Acquired the Scam Rune in the Academy Chapter 323

The Land of Vampires, Beltane (3)

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This fan cafe, true to its na, uniquely operates on a paid mbership system.

Monthly regular dues are collected from mbers, and only those who pay these dues are granted full mbership status.

Originally, it was a free cafe where anyone could join and share photos and news about Do Jae-hyun, but recently, such barriers have erged, drastically changing its nature.

The reason was simple.

-Do Jae-hyun beca too famous!

He was already famous in the early days when he was rising as the most promising talent in the academy and dostically, but after founding the clan as a clan master, his fa spread nationwide.

Friendly clan agreents with the top 3 dostic clans.

The greatest achievent in the conquest of .

Friendly clan agreent with the clan….

As big issues that were hard to handle kept breaking out one after another, interest in him surged.

Among them, the biggest issue was, of course, his ‘S-grade Holder promotion’.

By taking the title of the world’s youngest S-grade Holder, Do Jae-hyun’s popularity reached a global level.

A Holder as handso as a celebrity with top-tier skills.

He couldn’t help but beco an object of admiration.

-This can’t go on.

Thus, an enormous number of people flocked to the fan cafe.

There were incomparably more mbership requests than before.

And consequently, it beca difficult to operate the cafe normally.

There were those who sought attention by stirring up all sorts of trouble, and it was common for Do Jae-hyun’s anti-fans to sneak in and disparage him.

So the managent team made a decision.

Monetization of fan cafe mbership.

They changed the system so that those who wish to join the fan cafe must pay certain dues to register as mbers.

Moreover, instead of collecting annual fees like ordinary celebrities, they decided on a monthly fee structure.

They judged that no ordinary amount would be enough to deter the malicious individuals flooding into the fan cafe.

“This seems like a really good move”

Yoo Eun-seol, the most esteed mber of , nodded in agreent with this drastic decision.

It seed like the best possible choice the managent team, whoever they were, could have made.

Of course, there would be passionate mbers who might find it difficult to pay, but counterasures were put in place for such individuals to receive support for their dues if they consistently remained active as associate mbers.

In any case, through these changes, the fan cafe has recently regained so stability.

And after so ti had passed.

Suddenly, this opinion was proposed within the fan cafe:

-Shouldn’t we hold a fan eting?

Fan eting!

A eting with fans that any celebrity with a large fan cafe and core fandom would hold at least once.

For celebrities, it was an opportunity to express gratitude to their fans, and for fans, it was a festival where they could et the celebrity in person and enjoy related events.

The ones who proposed this idea were the so-called ‘Jeiten faction’.

A group that claims Jeiten is the most suitable contractor for Do Jae-hyun to ride in battle.

They are a fandom that rapidly grew in power after the establishnt of the clan, a new force demanding radical fan cafe policies such as providing gifts and letters, etings with fans, and events for Do Jae-hyun’s birthday.

Naturally, hosting this fan eting was also a perplexing demand for the conservative .

And to this demand, the ‘Bond faction’, classified as the old fandom, showed an unfavorable attitude.

[Jae-hyun’sfirstkiss/Top] …Is there really a need to do this?

[GrapeFlavourPudding/Top] Hmm, I also feel like, is it necessary? A fan eting is sothing that both fans and the celebrity need to agree on and actively participate in, but Jae-hyun rarely even cos to the fan cafe. Hehe.

[BonOwner/Top] Anyway, those Jeiten faction people always say incomprehensible things. First of all, about the contractor, huh? Isn’t it obviously Bon rather than Jeiten? He’s the very first contractor, and the ti they’ve fought together-.

Here, ‘Top’ refers to the most esteed mbers.

It’s a veteran rank that only 5 people, including the cafe president, have.

As these influential veterans expressed negative opinions, the new force, the Jeiten faction, also strongly retaliated.

[FriendYoungerSibling/Excellent] It’s good for all of us to et! It’s already hard to see him because he’s so busy! And GrapeFlavourPudding. Could you stop acting like you’re close to Jae-hyun and calling him ‘Jae-hyun’?

[Jae-hyunoppa/Excellent] I can’t just let BonOwner’s words slide! No, isn’t Jeiten obviously the standard for contractors rather than Tirbon? That silver mane! Majestic figure! Loyal attitude and brave charge! Anyone can see it’s incomparable to that weird bone fragnt.

[Jae-hyun and alchemy/Excellent] FirstKiss. I’ve been bothered for a while, but can’t you change your nickna?

…Although there seed to be many personal conversations, most of them were sharply divided over whether to host the fan eting or not.

They were already in conflict about whether to attempt hosting when Do Jae-hyun hadn’t even given permission yet.

But among those opinions.

Suddenly, a sentence caught Yoo Eun-seol’s eye.

[LoveJae-hyun/Excellent] If we have a fan eting, can we see Jae-hyun dancing and such? I’d like to see that….

At that mont, lightning struck Yoo Eun-seol’s head.

‘…Jae, Jae-hyun’s dance?’

Content she had never imagined.

Yoo Eun-seol had no strong opinion on this topic or had a similar view to the Bond faction, but as soon as she saw that comnt, her mind changed completely.

I want to see it.

Curiosity fills her head.

…Of course, she had no particular intention.

She simply wanted to see a new side of her disciple, as befitting a master’s duty.

Therefore, Yoo Eun-seol carefully left a comnt on the cafe.

[Jae-hyunSS/Top] A fan eting… I don’t think it would be bad either.

[Jae-hyunsFirstKiss/Top] ……?

[GrapeFlavourPudding/Top] Ah! SS, if you suddenly agree to that…!!

[BonOwner/Top] Geez, who on earth is this person to have the top-tier rank?

It was the mont a bomb dropped on the once peaceful fan cafe.

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After calming the uneasy gazes of Ripley and Jeiten as much as possible.

We continued to enter Baroness Caroline’s territory.

I dismissed Jeiten for now, and wandered around the baronial territory with Ripley as my guide.

Of course, the baroness’s minions weren’t just golems.

[‘You have purified a Revenant inscribed with the ‘Dark Oath’. The rcy of the holy Sednilen touches the sword. The performance of the holy sword ‘True Repentance of Kelbilid’ improves.’]

[‘You have purified a Wraith inscribed with the ‘Dark Oath’. … … ]

Nurous minions under Baroness Caroline blocked our path, but they all quickly fell to a few swings of my holy sword and Ripley’s magic.

To begin with, they were all incomparably weaker than the Erald Golem we first encountered, so the hunt itself was very easy.

We hunted carefully, checking if there were any mbers of the Tern or Ludenark schools, but there didn’t seem to be anyone like that.

“Here it is.”

After walking for quite a while, we arrived at a large mansion.

Ripley, standing in front of the door, spoke with her arms crossed.

“Is this Baroness Caroline’s mansion?”

“You can tell just by looking. It’s almost the only castle in this barony. In Beltane, it’s called the ‘Vampire Castle’.”

“Then there must be a castle like this in your county too, Ripley.”

“Are you kidding? My castle doesn’t even compare to this trash. There’s no aesthetic elent to this castle at all.”

Ah, right.

Seeing Ripley getting slightly angry, I rembered.

This one was a level 18 [Skilled Architect]….

She probably designed and decorated her own vampire castle herself.

“Ahem. Anyway, let’s go in.”

“You, you always clear your throat when you’re at a disadvantage.”

“It’s because it’s my first ti seeing a vampire castle too. If I had seen your castle first, I wouldn’t have said that.”

“Hmph. You can look forward to it. Once you see my castle, everything here will look trivial.”

“Yeah, yeah.”

Agreeing with Ripley’s boast, we entered the castle.

Creeak-

The old gate between the massive stone walls slowly opens.

As we could guess from the exterior we saw outside, Caroline’s castle had a circular staircase stretching up from the entrance.

A complex structure like a maze of stairs.

The iron decorations hung at intervals and the old structures maximized the eerie atmosphere inside the castle.

“Ripley, is this part of the labyrinth too?”

“Well, if we’re being picky. But it’s so low level, honestly, it’s a waste to even call it a labyrinth.”

Ripley snorted and pointed ahead with her chin.

“There are five magic traps right there. Hmph. Who would fall for such traps.”

“……”

…That would be .

I almost fell for it.

I wasn’t particularly using the [Descendant of the Barbarian King] rune, so the lower-level search rune [Prey Search] wasn’t activated, making it difficult to detect traps.

If Ripley hadn’t told , I probably would have fallen into the trap.

Of course, then I could have just smashed the trap with my holy sword, so it wouldn’t have mattered much.

Detecting traps wasn’t the end of it.

Ripley also played a significant role as a guide when distinguishing rooms.

“Not that room. I can’t feel Caroline’s energy at all.”

“Not this room either. There’s no sll of blood at all.”

“There are minions in here. Go in if you want to hunt.”

Thanks to Ripley, we could figure out what was inside the rooms we saw on the way up without having to open the doors.

And so we arrived at the top floor of the castle.

This ti, instead of an old door, there was a door made of expensive tal.

Even without Ripley’s explanation, I could tell this was Caroline’s room.

Clack, clackclack-.

It’s firmly locked, but I open it easily by infusing magic.

The room, befitting the top floor of the castle, boasted a considerably spacious area.

A desk and bed made of high-quality old wood, and parchnts fluttering here and there caught my eye.

Perhaps because a vampire lived here, although it was clearly a room, it felt completely devoid of life.

“Do Jae-hyun, over there.”

Suddenly, Ripley points to one side with her finger.

My gaze follows it.

There was a wardrobe there.

An old wardrobe that seed to bear very old traces.

Also, a familiar yet ominous energy surrounding it.

-Kelbilid, you who have forsaken your kin. Why are you here?

And inside that wardrobe.

A man in full armor was looking at us with red eyes.

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