Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 130

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130.

Looking at the clone that looked exactly like herself, Iliana wore a wary expression.

‘Is this Professor Albi’s magic?’

It was well known that Albi could use fairy magic through the power of Maan.

Even with Iliana’s aggressive personality, she couldn’t recklessly charge at magic she was seeing for the first time.

As Iliana remained on guard, Iliana’s clone curled up the corners of its mouth.

“Did it just smirk? That clone just mocked me!”

The indignant Iliana pointed accusingly.

However, seeing her clone gathering mana, she panicked and prepared to respond to the magic.

Flash-!

“Huh?”

Iliana was startled when she saw the magic that was activated.

What the clone used was none other than Iliana’s signature magic, ‘Shining Blade’.

Seeing the pouring blades of light, Iliana was momentarily flustered but then grinned.

“Mirror mimicry?”

Iliana activated Shining Blade in the same way to cancel out the clone’s attack.

“It seems like illusion-type magic, but that kind of thing doesn’t work on me!”

Iliana shouted with a confident face as she deployed her magic.

Before long, the duel structure had become Iliana vs Iliana.

The students watched the duel with excited faces.

In fact, the duel between Albi vs Iliana would have been completely uninteresting.

Because it was literally a fight with an obvious outcome.

However, when Albi used unknown magic to create a clone identical to Iliana, the outcome became unpredictable.

Brilliant light magic decorated the dueling ground.

The two Ilianas moved quickly, hurling magic at each other.

After a while, the Magic Studies Department students wore confused expressions.

“Which one is the real Iliana?”

Albi’s magic was at an amazing level.

As if mocking what they had simply thought was high-level illusion magic, it used the same amount of mana and the same magic as Iliana.

It was believable enough that there were really two Ilianas.

In the midst of this, Cal muttered.

“Isn’t the prettier one the clone?”

“Indeed!”

“Then that one over there is real!”

“Hey! Do you want to die! They look exactly the same, so how can one be prettier than the other!”

Iliana got angry seeing her classmates accurately identify the fake.

“Idiot! Don’t mind the kids and focus on the duel!”

“Oops!”

Iliana was startled and focused on the battle.

The clone was becoming increasingly difficult to deal with.

‘It uses the same magic as me, so why is there such a difference? Is it because it’s a clone created by Professor Albi, so it’s stronger than me?’

Such thoughts naturally occurred to her.

At that moment.

The clone activated some magic.

Iliana was surprised to see the magic pouring down on her.

‘Shining Rain?!’

It was the unique magic that Iliana had completed during vacation.

When that magic poured down on her, Iliana squeezed her eyes shut.

As she braced for impact, the clone and magic disappeared simultaneously.

When the outcome was decided, Iliana, drained of strength, slumped down in place.

“Excellent.”

Albi said impassively.

However, knowing that this was high praise, Iliana blushed slightly and wore an embarrassed expression.

“Th, thank you.”

“Next person, come up.”

Iliana descended from the dueling ground.

After that, the Magic Studies Department students went through the same process as Iliana.

As the students’ defeats repeated, the first to achieve victory against a clone was none other than Chelsea.

“Amazing. Even though it used the same magic as us, it felt like its overall specs were higher.”

“Huh? What are you talking about? It had equal power to me though?”

Chelsea wore a puzzled expression at Cal’s words.

Seeing such Chelsea, the surrounding students were flustered.

Most students thought Albi’s clone was stronger than themselves.

Meanwhile, Chloe and Avad successively defeated Albi’s clones.

Seeing this, the Magic Studies Department students clicked their tongues.

“They win more easily than Chelsea.”

“The Knight Department calls Selia, Sia, and Duran the Monster Trio, shouldn’t we call them that too?”

The students murmured.

“Grr!”

Meanwhile, sparks flew from the eyes of Emio, who had held 3rd place in the Magic Studies Department until the first semester midterms.

‘What exactly is the difference between those guys and me!’

All students except one had finished their duels.

The last remaining student, Leo, went up to the dueling ground receiving the students’ gazes.

“How will the class president do?”

At Iliana’s muttering, Chelsea wore an expression as if it was obvious.

“Leo will definitely win! Leo was the only one who passed through the vice-principal’s magic at the opening ceremony, right?”

“That’s true.”

As Chelsea and Iliana were chatting, Emio, who had been listening nearby, snorted.

“Don’t you know that Leo Flobe’s real ability is demonstrated in all-class situations? There’s no way Leo Flobe could beat Professor Albi’s clone purely through magical combat alone in this duel where most Magic Studies Department students were eliminated.”

Chelsea frowned.

“Leo is incredibly amazing at magical dueling too! And you were miserably defeated by Leo in the flying magic competition in the first semester.”

“That was a test competing in flying magic. Although there was armed conflict, that guy even used aura.”

Emio said decisively.

“I won’t lose to that guy in a pure magical duel.”

Seeing Emio display strong confidence, Chelsea wore a pathetic expression.

‘What’s there to brag about beating Leo, who isn’t even a pure mage, in a pure magical duel… And I think Leo would win even in a pure magical duel.’

While students were each predicting the outcome, Professor Ren straightened his posture and focused on Leo.

‘Let’s see how much you’ve grown during vacation?’

Seeing this, Anna sighed deeply.

‘Professor Ren’s obsession with student Leo has gotten worse during vacation.’

During vacation, Professor Ren and Anna stayed at the Academy preparing classes that could persuade Leo to transfer to the Magic Studies Department.

Although Anna couldn’t even return home and was held captive by Professor Ren, she came to realize anew what a genius Professor Ren was.

The second semester class that Professor Ren prepared during vacation was a Magical Combat class.

Of course, it wasn’t a simple Magical Combat class.

‘A class teaching methods to defeat knights and summoners with magic.’

It was literally a class to clearly demonstrate the superiority of magic, practically a declaration of war from the Magic Studies Department to other departments over Leo.

When she first heard Professor Ren’s plan, her head spun.

She tried to persuade him somehow, but Professor Ren wouldn’t listen.

‘I have no intention of disparaging student Leo’s all-class talent! No! Rather, I had completely misjudged student Leo’s talent during the first semester!’

It was truly remarkable that Professor Ren, who never compromised when it came to magic, acknowledged other talents and took a step back.

‘But my thought that magic suits Student Leo the most remains unchanged! No! After the first semester ended, I became even more certain! Only magic can make the student named Leo Flobe complete! So Student Leo’s main focus must absolutely be magic!’

Even when the theory-focused Professor Ren was preparing what could be called practical magical combat studies, Anna had doubts about whether he could truly captivate Leo with his classes.

If theory was his main strength, then practical application would inevitably fall somewhat short.

But seeing Ren’s preparation process changed her mind.

‘Even I, a mage, am fascinated by it. Professor Ren really is a genius in his own right.’

During the vacation, Ren’s thorough class preparation continued.

The problem arose about a month after the vacation began.

Anna shuddered as she recalled that time.

***

That day, as usual, before heading to Ren’s office, Anna stopped by the department office and discovered a letter that had come for Ren, the professor in charge of first-year Magic Studies Department.

“Where did this come from?”

Anna held the letter with a puzzled expression and checked the sender.

“Seirun Academy?”

Anna made a surprised expression and headed to Ren’s office.

“Welcome, Associate Professor Anna. Today let’s also enjoyably prepare for class…”

“You think class preparation that keeps you from even going home would be enjoyable?”

“Hehe. You’re not being honest. I already know that you enjoy helping me prepare my classes. Associate Professor Anna. You’re also an inevitable mage, after all.”

Looking at the boastful Ren, Anna couldn’t deny it and let out a deep sigh before handing over the letter.

“A letter came.”

“Where was it sent from?”

“From Seirun Academy.”

“Seirun?”

When a letter came from Seirun, which could be called a rival school, Ren made a puzzled expression.

And after reading the letter, he burst into laughter. “Hahahaha!”

‘Why is this man acting like this again?’

“As expected, Student Leo is suited to be a mage! Look at this! Associate Professor Anna! This is a letter from Seirun acknowledging and praising Student Leo’s magical talent! The content says they feel they should teach well a student who will become a great mage in the future! Hahahaha! As expected of our Lumern’s rival! They definitely have an eye for recognizing talent!”

“Well, Student Leo did interpret the Progenitor of the Starry Skies’ magic.”

Although no official announcement had been made yet, the magic that Leo had restored for Luna was causing a great stir in the elven magical world.

Anna read the letter that Ren handed her with admiration.

And when she checked the latter content that Ren hadn’t seen yet, her face turned pale.

“Hehehe! I’m curious about the latter content. Associate Professor Anna. Give me the letter.”

“P-Professor. You shouldn’t read this… It’s not particularly important content… So, so! Class preparation! Let’s do class preparation! Okay?”

Anna desperately tried to prevent Ren from seeing the letter.

“What kind of content is it that makes you so flustered?”

“N-no! Professor! You can’t look at it!”

Anna desperately shook her head.

But the letter eventually ended up in Ren’s hands, and seeing this, Anna covered her face with both hands.

The expression gradually disappeared from Ren’s face as he read the letter.

After reading to the end, Ren burst into “Hehehe” laughter.

Whoosh—!

The letter in his grasp burned and disappeared.

“Have these pointy-eared bastards gone insane.”

Harsh words that were unimaginable coming from Ren, who was famous for being gentle, came out of his mouth.

He was someone who never lost his composure at any time.

But the content of this letter was enough to enrage him.

Anna trembled at the killing intent flowing from Ren’s eyes.

The content of the letter was simple.

It was about wanting to invite Leo Flobe to Seirun as an exchange student.

The problem was the duration.

At least one semester.

In other words, they were saying to have him study half of his first year at Seirun.

If he studied an entire semester at another school, the class curriculum would become completely different.

Additionally, the letter contained the content: ‘Student Leo Flobe has an outstanding ability to understand star magic, so only studying at Seirun can properly draw out Student Leo’s magical abilities.’

“So what are they saying? To send him for a transfer? Hehehe. Interesting. Very interesting.”

“P-Professor. Please calm down. Calm down.”

Anna tried her best to quell Ren’s anger.

Ren had a personality that didn’t express anger outwardly well even when he had reason to be angry.

But once his lid was blown, he couldn’t see anything in front of him.

The rude request to hand over the student he had found like the greatest treasure was enough to bring his anger to its peak.

“Don’t worry, Associate Professor Anna. I am extremely calm. Hehehe.”

But for some reason, Ren was composed.

“Isn’t this all happening because Student Leo is too outstanding? Hehehe, Seirun also has good eyes.”

Ren, who had been smiling broadly, spoke coldly.

“I’ll change the class content. Internal enemies aren’t important right now. I’ll completely smash those Seirun bastards to pieces in this Lusejeon.”

Ren, with veins bulging on his forehead, made a murderous smile.

This wasn’t simply about having his beloved student stolen.

It was literally as if Seirun had thrown down a challenge toward Lumern.

For Ren, a Lumern graduate with strong pride, this was absolutely unforgivable.

Then shouldn’t he respond properly?

“Hehehe. I’ll make the faces of Seirun’s magic teachers look like slimes ground into the floor.”

***

Recalling the events during vacation, Anna let out a deep sigh.

‘Later, when Azonia also requested to transfer Student Leo, he really destroyed the entire office.’

While Anna was recalling the events from vacation.

Leo stood still, facing off against Albi.

It was when other students were making puzzled expressions looking at Leo like that.

As Albi’s magic eye glowed, Mirror Force was activated.

‘Mirror Force. Magic that creates an identical clone of the enemy.’

It was magic evaluated as the strongest among illusion-type magic.

Of course, it was magic that wouldn’t activate if the target was an existence that far surpassed the caster’s power.

‘But against weak opponents, it creates a completely identical version of themselves. Just like a mirror.’

And Mirror Force draws out the copied target’s power to its limit.

That’s why most first-years were defeated by their own clones.

It was because the clones had better ability utilization than the ‘real’ ones.

It was magic that displayed almost invincible power against opponents with lower skills than oneself.

Leo’s completed clone stirred up magical power.

Flash—!

Students were shocked seeing the magic formula embroidered in the air.

“That’s… star magic?”

“Wait! You’re saying Leo can use star magic that skillfully?”

Behind the students’ shock, star magic poured down on Leo.

Leo burst into a chuckle seeing the magic rushing toward him.

Whirr—!

Magical power dwelt in Leo’s eyes.

Crackle crackle crackle crackle—!

The sound of the magic formula being destroyed rang out loudly.

The magic that had reached right in front of Leo was instantly dispelled.

“How did he block it?”

“There was no sign of him using magic.”

The students murmured.

“What? Leo, how did you do that?”

When Cal panicked, Chelsea made an expression of disbelief.

“He dispelled the magic.”

“What?”

Cal made a shocked expression.

Avad and Chloe also looked at Leo with surprised eyes.

‘Senior Albi’s Mirror Force is magic that replicates the target. The magic used by the replica is ultimately one’s own magic. So dispelling it like that is simply possible.’

It’s a technique any skilled mage can perform.

The problem is that the standard for such skilled mages applies only to professor level, namely mages of Ren or Albi’s caliber.

And Leo, who’s merely a first-year, is pulling it off.

‘Ah… it’s only natural that Seirun would target student Leo. With such excellence, anyone would drool over him!’

Ren’s body trembled with ecstasy.

‘Student Leo will go down in history as the greatest mage in Lumerne Magic Department history! I’ll make it happen! Whether it’s Seirun or Azonia, I’ll never let them take him away!’

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