Acquired the Scam Rune in the Academy

Chapter 316

Arena Terror (2)

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Henry, a C-grade warrior Holder, is different from ordinary C-grade Holders.

It starts with his ability scores.

As an offensive warrior type, he doesn’t have high durability, but his magic power is 46. His main stats, strength and speed, have already surpassed 50.

The same goes for runes.

The levels of the runes he mainly uses are all over 10, and the levels of auxiliary runes are similar or slightly lower.

This is the maximum potential that a C-grade offensive warrior Holder can achieve.

In effect, he possesses ability scores and rune utilization comparable to a B-grade Holder.

In other words, this meant that Henry was a C-grade Holder on the verge of promotion to B-grade.

‘Heh. I can take down a mage type in one strike.’

Moreover, in a one-on-one duel between warrior and mage types.

This is generally much more advantageous for the former.

The biggest reason for this is ‘time’.

The two types show a huge difference in combat preparation time.

While warrior-type Holders are ready for battle as soon as they draw out weapons like swords or spears, mages need to manifest, arrange, and apply their magic power before casting even a single spell.

Even when using the same magic power, warrior types who only need to ‘manifest’ it in their weapons have an overwhelmingly advantageous position in the time battle.

It’s not for nothing that in party compositions, warrior types take the vanguard and mage types take the rear.

‘Sometimes there are mages who defeat warrior types, but...’

It’s not that there’s no way at all.

They can compensate for their weaknesses through special runes like [High-Speed Chanting] or [Memorize], and battle mages who actively utilize [Magic Barrier] often show great strength in one-on-one duels.

But these are just exceptions.

There are far more mage-type Holders who don’t possess these runes, and even if they do, the warrior type still has the advantage.

‘I can definitely beat a B-grade.’

Moreover, the opponent is a B-grade mage type.

Although it’s a rank belonging to high-level Holders, it’s similar to Henry’s current abilities.

He deliberately didn’t promote to B-grade for this arena duel.

To make a big profit from reverse betting, in collusion with the event organizer.

It’s a major crime that would land him in jail if discovered, but it doesn’t matter if he doesn’t get caught.

-The match begins!

And with the announcer’s words, the match started.

Henry instantly drew his sword and rushed towards Caroline.

An explosive movement utilizing [Agility].

Here, he uses a rare rune called [Dweill Swordsmanship].

This is the combo mainly used by the offensive warrior-type Henry.

If the opposing mage hasn’t prepared a defensive spell in advance, it’s a rush attack that could deal a heavy blow.

‘You fool! It ends now...!!’

Henry was confident in his victory.

He couldn’t sense even a speck of magic power from the opposing mage.

She hadn’t deployed any defensive magic in preparation for the rush attack.

In this state, the duel would definitely be Henry’s victory.

“To death.”

From the opposing mage.

That is, until he heard that voice.

Swoosh-!

Kwahaa-!!

“Kuh, huk...?!”

Vines composed of black magic power instantly climb up the skin and pierce the heart.

Without time to use an evasion skill, without a chance to counterattack.

Henry was struck by the attack just like that.

He falls without being able to resist.

Soon, a fountain of blood bursts out.

“......”

It was instant death.

And then.

Silence fell over the arena that had been full of excitement.

The mage-type Holder.

No, Caroline, the mage disguised as a Holder...

Was looking around with glowing red eyes.

* * *

She prioritizes protecting the arena audience while being wary of the barrier being breached again.

Watching her calm casting, I also drew up my magic power at the same time.

‘Call of the Contract.’

I [Summon] the contractor who was sleeping far away.

The target is Ripley.

The vampire countess who broke the formal framework of our contract by making a special promise with me during the recent promotion exam.

I needed her in this situation.

“You called earlier than I thought?”

Ripley, summoned to me, speaks immediately.

She’s looking at me with a slight smile.

It seemed the resentment from secretly using [Magic Sharing] in the battle with Hwang Seong-yeon had completely dissipated.

“Ripley, I need your help.”

However, she frowns at these words.

“You, it seems like you say that every time you call me.”

“Sorry. But this time it’s for real.”

I immediately point to the inside of the arena.

Caroline is preparing a new spell inside the arena.

But the amount of magic power is beyond imagination.

As if her purpose was indeed to carry out terrorism in the arena, she was preparing a massive area-of-effect spell aimed at the audience who hadn’t yet fully evacuated.

I ask Ripley, who has shifted her gaze following my gesture.

“That woman, she’s a vampire, right?”

Vampire.

The abilities and appearance Caroline showed in a short time were similar in many aspects to what I had seen from Ripley.

Of course, she seemed far inferior to Ripley in level, but in terms of form rather than content, they were similar.

And as if confirming that this guess was exactly right, Ripley nodded in affirmation.

“It’s Baroness Caroline. She was expelled from Beltaine.”

“Expelled?”

“Yes. Among our kind, there are fallen nobles or those who get expelled like that. I was curious what she was up to, but I didn’t expect her to become Ludenark’s dog like this.”

As expected, the opponent was indeed a vampire.

I thought she wasn’t ordinary since she pierced through the [Magic Barrier] with one spell, but it turns out she was even a vampire who had held a noble title.

And Ripley quickly grasped the situation.

She had caught on that Caroline was using Ludenark’s power through the [Pact of Darkness].

“But Do Jae-hyun. It’ll be difficult to get in there, you know?”

Ripley, who had been quietly observing the situation, speaks up.

“Why?”

“I could break the barrier if I spent some time, but I can’t break in at once like Baroness Caroline in there. That’s a special ability unique to Baroness Caroline.”

[Magic Barrier] cannot be breached by physical force alone.

One needs to deeply understand the magic structure and possess exceptional comprehension to break through it.

But Caroline’s breaking through the barrier and killing the announcer wasn’t simply a matter of such knowledge, it seems.

I thought summoning Ripley would solve the problem at once, but unfortunately, that was a miscalculation.

“What should we do? It seems I can’t be of help this time.”

She says this, but Ripley is smiling.

Does all of this come across as amusement to her?

She seemed to find my predicament entertaining.

“Can’t be helped. I’ll just have to break it myself.”

“...Didn’t you hear me earlier? I said even I would have difficulty breaking that barrier.”

I smile wryly at Ripley’s dumbfounded expression.

“It’s okay. There is a way.”

Of course, I can’t break the barrier as quickly as Caroline.

But about 10 seconds.

The time we can hold out if Kim Chae-eun and Ripley deploy defensive magic together.

That much time is enough.

‘Barrier Break. The day has finally come to use this.’

[Barrier Break], a derivative skill attached to the [Curse of Demons] rune.

It was such a minor type of skill that I wondered if there would ever be a day to use it, but a moment of need has arrived like this.

Indeed, there’s no harm in acquiring high-performance runes.

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