Just A Healer

Chapter 88: Restoration and Unmaking

January 27, 2049
4:15 AM

Status: In-Game
In-Game Time: 10:19 AM
Location: Quorinotia Peak, Yadaria Mountain Province, Country Continent of Axis

[Lucas Galileo]

"This... account of mine seems to be getting more upgrades as time passes. But while using it, why do I feel like I'm so powerful, yet so useless at the same time?" I asked, eagerly waiting for what he would reply.

The Chief Programmer just stared at me blankly and sighed. Nandyan na kasi si Kuya at ang members ng department niya para i-distract ang atensyon ni Nagathom paalis sa akin. Like my brother, they too will also ascend their accounts to Divine Status. Conrad and Daniel are equally powerful Divine players near me. Is there any use for my account to be upgraded more?

"Is it really necessary for me to have...these kinds of upgrades?"

Hindi pa rin siya sumagot nang sabihin ko 'yon at nakatingin lang.

"My brother, who became the Sun Sovran just less than an hour ago, is already there to catch Nagathom's attention. He came up with the idea of using himself as bait to make Nagathom think that my brother owns the Ember Amulet instead of me. Why didn't you guys do that in the first place? Like, use someone else to grab his attention?"

"First of all, Mr. Mizutani, me and the people working under my department are programmers and developers of AI's. We're not used to making these— hiding plans and battle strategies. I'm a stranger to those aspects. So forgive me if my initial decisions appeared as... unwise to you. Leimhyark Online is supposed to be a game, not a government monitored area. But so much has already happened, that led us to this point. That's why requesting your brother's aid was the best decision I've made, out of all my indecisive actions."

"Sabi ko nga."

"What?" tanong niya dahil nag-Tagalog ako.

"No, it's just an expression."

Oo nga naman. Hindi siya pulis o sundalo, kaya 'di siya masisisi kung may mga plano siyang kaunti ang resulta o parang wala sa lugar. Kaya naman agad nakagawa si Kuya ng split-second decision na maging distraction kay Nagathom, ay dahil trained siya para sa mga gano'ng klaseng sitwasyon. Conrad also agreed because he's also trained to think that way.

Magkaiba ang field na ginagalawan nilang dalawa at ng kay Han Young-Rae. Hindi kataka-taka kung talagang 'di tugma ang mga plans nila. Well, I should've known better, before asking him things like that.

He might have reached his wit's end at some point since he asked for my brother's help. I've witnessed my older brother in action, and he indeed has excellent qualities of a tactician. He's a Guild Master and a Police Department Chief, after all.

"You mentioned that you felt both powerful and useless at the same time, in that account. So, do you want to be reverted back into a simple Air Axisian healer?"

Natigilan ako sa tanong niya at napaisip. Gusto ko nga ba bumalik sa pagiging healer? Hindi na kasi ako healer ngayon. Isa na akong Seraph, isang fully Divine Player.

"Truthfully speaking, you aren't useless as I have observed. What you're feeling now might be rooted from you not doing or acting upon your purpose, in this world... in this game. That's different from being useless."

Siguro gano'n nga. But there were many times that my power as a Divine Player wasn't utilized to its fullest. In the battle against the Sovran of Calcification, I wasn't able to do anything. Nawasak pa rin ang Prima. In the Divine Quest of the Sun, my brother only told me and Conrad to "support" him. Nang maging Divine Player ako, ang tanging naging ambag ko ay puksain ang mga field boss na naglagalag sa Greida; pagkatapos no'n, wala na.