It turned out that Tsutomu had been wrong right from his initial assumptions. He had heard from Misil that Lorena, Silver Beast’s White Mage, had succeeded in learning the long-range <<heal>> in just half a day. With Lorena belonging to a mid-tier Clan, and her being able to do it so easily, Tsutomu had assumed that the act of using long-ranged healing skills itself was not all that difficult.</heal>
However, Lorena could be considered more experienced in this line of work, having explored God’s Dungeon since six years ago, meaning she had been in the scene before the discrepancy of treatment between Job types had been a thing. Back in those days, Enchanters still saw prominent activity, and Silver Beast even had one among their ranks. That Enchanter of theirs had shown Lorena their long-ranged support skills, which had given the latter a clear image of what she needed to make, and on that same day, she had gotten to see Tsutomu shoot a <<heal>> at Misil on the Monitor at the Guild.</heal>
In comparison, Eunice had become an Explorer four years ago, and by that time, two of the most influential faces of Enchanters had already essentially retired. One had joined the Security Team, and the other had taken over their family’s business. As a result, there were no longer any notable Enchanters, and in turn, the job had stopped showing up on the Monitors altogether. As such, Eunice had never really gotten to see a long-ranged support skill in action, and since she had not paid full attention to the Fire Dragon battles, Tsutomu’s use of <<heal>> had left no lasting impression on her.</heal>
Considering those factors, it was not possible for her to fully understand the long-ranged <<heal>> within a day; the most she could do now was the vapor-like aura. Tsutomu, after realizing that, thought back to what he had said earlier, and guessed that he must have sounded quite sarcastic.</heal>
“Sorry. I might’ve missed some crucial information there,” Tsutomu said as he bowed to apologize to Eunice and Leon.
“……”
“Ah, well… She’ll just have to keep practicing, yeah?” Leon said as he glanced at Eunice, feeling awkward and with his wolf ears down.
Eunice, taking Tsutomu’s bowing as him apologizing for her lack of ability, had tears welling in her eyes and was seeing a whole lot of red, to the point at which one would think she would be punching Tsutomu any second now. She was just about overwhelmed with emotions of rage and shame.
The exploration continued on after that, with Eunice practicing how to shoot <<heal>> along the way… and it did not take long for the team to run into trouble. It happened during the second wave of monsters in a multi-wave battle.</heal>
“Ugh…”
The party’s Tank, Barbara, still was not able to fulfill her role; that fact was especially evident during multi-wave battles against monsters. Seeing how she had her hands full dealing with just one Orc, Tsutomu was at his wit’s end as to what could be done.
Barbara’s level was sixty-five, the same level as Garm, and among the highest level range of all the Heavy Knights in town. As such, Tsutomu had initially held expectations for her to be decent at her role, if not on the same level as Garm.
But her performance turned out to be poor enough that one could clearly assert that her proficiency did not correspond with her numerical level. In practical situations, she would lose to Orcs and Kungfu-garoos’ critical attacks rendering her unconscious and locking her into a Stunned state. Wyverns could also easily bite her, destroying her equipment. And she was worse than Tsutomu when it came to controlling <<fly>>.</fly>
[She’s like a volatile minefield…]
Her level and status ratings were high, but her movements did not match up with them at all. In Live Dungeon, such players were christened as bombs under the surface — in other words, a minefield. Tsutomu, while observing her shabby movements, grumbled to himself and shot her a <<medic>> each time she was Stunned.</medic>
“Wyverns from the north. Orcs from the west,” Diniel, who had been using <<eagle eye="">> to search the vicinity, informed the team of more incoming monsters, topping off an already sticky situation.</eagle>
The ones remaining here currently were seven Orcs and one Wyvern. The team was unlikely to wipe out the monsters before the third wave arrived, and the same probably would go for the fourth.
If this was a standard party of five, the team would still be able to salvage the situation despite one Tank out of commission, but this time, it was a two-Healer setup. If they were to lose their Tank now, continuing with the three-role composition would put them all at the risk of death. Tsutomu used <<fly>> to ascend and cast <
Additionally, Leon decided to reimburse Tsutomu the cost of Blue Potion he had used with a larger share of the loot, lifting quite a hefty weight off of the latter’s chest. On the way back to the Clan House, Eunice asked Tsutomu to teach her the various moves he had used, but Tsutomu flatly refused to, saying that she ought to be able to use long-ranged skills first.