Super-Fast Cheetah Mode: ON
According to Yoo Sumi's explanation, an archer's combat power is night and day depending on whether they can use mana arrows.
If they can't use mana arrows, they have to carry arrows made of some special material, which apparently causes a lot of problems right off the bat.
Naturally, the number of arrows one can carry at a time is limited.
In prolonged battles, running out of arrows is a frequent occurrence, and once you're out, you're basically dead weight.
On top of that, the special material arrows manufactured for hunting monsters are quite expensive, giving beginners a massive headache.
On the other hand, mana arrows are formed on the spot using the caster's mana, so there's no need to pack any arrows.
They experience less air resistance than physical arrows, resulting in higher accuracy. The efficiency of magic-type skills like Lightning Arrow or Explosive Arrow is also far superior, the rate of fire is twice as fast, and there are even skills that can only be used with mana arrows... The advantages are endless.
While most people struggle for over half a year just to learn the Mana Arrow skill, I somehow managed to be born with it.
Just how great am I going to become?
I slumped back in my chair and pressed a hand to my forehead.
Seriously. I don't know if this tiny world can handle my talent.
I had indeed thought about joining a guild.
With my talent, there would be plenty of guilds begging me to join.
But not only was my identity an issue, joining a guild just didn't seem very appealing.
Yoo Sumi stared blankly at the words that popped up in the chat window.
Immediately after, she slammed her desk repeatedly, bursting into a breathless fit of laughter.
"Pffft-hahahahahaha! Ahahahaha!!!"
Sigh... I've manipulated her emotions once again.
I had phrased it a bit poetically, but I was dead serious.
I didn't want to join some guild and become just another ordinary healer.
As someone born with a golden spoon—a Unique-grade class and three unique skills—I wanted to build up achievements and fame, reveal myself at the perfect moment, and bask in everyone's admiration and awe.
Now that I had been handed an insanely broken class and skills, that was no longer a mere pipe dream.
Depending on my efforts, it was a highly plausible reality.
In that case, the only path left was self-study and training.
If you think about it, I was basically a walking bundle of uniqueness.
My class was unique, and my skills were unique. So, it stood to reason that I knew my abilities best.
Okay. Decision made.
Since it crossed my mind, I decided to put it into action immediately.
The first order of business was to draw up a plan.
I opened a notebook and began running my brain at full capacity—something I hadn't done since graduating high school.
Shooting a bow would be fun, of course, but I figured assessing my basic physical abilities should come first.
Come to think of it, I knew absolutely nothing about this body. Aside from the fact that it had an insanely cute face.
Therefore, I shall assess my physical abilities starting with basic bodyweight exercises...!!
Only by knowing what this body was capable of could I expand my range of options in an emergency.
To think I could reach such a logical conclusion in an instant.
Not only am I an EX-rank hunter, but my brain is brilliant too. I'm truly amazing.
Normally, I would have gathered all sorts of excuses to postpone exercising until tomorrow.
But I was a future member of the Healer Royalty who would rule not just South Korea, but the entire world.
I threw on some clothes and headed straight outside.
"And we're off."
A miraculous day awaits you, heal-pipi.
With that, I made my way to the Sports Field a short distance from my house.
Since it was the afternoon, there were kids riding inline skates and adults jogging.
When I was a kid, inline skating looked so much fun.
First, I took a spot on a suitable running track. Then, I began warming up in a wholesome, professional manner.
I stretched my arms and legs up and down and rotated my ankles.
Seeing how easily my waist bent, my flexibility seemed much better than expected.
When we measured flexibility back in high school, my results were an absolute disaster.
After doing a few quick jumps in place, I opened a running app on my phone to track my distance and time.
"Okay. Let's go."
Surrendering myself to the surging confidence, I kicked off the ground.
During the Outbreak Gate at The Intersection, I had only run for a brief moment, and during my first gate, there hadn't been much need to run around.
So, this was my first time properly running since my awakening.
Patter-patter-patter—
The wind whipped against my face.
My fully extended legs struck the ground and bounced back with elastic springiness.
I started with a light jog, then gradually picked up the pace.
"...!"
As I accelerated, a bizarre sensation enveloped my entire body.
Far from feeling tired, my body felt lighter and lighter.
My breathing didn't quicken at all. It was steady and slow, just like when I was rolling around in my room.
I channeled power into my legs to push the speed even further.
My body felt unbelievably light, and it felt like my speed was continuously rising.
The surrounding people and landmarks flashed past at an incredible speed.
As I zipped past a running crew of about eight people, they let out startled gasps.
I overtook a middle-aged man who had been running hard, and easily blew past a well-built man in his twenties who was in the middle of a full sprint.
This is insanely fast. Is this what awakening is?
My height shrunk and my limbs got shorter, but I'm five hundred times faster.
Normally, I would have tripped over my own feet and faceplanted running like this, but that wasn't happening either.
Has my athletic ability just become completely god-tier?
What on earth am I?
I can heal, buff, deal damage with a bow, and run fast?
A healer with max survivability who can also DPS? Does such a thing even exist in this world?
By nature, healers absolutely required protection from the frontline.
They were the core and pillar of the team, but they lacked the mobility to flee when ambushed, nor did they have the defense to survive a direct hit.
But I wouldn't be some backliner who just passively received protection.
I would be an elf supporter who exploited the enemy's weaknesses on foot while simultaneously leading my allies with overwhelming heals and buffs.
"Wahahat!"
Feeling absolutely ecstatic, I let out a giggle.
As I kept running, my phone chimed with a notification that I had completed 3 kilometers.
"Whoa."
I finished 3 kilometers in 6 minutes and 12 seconds.
Isn't the standard for a "Special Class Soldier" in the military 12 minutes and 30 seconds for 3 kilometers? That's why I set it to 3 kilometers and ran.
Then just how fast is this?
I quickly did the math in my head.
......
At this pace, it was roughly equivalent to running 100 meters in 12 seconds.
A speed that even a fit, nearly six-foot-tall man in his twenties would struggle to reach without serious training, accomplished by a middle-schooler body with short limbs.
Normally, long-distance running isn't done at a full sprint; you're supposed to pace yourself.
Yet, I had just sprinted the entire 3 kilometers.
And even after that, I was barely out of breath and wasn't tired at all.
It was night and day compared to when I was an out-of-shape, shut-in hunter-forum-dweller who got winded just climbing a single flight of stairs.
It was truly...
"A cheetah...!!"
A real cheetah. A cheetah that had been sleeping in its cage.
One that would bring tension to this lax hunter society. One that leisurely watched the racing dogs before easily leaving them all in the dust with its superior genetics.
If I'm already like this less than a week after awakening, what will happen when I get even stronger?
Will I be folding space to teleport like some Taoist master?
Will I fly from Korea to Japan in a single leap?
Just how strong am I going to get if I'm already starting off like this?
I absolutely could not resist bragging.
Pretty sick, right? Honestly impressive, isn't it?
At this rate, I might even be faster than Yoo Sumi.
Is she feeling totally self-conscious right now, thinking, "Even as a veteran hunter of several years, I can't run this fast? What is up with Lee Jiyun?"
Don't worry. I'll comfort you.
If you get too sad, the ultra-cute me can at least give you a little pat on the back.
"No way, stop lying."
I blurted out loud, completely dumbfounded.
"Ugh, seriously."
Why does this woman love twisting a kid's wrist so much?
Of course a 3-year veteran hunter should beat a newborn chick who awakened less than a week ago.
I typed furiously. I was a resident keyboard warrior of the Hunter Gallery myself, after all.
She should get the message by now, right?
She'll praise me any second now, right?
"Is this person twenty-three or thirteen?"
Ugh, so annoying.
Fuming with rage, I started running again.
I was going to train like crazy and become two thousand times faster than a mere ordinary human, a commoner like SaveMeleeDPS.
And just like that, I ended up clocking 15 kilometers that day.
I never in my life imagined I would run 15 kilometers in a single day.
While the 3-kilometer run hadn't tired me out at all, running a full 15 kilometers was actually a bit exhausting.
But despite the fatigue, I felt proud.
It felt like I was finally starting to live a wholesome life.
As I dragged my slightly weakened legs back home...
"Gasp!!"
A mountain of snowy shaved ice, covered in mango cubes, with a scoop of ice cream on top as the crowning glory.
The weather was starting to get warm lately, too.
This?
She's giving me this precious, expensive dessert?
Honestly, I could easily afford mango bingsu with my own money now.
But getting it as a gift from someone is a completely different story.
"Ehehe."
Right? As expected of me.
How was I back then?
Yoo Sumi thought to herself.
Right after awakening, she had gone to the Association for her rank measurement and run a 3-kilometer test.
She had run as fast as she could, thinking she had gotten stronger from awakening, only to completely burn out after twenty seconds.
Although her musculoskeletal strength had become ridiculously high since she awakened as a close-range class, things like lung capacity, joint flexibility, and physical coordination couldn't keep up, leading to that result.
It was like that for everyone who newly awakened.
That was also why one shouldn't neglect physical training just because they awakened.
But that kid, Lee Jiyun...