If they joined a party, they could use close-combat, but they often died because of their weak defense. The risk of exploring alone could not be compared to hunting with a party.
Bindel: What kind of build of Thief is he? And what is his level?
Hegel: He’s just a little over 300. His build is probably just mainly party hunting.
Hegel cut his words short since he didn’t want to flatter Nide.
The Swordsman who shone as the battle’s flower.
He had some contempt towards other professions, and although he himself knew Nide wasn’t normal, he didn’t want to acknowledge it.
Bindel: At least with a Thief it will be easy to explore the dungeon. Since you said something about not having a Priest.
Hegel: Well, it’s just meh. Since I’m almost entirely handling the battle. And there’s still 1 Dwarf who hasn’t arrived yet.
Bindel: Oho, a Dwarf.
Bindel seemed to be quite interested since it was a Dwarf.
Bindel: Is he a Soldier or a Warrior?
Hegel. No, he’s a Sculptor.
Bindel: Sculptor?
Hegel: Yes. He’s a hyung I know, but he happened to be a Sculptor, so… he probably won’t be much help in the dungeon exploration, but I squeezed him in for the sake of the school assignment. You know, I wish I could just breeze through and defeat just enough monster. After I’m just about done with my work here, I want to quickly go hunting with you, hyungs.
Bindel: Is that Sculptor’s level high?
Hegel: It’s…I don’t know. I never asked. Wasn’t really interested. Why are you asking?
Bindel: Because I worked with an impressive Dwarven Sculptor some time ago.
Hegel: So he made an awesome sculpture?
Bindel: Though that’s true too… he was a Sculptor with an abnormal Charisma and ability to command troops. I also was following his orders mindlessly and before I knew it, we’d blasted through the dungeon in an instant. Not just me, but dozens of Dwarves were pulled in by his control.
Hegel: I’m surprised there’s a Sculptor like that.
Bindel: That wasn’t all. His cooking skills were also outstanding. If you just ate the food he made, the fighting became even more ridiculous. The miscellaneous ingredients that went through his hands became an invigorating meal that made you feel strength was surging into your body.
Hegel: For a Sculptor to have that level of cooking…
Bindel: It was really comfortable because he also repaired weapons and armors that were in bad shape. If that Dwarf repaired it for you, items that were damaged beyond its durability limits were also restored.
Hegel: What? Durability limits can be restored? What are you talking about… is there such a thing?
Hegel didn’t know that items past their durability limits could even be restored.
Provence: Bindel hyung-nim, does that mean durability limits can be restored?
Ject: So you can return completely ruined weapons or armors back to perfect condition?
The majority of the Black Lion guild members didn’t know this. Although the Black Lion Guild had a considerable number of high level users like a prestigious guild, they didn’t know much about repairing the durability limit.
In the first place, there were hardly any cases where the durability limit of weapons or armors lowered by a lot while hunting. On top of that, they had never met a Blacksmith who could repair durability limits.
In order to repair the durability limit, you had to raise the skill level to at least intermediate mastery. For a craftsman with that level of skill, they could earn a fairly large sum of money simply by making and selling weapons or armor. There had been no cases where someone was willing to repair the durability limit, which wasn’t much help in making money and was just cumbersome.
Bindel: Anyways, there was such a Dwarven Sculptor.
Hegel: Surely not, hyungnim! Versailles Continent is wide, so there can only be one Dwarf like that. But the hyung I know probably isn’t a Dwarf like that.
He had boasted to his guild members like this just 8 hours ago!
Hegel was devastated.
“This is far worse than than the case Bindel-hyung talked about!”
He was simply resentful that this kind of thing would happen to him, of all people.