a new area... It drops blue gear, too. There was an axe. It looked good...’
In truth, Kang Minseo and the other streamers would have leveled faster by grinding mobs instead of wasting time outside the dungeon.
But given their line of work, they couldn’t just switch their brains halfway off and kill five hundred monsters while drooling.
Besides, that wouldn’t get them good gear. Their Combat Power wouldn’t rise, so they were bound to struggle in the next area.
“Oh, we have an applicant... But, ah.”
Sky, the party leader, was a Rogue.
“They’re a Holy Paladin. Is that okay with you, Minseo?”
“A Holy Paladin would be great! I love them! Accept them! Hurry up and let’s go!”
“Whoa, are you really okay with a Holy Pally? I heard they’re the worst of all the tools.”
Daydream, who had been going on about tools all this time, was a Gunner.
“All right, I’ll accept them. Let’s just get in there, beat the crap out of it, and be done.”
《‘PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut’ has joined the party.》
“Wow, look at that vicious username.”
“Huh? Huh?”
Startled by the unexpected name, Kang Minseo reached for her keyboard.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Hey, Guts!」
“Oh? You know them?”
Daydream, who had commented on the username, sounded a little surprised.
“Oh, they’re not one of my Low-Rank Squad viewers. Remember that low-level dungeon? Alphadisco? They were the first person to take me there.”
“Wow, then they must be really good. Are we actually going to clear this time?”
At least someone Kang Minseo knew had joined.
That lifted the streamers’ spirits quite a bit. Her eyes full of hope, Kang Minseo jumped into the dungeon.
- Whoa, our savior has arrived
- Who even is that? I keep seeing them in streamer parties.
- There are so few fucking healers that we keep getting the same ones.
- Are they good at healing???
- Minseo, Minseo, you know it’s really your fault if you wipe again, right???
‘We’re definitely not wiping! I’m definitely not dying!! The healers I met before were just weird!’
Practically singing to herself, Kang Minseo began making her familiar way through the dungeon.
“Oh, what? This feels completely different.”
“Seriously, quit making a fuss. We’ve only fought one pack. What could feel different already?”
Having joined a party with four streamers, Jeong Hana said nothing in chat and quietly healed them.
‘Three up ahead... Kill these, then...’
After throwing herself at the same dungeon ten times, Kang Minseo cleared the sections full of trash mobs so quickly that she seemed almost automated.
About five minutes into the run, the party reached the first boss.
《Garena the Temperer》
“Sky, Daydream, Thunder. You all know the fight, right?”
“Oh, of course. I studied the whole thing on YouTube.”
The other streamers all gave the same answer, so Kang Minseo typed.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Guts, do you know this fight?」
Garena the Temperer.
The boss that had split Kang Minseo’s skull open ten times.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「yep」
“Gweat! Then here we go! Three! Two! One!”
- How’s the healer supposed to hear you saying that out loud?
- Another legendary move from this bitch.
- Oh, Minseo lol
Kang Minseo charged straight at the boss and began using her skills in order.
「ChaosJokerMinseo donated 1,000 won.」
[Upvote if you think Minseo’s getting her skull crushed again lmao]
“Seriously... You’re only saying that because you don’t know. Guts is really good...”
Overflowing with confidence, Kang Minseo hammered the 1 key, attacking the enemy to build up her “resource.”
This resource went by several names, but only one thing mattered.
It let her use skills that consumed it.
Kang Minseo was pouring all the resource she built up into a skill called Sunder Armor.
“Ah, ah, this bastard’s doing it again. Here we fucking go again. Seriously!”
While Kang Minseo busily pressed her skills, the boss suddenly moved to attack Daydream instead of the tank.
“So noisy over there!”
At the boss’s shout, a hook spewing bright red flames shot out and caught Daydream.
“Ah!! What the... Huh?”
Daydream had been about to swear, but the moment he saw his health suddenly jump from almost empty to full, he quickly moved away from the boss.
“Oh, our support feels totally different. Seriously.”
“Wait, Daydream, weren’t you calling them tools earlier?”
“Come on, Thunder! This is different! Didn’t you see me go straight back to full health? Nothing like that Restoration Druid earlier!”
Even as Daydream and SquirrelThunder bantered, they kept hammering the boss with attack skills.
“Ah, ah, there it goes again. Again.”
Less than twenty seconds later, the boss threw its hook at SquirrelThunder.
Snap! SquirrelThunder’s mage was dragged toward it, the character’s health dropping in an instant.
“Uh, oh? Whoa? Huh? I’m gonna... Huh? I lived?”
“Wow. This healer’s a national-level powerhouse. National-level.”
Even Sky, who had been silently dealing as much damage as possible, joined in the praise. Meanwhile, Kang Minseo sweated as she frantically hit the boss to make it turn back to her.
‘Why does this boss keep hitting our DPS? This is how we kept wiping earlier.’
Anyone who knew what was really happening could have unleashed a torrent of abuse at Kang Minseo, and she wouldn’t have had a leg to stand on.
Yet, remarkably, Jeong Hana didn’t type a single word. She calmly kept the DPS players’ health at the right levels, though it wouldn’t have been surprising if any of them had suddenly dropped dead.
“The moonlight always makes us stronger!”
“Ah! There’s the line! Everyone! I’m going to survive this time!”
- Aren’t you gonna die again?
- lmaoooooo
- Here comes the big one lol
- Is Minseo getting her skull cracked again?
As the mechanic began, Kang Minseo grew genuinely nervous.
She had already failed at it ten times.
She hadn’t managed to get past this part.
The boss threw the molten metal in its left hand at Daydream.
“It’s on me! It’s on me! Fuck! On me!”
Sizzzzle! Fwoooosh!
A purple ground effect appeared beneath Daydream’s character. A glowing, burning effect began moving clockwise around it.
When that effect reached twelve o’clock, the molten metal would explode with a bang and deal devastating damage.
Knowing that, Daydream stayed as far from his allies as possible and held his position.
Bang!
The molten metal exploded, instantly leaving Daydream at almost no health.
“Ah, heals! Heals, heals! Heals! Some heals! Support, hurry!”
Daydream screamed, but Jeong Hana was healing only Kang Minseo.
“Come on, I’m gonna die...”
Despite his grumbling, Daydream kept pouring damage into the boss without pause.
But he immediately noticed something strange.
‘What? Why am I doing less damage?’
Before he could find an answer, Kang Minseo began losing health, unable to withstand the boss’s repeated attacks.
“Ah, I’m dying... My health... Ah, cooldown. Cooldown! Cooldown! Please, anyone! Just! Save m... Ah!”
After screaming at the top of her lungs, Kang Minseo finally accepted that all her skills were on cooldown. At the very last moment, she put her hopes in the random chance of blocking a basic attack, only to die anyway.
“Ah, I don’t think we can...”
Free of the tank at last, the boss tore through the three remaining DPS players, then killed Jeong Hana as well.
“It seems the moonlight grants you no blessings.”
《Garena the Temperer》
『Remaining Health: 65%』
- Wiped again, huh?
- lmaooo
- But Minseo, you said this time was different lol
- Well, you did take off more health~
“Ah... Shiiit...”
Kang Minseo sighed as she clicked the resurrection button.
“Ah, can we not do this? Can we not? Seriously, is it impossible? What a waste of all that waiting.”
“Ah, that’s a shame. Our support seems good, though.”
“They didn’t heal me earlier, but did we do something wrong there? My damage wasn’t going through.”
The party members reappeared outside the dungeon as ghosts. Grumbling, they trudged back inside, found their bodies, and resurrected.
“Ugh... Still, let’s give it another try. I’ll use another potion, too.”
Kang Minseo had thought things would be different with Jeong Hana. A little hurt, she put her hands on the keyboard.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「Healer, we’re going again right away.」
Kang Minseo didn’t want to watch another party fall apart.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「No.」
「You guys don’t seem to know how to do this at all. I’ll explain.」
“What the hell? Look at that attitude.”
Daydream reacted sharply to Jeong Hana’s messages. He was already well known for his bad temper.
- what?
- lmao what’s this?
- Just straight-up declared that none of you know what you’re doing lmao
- is this for real????
“Come on, what do you mean we don’t know how...?”
Having suffered her eleventh failure, Kang Minseo felt wronged.
It hurt all the more because the chat had also been giving her grief, insisting she was the problem.
[DreamGunner]
「Who do you think you are?」
Jeong Hana ignored Daydream’s message completely.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Tank, first you need to hold aggro properly.」
「You’re not doing that, which is why the Mage and Gunner keep getting hooked.」
“...What’s aggro?”
“What’s aggro, Minseo?”
“What is aggro?”
“Oh, I have no idea. English is so hard. I can’t make sense of it.”
The unfamiliar word sent question marks flooding through chat, but Jeong Hana pressed on.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「Don’t use Taunt right after you Charge.」
「Once you have five stacks of Sunder Armor, keep using Shield Slam and hit Revenge whenever it’s available.」
「And don’t panic and blow all your defensive cooldowns.」
“Uh... Uh... Has this person played a Shield Warrior, too...?”
Genuinely surprised that Jeong Hana seemed to know her skills better than she did, Kang Minseo typed.
[Ssangmun-dongFireShield]
「But Guts, what’s aggro?」
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「?」
Aggro.
By now, it was a word everyone knew.
But in a world without Lost of Fantasy, the concept of “aggro” was something strange and unfamiliar.
[PissBloodAndIllRipYourGutsOut]
「There’s something called threat.」
「In your skill descriptions.」
With some effort, Jeong Hana managed to explain the concept to Kang Minseo.
Footnotes:
“National-level” references Solo Leveling's exceptionally powerful National Level Hunters.
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