Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 169

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The Tartaros Demon looking at Leo glared at him with cold eyes.

“Are you going to interfere with me again?”

“That’s how it turned out.”

Whoosh—

A flame aura rose from Leo’s body.

The demon who saw Leo like that extended his hand.

Zing—!

A blood-red magic circle appeared in the air.

Leo’s eyes twitched at the sight.

In an instant, his vision was blocked.

As darkness came, Leo lowered his body.

‘A curse.’

A curse that blocks vision.

Leo sharpened his senses.

‘He cast a curse in a split second without giving me time to respond.’

Compared to his previous life, Leo’s resistance to curses had weakened.

It couldn’t be helped.

If comparing potential abilities, the current Leo was superior to Kail from his previous life.

Someday Leo would definitely become strong enough to surpass the power of his previous life.

But not now.

Even if his potential was higher, compared to the immense power of his previous life, he was currently lacking.

To that extent, if the high-ranking demons of Tartaros were determined to use curses, Leo had no choice but to be cursed.

However, before being cursed.

Leo could tell what kind of curse it was, even if only for a very brief moment.

That was the realm of ‘experience’ unrelated to power.

That experience was also the driving force that allowed Leo to exert power stronger than what he possessed.

But despite such experience, Leo was cursed in an instant.

‘A demon specialized in curses? No, even so, if it’s to this degree, it’s almost at the level of a legion commander?’

With his vision blocked, Leo raised his aura.

‘My other senses weren’t taken away.’

Touch, smell, and hearing reacted sensitively.

In addition, Leo used his aura to stimulate the nerves throughout his body.

‘Super senses.’

A technique of the hero Arron that maximizes the senses.

Super senses is a technique that has tremendous impact not only in reconnaissance but also in combat.

In Arron’s case, who had trained his super senses to the extreme, he even reached the level of predicting the future.

‘I haven’t reached that level of mastery.’

Veins bulged on Leo’s temples.

Whoosh—

He felt the presence of magic from all directions.

The trajectory of attacks naturally formed in Leo’s mind.

Whoosh—!

Leo twisted his neck to dodge the magic that flew at his head.

Crash—!

“No!”

The demon’s eyes widened.

To his eyes, it seemed like Leo had just ‘seen’ and dodged the attack.

Flash! Crackle—!

Leo moved his body to dodge the dark red magical rays flying from all directions.

Not only that.

He charged precisely toward the direction where the demon was.

‘The curse didn’t work?’

The demon who had been watching Leo for a moment soon moved away from that spot.

‘A mere first-year hero candidate brat avoiding curses. I must be getting old too.’

Though the demon mocked himself, he was calm.

‘No matter if he’s a Pegasus contractor, if curses don’t work on him, there must be something hidden.’

It would be terrible if he fought recklessly and got defeated.

He had bet everything on this Lumern raid.

There was nowhere left to retreat.

‘I’ll be cautious upon cautious.’

Meanwhile, Leo, who had driven back the demon while his vision was blocked, retrieved the sword that had pierced the demon’s hand and turned his body.

‘Quite cautious. He seems like a tremendously high-ranking demon.’

Even if he was a Pegasus contractor, if he was a first-year, the demon could have been careless, but there was no sign of that.

The demon’s eyes twitched as he looked at Leo’s face.

‘This brat, his vision hasn’t returned yet? Then how exactly is he moving?’

No matter how much of a hero candidate he was, he was still an unpolished gem.

Therefore, even if he had lost power, he expected to easily toy with him if only the curse worked.

But as if mocking such expectations, the first-year before his eyes was perfectly responding to his attacks.

As if having his vision blocked was nothing at all.

‘Even the heroes who got their names on the detestable Hero Record weren’t like this!’

Long ago.

As a demon who had buried countless heroes in the depths of history, he couldn’t help but get goosebumps.

‘What exactly is this brat…!’

His conversation with Silatuna came to mind as he trembled.

‘If you happen to meet Leo Flobe, it would be good not to let your guard down. He’s a brat with a very bad feeling about him.’

‘Is that because he’s All Class?’

‘That’s right.’

‘I can’t understand. All Class or whatever, he’s just a mere first-year brat, right? No matter how much power I’ve lost, I’m a legion commander of Tartaros. To tell me to be careful of some brat who isn’t even Ris Jerdinger hurts my pride.’

‘That’s how special All Class is.’

‘Ha, when was it that you boasted about being the ruler of Tartaros, and now you’re worried about a first-year just because he resembles a Great Hero who disappeared a mere 5000 years ago. Disappointing.’

‘Think whatever you want. But don’t forget the fact that this brat has been making the impossible possible all this time.’

The nine existing legion commanders.

Among them, the Monster Queen, Overlord King, and Giant King who had lived since before the Age of Calamity were beings of different caliber.

Not simply because they had lived for a long time.

They were monsters who survived to the end without being subjugated even while other legion commanders that existed during the Age of Calamity were being defeated by the Great Heroes.

The great King of Wisdom Risinass chose Erebos and the three great legion commanders.

Abandoning the subjugation of the three great legion commanders and prioritizing the subjugation of Erebos was a kind of gamble.

Even Risinass couldn’t guarantee that the expedition force’s strength would remain intact after defeating all three great legion commanders.

In hindsight, that gamble succeeded, but thanks to that, the three great legion commanders still reign as objects of terror that haven’t been subjugated even after 5000 years.

Though he had mocked Silatuna at the time, he couldn’t understand why she had been so wary of Leo just for being All Class.

But now he understood.

The first-year before his eyes was of a different caliber.

‘This guy must not be left alive.’

He would definitely grow into a massive enemy that would threaten all of Tartaros in the future.

‘No matter how quickly he responds to attacks, if his vision is ultimately blocked, there should be limits.’

“Leo Flobe, consider it an honor to die by the hand of me, a legion commander.”

“Legion commander?”

Leo’s eyes twitched.

Roooooooar—!

Along with him, the surrounding shadows turned a dark red color and simultaneously attacked Leo.

Though his vision was blocked, his super senses naturally drew the power and trajectory of the attacks into Leo’s mind.

‘This would be a bit difficult without being able to see.’

The moment he thought that, the curse blocking Leo’s vision was lifted.

As focus returned to Leo’s vision, the Legion Commander’s eyes twitched.

‘He broke it this quickly?’

There are two main ways to break a curse.

One is to break it with overwhelming resistance power.

The other is to interpret and break the curse formula binding the body.

Either way

was not an easy method.

‘What the hell is this guy?’

The more he learned, the more surprised he became.

Whoooosh-!

Leo emanated his aura.

Kwagagagagang-!

Attacks coming in trajectories difficult to dodge were deflected with his flame aura, while other attacks were quickly avoided by moving his body.

Since his dynamic vision had rapidly improved due to his super senses, dodging attacks wasn’t particularly difficult.

Thud-

Looking at Leo who had landed on the ground, the Legion Commander spoke.

“How did you break the curse?”

“Sensory disruption type curses twist the mana flowing through the body, right? If you just realign the mana flow, it breaks easily.”

Looking at Leo who was curling up the corner of his mouth, the Legion Commander narrowed his eyes.

“That method shouldn’t allow you to break it so quickly. What trick did you use?”

“Trick? There’s no such thing. I just broke it through simple brute force from start to finish.”

Leo tapped his head lightly.

“I’ve broken many curses more complex than this.”

“That’s impossible! There are no demons who use curses more powerful and complex than mine, Kigorss’s!”

“Kigorss? The Curse King? You’re Kigorss?”

Curse King Kigorss.

A Legion Commander who was defeated by Sword Saint Kalian decades ago.

“Are you claiming to be a Legion Commander who disappeared long ago? Tartaros has really hit rock bottom.”

“Think whatever you want. You’re going to die here anyway.”

At Kigorss’s words, Leo furrowed his brow.

‘His power is pathetically weak for someone claiming to be a Legion Commander.’

If he were truly a Legion Commander, just facing him would inflict tremendous physical damage.

A Legion Commander is literally a disaster that causes trembling just by existing.

They’re nightmare-like beings that can only be defeated when numerous heroes listed in the Hero Record combine their strength.

‘But that sense is definitely Legion Commander level.’

Overwhelming combat experience with Tartaros.

Especially since Leo had fought countless Legion Commanders, he was able to respond quickly to those attacks, but if it had been others, they would have died without even being able to respond properly.

‘If this is really Kigorss, the Principal might have failed to completely defeat him.’

Leo gripped his sword tighter.

‘Let’s face him thinking he’s a Legion Commander.’

Leo lowered his stance.

Looking at Leo like that, Kigorss curled up the corner of his mouth.

“I’ll teach you the terror of a Legion Commander.”

Gooooooo-!

A pitch-black space opened in the air.

Along with it, all kinds of grotesque monsters began pouring out from there.

Seeing this, Leo’s eyes twitched.

Legion Commanders’ individual power was formidable, but what was more threatening was their authority to create demons.

They devour living beings and accumulate them as energy to create demons.

Seeing lower-tier demons pouring out as if hell’s gates had opened, Leo activated his spiritual power.

Whoosh-!

Along with a pure white summoning circle, Ati revealed herself.

“Ati. Deal with the demons.”

[Yes, Master!]

Bzzzzt-!

White sparks began flying from Ati’s body.

Kwazzzzt-!

As Ati charged, she began trampling the demons that had poured out.

“Foolish! Are you using your most powerful attack method to deal with demons!”

Kigorss sneered and charged toward Leo.

Gooooooo! Squirm- Squirm-!

Multiple eyes began sprouting on his body as he lost human form.

Looking at Kigorss who had become a giant humanoid mass of flesh, Leo narrowed his eyes.

A form that could no longer be called human.

But as he cast aside his disguise, his dark magic power increased even more.

Gooooooo-!

He raised his arm wrapped in dark red magic power.

Befitting a Legion Commander called the Curse King, his arm covered in all kinds of curses aimed at Leo.

A powerful mass of curses that would lead to death with just a graze.

When he tried to dodge, all kinds of curses covered the surroundings.

“You can’t escape! Even if you block it, you will meet your death!”

Looking at Kigorss who was letting out an ecstatic sneer, Leo smiled.

“Hey.”

“…!”

At that leisurely smile, Kigorss felt something was wrong.

“The Overlord King probably said something.”

“What?”

“That you’re frivolous for a Legion Commander.”

“How do you!”

Long ago.

Looking at Leo who was saying what the Overlord King had said, Kigorss’s eyes widened.

“How…!”

“I figured as much.”

Whoooosh-!

A red summoning circle was created in front of Leo.

Looking at the burning bird that revealed itself along with it, Kigorss’s face was colored with shock.

“Phoenix?”

“That guy cares about dignity despite just touching corpses, doesn’t he?”

Leo, who smiled crookedly while thinking of the Overlord King, activated his aura and magic power.

Whoooosh-!

Jerdinger’s crimson flames.

Runda’s scorching heat.

Flames based on the Phoenix’s fire enveloped Fiora.

Kwaaaaaaaak-!

Fiora, shining as if wrapped in the sun, flapped her wings.

“Do you think you can stop a Legion Commander with mere Phoenix flames!”

Whoooosh-!

Fiora’s flames burned the Legion Commander’s body that was left in remnants.

Kigorss’s body, writhing in pain, grew even more massive.

Leo frowned at the sight.

‘He’s not dying from this?’

Roooar! Crash-!

Kigorss’s fist struck Leo.

Bang-!

Leo’s body slammed back-first into the door of the Hall of Heroes as if being driven into it.

Crash-! Thud thud-!

Leo’s body flew into the Hall of Heroes, breaking through the door and crashing into the wall.

Crumble-!

Marble fragments cascaded down.

Though he felt his consciousness growing faint, Leo didn’t mind.

‘The curse has all burned away in Fiora’s flames.’

Flutter-! Flutter-!

Fiora, having returned to her red chick form, urgently perched on Leo’s shoulder.

Peep?

“I’m fine.”

Thud-!

Leo exerted force from his embedded body, pulled himself out of the wall, and landed on the ground.

His head rang with a throbbing ache.

The damage he sustained was purely physical.

Even that had been halved by deploying his aura armor for an instant.

But despite responding that way, the impact was tremendous.

‘Even having lost his power, a Legion Commander is still a Legion Commander.’

Leo shook his head to clear his mind.

Though Leo had attended Lumern for more than a semester and used the Great Library countless times, this was his first time entering the Hall of Heroes.

While other students would have been interested in the heroes’ weapons, they weren’t particularly interesting items to Leo.

Leo raised his head and looked toward Kigorss.

Despite being reduced to ash, Kigorss was approaching some sword.

“Finally…! Finally!”

‘What the hell is that thing that he’s so…?’

Leo’s eyes widened as he watched Kigorss approach some ‘old sword’ with an expression filled with ecstasy.

On the surface, it was a chipped and rusted sword.

But even at a glance, it was visibly imbued with tremendous ‘mana.’

Though it was an old sword, it looked worthy of being called a weapon used by a hero just by itself.

But Leo wasn’t surprised because the sword contained powerful mana.

It was because of the decoration carved at the end of the sword’s handle.

Though the sword was old, only the decoration shone like new.

It was such a beautiful decoration that one might think the craftsman who made the sword had paid more attention to that decoration than the sword itself.

And that sword was one Leo had seen before.

‘Dweno’s sword?’

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