Acquired the Scam Rune in the Academy

Zone 6 – A Land Touched by Death (3)

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Though it was a short period, I wasn’t just playing around while preparing for this area attack.

I constantly pondered how to efficiently attack Ludenark’s enemies, and researched which rune combinations would be most destructive within my abilities.

After much deliberation, the conclusion was one.

‘Divine power.’

The answer lay in divine power.

The Ludenark school consists of beings who borrow power from dark-aligned and evil-inclined gods or demons, wielding magic with enhanced magical power.

Therefore, it’s natural that they are weak against divine power that deals with light attributes.

I could see its effectiveness just by looking at how my divine-type items, [Trillion’s Brilliant Oath] or [Pure Element], played a big role in this attack.

So yesterday, I sought advice from an A-grade divinity clan member.

“Faith?”

“That’s right. It’s one of the runes that support the divinity class… While the divine amplification rune explosively releases divine power itself, faith can be seen as a rune that helps a smoother and more natural manifestation of divine power. Most high-level divinity-type Holders possess this rune.”

The clan member mentioned a divinity-type support rune called [Faith].

If [Divine Amplification] is a rune that supports the quantity of divine power, [Faith] is a rune that aids its quality and manifestation process.

The reason why Holders of other classes can’t use divine power as effectively as divinity-type ones, despite being able to use it, is because they lack these support runes.

“There’s a high probability that members of the Ludenark school possess the faith rune.”

He offered this view without even being asked.

The reason I was suddenly asking about divinity-type runes.

He had noticed this.

“So Holder Park Jeong-min also thinks Ludenark borrowed power from an evil-inclined god.”

“That’s right. The black magical power they wield clearly contains divine power. It’s a system that can’t be explained just by the runes previously known as black magic. The demon entity that Master mentioned before is probably an extension of this.”

Looking at the common runes of Ludenark school members, there are mainly three.

[Ludenark Spell], [Black Magic], [Dark Covenant].

Among these, the first is about spellcasting.

The second is a rune that manifests dark attribute magic.

And the third is the rune related to the ‘evil-inclined god’.

‘The dark covenant rune is probably the key that distinguishes them from ordinary divinity-type Holders.’

Without [Dark Covenant], Ludenark’s members would have been ordinary magicians and Multi-Holders of the divinity class.

In other words, while the type of god differs, they also possess divinity-type support runes.

I could see this just by looking at the rune I obtained after killing Aquilen yesterday.

[You have won the duel! With the mysterious power of the Rune Hunter, you can copy one of your opponent’s runes. Please select the rune to copy.]

[You have selected the ‘Madness of Faith’ rune. As it’s a level 20 epic rune, its level will decrease and be registered as level 10.]

[You gain 6 Recovery and 2 Willpower from the rune’s attributes.]

<Rune Information>

◎Name: Madness of Faith

◎Grade: Epic

◎Level: 9

◎Engraved Part: Chest (Duplicate)

◎Special Effects: –

1) The manifestation of divine power becomes considerably smoother. If the level of the ‘Magic Control’ rune is high, freely layering divine power onto magic power is also possible.

2) The resonance with the god you’ve pledged faith to increases dramatically, allowing you to draw out over 20% more performance from runes related to that god. (*If there are no related runes, this effect does not apply.)

3) The true power of the rune awakens when contracted with evil-aligned and dark attribute gods, or demons. (*Sealed state)

◎Derived Skill: –

◎ [Divine Bless]

◎Detailed Information: –

: The mindset of some peculiar beings with misaligned faith. They forget that blind belief in a god can sometimes turn into obsession. If they continue to cling to faith tinged with madness, they might someday be consumed by its dark side.

Aquilen possessed [Madness of Faith] as an epic grade rune, which is normally a normal rune [Faith].

However, this rune, true to its ominous name and detailed description, was highly compatible with the [Dark Covenant] used by Ludenark school members.

Because of this, I couldn’t use the core effect, which seemed to be the 3rd special effect, and the 2nd special effect was meaningless to me as I hadn’t pledged faith to any god.

‘…Still, it’s a necessary rune.’

However, for me right now, there was no rune more necessary than this.

First of all, the 1st effect of being able to smoothly manifest divine power is very important.

The most crucial thing in dealing with the Ludenark school and Hwang Seong-yeon is the manifestation and application of divine power, which I’ve been compensating for with items so far.

I didn’t have the confidence to efficiently raise divinity-type runes at this point, nor did I have enough time.

But it’s a different story if a high-level epic rune with good effects assists.

I’ve raised my Recovery attribute to quite a high level through [Effort of the Seeker] and rune acquisition stats, so if the manifestation becomes smooth, I’m confident I can freely utilize divine power.

Moreover,

‘Divine Bless. This skill is also overpowered.’

The derived skill [Divine Bless] is a skill that increases the Recovery attribute by 30% for 10 minutes.

Given that my current Recovery attribute is 76…

When I use the skill, it will increase to about 99.

If you use the ability-boosting skills [Berserk] and [Dragon Transformation] on top of that, the divine value can increase exponentially.

In the current situation where divine power and divine value are almost essential, such rune and skill assistance was truly worth its weight in gold.

Awooo-!!

Guguuugu-

Anyway, after such a complex maintenance process.

The battle that immediately followed is happening now.

Jeyten running at tremendous speed and…

Me, manifesting divine power on top of him.

I was using [Madness of Faith] to pour a lot of divine power into the sword in my hand.

Moreover.

‘Jeyten.’

-Yes, master.

‘I’m going to assign you combat-related runes. Can you use them right away?’

-I’ll do my best to help in battle.

‘Good.’

I assign new runes to Jeyten as he charges.

These runes might not be very meaningful to Jeyten, who already has his own combat style, but when facing C-grade monsters like skeletons, they could actually fill in the details.

[The ‘Deer’s Ice Antlers (Rare/Lv.6)’ rune is assigned to the contractor ‘Jeyten’. This rune is deleted from the Holder information.]

[The ‘Fiery Flame (Rare/Lv.10)’ rune is … … ]

[The ‘Gaze of Stiffness (Rare/Lv.8)’ rune is … … ]

[The ‘Combat Healing (Rare/Lv.7)’ rune is assigned to the contractor ‘Jeyten’. This rune is deleted from the holder information.]

[Fiery Flame] had been a pillar of my magical attacks for a long time, but with the [Elemental Master] rune, its value naturally decreased.

Although Jeyten wasn’t familiar with handling magical power, just naturally drawing flames around his body could be a great help in this chaotic situation.

[Combat Healing] also had little meaning due to the special effect of [ Forgotten Dragon Knight Pride], and [Gaze of Stiffness] and [Deer’s Ice Antlers] were runes that didn’t match well with me from the start.

I assigned these four runes to Jeyten, maximizing the diversity of combat.

And then.

Gakak- Gakak-!

Gagagakak-!!

Awooo-!!

Jeyten’s body collided with thousands of troops.

Jeyten jumped by stepping on the shoulder of the first skeleton he encountered, leaping right into the middle of the enemy lines.

Flames rose from his feet and legs, and sharp ice protruded from his head, creating a peculiar sight… But in this many-against-one battle, these magical attacks proved quite effective.

Just by moving, he had already damaged four skeletons.

-Master. Ice and fire, they seem good.

‘Right? I really like them too.’

I agreed, as Jeyten seemed quite satisfied.

-Pardon?

‘It’s nothing. Jeyten, turn right from here. This time, burrow down. So my sword can reach.’

-Understood.

Jeyten’s charge stops as if sudden brakes were applied.

And before that recoil ends…

A curve that bounces to the right!

Thanks to our long period of coordination, even Jeyten’ rush was now as smooth as driving a race car.

The thrill rises as our movements fit together perfectly.

I thoroughly coated [Sword of Penitent] with divine power and cut down every enemy I encountered.

Gakak- Gagakak-!!

Kaang-!!

Five skeletons, two durahans, three ghouls.

In the sky, I cut down two specters, and even instantly killed a revenant that popped out of the ground.

With [Madness of Faith] allowing free distribution of divine power, I was sweeping away enemies like a wave.

Especially among my runes, there are quite a few effects that increase in power when fighting curse-type enemies, and the item [Sword of Penitent] goes a step further, increasing performance by 50% when dealing with undead.

Even though we were surrounded by enemies on all sides…

This was the reason we could stride forward fearlessly.

Gakak- Gagagakak-!

Kang- Kang- Kakang-!!

Awooo-!!

I cut, and cut, and cut again.

Already, countless undead were piling up like mountains.

Jeyten too was hunting enemies well, blending his newly acquired runes with his original power.

Thanks to this, although we had charged into the middle of enemy lines, we didn’t seem to be in any crisis at all.

Our efforts were not meaningless gestures.

“All magic users, deploy wide-area attack spells!”

“Support the Master!!”

“Take down all the undead!”

The return on our risk came back for sure.

As much time as we bought, the clan members soon arrived nearby.

The magic users prepared to cast wide-area spells to annihilate the enemies, and the warrior types all jumped into the battlefield to help me.

Now…

It was the start of a full-scale battle.

And then.

Kagagakang-!!

From somewhere, a skeleton knight flies in like the wind and crosses swords with me.

Heavy armor and a huge helmet.

Red light shining through the gaps.

An aura and magical power incomparable to the small fry I’ve been dealing with until now.

With a high probability of being at least an S-grade monster…

It was the appearance of a Death Knight.

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