Translator: She.Wee
Chapter: 3
When new jobs joined the guild, a passive skill was granted, making character development significantly advantageous. Usually, the guild tried to avoid bringing in duplicate jobs. Since there was no Holy Knight in the guild, this seemed like a good opportunity. Although the HP increase wasn’t a particularly useful passive skill…
[HolyKnightPaladin: A guild?]
[Hando: Yes.]
[Hando: If you join the guild, you can access exclusive skills and buffs, making leveling much easier.]
[Hando: There’s also an experience boost buff, and you can craft guild-specific skills to use as well.]
Sensing the moment, Jiwon earnestly made his pitch. He had always encountered users eager to join the guild, but meeting someone who didn’t even know the benefits of a guild got him oddly excited. And at this level, no less.
[Hando: If you party with guild members for dungeons, you won’t have to wait like you did today.]
What Jiwon found most unfortunate was the inability to join a party. Players willing to carry others wouldn’t always be around, but if this user joined a guild, the other guild members would gladly help with dungeons, sparing him the trouble of looking for a party.
[HolyKnightPaladin: Okay.]
After several rounds of persuasion, the Holy Knight finally agreed to join the guild. Feeling oddly proud, Jiwon took a big gulp of his coffee sitting nearby. It had been a long time since the guild had a new member.
[Hando: By the way, how old are you?]
[HolyKnightPaladin: I’m twenty.]
[Hando: Mind if I briefly invite you to a chat with some other guild members? It’s just formal, and they’ll only ask a few questions.]
[HolyKnightPaladin: Sure.]
With the Holy Knight’s permission, Jiwon turned off whisper mode and opened the guild chat. He succinctly got to the point in his message.
[Guild][Hando: A new member will be joining the guild. Anyone want to hop into the chat?]
[Guild][Woo Hyun-bi: ssssssss]
[Guild][Hando: Hyun-bi, did you finish all the guild quests today?]
[Guild][Woo Hyun-bi: Hehe…]
[Guild][Woo Hyun-bi: I have two left…]
[Guild][Hando: Hehe, go finish them.]
[Guild][Woo Hyun-bi: Yep.]
[Guild][Watermelon Doctor: Guild master, I finished everything^^77.]
[Guild][Hando: Okay.]
Since it was early, not many members were online. Jiwon decided to invite Watermelon Doctor into the chat. His plan was to do a simple introduction to one or two members and then finalize the recruitment. However, as soon as Watermelon Doctor joined the chatroom, he started joking with a strange greeting.
[Watermelon Doctor: Hey, how old are you??]
[Hando: He’s twenty.]
Worried about ruining the guild’s image right from the start, Jiwon sighed and quickly revealed the Holy Knight’s age. Watermelon Doctor immediately made an apologetic gesture.
[Watermelon Doctor: Oh, a baby, my bad;;]
[Watermelon Doctor: I’ll make it up by giving you some potions.]
[Watermelon Doctor: What’s your job, by the way?]
[HolyKnightPaladin: Holy Knight.]
[Watermelon Doctor: Oh… right.]
Upon seeing the response, Watermelon Doctor checked the Holy Knight’s username and fell silent after typing a half-hearted “Oh…” with lots of ellipses. After a few seconds of awkward silence, he reappeared in the guild chat instead of the group chat with the three of them.
[Guild][Watermelon Doctor: Guild master, this person’s a newbie, right???T_T]
[Guild][Watermelon Doctor: Who in the world recommended a Holy Knight to a newbie? Come out right now.]
[Guild][Watermelon Doctor: Whoever did it, I’ll force their main character to switch to Holy Knight as punishment.]
The chat exploded with Watermelon Doctor’s rant, filling the guild channel. Hearing that the new member was a Holy Knight, guild members who were busy with other tasks suddenly appeared in a frenzy.
[Guild][Woo Hyun-bi: Newbie?? Newbie??]
[Guild][Don’tAskMe: OMG, a newbie Holy Knight.]
[Guild][Don’tAskMe: Passive Skill +1, jackpot.]
[Guild][Watermelon Doctor: Regardless of the perks, whoever recommended this deserves to be Satan.]
[Guild][Bbozzo: Maybe he saw a solo-play video of the Holy Knight Kraom on YouTube?]
This reasonable explanation made Jiwon nod in agreement. Holy Knight Kraom was a well-known ranker and YouTuber who had stuck with the Holy Knight class for a long time. He was popular for doing things no one else attempted, to the point where even Jeong-hoon, who had been competitive and wary, grudgingly admitted Kraom’s skills. However, Kraom recently announced his retirement and disappeared.
[Guild][Don’tAskMe: But isn’t raising a Holy Knight really tough?]
[Guild][Don’tAskMe: Don’t parties usually avoid them?T_T]
[Guild][Bbozzo: That’s trueT_T.]
[Guild][Hando: That’s why I carried them in the dungeon.]
[Guild][Hando: No one let them into a partyT_T.]
[Guild][Watermelon Doctor: Oh……]
With the sigh of “Watermelon Doctor,” the guild chat momentarily fell silent. In a game where dungeon play held significant importance, any job class that found it difficult to join parties easily earned everyone’s sympathy.
[Watermelon Doctor: Oh no, little oneT_T Do you want to remake your character?]
[Watermelon Doctor: If you create a mage-type character, I can support you!]
Appearing in the chat again, “Watermelon Doctor” declared confidently. Being an ice-element mage, Watermelon Doctor was so skilled at selling mage items that he earned over 200,000 gold a week just from sales. Their words were certainly not empty.
[HolyKnightPaladin: No, I don’t think I can change my character.]
[Watermelon Doctor: Oh, I seeT_T]
[Watermelon Doctor: I totally understand your love for your main character.]
There are many reasons to choose a main character. It could be because of their performance, their beautiful illustration, or simply the concept and related story that resonate with the player. As one continues to level up their final chosen character for various reasons, they either grow more attached to it or hit certain limitations that make the experience less enjoyable. Regardless of whether it’s the former or the latter, overcoming those challenges often leads players to completely settle into their main character, abandoning any thoughts of switching to a different job.
HolyKnightPaladin seemed to fall into the category of someone who genuinely loved their class, so Watermelon Doctor refrained from further persuasion.
[Watermelon Doctor: We don’t have any holy knight users in the guild.]
[Watermelon Doctor: But we do have quite a few warrior-class players, so feel free to ask if you have questions.]
[Watermelon Doctor: By the way, Chelling << This person is a magic swordsman and a pro veteran. You can ask them for warrior gear.]
[Hando: ㅎ;;;;]
[Hando: I’ll send the guild invite now.]
[HolyKnightPaladin: Alright.]
Although Chelling was close enough to joke like this, saying such things in front of a newcomer might have made them feel uneasy. To ease the tension, Jiwon, the guild master, ended the conversation with an emoticon and sent the guild invitation straight away.
[‘HolyKnightPaladin’ has joined the guild.]
The system notification flashed across the screen. Seeing the line pop up, the guild members, who had been keeping an eye on the chat for the newcomer’s arrival, immediately jumped in with warm greetings.
[Pozzo: Hello~]
[Black Ocean: Welcome ><]
[Don’tAskMe: Hello!!!!!!]
[Don’tAskMe: We’re a guild with a holy knight now!!!]
[Woohyun-bi: hellooo~]
[Woohyun-bi: Helloㅎㅎ]
[HolyKnightPaladin: Hello.]
[Don’tAskMe: Can we call you Sasa-nim?]
[HolyKnightPaladin: Sure.]
[Don’tAskMe: Omg Sasa-nim T_T]
[Don’tAskMe: Let’s go to dungeons together from now on.]
[Pozzo: Me too!!!]
Seeing the guild members warmly welcoming the newcomer brought a smile to Jiwon’s face. He had worried about how the guild might react, especially since HolyKnightPaladin joined so suddenly and was relatively low-leveled. But those concerns were unnecessary.
For most of the guild members who had hit the max level and were now bored, the arrival of a new guildmate—a low-leveled holy knight newbie, at that—was a refreshing change.
[Chelling: A newbie joined the guild???]
[Chelling: Who is it?]
[Chelling: Who is it?]
[Chelling: Who is it?]
[Chelling: Who is it?]
Chelling, who had been busy with something else, suddenly noticed the lively guild chat and hurriedly joined. Chelling was one of the top veterans in this guild filled with long-time players and had practically completed every piece of content the game offered.
[Pozzo: Here comes the newbie-obsessed madman.]
[Pozzo: It might be overwhelming, but please love Sasa-nimㅎㅎ]
[HolyKnightPaladin: Hello.]
[Chelling: Whoa, a holy knight!]
[Chelling: Do you need warrior gear by any chance?]
[Chelling: I’ve got some decent stuff, though not end-game level.]
The exact scenario Watermelon Doctor had jokingly mentioned earlier was now unfolding.
Being one of the original members from the guild’s early days, Chelling had a particular attachment to the guild. Among the player base, he were infamous as a “keyboard warrior,” but once someone entered their inner circle, there was no one more reliable.
[HolyKnightPaladin: It’s fine.]
[Chelling: Oh, alright. But if you ever need anything, just let me know.]
[Chelling: I’ll come running and shower you with gear ^ㅇ^]
Even though it was Jiwon who had recruited the newbie, judging by the atmosphere, it seemed Chelling would stick by HolyKnightPaladin’s side for a while. Jiwon thought it might be necessary to help them out with their gear setup later. Judging from the fact that HolyKnightPaladin didn’t even know what kind of items were good or bad, he was likely just equipping whatever he randomly picked up.
[Don’tAskMe: Wow, everyone loves newbies so much.]
[Pozzo: Isn’t that just how Ase is?]
[Pozzo: Someone could post “I don’t know this. Can anyone help me?” in the server chat, and everyone would flock over LOLOL.]
[Don’tAskMe: Yeah, and I’d go too Hehe.]
[Woohyun-bi: Plot twistㄴㅇㄱ.]
[Don’tAskMe: How could you resist when a newbie asks for help?? You’d load up their inventory, of course.]
[Don’tAskMe: Speaking of which, Sasa-nim, would you like an EXP potion?]
[HolyKnightPaladin: LOLOLOL]
[HolyKnightPaladin: No thanks, I’m already full from drinking so many.]
[Don’tAskMe: Wow, you’re a wealthy newbieT_T.]
Following Don’tAskMe’s lead, everyone started jokingly offering various items, but HolyKnightPaladin cheerfully declined every time.
Amid the lighthearted banter, Chelling suddenly brought up the topic of levels.
