Chapter 21

Chapter 21

Level 2 Player

Holy Saintess (3)

‘An expression full of resolve.’

Jin-su made a bitter smile looking at Shin Su-a’s face.

‘I firmly put the shackles on.’

For Jin-su to form a party with other players, security maintenance was the most important. Stats beyond common sense or skills like Shadow Summons are possible to some extent if miracles overlap.

‘But having 2 status windows is impossible no matter how much miracles overlap. There’s no need to receive unnecessary attention.’

Jin-su was satisfied with the fact that he secured Shin Su-a who was called the Holy Saintess before the regression as a party member.

‘Let’s increase the speed a bit more.’

He intended to climb to Floor 51 the moment he obtained all the hidden pieces and achievements he could take on Floor 50.

‘It would be better to catch that guy if possible. But I can’t keep staying on Floor 51 just looking at that one guy.’

Hunting that guy is something possible only if a considerably long time or luck follows.

“Can I go say farewell to the party members later? I can’t leave the party suddenly without a word.”

“Do so.”

“Instead, I can go hunting together today.”

“Then let’s depart right away.”

Jin-su also wanted to check the ability of Shin Su-a who changed class to healer.

‘Well, I don’t know if I can confirm.’

Because on Floor 50 level, except for the gatekeeper, there existed no monsters of a level that could injure Jin-su.

‘Still, since there are blessing, recovery, protection, purification, and dispel skills, it will help to some extent.’

Of course, even so, it would be far short of the Shadow Healer Summon in terms of specs.

‘At least it’s fortunate that it’s holy type.’

Probably if it was dark type, it would have fallen to a perfect lower compatibility of the Shadow Healer Summon.

Because just as there exist skills that only dark-type healers can learn like curse, decay, worsening, and absorption, there also exist skills that only holy-type healers can learn like blessing, protection, purification, and dispel.

***

Jwaak! Seogeok!

“Kuwoeek!”

Shin Su-a’s two eyes were dyed with astonishment.

‘To hunt monsters so easily like that.’

If she met that number of monsters when hunting together with comrades, she would have had to run away unconditionally. But Jin-su wasn’t.

He too easily defeated an enormous number of monsters alone.

That wasn’t the end.

‘What are those summons.’

The combat power of the summons consisting of knight, warrior, assassin, archer, mage, and healer was truly enormous.

Especially in the case of the healer summon, it was an upper compatibility of Shin Su-a in all aspects.

‘At this rate, even if I’m here. There’s no help at all.’

Shin Su-a’s anxiety strengthened.

The timing to use recovery didn’t come out well. At least it was fortunate that the healer summon is dark type so it can’t cast blessing, protection, purification, and dispel skills.

The problem was the point that the blessing, protection, purification, and dispel skills Shin Su-a casts are too low level so there’s no big effect.

The buff effect of blessing was weak like dust, the defense of protection was thin like paper, and purification and dispel skills didn’t even show the sign of using the skill at all.

‘I’m really of no use at all. The reason he gave me the healer class change book wasn’t because he hoped for help.’

It was clear that he gave the healer class change book that can stay in the safe rear so as not to get greatly injured or die while going around hunting monsters as a vanguard for no reason.

The self-esteem of Shin Su-a who had fallen to the bottom and barely come up was once again driven into the ground.

‘Still, I can’t just stay still.’

Shin Su-a used the skills she had with all her might.

‘She’s doing well.’

Jin-su observed Shin Su-a concentrating on support from the rear while hunting monsters in the vanguard.

‘It’s not for nothing that she was called the Holy Saintess.’

The casting timing of recovery, blessing, dispel, and protection skills was extremely amazing. It’s the first battle after changing class to healer. She’s never practiced.

Even so, she casts recovery and protection skills at knife-like timing, re-applies blessing as soon as it disappears, and uses dispel and purification skills before the curse of the orc shaman comes in and exerts effect.

‘She’s gifted.’

The eye that reads the overall flow of battle was excellent. If experience accumulates here?

‘Later, it will really be a big help.’

But right now, it wasn’t much help.

Because Shin Su-a’s skill levels were too low. Recovery comes in like dust and protection is no more than paper. The blessing effect was too weak, and dispel and purification had more cases of failure than success.

‘Still, she’ll eat a small amount of experience points.’

In the case of healers, raising the level is on the quite hard side compared to other class groups. Because unlike warriors or mages, they can’t directly hunt monsters. But the system doesn’t give experience points simply based on who killed the monster.

‘How much you contributed to the monster hunt is important.’

If such a system wasn’t equipped, classes like tankers or healers would have been completely impossible to level up.

‘Shin Su-a has few advantages when partying with me.’

Because Jin-su is too strong so the hunting contribution drops too much.

‘But I can’t hand her over to another party.’

He already made the contract too.

‘It’s not that there’s no solution either.’

Jin-su hunts an overwhelming number of monsters compared to other players.

Like the saying that dust gathers to become a mountain, if the experience points that enter because the contribution is low are few, solving it with quantity is enough.

Just like right now.

The Shadow Mage used a magic attack skill.

Hwareureuk!

Kwaaaang!

The monsters herded by the Shadow Assassin and Shadow Archer melted all at once upon receiving the Shadow Mage’s attack.

‘As expected, herding hunting has good efficiency.’

Jin-su smiled satisfactorily and once again gave the instruction to the Shadow Assassin and Shadow Archer to herd monsters.

***

As the day darkened, the hunting ended, and Jin-su and Shin Su-a returned to the village.

“Then I’ll go and come.”

“Okay.”

Shin Su-a parted with Jin-su. It was to meet the party comrades.

‘What on earth is that person’s identity?’

Shin Su-a who parted with Jin-su recalled the shocking experience of today.

‘How can he be so strong. Especially why are those summons so strong.’

Each one of the summons looked stronger than combining several ordinary player parties.

‘I didn’t do much but the level rose enormously.’

It was several times faster speed than when hunting together with party members. But there was no sense of achievement.

‘Nothing has changed.’

Before, she raised the level with the help of party members, and this time she only raised the level with Jin-su’s help.

Creeak!

Shin Su-a opened the lodging door and entered inside. The party members were chattering among themselves and didn’t even know Shin Su-a came.

“I’m out.”

“Oh, you came.”

“Sit quickly.”

The party members welcomed Shin Su-a while lightly waving their hands.

“I have something to say.”

“Yeah? What is it?”

Shin Su-a who contemplated for a moment opened her mouth with difficulty.

“I’m trying to leave the party.”

“Huh? You’ll leave the party?”

“Why?”

“Suddenly what kind of words are those? Unni?”

“Noona, is it because of the words earlier during the day?”

As the party members were flustered, Shin Su-a felt better.

‘Although it’s already a decided matter.’

She had to meet the younger sister Shin Su-jeong. Also, since she even wrote the Mana Contract, the result can absolutely not be reversed. But she was happy about the fact that the party members didn’t want her to leave the party.

“That’s, I decided to enter another party. How it happened is...”

Shin Su-a unfolded the story within the line of not exposing information about Jin-su.

“Aren’t you being scammed? Why would that person want to party with you?”

“Unni, you might die without even a mouse or bird knowing.”

“It’s suspicious. Because it’s us, we took care of you. Why would another person show such favor.”

“I know you want to go to Floor 51 a bit faster. But if you rush with your skill, you die as is.”

“Or is it that the skill is on the side of falling enormously so trying to use noona? Then you might not even break through the gatekeeper and die.”

A feast of words that seemed to worry but had thorough disregard and contempt for Shin Su-a laid at the base continued.

If it was before meeting Jin-su, she would have felt even more sorry to the party members upon hearing such words. But now it wasn’t.

“I’ve already decided. I’ll leave the party.”

At Shin Su-a’s words, the party members furrowed their faces.

“Well, then it can’t be helped. Although stupid...”

“I hope you’re not scammed, Su-a unni. Although it seems you’ve already been.”

“Noona is older than me but really can’t judge the situation.”

The party members didn’t hold Shin Su-a anymore.

“Then I’ll go.”

Shin Su-a hurriedly turned her body.

“Really a stupid bitch.”

“Rather, it’s well done. I couldn’t even chase her out because of feelings so far. Since she says she’ll leave herself, how good.”

“But now who will do the chores and who will carry the luggage? There were subtly many convenient points because of unni.”

“That’s right. Today because Su-a noona was missing, only I had a hard time. Just because I’m the youngest, only me is worked.”

“Let’s just hire one porter. Then we don’t have to share experience points and points so rather a gain.”

The voices of the party members as if telling her to listen well reached Shin Su-a’s ears. Emotions of regretting or feeling pity weren’t felt. Rather, it was an atmosphere of sneering or feeling relieved.

‘Was I not left but abandoned.’

She knew that she becomes an obstacle in the party. So she took on all kinds of chores to be even a little help.

She thought the party members regarded her as a close comrade, friend, noona, unni, younger sister. She thought she had to do her share with all her might to repay that.

‘It was a misunderstanding.’

She was merely a troublesome burden and chore worker within that party.

***

“Why is your expression like that?”

Jin-su furrowed his face looking at Shin Su-a who returned with a half-dead expression.

‘Did she get cursed as a traitor or something?’

The thought came that if it was a party together from Floor 1, it could be so.

“You won’t abandon me saying I’m useless, right? No, you can’t abandon even if useless? Because there’s a contract?”

Then at the following words of Shin Su-a, he was dumbfounded.

‘What on earth is this. Perhaps?’

In Jin-su’s head floated the appearance of the party members who openly disregarded Shin Su-a.

‘Stupid guys.’

Shin Su-a’s party was a party equipped with a proper composition. There were tanker, close-range dealer, long-range dealer, and healer. The problem was that the party members made Shin Su-a not a healer but a close-range dealer.

‘It’s not particularly strange.’

Choosing a good class change book is a person who has skill and speaking rights within the party.

‘Shin Su-a also looks far from such things.’

But if it was a truly properly united party, they should have given a healer or mage or at least an archer class change book to a player who doesn’t do their share in close combat.

Because if a player excellent in close combat ability changes class to healer, mage, or archer, the party’s power drops greatly.

‘Healers or mages also need unique sense and head rotation, but it doesn’t show that much in the early stages.’

If it really doesn’t suit the aptitude, after obtaining a higher class change book later, just change the class, that’s enough.

‘Even if not a healer class change book, if they gave a mage class change book, she would have been enormously active.’

Shin Su-a’s close combat ability and sense seemed completely dud, but the eye that looks at the overall battle situation from the rear and the sense of knowing how to use skills in the right place were the best.

In Jin-su’s view, healer suits Shin Su-a the most, but even if she chose mage, it was certain she would have exerted top-tier skill. Even if she changed class to archer, as long as the talent for archery isn’t bottom, she would have done above basic.

‘Well, ideal and reality are different.’

How many cases are there that thoroughly run based on practicality and reason in operating a party?

‘Most are swayed by force and power and politics. Also, parties aren’t maintained forever.’

Even parties that shared life and death for a long time and boasted a sticky relationship like family often break for various reasons.

‘When that time comes, what’s left is only one’s own skill.’

Therefore, when a good class change book or skill book comes out, distributing while rationally calculating the gains and losses of the entire party was close to impossible.

‘Because even if efficiency drops and it harms the entire party, wanting to have good things oneself is human instinct.’

Jin-su slightly raised the corners of his mouth.

“Yeah, I can’t abandon you. No, I absolutely won’t abandon you. I’ll work you hard for a long time so don’t worry uselessly.”

Upon hearing Jin-su’s answer, the emotion of fear disappeared from Shin Su-a’s two eyes.

“Thank you. Really thank you.”

Shin Su-a’s face was dyed with deep relief.