Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 253

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253

“Press the attack!”

“Attack!”

Countless freshmen rushed toward Leo.

There wasn’t a trace of hesitation in their movements.

It was clearly different from the entrance exam.

During the entrance exam, there was the burden of being eliminated the moment they were defeated by Leo.

But not now.

All the freshmen actively attempted to attack Leo.

And they were all thinking the same thing in their heads.

‘If we press him like this, even the great Leo Flobe will get tired soon! Then we’ll have our chance!’

All the freshmen were waiting for that moment when Leo would tire.

“Choose~ Choose~ Who will become Leo’s mentee! Here are the current betting odds!”

Cal quickly showed the betting board he had prepared.

“Oh? I’ll bet on Aina Beidna.”

“Yes! Senior!”

When the commotion started and freshmen aiming for Leo’s mentee position heard the news, they flocked to the Magic Department Building.

Since it was such an entertaining spectacle, not only the 2nd years but also 3rd and 4th years who heard the rumors came to watch, except for the 5th years who were away from the Academy on missions.

“What do you think will happen?”

Meanwhile, Avad, who was watching the situation from afar, asked.

“What do you think will happen.”

Duran, who had come to watch after hearing the news, snorted.

“There’s no way the current freshmen could land an effective hit on Leo Flobe. Especially in such a chaotic state.”

“True.”

Avad nodded.

“Leo Flobe doesn’t get tired. And if he can use guerrilla tactics on top of that… the freshmen will destroy themselves.”

That was exactly right.

Leo leisurely dodged or blocked the freshmen’s attacks while weaving between them.

Each time he did so, the freshmen ended up attacking each other.

In some sense, there were even those who did it deliberately to reduce their competition.

“The current freshmen can’t even be called true Hero Candidates yet.”

The freshman period was when skill improvement was most pronounced during life at Lumern.

During this time, it was common for students to discover unexpected talents or for those who had low scores on the entrance exam to rise to the top ranks.

For such inexperienced freshmen to land an effective hit on Leo was virtually impossible.

“They’d have better odds fighting him one-on-one.”

Duran was right.

Right now, the attacking side was more frantic.

It meant they couldn’t observe Leo’s movements carefully.

Whoosh—!

Leo flew into the air.

“I was waiting for this!”

Shasha, riding a flying beast, quickly flew toward him.

Seeing this, Leo chuckled and used Fly magic.

Swoosh—!

“Huh!”

Shasha was startled by the incredible mobility and speed.

“I-Is it possible to move like that with Fly magic?”

The freshmen gaped in amazement.

“They’re not used to Lumern’s common sense yet.”

“Well, they are freshmen.”

The upperclassmen looked at the shocked freshmen as if they were cute.

Some of the freshmen’s attacks even flew toward the spectators.

Of course, there were no upperclassmen who would be hit by such attacks.

In the end, by the time lunch break was over, not a single freshman had successfully attacked Leo.

The preliminary bell signaling class rang.

“Huff! Huff!”

“I-I can’t move anymore… Ugh!”

“Keh! Kehek!”

The freshmen collapsed on the ground, suffering from mana depletion and physical exhaustion.

Seeing this, the upperclassmen laughed and dispersed.

“Ah~ That was fun.”

“This year has had many interesting incidents since the beginning of the semester.”

The 3rd and 4th years giggled as they returned to their classrooms.

The 2nd years looked at the freshmen with pitying faces before returning to their classrooms.

Leo looked at the freshmen sprawled on the ground from exhaustion and asked.

“Isn’t your next class the joint Hero Studies class conducted by Professor Artion?”

“Yes.”

“B-But, senior.”

“Then you’d better hurry, don’t you think?”

Leo said, looking at the clock tower in the Magic Department Building.

“If you’re all late for class, you’ll be in big trouble, so hurry up.”

“B-But we can’t even move.”

“Professor Artion is kind, so won’t she overlook it if we’re a little late?”

Groans came from among the freshmen.

Hearing this, the 2nd years hesitated.

“They don’t seem to know Professor Artion’s true nature yet.”

The 2nd years’ supervising teacher during last year’s entrance ceremony was Artion.

And they had experienced Artion’s terror on the first day.

That’s why they couldn’t move a muscle in front of her from the very first class.

But the freshmen still didn’t seem to know much about Artion.

On the same level as Hallind.

No, in some ways, Artion showed even more terror than Hallind.

The 2nd years all thought simultaneously.

‘They’re dead.’

***

That evening.

Leo, who had been resting in Glory Dormitory, went outside to meet the freshmen who had come to see him.

The ones who came to see Leo were five Knight Department students.

“Hello, Young Master Leo. It was so hectic that we’re only greeting you now.”

Martina, their representative, smiled and greeted him.

It was none other than the Slayer Knights, Leo’s knight order.

“Right. By the way, you guys didn’t attack me during lunch, did you?”

Leo smiled as he looked at his knights.

At that question, the knight order members flinched.

“Don’t you want to become my mentees?”

At Leo’s question, Julran and Carin frantically waved their hands.

“I-It’s not that.”

“Young Master Leo helped us a lot with various things when we enrolled! We felt we couldn’t keep receiving help after enrollment too!”

“Yes! We wanted to make it at Lumern with our own strength!”

At Julran and Carin’s words, Martina, Austin, and Valerie also frantically nodded in agreement.

That was actually true.

The five had received Leo’s special training before the entrance exam and rapidly improved their skills.

Thanks to that, it was also true that they were able to pass the Lumern entrance exam.

But on the other hand, they were also afraid of becoming Leo’s mentees.

For the knights who had experienced Leo’s training, it was soul-crushing.

‘I can’t even imagine what comes after the sea of fire!’

Leo chuckled as he watched his knights speak urgently, then sat on the bench and asked.

“How was it after lunch break ended?”

“It was absolute chaos.”

Martina’s face turned pale.

“I never dreamed Professor Artion could be such a terrifying person.”

They said less than fifty people weren’t late for Artion’s Hero Studies class.

Since this was a temporary class period, there wasn’t any important lesson content, but even so, being late to class as a group couldn’t be forgiven.

Artion, who had been dejected at first, apparently transformed the moment the late students arrived as a group.

‘Aaaah?! You were late because you were brawling with Leo Flobe? If you like brawling so much, then we’ll make the lesson content brawling toooooo!’

They said Artion, who had lent his body to a hot-tempered hero through necromancy, went on a rampage.

The freshmen, whose stamina had already hit rock bottom thanks to Leo, were apparently ravaged by Artion’s fury.

“It, it was scary…!”

“I understood to my bones why Lady Selia told us to be careful of Professor Artion.”

Carin clutched her arms and trembled, while Valerie broke out in cold sweat.

Leo sighed as if he had expected this.

“By the way, young master. Do you have any thoughts of taking freshmen as mentees?”

Martina asked politely.

Having received training from Leo, the Slayer Knights knew all too well about Leo’s abilities.

Currently, most of the freshmen held hope that Leo would show an opening someday.

‘But Leo-sama has no openings.’

Leo’s movements were almost divine, without even blind spots.

For Leo, who possessed Arron’s ‘Super Sense’, there were no blind spots.

‘Moreover, he never gets tired.’

Most freshmen thought they could become Leo’s mentees through chance and luck, but in Martina’s view, there was absolutely no hope.

‘He’s essentially saying he won’t take mentees.’

Leo chuckled as he watched Martina’s puzzled expression.

“Well. There are five who have potential.”

“As expected, it would be the Princess, the Crown Prince of Birsen, the daughter of the Southern Magic Tower Lord, and the Sword Saint’s granddaughter.”

“That’s right.”

Martina nodded.

Even in her view, those four people were on a different level.

Especially Aina Beidna was impressive enough to make even Martina, who had seen countless sword geniuses as a Jerdinger trainee, stick out her tongue in amazement.

“Who’s the remaining one?”

Carin asked with sparkling eyes.

“He’s coming now.”

Leo said with a chuckle.

At those words, the knights’ gazes turned toward where Leo was looking.

And they were startled.

“Luke Elda?”

The freshman ranked last was approaching Leo hesitantly.

***

Leo stood at the training ground near the 2nd year dormitories.

In front of Leo, Luke gripped his wooden sword with a tense expression.

‘This guy was there during lunch break too.’

And Luke hadn’t moved at all to attack Leo.

He had just stayed far away, observing Leo’s movements.

“Th, thank you for making time for me.”

“I was the one who said to come at me anytime. Don’t worry about it.”

Leo chuckled as he looked at the thoroughly intimidated Luke.

Watching Leo, Luke’s expression became flushed with excitement.

‘It’s different from the entrance exam. Now I’m a Lumern student just like Leo!’

The person he had admired was right before his eyes.

Leo Flobe, whom he had encountered through outdated newspapers in a quiet rural village, had instantly become an object of admiration for Luke.

Someone like the great heroes he had seen in childhood fairy tales.

Among the five great heroes, Luke’s favorite was none other than Kail, the Hero of the Beginning.

Most people don’t like Kail, the Hero of the Beginning, even as a fictional character.

But from Luke’s perspective as someone from the countryside, whether the hero actually existed or not wasn’t very important.

The same all-class as that Kail.

Plus heroic deeds that made his heart race.

To Luke, Leo seemed like someone who had jumped out of a fairy tale.

Literally the purest form of admiration.

He was in the same place as such a person.

‘Is it okay for someone like me to do this?’

Luke smiled awkwardly.

But Luke wanted to have a conversation with Leo.

“Whoo.”

Luke took a deep breath and assumed his stance.

Swoosh—!

Luke closed the distance with Leo and swung his sword.

The sword moved quickly.

But Luke was definitely keeping up with Leo’s movements.

‘This guy is definitely the weakest among the current freshmen.’

Leo lightly dodged Luke’s attack.

‘His swordsmanship is crude and his aura control is clumsy.’

Seeing Luke’s sword aimed at his neck with an aura-infused attack, Leo flicked his finger.

Thwack—!

“Kugh?!”

Just blocking the attack made Luke’s body shake.

Normally, no matter how much the opponent doesn’t counterattack, seeing an overwhelming difference in skill would make one lose fighting spirit.

And feel despair.

Luke was the same.

Not just Luke.

When lunch break ended today.

All the freshmen had the same look in their eyes as Luke.

They felt despair at the overwhelming difference in skill.

However.

Luke gritted his teeth and swung his sword again.

Seeing that, Leo smiled.

‘Of course his skills are terrible. He learned everything through self-study.’

Luke had truly entered Lumern purely through his own efforts.

Moreover…

Whooom—!

Luke’s mana stirred.

‘I felt it during the entrance exam too, but now I’m certain of this guy’s mana characteristic.’

The aura grew even larger.

‘Is this mana amplification through emotion?’

Even in despair, he stands up and refuses to stop moving forward.

He heightens his emotions and charges again.

No one taught him to do this.

He’s doing it unconsciously.

‘The world calls such people heroes.’

***

“Huff- huff- urgh!”

Luke covered his mouth and barely managed to stop retching.

He didn’t have the strength to move even a finger.

Even though he moved with all his might, he still couldn’t even graze his target.

‘Amazing.’

Luke looked at Leo, who was sitting calmly in front of him, with admiration.

“Leo.”

“What?”

“Could I… become a hero too?”

“Who knows.”

Leo chuckled.

“But if you don’t stop challenging the impossible, people can always achieve great feats.”

“Ah, that’s what Risinass said!”

“Right. I don’t really need to take on mentees or anything, but give it a try.”

Leo chuckled.

“Surpassing limits is what heroes do, but making the impossible possible is also what heroes must do.”

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