Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 170

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170

Clang-! Clang-!

That day too, Dweno was forging weapons without fail.

Inside the deserted cave.

Relying on magical lights, Dweno silently continued his work.

Risinass and Luna had fallen into deep sleep due to the prolonged battles.

The two covered with blankets showed no signs of waking even at the noisy hammering sounds.

This place was in the heart of Erebos’ domain.

Their nerves must be on sharp edge.

Even without this situation, it would be hard to sleep, but the two women showed no signs of waking.

They were just leaning on each other’s shoulders, heads together in deep sleep.

That much fatigue must have accumulated.

‘In some sense, it’s a desperate situation.’

Swoooooosh-!

Drip drop, watching the rain falling outside the cave, Kail grimaced.

It was rain that was irritating just to look at.

He was looking at the black rain that gnawed at life force with hatred when.

“It’s because of me.”

“…?”

At Dweno’s sudden words, Kail made a puzzled expression.

“What are you talking about.”

“I’m talking about Arron.”

The hammering hand stopped.

“If the sword hadn’t broken, Arron wouldn’t have lost his life.”

Dweno’s voice trembled slightly.

Dweno was a blacksmith and Arron was a warrior.

Since Arron used Dweno’s weapons the most, the trust between them in the party was deeper than anyone else’s.

Moreover, Dweno and Arron weren’t just simple friends.

The party’s leader and oldest member was Risinass, but she had lived deep in dragon territory for so long that her worldly experience was even less than Kail’s.

Luna was a young lady who had only devoted herself to studying magic.

Kail had much worldly experience from working as a mercenary, but it wasn’t diverse.

Unlike them, Dweno had rich worldly experience.

A praiser who had explored all corners of the world since his youth, extolling beauty.

Though they often grumbled about him being a perverted weirdo, Dweno was the only one in the party who could be called an adult.

Arron, the youngest in the party, relied heavily on such a Dweno.

Dweno’s hands trembled.

“If my weapon had been a bit more… sturdy… if it could have withstood Erebos’ attack…!”

Drop- drop- hissss-

Hot tears flowed from Dweno’s eyes.

The fallen teardrops fell onto his large hands and evaporated.

Dweno’s weapons were born from powerful flames.

Therefore, Dweno was a user of powerful flames.

But Dweno didn’t like his own flames.

The essence of fire was destruction.

For Dweno, who loved the beauty of the world, it was an unwelcome characteristic.

“What the hell is beauty! If I had been more competent! If I had focused more on making weapons! Arron wouldn’t have… wouldn’t have ended up like that….”

Dweno didn’t cry in front of Arron’s death.

He was the owner of stronger mental fortitude than anyone else in the party.

In desperate situations, he didn’t lose his composure and silently became the party’s pillar.

But finally, those emotions had burst out now.

Watching Dweno trembling, Kail gritted his teeth.

“Don’t talk nonsense.”

Kail clenched his fist tightly.

“Both Arron and I saved our lives countless times thanks to the weapons you made.”

Kail looked straight at Dweno.

“If you don’t believe in yourself and blame yourself, then what does that make Arron who trusted you until the very last moment… what does that make me.”

“….”

“You need to pull yourself together. What’s left before us now is nothing but moving forward, whatever happens.”

“…That’s right. But Kail.”

Clang- clang-

Dweno started hammering again.

But his expression was still heavy.

“Weapons are born from flames.”

“….”

“And the source of Erebos’ power is an unextinguishable flame.”

Clang- clang-

The sound of striking weapons echoed throughout the cave.

“Can the weapons made from my flames really… withstand Erebos’ power?”

Dweno’s voice was full of anxiety.

Flames are always destined to be devoured by stronger flames.

The anxiety that Kail might die because the weapon he made couldn’t hold up.

Even a dwarf with steel-like mental strength had no choice but to break before the immortal flame.

“I won’t die.”

“…?”

“And as I said earlier, I’ll trust you until the very end.”

Kail sent trust without the slightest wavering.

“No matter how I think about it, you’re better at making weapons than art pieces.”

Kail smiled.

“You said the beauty you create is immortal, right? Weapons made better than your art pieces would also be immortal in the end.”

“It’s amazing how someone with such a nasty personality like you has grown so much.”

“…Now you sound more like yourself.”

Kail burst into a hollow laugh.

“Right… my art pieces are immortal.”

Dweno looked down at his weapon with his reddish-brown eyes gleaming.

Clang-! Whoosh-!

Bright yellow flames flickered with Dweno’s hammering.

“Then… the weapons I make can also become immortal.”

***

Crash- grab!

Kigorss broke the display case and grabbed Dweno’s sword.

Grooooooo-!

“Ooooooh!”

The magical power wrapped around Kigorss’ body began to grow even stronger.

Woom-! Woom-!

The sword made by Dweno began to resonate and cry out as if in harmony with Kigorss.

‘What? Why is the sword made by Dweno reacting to him?’

Dweno’s weapons are, in some sense, objects that could be called the antithesis of Tartaros.

Weapons made to subjugate Erebos and Tartaros.

Objects containing the will and essence of a blacksmith of Dweno’s caliber.

They’re objects that bring ominousness to demons, yet he’s gaining power by holding it instead.

“With this, I, Kigorss the Curse King, am revived!”

Kigorss’s presence began to become clear.

It was evidence that he was gradually regaining the power of a Legion Commander.

‘Whatever the case, it’s certain that Dweno’s sword is giving him power. I can’t let him hold that sword!’

If he regains the power of a Legion Commander like this, Leo would have no way to deal with it.

Leo stirred his mana.

Flash-!

Kigorss’s eyes turned toward Leo.

In that instant-!

Crack-!

Leo heard the sound of something cracking in his head.

Thud-!

Leo’s face contorted.

“You’re still alive after receiving that level of curse? You. Are you really a first-year brat?”

Kigorss wore an expression of disbelief.

‘Curse.’

In an instant, hundreds of curses struck Leo’s body.

From low-grade curses to high-grade curses.

He quickly dispelled the curses with curse-breaking techniques, but he couldn’t respond to curses Leo didn’t know about or curses that crushed him with powerful force.

‘There are limits to responding with just curse-breaking techniques alone.’

Leo and Kigorss were literally in different weight classes.

He could no longer face him with technique alone.

‘The Legion Commander is going to revive like this? Right in the center of Lumern?’

This was what Tartaros had been aiming for.

‘What should I do.’

It was when Leo gritted his teeth.

Hum-

Leo’s left arm glowed.

It was the Polium he had obtained as a reward for conquering Luna’s World.

But this Polium was just an empty shell brought from the Heroes’ World.

Yet the Polium, which should have had no power, was now glowing.

Leo’s eyes widened greatly.

A fresh light green color.

It wasn’t aura, mana, or spiritual power.

Nor was it mana either.

‘Divine power?’

It was also the power of a god Leo had met before.

‘Pibua?’

That light instantly transformed into a gray color.

It was a power Leo knew.

‘My power?’

To be precise, it was Kail’s power.

That power soon began to take shape.

Whoosh-!

It became a bright yellow flame.

“Grk?”

At the same time, bright yellow flames also flickered from Dweno’s sword that Kigorss was holding.

‘Dweno’s flame?’

Whoooosh-!

“Kraaaah!”

Dweno’s flame spread to Kigorss.

Kigorss, writhing in pain, roughly threw away the sword.

Clang! Slide-!

The sword slid toward Leo.

“Sword Saint bastard! What did you do to the sword!”

Kigorss let out an angry roar.

‘No. The principal didn’t really do anything.’

Leo looked down at his hand.

‘The sword responded to Dweno’s will.’

All weapons made by Dweno contained his will and flame.

That flame had awakened.

‘It responded to my power.’

Leo had inherited the essence of Dweno’s power.

Dweno, who had been loved by flames, also possessed strong resistance to fire.

In his final moment, Dweno.

He passed that essence of flame to Kail.

But that essence of flame disappeared long ago when Kail died.

‘Knowledge remains, but power naturally doesn’t. But.’

That flame of Dweno was revived in Leo’s hands.

‘Pibua did something to the Polium.’

The god he had met in Luna’s World.

He had definitely done something.

Leo lowered his head.

Grab-!

Whoosh-!

The bright yellow flame burned even more fiercely.

But the flame didn’t affect Leo.

Dweno had hated his own flame.

Because destruction was the essence of flame.

But….

‘Flames don’t necessarily only bring destruction!’

Even while hating flames, Dweno had tried to benefit the world with that power.

As he gripped the sword, he felt as if he could hear the grumbling voice of the dwarf old man in his ears.

‘To think you’re lying down from just that much, the weapons I made for you would cry.’

‘Thank you, Dweno.’

Dweno, the Divine Blacksmith.

An eccentric dwarf who was more interested in creating beautiful art than making weapons.

Dweno, who wanted to spread beauty to the world and be remembered as a great artist by future generations, ultimately couldn’t achieve his dream.

Forget about art, the only known anecdote about Dweno was that he made the strongest weapons.

‘It couldn’t be helped.’

Step-

Dweno’s flame burned away the curses.

‘Because of you, I was able to fight until my final moment.’

Dweno’s flame was eventually extinguished by Erebos.

‘Your weapons… didn’t break even against that damned black flame.’

But the weapons he had forged with that flame.

‘I could entrust my life to them until the very end.’

The will he left behind never broke until the very last moment.

Kigorss’s eyes turned toward Leo.

The power Pibua left in the Polium didn’t give Leo any new strength.

He had simply awakened the power of Dweno that Kail had possessed long ago when he disappeared.

A miracle connecting past and present lives.

But that alone couldn’t change anything.

“Leo Flobe! Hand over the Sword Saint’s sword!”

“This sword?”

Leo smiled as he adjusted his grip on the sword.

“I’ll give it to you if you want it.”

Whoosh-! Kwaaaaaaaak-!

“…!”

Kigorss’s eyes widened.

From the base of the sword’s body to its tip.

It glowed with golden light, then transformed into a sword so beautiful it seemed to radiate brilliance.

Beautiful patterns were embroidered on the blade’s surface.

“That’s… what the hell!”

“Let me correct one thing.”

Leo smiled.

“This sword isn’t the Sword Saint’s sword.”

Grip-!

Leo tightened his hold on the sword.

Sharrrrrrr-!

Golden wings wrapped around the sword.

The magic sword that had awakened after thousands of years unleashed powerful magic.

The golden sword that Dweno had created.

This sword wasn’t a weapon for the Great Hero.

It was a masterpiece that Dweno had painstakingly crafted for the other heroes helping the expedition force.

Leo called out its name.

“Demon Slayer.”

Kwaaaaaaaak-!

As if responding to that call, Demon Slayer emitted an even more intense light.

Flash! Kwaaaaaaang-!

Leo hurled the sword.

Demon Slayer, wrapped in golden wings, pierced through Kigorss.

Kigorss couldn’t even scream as he was sent crashing through the Great Library’s wall and disappeared.

Looking at the gaping hole in the Great Library’s wall, Leo scratched his cheek.

“This is going to cause a commotion.”

He had aimed for the entrance area where there were no books, but the professors would definitely foam at the mouth and cause an uproar if they saw this.

“The headmaster will probably cover for me somehow.”

Leo chuckled and checked his physical condition.

“Master!”

Ati, who had polymorphed into human form, ran toward Leo.

Fiora was perched on Ati’s head.

“Amazing! You look like a pretty boy on the outside, but there’s this inner toughness, you know? And that bold touch too! I think I chose well in serving you as my master! Slurp-“

Watching Ati wipe drool from the corner of her mouth with her tongue, Leo muttered inwardly.

‘Why is there always one pervert around me, whether in my past life or now?’

Leo clicked his tongue and created a summoning circle.

“Go back for now.”

“Huh? But Lumern is in crisis.”

“I dealt with that roughly, so there shouldn’t be any major crisis. And… there’s someone I need to meet. That’s an order. Stop talking and get in.”

Ati hesitated at Leo’s words, but at the final command, she gasped ‘Heuk!’ and clutched her heart before returning through the summoning circle.

Left alone, Leo departed from the Great Library.

***

“He escaped.”

Kalian, who had landed on the first floor of the Tower of Heroes, spoke calmly.

The fragment of Silatuna that had been blocking Kalian fled immediately after their brief battle.

Literally, it had revealed its identity just to block Kalian for that short moment.

‘What exactly are they after?’

Kalian, who had been narrowing his eyes, looked up.

Flash-!

The moment he perceived the golden light flashing, a sword flew and embedded itself at his feet.

Thunk-!

Kalian’s eyes widened as he saw the sword.

‘Clesis?’

His beloved sword that he had wielded since his youth.

It had been a worn-out sword from the moment it first came into his hands.

But it never broke and was a powerful sword that contained enormous mana.

That beloved sword was now before his eyes, looking as good as new.

It was the first time Kalian, who had been its owner for a lifetime, had seen it like this.

Surprised, Kalian reached out his hand.

Kwaaaaaaak-!

The sword returned to its original form as if the magic had been dispelled.

Kalian’s eyes twitched as he sensed the lingering traces of mana remaining on the sword.

‘Leo Flobe?’

He could tell that Leo was the last person to wield this sword.

‘What exactly happened?’

Just as Kalian was making a puzzled expression.

Whoooosh-! Kwaang-!

Something flew over and crashed in front of Kalian.

Seeing this, the Sword Saint blew away the dust with his aura.

And his eyes twitched.

“Kigorss?”

“Sword Saint…!”

Kigorss’s eyes bulged.

“Why are you still alive?”

“Kugh!”

At Kalian’s question, Kigorss tried to hastily retreat.

No matter how old, a Sword Saint was still a Sword Saint!

With his current power, he couldn’t face him.

‘I was almost successful.’

“I don’t know how you’re still alive, but.”

Gooooooo-!

The Sword Saint’s aura writhed.

“I have no intention of letting you live.”

Emotionlessly, the Sword Saint swung his sword upward from below.

Hwaaak-!

For a moment, it seemed as if the air itself was split.

The few steps between Kalian and Kigorss.

The air split in a straight line between them.

Kigorss’s eyes bulged.

He felt his vision shift for a moment.

The Legion Commander who had dreamed of resurrection thought.

‘It’s over.’

So futilely at that.

The chance for resurrection had vanished.

Splash-!

Blood spurted.

His distorted vision turned toward the sky.

He could see the split sky.

It was torn as if the clouds had been cut.

‘You’ve become even more of a monster, Sword Saint.’

***

“I thought the timing was perfect.”

Thud- Thud-

Leaving behind Lumern, which had become chaotic due to the sudden demon invasion, Silatuna grumbled.

She had thought it was perfect timing.

‘Do I need to predict everything perfectly and make plans like Hel Kaiser?’

But that didn’t suit her temperament.

Silatuna was a Legion Commander whose nature was more suited to smashing everything in front of her rather than scheming conspiracies.

“With this, the Curse King is completely finished. All the effort put into Lumern is over too.”

She had used every chess piece within Lumern for this operation.

It was no longer possible to exert influence within Lumern.

“What a shame.”

Silatuna clicked her tongue and curled up the corners of her mouth.

‘It’s not like there were no results though. The Sword Saint is definitely getting weaker.’

The end of the currently most threatening hero wasn’t far off.

Just knowing this fact was a great harvest.

‘For now, I need to return to the main body and deliver the information…’

“Where are you going?”

“…!”

At the voice heard from behind, Silatuna narrowed her eyes and turned her head.

“Hmm? A milk-smelling brat has come.”

Leo chuckled as he looked at Silatuna, who was sneering, and said.

“It’s been a while. Silatuna.”

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