Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 276

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276

“I can’t feel my arms and legs….”

Cal, collapsed on the ground, muttered in a dying voice.

Cal wasn’t the only one making such groaning sounds.

Most of the students who had become targets in the Demian students’ scramble were half-exhausted and collapsed.

“You’re all pathetic!”

Chelsea placed her hands on her hips and lifted her chin as she spoke.

“If you show such weak appearances, the kids from other Hero Academies will look down on you!”

Growling, Chelsea grabbed the collapsed Cal and shook him vigorously.

“Get up! Cal!”

“Hey! Hey hey hey! Don’t grab and shake my arms!”

Cal screamed.

Seeing this, Leo asked.

“What happened? You seem to be in a worse mood than usual.”

“Leo. You don’t know because you weren’t there. She’s always this cranky normally.”

At Cal’s words, Chelsea glared at him sharply.

“She just acts sweet in front of you… Gack? I, I surrender! Cough! I surrender!”

Cal, who had been teasing, struggled and shouted as Chelsea grabbed his throat.

Cal, barely freed, asked.

“But why are you in a bad mood?”

“Those Ajonia bastards ignored me, saying I was tiny.”

The reason Chelsea was in a low mood was none other than the Ajonia students.

Ajonia students who discovered Chelsea, who had been avoiding the bothersome dwarves, said.

“Lumern has such a small kid attending school too. Who is that?”

“Looks like Chelsea Rwallin?”

“Chelsea Rwallin? Isn’t she a pretty famous student? But she looks like she’d fly away if you poked her?”

“Hey! Who are you calling small and who are you saying looks weak? Fight me!”

At those words, the Ajonia students looked at each other and burst into laughter.

“Sorry, but it would be trouble if we fought a little kid like you.”

“If your feelings are hurt, I’ll apologize. This is an apology gift.”

They said that, gave her candy, and left.

She got angry at those words and tried to punish them, but failed because Demian students swarmed over.

“Treating me like a little kid? Hehehe, prepare yourselves. Damn beast bastards.”

Chelsea clenched her fists with veins bulging on her forehead.

Seeing that murderous appearance, Cal whispered to Leo.

“Hey, calm her down a bit. It’s troublesome for me when she’s in such a low mood.”

At those words, Leo took something out from his chest and gave it to Chelsea.

“I’ll give you candy, so cheer up.”

What Leo handed over was none other than candy that Cal had made using fatigue recovery potions.

Seeing Leo like this, Cal screamed internally.

‘What do I do if you treat her like a kid too!’

“Thanks, Leo oppa!”

But Chelsea smiled brightly and put the candy Leo gave her in her mouth and rolled it around.

Seeing that, Cal muttered.

“She really is a kid.”

“You and I are only one year apart, you know?”

Chelsea rolled her eyes.

“Cal, I have something I want to ask.”

“What?”

“Why does that kid called Driana have a bad relationship with her Demian classmates?”

“Driana? That cute-looking dwarf from earlier, right?”

Chelsea also made a curious expression.

At their reaction, Cal said.

“Ah, that? I was curious too, so even while being harassed by the Demian kids, I made time to investigate a bit.”

Cal, skilled at information gathering, crossed his arms.

“Driana. She’s the granddaughter of Demian’s principal Gerwin. And she entered Demian through special admission without even taking entrance exams.”

“Then it makes sense that the Demian kids would dislike her.”

Chelsea nodded as if it made sense.

“No, they don’t hate her for that reason. Rather, not a single student complained about that part.”

“Why?”

“Driana was a naturally gifted smith. They say she already made enchanted magic swords when she was five?”

“Enchanted magic swords at five years old?”

Chelsea’s eyes widened.

There were largely two ways to make magic swords.

First, making them using materials that contain mana.

Second, making them by enchanting with mana.

“That’s amazing.”

Chelsea stuck out her tongue.

Making enchanted magic swords was much harder than making magic swords with mana-containing materials.

Enchant magic isn’t particularly high-difficulty magic.

Chelsea too had been called a so-called genius since childhood, so she learned enchant magic at five years old.

But general enchant magic and enchantment used on magic swords were completely different concepts.

Enchantment used on magic swords literally makes the object itself contain mana.

It was an ability in a realm impossible for life without talent, not just magical aptitude.

“With that level of ability, special admission would be natural. But why do the Demian students dislike her so much?”

Chelsea tilted her head.

Seeing Chelsea like this, Cal scratched his head.

“Driana worked hard making weapons until the first semester of first year. Actually, Driana was the grade representative until then. But from the second semester, she suddenly lost interest in making weapons.”

“What?”

“Even when she makes them, she just copies weapons that Dweno-nim made.”

“Why on earth? What a waste of ability!”

Chelsea was shocked.

A craftsman who could make enchanted magic swords at five years old.

Someone with the talent to make weapons that could write legends in the hands of heroes.

But to let that ability rot!

“The reason is unknown. But she says she wants to do art and only makes a bunch of strange objects?”

“Art?”

“Yeah. She calls herself the greatest artist born in Dwelonia. She even held her own exhibition in the city?”

Chelsea made an incredulous expression.

A Demian blacksmith who should have the highest pride doesn’t create original works, only copies.

Moreover, the target is the revered Divine Blacksmith Dweno.

For Demian students, they couldn’t help but dislike such a Driana.

“The Demian students probably think Driana is tarnishing Dweno’s name.”

At those words, Leo lifted his sword.

It was the Wolf Fang he had brought earlier.

‘But her skill is certain. She crudely but still imitated Dweno’s skill.’

She didn’t even learn from Dweno.

Yet she managed to recreate a sword made by Dweno to this extent.

‘It would be impossible without skill.’

Leo narrowed his eyes.

‘Then why did they stop making weapons?’

***

That evening.

Runia returned to the dormitory assigned to Seirun and came back to her room after dinner.

Normally, there would have been plenty of people around Runia, who was mentioned as a candidate for the next student council president.

Runia was Seirun’s pride, and Seirun’s pride was an Elf symbolizing the race.

To make a good impression on Runia, who would grow into a hero representing Elves in the future, the Elves from the lower and middle ranks somehow lingered around Runia.

But after the incident during the day, they were busy whispering while looking at Runia.

“I never thought Runia would be such a violent Elf.”

“Scary.”

Runia snorted while looking at her whispering classmates.

Runia had fully expected her classmates to show this kind of reaction.

‘There’s no reason to care about those kids anyway.’

The moment she decided not to put on an act, Runia stopped caring about her surroundings at all.

“Oh, welcome back, Runia.”

Inside the room, Eiran, who shared the same room, hurriedly hid the book she was reading behind her pillow and greeted her.

Her hair was wet as if she had just finished showering.

‘She was reading a novel written by a human author again. Is it interesting? She absolutely refuses to show it to me.’

When asked about the content, she would hide even the title like that.

Eiran looked worried as she watched Runia close the door and sit in the chair.

“Runia, are you okay? Aren’t the other Elves looking at you badly?”

“I expected this anyway. Actually, it feels refreshing? I don’t have to put on an act anymore, right?”

Runia smiled brightly.

“Or do you also prefer me from when I was putting on an act?”

“No! I think your current appearance is much cooler, Runia. Ruka will definitely think so too.”

Eiran said while clenching her fists tightly.

“Thank you.”

Runia said while smiling brightly at Eiran.

“Oh, but Eiran.”

“Yes.”

“Leo said he wants to see you.”

“Leo?”

Eiran perked up her ears and made a bright expression.

“When! When did Leo say he wanted to see me?”

“Later after midnight, he said to meet at that main auditorium from earlier?”

“Mid, midnight? Isn’t that definitely curfew time?”

“Right. He said to sneak out.”

“At midnight, what could it be for…?”

“He said he’d give you tutoring?”

“Tu, tutoring?”

“Why are you so surprised? Of course he’s the same grade and younger than us. But there’s a lot to learn from Leo.”

“Th, that’s right! There’s a lot to learn from Leo… Hau!”

Eiran covered her face with her hands, her face turning bright red.

‘She must have had some strange delusion again. Eiran really has a rich imagination.’

Thinking that she was embarrassed after having strange thoughts and then hearing about tutoring, Runia shook her head.

“Yeah. So get ready.”

Runia left the embarrassed Eiran alone and left the room to take a shower.

Meanwhile, Eiran, who was left alone, was red up to her ears.

‘Le, Leo and… just the two of us… late at night tutoring…!’

As Runia expected, Eiran’s delusions were running wild.

The problem was that the rampage was currently in progress.

Eiran took out the novel she had hidden behind her pillow.

[The Male Teacher’s Secret Tutoring.]

‘It, it was true. Th, these humans… do tutoring in the middle of the night…’

The former reclusive loner swallowed her saliva and was smoothly misunderstanding the situation.

***

Erdien Mountain.

The eastern end of the continent.

The cursed land where monsters are born.

But for the Dwarves, this land was also another blessed land.

Countless magic stones and rare ores were buried here.

A very important place for Dwarves who make weapons.

Therefore, beyond the forest adjacent to Erdien Mountain, there was Tarcam, the great city of the Dwarves.

And Tarcam’s city walls were high.

Because once every few decades, monsters would invade on a large scale, crossing Erdien Mountain and the forest.

That day too, the guards on Tarcam’s city walls were looking at Erdien Mountain.

Kugugugugugugung-!

Then the ground shook.

“Is it an earthquake?”

“There have been frequent earthquakes lately?”

Earthquakes were frequent around Erdien Mountain.

Therefore, Tarcam was accustomed to earthquakes.

While they were talking to each other as if familiar with it, the Dwarf keeping watch from the watchtower at the very top of the city wall felt something strange.

Thud! Kugugung!

It felt like the earth’s axis was shaking.

Something was different from an earthquake.

‘What is it?’

Then, a dark darkness came to a corner of Erdien Mountain.

It was as if the moonlight had disappeared for a moment.

He rubbed his eyes for a moment.

In that brief instant, the moonlight was shining down again as if nothing had happened.

‘Did I see it… wrong?’

Feeling strange, the Dwarf picked up his telescope.

And he looked carefully toward Erdien Mountain.

In an instant.

Flash-!

His eyes met with pitch-black eyes that shone even in the darkness.

“E, emergency! Emergency! A, a monster has appeared!”

Clang clang clang-

The Dwarf who saw that giant being fell into panic in an instant and rang the bell frantically.

All of Tarcam fell into great chaos.

But the Dark Giant, who had been showing off that thrilling presence, had disappeared at some point.

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