The Only Healer, Ruela (Completed Main Story) - Chapter 14
“We could survive without having to go to dangerous places to mine ore.”
“Mine ore?”
“If you have no money and nowhere to go, you’ll do whatever it takes to survive.”
Ruela was so happy she almost danced, but suddenly remembered her level. She hurriedly opened the game interface and checked the class field.
The skill slot was still empty, and no class was displayed.
Of course. Level 1 in the game was like a newborn infant—just as you couldn’t know what kind of adult a child would become before fully grown, players couldn’t choose their class until reaching level 5.
With experience from hunting out of reach, and even fewer quests available, she had no idea when she’d ever reach level 5.
‘It’s completely hopeless.’
In her sighing frustration, she found herself muttering quietly in front of Kite without even realizing it.
“I’m only level 1. It’ll be a long time before I can become a healer.”
“Level 1? I don’t know what you’re talking about, but I already told you earlier—we were supposed to awaken you.”
Awakening must refer to class advancement in the game.
“So you died before awakening?”
“Yes.”
“And that’s why you brought me back? Did you use dark magic or something?”
“It was ancient magic. Only one person in the entire world can do it—Senhui the mage. Using the noblest bloodline of Elab, he can summon the soul of the dead.”
Now it finally made sense.
No, wait. Upon closer thought, she might be in far more serious trouble than she’d realized. Ancient magic to summon the dead? Did that mean the me back in Korea was already dead?
She felt a strange mix of emptiness and sadness. She’d been living diligently in someone else’s body, completely unaware that she herself had died.
Suddenly, she began to wonder if this place was truly the world inside the game.
She tried to reason through how things had come to this, but no answers came.
Ruela eventually decided, arbitrarily, that this must be another dimension—and that some unknown entity capable of moving between dimensions had created a game called Helane.
She shouldn’t dwell too deeply on complicated matters. Once you start questioning existence itself, you risk sinking endlessly into an abyss.
“Then it seems you’ve come to the wrong place.”
Since the other party had been honest with her, she felt she should reveal everything too. After all, she’d need their help to stand against the Balder Guild.
She didn’t know how they’d react to her words, but she believed the conversation could still go smoothly.
After all, what they needed was a healer—and if healers were as rare as they claimed, they’d have no choice but to wait for this body to awaken.
“What do you mean?”
“It seems an error occurred while summoning the soul. I’m not Ruela Romnin.”
Kite’s expression twisted.
“If you’re not Ruela Romnin, then who the hell are you?”
“Well, since my original self seems to be dead too, a name probably doesn’t matter much. Anyway, I’m not someone who lived in this world. My soul must have mistakenly entered Ruela Romnin’s body.”
Kite’s gaze, which had previously looked at her as if she were mad, turned serious.
“Another soul?”
“Yes.”
“So you mean your outside is Ruela Romnin, but inside you’re someone else?”
“That’s exactly what I’m saying.”
Kite pinched his forehead with a pained expression and looked up at the ceiling. After a long pause, he sat up and said,
“Tell me the details.”
Prompted by Kite’s grave tone, Ruela hesitantly began her story.
“There’s not much to tell. I’ve had no memories since the day before I met you at the party.”
“If you had no memories, how did you end up at the party?”
“The maids sent me. I didn’t want to tell them I’d lost my memory. It just felt like something I shouldn’t say—like it was instinct.”
Kite nodded, as if he understood.
“You were lucky not to get caught. So then?”
“The atmosphere among the guests at the party seemed off, so I roughly guessed the situation this body was in. But that alone wasn’t enough to get by in daily life, so the next day I started asking questions… and that’s when I learned the maids had been replaced two days prior.”
“Two days ago?”
“Yes. That’s when I woke up in Ruela Romnin’s body. The fact that the maids changed around that time must mean something happened—probably the fall from horseback you mentioned.”
“As far as I know, Ruela Romnin’s death was suicide. According to you, she died in a riding accident even before she could commit suicide—and even earlier than the date we knew… I can’t make sense of this at all.”
Kite shook his head, clearly baffled, so Ruela asked curiously,
“You said earlier that Ruela Romnin was supposed to die on June 2nd, right?”
“That’s right. We came to Kamun Village to confirm things after reviving the dead Ruela Romnin.”
At the word “reviving,” Ruela’s face paled slightly.
“How did you even know Ruela had died?”
“That was also Senhui’s ability. Senhui, having foreseen Ruela’s fate, used magic to detect her life force. The moment he sensed her life force vanish from this world—despite all preparations being complete—he immediately began the soul-summoning ritual.”
“A soul-summoning ritual? That sounds terrifying.”
“Even Senhui couldn’t guarantee it would succeed.”
Kite hesitated briefly, then added,
“And the result of that failure is standing right before my eyes now.”
“What connection could this date change possibly have?”
“We must be dealing with distorted space-time. Do you know what parallel worlds are? We tried to revive Ruela Romnin, who was supposed to die by suicide on June 2nd—but somehow ended up reviving the version of Ruela Romnin who died in a riding accident on May 30th in another worldline. That must have caused the worlds to merge and time to rewind, which is why the soul summoned wasn’t Ruela Romnin’s, but someone else’s.”
“Hearing it put that way makes me even sadder. I feel like an unwanted burden now.”
“Did your original body really die…? Sorry, I don’t even know how to phrase this…”
Kite’s usual confident and arrogant expression twisted with awkward discomfort. Ruela shrugged her shoulders and forced a casual reply.
“It’s fine. I have to accept it. I suspect my former self is dead—otherwise, there’s no way to explain why I’m in Ruela’s body.”
“So you won’t become a healer, then?”
Though he tried to hide it, disappointment seeped through Kite’s expression. Ruela tried her best to encourage him.
“I’m still only level 1—there’s still hope.”
The Helane game system was currently active for her. Though events weren’t unfolding exactly as in the original game, she figured that if things were still somewhat connected, she could likely still advance into a healer later.
But that game system applied only to her. In the end, Kite frowned slightly at her inexplicable words and replied,
“Level 1? I still don’t understand what you’ve been talking about this whole time.”
“Hmm…”
Ruela, unsure how to explain, decided to just be honest.
“There’s a game I used to play in my original world.”
“A game?”
“It’s where you control avatars—well, dolls—inside a small square box, making them move as if they’re living people.”
“You mean children’s doll play?”
“Yes, something like that. Except you can use things like magic in it.”
“The dolls use magic?”
“More precisely, it’s designed to look that way.”
“I think I get it, but I don’t really.”
“Just accept it as it is.”
Since this concept didn’t exist in his world, Kite still looked confused, but he seemed to decide to let it go and gave a single nod.
“So what does ‘level 1’ mean?”
“The higher the number, the stronger the doll becomes. They learn more skills and can choose what kind of ability to awaken into.”
“I understand.”
“The name of that game was Helane.”
Kite looked at Ruela with wide, astonished eyes.
“The name of that game was Helane?”
Ruela, who had been explaining up to that point, suddenly stopped speaking.
“Oh no, this can’t be!”
At Ruela’s gasp, Kite urgently asked with a worried expression,
“What? What’s wrong?”
“The Kuran Kingdom appears in it too. Isn’t that strange? And now that I think about it while explaining—there’s a story in that game, and Ruela appears in it.”
“Ruela appears?”
“Yes.”
Since the game world and this place must be connected, the Ruela in the game was undoubtedly herself.
Kite urged her impatiently,
“Go on.”
The game Helane progressed through expansion packs, each featuring the main story’s characters in new adventures.
Last year’s expansion pack centered on the story of Grand Healer Ruela joining an expedition to save the neighboring continent’s emperor and conquer Kuran—and that storyline was still ongoing.
After Ruela gave him a rough summary, Kite’s expression grew grave.
“It’s already bizarre enough that Ruela appears as a character, but all the place names are places I know. So, do they succeed in conquering the Kuran Kingdom?”
“Unfortunately, I wasn’t very interested in the game’s storyline—that’s why I’d forgotten all this until now. Since I only skimmed through it, I don’t know the details.”
“You must remember how it ends, at least.”
“I don’t know yet. ‘Ruela’s Story’ was still pending its final update. The final boss, Duke Kuran, was supposed to appear then. But since they’ll defeat him and move on to the next story—the next expansion pack—it’ll probably be a happy ending, right?”
Male lead is a Love-Obsessed Merman
When he discovers she has gone, he risks everything to pursue her on land, enduring agonizing pain to transform his tail into human legs…
One-line summary: Male lead chases female lead. The male lead’s love is a bit sick, an invincible love brain.
Synopsis
During a voyage at sea, Jiang Yang accidentally captures a merman.
Servant: I heard that mermen are fierce and brutal.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman obediently rubbing her palm like a puppy: “You call this fierce and brutal?”
Servant: I heard that mermen have no human nature.
Jiang Yang looks at the merman with wet puppy eyes, obsessively calling her ‘A Yang’ like a childish infant: “You call this having no human nature?”
With great difficulty, she releases the merman back into the sea and returns to shore.
Who would have thought that in less than half a month, the merman, who should have been freely wandering in the South China Sea, would shed his scales, endure the pain of losing his tail, transform into human legs, and come ashore to find her?
He kneels at her feet, rubbing her palm, with merman tears rolling down: “A Yang, don’t abandon me.”
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It’s not that they control people, how can they live in a place like this in Balder, it’s clearly evil.- Why do they want to kill Ruella? That’s not a good enough reason to kill her. I hope Kate helps her.
- I still don’t understand why she entered this body and why the game window appears if she was summoned by mistake.
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Raphael, too, kept glancing back and forth between his hand and Ruela with disbe
I love the fact the author shows her testing her theories and failing, it makes it really immersive
“It’s like my eyes are opened, and everything feels bright.”
Hahaha, Ruella hasn’t changed, she’s still flirting and doesn’t care. Poor Kate, he’ll fall for her easily. 🤭💗
Thus, he decided to take in Rominin, a poor nobleman, as his son-in-law.
Oh my? So Ro is the sister in law to the future duchess Kuran? She’s been tied up in something hectic.
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