Acquired the Scam Rune in the Academy

Side. Transcendent’s Room: Parellis (1)

The R&D team of the <Evil Hunter> clan.

This is a place where clan members from quite diverse occupations gather.

In the early days, it was just a hastily assembled team for conquering the <Room of the Deserter>.

A team involving alchemist types, blacksmith types, and a few other special types – it wouldn’t be wrong to view it as a kind of ‘production team’.

In fact, special items like [Disruption Signpost] and [Mental Potion] that they produced made enormous contributions to conquering the 7th zone, demonstrating the reason for the R&D team’s existence.

-The R&D team will continue to develop further!

However, Clan Master Do Jae-hyun had no intention of utilizing them simply as a ‘production team’.

Although still just called the R&D team, he hoped that in the future it would become a team where various special-type Holders gather and cooperate.

A team that creates high-dimensional value on its own.

That’s how it was half a year after the team’s creation.

Now, quite some time has passed, and the clan’s internal structure has gone through a thorough reorganization.

The R&D team, which had lacked direction until now, has now developed a clear identity, and the team members have also taken on quite specific roles within their respective occupations.

<Clan member Kwon Hanna, confirmed.>

And Kwon Hanna, an R&D team member taking on the role of ‘explorer’ within this setup, swiped her access card and entered the clan tower.

Her destination was the 7th floor.

Among the five floors that make up the R&D team’s office, this is where her assigned office is located.

Thanks to the Clan Master who has high expectations and invests heavily in the R&D team, she has an entire floor as her assigned office, but this wasn’t entirely welcome news to Kwon Hanna.

If there are many rights and benefits,

There are also corresponding duties and responsibilities.

-Excessive expectations sometimes return as pressure.

“Hah…”

Kwon Hanna sat on the office sofa with a gloomy face.

Then she covered her face with both hands.

Right now, she felt like crying.

“Another fruitless day…”

She couldn’t even remember how many times she had come back empty-handed.

Every time she set out on clan-designated area explorations or personal explorations with high hopes, the results were all failures.

“An explorer who can’t explore…”

As mentioned earlier, she takes on the role of ‘explorer’ in the R&D team.

And this is the only job category in the <Evil Hunter> clan and belongs to a very important role.

This is because the main role of an explorer in the R&D team is to ‘find undiscovered dungeons’ that the clan needs to conquer in the future.

Undiscovered dungeons.

Lands of monsters that no one has ever discovered.

A treasure trove where all sorts of rewards and items can be found if conquered.

The discovery itself becomes newsworthy, and the ownership of the dungeon recognized under the association’s supervision holds tremendous value.

That’s why large clans sometimes form specialized teams to find them, and experienced explorers are often hired at quite high prices.

Kwon Hanna, too, was a clan member who joined <Evil Hunter> through special recruitment, with expectations for her capabilities as such an explorer.

“…Though I haven’t found even one yet.”

Of course, the result is zilch.

Kwon Hanna hasn’t found a single undiscovered dungeon since joining <Evil Hunter>.

Not only has she not found any, but the Clan Master himself has found far more dungeons.

Thanks to the Master, <Evil Hunter> now owns as many as 5 dungeons.

…In reality, it would be more accurate to say that the clan’s explorer is Master Do Jae-hyun.

“I wonder what Master saw in me to recruit me as a solo explorer…”

Thinking about that made her feel even more self-deprecating.

Kwon Hanna’s expression was full of gloom as she heaved a deep sigh.

After Do Jae-hyun recruited Kwon Hanna as a special hire clan member, he spared no investment and actively supported the R&D exploration division… But she still wasn’t producing results. �

This led to doubts.

Whether she really had any talent for exploration at all.

What the Master saw in her to recruit her as a solo explorer-.

Although Kwon Hanna possesses a very unique epic rune called [Singularity of Magical Power], this ability has never properly exerted its power.

Even during the three years she studied in the Academy’s special division, no professor was able to help her ability bloom.

All glitter and no substance.

There was no more accurate phrase to describe her current state.

“Haah…”

Unable to bear the frustration, Kwon Hanna stepped out onto the terrace.

Befitting the R&D team’s office made up of various magical devices, there was a small terrace where one could step outside briefly, despite being in a high-rise building.

“Why can’t I find anything, why-“

The dungeon discovery by ‘explorers’ is not actually that complicated.

The [Magic Control] rune pushed to the extreme, the [Search] rune known as the auxiliary search rune of archer types, and the [Excavation] rune possessed only by explorers.

If you combine these three runes well, you can discover the minute cracks in the divided magical power.n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

How skillfully and effectively one can make this combination.

Or at what point to use these abilities-.

These become very important stats for explorers.

Of course, Kwon Hanna possesses all these abilities.

On top of that, she has the epic rune [Singularity of Magical Power], though she doesn’t know how to utilize it.

Yet she has never found a dungeon even once.

“Is it a matter of experience…”

Perhaps the most reasonable explanation.

A pro Holder who just graduated from the Academy a year ago.

Kwon Hanna was a rookie explorer.

But that alone wasn’t enough to convince her.

There must be a reason why the famous S-grade Holder Do Jae-hyun personally chose her… But Kwon Hanna couldn’t find that reason at all.

Suddenly, in a fit of frustration, Kwon Hanna waved her hand wildly in the air.

The exploration-type rune utilization that she had tried out in the predicted area today.

The skills within it…

Were unfolded on the 7th-floor terrace of the clan tower where there should be nothing.

“Agh! Why can’t I find the dungeons that other explorers and the master keep discovering!”

Magical power unleashed in an attempt to soothe her frustrated heart.

Of course, there was no way anything would react in a place like this.

“If I just combine the exploration-type runes like this, just the same…”

But at that moment.

Before Kwon Hanna’s quiet eyes, an information window suddenly appeared.

[You have discovered an amazing singularity hidden in the atmosphere! The distortion of magical power sometimes reveals itself in the ordinary space where you breathe. The ‘Singularity of Magical Power’ rune is reacting violently!]

“Wh-what…?”

Finally.

It was the moment when the Clan Master’s faith in explorer Kwon Hanna was manifesting.

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Ippotranslation

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The top floor of the clan tower, the Master’s Room.

The only space within the clan tower where the master handles work and takes rest.

I cleared my throat unnecessarily and looked ahead.

In front of me was Im Hye-young, the head of the secretarial team.

“Hye-young, as I said earlier…”

“Yes, you said you wanted to rest alone for a while. That’s the fourth time you’ve mentioned it.”

“Ahem. Did I say it that many times…? Anyway, unless it’s really urgent, don’t look for me, and don’t let other clan members into the Master’s Room.”

“Understood. Don’t worry. Then…”

Lim Hye-young bowed her head lightly and left the Master’s Room.

As expected of a competent head secretary, she withdrew cleanly without adding unnecessary questions.

About 3 minutes after Lim Hye-young left.

I cleared my throat a few more times and looked around.

Where my gaze fell was…

The ‘Private Room’ located inside the Master’s Room.

“Ahem. I think you can come out now, Master.”

At my words, a woman immediately emerged from the Private Room.

One of only six S-grade Holders in Korea.

The only Vice Master of the <Evil Hunter> clan.

And…

My assassin-type master, and now my lover.

It was Yoo Eun-seol.

“I’m sorry, Jae-hyun. You have to be so cautious because of me.”

“Don’t say that. We’ll reveal it someday, but for now we’re hiding it because it’s more comfortable this way.”

“Still…”

Yoo Eun-seol lowered her head and directed her gaze downward unnecessarily.

…She was feeling shy.

I found this unfamiliar side of my master fascinating, and it was so cute that I approached and hugged her tightly.

“I like you.”

“…Me too.”

Since that day when my master took courage.

We finally decided to date.

It seems it wasn’t just my master who was seeing the other as more than a master-disciple relationship.

I too had harbored feelings beyond that of a master for a long time, and those feelings finally emerged when she confessed her heart.

Once we confirmed each other’s feelings, it was natural for the relationship to progress.

‘…Though it’s still a secret for now.’

Instead, we decided to keep our dating a secret for the time being.

The reason is to mitigate the shock.

First of all, we’re in a master-disciple relationship outwardly, and within the clan, we hold important positions as Master and Vice Master.

If such individuals suddenly start dating, it could cause great confusion not only in the clan but in the entire domestic Holder community.

Therefore, for now, we’re keeping it a secret from the public, just like when I first started dating my three lovers, and we plan to reveal our relationship gradually, step by step.

Probably for a while, no clan member will be able to figure out our relationship…

“Jae-hyun, Jae-hyun! You haven’t heard the news yet! Finally, Hanna has found an undiscovered dungeon…”

“Clan member Moon Ga-eun! I’m sure there was a master’s order not to enter…!!”

Yoo Eun-seol and I, embracing each other and confirming our love.

And Moon Ga-eun, who burst into the Master’s Room that was supposed to be off-limits.

Lim Hye-young, the head secretary, following in confusion.

A situation that occurred immediately without any time to react.

I looked at them alternately and…

Then quietly closed my eyes.

‘…We’re fucked.’

It was winter.

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