Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 125

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125.

“This is so out of nowhere?”

“What can we do? Has it been just a day or two since our school started pushing students around out of nowhere?”

“True.”

Cal shrugged his shoulders at Taide’s muttering.

Hearing that, Taide was convinced too.

The first-years who had been flustered by sudden situations up until the first semester were now all calm.

Everyone had gotten so used to unexpected situations that they accepted this much with composure.

No, rather, the dominant reaction was that they had expected this much.

“Then.”

The students’ gazes turned to Riben.

“Begin.”

As soon as Riben finished speaking, all the first-years simultaneously shot out toward Lumern.

Seeing this, Riben stroked his chin.

‘Everyone’s reactions are good. Being able to move this quickly must be due to the difference in experience.’

All of this year’s first-years had experienced crisis situations during the Inter-Department Competition.

‘Selia, Sia, Duran, Avad, Chloe, Chelsea, Woreden, Eliza. And Leo. These nine were the ones who defeated Gigantes at the time. The public is only paying attention to them, but…’

The other students had also fought monsters.

That experience was making this class exceptional.

‘It happens sometimes, this kind of generation.’

A special generation.

Usually, there might be one hero per generation, but in classes with these characteristics, several emerge.

‘The current fifth-years were like this too.’

The fifth-years were also a generation that received attention for having many outstanding talents.

However, Riben didn’t feel motivated to teach the first-years.

‘Has there been a hero from Lumern who achieved remarkable results in the past few hundred years? No. Not just Lumern, but other Hero Academies are the same.’

Many heroes had been born over a long time.

Becoming a hero meant overcoming great trials.

Therefore, most heroes were satisfied with obtaining the status of hero.

‘But that alone isn’t enough.’

The reason the gods gifted Hero Record to the lower world.

It was to completely defeat Erebos and Tartaros.

‘Though it seems the ultimate goal has become becoming a ‘hero’ by now.’

Riben had lived as a professor at Lumern for a long time.

Only a very few within Lumern knew he was a dragon.

A hundred years ago, he received orders from the Dragon Lord to guide Lumern’s students and became a teacher at Lumern.

The lifespan of dragons is roughly 300 years.

Riben had lived a considerable portion of his life as a professor at Lumern.

After the Age of Calamity.

Following the will of Risinass, the King of Wisdom, dragons established a tradition of choosing and supporting heroes.

Perhaps because of this, heroes who received dragon recognition achieved greater achievements.

Riben had also been full of motivation at first.

He believed without doubt that in the near future, a hero would be born to carry on the will of the great heroes and defeat Erebos and Tartaros.

But the world situation had remained unchanged for hundreds of years.

Though they continued the endless fight against Tartaros, that too was in a stagnant situation.

‘Children of this era rarely look toward ideals beyond becoming heroes.’

That’s why he lacked motivation.

‘Getting old is part of it too.’

Watching the students who had disappeared in an instant, Riben looked up at the sky.

A world without change for so long was enough to tire even a dragon.

‘Is it time to retire?’

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Lake Lumeria, vast enough to be mistaken for an ocean, has several islands.

On the massive island at its center stands the sprawling Lumern Academy.

‘Come to think of it, this place wasn’t lakeside before the Age of Calamity either, was it?’

The center of the world.

Though Lumern Academy now sits here, this place was originally dragon territory.

‘Was this the first land attacked when Erebos appeared?’

Since it was a childhood story even in his previous life, Leo’s memory was hazy.

Even during the time he traveled around the world to defeat Erebos, he had never been to the area around where Lumeria City now stands.

Leo, who had been reminiscing about the past, suddenly raised his head.

“Prepare yourself! Leo Flobe!”

Crackle—!

Intense sparks flew as a golden lightning aura flashed.

Crackle—!

Boom boom boom boom boom—!

“Aaaah! Take cover!”

“Get away from there!”

Students scattered in all directions, startled by the sudden attack.

They defended against the lightning swirling around them with their respective means.

“You dodged.”

Duran, standing on the water with Aura Step, looked at Leo with a cold smile.

Seeing this, Leo crossed his arms.

“Right now we’re not exactly competing against each other, so why are you attacking?”

“There was no order to compete, but there was no order not to compete either.”

Strong fighting spirit swirled in Duran’s eyes.

“Then there’s no reason not to fight. I trained during vacation to defeat you. Come at me, Leo Flobe.”

Crackle—!

Duran wrapped his body in lightning aura.

Seeing this, Leo scratched his head.

“Ah, I don’t want to exert myself on the first day of school.”

“Hah. Arrogant bastard. That leisure will soon disappear…”

“There you are! Leo Flobe!”

A sharp voice cut between the two.

Whoosh—!

Eliza, riding the highest-grade aquatic monster Delpinus, was charging with glaring eyes.

“Prepare yourself!”

Delpinus created a water spray.

“Gasp! Even Eliza Herginn?!”

“Take cover! Take cover!”

“If you get caught up between them, you won’t even find your bones! Fall back!”

With the appearance of Eliza, another top-tier student who attacked without caring about the surroundings, students quickly distanced themselves from Leo.

Even so, they didn’t exactly run away.

Duran and Eliza.

Both were top-tier students of this class and shared the common trait of having strong personalities.

On top of that, they wanted to defeat Leo more than anyone.

So they shared the common trait of constantly looking for opportunities.

Other students also aimed for the class representative position, but these two were particularly aggressive.

‘We can’t miss such an interesting spectacle!’

‘This is fun from the first day of school~’

Isn’t watching a fight one of the most entertaining spectacles in the world?

The students watched the three students’ confrontation with sparkling eyes.

Leo sighed as he watched the waves crashing toward him and summoned his mana.

“Freezing.”

Crackle-!

The massive wave that had been crashing toward Leo froze instantly.

But as if she had expected this, Eliza prepared her next attack.

The Delpinus, empowered by Eliza’s spiritual power, opened its mouth and let out a roar.

Kraaaaaaaaaak-!

The ice shattered instantly under the powerful sonic attack.

Leo felt his head ring with a ding- for a moment and summoned his aura to resist the sonic attack.

Duran, who had been caught up in it as well, also grimaced.

Unlike the two who had withstood the sonic attack head-on, several students with lower resistance who were indirectly affected foamed at the mouth and fainted on the spot.

The students who had stepped back to watch gulped nervously.

‘We could be in serious trouble if we’re not careful while watching?’

As everyone tensed up, Duran’s sharp gaze turned toward Eliza.

Crack-!

Duran approached Eliza at tremendous speed using aura step and raised his sword.

Kwagagagagak-!

As a lightning-like sword strike came down, Eliza grimaced and summoned her spiritual power.

“Luri! Move!”

The Delpinus, enhanced by Eliza’s spiritual power, dove underwater.

Seeing this, Duran smiled murderously.

“Do you think you can escape by diving deep underwater?

Kwaling-!

As thunder rumbled from Duran’s sword, the faces of the watching students turned pale.

“Hey! Hey! Run! It’s an area attack!”

“Uaaaaaaak!”

“I don’t want to be roasted by lightning from the beginning of the semester!”

As Duran thrust his sword, a storm of lightning swept through the surrounding area.

The students who barely escaped the attack’s range looked stunned as they watched Leo, who had defended against Duran’s attack.

Even though he wasn’t the direct target of the attack, Leo’s calm demeanor despite being caught up in such an attack was nothing short of amazing.

“Indeed, an attack like this doesn’t even make you blink.”

Just as Duran was curling up the corners of his mouth while looking at Leo.

Gooooooooo-!

An ominous presence was felt from underwater.

Splash-!

The students’ faces filled with horror as they saw the creatures that broke through the water surface.

“Aqua Gorgos!”

They were snake-like monsters that were troublesome aquatic monsters to face when encountered in water.

Five Aqua Gorgos rushed at Duran as if enraged.

This was one of the Delpinus’s abilities – domination.

Looking at the Aqua Gorgos, Duran snorted and swung his sword.

Flash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash! Slash!

Golden light flashed as incredibly fast sword strikes cut down the Aqua Gorgos.

Just as all the Aqua Gorgos heads fell from those clean sword strikes.

Whoooosh-!

A water whirlwind struck Duran.

Duran grimaced and swung his sword.

Slash-!

He succeeded in cutting through the water whirlwind, but was knocked back by the impact.

Murderous intent appeared on Duran’s face.

“Hmph!”

Eliza, who had somehow risen above the water, also snorted and glared at Duran.

“You must want to die. How dare you interfere with me.”

“You’re the one who shouldn’t interfere with me.”

Eliza venomously retorted to Duran’s cold voice.

Just as murderous smiles appeared on the lips of the two students glaring at each other.

“You two are full of energy from the first day of school?”

When Leo sighed and spoke, both their gazes turned to Leo.

“An opportunity to settle things quickly has simply arrived.”

“This time I’ll definitely take the class representative position.”

“So, are you two planning to gang up on me?”

“Don’t worry, I won’t stoop to such lowly tactics, Leo Flobe.”

“There’s no reason to join forces with this person, and defeating you that way would have no value.”

“Then decide who’s coming at me first.”

“Obviously me.”

“Don’t be ridiculous. Me first.”

Sparks flew between the two again.

Seeing this, Leo said.

“Then let’s do this. You two fight first, and I’ll compete with whoever wins. That’s fair, isn’t it?”

Hearing Leo’s words, Duran curled up the corners of his mouth.

“Simple and clear, I like it. Come at me, Eliza Herginn.”

“That’s what I wanted. Duran Moira.”

The two people, famous for their nasty tempers, glared at each other and soon an intense fight began.

One of the other students who had been mesmerized watching the spectacular fight between the top-level students suddenly asked Leo.

“Where are you going? Weren’t you supposed to compete with one of them?”

“Yeah. But I didn’t say I’d compete right now.”

“What?”

“Well then, I’m leaving first.”

Leo waved and left abruptly.

Duran and Eliza were so focused on defeating each other that they didn’t even notice Leo leaving.

The students watching the situation from the sidelines looked at Duran and Eliza with pitying eyes.

‘Hey, you guys got played by Leo.’

‘Oh my. How devastated will they be when they realize Leo isn’t there.’

While thinking this, one student muttered.

“Hey. What if they find out Leo left first and get angry and take it out on us? We’ll all be in big trouble.”

“….”

The students looked at each other.

Come to think of it, there was no law saying they wouldn’t do that.

The students who had been reading the mood quietly left their spots.

A moment later.

Duran and Eliza, realizing they were the only ones left in the area, also stopped fighting.

And when the two realized that Leo had disappeared as well, tremendous anger rose on their faces.

“Leo Flobe! You bastard!”

“You really aaaaaaaah!”

The futile rage of the two who realized they had been played by Leo spread in all directions.

But Leo was already far ahead in a position where the two couldn’t catch up to him.

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