translator: xiin
editors: apricot & juurensha
The introduction portion of the dungeon storyline came to an end during their conversation.
“We’re about to start fighting the Shimmering Moon Bat, so stop talking for now and get ready.” Canvas Shoes drew everyone’s attention back to the dungeon with his reminder.
The Divine Spring Caves was the last dungeon of the ‘Legend of the Divine Springs’ series in the novice villages.
There were a total of three bosses in the dungeon, namely the Shimmering Moon Bat, Cursed Life Stone, and the Soul of the Divine Spring. Although it was a low level dungeon, the drops were popular even among the intermediate level market. Because of this, the Divine Spring Caves had been the most popular dungeon for newcomers for the last two seasons and had also become known as the ‘holy land for alt accounts’.
However, although this low level dungeon wasn’t all that difficult, it had only been added in version 2.0. For Jiang Shi, who had quit the game in season one, it was a completely new dungeon.
With Jiang Shi’s modest and cautious personality, he naturally had to muster up a sense of pressure and pay serious attention to their surroundings when he saw that they were about to officially start clearing the dungeon.
Canvas Shoes and the others were all around level 80 and didn’t hesitate to immediately rush over when they saw the Shimmering Moon Bat appear in front of them.
Under such a fierce assault, the boss’s HP began to decline at a rate visible to the naked eye.
The intensity of their DPS was quite impressive.
Jiang Shi had originally joined their team as a healer. At this moment, he watched as the newbie player in the team also followed after everyone else to join in the bloodbath up front, leaving him alone in the back.
After casting a small healing spell on everyone, he stood back in a calm and unhurried manner and started to observe.
Things were quite leisurely for a while.
At the end of the day, this was a group of fixed teammates from the same guild who’d come to farm materials together. The knight in Canvas Shoes’ team pulled the boss and held its aggro very steadily in the first stage, and the AOE damage skills from the ranged team members were perfectly aimed away from their teammates, allowing the rest of the team to avoid taking any extra damage or losing health.
Additionally, they had the small heal skill that Jiang Shi had cast on them, which carried a continuous healing effect. The overall state of the team appeared to be quite stable.
However, all of this only lasted until the Shimmering Moon Bat’s HP fell to 70%.
They then entered the second stage.
Continuous swarms of small bats flew out from around them and began to attack the team under the main boss’s command.
Canvas Shoes shifted his attention to deal with a swarm of bats, but when he lowered his gaze, he discovered a shocking drop in his HP values.
And it was also at this moment that he vaguely realized that something wasn’t quite right. “Why does it feel like the heals can’t catch up? Main Account, are all your healing skills maxed out? Why is the healing effect so weak?”
Jiang Shi saw that Canvas Shoes’ HP was about to bottom out under the siege of the swarm of small bats and unhurriedly gave him a passive Forest Protection buff that would extend the duration of his heals. Then, the green glow around his cross flashed, and he used Blessing Settlement to condense the remaining healing effect into one big heal just as the other party’s HP was about to reach zero.
Just this massive heal alone definitely qualified as textbook level timing and precision.
Jiang Shi then added some minor heal skills to the other teammates nearby before remembering to answer Canvas Shoes’ question. “Oh, I mainly play as a rune master, and most of my attributes are in Wisdom. I only have two points in Spirit, so the effect of my heals might be a bit weaker.”
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For healing professions, Spirit was undoubtedly an essential and important attribute.
When it came to heal nannies and heal daddies, the most important thing that was considered when judging whether they were strong or not was the amount of health recovered with each heal.
In the fourth season that Canvas Shoes had just played through, almost no light elf player from the era of second rank skills and onwards had chosen the rune master profession. So, he’d subconsciously assumed that Jiang Shi was a healer as soon as he saw him.
It wasn’t until this critical moment that he suddenly realized with the benefit of hindsight––Main Storage Account had stopped at level 40 and was clearly a returning player from the ancient times of version 1.0! Back then, rune masters and priests had been equally popular and hadn’t been on the verge of extinction the way they were now.
Canvas Shoes’ entire face was completely twisted in bitterness.
Although most accounts at level 40 were alt accounts, as long as it was a healing profession, like a priest, just casting a first rank small heal spell would be acceptable. But now, based on a rune master’s insignificant amount of heals, what kind of heals could they expect? It probably wasn’t even as much as their own ability to suck up health from their DPS, right?!
It could only be said that he’d been really careless.
If he’d known earlier, then he would’ve just asked one more question before recruiting someone into the team.
Currently, the entire world was filled with returning players, and as expected, all kinds of ghosts and monsters had emerged. Before this, Canvas Shoes had really never expected that they would even encounter a rune master who had played dumb to fill a healer position.
The knight player heard the conversation that had just taken place and spoke up bitterly to ask, “So, what should we do… disengage? Leave the dungeon and form another team?”
Canvas Shoes was also very torn.
He hesitated for a moment, but when the word ‘disengage’ was just about to reach his lips and be spoken aloud, he heard the cause of all this, Jiang Shi, open his mouth and say casually like it all had nothing to do with him, “It’s not a big problem. Keep fighting, I can heal.”
Temple Ghost had a temper that matched his straightforward personality. He’d previously adhered to the principle of blaming the team leader for problems with the team members and had never spoken up, but now, he finally couldn’t hold back. “A rune master healing for a dungeon? Who gave you the courage?”
Jiang Shi continued in the same understated tone. “We’re already here. Just give it a try.”
Temple Ghost: “.”
We’re already here.
The most irrefutable sentence.
Just then, a new wave of small bats flew out from the depths of the cave.
Seeing that the bats were about to pounce on the newcomer who was closest to them, the thing that Jiang Shi had been holding in his hand for an unknown period of time flashed with a red light. As the silent incantation progressed, the red glow expanded and spread out rapidly over the ground. Then, a cage of interwoven red beams suddenly rose up a short distance away from the newcomer, firmly imprisoning the wave of bats.
This unpredictable change of events caused the surroundings to suddenly be filled with the sound of hissing bats.
A rune field.
Although all players could use rune stones, rune fields could only reach their strongest potential with the optimal effect with the rune master profession’s skill bonus.
Canvas Shoes was also stunned by this series of actions.
It wasn’t until after Jiang Shi had taken advantage of the time when the bat swarm was under control to slowly and tenaciously restore the newcomer’s HP that Canvas Shoes realized what had happened.
A few seconds later, he gritted his teeth and made a decision. “We’re already at 40%, let’s give it a go! We’ll discuss it again if we wipe!”
Jiang Shi laughed, then used that same sentence. “Exactly. We’re already here.”
Temple Ghost covered his ears.
He felt like he barely recognized that sentence anymore.
On the other hand, the knight was very decisive.
He used a provocation skill and directly drew the Shimmering Moon Bat’s aggro back to himself. Then, he executed a beautiful 30 degree turn to adjust the boss so that it was facing the best direction.
Temple Ghost was a beast warrior. At this time, he swung his big axe and charged into the bat swarm that Jiang Shi had controlled, emboldened by the blood sucking ability that came with his Blood Explosion state.
Jiang Shi was certainly able to tell that Temple Ghost had chosen to enter Blood Explosion at this time for no other reason than to help lessen the pressure of needing his heals.
Although it wasn’t necessary, it was still appreciated.
The corners of his mouth tugged up, and he quickly gave the knight another heal just as the Blessing Settlement skill came off its cooldown.
At this very moment, another wave of bats began to gather.
A cage formed by interwoven red beams rose up out of nowhere and once again imprisoned these little monsters with unerring precision.
When the two previous waves of bats had appeared, Jiang Shi had paid special attention to the time interval and location of the spawn points nearby. Compared with his earlier move when saving the newcomer, this time there was even a vague hint that he was predicting the waves in advance.
And like this, with crowd control that could be considered perfect, the team naturally took significantly less damage.
He controlled the position of the bat swarms in a very particular way, basically taking into account all the operations of everyone in the team. He was perfectly able to avoid affecting Canvas Shoes’ DPS rhythm as he focused on his role as key DPS against the boss. At the same time, he also gave Temple Ghost an excellent environment in which to deal damage.
This made it so that Temple Ghost no longer had a single thing to complain about, and he was thoroughly immersed in the joy of the fight.
Although in previous runs, they hadn’t needed to move much when clearing this dungeon as experienced players, it was still a completely different experience from the present. With Jiang Shi to the side providing crowd control, guiding and gathering monsters with utmost care, it was just like having delicious food sent directly to their table and being able to enjoy it at leisure.
For professions focused on DPS, this was an unprecedented, godly kind of experience.
There was even a thought floating around in Temple Ghost’s mind that this was simply every DPS player’s dream support, a dream that all DPS players had! With a support like this, he would be willing to bring them along to clear a whole lifetime of dungeons!
Canvas Shoes no longer had to worry about unexpected dangers attacking the team and was even able to divert part of his attention to help clear the bat swarms.
After a while, he ultimately couldn’t help but ask, “Main Account, the control effect of this rune field is quite long. Is it a purple rune stone?”
Jiang Shi lowered his eyes and glanced over the pile of gold quality props inside his backpack. He responded casually, “Pretty much.”
Canvas Shoes marveled, “What a rich guy! I couldn’t tell!”
It could only be said that it was just that ordinary players like Canvas Shoes were not knowledgeable about their profession. Otherwise, they wouldn’t only exclaim ‘a rich guy’ and would likely call him ‘filthy rich’ instead.
Purple runes?
Any random rune stone that he pulled out of his bag, just based on their golden attributes alone, could be directly sold to the auction house despite being low leveled.
Jiang ‘Rich Guy’ Shi smiled and didn’t answer. He raised his eyebrows slightly and gave them a reminder. “The third stage starts at 30% HP, right?”
“Oh, f*ck me!” Only then did Canvas Shoes notice the faint blood red color that indistinctly surrounded the Shimmering Moon Bat. As he turned to run, he even called out to the knight: “Old Qi, hurry and come back! We’re at red blood!”
The knight mounted his horse and galloped back to meet up with everyone behind the boulder to the north west of the map.
After entering the third stage, the swarms of small bats that remained simply hissed a few times before dispersing.
The Shimmering Moon Bat didn’t chase after the knight who held its aggro but instead remained where it was. It let out a deafening scream, causing a stir in the surrounding springs.
Then, it gradually rose up into the air and hung steadily upside down off the top of the cliff near the center. The fierce light in its eyes grew even more intense.
“We’re in the third stage. In a bit, I’ll go and look for the weak point and attack it. Support, go with the knight and watch his health.” Canvas Shoes didn’t hear Jiang Shi reply after he spoke and anxiously followed up. “Main Account, no problem, right?”
“Mm. No problem.”
From the tone of voice alone, Jiang Shi, a level 40 returning player, sounded far calmer than Canvas Shoes.
After speaking, he didn’t rush to move towards the knight player, either. Instead, he continued to speak in that calm tone that implied that everything was under control. “Hold on, you just need to buy me ten seconds of time. I’ve found the strategy guide. Let me take a look at it, just one glance.”
Canvas Shoes: “……”
The rest of the team: “?”
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The author has something to say:
Everyone, in unison: You’re f*cking looking at the strategy guide now?!
Teacher Jiang: Isn’t it because we were too quick to enter the dungeon? Don’t be afraid, calm down, it’s a small occasion, just one glance.
xiin: Exactly. We’re already here. 
(so just keep reading…)
Thank you for the chapter!
thanks for the translation!! i tried to mtl this but i couldn’t understand a thing so i gave up after a few paragraphs
ohh… that’s really interesting to know – i guess it’s all the names & skills? i was originally thinking that there’s no real need for people who can MTL to read this novel since it’s been out for so long 😅
its definitely the name & skills. you can understand the words but put together it doesnt make sense
We’re already here…lmao! Thanks for the update 🤣❤️🤣❤️🤣
Ah yes. Good support is a dream indeed
Thank you for translating
Reading is also super power!
Thank you for your translation 💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛💛
Thank you for the chapter! Teacher Jiang is really bringing the food, chopping it up then serving it up to the DPS []~(￣▽￣)~*
reading in the dungeon 😭😭😭 HAHAHA TEACHER JIANG IS SO INFURIATING IN A FUNNY WAY
Wow thank you for the chapter !
Thanks for the chapter <3
Ahh Xiin, thank you for translating this novel <33 A novel that’s catered to my taste once again! I just noticed how some of the novels I’ve been reading in CG are actually translated by you. Thanks for the chapter!