Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 137

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137.

“Ah, Professor Akint! So! This is, well…”

Luna said frantically while looking at Leo.

Hearing those words, Leo, who had been frozen, came to his senses.

‘Akint?’

Leo slightly rolled his eyes and fell into thought to assess the situation.

“It’s true I skipped class, but that…! Should I call it magic research? I skipped for that!”

The young Luna hurriedly made excuses.

Listening to Luna’s words while stroking his chin, Leo suddenly looked at the wide window glass next to the corridor.

Seeing his faintly reflected appearance, he finished assessing the situation.

‘I see. It’s a possession type.’

The Heroes’ World comes in various forms.

The Heroes’ World Leo had entered was a type where one possesses the body of a person who actually existed in history.

In other words, Leo’s soul had entered the body of a person named Akint.

And fortunately, Akint was someone Leo knew about.

‘Akint Rubesha. One of Luna’s magic teachers.’

He had never met him directly when he was Kail.

When Kail met Luna, Akint was already deceased.

He was a person Luna often mentioned when telling stories of her past.

Recalling Luna’s longing expression as she spoke of him as her benefactor and father figure, Leo knelt down.

And he helped stack the books Luna had dropped.

Seeing Leo like this, Luna’s eyes widened in surprise.

“Where are you going?”

“Pardon?”

“I asked where you’re going.”

“Aren’t you going to scold me?”

“It’s not like you sneaking out of class is anything new.”

“Ugh.”

At Leo’s words, Luna flinched and trembled.

Seeing this, Leo burst into laughter and easily lifted the pile of books that would be difficult for Luna to carry, saying:

“I’ll help you.”

Luna was flustered seeing Leo obediently helping her, but soon became happy that she wasn’t being scolded and hummed a tune.

‘Her simplicity is the same whether young or grown up.’

Laughter burst out at seeing Luna’s appearance from a time he didn’t know.

Luna, now known as the benevolent Progenitor of the Starry Skies.

‘Benevolent my foot. She was just an eccentric tomboy.’

Her personality was also very simple and had many quirky aspects.

‘If the current elves saw Luna’s real appearance, they’d be tremendously shocked.’

Thinking of Luna’s image known in fairy tales and literature, Leo shook his head back and forth.

But her drive to rush forward without hesitation when fixated on something was remarkable.

Star Magic was also born from her passion to become a great mage.

Leo smiled bitterly watching Luna’s back as she walked with light, bouncing steps, seemingly in a good mood.

‘I’d like to have a conversation, but…’

He couldn’t have deep conversations.

The current Luna was from long before she met Kail.

Leo knew Luna, but she didn’t know Leo.

Though they were meeting like this inside the Heroes’ World, Leo felt bitter about the fact that there were no stories they could share with each other.

Before long, Luna arrived in front of a room.

The room was a shabby storehouse.

“Here it is. Professor Akint. Please give me the magic books. I’ll study here.”

At those words, Leo handed over the magic books he was carrying to Luna.

The height of the stacked magic books blocked Luna’s view.

Leo opened the door to the storage room for her.

“Thank you! Professor Akint!”

Luna smiled brightly and entered the room.

“Kyaah!”

Then she tripped and fell forward.

Seeing this, Leo burst into laughter and closed the door.

Though he wanted to stay with her longer, there were things he needed to do now.

‘Right now, understanding the Hero Dungeon takes priority. And I need to find the three people who came in with me.’

Thud- Thud-

Leo walked down the corridor.

‘I definitely passed through the warp gate heading to Gardstron, but entered the Hero Dungeon directly, right?’

Recalling the situation just before entering the Hero Dungeon, Leo narrowed his eyes.

He recalled what he had learned about Hero Dungeons at Lumern.

‘Hero Dungeons are phenomena that occur when Hero Records go berserk, wasn’t it?’

Hero Dungeons initially invade a certain part of reality to create only dungeon ‘entrances.’

But if the rampage continues, Hero Dungeons distort reality itself.

It’s fine if they’re conquered quickly, but Hero Dungeons left unconquered become disasters.

‘Things like Hero Dungeon monsters crossing over into reality happen.’

Besides that, phenomena where they devour the surrounding area itself occur.

‘This world right now is Luna’s world.’

Though the name was erased when entering the Hero Dungeon, it was certain.

Barharlun.

This was the name of an elf city that existed before the Age of Calamity.

‘More precisely, it’s a giant academy.’

An academy where only chosen elves could enroll.

At this time, graduating from Barharlun meant being recognized as a High Elf.

And like the current Seirun, Barharlun was also a place of learning for nurturing certain candidates.

‘The Elf King.’

The king of elves wasn’t inherited by bloodline, but selected from among the High Elves based on excellence.

Through the Age of Calamity, the position of Elf King disappeared.

Along with it, Barharlun was also forgotten to the other side of history.

‘This period was when Luna was around fifteen years old, wasn’t it?’

The time Luna was at Barharlun was before the Age of Calamity.

‘What exactly was the great achievement Luna accomplished at this time?’

Even as Leo, he couldn’t know exactly what achievement Luna had accomplished during this period.

Luna, a genius of magic, was literally an elf whose very existence was an achievement.

‘She used to boast about how amazing she was when she was in school.’

Leo tried to recall the school-age achievements Luna used to boast about proudly.

Each one was remarkable, making his head even more complicated.

Leo scratched his head vigorously.

‘First, I need to reunite with Runia, Elena, and Hadin.’

Just as Leo had possessed Akint’s body, the three of them would also have possessed other people’s bodies.

‘That would make them hard to find since their appearances would be different.’

“Professor Akint! What are you doing here?”

“Huh?”

At the sound of someone running over hurriedly, Leo turned his head.

And seeing the male elf in his early twenties standing there, he said:

“Who are you?”

“This is no time for jokes! You’re late for class! All the students are protesting and causing an uproar!”

At those words, Leo scratched his head.

‘Come to think of it, I was a teacher.’

He had forgotten because his head was complicated with thoughts about the Hero Dungeon.

‘First, to properly conquer the Heroes’ World, I need to faithfully fulfill the duties of the character I’m possessing.’

In possession-type Heroes’ Worlds, you must become the character you’ve possessed.

As such, there must be no shortcomings as a teacher of Barharlun.

If even the slightest thing goes wrong, the entire Heroes’ World conquest could fall through.

‘Unlike other worlds I’ve experienced so far, this is complicated in many ways.’

Sighing, Leo followed behind the elf man who had come to fetch him toward the classroom.

The place they arrived at was none other than a massive training ground.

In that training ground, elves were lined up in formation.

“Sorry for being late.”

At Leo’s words, an elf who appeared to be the representative expressed his dissatisfaction.

“This cannot be explained away as simply being late! Teacher Akint!”

At that outcry, the other elves nodded their heads.

“We are all Elf King candidates! We stand here with the pride of our families and race! Yet our teacher who should be instructing us is being so negligent! How can we trust and follow such a teacher!”

At that forceful outcry, Leo asked.

“So, what do you want?”

“We want the teacher to be replaced!”

“We want it!”

As he shouted as the representative, the other students followed suit.

At that reaction, Leo made an expression of disbelief.

‘They want the teacher replaced just for being a bit late to class? Are these guys in their right minds?’

Moreover, according to Luna, Akint had been a very excellent teacher.

“You, what’s your name?”

“…? That’s a strange question. I’m Hirkian Beshron.”

‘Hirkian? This bastard?’

Leo’s eyes turned cold.

He had never met him before.

But he was someone Kail knew about.

During the Age of Calamity, he was an elf notorious for his infamy.

‘The kinslayer Hirkian Beshron.’

Beshron was a noble elf family that existed before the Age of Calamity.

It was a family that had produced many Elf Kings for generations and wielded tremendous influence in elf society before the Age of Calamity.

‘The Beshron Family became a calamity for the elves.’

Barharlun disappeared from elf history not simply because it was old.

It was because the surviving elves hated Barharlun.

‘Not only did they pathetically ruin the powerful elf forces during Tartaros’s first invasion, but later Barharlun itself surrendered to Tartaros.’

The High Elves who called themselves proud were the first to betray their race and the surface world, pointing their swords at their own kind.

‘Not all High Elves betrayed them, though.’

There were also proud High Elves led by the Fairy Knights who protected their race until the end.

But the fact that the High Elves, who could be called the pride of the race, abandoned their people was shocking.

Thanks to this, the name High Elf became a derogatory term among elves during the Age of Calamity.

The position of Elf King also became an object of ridicule.

Eventually, as a result of that aftermath, Barharlun and the Elf King disappeared into the back alleys of history.

The one who stood at the forefront of that betrayal was right before his eyes.

Filled with pride, he was trying to control even Barharlun’s teachers, relying on his family’s background.

“Being a little late to class doesn’t justify replacing a teacher.”

Leo said coldly.

“What’s the real reason?”

At Leo’s chilly voice, Hirkian flinched.

But soon he lifted his chin as if he wouldn’t back down.

“It’s because we think Teacher Akint lacks the qualifications as a proud teacher of Barharlun.”

“What’s the reason for that?”

“Aren’t you showing favoritism toward ‘Luna Rubinens,’ who could be called a disgrace to our race?”

Murderous intent flickered in Leo’s eyes.

From Leo’s position as someone who saved the world, he absolutely could not tolerate calling Luna a disgrace to the race.

Especially if it was Hirkian who made that statement, it was even more intolerable.

‘Hero Dungeon or whatever, I’ll tear him to pieces…’

It was when Leo was grinding his teeth.

“How dare you call someone a disgrace to the race.”

A voice filled with murderous intent flowed out.

Everyone’s gaze turned to one male student.

The male student with a small, frail build was radiating a murderous aura that didn’t match his appearance.

“How can an elf spout such nonsense! Do you know who that person is!”

Seeing the male student instinctively burst out in intense anger, Leo could immediately identify who he was.

The current era was long before Luna became a great figure among the elves.

Yet showing such a reaction meant.

‘Runia… No. That Hadin, the 3rd year from Seirun.’

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A tower located on the outskirts of Barharlun.

In the high place called the Tower of the Gods, a man was looking up at the sky with a bored expression.

“How fascinating.”

Life returned to his face that had been flowing with boredom.

“Souls blessed by the gods.”

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