Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 207

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207

Kioooooooooo!

An ear-splitting roar echoed throughout the interior of Seirun.

The Hero Alliance was dividing their forces to stop Jerdiak, who had revealed himself in the heart of Seirun.

Meanwhile, a magic circle formed in mid-air.

Benet, Albi, Ellen, and Chaid appeared from beyond the magic circle.

The four who had withdrawn from the battle with Silatuna quickly joined the city wall.

“Students from Lumern’s Department of Magic, follow me.”

When Albi commanded with an expressionless face, the magic department students who had been magically holding back Silatuna’s legion hurriedly gathered around Albi.

“Jillian.”

“Yes, Lord.”

“You all continue to defend the city wall.”

Chaid commanded the Rwallin mages gathering around him.

“Lord, you are…”

“I’m going to stop that thing.”

Chaid looked up at the sky with cold eyes.

By now, most of Jerdiak’s body had crossed over to the present world.

“Lord, we will also follow…”

“If Rwallin’s forces withdraw now, the already disadvantageous front lines will collapse even further.”

Chaid spoke coldly to Jillian’s words.

“You all become the backbone of the Hero Alliance and defend the front lines. Or are you saying I’m an unreliable lord?”

“No, sir.”

The head of a heroic family doesn’t rely solely on bloodline.

Being the strongest within the family is a matter of course.

Chaid is the most powerful mage in Rodren, which could be called the leader of the western continent.

He was a skilled individual personally selected by Sword Saint Kalian from the alliance to subjugate the legion commander.

Rwallin’s retainers had no choice but to follow such a man’s orders.

Because they believed in their lord’s absolute power.

Ellen also quickly gathered the Seirun students.

Soon, all the personnel who would go to stop Jerdiak had assembled.

Meanwhile.

The 1st and 2nd year students who had evacuated the spectators deep into the school hurriedly came outside.

And upon discovering Jerdiak trying to cross over to the present world through the crack in the sky, their faces turned pale.

Some of them lost their will to fight and collapsed on the spot.

The legion commander of Tartaros, a being of terror.

Even though they were hero candidates, they were still young boys and girls in their mid-to-late teens.

Faced with the worst disaster on earth, they couldn’t help but be paralyzed with fear.

“We, we have to run…!”

“What can we 1st and 2nd years do against such a monster!”

One terrified Lumern 2nd year shouted.

At those words, the hero candidates began to murmur.

Fear is contagious.

No matter how much courage they tried to muster, it would inevitably crumble at someone’s spoken words.

“Then, let’s retreat toward where the Hero Alliance is…!”

When one Seirun 2nd year spoke urgently, Runia shouted.

“Wait! Then what about the civilians currently in the school!”

Although they had evacuated them to the safest central area of the school, there was no guarantee what would happen if that monster descended to the ground.

“We have to defend this place somehow…!”

“Don’t be ridiculous! Runia El Runda! What can you, a 1st year, do? Even I, a 2nd year, can’t think of what to do against that monster!”

A Seirun 2nd year shouted with a contorted face.

“We’ve evacuated the civilians to the safest place! Our job now is to quickly join the Hero Alliance!”

Kuooooooooo!

That’s when it happened.

Jerdiak, who was crossing through the crack, let out a roar filled with rage.

Jerdiak’s fear struck the ears of the 1st and 2nd years.

Those with weak resistance instantly lost consciousness and fainted.

“We have to stop him!”

Runia shouted urgently.

Looking at Runia, one Seirun student said in panic.

“It’s impossible for us to stop that thing with our power! We need to ask the seniors for help!”

“Right!”

“Hurry, let’s go where the seniors are…!”

The Seirun 1st and 2nd years shouted.

Swayed by these Seirun 1st and 2nd years, Lumern’s 1st and 2nd years also argued they should head toward the Hero Alliance.

“If we fight like this, won’t it just be a dog’s death?”

A Seirun 2nd year shouted at Runia.

Looking at that 2nd year, Runia took a deep breath.

Then she reached out, grabbed the 2nd year by the collar, pulled him close, and headbutted his forehead with her own.

Thwack-!

“Gah?”

The 2nd year rolled his eyes back and fainted from the surprise attack.

Runia pushed away the unconscious 2nd year and looked at the 1st and 2nd years with blazing eyes.

Seeing Runia like this, the 1st and 2nd years flinched and trembled.

“Those who want to leave, go.”

Runia spoke calmly, but with clear anger in her voice.

“I’m staying here to protect the civilians.”

If the 1st and 2nd years left now, the lives of those in Seirun would certainly be threatened.

At Runia’s words, the 1st and 2nd years began to murmur.

Selia and Chloe approached Runia’s side.

“I’ll fight that thing.”

“We can’t retreat like this.”

Avad and Chelsea also joined.

“I can’t retreat when father is also fighting.”

“That’s right!”

Following them, Duran and Eliza snorted.

“I was planning to stay too.”

“It doesn’t look great since the Seirun representative said all the cool words, but I’ll fight too.”

Woreden silently crossed his arms and approached.

Chen Xia joined with a bright smile, and Eiran and Ruka also joined.

Starting with that, the 1st years from Lumern and Seirun gathered around Runia.

“Hey, Lil! You too?”

One Lumern 2nd year urgently asked Lil, who was joining.

Looking back at his peer, Lil said.

“Isn’t it obvious? The 1st years are taking the initiative in what we should have done first.”

“But, but… isn’t it too reckless?”

“It is reckless.”

At Lil’s words, one of Seirun’s 2nd year representatives contorted his face.

“Why do something reckless? We were chosen. Are you saying you’ll throw away your life in a place like this?”

At those words, Lil smiled brightly.

“Because we were chosen.”

“…!”

“Protecting people is only natural for hero candidates, isn’t it?”

At Lil’s words, the face of Seirun’s 2nd year representative contorted.

“You’re insane. Completely insane.”

The 1st and 2nd years were split half and half between students who wanted to defend Seirun and those who wanted to go to the Hero Alliance.

Kuguugugung-!

At that moment, Jerdiak emerged from the rift and fell to the ground.

The earth shook.

Seeing this, the 1st and 2nd years gulped nervously.

‘How long can we hold out? 10 minutes? No… we might not even last 5 minutes.’

Runia gritted her teeth.

Then, pitch-black holes formed around Jerdiak, and grotesque monsters began pouring out from them.

The faces of the 1st and 2nd years hardened at the sight.

“A legion…!”

“That monster! So it really is a legion commander?”

Cries of shock erupted from everywhere.

Jerdiak’s legion charged toward Seirun.

There was no reason left in their eyes.

Only the instinct for destruction remained in their fierce charge.

The 1st and 2nd years gritted their teeth and fought against the legion’s invasion.

“Block them!”

“Don’t let them take a single step inside the school!”

At the urgent commands of the 2nd years, the 1st years moved in perfect coordination.

“Uooooooo!”

Then, a massive demon spewing poison roared and charged at Selia.

Seeing the demon, Selia gritted her teeth and unleashed her flame aura.

Whooosh-!

Bwaaaack!

Selia’s sword strike cut down the demon.

The demon’s flesh split and blood spurted.

Pshhhh-!

Selia hastily dodged the blood.

But she couldn’t avoid the poison gas that erupted.

“Ugh?”

Selia covered her mouth.

Grrrrr-!

“Urgh!”

Jerdiak’s legion consisted of monsters, each one carrying deadly poison.

The more demons they defeated, the more the poison damage accumulated.

As Selia staggered while coughing up blood, the demon she had cut down raised its arm.

“Selia!”

Chloe urgently channeled her magic.

Crackle-!

Bitter cold struck the demon.

As the frozen demon’s movement stopped, Chelsea quickly flew over and carried Selia to the rear.

“I can still fight…!”

“You’re coughing up blood and you say that!”

Chelsea shouted urgently.

In the rear, healers were overwhelmed with injured.

The devastation that occurred in just a few minutes after the legion’s attack began.

The legion’s assault was too powerful for inexperienced 1st and 2nd years to handle.

That’s when it happened.

Whooosh-!

Fierce flames erupted from the front.

“Senior Ris!”

Lil urgently called out to Ris for support.

It wasn’t just Ris.

Hero academy students who came as reinforcements blocked the legion’s attack.

The arrival of the seniors.

However, the 1st and 2nd years couldn’t be optimistic about the situation.

Their opponent was none other than Tartaros’s legion.

They barely avoided being completely overwhelmed.

But that didn’t mean the battle situation had improved dramatically.

“Can we… defeat that thing?”

A voice filled with despair flowed from the mouth of a hero defending the line.

They were somehow holding back Silatuna’s legion.

But the unknown legion rampaging in the rear was enough to bring despair even to heroes who had achieved great feats.

Silatuna alone might be manageable.

But their forces were far too insufficient to face two legion commanders.

That’s when it happened.

The sounds of battle from the front stopped as if by magic.

Sedjen stiffened his face as he looked toward the front.

The battlefield of the Monster Queen and the Sword Saint.

The terrain had changed so drastically that it was hard to believe it was the same place as before, showing just how fierce their battle had been.

And leaving that battlefield behind…

The Monster Queen was advancing.

Silatuna, with her hideous monster lower body and small human upper body, licked the blood flowing down her forehead with her tongue.

“Has the Headmaster… been defeated!”

“Is this really the end now…!”

Despair cast over the heroes’ faces.

Seeing them like this, Hallind spoke.

“If you have time to despair, prepare to fight.”

“Professor Hallind…!”

Ren looked at Hallind with shaking eyes.

“You are teachers of Lumern.”

Hallind spoke in his characteristically cold voice.

“When even the students are fighting against the legion, don’t you dare despair first.”

At those words, the Lumern professors gritted their teeth.

That’s when it happened.

Flash-!

A massive slash mercilessly cut through Silatuna.

Terrifying killing intent erupted from Silatuna’s body.

Kwagagagagang-!

A dark red flash created by Silatuna’s black magic poured toward where the slash had come from.

“Headmaster…!”

The faces of the Lumern professors contorted.

***

“Cal… ian… Cough-! Cough-!”

In the midst of the devastating battlefield.

Riben urgently called out to Kalian.

As a dragon.

As one who guides heroes.

He burned all his strength for the hero he had chosen.

It was just as Silatuna had said.

An aged hero and an aged dragon.

Even in their prime, it would have been difficult to guarantee Silatuna’s defeat.

And now they were both long past their prime, having fallen into decline.

If it had been another Legion Commander, it might have been possible.

But against a monster-like Legion Commander who had lived since before the Age of Calamity, there was nothing they could do.

Tremble tremble tremble-

In Riben’s eyes, he could see Kalian’s back as he used his sword as a staff to raise himself up.

Riben gritted his teeth.

It was a body that had already reached its limits long ago.

But even so, the Sword Saint moved.

‘It doesn’t matter if I die.’

Kalian raised his sword.

He had already lived long enough. For the sake of future generations, this one life wasn’t precious at all.

Kalian coughed up blood.

‘I must strike at least one more time.’

Somehow, he had to leave a possibility for future generations to defeat Silatuna.

‘Move…’

Swish-!

Squeezing out his life force, the Sword Saint tried to unleash his aura to deliver a sword strike.

Stagger-!

But soon he lost his balance and collapsed.

Thud-!

He barely managed to stand without falling completely.

But to anyone watching, he was at his limit.

Step-

“Stop.”

At that moment, a voice came from behind.

Kalian and Riben barely managed to turn their bodies around.

“That’s enough.”

It was a young man with gray hair and eyes.

“You’ve done well enough. So now you can rest easy.”

Looking at those gray eyes, Kalian felt as if a certain young boy came to mind.

“Who are… you?”

To Kalian’s question, the young man opened his mouth.

“The Hero of the Beginning.”

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