Reset: DPS to Support?!

Chapter 97: Underestimation (2)

"Hmm... so the room for possibilities widen when paired up with your skills?" Raina thought to herself. "How exactly would the pairing work?"

"...well, first of all, let's go over my skills," Shinto muttered out.

At present, the two-party membersRaina and Frey do not possess any knowledge regarding Shinto's class [Shadow Diviner]. Likewise, they do not know about Ethaniel's. To keep the info about their class, hidden, the two men chose to keep it secret from them.

Although their intentions of hiding the info were to keep the origins of their class a secret, Shinto and Ethaniel at the very least had to share the info of their skills with the party, in order for the girls to anticipate it and coordinate better.

Soon after taking a deep breath, he began to explain his skills. "I have five skills. Out of the five, two of which are damage skills. Though, if I'm being real here, they're used more on the supporting side," he explained. "As for the other three, two healing and one field skill."

"Eh...? Those damage thingy skills are used more on the supporting side?" Frey blinked at the statement. "You're talking about that flashy blinding light right?"

"Yes, I'm referring to that as one of my damage skills," he said. "It deals 500% magic damage and silences for five seconds."

"...500%?! That much?!" Frey shouted out.

"What's the point of 500% if the end result is going to be shitty damage?" Ethaniel shrugged.

"...cough, which is why I say that's more like a support skill than any other..." he sighed. "The silence would be a really good turn around in tight situations."

"Uhuh. So what's this about pairing up with your skills for a good combo?" Ethaniel inquired. "Your healing skills are one thing, but your other three abilities don't seem to be useful for the parry skills, well maybe that shadow area skill... but that's about it."

"...errr," Shinto scratched his head. "Since your parry skills are mainly on the DPS side, I have a passive in which increases damage dealt by party members. Combining that increase with your skills that already do high damage, we'll have an increase in DPS."

"Yeah, but don't you have any sort of skills which increases defence or something like that?" he raised his brow. "Don't tell me you only have healing skills and a field skill for support?"

"Sigh... unfortunately, that's the only ones I've got now," he shook his head helplessly. From the first day of when he had gotten his class to now, Shinto hadn't gotten any clues as to how to unlock his other skills.

When it comes to hidden classes, especially lore-based ones, certain if not all skills can only be unlocked through trials and tribulations. Thus, it was important to constantly be on the lookout for any clues or hints regarding one's hidden class.

However, for Shinto's case, there wasn't any information in regards to the Shadow Diviner as well, thus it was fruitless.

He had hoped that when he had gotten his shadow stat to 20, he could've gotten a clue, but, he only learnt of the existence of the Shade's Race and the shadow realm in which was a subspace of the Shadow Diviner.

"...sigh, it would be great if I can get a single clue right now... but the only lead is the Shivuliz Soul Shard and... that material I got when I defeated Centripedas..." Shinto sighed to himself. "Maybe if I get my Divine stat to 20..." Thinking to himself, he quickly rid of the thought as he was unable to do anything at the moment. Quickly turning to the group, the discussion of skills continued.

"...bah," he shrugged. "Anyway, what about this fox guy?"

"I'm a cute fox for your information!" Kon stated.

"Whatever," he scoffed. "Go on."

"Grr..." Kon pouted. "Well for starters! I can make a doppelganger of myself! And then... I can create shadow orbs that stack damage on continuous usage! And uh... I can burn stuff!"

"...so, three abilities?" Raina tilted her head. "I could've sworn I saw you used more than that..."

"Uh... well, it probably because of my doppelganger self? We can use the same abilities almost at the same time! But... it's hard controlling the trajectory... and... seeing double visions of your self hurts..." he mumbled out.

"Eh...? That second Kon can do such things?!" Frey said in surprise.

"Yep!" he nodded his head. "I'd show you... but we have to go through the other hallway now right...? So saving out skills is important! Probably..."

"The right hallway..." Shinto said as he glanced over to the direction, opposite the rubble that blocked the left path. "The one with the warrior."

"You know... even after knowing our skills, I don't feel very confident in going through this dungeon..." Raina said in worry. "I know Ethaniel, you, Frey and Kon are strong, but I don't think brute-force would work against the high levelled enemies."

"...well," Shinto hesitated as he soon firmly said. "As long as we play a team fight, we'll be able to go through this dungeon."

"We can't even get out of this place anyway even if we wanted to," Ethaniel shrugged. "So might as well go see this till the end."

"...right, this is an instance dungeon," Raina sighed. "Well so be it. I should just stop worrying and see what actually can stop us."

"...I hope there won't be any skeletons or something..." Kon muttered out.

"Agh, anything but rats! I don't wanna see another horde of them!" Frey cried out.

"The only way to know is just going on ahead, I guess," Shinto said.

"Then let's not loiter around anymore," Ethaniel said as he walked ahead, quickly making his way to the left hall. From behind, Frey and Raina followed up.

"..." Still standing idle from before, Shinto solemnly looked at the backs of his teammates. "Honestly... I've only been repeating whatever Kaisus had said to me before..." he mumbled out.

Although a support now, Shinto had mostly been a solo player. Even when it came to matches in Crystality, his coordination with Vainblood wasn't at all the best. At best, it was to the minimal. Participating in team fights, aiding and fighting off the enemies.

"The one who would struggle during a team fight... would most likely be me," he sighed. "What do I know about working as a coordinated team?"

"Huh? Master? Is something the matter?" Kon turned around as he asked.

Upon hearing Kon's words, Shinto hurriedly turned to him. "I-It's nothing. Let's just go now," he said, quickly taking a step forward into the left hallway.