Chapter 110 – Mindset (3)
15. Mindset (3)
‘Destroy the dungeon itself… To the end too? Sincerely?’
While Hendrick was thinking to himself that Illumina was making a stupid noise, her head was spinning quite complicatedly.
‘Of course, money isn’t my goal either, and I don’t need fame or anything… It’s insane to try to get rid of fear.’
It wasn’t really Illumina’s narrow-minded idea. The dungeon was a symbol of Salem. Like a lofty mountain range, like a vast sea. It has long since become such a ‘natural’ phenomenon that she can explore the depths according to her abilities, but cannot conquer or possess them. From the point of view of the average person, Hendrick’s words were ‘I’m going to flatten that mountain range. Seriously.”
But why.
Is your heart beating faster?
– The way to destroy the dungeon itself. Are you thinking of weaving that journey into your own story?
‘It’s absurd. It’s obviously absurd.’
– Your finale will be the story of a 4-man band of warriors who defeated the longest fear. Illumina including you.
‘Why. Are you excited?’
Illumina is a minstrel. She is a wanderer who loves all funny stories, lovely stories, sad stories, scary stories and great stories. At a young age, she ran out of the village alone and wandered for a long time. It was dangerous for her to roam alone, but she was not weak. She was able to protect her own body with a fairly nimble body and a well-coordinated vapa.
She heard many stories and sang many stories, but there were no stories of warriors who would break through the dungeon to the end. Even though they came to Salem, where many people from various backgrounds gathered, there were no heroes, only gold hunters.
When I was young, there was no hero I vaguely admired. She was disappointed So close. But that was it. Even if there was no real hero, it was okay even if there was no heroic story. There are as many stories as there are many different people.
Her love of fictional stories in no way diminished her sense of reality.
‘It’s obviously not realistic, but it shouldn’t be. There’s no basis or anything, it’s just that the goal is like that.’
Story.
A story no one has ever heard of.
It’s not a story that already exists, it’s the only story that you can weave and end. Still, it’s not just a story, it’s a story that can spread widely and become famous.
The man in front of me, named Hendrick, penetrated the ultimate romance of bards and the romance of Illumina at once.
With her heart beating faster and faster, her dreams began to invade reality.
“Kaya Lang Shey is a great teammate, but she is difficult with three. The dungeons are nasty, insidious, and shitty. It hasn’t been that long since the corps of warriors was founded, but they’ve already been in danger of dying several times, and the deeper they go, the worse it will get. The road we walk is a thorny road. No, not just thorns, but deep pits and fires. Even so, we will walk to the end without giving up.”
I didn’t like being in pain. She herself was a bard, not a warrior. She was not a person who suffered directly, but a person who expressed the story of those who suffered more vividly, richer, and more dramatically.
“Illumina, I want you to walk the road with us.”
But there is no overcoming without hardship. A hero without trials was an impossible existence. Since there is no story to convey, the communicator outside the story had to be the person in the story.
In the prologue of the new story, and in the first bar of the score.
The warrior’s hand pierced and was asking for a handshake.
Let’s hold my hand and draw this story, this sheet music together.
Illumina grabbed Hendrick’s outstretched hand as if possessed.
“Huh. Yes. Let me weave your story let me sing Let me walk with you.”
“Now it’s ‘us’ story, Illumina.”
“Our story… !”
“Welcome to HAT, Illumina.”
**
[Illumina]
Race/Gender: Male Female
Class: Bard
Level: 4
Max HP: 14
Attack power: 5 to 9
Defense: 1
Speed: 5
Knight Regeneration/Awakening: 10%
Reconnaissance Probability: 22%
Positive traits: Natural diva (main buff value +1, mentality recovery +1), harmony (does not reduce mentality of allies), survival instinct (increases evasion rate when HP is below 50%)
Negative Characteristics: *Exercism (Exercise at regular intervals. Mentality decreases if not resolved), Clumsiness (Accuracy rate decreases slightly)
When I made her a recruiting offer to her, she had no answer, but her profile popped up.
‘I don’t know the standard for rising… I wish I could see it like this right away when I was in Ar… Tsk.’
Physically, as expected, it was gruesome, but it was still level 4. In The Long Terror, the beast race correction was probably human-based maximum health +1, attack +1, defense +1, and mentality -1, so if it wasn’t for that, the defense would have been 0. Is it fortunate that the speed remains the same as 5?
However, she possessed the jackpot characteristic of being a born singer. It was a bard-limited tier 1 feature. Harmony and survival instinct were also pretty good traits. I was able to compensate for my weak physical condition to some extent.
‘Heat… What is this… Is there a way to solve it alone?’
I decided to ask about it later without being rude, calmed my pounding heart, and checked my skills.
‘Please! Ordinary skills and mediocre composition are fine, so I hope there are nothing strange!’
[Skill 1. Melody of Courage]
– All allies’ mentality recovery +2
– All allies ATK +2
– Accuracy of all allies +6
[Skill 2 Melody of Vitality]
– All allies’ mentality recovery +2
– Gives all allies HP recovery +1 per turn
– Grants +1 mentality recovery to all allies when attacking.
[Skill 3 Attack Melody]
– All allies’ mentality recovery +2
– Critical Rate +5 for all allies
– All allies speed +1
[Skill 4 Perfection]
– Deal 4 attacks that always critically hit random enemies.
-Additional effects occur depending on the melody played before the end
– Melody of Courage: Additional damage correction
– Melody of Vitality: Decreases the defense of hit monsters
– Attack Melody: Decreases the speed of monsters hit
– Unable to use skills for 4 rounds
“…”
I’m at a loss for words.
In a good way.
‘Fuck, the minstrel we couldn’t see at all when the three of us were looking for it with our fucking eyes on, this kind of foolish woman that Ar brought back is a high-performance jobber!’
Offense, Chezen, Speed 3 buff combinations that are nothing to blame, and special attack that can be said to be a special attack.
Must be caught unconditionally. Must!
‘Arya, sorry and thank you! I’ll take care of you more!’
While waiting for Illumina’s answer, I stimulated the sensibility of a bard who likes more dramatic stories. I wrapped her words as convincingly as possible, asking that she join the ranks of warriors.
He told the truth that he would suffer if he joined our corps of warriors and that the dungeon was a scary place, but he gave off the nuance that we could only go deeper into the dungeon if you joined us.
True warrior.
Don’t you want to see And don’t you want to be
‘He’s a bard who is happy with HAT. There’s no way I hate a true hero.’
My attack was successful. Illumina smiled brightly and grabbed her hand with both hands.
Aww you are pretty
“Welcome to HAT, Illumina.”
Really.
**
The joining of Illumina brought more changes than expected. There was a trivial fact that the number of people staying at the inn increased by one more person, and the cost of lodging and food increased, but the skills she possessed also changed.
“Show me all your combat nun skills.”
“All, you mean?”
“Yes.”
Illumina’s buff skills were better than I thought, so there were a few skills that were useless, such as Kaya’s skill 1 sacred battle and skill 4 battle nun’s penance, which were not used except for God’s will and climax.
‘Repent… It’s a skill that I couldn’t buy without tears when I saw it before.’
Thanks to various rewards, he was able to live lightly now with a few hundred gold coins. I could feel the difference between then and now.
‘With Illumina coming in, my mentality has eased. Fitness is… It has a melody of vitality, but it still needs a healing or protection skill.’
No matter how Shay held up with her high defense and her self-heal, the rest was not. In particular, if Illumina was unlucky, she could have wandered between death and near death in a single shot even if she was full blood.
It was unreasonable to buy a really good skill at the warrior training center, but I was able to find something more useful than the basic skill.
[Repent]
– Grants ‘stunned’ status abnormality to the specified monster with a certain probability
– When a monster is afflicted with a status abnormality ‘stunned’, an attack with a -50% correction value is applied.
-When a monster is not afflicted with the status ailment ‘stunned’, it restores the health of her allies in front of her by a -50% modifier
[Battle Sister’s Vow]
– Reduces HP by 20% of max HP
– Becomes in a state that heals the ally with the lowest current HP by 20% of the damage dealt to the monster (the ally with the second lowest HP recovers half that amount)
‘Good. Very good.’
It wasn’t an ending level skill, but compared to the previous skill, it was the difference between heaven and earth. It is also equipped with a CC machine, and a skill that can indirectly heal Illumina.
“It is 45 gold coins. Warrior.”
45 gold coins.
It wasn’t a small amount, but I was able to pay with a light heart.
Flex did not end here.
“Please show all your bounty hunter skills.”
“All right.”
Now, it was my turn to change my skills.
**
“Master. Master! I’m here!”
“What else?”
“Isn’t it too harsh to say what else to a student?”
“Isn’t that what that disciple would say, not even praying to the goddess and begging for a decent bard?”
“Oh! It’s solved!”
“… What?”
“I’m here for a different job this time.”
“Whoa… This guy.”
Shay was confronting her own mentor at her Eustitian Monastery. She was wearing armor, not a dress or a nun’s uniform, and as soon as she finished her light greeting, she took on a serious expression. The warrior commander, who had been bothering him, corrected his stance.
“Master.”
“What.”
“I want to learn that skill.”
“… Are you serious?”
“Yes.”
“Surely, even though you walked the path of a crusader, you were a child who valued beating heretics more than protecting someone.”
“That’s right.”
“Has there been a change of heart?”
“No. It’s both.”
“Both?”
The commander crossed her arms and looked at Shay sharply.
“It is a skill that cannot be learned with such a half-hearted mindset.”
“I’m not halfway.”
“The hatred in your heart will never fade and can never be replaced. Unless that changes, this skill cannot be properly learned. Even if you learn, it is only half done.”
“You can learn properly, Master! I really want to learn! Really!”
“Words can do anything. Then I’ll ask. Shay, assuming that the one who brutally murdered your parents and tormented you for a long time is right in front of her… Can you stay in place without running away? In order to protect someone, can you put up with the outburst of your hatred?”
“…”
“Even if the person you want to protect isn’t your precious person, that can happen. If I can swear to Justitia without shame, I’ll teach you even if it’s on my personal time.”
“I am… I have no intention of protecting everyone. I don’t even have the ability to do that. Only two, no, now three.”
Shay replied, holding the rosario in her hand.
“Three people. As long as you can keep three people, it’s fine. If you have to protect those three… I can stand it. I will be patient. I will keep it. Even if it means the end of my life.”
