Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 28

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————

28

Duran’s ball, wrapped in lightning aura, flew toward the goal.

“Wind Shield!”

Chelsea urgently shouted a defensive spell.

A powerful wind blew from Class 5’s goal.

The ball flying at tremendous speed suddenly slowed down.

But its momentum hadn’t disappeared.

It was literally just held for a split second.

Since the ball was wrapped in lightning aura, it couldn’t be carelessly caught.

Even if caught, it would surely break through Chelsea’s defensive magic and fly into the goal before other students could reach it.

“What a pointless effort!”

As Duran sneered, Leo shouted.

“Cal! Get ready for what I told you about!”

“Ugh! If only it wasn’t bathroom cleaning duty!”

Cal activated his mana.

Cal was an earth-attribute mage.

Earth attribute’s specialized tendencies were defense, and weight!

Faint brown mana erupted from Cal’s body.

Leo grabbed Cal’s hand, who had protected his body with defensive magic and reduced his weight using gravity magic, and threw Cal toward the goal.

He planned to use physical defense.

Whoosh! Swoosh-!

Cal’s body flew toward the goal.

Whoosh-! Whiiiiine-!

At the same time, the ball also succeeded in breaking through Chelsea’s defensive magic.

Cal, who had become lighter than the ball, reached the front of the goal faster than the ball due to Leo’s strength.

“It’s useless! You’ll go into the goal together with the ball!”

Duran sneered.

But just before being hit by the ball, Cal used magic to maximize his body weight.

Additionally, Chelsea hastily cast a shield spell on Cal.

Thud-!

“Gugh!”

Splash-!

Only Cal, who was hit by the ball, went into the goal while the ball bounced out.

Before falling to the ground, if you catch the ball, the offensive turn continues, but if you miss it, the offensive turn is lost.

Tap-! Roll roll roll.

The ball rolled on the floor.

Tweet-!

“Offensive turn goes to Class 5!”

“Kyaaah! So cool! Cal!”

“Your spirit of sacrifice for the class! We won’t forget!”

As Leo, Chelsea, and Cal’s combination barely succeeded in defense, cheers erupted from Class 5.

Cal looked at his classmates who only remembered his sacrifice and didn’t worry about him, and smiled sadly.

“Sorry, Cal.”

“Are you okay?”

“Leo, Chelsea, you’re all I have.”

Cal was moved seeing Leo and Chelsea approaching with apologetic smiles.

“That was cool. What kind of strategy was that?”

When Nella, who came over for treatment, asked languidly, Chelsea smiled brightly and said.

“Operation name, Friend Shield! It’s a defensive strategy Leo planned after predicting this situation!”

“Using a friend as a tool for victory. What a wonderful judgment.”

Cal felt like crying.

Meanwhile, Iliana, holding the ball, spun her arms round and round!

“Good! Good! Aiming for an additional score…!”

Swoosh-!

Something like a whip stretched out from Class 1’s side and took away the ball from Iliana’s hands.

“Ooooooooh! Howl!”

“So sexy!”

“As expected of the Snake Spear successor!”

Class 1’s morale soared as they instantly regained the offensive turn.

Iliana, who had been blankly looking back and forth between her hands and the ball Class 1 had taken, pressed her palms together toward Cal and bowed her head.

“Sorry, it got stolen.”

“Give back my sacrifice!”

***

“Oh! What brings you to the training ground at this hour, Senior Ain!”

“Why ask something so obvious? I came to observe the Combat Studies class.”

Ain and Ren met in front of the training ground.

“Hehe! I see. Well, Selia, Duran, and Chen Xia are currently in class at the training ground! As a major professor, you’d want to see how skilled the Knight Department aces are in combat!”

“I came to observe all Knight Department students, Ren. Not like you, who came so obviously to see someone specific.”

“I also came to observe all Magic Studies Department students.”

Professor Ren also shrugged his shoulders.

The two weren’t simply teacher colleagues in a senior-junior relationship.

Both were Lumern graduates who had known each other since their school days.

Of course, it wasn’t a good relationship, but rather a ‘bitter rivalry’ they’d maintained as different departments.

It was common knowledge among professors and students that adding Summoning Professor Yura to this mix would create the perfect explosive combination.

“By the way, I was quite surprised when I heard the professors would be handling first-years.”

“It is the first time you two are handling lower grades.”

“Come to think of it, Senior Ain was Professor Sedjen’s first student, right? How was it back then?”

“Exactly the same as now. He cherished his class students terribly. Though Professor Hallind has changed a lot since then.”

“When I became a fifth-year, he was already called the Wall of Wailing.”

Reminiscing about their school days, the two professors entered the training ground.

And they were surprised.

“Basterra? From the very first class?”

“How radical.”

The two professors’ eyes lit up when they realized it was Class 1 and Class 5 playing Basterra.

‘The score is 1-0 with Class 5 leading.’

It was an unexpected result.

Class 1’s aces were all deployed.

Though not intentional, Class 1 was an elite class filled with students who had high average entrance exam scores.

A match between the top and bottom classes.

No matter how meaningless entrance grades would become in a few months, there was definitely a clear difference now.

‘Leo and Chelsea. Iliana and Taide. And Nella… They could be called Class 5 aces, but the other players aren’t.’

Ain made an interested expression.

“Remarkable.”

Ren, who was watching the game, exclaimed in admiration.

“Student Leo is definitely a born leader.”

“I’ve been certain of it since the entrance ceremony.”

Class 1 was overwhelming Class 5 through individual plays based on superior skills.

Conversely, Class 5 was playing with a focus on cooperation.

Leo was at the core of that.

He predicted the opponent’s movements at every moment and sometimes displayed instant wit to respond to Class 1’s attacks.

Ren made a pitiful expression.

‘Using only aura!’

It would be nice if he used magic too, but Leo was only using aura.

Of course, it couldn’t be helped.

Leo’s spell interpretation ability was very excellent, but the amount of mana he possessed was small.

As a result, aura had no choice but to become his main combat ability.

Ren glanced at Ain with an anxious face.

As expected, Ain was also watching Leo intently.

But unlike the anxious Ren, he was watching the match with a very satisfied expression.

Feeling frustrated, Ren shouted inwardly.

‘Student Leo! Please use magic too~!’

Ren looked at Leo with a yearning heart.

Meanwhile, the match was flowing into the second half.

Bastera consumed tremendous stamina as it mobilized all abilities.

Originally they would play for an hour, but with the current first-years’ stamina, about 20 minutes was the limit.

Then Selia’s terrifying attack shook Class 5’s goal net.

“Selia! Amazing! I think I’m falling for you!”

“Sister! Please take me as your younger sibling!”

The Class 1 students burst into cheers.

Selia had successfully scored by breaking through three Class 5 students who were doing physical defense in front of the goal.

“Mon, monster…?”

Cal, who took a direct hit from the ball, muttered with a pale face, then thud-! dropped his head and fainted.

“Huff-! Huff-!”

But Selia, who had given her all, was also in a state of exhaustion.

“I knocked down three and there’s not much time left! If we just block this attack, we can counterattack and win, so definitely turn it around!”

Selia shouted with difficulty.

Class 5’s atmosphere was at its worst, having instantly lost the advantage they barely held.

Conversely, Class 1’s morale soared to its peak.

From the back, Chloe glared at Class 5.

The one who had the most brilliant performance in this match was undoubtedly Chloe.

Although they allowed a surprise score early on, afterwards she perfectly blocked Leo and Chelsea, who were the core of Class 5’s offense.

They used all sorts of methods to catch her off guard, but they couldn’t get past Chloe.

Looking at Leo preparing to attack, Chloe made a resolution.

‘I absolutely won’t lose.’

After the first magic class.

Even though Chloe tried not to care, she felt herself being conscious of Leo.

She had never thought of falling behind anyone in magic.

She thought her spell interpretation ability was superior even to Avad, who was evaluated as the strongest mage among their peers.

And it actually was.

A genius of spells evaluated as legendary even by the North Mage Tower.

That was Chloe Muller.

But from the first class, she fell behind in magic interpretation.

‘I absolutely cannot lose to Leo Flobe.’

Chloe clenched her fist tightly.

With Selia’s absence, Class 1’s defense also had a gaping hole.

“Attack! If we can’t score this time, we’ll definitely lose!”

Iliana shouted.

Chelsea blocked Duran, who was rushing to mark Leo.

The other players also tried their best to create a one-on-one situation between Leo and Chloe.

Leo ran toward the goal, weaving through Class 1 Territory with swift movements.

With Selia, the restrainer, gone and Duran also tied up by Chelsea, it was no exaggeration to say there was no one who could stop Leo now.

But Class 1 also had something to rely on.

Chloe stood blocking Leo’s path.

“You absolutely cannot pass.”

“Sorry, but if it’s one-on-one, I think it’s worth trying to break through?”

At Leo’s words, Chloe smirked.

Crackle-!

Leo’s eyes twitched.

Ice instantly gathered in the air and ice fragments appeared.

Four ice fragments that looked exactly like Chloe blocked Leo’s path like living dolls.

“That’s impossible! Ice clones? Using such high-level magic spells? Even my brother can’t do that much!”

Chelsea was shocked.

“This isn’t just simple clones!”

Magic circles unfolded around the ice clones.

Each one could be considered a mage.

“Using this level of spells at that age? You’re a genius.”

Leo admired.

Chloe’s eyes twitched.

“Are you mocking me right now?”

‘When you got first place on the magic theory exam!’

Chloe, who glared at Leo with scary eyes, snorted.

“Anyway, you can’t break through me! So give up!”

“Certainly, with my aura ability, I can’t break through this.”

Leo grinned.

“With my aura ability, that is.”

Whoosh!

‘Mana?’

Chloe was flustered.

She never expected he would use magic at this moment.

Leo’s body multiplied into several.

‘Illusion magic? How shallow!’

She was caught off guard, but if it was illusion magic, she could respond plenty.

Attacking players with magic was against the rules, but illusions created by magic could be attacked freely.

‘Which one is real?’

And finding the real one among simple illusion magic was a very simple task for Chloe.

She concentrated mana in her eyes and looked at the illusions.

At that moment, Chloe’s face hardened.

‘I can’t distinguish which ones are fake!’

Without knowing the real one, she couldn’t attack rashly.

But there was an even more surprising fact.

‘This is… this magic is…!’

While Chloe was shocked, Leo, who had gotten past her, lightly put the ball into the goal.

Chloe, who was so surprised she forgot to even respond, slumped down in place.

Perfect illusion magic where the real one couldn’t be identified.

The magic Leo just used was magic that Chloe also knew.

But Chloe couldn’t use it.

Because what Leo used wasn’t human magic.

Chloe looked back blankly.

As the illusion disappeared, leaves scattered in the wind.

A magic system fundamentally different.

“Elven… star magic?”

Mirage.

What Leo had used was magic created by Luna, the Progenitor of the Starry Skies.

—————
This chapter was translated by Lunox Team. To support us and help keep this series going, visit our website: LunoxScans.com
—————