Acquired the Scam Rune in the Academy

.

Bonus chapter thanks to @ Someone subscribing to Legendary Tier on Buymeacoffee.

Busan, a lodging in Nampo-dong.

Inside a spacious room.

Kim Chae-eun was dripping with sweat as she manipulated her magic.

Jeong Seon-young watched her grueling training with sharp eyes.

Already on the third day.

It had been about that much time since Jeong Seon-young had been exclusively coaching Kim Chae-eun’s training, but there were still no significant results.

The growth of a magician was slow and abstract, just as much as the other mage classes.

Jeong Seon-young, who had been quietly observing, opened her mouth.

“More precision. Don’t use your magic casually, thinking you just need to freeze things. Just because ice magic is easier to control than other magic doesn’t mean controlling its intensity is easy. Whether you use it only enough to suppress your opponent, or to deliver a powerful blow. Those settings are for you, Chae-eun, to decide.”

“Yes…!!”

Even in her highly concentrated state, Kim Chae-eun didn’t miss Jeong Seon-young’s words and responded.

Jeong Seon-young secretly regarded her with admiration.

‘She certainly has talent.’

From Jeong Seon-young’s perspective, Kim Chae-eun was a talented Holder.

Taking her in as a temporary disciple and spending three days in Busan.

Although visible results were not apparent from an outsider’s perspective, there were subtle changes that were undoubtedly evident to Jeong Seon-young, an A-grade Holder.

Compared to other C-grade Holders, her magic power was higher, and her control over ice magic was exceptional for an ice mage.

She also quickly absorbed the lessons taught by Jeong Seon-young and sometimes attempted to apply them autonomously.

At first, when Jeong Seon-young started teaching her, it had seemed fun without much thought, but upon closer inspection, Kim Chae-eun was a disciple who lacked nothing.

‘It’s intriguing since her main rune is normal.’

While [Freezing] was a relatively rare rune among magic runes, it was still categorized as ‘normal’ in terms of its grade.

For Kim Chae-eun, a Holder with considerable talent, to have a normal rune as her main rune was quite unusual.

Even Jeong Seon-young’s [Frozen Battlefield] was considered epic.

However, it wasn’t a significant issue.

While awakening runes were the most crucial, there were many cases of obtaining runes during training or growth, and sometimes they could be acquired during dungeon exploration if luck was on their side.

In fact, handling normal runes as the main focus wasn’t a big problem.

What was more important was that she showed remarkable talent.

“Enough. Take a short break.”

Jeong Seon-young raised her hand to signal.

Upon hearing that, Kim Chae-eun halted her magical manipulation and took a deep breath to recover her accumulated breath.

“Haah… Haah…”

“You’ve worked hard. You’re improving gradually.”

“Haah… Thank you. Haah… You’ve worked hard too…”

Since becoming a temporary mentor and student, Kim Chae-eun addressed Jeong Seon-young as teacher.

She couldn’t call her professor, since she wasn’t a professor, and they didn’t have an exclusive disciple relationship, master wasn’t suitable either.

So, what was left was ‘teacher’!

… That’s how the title was decided based on that logic.

While Jeong Seon-young suggested that she could just call her senior like before, she couldn’t discourage Kim Chae-eun’s insistence.

In this aspect, Kim Chae-eun was quite tenacious.

“Have you been practicing magical breathing consistently?”

“Yes. Since coming to Busan, I’ve been doing it every day without fail.”

“Good. Just a small reminder, but it’s not only warrior-class Holders who use breathing techniques. Holders from magic-using classes should also make magical breathing a habit. Sometimes, when the concentration of natural magic essence is high and of good quality during breathing, your magic power might increase.”

The common rune among Holders who use magic, [Magic Control].

Its primary applications include sensing, manipulation, arrangement, and manifestation.

Unlike skills like [Magic Barrier] or [Magic Barrier Activation] these were unique rune abilities that weren’t recognized as skills.

Sensing and manipulation applied to most Holders, while arrangement and manifestation were primarily used by mage-class Holders.

There were also special applications like ‘breathing’, which were essentially warrior-class ways of enhancing affinity with magic and weren’t known to have much effect.

‘But it’s important for mage-class Holders too.’ Jeong Seon-young thought differently.

She believed that magical breathing was essential for mage-class Holders as well.

Mage-class Holders had limitations in becoming stronger through repetitive training, and thus, they tended to rely more on enlightenment and talent rather than training.

Magical breathing had the effect of curbing such laziness.

Although it didn’t provide much help to mage-class Holders with already high magic affinity, it was quite significant for Holders like Kim Chae-eun who aimed to improve by focusing on their training patterns.

“Sigh. I want to get stronger quickly.”

Kim Chae-eun wiped her sweat with a towel as she spoke.

Jeong Seon-young smiled contentedly while looking at her disciple.

She had a purpose, but her friend had an exceptional drive to improve at a young age.

There was no reason not to find her cute.

“Don’t be too impatient. Your current abilities are already superior to most of your peers.”

“But… I still want to reach B-grade quickly.”

“Tsk. Is that because of that fellow, the Academy’s top student, Kang Juyeon? Kang Woo-hyun’s daughter?”

“…Yes.”

Despite being classmates, she had already reached B-grade, a student Holder.

Kang Juyeon.

Kim Chae-eun was working tirelessly to catch up to her, driven by the desire to surpass her.

And that…

It was also one of the reasons why Jeong Seon-young, who had a free-spirited nature, had taken on a disciple for the first time.

A day before the opening of the auction house in Daegu.

Kim Chae-eun had visited, saying ‘I wanted to become a Holder who could assist Jae-hyun’.

Her earnestness was so touching that Jeong Seon-young had granted her request to become her disciple.

Jeong Seon-young’s face was full of playful expression as she asked again.

“So? Is Jae-hyun currently interning at the Judgement of Fire?”

“Yes.”

“Oh my. What if he’s snatched away by Kang Woo-hyun’s daughter? Like a sneaky cat.”

“…That won’t happen. No, no! It’s not about snatching or being snatched in the first place…”

“Hehe. My disciple is cute.”

Although Jeong Seon-young had expended quite a bit of energy watching over Kim Chae-eun for a long time…

For some reason, she didn’t feel tired at all.

The fresh love stories of twenty-year-old student Holders. She, who was worn out by her life as a Holder, found a refreshing source of energy that allowed her to endure the day.

***

ippotranslations

***

Prev I TOC I Next

Please rate this series here.

.

Illustrations are here atBuymeacoffee

Schedule: Pending @ UTC+ 12:00 pm