Acquired the Scam Rune in the Academy

Preparation (2)

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“Are you saying you’re going to use me as a graduate student?!”

Professor Tak Won-ho quietly looked at me as I raised my voice momentarily with exaggerated gestures.

“Now you’re even joking with your teacher.”

“…I’m sorry.”

“It was fun.”

“It doesn’t seem like you found it fun at all…?”

“Let’s talk about work.”

Professor Tak Won-ho approached me and began speaking.

“At first, I thought about recognizing all your attendance and letting you graduate early. It might cause controversy as student discrimination, but it would be beneficial for both the academy and you. No, from the academy’s standpoint, they would prefer you to remain as a student, so it’s actually a method that greatly benefits you.”

Taking a slight breath, Professor Tak Won-ho continued.

“But adopting such a method seemed too far from the academy’s educational philosophy. As a professor before being a foundation director, I thought the student should gain something.”

“That’s…”

“Special Student Assistant. In fact, the name is just something I came up with because a title was needed.”

Suddenly, Professor Tak Won-ho handed me a document.

Inside was the full plan for the <Special Student Assistant>.

“Once you take on this position, all your class attendance will be recognized from now on. Whether you attend classes or not.”

“…Is that possible?”

“It is. The foundation board has agreed, and I’ve obtained consent from all professors within the academy. Your popularity is quite high.”

“……”

I was momentarily at a loss for words at that contradictory statement.

The only professors I’m close to are my mentor Professor Tak Won-ho, Professor Kim Myeong-hyun, and Professor Kang Dong-wook…

It seemed my reputation built through various incidents had led to this popularity.

Professor Tak Won-ho turned to the next page of the plan and said,

“Instead, you must fulfill at least 30 hours per semester as a Special Student Assistant.”

“Will I be doing assistant work?”

“No. I told you earlier, it’s just a name. You can use these 30 hours for anything you consider educational, Do Jae-hyun.”

The plan listed various ways to fulfill the 30 hours.

There are many.

Quite a lot, actually.

But there was a common point.

That is, it’s too easy to fill the time.

“You can fill the time by attending lectures that are already recognized, or by doing assistant work as the title suggests. Professor Kim Myeong-hyun will probably have you teach classes. And if you want, you can request special training sessions to fill the time. I’m busy, but I’ll gladly make time for my disciple.”

“……”

“And if you fulfill these 30 hours this semester and next, early graduation is scheduled to proceed at the end of the first semester of your third year. It was decided as the most reasonable period within the academy’s guidelines.”

Too many good conditions were pouring out one after another.

Both the duties of the student assistant and the conditions for early graduation were like that.

In summary…

It’s saying, ‘Attend the academy as you please!’

I stared blankly at the plan and Professor Tak Won-ho alternately, then asked, “…Isn’t this too advantageous for just me?”

No matter how I looked at it, the conditions were too favorable to me.

It doesn’t seem to fit the term special student ‘assistant’ either.

But my teacher slightly smiled.

It’s been a year and a half since I got to know Professor Tak Won-ho.

A kind smile I had never seen during that long time…

An incredibly benevolent smile.

“You deserve it sufficiently.”

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Ippotranslation

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The future schedule at the academy was lightly taken care of.

Although my teacher used the word ‘plan’, in reality, everything was already prepared and I just needed to make the decision.

Naturally, the execution could only be quick.

After finishing the most urgent matter.

With some time on my hands, I visited the Korean Holder Association.

In fact, this matter was as important as the academy business.

“Holder! What brings you here?”

At the association, Lee Ji-hye greeted me with a surprised face.

She had achieved rapid promotion in a year to become a high-ranking employee within the association, but whenever I said I was visiting, she would always come out to greet me like this.

Saying it was entirely thanks to me that she had done well-

When really, someone who was destined to do well just did so earlier.

Anyway, even after declining several times, she would insistently say it was fine and assist me.

“I came to see the Association President.”

However, today I really had no business with Ji-hye.

The President of the Korean Holder Association.

And the Allied Commander currently leading the total allied forces for the conquest of <Room of Deserter>.

I had come to meet Kwon Young-hoon.

“Without any notice?”

“Of course I contacted in advance. I came after coordinating the schedule.”

“Ah! You didn’t even tell me.”

“I thought Ji-hye might be busy. I told you, you don’t need to assist me anymore.”

“Still…”

Ji-hye expressed her disappointment with a slightly upset face.

But soon she regained her smile and guided me.

“Since you were promoted to S-grade Holder, the association has been in an almost festive mood.”

“Really?”

“Yes! It’s the first S-grade Holder in 7 years since Holder Yoo Eun-seol. The more S-grades there are, the higher the status of Korea and our association in the international Holder community. Thanks to you, Holder Jae-hyun, we can walk with our heads held high.”

I feel slightly embarrassed by Ji-hye’s praise.

“You don’t have to go that far. You don’t need to build me up so much.”

“It’s true- And if there are many ultra-high-ranking Holders like S-grade, it becomes much easier when the association needs to assign special requests.”

An S-grade Holder is not only a personal honor but also a super-sized talent that is managed at the national level.

Especially in the Holder community, the number of S-grade Holders is said to determine a country’s national power, to the extent that their status was enormous.

This means that what Ji-hye is saying now is by no means an exaggeration.

This was something I could clearly understand just by looking at the domestic reaction after I was promoted to S-grade Holder.

“Oh, right. Did you know that a personal lounge for you was created in the association?”

“…This is the first time I’m hearing about my lounge?”

“Ahaha. It’s a newly established benefit for S-grade Holders. Lounges for other S-grade Holders have all been created now too. We were planning to send out notifications within this week, but I ended up telling you first?”

There were quite a lot of benefits after becoming an S-grade Holder.

The first of these was equipment rental.

S-grade Holders are the Holders with the most excellent rank in our country.

Naturally, they are beings who can use high-grade equipment most efficiently.

Following this logic, when you become an S-grade Holder, you can borrow the highest grade equipment among those stored by the Holder Association.

Of course, equipment beyond legendary grade requires some conditions and contracts, but most epic grade equipment could be borrowed after just a simple procedure.

The second was fees.

Almost all fees incurred in transactions with the association are close to zero.

Therefore, when trading byproducts or magic stones obtained from hunting monsters, unlike before, I could take all the profits at the market price.

Although it’s a benefit that has lost much of its meaning now, even these things can accumulate to become a large price difference.

In addition to these, there were countless large and small benefits such as free warp gate use, free use of association-certified training grounds, daily dungeon rental tickets, and so on.

I’m not sure how much I’ll utilize them, but in any case, it wasn’t bad to have them.

Probably what Ji-hye called ‘S-grade exclusive lounge within the association’ is also a welfare measure of this kind.

Indeed, when a Holder does well, good things tend to fall into their lap even if they do nothing.

“Ah. We’re here.”

As we were talking about various things, we had already arrived at the President’s office.

In front, a woman who looked like a secretary was waiting to guide me.

“Then I’ll see you later, Holder!”

“Yes. You too, Ji-hye. Next time I’ll contact you first.”

“Tch. You must!”

“Haha, yes.”

After briefly saying goodbye to Ji-hye like that.

I entered the President’s office following the secretary’s guidance.

Inside, Holder Association President Kwon Young-hoon was waiting for me in a neat suit.

“Ah, Holder Do Jae-hyun. You’ve come.”

“It’s been a while, President.”

We sat down after briefly shaking hands.

As I had requested a private meeting in advance, only Kwon Young-hoon and I remained in the President’s office after the secretary left.

“It’s late, but congratulations on forming an alliance agreement with the Wings of Freedom. You’ve made an agreement that will rewrite the history of Korean clans.”

“Thank you. I was lucky.”

“Haha. Probably only Holder Do Jae-hyun would describe making such a large-scale agreement as being lucky.”

…It’s true though.

Both Hendricks initially showing goodwill towards me and inviting me to the US for the alliance agreement were all unrelated to my intentions.

I didn’t know it would turn out like that either.

But there was no need to explain this, so I went straight to the main point.

“The reason I sought you out today, President, is to discuss the future conquest schedule.”

“When you say future conquest schedule…”

As I broached the main topic, Kwon Young-hoon narrows his eyes.

I took out the documents I had prepared in advance and spread them on the table.

Information obtained while pressing Baroness Caroline in New York.

And information discovered while conquering <Beltane>.

They were neatly organized reports of all those things.

“The 7th District, isn’t it about time we start conquering it?”

<Room of Deserter>, 7th District.

The conquest of the district that had been postponed day after day as it became a prolonged war.

It was now time to take over that baton.

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