NAME Mina
JOB Swordsman
LV1
HP132
MP80
My party member, Mina, is a swordsman who fights with his sword as his weapon.
Swordsman jobs are assigned the role of attacker.
So with poor means of attack, I can play the role of tank and Mina as an attacker.
That's what I thought. I was holding down a big frog with a shield in a swamp field a long way from my classmates.
Not much of a gameplay, but I can't help it.
I don't have Town (Taunt) skills or Stopping skills.
I have to execute the physical stops I used to make to my players and MOB opponents in VRMMO.
"All right, do it"
"Ooh, ooh..."
Pushing the big shield from the top to front of the MOB monster Big Frog, he pierces the sword several times while Mina shows a slight hesitation.
Then Big Frog cramped as he ejected blood from his body, eventually stopping moving and turning it into white smoke.
I checked that. I open the menu screen and list the contents in the item box.
There was a Big Frog carcass and a Class F demon stone in my item box.
When you return to town later for gold, you get an extra 50 gold per piece of Big Frog meat and 30 gold per F-Class Demon Stone.
It has been confirmed that such a quest was in the requested good offices called Adventurer Guild.
The Big Frog that comes out here is basically acting solo with a Crusade Rank of F-Rank, and I don't really care if my fellowship is weak and my kind is attacked by someone - I mean, they don't bother with ADD (reinforcements), so I chose this place as a hunting ground.
He also said that Big Frog sometimes flies decapitated mucus, but if he held it down from the top like this, it wouldn't be a problem.
"... with 3 EXP? We need 10 more to level up."
"Wow..."
Plus when I checked for experience and whined up, I got a weird voice with a sinister look like Mina didn't like it very much.
Maybe the blood is pulling too real.
I didn't think hunting in Earth would be as egregious as this either.
This is also an understandable matter that Ground is not a VR, but at the same time, I am not convinced that the drop items are automatically stored in the item box.
I don't know how to interpret the menu, the status, the item box.
Fair enough.
I can't help thinking about that.
What we have to do now is level up.
So I just stopped right around the corner, pushing my shield again toward the Big Frog and calling Mina.
Sometimes it's hard to jump and hold it down, but it's not even that quick of a MOB.
We defeated each one lightly and reliably, increasing our experience and money.
"... hmm?
And that's when a weird group came from behind the swamp.
At the beginning, there are covered humans running, and a dozen or so big frogs chasing it.
They're getting closer to us.
"... No way... MPK?
MPK (Monster Player Kill).
That method of intentionally collecting MOBs and forcing other players to kill them crossed the back of my brain.
This is the hunting ground I chose because I was purchasing information in town that MOBs around here would never be attacked in groups.
Yet it just seems intentional that all that number of MOBs is solidified.
"We're getting away! Mina!"
"Huh? So, but-"
"The number of those big frogs is a mess!
Until now, I was hunting one at a time, so I haven't even taken any damage, but I'm not sure I can protect Mina if I deal with a dozen of them.
I don't have provocation skills because I'm not a warrior or a knight.
Then it is the Damage Dealer (DPS) Mina who will be targeted if it becomes a mass battle.
"Ah..."
I don't see the face of letting her die here.
I thought so. I take Mina's hand and run.
"Ku......!
But the man in the leading mask had faster legs than us.
The mask turns toward us, but it gently overtakes us.
"... Huh?
And the mask disappeared neglectfully.
I don't know what the hell happened.
But I could only understand that the masked...... player (...) disappeared from front of me.
Also, I guess this confirms the MPK.
As for whether he was a player or not, it's my guess because he was indistinguishable because he kept his face hidden, but I can assure you that that mask came to kill us.
So I ordered Mina to break this predicament.
"... Mina keep running like this. I'm gonna take down the Big Frog."
"Huh!? Well, then, so am I."
"You're in the way. Get out of here."
"Nah."
Get your hands off Mina, who has such a stunned look on her face, and I'll rush out for the Big Frog.
I know you're talking about tightness, but if you don't, you're not going to get away with it.
Besides, I'm pretty sure it would be safer to fight alone.
"Let's go!
While I run, I open the item box and change my shield and stick.
Low offense. It'll take some time for me to defeat the MOB, but hopefully eventually win.
Big Frog looms in front of me.
"Ugh!
I wave a stick at one giant frog that came just around the corner.
I knew I wouldn't die from a single blow, so I persisted in beating the first one I attacked.
In the middle of it, he stands around not to be crushed by other MOBs pushing from left to right, blocking him with a big shield, and restraining him with a stick.
But I can't afford not to get attacked with a dozen of them surrounded by MOBs, and I get a hit from the enemy behind me.
"Gu!"
But that hasn't been a lot of damage.
My HP gauge was reduced by about a dot on the current attack, but I was confident that I would be fine with a few dozen more shots of this.
But that margin also shakes slightly.
When I wondered if the three Big Frogs had made a different move than before, they spit black mucus at me.
I've never seen this attack before.
Two pieces of mucus could have been prevented by a shield, but only one piece stuck to my body.
Then I started to feel my body move a little dull.
"... 'Heels'!" Cure "!
Though I don't know what bad status I've gotten, I wield healing magic and healing magic on myself.
... did not heal.
"Knock..."
The magic did work.
And yet my HP doesn't recover, and my body's dullness doesn't seem to heal.
I finally took down one of the first big frogs I attacked after forcing my slightly heavy body to move and I try to use therapeutic magic again.
But it still doesn't heal in any way, and he wields a stick just like that to defeat the next MOB.
Cure is a form of healing magic that cures state abnormalities, but if this doesn't cure me, I'm going to have a different Bad status than poison or paralysis right now.
I mean, as we looked in advance, it's a reduced ability - an attack with reduced status, I guess.
This is unusual or irrelevant, so I can understand what the situation is now, but it was unexpected that my HP would not recover by 1 with 'heels'.
Normally I think it will heal a little even if there is no MND, is that what this other world (game) rules do?
Is it possible that the 'heel' here is a formula that can be freely determined for power in MND?
If so, I might be able to use it.
"Sin!"
"Nah..."
And Mina's voice echoed as she analyzed such a thing.
Mina was rushing to me surrounded by MOBs, slashing one MOB with a sword.
Why did you come when I told you to run?
"Silly Yarrow! Run away! Mina!"
"No! I can't believe you're running away alone! Let's take them down faster than that!
Mina yells back at me again when I bark her voice.
Mina defeated one MOB while saying so.
"Ku......"
Tage moves toward Mina after doing that.
Tanks must accumulate Hate (hostility) and always be targeted (target) by enemy MOBs.
But if the attacker keeps attacking without darkness, Hate builds up and MOB flows over you.
It's an act that bad attackers do well.
I saw Mina while scratching a cold sweat for fear of it.
…………
But the MOB just attacked me, and I don't feel comfortable going to Mina's.
"... heh"
Seeing this situation made it possible for me - I thought that the healing magic might be focusing quite a bit on me, and I kept doing more healing magic on myself.
There are three main patterns in which Hate gathers from MOB.
The first is to attack the enemy MOB, the second is to use the Town (Taunt) skills that tank positions possess, and the third is to use healing magic.
There are many other things to look at in detail, but these three are employed by most MMORPGs.
In other words, the MOB in front of me now uses healing magic to accumulate Hate on me, which is no longer flowing towards Mina.
My healing magic had zero healing, but I think maybe using healing magic is a big hate in itself.
Then maybe there is no concept that Hate builds up depending on the amount of recovery.
Because it wouldn't be as magical to accumulate Hate as a township skill on a boulder.
That's what I think. I find a glimmer of hope and a series of healing magic.
Though the MP was about to run out along the way, I bought it in town in advance and drank the MP recovery pot I had in my pocket and continued to outrun it as I loosened up.
"Gu!?
But along the way, I felt something like pain in the healing magic I used after receiving black mucus again, and my HP went down.
I saw that. I have one certainty about this phenomenon, but I also drink the HP recovery pot and keep fighting.
And even after that, we kept fighting, and by the time we didn't know how much time had passed, we finally succeeded in defeating all the Big Frogs.
"Ha... ha... what's it like! You can do it!
…………
Me and Mina both survived.
But I could care less.
I open the menu screen to check my status.
NAME Sin
JOB Monk
Lv2
HP 104/159
MP2/128
STR0 (6)
VIT 50 (56) 55
AGI 0 (-2) -3
INT0
MND 0 -1
DEX 0 -1
LUK 0 -1
2 Status Points Remaining
The figures for VIT, AGI, MND, DEX and LUK were down by 1.
This would be due to an abnormal state of the status-degrading system that cannot be treated with 'Cure', the effect of the mucus thrown up by the MOB earlier.
... now you can try.
"... 'Heels'"
"Geez!?
…………
When I tried to heel Mina, she raised an odd voice.
Also, I saw her HP shredded.
You can say this is definitive.
I was hoping maybe when the recovery was 0, but now I can fully grasp the specifications of the heel in the ground.
"... I can't believe you have a damaging heel"
I learned something good.
I guess the MPK bastard was willing to kill us, but this time he's lucky to save us the trouble to verify.
I keep thinking by making my mouth nibble.
"Hey, why don't you just leave something out of the blue and apologize?
"Oh, bad"
"It takes... well. So, what were you bumping into and talking to yourself about earlier?
"I'll even talk about it on my way back to town. But before I do, I'm going to teach you a little bit about managing Hate as an attacker. Be prepared."
"Oh, be gentle..."
I decided I could use this phenomenon and decided to interrupt the leveling and turn back to town.
"And then... why did you turn back? I thought I told you to run.
"That's why you're telling me you don't want to run away alone!
"You can say that..."
Death in the earth is heavy.
Now that there is no concept of going back to death, which should have been crocodile, if you die completely, you will never come back to life again.
That means permanent deportation from Earth, plus the ability we have… Something associated with it will somehow disappear at that time.
This information is not yet available to the public, but it has been communicated to all our school students and clocloclock players.
We don't want to die.
Probably the same for Mina.
Yet she turned back.
That's why I was asking why I did it.
"... or did you seriously think I was going to die or something?
"What do you mean?"
"Forgot my psychic powers?
".................. ah"
But my questions were answered very lightly.
Her abilities are [gravity control]. It's easy to float in the sky with it.
So if I decided that I was in danger, could I fly into the sky and make an emergency exit?
Thinking about it makes me laugh until just now.
My cheeks get hot remembering myself trying desperately to protect her.
"But well... I'm glad you were worried about me... thanks"
"... you're welcome"
As I turned that way from Mina and scratched her head, she has expressed her gratitude.
I'm sorry I seem to distract you a little, my cheeks get hotter and hotter.
"Anyway, let's just get back. I'm gonna prove to you that I'm pretty useful from here on out."
"No, I don't think it's useless... don't leave me alone! Already!"
This is how I turned back to town with Mina following me with an angry voice from behind.