Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 278

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278

By the time Runia arrived at the main auditorium, Eiran was already deep into learning about the techniques of the ‘Sword of Animus’ from Leo.

“Eiran. If you were going to leave first, you should have told me.”

“R-Runia? Why are you here?”

“What do you mean? We agreed to go together earlier, didn’t we?”

Seeing Runia’s incredulous expression, Eiran’s shoulders trembled with a start.

“R-right! We did agree to go together! I completely forgot!”

Runia stared intently at Eiran, who was awkwardly laughing and making excuses.

“Eiran, you had another strange imagination again…”

“Waah!”

Eiran’s face turned red as she grabbed Runia and covered her mouth.

Runia shook off Eiran and teased her with a mischievous smile.

“Why? What were you thinking about this time? Perhaps with Leo…”

“Runia! Leo might misunderstand! I wasn’t thinking that! I wasn’t!”

Eiran covered Runia’s mouth with a tearful expression and shook her head frantically.

“Mmph!? Mmph! Mmph!”

As Eiran covered not only her mouth but also her nose with her hands, Runia began struggling wildly.

However, there was no way Runia, a summoning mage, could overpower Eiran, a magic swordsman, with brute force.

“You can’t say strange things, okay? You understand? You understand?”

Unaware of Runia’s condition, Eiran squeezed her eyes shut and shook her head frantically while applying even more pressure to the hand blocking Runia’s breathing.

Leo, who had been watching this scene intently, spoke up.

“Eiran.”

“Y-yes! Leo!”

“She’s really going to die at this rate.”

“Huh? What… Gasp?!”

Eiran was horrified to discover Runia’s body had gone completely limp.

“Runiaaaaa!”

Watching Eiran cry out desperately while shaking Runia frantically, Leo muttered.

“They get along well.”

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“Sigh…”

Runia waved her hand dismissively while looking at Eiran, who was kneeling in front of her with drooping ears.

“Don’t worry about it too much. It happened because I was teasing you.”

Then she looked at Leo.

“If you were already teaching Eiran first, should I listen to the same lesson as a review?”

“It’s fine. You and Eiran will be learning different magic.”

“Different magic?”

“That’s right.”

Leo gave Runia the same explanation he had given Eiran.

Listening to the story about the Shan Empire, Runia narrowed her eyes.

‘What exactly is this guy’s identity?’

Leo always uncovers secrets of the world that no one else has been able to reach for ages.

‘Even just the things related to Luna.’

Looking at what Leo has accomplished, he’s already surpassed what hero candidates should be capable of.

It was when Runia was looking at Leo with complicated eyes.

“I’m going to teach you magic left behind by the Progenitor of the Starry Skies, not just Terminus.”

“Magic left by the Progenitor?”

“That’s right. It was magic recorded alongside the Sword of Animus.”

“I’d like to see that grimoire once.”

“Unfortunately, I was only permitted to read it in the Shan Empire, but not to take it out.”

He had lied that the magic recorded by Luna was a legacy of Shan.

Shan was a great empire that held countless secrets.

As such, it was perfect for making up excuses like this.

‘This is quite convenient.’

Leo smirked inwardly.

Although she looked at Leo with slightly suspicious eyes, once he mentioned the Shan Empire, she couldn’t express any more doubts.

“Alright. What kind of magic will you teach me?”

Runia glanced at Eiran.

Her face contained envy.

‘I never thought Erquint would still remain.’

Erquint.

It was a legendary sword known to have existed through Hero Record, but whose actual form could never be found.

Created by the divine blacksmith Dweno for the Progenitor of the Starry Skies Luna, Luna passed the sword down to her disciple, the Fairy Knight Berkia.

However, the genuine article was known to have been lost during the Age of Calamity, and even the Ersarr Family only possessed it as a Hero Weapon reward from conquering the Heroes’ World.

Therefore, it was an ancient sword with almost no recognition even among elves.

Of course, anyone who had deeply studied the deeds of great heroes would know of its existence.

That legendary sword had returned to the heir of the Ersarr Family.

This would turn elven society upside down.

‘Does Leo perhaps regard Eiran a bit specially?’

Thinking about it, it was none other than Leo who made Eiran, who had been refusing to attend school, come back to the academy.

Her personality was also different from her own – gentle, quiet, and above all, cute.

It was when Runia was lost in various thoughts.

“Flame magic.”

“Flame magic?”

“That’s right.”

Leo spread his palm and drew out the magic circle of one of the origin magics Runia had created with threads of mana.

“The name of the magic is Flame Emperor.”

Leo spoke seriously while looking at Runia’s blazing eyes.

“In theory, it’s a flame that never goes out.”

Runia’s eyes widened greatly.

Not just Runia.

Eiran also showed a surprised expression.

A flame that never goes out.

They knew well what that meant.

The primordial evil.

The terrifying calamity that drove the world to the brink of destruction.

Erebos’s black flames were famous for being flames that never went out.

‘Luna ultimately couldn’t surpass those flames and lost her life.’

Luna’s final moments that people today don’t know.

The death of a friend that only Leo, who was there, knows.

[Magic that Makes Flowers Bloom] was the magic Luna truly wanted to create.

[Stella Radius] was magic that symbolized Luna herself, and [Terminus] was magic imbued with the will to overcome everything that stood in her way.

And [Flame Emperor] was magic Luna created to counter those hateful black flames that had taken so much from her.

‘Though she never completed it in the end.’

It was magic created by Luna but didn’t suit Luna.

‘If Dweno had learned star magic, he might have been able to master it.’

As far as Leo knew, aside from Erebos, Dweno was the one who used the most powerful flames.

‘It didn’t suit me either.’

It was magic that even Kail, who had inherited Luna’s mana and Dweno’s flames, couldn’t complete.

Although Leo had inherited Dweno’s power, Dweno’s flames were a double-edged sword for Leo.

Dweno’s flames are powerful.

The moment they exceed a certain level of heat, they burn even himself.

This is because Leo doesn’t have the innate resistance to flames like Dweno does.

Runia looked at the Flame Emperor’s magical formula.

“This magic… it’s incomplete.”

“Right. The Animus sword I’m going to teach Eiran is the same. You’ll have to complete them yourselves.”

Luna only created the framework of the origin.

Though it’s an almost perfectly crafted magic, the framework alone won’t activate the magic.

The one who has to activate it is the person learning it.

The Innocent magic was also ultimately completed by Leo.

“It might be harder to master than Terminus. It could be dangerous too.”

Leo knows best how dangerous uncontrollable flames can be.

Leo withdrew the magical formula and looked at Runia.

Runia snorted in response.

“I don’t care. If Luna created an unextinguishable flame, I, as an elf, understand best what that means.”

Runia also read Luna’s intentions.

“If this is incomplete magic… it means Luna couldn’t fulfill her wish.”

Runia took a deep breath.

“Leo, you restored the flower-blooming magic that could be called Luna’s wish and returned it to us elves. If Luna were alive, she would have been incredibly happy.”

Runia’s red eyes blazed with light.

“So I want to fulfill Luna’s wish too.”

Runia puffed out her chest proudly.

“We are descendants of the great Progenitor of the Starry Skies. We have a duty to fulfill her wishes.”

At those words, Leo smiled broadly.

“If Luna heard that, she would have been incredibly happy.”

“Hmph! Of course.”

Runia answered primly, her face slightly flushed.

“So! Should we start by analyzing the formula?”

“No, there are two magics you need to learn first.”

“What are they?”

“You need to learn the flower-blooming magic.”

The flower-blooming magic.

At first glance, it’s magic that simply ends with blooming flowers.

‘In reality, it is an extremely simple magic with just that effect.’

But in terms of difficulty alone, it’s the hardest among star magic.

Literally magic containing Luna’s essence.

“There’s still no one among the elves who can use flower-blooming magic, right?”

“No. There isn’t.”

Eiran’s ears drooped sadly.

The reason flower-blooming magic is difficult.

It’s because it’s magic that enters the realm of ‘creation.’

Literally magic that blooms life called flowers in a place with nothing, without any restrictions.

A miracle beyond magic.

It’s such amazing magic that it’s no exaggeration to say it has half a foot in the realm of gods.

‘The fact that magic entering the realm of miracles with such genius only has the effect of blooming flowers reveals that girl’s eccentricity.’

Leo spoke while thinking Luna would have grabbed him by the collar and shaken him like crazy if she heard that.

“First, once you can use flower-blooming magic, you’ll be able to learn any star magic. That magic is literally the essence of star magic.”

At Leo’s words, Runia recalled how Leo had modified the Runda family’s secret magic to suit himself.

‘Even secret magic is ultimately star magic. That’s why this guy could clumsily imitate my magic.’

Feeling one mystery being solved, Runia said.

“Then are we postponing learning the Animus sword and Flame Emperor until then?”

“No. You can practice separately. Eiran, learn how to control fairy mana from this guy.”

Leo snapped his fingers.

Then a summoning circle opened and Kirran appeared.

[I have arrived.]

“Kirran, it’s been a while.”

[Oh! Long time no see! Lewd elf!]

“Why, why am I a lewd elf!”

[Why? Just because you and that bad-tempered elf entered the same room as Leo, I thought you did this and that…]

“Wah! Wah! Wah!”

Eiran grabbed Kirran and shook him frantically.

[Uuuuugh!]

The captured Kirran flailed in Eiran’s hands like he was in a threshing machine.

“That frivolous fairy is still the same.”

Runia glanced at Kirran and made a smug expression.

“You should be elegant and dignified like our Fiora. So, Leo. What about me?”

“You need to become more familiar with flames than you are now. Wouldn’t it be good to start with training to get used to Fiora’s flames first?”

Leo, who said that, summoned Fiora this time.

“…”

Runia looked with a blank face at Fiora who appeared on Leo’s palm.

Peep-!

Fiora raised one wing as if happy.

Peep-! Peep!

In Fiora’s mind, Runia was imprinted as someone who gives delicious things.

So she chirped frantically as if wanting something, then flapped her wings and jumped off Leo’s palm to fly to Runia.

Flap-! Flap! Thud-! Roll roll roll roll-!

And unable to take flight, she crashed straight to the floor and rolled to Runia’s feet.

Peep-! Peep!

“What on earth did you do to our Fiora!”

Runia widened her eyes and grabbed Leo by the collar.

Leo said.

“Let me be clear about this. I did nothing wrong. How was I supposed to know she’d go around getting snacks from the kids in our school’s Summoning Department?”

Fiora was currently so fat she couldn’t even fly properly.

Peep- Peep-!

Seeing Fiora, who had become a fat chick rolling around like a ball, Runia held her head.

The struggling Fiora regained her balance, stood up, and chirped frantically at Runia’s feet asking for snacks.

“Fiora, don’t worry. Sister will definitely put you on a diet.”

Watching Runia make a resolution while holding Fiora tightly in her arms, Kirran, who had escaped from Eiran’s hands, muttered.

[If you leave her for about a week, she’ll be 1.5 times bigger.]

At those words, Leo sighed.

‘An obese phoenix, a Fairy Prince chased away by the Fairy King for fooling around, a perverted pegasus. Why are all my summons like this?’

Leo thought he was fortunate that at least Elsi was normal.

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