Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 167

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167

Leo opened the classroom door on the left and entered.

The gazes of the Emerald students sitting in the lecture hall instantly focused on Leo.

Thud- Thud-

Leo climbed onto the platform and surveyed the audience.

Among them, he made eye contact with one girl.

Flinch-!

The one he made eye contact with was Sila, who had tried to trouble Leo with complex magical formulas in Lumeria City yesterday.

‘She was an admission candidate?’

Leo chuckled and stood at the podium.

“Nice to meet you. My name is Leo Flobe.”

At those words, the Emerald students began murmuring.

“Leo Flobe?”

“You mean that All Class one?”

“Leo Flobe from the Gigantes subjugation.”

“Didn’t he also conquer the Progenitor of the Starry Skies’ world this time?”

The students looked with curious eyes at the boy who, despite being only a first-year, had built an overwhelming career compared to most upperclassmen and might become their direct senior.

Of course, among them were also those who looked at Leo with suspicious gazes.

“As an instructor assisting with classes, I’ll be taking over your lesson today in place of Professor Ren. Please treat me well.”

At the same time as those words, someone raised their hand.

It was a boy around Leo’s age.

The boy spoke with slightly defiant eyes.

“My name is Kun Beiya.”

Judging by his black hair and black eyes, he was from the Eastern Region of the continent.

And the Kun Family was a fairly renowned magical hero family in the east.

Bae, who had introduced himself, asked with a slightly provocative smile.

“Do you have the skills to teach us?”

“Well. Since Professor Ren sent me to teach, wouldn’t that be sufficient?”

Leo answered with a slight smile.

As a magic professor, Ren was certainly an amazing person.

/The reason all first-year Magic Studies Department students truly respected Ren and were passionate about his classes wasn’t simply because he was a professor, but because his teaching abilities were exceptionally outstanding.

Therefore, the first-year Magic Studies students trusted Ren’s words, at least when it came to classes or magic.

But the Emerald students were different.

Even though Ren’s name was mentioned, they still cast distrustful glances.

“We came to hear Professor Ren’s lecture, not to listen to some low-level lecture from a mere first-year.”

Bae, who had spoken confrontationally to Leo, curled up the corners of his mouth.

This would have been impossible at Lumern.

Lumern’s admission age was 14-17. As a result, there were quite many cases where seniors and juniors were the same age, or juniors were older than seniors.

But that didn’t mean juniors would carelessly talk back to their seniors.

Lumern’s academic curriculum was absolutely not easy.

No, rather it was a system that filtered out those who weren’t qualified.

Simply filling time wouldn’t allow one to maintain their status as a Lumern student, and even if they somehow survived, they couldn’t advance to the next grade without passing the promotion exam.

One year.

It might be a short time, but one year at Lumern was worlds apart compared to other people’s one year.

Surviving one more year meant having sufficient qualifications to be respected.

Even within Lumern, not all Lumern students were the same.

However, the Emerald students who hadn’t experienced Lumern yet couldn’t understand this.

There were some students who thought that although they were candidates, once they enrolled, they would become equal to those students.

Bae was also one of the students who thought this way.

‘We’re both fifteen anyway.’

Several students were agreeing with Bae.

Not only that, but other Emerald students were reading Bae’s mood.

“So? You don’t want to take my class?”

“That’s right. So could you please call the professor?”

“Sorry, but I’d like you to be satisfied with me.”

“Why should we?”

Bae thought Leo was intimidated and persistently pressed on.

Looking at such Bae, Leo said with a smile.

“Lumern professors don’t really like teaching unqualified students.”

Bae’s face hardened for a moment.

“But the fact that they still give teachings is a kind of goodwill, you could say? They’re not people you can order around.”

“Are you saying I’m not at a level to learn magic from Professor Ren?”

“I didn’t particularly say that? Are you perhaps feeling guilty?”

At Leo’s words, Bae’s face turned red and blue.

“How dare! Me, a person of the Kun Family!”

“If you’re a Lumern admission candidate, let me give you one piece of advice.”

Leo spoke in an indifferent voice.

“Lumern is a place where ability is everything. Whatever your family is, I’m not interested in the slightest.”

“Kuk! What? How dare you challenge the authority of the Kun Family…”

“Hey. Bae. Wait a moment. Leo Flobe’s maternal family is Jerdinger.”

Another student urgently stopped Bae, who was raising his voice unable to control his excitement.

Hearing those words, Bae flinched and trembled for a moment.

Even if the Kun Family was a famous hero family in the east, it couldn’t compare to the Jerdinger Family.

But soon he gritted his teeth.

“So what if it’s Jerdinger! It’s his maternal family! Not even direct lineage!”

Bae, who had flared up and shouted, abruptly stood up from his seat.

“What’s All Class? It’s probably neither here nor there anyway! What about Gigantes? That was just all the first-years combining their strength, right? World of the Great Heroes? You probably just got lucky conquering it thanks to Lumern’s third-year representative and Seirun’s third-year representative working together, right? Just how great do you think you are to try to teach us?”

Spreading both arms, Bae incited the Emerald students.

Looking at that sight, Leo said.

“Should I prove it then?”

“What?”

“Whether I have the skills to teach you or not.”

Leo spoke in a languid voice.

“Tell me what magical ability you want. I’ll face whatever it is.”

At those words, Bae flinched.

He had tried to put down his opponent by putting his family forward as usual, but Leo wasn’t someone that would work on.

“Why? Not confident?”

At Leo’s question with crossed arms, Bae hesitated then said.

“We can’t fight over personal feelings during class time.”

Saying that, he lifted his chin and spoke.

“If having students teach students is Lumern’s way, then I have no choice but to follow.”

Looking at that sight, Leo clicked his tongue.

‘Apart from putting his family forward, there’s nothing he can do. Lacking in skill and lacking in guts too.’

In Leo’s view, he was hopeless.

Anyway, thanks to Bae who had provoked a lot then backed down when it came to demonstrating skills, there were no more students expressing dissatisfaction with Leo conducting the class.

The students who had been dissatisfied with Leo looked at him with eyes that said ‘Fine, let’s see how well you do.’

Leo, standing in front of the blackboard, said.

“Since you’re all preparing for the Lumern entrance exam, you must have done some advanced learning. Can you all write activation formulas?”

All the Emerald students nodded.

“At the beginning of the Lumern semester, you study to understand magic activated by activation formulas.”

Most of the Emerald students showed expressions of incomprehension at those words.

They couldn’t understand the concept of needing to comprehend magic they already knew how to use.

This was also a question that most Lumern Magic Department students felt during their early admission period.

“Why do we need to do that?”

A female student in the front row raised her hand and tilted her head.

It wasn’t because she was trying to challenge Leo, but out of pure curiosity.

The girl, around Chelsea’s age, blinked her large eyes and stared intently at Leo.

Seeing that, Leo opened his palm.

Whooom-!

A magic formula was generated above his palm.

“I assume no student here doesn’t know what this is?”

“Isn’t that a Fire Ball magic formula?”

“Right. But can you use this Fire Ball formula to create a Water Ball formula?”

“If I need to use Water Ball, I’ll just use the Water Ball formula. What’s so difficult about that?”

Bae scoffed.

Ignoring Bae, Leo changed the formula arrangement.

Along with that, a Water Ball was instantly activated.

“So why do such a troublesome thing…”

“Bae. Be quiet for a moment.”

“Shh!”

Most students here except Bae realized what Leo was trying to say.

Activation formulas were certainly easy to learn and allowed for quick spell casting.

However, to activate different spells, one had to learn new activation formulas.

Literally, there was more to memorize.

But if you understood and applied the formulas themselves, you could use magic of opposite attributes with a single formula.

This was an enormous merit.

It literally meant that situational response ability in split-second moments would dramatically increase.

“It’s impressive, but isn’t it difficult?”

Another male student raised his hand.

The Emerald students had begun treating Leo as a ‘professor’.

Though he looked like their peer, they realized Leo’s magical knowledge and abilities were above theirs.

Moreover, Leo had presented a new concept to the Emerald students.

Mages were fundamentally people who enjoyed learning something new.

Magic Academy Emerald was full of students with such tendencies.

To that male student’s question, Leo spoke calmly.

“Lumern Magic Department students basically need to be capable of this.”

At those words, the Emerald students’ faces hardened.

‘This is basic?’

‘It looks difficult just at first glance?’

Everyone gulped nervously.

They felt anew the difference between Lumern and Emerald.

They also understood why they should aim for Lumern.

They became convinced that to become the best mages, they had to enroll in Lumern.

“It’s impossible to master this during the joint class period. But I can teach you the basics.”

Leo grinned.

“That’s why we study, isn’t it?”

Having said that, Leo picked up the chalk.

“From now on, I’ll talk about the concept of this magic formula modification.”

At those words, the Emerald students hurriedly took out their writing materials.

And they began concentrating on Leo’s words.

Seeing this, Bae’s face contorted.

‘These bookworm bastards! What’s so great about this that they’re concentrating on that young brat’s class when he’s not even a professor?’

He looked at the academy students with a displeased expression.

After that, he blatantly asked strange questions or sent jeers, disrupting the class.

About 10 minutes passed like that.

One Emerald student cautiously raised their hand, then gathered courage after looking around nervously.

“Instructor. I… can’t concentrate on the class. Because of… someone.”

Hearing those words, Bae flared up.

“What? Say that again? You can’t concentrate on the class…”

“Hey. Get out.”

“What?”

“The kids say you’re disrupting the class. Get out.”

“Ha! I’ve been watching and watching. Who are you to tell me to get out… Kugh?”

Leo unleashed his mana.

Using telekinetic magic to lift Bae, Leo threw him out of the lecture hall as if tossing him.

Crash-!

“Kugh?”

Bae, who hit the lecture hall door, was thrown outside.

All the students widened their eyes and looked back and forth between Leo and Bae.

“What’s going on?”

Anna furrowed her brow and poked her face into the lecture hall.

“There was a student disrupting the class.”

At those words, Anna narrowed her eyes and looked at Bae, who was struggling to get up from his seat.

“This bastard! Really! I’ll tell my family everything! That I received unfair treatment during class, I’ll tell them all…”

Grab-!

“Kek?”

Anna extended her delicate hand to grab Bae’s collar and smiled gently.

“I understand. I’ll handle this matter. Student Leo, please continue the class.”

“L-let go of this…”

“Hey.”

At Anna’s ominous voice, Bae flinched and trembled.

“Don’t disrupt the class and shut your mouth.”

“Hieek?”

At Anna’s terrifying gaze, Bae showed a frightened expression.

For Anna, who was always tormented by Ren, intimidating one clueless brat with just her gaze was nothing.

Watching Bae being dragged away with his collar grabbed by Anna, the Emerald students showed refreshed expressions.

“Shall we continue the class then?”

“Yes!”

The Emerald students nodded with sparkling eyes.

Before they knew it, they were all concentrating on Leo’s class content.

***

Three days had passed since the joint classes began.

Most students from other academies had somewhat adapted to Lumern’s academic schedule.

At first, there were troubles as expected.

But when the professors mercilessly sent everyone home, most students who relied on their families and sought privileges due to their sense of authority were expelled.

All students came to realize.

That this place was a Hero Academy different from the Top 3 Class Academy.

Thus, the students who remained – only the genuine ones – could all concentrate solely on their classes.

The way they looked at the instructors assisting the admission candidates’ classes also changed.

At first, most looked down on them or sent displeased glances, but after experiencing the instructors’ skills, they all became unable to make a peep.

Rather, more students began approaching the instructors in a friendly manner.

“Instructor Selia! May I sit here?”

“…Do as you please.”

“Yes.”

When Selia spoke in a reluctant voice, an Icote male student quickly grabbed his tray and sat in front of her.

“Instructor Selia! Do you happen to have time during winter break?”

Selia clicked her tongue at the sight of the Icote male student making advances with sparkling eyes.

With his excellent family background, skills, and appearance, there were occasionally students who would make such obvious advances.

The surrounding Knight Department students who saw this snickered.

“Want to bet on how many seconds before he gets up?”

“I say 10 seconds.”

“You’re estimating too short. 15 seconds.”

Shortly after, the male student was rejected in exactly 10 seconds and went to another seat with drooping shoulders.

Seeing this, the Knight Department students burst into loud laughter, but when Selia glared at them, they hurriedly ran away.

While the students were getting closer like this.

Leo sat on a bench with a languid expression, watching the students come and go.

‘For now, I don’t see anyone who seems to be from Tartaros.’

After the incident at the Great Library, Leo had been carefully observing the Lumern students.

But among them, there wasn’t a single person suspected of being from Tartaros.

‘I don’t know what they’re scheming, but are they planning to give up quietly like this? No. If that happens, it would only be a matter of time before all the spies hiding in Lumern are rooted out, and those bastards wouldn’t be unaware of that, would they?’

Affiliated with Lumern.

An organization the students don’t know about.

Those called Shadow are still secretly investigating everyone’s movements.

They’ve caught the tail.

No matter how secretly they moved, they couldn’t escape Lumern’s eyes.

‘Then given their nature… they’ll definitely try to cause trouble by force.’

Just as Leo was thinking that far and narrowing his eyes.

Thud- Thud-

Someone could be seen approaching Leo.

Swoosh-

A shadow fell in front of Leo.

Leo made a puzzled expression upon seeing the other person.

“Why?”

Standing in front of Leo was an Icote student.

Leo’s eyes, which had been showing a puzzled expression, suddenly turned sharp.

Along with that-

Swoosh-

The Icote student raised his hand and swung his arm down toward Leo.

Crash-!

The bench Leo had been sitting on was completely destroyed.

“Well, well.”

Leo let out a hollow laugh.

“I expected it, but I didn’t think you’d take action so directly like this?”

Goooooooo-!

Looking at the male student, no, the demon emitting black magic power, Leo clenched his fist.

“Leo Flobe.”

He spoke in an ominous voice.

“You’ll have to die here.”

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