Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 126

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126.

The first-year students headed toward the academy using their respective methods.

Knight Department students used aura steps.

Magic Studies Department students used fly magic or wing magic.

Summoning Department students used flying magical beasts and fairies.

If it had been the beginning of the semester, many students would have struggled to cross this vast Lake Lumeria, but now there wasn’t a single Lumern first-year student who couldn’t cross the lake.

‘I suppose that means everyone has grown that much.’

Leo thought as he flew through the sky using fly magic.

He could see aquatic monsters living in Lake Lumeria attacking the students, but everyone handled them with ease.

“At this level, we could probably even take on a kraken, right?”

“Don’t say things like that, even as a joke.”

Leo chuckled softly upon hearing the conversation between his classmates.

‘But what’s the reason for telling us to go to Lumern Academy?’

It seemed clear that they wanted to test the students’ abilities.

But for that purpose, the difficulty was too easy.

Leo, who had seen through the fact that Riben’s true identity was a dragon, predicted that a considerable challenge awaited them.

‘This definitely won’t end like this.’

It was when Leo was thinking with such certainty.

A thick, hazy fog spread before his eyes.

Since fog often formed over Lake Lumeria, the other students didn’t think much of it.

But the moment he entered the fog, Leo’s face hardened.

‘This is…!’

Leo’s eyes widened.

‘Dragon language magic?’

Whoosh—!

The moment he recognized the dragon language magic, Leo’s vision changed.

‘This is a bit too much.’

It was magic Leo knew.

Magic developed long ago by the King of Wisdom, Risinass.

‘More precisely, it’s a curse.’

A dragon curse that Risinass created to counter curses, one of Tartaros’s powerful forces.

‘Nightmare.’

Whoosh—!

The scenery changed completely.

Seeing this, Leo took a deep breath.

He knew the characteristics of this curse well.

‘A curse that makes you fight the person you least want to fight among those you know.’

Having thought that far, Leo turned his head.

And seeing the woman before his eyes, he muttered ‘as expected.’

A beautiful woman stood before him.

It was none other than Risinass.

***

Inside Lumern Academy, the professors in charge of first-year students looked at the magical screen before them with serious faces.

On the screen, they could see students who had been heading to Lumern losing consciousness and collapsing.

“Ah…”

“Oh no…”

Sighs filled with regret poured out among the professors.

Students who lost consciousness and fell into the water were swallowed by their own shadows.

The swallowed students were transported to the infirmary.

Among the professors, Vice Principal Riben was known as someone who handled powerful illusion magic.

The professors, who knew the power of that magic well, had strongly opposed when Riben first said he would test the first-year students.

‘This is absurd!’

‘Maybe if they were upperclassmen! But it’s impossible for first-years to pass!’

Riben’s magic was that famous even among the professors.

Not a single professor wanted to break the current first-years’ will with such an unreasonable test.

‘It’s not a test for grading. It’s literally just a simple test for Vice Principal Riben to assess the students’ capabilities.’

Persuaded by Kalian, the first-year professors had entrusted their students to Riben from the very first day of the semester.

And this was the result.

Watching students who couldn’t endure and were losing consciousness, the professors sighed deeply.

Even Sedjen, who would normally cheer enthusiastically for his students, was watching the screen with crossed arms and an expressionless face.

Several Class 1 students were also visible on the screen.

“Not very elegant.”

Sedjen, who had been frowning and muttering, spoke to Hallind.

“What do you think?”

“The Vice Principal must have his thoughts. He’s someone who has held a professorship at Lumern longer than any of us.”

Hallind and Sedjen knew about Riben’s true identity.

And they had also heard about what goal he had for being at Lumern.

“But I don’t like it.”

If Riben, being a dragon, directly guided the first-years, there would be nothing better than that, but Riben showed no motivation to teach the first-years.

Lumern’s goal was to raise hero candidates who could overcome any trial.

But that didn’t mean pushing students into impossible trials they could never overcome.

Riben had literally prepared this test to refuse to guide the first-years.

Lumern’s professors gave their best to the students they taught.

They believed without doubt that their students would grow into talents who would transform the world.

Sedjen was a professor who strongly held such philosophy.

That’s why he didn’t like Riben’s method of turning away from the students’ potential.

Hallind, who valued efficiency, felt the same way.

“It might be a difference in perspective that comes from looking at something bigger than what we see.”

Hallind said while looking at the students, and Sedjen let out a deep sigh.

***

“Kail.”

Risinass, who had blocked Leo’s path, smiled and stepped aside from the path she had been blocking.

And pointing with her finger to the path she had been blocking, she said.

“Move forward.”

“I knew you would say that.”

Leo chuckled softly.

If the opponent was Risinass, she would never fight Leo.

Their meeting was truly the first step toward saving the world.

They had stronger trust in each other than anyone else.

Leo knew better than anyone that a virtual ally created based on solid trust would never attack him.

That’s why this result had come about.

The same was true for other companions.

‘Well, it wouldn’t matter if we fought.’

Leo looked down at his hands.

They weren’t the hands of a young boy, but the scarred hands of an adult who had crossed countless battlefields.

His vision had also changed.

Nightmare was a curse that showed illusions.

In the end, it was fake and didn’t really exist.

If Leo recognized Risinass as the opponent he least wanted to face, it meant the illusion also recognized Leo not as Leo but as Kail.

Leo scratched his gray hair and passed by Risinass.

Looking up at such Kail, Risinass smiled faintly.

“Stay strong.”

With those words, Risinass disappeared from sight.

The scenery changed and only darkness remained in the space.

“Stay strong… huh…”

Leo, who had returned to his original form before he knew it, smiled bitterly as he drew his sword.

“I have to stay strong.”

Whoooosh—!

The flame aura exploded like a burst.

Leo’s eyes gleamed.

Unlike magic created by combining runes, dragon language magic is magic created by combining dragon words, the language of dragons.

Other races find it difficult to even interpret, let alone use.

However, Leo, who inherited Risinass’s will, understood the magical formula without much difficulty.

‘It’s impossible to use with my current physical condition though.’

But interpretation isn’t that difficult.

Moreover, this dragon language magic was created by Risinass.

Crack—!

He thrust his sword toward where the magical formula was concentrated.

Crackle—!

Cracks spread throughout the entire space, and soon the darkness shattered into pieces and cleared away.

Flash—!

Leo’s eyes snapped open as the Fly magic was dispelled and he was falling.

Splash—!

Leo narrowed his eyes after avoiding falling into the water using Aura Step.

He could see the surrounding students being swallowed by shadows.

‘It seems there’s no intention to cause harm.’

Since it was curse-type magic created by a dragon, it was impossible for first-year students to break through.

Tense—!

Leo put strength into his legs.

Boom—!

The aura concentrated in his legs exploded outward like a burst.

Leo ran toward Lumern at tremendous speed.

Riben, who had been standing at Lumern’s dock where the first-years would arrive, muttered.

“Maybe Nightmare was too harsh after all?”

It was when Riben, who had been looking at Lake Lumeria with a listless expression, shook his head and turned around.

Splash splash splash splash—!

The sound of footsteps on water could be heard.

When he turned his head, someone landed in front of Riben.

Riben’s eyes widened greatly.

Leo looked up at such Riben and said.

“I’ve arrived.”

Looking at Leo speaking in a slightly defiant tone, Riben wore an expression of disbelief.

“How did you break the magic and get out?”

“I just broke it and came out.”

“Hah.”

Hearing Leo’s words, Riben let out a hollow laugh.

Looking at such Riben, Leo asked.

“But don’t you usually not give impossible things as tests?”

At the pointed remark, Riben let out a deep sigh.

He trudged over and slumped down on a chair at the dock.

“I’ve served as Lumern’s vice-principal for a long time. During that time, I’ve seen many students who became heroes.”

Riben smiled bitterly.

“But not one of them dreamed of ideals beyond being a hero.”

The last person in history to receive a dragon’s choice was none other than Sword Saint Kalian.

That’s also why he’s called the greatest hero of the modern era.

“I’ve been looking at a world that’s been stagnant for too long and lost motivation. So I tried not to look at your possibilities.”

Riben bowed his head deeply.

“So I apologize.”

Dragons, being called the strongest race, don’t easily bow their heads to others.

Knowing this fact, Leo accepted Riben’s sincere apology.

“So. What is your dream?”

Riben was curious about what this student’s dream was, having accomplished what he thought was impossible.

It was truly a student who sparked his interest after a long time.

Hearing Riben’s words, Leo answered as if it were nothing special.

“The complete annihilation of Erebos.”

Riben’s eyes widened greatly.

It was an answer he couldn’t have imagined.

It’s difficult enough to even dare speak the name Erebos, yet here was a first-year declaring he would annihilate such an Erebos?

If it were anyone else, he would have laughed at such a foolish.

It was a goal he would have ridiculed as absurd, but Riben didn’t do that.

Instead, he felt his heart trembling.

“Being disappointed in students after working as a Lumern teacher for so many years, that could be understandable.”

Leo said while looking directly into Riben’s eyes.

“But you know this, right?”

“What?”

“The King of Wisdom saved the world precisely because he never gave up.”

At Leo’s words, Riben’s eyes bulged.

“Even after being frustrated thousands of times, even after being disappointed thousands of times. That didn’t become a reason to give up.”

Leo continued, recalling the leader who always stood at the front and led the expedition force.

“If you’re a descendant of such a King of Wisdom, shouldn’t you never give up no matter what?”

“You… my identity…”

Riben intuited that Leo had seen through his identity.

“Please take care of me from now on, Vice-Principal.”

Leo greeted such Riben and left the dock, heading toward Lumern’s main gate.

Looking at that retreating figure, Riben looked up at the sky.

‘Great King of Wisdom… what exactly is the identity of that boy who reminds me of your will?’

Riben is a great being that all dragons respect without exception.

Thinking of Risinass, he pulled out the student roster from subspace.

And he turned the pages.

Leo’s photo was visible on the very first page.

‘Indeed, so that child was Leo Flobe.’

He hadn’t even known the fact that he could have known the identity just by turning the first page.

Riben realized how lazy he had been and blamed himself.

‘Setting aside that I turned away from others’ possibilities due to my foolishness… that boy is really…’

Riben, who had closed the student roster, looked up at the sky.

This isn’t just about a golden generation.

‘Perhaps the balance of this stagnant world might be shaken.’

Riben, who had watched many heroes up close for a long time, had an intuition.

Leo wasn’t simply a boy with the qualities of a hero.

But he also wasn’t a hero who would rise to an even greater position.

A single word came to mind in Riben’s head.

‘Great Hero.’

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