I heard that a friend of mine became a healer. Is being a healer any good?
It's not my story, it's my friend's story, but I'm curious because he really likes it
Healer? The healing amount is the worst;; I think 1 heal will restore 1 health point? It's not a typo, it's the real number 1... Potions are much better
What are you talking about? It would be better, right?
You have to spend money on potions
No?? You have to spend money to hire a healer
If you like it to the point where you're a healer, how ruined is your life...
Honestly, I'd rather add one more dealer than a healer party.
Even though potions are expensive, if you bring enough, they will automatically refill
Slap.
I leaned back in my chair weakly.
Awakening is a jackpot, right?
If you awaken and become a hunter, you can have both wealth and fame?
But to me, it was a story from another country.
"...Are you kidding me?"
I awakened as a healer.
And that too, at S-class.
***
This morning, I woke up as an S-class, of which there are only 5 in Korea.
S-class hunters are literally special hunters.
Banks were extending loans to higher-level professionals, and credit card companies were busy lobbying to give S-class hunters cards with no limits.
'The moment I woke up, I felt like I was flying.'
◆Name: Han Ji-woo
♦Level: Lv1
◆Characteristic: Support
◆Occupation: Priest (Healer)
◆Rating: S
*S-class privilege: Healer laptop provided
*S-class privilege 2: 100 free messages per day
*See details
My heart fluttered every time I saw the 'S' in the status window.
The moment I registered with the Korea Hunter Association, I had the happy thought that scouting offers would come flying in from all over.
I picture myself carrying an unlimited credit card from my credit card company, boarding a first-class flight, and heading out to the gates of other countries.
I burst out laughing on my own.
But scouts are a piece of shit.
The expression on the face of the Korean Hunter Association desk staff member currently in front of me was quite different from that of a scout.
"Yes, you're an awakened person? Did you see the status screen? What does the characteristic say?"
"Ah... It says support."
"Yes, you have a support talent. What's your occupation?"
I felt unnecessarily intimidated by the desk clerk's businesslike attitude.
"...I am a priest."
"If you're a priest, you're a healer. Try touching this."
"Oh, yes."
As I reached for the machine the desk clerk offered me, a blue light flashed.
The desk clerk nodded when he saw that.
"You have passed the magic test. Here is your hunter license."
"Oh, yes... thank you."
"Yes, thank you for your hard work."
Is this the end?
I looked down at the desk clerk blankly.
The desk clerk tilted his head.
"Do you have any questions?"
"Oh, that's... I heard there's an original grading procedure. When are the gradings measured?"
The desk clerk smiled.
Hey, isn't that a laugh?
"Ah, after the magic power test, only attackers and defenders can do the grade check. Those with support characteristic
s must make a separate request to have the check done. However, hunters with support characteristics have to pay for th
e check. It costs about 10 million won per time. Would you like to do it?"
I've often heard that support trait hunters are treated as leftovers.
I didn't know it would be this serious.
Hunters with offensive and defensive traits are free, but you're charging them money? 10 million won?
"...it's okay."
The desk clerk smiled brightly and bowed his head as if he had expected this.
"Okay, next person!"
That was the end.
I left the Hunter's Association, walking weakly and unsteadily.
"Wasn't the healer a noble?"
-Healer = Noble.
It was like a math formula that you had to memorize every time you played an RPG game.
Because of the damn heal amount, healers were treated worse than rocks on the street. Among the support traits, the ones that are treated relatively well are the buffer series jobs.
"No, but I'm an S-class. Isn't that different?"
I thought about going back to the Hunter Association and shouting, 'I'm S-class!'
I didn't have the confidence to face that employee's mocking gaze again.
Of course, the employee wasn't really laughing.
Am I feeling intimidated for no reason?
And there were also some that I gave up on after seeing the amount of healing I just checked in the skill window.
"20---? 20?"
The healing amount of an F-class healer is level 1.
Well, it's 20 times higher than Class F. Considering that the potion increases by 150 or 300 each time you drink it, it was a really beggarly amount of healing.
In simple terms, if you heal while your HP is 1, your HP will recover 20, but if you take damage reaching 21 in the meant ime, you will die immediately.
"Even potions are automatically consumed when your HP falls below a certain level...? Healers... are the worst."
As soon as I got home, leaving my disappointment behind, I immediately joined the hunter-only community. Actually, one of the reasons I wanted to become a hunter was because it was a community exclusive to hunters.
Tata tak.
As soon as I entered the number on my hunter license, my membership was approved.
Hunter-only community 'Hunter S Hunter', I searched hard for information about the healer profession on Huntshun.
Even for major jobs like gladiator with dealer traits or summoner with tank traits, tens of thousands of search results come up just by searching.
The healer itself had almost no content.
The only information that is occasionally available is sad messages of support like, "Healer, fighting!" and "Healer, don't cry!"
The ID of the writer who left the cheering message was 'Cleric'.
In the Hunter World, healers are treated as tools.
When they awaken as healers, many of them just get jobs at regular hospitals.
He was a pretty good doctor, being able to treat human wounds without any surgery.
But although he could cure people, he was blind and had no medical knowledge.
It was like a real mobile potion that just drained magic power by placing a hand on the wounded area under the instructions of a doctor or nurse.
Even the amount of healing was not good, so I had to sit next to him all day and pour out the healing.
Because they sit or stand for long periods of time, the occupational diseases of healers include lumbar disc herniation, plantar fasciitis, and varicose veins.
"This is miserable."
I need to hunt to level up my healing skill, but he won't even join my party.
It was a vicious cycle.
If you awaken as a healer, you give up being a hunter itself,
Most of them were just living as ordinary people.
"...But let's check out the special benefits."
On the desk was a 'Healer's Laptop' that I had received as a special privilege.
They say that you get special privileges when you become an S-class, and it seems to be true.
But the word 'special privilege' also made me sigh deeply when it came to the word 'healer'.
Wasn't it an expectation in itself?
All laptops are the same, what kind of healer is this?
Swish.
I opened my laptop and pressed the power button.
Ring ring.
The laptop screen turned on with a booting sound.
Magic injection?
What is that? How do you do it?
When I placed my index finger on the fingerprint button, I was able to log in successfully.
What appeared on my laptop screen was a blank screen.
There was literally nothing there, just a status bar at the top.
I moved the mouse and clicked them one by one.
"Click for details."
<0/3 people can be treated at the same time>
Concurrent treatment?
Healers can usually heal one person at a time.
It was also one of the reasons why I was pushed out of the gate attack party.
Attacks pour in from all sides at the same time, and you get hurt at the same time.
But you're only treating one of them?
Even if the arm of the guy next to you falls off and bleeds, it is human nature to feel that getting hit on your own foot hurts more.
In the end, it means that it is a position perfect for getting cursed at.
"Treating three people at the same time is a bit expensive. It doesn't seem so bad."
Of course, simultaneous treatment alone cannot change the position of a healer full of prejudice.
Even if you treat 3 people, the healing speed is closer to a snail's crawl.
If you drink the potion, you will recover instantly.
The only downside to the potion is that it has a high chance of leaving scars or causing internal diseases.
The healer's healing speed is slow, but it is different from the concept of recovery from potions.
It literally restores it to its original state.
However, because it takes a long time to heal, it loses its competitiveness in real-time battles.
"The next menu is... the note/status function?"
When I clicked on the note/status button, the names of hunters registered with the Korea Hunter Association appeared in a list.
How did you know they were hunters' names the moment you saw them?
Choi Joo-hyuk
Kwon Do-ha
Park Tae-woo
Guraon
Yoo Chae-ah
Han Ji-woo
As a citizen living in South Korea, I cannot help but know the names of the country's S-class hunters.
Even my name was added at the very bottom.
"Still... I feel a little better."
An S-class hunter like Choi Joo-hyuk, who was ranked as one of the top 20 hunters in the world.
It was clear that it was the family's honor.
Mobile potion? I've already forgotten about that kind of criticism.
"This is precious."
Click, click.
I took out my phone and took a few pictures with the camera.
And then I pressed
Click.
*Name: Choi Joo-hyuk
♦Level: Lv74
◆Characteristic: Attack
◆Occupation: Gladiator (close range dealer)
◆Rating: S ◆Status: Dying
◆ Stamina: 105/4423
◆Magic power: 1/2354
Choi Joo-hyuk's status window popped up.
You said you passed level 70 a while ago, but I can't believe you're already at level 74.
As expected, he was the strongest gladiator.
however,
"What? Dying? Dying right now?"
Doesn't dying mean you're on the verge of death? Is this real?
*Name: Choi Joo-hyuk
♦Level: Lv74
◆Characteristic: Attack
◆Occupation: Gladiator (close range dealer)
◆Rating: S ◆Status: Dying
◆ Stamina: 87/4423
⚫Magic power: 1/2354
Oh oh oh.
My stamina was gradually decreasing.
It's decreasing in real time.
It used to be 105, but now it's down to 87.
What is this, Choi Joo-hyuk is really dying? The strongest gladiator?
87 became 75, then 54, and before I knew it, it had dropped to 32.
"No. I have to save you. What is this? There has to be a reason for showing you this!"
Suddenly a pop-up appeared on my laptop screen.
Ah! Only then did I remember the skill window I saw earlier.
The skill 'Remote Treatment' that I just passed over because I was only looking at it briefly.
I just let it go and thought, "Can I just let it go and treat it?"
Is this really what teletherapy means?
"Use remote therapy!"
"Use the treatment!"
Only then do the puzzle pieces start to fit together in my head.
The contents of the status window we saw earlier!
*S-class privilege 2: 100 free messages per day
"Note function!"
I immediately lowered the Choi Joo-hyuk status window.
As the scroll went down, several buttons appeared.
The 'Note' button that looks particularly large at that time!
Click!
As soon as I clicked the message button, a message window popped up where I could send a message.
It's not a one-time thing, but rather a message window that you can go back and forth between.
It was a message window that reminded me of the old NateOn.
"Oh, this is not the time."
I shook my head and hurriedly came out of my thoughts.
There was no time to indulge in such cheap sentimentality when Choi Joo-hyuk was dying.
Even if you sent a note to other places, no one would believe it.
Choi Joo-hyuk, a S-class hunter, is dying, please help me.
Rather, it was more likely that I would have wasted time just explaining how I found out.
I have to step forward myself!
"I'll save you, Choi Joo-hyuk! Wait!"
I typed on the keyboard at a breakneck pace.
Tata tata tata tata tak.
Same time.
Choi Joo-hyuk was blankly looking up at the sky.
The gate's characteristic red waves rippled.
'...Is this the end?'
We're out of potions and we haven't brought any party members.
It was a simple mistake.
Since I reached S-class, I thought I could conquer A-class gates on my own.
In order to not be ashamed of the nickname 'The Strongest Gladiator', I had to keep making achievements.
But it was pride.
As expected from a Class A gate, numerous monsters rushed in.
At first, it seemed like we could win somehow.
Since potions would drop intermittently when you kill monsters, I thought I could survive by using the potions I brought and the ones I obtained.
But the moment I killed the final boss monster, I let my guard down.
'You let your guard down. You're not even qualified to be a hunter. Choi Joo-hyuk.'
I couldn't avoid the claw attack that the boss monster launched as it was dying.
I barely managed to parry the claw attack with my sword, but I didn't see another claw flying from behind.
The heart narrowly escaped, but was buried deep in the stomach.
I glanced down at my stomach.
I wish I was lying down.
If he had been standing, his intestines might have spilled out of his torn stomach.
I didn't have many regrets.
Fighting monsters and dying inside the gate was the dream and romance of every hunter.
'but...'
That S-class boss who killed my younger brother.
It was a regret of mine that I never got to see that boss again.
For that, he rose to S-class and was selected as one of the top 20 hunters in the world.
If I had just done a little more, I could have joined the S-class gate conquest party.
Do I have to leave like this, with it right in front of me?
My eyelids were getting heavier and heavier.
'Is this how I die?'
Choi Joo-hyuk's eyes slowly closed.
But then, a loud but cheerful voice rang in my ear.
-I got a note!