[Party]
When the party was formed, HouseDeedPlease’s nickname color changed from white to pink.
It was a warm hue.
A color reminiscent of cherry blossoms, and perhaps that was why some Eleven Wizard players would say to a potential party member, “You, be my Sakura.”
At first, that phrase was met with all sorts of criticism—otaku ♡♡, gross, lame—but eventually, for some reason, it became a trend.
When the trend reached its peak, someone shouted through a megaphone: “I dedicate this song to the angelic healer who deigned to party with someone as lacking as me. You are my Sakura~”
And that player’s guild briefly became famous. The guild’s name was [Springgda].
– [Party] InnocentMage: Thank you for choosing me.
– [Party] InnocentMage: I won’t disappoint you. I’ll safely escort you to the exit.
– [Party] InnocentMage: My Sakura.
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: lol yes
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: Pull yourself together and do well. I’m watching lol
– [Party] InnocentMage: Yes, my Sakura.
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: lololol
– [Party] InnocentMage: Oh, and
– [Party] InnocentMage: I accidentally called you here, but
– [Party] InnocentMage: You need to make a key, right?
– [Party] InnocentMage: I already made mine, so let’s gather key materials together.
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: No
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: I have materials. I’ll make the key now.
He has key materials? Did HouseDeedPlease also plan to enter this dungeon today?
Just as Ji-han thought that, HouseDeedPlease typed.
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: Yeah, I can make like a hundred keys.
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: I was bored last time, so I gathered as many materials as I could.
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: It was ♡♡ obvious.
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: I went to interview my ancestors that day. They were all doing well.
“A hundred…”
Ji-han recalled how long it took to gather materials for one key.
With his InnocentMage character, it took about 15 minutes. So a hundred… Well, let’s stop thinking about that.
As expected, a healer from the server’s top guild was different. The momentary shock gave way to excitement.
– [Party] HouseDeedPlease: Got the key.
– [Party] InnocentMage: Okay then.
– [Party] InnocentMage: Let’s enter.
Soon, the InnocentMage and HouseDeedPlease characters were enveloped in white light before the dungeon gate.
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– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: InnocentMage
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: I’m suing you.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Of course I’ll hire a lawyer.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: I don’t care about leniency.
– [Guild] GodController: ?
– [Guild] CrossroadBlossom: Omg…?
– [Guild] InnocentMage: No, wait lol ㅠㅠ
– [Guild] InnocentMage: If you put it that way ㅠㅠ lol
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Are you laughing right now?
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: I’m throwing up and it’s a mess.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: My face is half gone, and even our dog Poppy doesn’t recognize me and is barking.
– [Guild] InnocentMage: lol ㅠㅠㅠ
– [Guild] GodController: What happened?
– [Guild] MangbungExpert: What did you two do?
– [Guild] CrossroadBlossom: Don’t tell me you had a real fight… ㅠㅠ No, right?
– [Guild] InnocentMage: No, absolutely not.
– [Guild] InnocentMage: Absolutely not.
– [Guild] InnocentMage: It’s not that. InnocentMage and HouseDeedPlease just ran Hel Palace a little while ago.
Hel Palace was short for the dungeon ‘Hella’s Palace.’
– [Guild] InnocentMage: We cleared the dungeon faster than expected. And then…
– [Guild] InnocentMage: Suddenly she started acting like that… That’s all, really.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Hey, don’t make it sound so easy.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: What kind of light mage clears a dungeon at that speed?
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Anyway, I’m half dead from sudden motion sickness, so
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Prepare to go to court for attempted murder of a party member.
– [Guild] GodController: Lol
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: If you don’t want to go to court, right now you…
– [Guild] InnocentMage: Want the house deed?
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Don’t interrupt.
– [Guild] CrossroadBlossom: lololololololol
– [Guild] MangbungExpert: lolol
– [Guild] MangbungExpert: The taxi was too fast, so you’re suing? That’s legit.
– [Guild] BlackOfBlack: Wait, how fast did you clear Hel Palace?
– [Guild] InnocentMage: Hold on, the playtime.
Ji-han checked the play time, i.e., the time spent in the dungeon.
– [Guild] InnocentMage: 11 minutes 9 seconds.
– [Guild] CrossroadBlossom: ??
– [Guild] MangbungExpert: ?
– [Guild] GodController: Just the two of you?
– [Guild] InnocentMage: Yes.
– [Guild] BlackOfBlack: ???
– [Guild] MangbungExpert: What the….
Question marks flooded the guild chat. Ji-han bit his lower lip gently as he looked at the monitor. Not out of dislike, but embarrassment.
– [Guild] CrossroadBlossom: Did Hel Palace… get an easy mode? Was there a patch I missed?
– [Guild] BlackOfBlack: Wow.
– [Guild] GodController: That’s crossing the line.
– [Guild] MangbungExpert: InnocentMage, is your class really Light Mage?
– [Guild] InnocentMage: Yes, it is.
– [Guild] MangbungExpert: Is Light Mage a Hel Palace bully?
– [Guild] BlackOfBlack: Probably not.
– [Guild] BlackOfBlack: Wow, seriously.
– [Guild] BlackOfBlack: This is possible…?
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Lol.
HouseDeedPlease, as if waiting, jumped in and poured out messages.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: No, as soon as we entered,
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: The garden area, right? He swept all the mobs there with AoE.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Then in the maze,
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: While his AoE was on cooldown,
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: He put on speed gear, flew through the maze, and picked off trash mobs one by one like whack-a-mole.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: At the end, the boss was the real… for real.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: It was key.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Do you know InnocentMage used Sharrow to sever Hella’s arms?
– [Guild] CrossroadBlossom: Sharrow?
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Yeah, Shining Arrow.
Sharrow was one of the Light Mage’s offensive skills, short for ‘Shining Arrow.’ As the name implied, it shot a glowing arrow at the enemy.
But a mage who chose the path of light—a Light Mage—rarely used Shining Arrow in the game. Because…
– [Guild] GodController: Isn’t that skill manual targeting?
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Right.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Annoying manual targeting as hell.
Shining Arrow was a very tricky skill to use. Unlike normal magic skills that automatically hit the enemy when you press the hotkey, Shining Arrow required the user to manually click the point where the arrow should land with the mouse cursor after pressing the hotkey—a process called ‘targeting.’
But this targeting was the problem. It was incredibly difficult.
You had to click a very tiny point, and that point wasn’t fixed—it kept moving, as if trying to avoid the user’s cursor.
One day, a player raising a Light Mage posted an inquiry on the game’s official website. “Hey, what the ♡♡ is this skill? Why does this ♡♡-sized dot keep moving? While dodging boss attacks, how the ♡♡ am I supposed to click this? Is the operator a ♡♡?”
In response, the Eleven Wizard operator kindly answered: “Hello, adventurer who struggles daily to save the continent from calamity! Shining Arrow, one of the Light Mage’s single-target attack skills, is a skill that deals high damage to enemies when targeting succeeds. Then, until the continent escapes calamity, please continue your wonderful adventures! Thank you.”
The player who posted the inquiry left 22 comments filled with creatively filtered profanity (e.g., “f♡♡k”) in response to the operator’s reply, and was banned from posting on the inquiry board for one month for violating the rule against excessive profanity.
After that, the Shining Arrow skill was abandoned.
It almost became extinct. If not for Ji-han.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: I’m not lying at all.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: That was the first time I saw a Light Mage using Sharrow in Hel Palace.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Hella is a spider, so she attacks like ♡♡ with eight arms.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: Like crazy.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: But he didn’t get hit even once, dodged everything,
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: And used Sharrow to sever all eight of Hella’s arms.
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: I thought I was dreaming,
– [Guild] HouseDeedPlease: So I slapped my cheek. Now my neck’s twisted.