Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 274

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274

“Healer! Healer!”

“Egette’s arm is twisted at a strange angle!”

A commotion broke out among the Demian students.

“Well then, shall I take a look at the weapons?”

Of course, Leo didn’t care about such things at all and approached the weapons that Egette had on display.

“How carefree he is after doing that to someone.”

Ar clicked her tongue as she watched Agette being carried away on a stretcher.

Meanwhile, confusion filled the eyes of the Ajonia students who were watching Leo.

“How could he generate such power with those arms?”

“But Egette’s strength was real…!”

Even when the Ajonia students, who prided themselves on physical strength, rushed in, only five managed to win at arm wrestling.

And excluding Ar, they were all students with bigger builds than Leo.

“It’s technique.”

Then Borman, the tiger beastman, spoke.

“Technique?”

“That’s right. Leo Flobe not only has tremendous strength, but his technique for concentrating that strength has clearly reached an amazing level. That’s how he unleashed such explosive power in an instant.”

“Ooh.”

“As expected of Borman!”

“To see through that fact!”

“I’ll be able to have a wonderful match with that guy!”

Borman blocked Leo’s path.

“That was an impressive match, Leo Flobe. Your technique for handling physical strength was magnificent!”

Leo looked up at Borman.

“Your excellent technique! And my strength! Aren’t you curious about which is superior?”

Borman pointed to the steel table.

Seeing Borman like this, Leo asked Ar.

“Could you ask your friend to move aside?”

“I’ve never had such a muscle-brained idiot as a friend.”

“Come! Leo Flobe! Let’s settle this with arm wrestling!”

At Borman’s words, Ar crossed her arms and said.

“You’d better step aside before you get hurt for nothing.”

“Ooh! Ar, are you worried about me?”

Borman made a moved expression.

“But I, the man Borman! I’ve sworn never to back down from a match until the day I become a man worthy of you! Come! Don’t hide and step forward! Leo Flobe!”

“A man worthy of you?”

“I petted him once at the beginning of the semester and now he goes around saying stuff like that. Well, it’s all thanks to my charm.”

Leo looked at the smug Ar with disdain and said to Borman.

“If you want to show off your strength, there’s plenty to test your strength on back there.”

Leo pointed with his finger at Egette’s weapons.

“Heh, that’s true. But it won’t be easy to handle those with your strength, will it?”

‘Does this idiot really think the Black Rabbit defeated Egette with technique?’

Ar looked at Borman with an incredulous expression.

Leo’s defeat of Egette was pure brute force itself.

‘To begin with, the Black Rabbit is a monster who passed the Lumern entrance exam without even using aura.’

And in that situation, he had claimed the position of freshman representative.

From the moment an examinee who didn’t even use aura claimed the representative position, beating out Lumern’s formidable 2nd years, one should have been able to guess how much pure strength he possessed.

‘Well, our school kids aren’t really interested in students from other schools. Sigh!’

As she let out a deep sigh, Borman followed Leo to Egette’s weapons.

And he reached for a massive two-handed sword.

Borman, who lightly lifted the two-handed sword with its heavy weight in one hand, said.

“Excellent. I don’t mainly use swords, but this weight. I can definitely feel that it’s a superior weapon…”

Borman was startled as he turned his head toward Leo.

“Wait! The weapons displayed here are the heaviest weapons among those Egette made!”

Since Egette the smith had been carried away, Leo hadn’t heard the weight class explanation and was reaching for a battle axe that boasted the most massive weight.

Thud-!

But Leo lifted the massive battle axe without much difficulty.

“It’s made of Amantadium.”

Leo examined the battle axe.

Seeing Leo like this, Borman froze.

“Does that still look like technique to you?”

Ar giggled and asked Borman.

‘With that body, he has physical strength that matches mine?’

“L-lifting it might be possible! But you have to be able to swing it like this!”

Borman swung the two-handed sword with all his might.

Whoosh-!

A heavy sound of cutting through the air echoed.

Handling the super-heavy greatsword that could barely be managed even with aura as if it were nothing, Borman grinned with a confident smile.

“Now how’s that! Leo Flobe!”

Seeing Borman’s triumphant expression, Leo held the battle axe with one hand.

And…

Swish-!

Leo swung the battle axe.

A sharp sound as if something would be cut was heard.

A concise but powerful and destructive single swing.

Seeing this, Borman’s complexion changed.

Ar also looked at Leo with surprised eyes.

‘The power was definitely concentrated at one point.’

It was the movement of someone who perfectly understood the weapon’s characteristics.

After that, Leo began swinging the battle axe through the air as if testing it.

At those perfect movements, the Ajonia students widened their eyes.

“Ooooh…!”

Then Egette, who had been carried away on a stretcher, came running back.

And seeing Leo perfectly handling the super-heavy battle axe he had made, he shed tears of joy.

“To be able to handle the weapon I made so perfectly!”

Thump-!

Egette rushed to Leo, who was placing the battle axe back on the display stand, and said.

“Leo Flobe! It seems I was misunderstanding you! You’re truly a man worthy of the weapons I, Egette, have made! Just say the word! I’ll craft any custom weapon you want!”

Seeing Egette excitedly grabbing Leo’s hands and shaking them wildly, Leo said.

“You made it well.”

“Of course! I’m the best at making super-heavy weapons among the 2nd years! You must have been satisfied with the perfect balance of my weapon too!”

“The balance was a mess though.”

“Wh-what did you say?”

“The advantage of super-heavy weapons like this is their weight. The heavier the weight, the stronger the destructive power delivered by the weapon.”

Leo made an unimpressed expression.

“But your battle axe focused too much on increasing weight. So the balance is a mess.”

“That’s nonsense! I distributed the weight perfectly! The balance of my weapon is perfect! Look at this! To maximize destructive power, I made the parts where force is applied heavy and the handle light!”

“Yeah, it would be perfect in terms of maximizing the weapon’s destructive power. But you didn’t consider the wielder at all. Can you perfectly handle the weapon you made?”

At Leo’s question, Egette flinched.

“We’re going to stake our lives on the weapons you make. And yet you’re going to deceive us? Is making things that only look flashy on the surface the spirit that descendants of Dweno possess?”

Egette, who heard Leo’s words, dropped to his knees with a thud.

Then he placed his hands on the ground and cried out in anguish.

“Yes, you’re right. I can’t handle that weapon perfectly! I focused on increasing destructive power and made a weapon that even I can’t properly handle… That’s right! I only made the appearance flashy while balancing the weight! I… I made trash! And I who made trash am trash myself!”

Egette, crying out in anguish, put all his weapons into his extradimensional space.

The Ajonia students who had been examining the weapons looked shocked.

“I’ll throw this trash into the furnace!”

Leo muttered as he watched Egette’s retreating figure fleeing the main auditorium while crying.

“There’s no need to dispose of the other decent items too.”

“The other items were decent?!”

“Of course. He was incredibly skilled at making weapons, so the weapons within his usable range would be perfect.”

“You should have told him that. What a waste.”

“Even if I told him, he wouldn’t listen.”

Leo shook his head.

“Dwarves aren’t a race you can reason with.”

Having said that, Leo examined the other items as well.

Starting with that, similar situations to Egette’s occurred repeatedly.

As if to prove his claim that he could perfectly handle all weapons.

Leo perfectly handled all the items made by the Demian students.

And he clearly pointed out the flaws in each weapon they had made.

“The mana output is too high. You won’t be able to use it for long like this.”

“An orb that helps summon the four great spirits? It’s so mediocre it can’t properly assist with anything.”

“Perfect? You keep insisting it’s perfect, but does this look perfect to you? Apologize to the minerals.”

At each and every word from Leo, the Demian students seemed shocked and left the main auditorium while wailing.

When Leo was about to evaluate the 56th Demian student’s weapon.

“Student Leo. I understand your greatness, so please stop making our students unable to recover.”

Depeto approached and tried to dissuade Leo.

Leo looked around.

“The things I made are trash…”

“Great minerals! I’m sorry! I’m sorry for making such things!”

Some frustrated Demian students were spacing out, while others were prostrating themselves and apologizing to the minerals.

The other Demian students avoided eye contact when Leo looked at them.

Before he knew it, Leo had become a figure of terror.

Nothing is more frightening to a creator than having the flaws of their creation perfectly pointed out.

Even if it’s valid, the blow to the creator is very severe.

Looking at the Demian students who were trembling as they looked at him, Leo said.

“Shall we stop here?”

‘What exactly is this student’s identity?’

Depeto looked at Leo with an incredulous expression.

All the Demian students that Leo had rendered unable to recover were high-achieving students.

Of course, being students, they inevitably had shortcomings.

The Demian students acknowledged those shortcomings too.

The problem was that Leo, who was also a student, had pointed out those shortcomings too accurately and mercilessly.

Looking at Depeto who was staring at Leo as if fed up, Arga asked.

“Was it necessary to go this far?”

“A blacksmith I knew once said something like this.”

Leo said calmly.

“A smith is someone who determines a hero’s final moments.”

“Someone who determines a hero’s final moments?”

“Right. He said that in battle, what a hero can ultimately rely on is their weapon. So he said you must never be overconfident in your skills.”

Leo looked at the weapons.

“You should pursue perfection, but there can be no perfect weapon – that was his claim.”

“To constantly strive forward, huh. Good words.”

Hearing Leo’s words, Depeto nodded.

The younger one is, the more they tend to have blind faith in their abilities.

‘Especially young craftsmen have a strong tendency toward that.’

Being stubborn and having strong pride in what they create is a racial trait of dwarves.

‘But it’s also a racial trait that should be most guarded against. As Student Leo said, the things we make determine a hero’s final moments. Student Leo will certainly be good stimulation for the Demian students.’

Depeto glanced at his disciples who were frustrated on the ground.

‘Though this is too harsh.’

That’s when it happened.

“You brought another fake-looking thing again!”

“What business is it of yours what I make!”

Then a commotion arose at the auditorium entrance.

Depeto let out a deep sigh and covered his face with his hands.

“What’s going on?”

Ar perked up her ears and headed toward where the commotion was coming from.

A large crowd had already gathered around.

Leo spotted a Demian student at the center of the commotion and tilted his head.

‘A female Dweno?’

Driana, the dwarf he had met yesterday, was arguing with other Demian students.

“Are you planning to tarnish the name of the Divine Blacksmith with such mediocre skills?”

“Hmph! I think making mediocre creations tarnishes the name of the Divine Blacksmith more!”

“What did you say!”

An excited Demian student kicked the weapon box Driana had brought.

Crash!

Swords spilled out from the weapon box.

Students from other Hero Academies who saw this looked surprised.

The swords all had the exact same appearance.

And the appearance of the swords was of a very famous sword.

Leo picked up a sword that had rolled to his feet.

‘This is…’

It was a sword Leo knew.

The first sword Dweno had ever made for Arron.

[Wolf Fang.]

The sword Arron used in his early days, confirmed to exist not only in literature but also in Hero Record – the world’s most famous sword.

Leo looked at the sword, then looked at Driana.

‘Is it a replica?’

Tilting his head, he drew the sword from its sheath.

Shing-!

And he showed a surprised expression at the sensation he felt from the sword’s tip.

Compared to the real Wolf Fang, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say it was terrible.

That was inevitable.

The comparison was with Dweno, after all.

But purely as a sword, it was excellent.

‘She’s not just female Dweno in personality, it seems.’

Leo looked around.

‘But why do the Demian students dislike her?’

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