Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 284

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284

Bubble bubble bubble!

“…!”

Water suddenly rushed into his mouth and nose.

Arga’s eyes widened as he began thrashing wildly.

“Puah! Cough! Cough!”

Arga barely managed to surface and coughed frantically.

“Is everyone safe?!”

An urgent voice came from beside him.

When he turned his head, Cal was also poking his face above the water surface.

“I, I’m okay!”

Eiran’s urgent voice could be heard.

“Let’s get out of the water first!”

Cal used fly magic along with those words.

Eiran also used magic to lift her body.

Ar used aura step to stand on the water.

The three people who escaped from the water using their respective methods dried themselves off.

“What about the black rabbit, Seirun’s representative, and that dwarf with the weird speech?”

Shake shake shake-!

As Ar shook her body to shake off the water and asked, Eiran wrung out her uniform and answered.

“W-well. They don’t seem to be around here?”

Eiran looked around frantically with a serious expression.

“B-by the way, we really did enter Dweno’s Hero Record, right?”

“Yeah. The message clearly said so.”

Arga made a tense expression.

Seeing that, Cal opened his extradimensional space.

“Here, wipe yourself with this. Your current appearance is a bit too stimulating for an adolescent boy.”

As Cal said, Ar and Eiran’s uniforms were currently clinging to their bodies, revealing their figures completely.

At Cal’s words, Eiran made an embarrassed expression and took Cal’s towel.

“Heh, are you getting excited seeing this big sister’s appearance!”

“Oh, sure.”

“What’s with that rudely indifferent reaction!”

Ar bared her fangs, extended her claws, and glared, but Cal couldn’t help it.

Compared to Eiran, her curves were sadly lacking.

He handed a towel to the huffing Ar as well.

“Wow, this towel. It’s amazing. Just wiping makes me fluffy and dry!”

Eiran admired the towel that absorbed moisture like it was sucking it up.

Seeing Eiran return to her original state in an instant, Ar also tried wiping herself with the towel Cal gave her and was amazed.

“Heh, it’s a product I made. It’s disposable. It’s popular with the female students at our academy.”

It was especially popular since Noble, which Cal belonged to, had many young ladies from noble families.

“Anyway, we need to quickly reunite with Leo, Runia, and Driana…”

Cal, returning to the main topic, spoke while looking up at the sky.

And his face hardened.

It wasn’t just Cal.

Eiran also made a slightly pale expression.

An ashen sky that was unimaginable in the current era stretched out before them.

Cal gulped down dry saliva.

It was natural since they had entered Dweno’s Heroes’ World.

‘The era we’re in now is the Age of Calamity.’

An era they had heard about countless times through numerous documents.

From the testimonies of heroes who had conquered the distant Heroes’ World, they could indirectly know about the sky of that era.

So he thought he knew about it.

But directly seeing the ashen sky was enough to give Cal instinctive fear.

‘This is… proof that the world is heading toward destruction.’

Countless heroes who left their names in history.

Among them, a scenery that only the chosen ones could see.

The sky seemed to be speaking.

That it was still too early for them.

Eiran also shrank her neck as if overwhelmed.

“As expected… that sky is scary.”

Ar, who had experienced it once before, also muttered in a tense voice.

“Let’s check the conquest objective first.”

Arga spoke calmly.

At Ar’s words, the two nodded and activated their consciousness to check the conquest objective.

[Conquest Objective: -]

“Gah!”

But seeing the conquest objective message that appeared before his eyes, Cal let out a scream.

The conquest objective was blank.

Ar and Eiran also made bewildered expressions.

Even the three people who had experience with Heroes’ World had never encountered a case where the conquest objective was blank.

“An abnormal situation… could this be a Hero Dungeon?”

Arga made a serious expression.

The conquest objective was the core of conquering Heroes’ World.

Normally they would achieve conquest based on the conquest objective, but now the conquest objective was blank.

“Come to think of it, it was strange when we entered Heroes’ World too, right?”

The message showed it was Dweno’s world, but what kind of incident it was had been hidden.

“Let’s start by investigating.”

“Right.”

They quickly thought of what to do.

And just as they were about to move.

Clatter clatter clatter-!

“…!”

Armed figures quickly surrounded the three of them.

Accordingly, the three naturally took combat stances.

“Suspicious fellows!”

“Intruding into the Lake of Spirits! Reveal your identities!”

“Are you spies from Tartaros!”

The three were surprised to see various races displaying wariness.

‘If it’s the Age of Calamity, is this natural?’

Cal quickly assessed the situation, lowered his guard, and raised both hands.

“Wait a moment. We’re not suspicious people.”

“Yes, we’re just lost.”

Eiran also spoke carefully.

“Don’t lie! This is the city’s water source! It’s thoroughly guarded! Getting lost and entering here is impossible!”

The human who appeared to be the captain raised his voice.

Seeing that, Cal made a troubled expression.

“I think it would be better to obediently follow what these people say.”

“I think so too.”

“Can’t be helped. If things go wrong, let’s look for a chance to escape.”

Just as the three were about to be captured.

“Lower your weapons. Those kids aren’t spies from Tartaros.”

A gentle voice came from behind.

Cal and Eiran wore puzzled expressions.

But Ar’s ears perked up.

Ar had heard this voice before.

Pushing through the armed guards, a beastman youth revealed himself.

There stood a white wolf beastman.

Roughly grown white hair and sharp golden eyes.

Cal and Eiran’s bodies trembled.

It was someone they knew all too well.

One of the great heroes who saved the world.

‘The Hero… Arron!’

‘Why is the Hero here in Dweno’s world!’

The legendary figure who led impossible battles to victory, a symbol of courage, stood before their eyes.

Could there be any greater honor for hero candidates than this?

Just as Cal and Eiran trembled with emotion.

Whoosh-!

Ar charged toward Arron at tremendous speed.

Before those around could react…

“Lord Arron! It’s Lord Arron!”

“Hiiiiek?”

Arron’s dignified face was painted with terror.

Not just Arron.

The guards who had been watching the surroundings also showed frightened expressions in an instant.

Because Ar’s eyes had gone crazy.

“So cool! Huff! Huff! I respect you! Haah! Haah!”

“G-get away!”

The terrified Arron screamed as he looked at Ar clinging to and hanging from his leg.

“Suspicious fellows threatened Lord Arron!”

“Subdue them quickly!”

“These guys are definitely spies from Tartaros!”

“Arrest them!”

In an instant, the surrounding area became chaos.

In the end, the three were arrested because of Ar getting excited upon seeing Arron.

***

Whoooosh-!

That place was a world of fire.

The surroundings were ablaze.

Runia and Driana stood there.

“Are you okay?”

“I may look like this, but I have excellent fire resistance.”

“You’re back to that weird speech pattern again.”

Runia opened her eyes drowsily.

In a place where ordinary people would find it hard to even stand, Runia and Driana stood calmly.

Since the Runda Family handled Phoenix flames from birth, flames of this level couldn’t greatly affect Runia.

Driana also had strong fire resistance, having been with flames since childhood, even though she had now given up the path of a Smith.

Flames of this level had no effect on either of them.

“By the way, what exactly are these flames?”

“…They seem like Fairy flames.”

Runia narrowed her eyes as she looked around.

‘And not just any ordinary Fairy. This is a Great Fairy-level Fairy.’

Born with beast summoning talent but also quite knowledgeable in spirit magic as a summoner, Runia easily identified these flames.

‘Moreover… I can feel Phoenix power too.’

Runia crossed her arms at the familiar resonance she felt from the flames.

‘What exactly is this space?’

Just as Runia wore a puzzled expression.

Thud-! Thud-!

The sound of the earth shaking was heard.

Runia and Driana hesitated.

Whooom-!

“A Golem?”

A massive Golem revealed itself from within the flames.

Seeing the Fire Golem wrapped in flames all over its body, Runia smiled slightly.

“It seems to be a guardian protecting this place?”

“Hmm. To escape this place, we’ll have to defeat this first.”

Golems are commonly used as sentries guarding territories.

Since they protect specific areas, Golems used as guardians are very powerful and show hostility toward intruders.

But neither Runia nor Driana was particularly worried.

No matter how powerful, both were hero candidates.

The Golem wasn’t a threat.

Driana, standing in front, pulled out a battle hammer from her extradimensional space.

Runia naturally took position in the rear.

Though they had never coordinated before, the two naturally formed a battle formation.

Runia was seasoned in combat as Seirun’s top 2nd year student.

Driana was also, though not now, a former grade representative of Demian.

Her skills were real.

Swoosh-

Seeing the two take battle stances, the Golem raised its foot.

Crack-!

“…!”

Bang-!

At that moment, the Golem’s arm, closing the distance at tremendous speed, sent Driana flying.

Driana crashed straight into the wall.

Seeing this, Runia wore an expression of shock.

‘What! This Golem!’

Golems, the crystallization of magical engineering.

But due to their massive weight, there were limits to their movement.

However, this Golem far exceeded the simple category of Golems.

Just as the Golem was about to target Runia.

Clang-!

Driana, kicking off the wall and flying forward, struck the Golem’s head with her hammer.

For a moment, Driana’s eyes twitched.

“Amazing. To be fine after taking that attack.”

When Runia expressed admiration, Driana gripped her hammer properly and said.

“Durability is a characteristic of Dwarfs.”

Though she appeared to be a small and cute dwarf girl on the outside, her durability was solid.

“Tough.”

Thinking of her as a reliable front line, Runia raised her magical power.

“Runia El Runda. I’ll pour out my full strength.”

“Huh?”

“That golem. It’s made of orichalcum.”

Runia’s face was colored with shock.

“Is it possible to make a golem out of orichalcum?”

“It’s impossible. But if you think about whose world this is. It’s not impossible either.”

“The Divine Blacksmith… Lord Dweno’s world…”

Runia let out a groan.

If it was Dweno’s technique, it wouldn’t be impossible.

Whirr-!

The golem’s activation sound could be heard.

Seeing that, Runia and Driana lowered their stances.

“Spirited young ladies, aren’t you.”

Beyond the golem’s eyes.

Dweno tilted his head.

“If you’ve intruded into the forbidden zone, there must be a reason. Shall I subdue you first?”

The forbidden zone of the city Gardstron.

Intruding into the heart of the spirit’s flame that bestowed heat and light upon the city was absolutely not something that could be easily overlooked.

“With three people away from the city, troublesome incidents keep occurring.”

Dweno let out a light sigh and used his magic power to move the golem.

***

“You. What’s your identity?”

Swish-

Berkia distanced herself from Leo with wary eyes.

Leo looked around his surroundings.

‘Forest.’

It was a somehow familiar forest.

‘I see. Is this the forest around Gardstron?’

In this forest not far from Gardstron, Berkia had been training.

There were no signs of people around.

‘Looking at her age, is it about time for her to enter battle?’

She probably came into this forest to train alone.

‘Her current age is roughly 17? 18 years old.’

Leo, who had easily figured out even Berkia’s age, said.

“Your masters. Where are Kail, Luna, and Arron?”

“How did you know I’m my masters’ disciple?”

Even more wariness bloomed on Berkia’s face.

‘Hmm. If the fact that she was our disciple isn’t known to the public, that means it’s before she started making a name for herself in earnest… Then she’s 17 years old.’

He quickly absorbed information from each of Berkia’s words and grasped the current situation.

“I got it. You! You’re a Tartaros spy! You’re planning to kidnap me and blackmail my masters!”

Looking at the disciple with rich imagination like someone else, Leo let out a light sigh.

“Who’s in Gardstron right now?”

“As if I’d tell you that? I’ll defeat you!”

Berkia approached Leo as if there was nothing more to hear.

Being wary of suspicious individuals was natural in this era.

Even if not Tartaros Demons, this was an era where traitors ran rampant.

Berkia’s wariness was extremely reasonable.

‘But you know.’

Clang-!

“Huh?”

Leo, who had knocked away Berkia’s sword, tripped his disciple’s legs.

‘Since this kid is being so cheeky, it’s making me inexplicably angry.’

“Kyaah!”

Seeing Leo who saw through her movements completely, Berkia was subdued without even being able to properly display her skills.

It was literally something that happened in an instant, in a flash.

“Berkia.”

“Don’t call my name like we’re close!”

Berkia tried to raise her magic power with a thoroughly wary face.

Looking at such Berkia, Leo said.

“I’m the surviving hero, and I came to Gardstron looking for Kail.”

“Why Master Kail?!”

“I’m also All Class, you see.”

“What?”

For a moment, Berkia hesitated.

Leo spread his palm.

Aura, magic power, and spirit power gathered together and swirled.

Seeing that, Berkia’s eyes widened.

“I wanted to become his disciple, so I investigated this and that. That’s why I know about you.”

Around this time, Berkia knew well how important All Class abilities were.

Mana characteristic ‘Pure’.

Though it wasn’t publicly known, Risinass had informed them that Kail’s power was the key to defeating Erebos.

Therefore, Berkia knew all too well how important an event it was for another All Class to appear.

Looking at Leo’s swirling power, Berkia, who had been frozen, said.

“I’ll tell you just one thing.”

Berkia made a serious expression.

“Master Kail is a person with a bad personality. So I recommend learning from someone else.”

“Oh. I see.”

Thwack-!

“Why did you hit me!”

While giving a flick to the head of his disciple who was dissing him without hesitation, Leo thought.

‘You’re really asking for a beating, asking for it.’

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