Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 217

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217

When news about the Lumern unified entrance exam spread across the continent, chaos came to many regions.

Traditionally, Lumern held separate exams in the Western, Northern, Eastern, Southern, and Central regions.

Five regions conducted their tests separately.

However, the unified exam was a completely different type of test from before.

For applicants, the regional exams disappeared and they suddenly had to take a unified exam, so confusion was inevitable.

The Lumern entrance exam had no restrictions on taking it.

Once the test location was decided, applicants would travel to that region to participate in the exam.

However, the expenses needed to participate in the entrance ceremony had to be borne by the applicants themselves.

In other words, costs like Warp Gate fees and accommodation expenses would occur.

But with the unified exam changing the test location, greater expenses than expected would inevitably occur.

Relatively well-off noble families had no major problems, but among students taking the Lumern entrance exam, there were many commoners too.

Naturally, dissatisfied voices from applicants were bound to emerge.

However, when a new announcement was delivered, such complaints disappeared without a trace.

Lumern decided to bear the Warp Gate costs and accommodation expenses for all Lumern entrance exam applicants.

Applicants only needed to bring their exam tickets issued from each region.

It was an astronomical cost, but Lumern didn’t mind.

With the burden of costs removed, the number of applicants naturally increased.

Of course, there wasn’t a situation where the number of applicants exploded.

The difficulty of the Lumern entrance exam was very high.

Every year, countless applicants with insufficient skills lost their lives.

Moreover, the exam situation was even broadcast live in real-time.

No one wanted to risk their life with mediocre skills or be humiliated worldwide.

As people across the continent focused their attention on the Lumern entrance exam, the capital of the Rodren Empire, Lorend, was designated as the exam location, drawing the world’s attention.

While great commotion was occurring related to the Lumern entrance exam.

Six figures appeared at the Jerdinger Family’s Training Ground.

They were none other than Leo and the knights.

“The, the training ground!”

“We’re back!”

Carin, Julan, and Valerie let out cheers and stuck themselves to the main gate of the training ground.

Carin and Julan even showed intense reactions like kissing the main gate.

Seeing this, Austin put strength in his eyes and said.

“What kind of disgraceful behavior is this in front of Young Master Leo?”

“Young Master Leo doesn’t really mind this kind of thing.”

“That’s right, Austin.”

Carin and Julan, true to their 14 years of age, were the most lively among the five.

Valerie, who was the same age, was as big and dignified as Austin, so these two served as the mood makers within the knight order.

Watching the two acting spoiled, Austin put even more strength in his eyes.

While Martina was the actual leader, Austin, being the eldest, was the one who maintained discipline in the knight order.

Startled by this, the two immediately stood at attention.

Watching this, Valerie shook her head.

“Young Master, what should we do?”

“Go back to your respective rooms and rest. I’m going to meet Uncle Jis.”

“Yes.”

At those words, Martina dismissed the knight order with a glance.

Carin returned to her room with Martina, saying.

“I missed the bed so much!”

“Hehe. Me too.”

“Young Master Leo’s training definitely seems to have helped greatly…! But it was still too hard! Especially sleeping and eating!”

Carin shook her head as if disgusted.

Sleeping in the mountains wasn’t a problem at all.

The problem was when they were sleeping.

Leo didn’t leave the knight order alone even when sleeping.

When they were about to fall into deep sleep, stones would fly at them like ghosts.

Of course, they weren’t infused with aura, but they flew at incredibly fast speeds.

So getting hit while being careless was a daily occurrence.

Getting hit was fine.

The problem was that if they got hit, they would receive physical training from Leo for 30 minutes.

It was called physical training, but it was almost like torture.

Thanks to that, they had to live with nausea day and night for three whole weeks.

Meals were also self-sufficient.

Problems arose here too.

Leo would come to raid the ingredients the knight order had obtained by surprise.

If they let their guard down, not only couldn’t they sleep, but they also had to go hungry.

Naturally, all members of the knight order couldn’t help but become sharp-nerved.

“I barely got any sleep. Ugh! No matter how much of a knight I am, my skin became a mess!”

Carin, who cared about her appearance like a teenage girl, made a tearful face.

With brown hair and green eyes, she was quite pretty.

Watching such Carin, Martina gave a bitter smile.

Martina was in the same mess.

‘Still, the one who suffered the most was probably Young Master Leo.’

For the past month, Leo had relentlessly pushed the five trainees without rest.

In other words, it also meant that the person who rested the least was Leo.

‘But seeing him perfectly fine… he’s really amazing.’

Thinking of Leo, Martina clicked her tongue.

After roughly unpacking in their room, the two immediately headed to the shower room.

“Kyaa~ Hot water!”

Martina burst into laughter at Carin jumping around while enjoying the hot water.

It was when the two had washed themselves, changed into clean clothes, and were leaving the shower room.

“Oh my. Girls, look at this.”

“The Hero Candidates have arrived?”

Other Jerdinger trainees giggled while looking at Martina and Carin.

Their eyes clearly contained mockery.

Seeing this, Carin made an upset expression.

Martina sighed softly and patted Carin’s shoulder as if telling her to ignore them.

It was when Carin, biting her lips, was about to ignore them and leave.

“Did you want to remain in Young Master Leo’s knight order so badly that you’d even lie?”

“Stop it moderately. Don’t waste Young Master Leo’s time for nothing.”

Watching them speak while giggling, Martina hesitated.

Then she turned her head.

“Do you think we’re the same as you?”

“What?”

“We at least chose to become Young Master Leo’s knight order because we each had our reasons. Not like you, who cleverly chose Young Master Leo for advancement after his true worth became known.”

“Ma, Martina!”

Carin panicked and tried to pull Martina away.

Martina shook off such Carin.

“What did you just say?”

“Did I finish talking?”

“No, I haven’t finished yet? The Lumern entrance exam? Young Master Leo told us first. That we could enter Lumern! He affirmed our potential!”

Martina’s brown eyes blazed fiercely.

“Just as we chose Young Master Leo, Young Master Leo chose us. Talk all you want. You’ll never have a chance to become Young Master Leo’s knights, will you? As long as Young Master Leo trusts us, we’ll never give up either!”

“Huh? Did you do some special training or something? I don’t see any visible results?”

“No matter how much you struggle, you’re still mid-tier among the trainees.”

Watching the trainees sneer at them, Martina scoffed.

“How long do you think you’ll be stronger than us?”

“Heh? Then want to have a sparring match, Martina?”

Whoosh-!

The wooden sword that Lumern trainees always carried was swung at high speed.

Seeing the wooden sword stop right in front of her face, Martina clenched her fists.

“Fine. Let’s fight.”

“You seem confident? Then how about a bet? If you lose, resign from Young Master Leo’s knight order.”

“Fine. But what will you do if you lose?”

“We’ll resign as Jerdinger trainees.”

Seeing her make a ridiculous expression, Martina said.

“Good.”

“Hehe. Then let’s meet at the training ground in thirty minutes.”

Watching the backs of the girls leaving the shower room with laughter, Martina made a tearful face.

“Carin! What do we do?!”

Carin let out a deep sigh.

“Sister Martina sometimes has a tendency to get heated.”

Scratching her head, Carin shrugged her shoulders.

“What can we do now that it’s come to this? We have no choice but to clash head-on.”

***

All of Jerdinger’s trainees gathered at the training ground.

Seeing this, Julan made a tearful face.

“Brother Austin… what do we do now?”

“I’m sorry, everyone.”

At Martina’s apology, Austin shook his head.

“No. This was bound to happen eventually.”

Austin, Julan, and Valerie had also suffered mockery from the upper-tier trainees as soon as they returned to the training grounds.

“Since it’s come to this, let’s show the results of our training.”

At Austin’s words, Julan made a gloomy expression.

“It’s true that we got stronger through training, but it’s only been a month. Just one month.”

He didn’t think their skills had improved dramatically in just one month.

Especially since they had been one-sidedly beaten even until the day they returned from sparring with Leo.

“There’s really nothing visible, is there?”

“How should we take you down?”

The upper-tier trainees looked at the five of them and giggled.

“I’ll go first.”

Austin stepped onto the training ground with a tense face, holding his wooden sword.

Seeing him, a trainee as muscular as Austin stepped up.

While all the trainees watched the sparring match between the two.

“It’s Young Master Leo.”

“Young Master Leo came to watch?”

The trainees discovered Leo standing with his arms crossed at the back of the training ground and began murmuring.

“I don’t understand Young Master Leo either.”

“Right. The upper-tier trainees want to become knights, so why did he take those guys and go train for a month?”

Jerdinger’s trainees made expressions of incomprehension.

It was when he chuckled hearing those words.

“Young Master Leo. Don’t stay in the back, please watch from the front.”

A boy with a sturdy build came up to Leo and said.

“Who are you?”

“My name is Endian Terriers.”

Seeing Endian confidently introduce himself, Leo recalled the knight named Pierce he had met at the party hall a month ago.

‘Is he that person’s son?’

Thinking that, Leo made an indifferent expression and moved forward.

As the trainees made way, everyone looked at Leo with admiring eyes.

All the trainees here had trained with Selia and had seen Ris several times.

So they knew the overwhelming skills of Selia and Ris.

The Jerdinger bloodline who surpassed such Selia to become grade representative and succeeded Ris as student council president.

While there might be those at Lumern who looked unfavorably upon Leo, this place was different.

If they became his knights, their position within the family would be as good as decided.

He was literally an object of admiration and someone they wanted to serve.

‘Won’t you recruit additional knights?’

‘Miss Selia’s knight order has a capacity of 30 people.’

‘Next time for sure…’

Everyone looked at Leo with yearning eyes.

Leo, who had come to the very front of the training ground, crossed his arms and looked at Austin.

“Young Master Leo…”

Austin bowed his head as if feeling apologetic.

Austin also knew how much effort Leo had put in to train them for a month.

Yet they had ended up making a bet over the Hollarang Knights positions like this.

He couldn’t help but feel guilty toward Leo.

Seeing such Austin, Leo chuckled.

“Austin.”

“Yes, Young Master Leo.”

“Go easy on them.”

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