Reset: DPS to Support?!

Chapter 19: Brawling Runaway

A loud padding noise could be rumbling through the forest, followed by a woman's voice screaming at the top of her lungs.

Inquiring on the sudden clamour, Shinto turned his head towards that direction. Doing so, his eyes bulged out of his sockets.

His gaze locked onto the woman, a brawler, running by the distance whose ID lit brightly in green above her head [ Frey ].

"AHHHH!! SOMEONE! HELP MEEE!!!" Frey cried out.

Behind Frey was a pack of night wolves chasing after her. She dashed as far as she can whilst barely maintaining a distance from the wolves. Shinto's eyes glazed over the pack, giving a count in his thoughts, 'One...two...seven...ten?! A total of ten?!'

His eyes rattled, from what transpired before him, as he hurriedly jumped towards the side. He prowled in caution, watching the brawler and the pack of wolves behind her approaching by his side.

"H-Hey you...!" Frey yelled out over towards Shinto as she approached closer, "P-Pleaseeee help me!!" She cried out, fastening her charge towards Shinto with all her might.

Looking at the charging Frey approaching him steadfast he abruptly stepped back, "H-Hey...! What are you...?!"

Quickly as Frey approached towards Shinto's side, a wolf from the pack pounced over towards him.

"Ugh...!" In the instant that the wolf pounced over to Shinto, he hurriedly leapt backwards as he shot out a basic attack from his staff to the wolf, quickly knocking the wolf back slightly from the attack.

The moment he sent out a mana spark, a few more wolves pounced at Shinto, noticing their movements, Shinto quickly swayed towards the side as he used a skill towards the three wolves jumping towards him.

[ Shadow Fields ]

A veil of shadow quickly protruded from Shinto's hand as it enveloped the wolves including the one that had first pounced at him into a dark field.

As they were enveloped into the field, their movements became abrupt as they slowed down from their assault slowly they began to sharply raise their senses of smell.

'...So that's how Shadow Fields work... Hmm, it could be used as a good CC when needed. Now to test of it's supporting capabilities...'

Shinto thought to himself as he hurriedly looked over towards Frey's side who had been staring there watching the scene unfolding before her.

"W-What...?" Frey stared dumbly.

"Hey! You! Are you just going stand there? Move towards the side...!" Looking at the dumbfounded Frey, Shinto hurriedly called out towards her,

"A-Ah...?" Hearing Shinto's call, she hastily moved over to the side, simultaneously suddenly a wolf pounced over towards her original position barely missing Frey.

"...!" If she had reacted too late, she would have been attacked! She got careless watching the fight going with Shinto and the wolves, she was amazed by the fact that he could handle four wolves at once when she could only handle two!

"Are you just going to stand there?" Shinto called out to her once again, quickly snapping her back to reality. In an instant after going back into reality, the brawler reflexively punched the wolf that had pounced towards her back.

"S-Sorry...!" She hurriedly apologized as she rushed towards Shinto's side.

"Hurry, head into the fields and handle the monsters there before they escape!" Shinto shouted as he quickly shot out a few mana sparks over towards the wolves inside the field, keeping them inside the field.

"I-Inside there...?" Frey hesitantly asked.

"Yes, hurry before it goes away!" He continued hitting the wolves inside the field, slightly knocking them back and preventing them from escaping.

The wolves were blinded due to the effects of Shadow Fields, with their stats down by 5%, it may not seem much, but it does make a difference when you're blinded and aren't use to the momentum one wasn't use to.

Although the wolves could use their senses of smell, they couldn't escape due to Shinto's constant manuevering around the field as he shot out mana sparks that prevented them from escaping while also meticulously messing with their sense of direction.

From the looks of it, the shadow fields seemed to also be messing with their sense of smell due to the purple smoke protruding from the field which allowed Shinto to mess their sense of direction.

Hearing Shinto's order, Frey rushed up towards the fields, the moment she stepped foot into the purple fields, her movement speed slightly became faster and within the smoke protruding from the fields, she could clearly see what was going on, clearer than before.

Rushing forward towards the wolves, she throws a punch much lighter than she was used towards the wolves quickly hitting back, Frey simultaneously attacked the four wolves within the fields as she quickly activates a skill, "Take this! Blitz Fist!"

Activating the skill, Frey quickly attacked the wolves in front of her multiple times, quickly turning them into grey ash. Following that was Shinto casting over a black mark towards Frey who had been attacked a few times,

It was the skill [ Mark of Umbra ]

[ Mark of Umbra Lv 1 ] [ 30 Shadow Gauge ] [ Cooldown: 3 Minutes ]

*Inflicts a 'mark of umbra' onto an ally within a 50-meter radius. Those with this mark will have their HP regenerated by 2% every second for until the mark goes away.

*The mark stays for 10 seconds (By stacking this mark, the duration will stack up).

Watching her HP Bar that was originally in the red slowly rose up towards yellow, Frey's face brightens up, "Thanks!" Frey shouted out as her momentum increased, quickly killing the other two wolves.

Just as the wolves turned to grey ash, the shadow fields duration ran out as the area went back to normal.

"Phew~! That's done!" Frey happily said.

"D-Done? We still have six more wolves to fight!" Shinto shouted out as Frey hurriedly gave a glance over towards his direction,

Seeing that Shinto was having trouble kiting six wolves at once, he had to manuever around the area even more than before. How could Frey forget? She brought 10 wolves, not 4!

"A little help over here?" Shinto said as he shot out a mana spark over towards a wolf that had jumped towards him and nearly attacked him from the pack.

"I-I'm on it...!" Frey hastily scurried over towards Shinto's direction and attacked some of the wolves that were after Shinto, quickly lowering the burden of control Shinto had to use.

As Shinto's burden was lessened, he moved his eyes over towards his divinity and shadow gauge, the two gauges were slowly rising, however, the disparity of it was that the shadow gauge was regenerating faster. From Shinto's calculations, it seemed it one shadow point every five seconds compared to one divinity point every ten seconds, thus needing 2 minutes and 30 seconds to regenerate his shadow points to use Mark of Umbra, which cost 30 shadow gauges. On the other hand, it would take five minutes to regenerate his divinity gauge to full.

'Hmm... Alright, so if my theory is correct it would mean my shadow gauge regenerates faster during the night whilst divinity gauge would regenerate faster during the day. Though I need to confirm it at dawn.' Shinto thought to himself as he swayed to the side dodging the wolves attack.

"Tsk... Multi-tasking in battle is difficult..." Shinto murmured as he sent a mana spark over towards the wolf, following after was a divine silencing light towards the wolf.

It was Shinto's fourth skill, [ Hallowed Crest ]

[ Hallowed Crest Lv 1 ] [ 30 Divinity Gauge ] [ Cooldown: 15 Minutes ]

*Cast a spell of light onto an enemy, dealing 500% magic damage onto them. Then silence that enemy for 5 seconds.

As the divine silencing light enveloped the wolf, the wolf quickly turned into grey ash. Simultaneously after, the few wolves that were handled by Frey fell.

[ You have defeated Night Wolf! ]

[ You have defeated Night Wolf! ]

[ You have defeated Night Wolf... ]

[ Your level has risen to level 3! ]

[ Your level has risen to level 4! ]

[ You have obtained 20 stat points. ]

Looking over his status window to see his notifications, he let out a heavy breath of exhaustion 'Damn... It really is hard to multi-task...'

As a DPS, Shinto only had to worry about a few things such as focusing on his resources, the timing on his skills, his surroundings, and his enemies. Now as a support, he tackles the fight in a different angle, as he now diverts his attention towards Frey who he had to keep her HP in check, healing her up when it's needed not to mention he had to combat against six wolves simultaneously, scrapping of their HP slowly with his low damage from his basic attacks.

It proved to be quite difficult compared to how easy supports like Hikari made it look, they sure made it look easy. Though, Hikari was at the rear lines healing her allies while also being a watchful eye of the surroundings and her allies. She did all of this without having any combat abilities and therefore she didn't need to focus on fighting as well, where he had to do all of that while also fighting.

'And this is only just the beginning of the game...'

Shinto shuddered at the thought of the long-term responsibilities and fights where he had to support his allies against intense raid bosses or help out his allies during PVP combat,

'I think I might have underestimated support classes a whole lot...'

Lost in thought, Shinto heard a shout coming from Frey.

"Woohoo! We did it!" Frey jumped for joy as she walked over towards Shinto.

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