Middle School Girl Party.

Kwaang!!!

The giant axe and Arang’s shield collided.

Because I used a defense skill, I didn’t take much damage, but Arang’s HP decreased.

,Let’s stay calm.

Chanmi, the leader of the middle school girls on the surface, calmed her pounding heart and recalled what she had studied about LORE today.

I studied LORE to have fun playing games with Arang and my friends.

Overall, I looked for strategies for newbies.

Chanmi, who believes in doing things thoroughly, tried hard even though it was her first game, so she looked up a Goblin Dungeon strategy video. It became useless by accident, but the things I studied were not useless.

,Start dealing damage when the boss starts looking at Arang.

Chanmi, holding the sword in her hand, ran forward after confirming that Arang was fighting the boss.

[At first, I thought everyone would be too scared to do anything, but everyone is still attacking?]

-To be honest, I thought Arang would die because they couldn’t do anything and were just stamping their feet kekeke

-They’re working harder than I thought?

-Especially Chanmi, I thought it would be difficult because she’s a melee dealer, but she’s working hard

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,Oh… Chanmi is doing better than I thought?

When you see Chanmi, anyone would say she’s a diligent class president at first glance. She’s neat and pretty.

She seems like a kid who would never get angry in her life, listen to her parents well, and be diligent.

So, I thought it would be difficult for her to play LORE.

Of course, you might think I’m being prejudiced.

But it’s difficult for a 16-year-old girl to hold a sword and attack a giant monster that’s 3M tall, right in front of her eyes.

I don’t know about ranged attackers or healers because they’re somewhat far away, but melee dealers fight monsters right in front of them, and the pressure is enormous.

In fact, the Orc Chieftain is a very easy field boss to catch in a party.

Basically, there are no normal attacks that ignore aggro.

You just have to be careful when he swings his axe 360 degrees every now and then, and there won’t be any major accidents.

But that premise is that I have perfect control over the Orc Chieftain’s aggro.

Even if you’re a tanker, it’s hard to block all of the field boss’s attacks.

Maybe the healer’s mana will run out faster than we can catch the field boss.

That’s why the dealer has to work really hard, and the healer has to manage their mana well.

In other words, if we can successfully finish this fight with the Orc Chieftain, we can say that we understand LORE’s combat system.

,Woooaaaaaaah!!!

The Orc Chieftain roared so loudly that the ground shook and slammed his axe down on me.

When I was Soma, I would have avoided that attack, but as a tanker, it’s not a good choice.

In LORE, you can’t just grab aggro with taunt skills.

Just blindly dodging and attacking? Then your aggro will decrease and you might lose it to the dealer.

To increase your aggro in LORE, you have to deal damage and take hits less painfully.

Instead of just getting hit, you can reduce the damage and get a high aggro by timing your shield and attacks like parrying at the right time, or by deflecting attacks with your weapon or shield.

Kwaang!

An axe as big as my body collided with my wooden shield.

In reality, it doesn’t make sense to block that huge axe with a wooden shield, but this is a game world.

,Hyap! Hiyayayayat! Heuaaaaat! Die!

I was expecting Chanmi’s cute battle cry, but instead, it was Chanmi’s berserker-like battle cry. You wouldn’t think she’s a middle school girl, attacking like crazy.

,Arang-ah, it’s dangerous! Onee-chan will heal you! Trust only Onee-chan!

Sojin, who is the same age as me but calls me Onee-chan from behind, is healing me.

In fact, Sojin has the biggest breasts among our kids, no, in our middle school, so she deserves to be called Onee-chan.

She’s bigger than most adults.

,Where the sun shines, may the great blessing of fire be! Ignite the flame of creation and summon the flame of victory! Fireball!

In LORE, there’s no separate incantation when casting, but Hyewon is diligently saying such incantations that come out of another world fantasy.

Hyewon was talking about romance fantasy, and Nakyeong and I were talking about seme and uke, so it seems like her chuunibyou hasn’t ended yet.

It’s already a fun middle school girl party.

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-I’m jealous.

-Let me join that party too, ㅅㅂ

-The scent of girls is crazy, I’m confident I can do well if I play in a party like that too

-Seriously, how are all the kids so pretty, cute, and virtuous

-Won’t they be looking for 4 people later when the subjugation war opens?

-kekekekeke Look at Hyewon’s incantation

-She’s doing the incantation without stuttering and well?

-It’s rare to see a mage with that kind of concept kekekekeke

-Did she practice hard usually? kekekekeke

-kekekekekeke

,Everyone is doing really well considering it’s their first time playing LORE, but Sojin-nim’s mana is already gone.

Arang was receiving almost 50% less damage than an ordinary tanker thanks to her crazy physical abilities, so she had less pressure on her HP.

But Sojin, who wasn’t used to LORE yet, used heal without hesitation whenever Arang’s HP decreased even a little.

Because of that, Sojin’s mana was running out faster than expected.

,Huh? Why can’t I use heal!? Eek! Huh? Arang’s HP…!

Even though Arang was blocking, parrying, and deflecting, Arang’s HP continued to decrease, but Sojin’s staff didn’t light up.

,Sojin-ah, you need to check your mana!

Chanmi checked Sojin’s mana in the party list after confirming that Arang’s HP wasn’t recovering.

Sojin’s mana was completely empty.

,That’s right…! Oh, what do I do…!?

,Let’s retreat for now! Arang-ah, Hyewon-ah, Sojin-ah, everyone fall back!

Everyone nodded at Chanmi’s words and got out of the red border, which was the field boss area.

But it wasn’t easy for Arang, who was in charge of aggro.

The moment Arang was about to get out.

,Arang-ah, it’s dangerous!

The Orc Chieftain’s axe split Arang in half.

,No!!!!!!

In LORE, which is rated for ages 15 and up, Arang’s body didn’t split cruelly, but a large red afterimage appeared on Arang’s body.

And it exploded into particles.

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Of course, I didn’t think we would clear it on the first try.

As soon as I resurrected in the newbie village, I ran hard to where the Orc Chieftain was.

I’m low level and don’t have any items, so my stamina is low, which is a bit frustrating, but it’s not far, so I was able to arrive quickly.

,Arang-ahhhhhhhh! I’m sorryyyyyyyyy!!!

As soon as I arrived at the place where the middle school girl party was, Sojin hugged me tightly and cried.

,Huh? What’s wrong?

I patted Sojin’s back and looked at the kids.

,Well… It was scary to see Arang die.

I nodded at Chanmi’s words.

It’s definitely scary to see someone die.

That’s why LORE makes death as mild as possible.

When I died just now, my body wasn’t cut off and I died, but a red afterimage appeared on my body and then I died.

,But you confirmed that I’m alive like this, right? So don’t worry.

,Uung… I understand…

,Then let’s give feedback before we do it again. Sojin-ah, what do you think Sojin made a mistake on this time?

,Umm… I kept using heal even though it uses mana?

,50-point answer. Is it difficult because you’re not used to RPGs yet?

I was looking at Sojin, who was still sulking, and thinking about how to raise Sojin’s tension.

It hasn’t even been a week since I became friends with Sojin, so I don’t know everything about what she likes, what’s good, or what her personality is like.

,Keueueung… I’m weak at things like this.

At school, there were many times when I felt a little awkward because there were many topics I didn’t know about when talking to the kids.

In the case of boys, there’s no problem because they just talk about games, but girls have a variety of topics.

To be honest, it was quite difficult to keep up with the stories and tension of 16-year-old kids with the mental age of a mid-30s person.

,I don’t know about when I’m on my period, but usually, I just nod or clap and that’s it…

In fact, even I think I’m a boring person, but Chanmi and the girls in our class strangely say that I’m very funny.

Both boys and girls say that they’re happy when they’re with me, but I didn’t understand it at first.

But I understood after seeing a gallery post in the past.

I think it’s similar to the reason why people call the celebrity Cha Eunwoo a comedian.

,Then will showing aegyo give them strength?

I grabbed Sojin’s hand and put it on my cheek.

Sojin reflexively started touching my cheek.

Sojin is thinking hard while touching my cheek.

I heard that Chanmi, Sojin, and Hyewon all study very well in our middle school.

So, if I give them a little time, they’ll probably know the answer, right?

,I felt scared that Arang’s HP was decreasing, so I think I used it in a hurry even though I could have used it even if her HP was low.

,That’s right. It’s natural to be inexperienced because it’s still our first try. Our goal is to grow together, so let’s all cheer up!

,Uung!

Everyone is good at studying, so the feedback was fast.