Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 289

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289

The center of Gardstron.

Leo stood by the window of the reception room in the manor building that overlooked the entire view of Gardstron, gazing at the night scenery of Gardstron through the window.

‘…I never thought I’d see this scenery again.’

It wasn’t much different from the scenery he had etched into his eyes before departing on the final expedition to subjugate Erebos.

“It’s completely dark.”

Cal came up beside Leo and clicked his tongue.

“For such a huge city… isn’t it too dark?”

“It was that kind of era.”

Leo spoke calmly.

“It was an era that couldn’t be as brilliant as the current times.”

“Right. It’s the Age of Calamity after all.”

An era when the world was heading toward destruction.

Looking at the red moon floating in the night sky, Cal felt goosebumps rising.

“By the way… we were guided here for now.”

Cal looked around the reception room.

Then he looked at Runia and Ar and shrank his neck.

“The atmosphere is tense.”

“Have some confidence. Why do you all look so grim?”

When Driana crossed her arms and spoke, Runia, who had been holding her hand to her forehead, made a dark expression.

“The opponent was none other than Master Dweno. The fact that you all fought against him that much is already impressive. I was too scared to even move, wasn’t I?”

“…They said the black rabbit fought alone against Master Arron.”

Arga, with potion patches Cal had made stuck to her cheeks and forehead, spoke through gritted teeth.

“We couldn’t even properly resist Master Dweno with two of us.”

Seeing Ar making a somewhat frustrated expression, Cal laughed awkwardly.

“Hey hey. Leo is just ridiculously strong…”

“Are you saying you were being complacent?”

When Driana spoke coldly, the two girls hung their heads.

Cal covered his face with his hands and approached Driana, whispering quietly.

“Hey, when they need comforting, how can you say something like that?”

“They seemed to want to hear harsh words, so I obliged.”

Driana pushed away Cal’s face, which had leaned close to her ear, with her cute little hand.

“If you’re looking higher up, you need to know the difference between yourself and those above.”

“Good words.”

Leo chuckled and came to sit in a chair.

“I didn’t properly fight Arron. Arron didn’t fight back. On the contrary, it seems Dweno wanted to test you two.”

“Test?”

Runia, who had raised her head, looked a bit confused.

“What kind of test?”

“Well, I wouldn’t know that much.”

Creak-!

The reception room door opened and Eiran entered.

“Everyone!”

“Eiran! Are you okay?! Are you hurt anywhere?”

Runia got up from her seat and approached Eiran, checking her all over.

“Yes, I’m fine. But Runia and Ar seem to be hurt much worse than me?”

Eiran looked at Runia and Ar’s wounds with surprised eyes.

“I’m fine.”

Ar spoke in a calm voice.

Seeing Ar like that, Eiran summoned fairy magic and covered Ar’s cheek with her palm.

The swelling went down instantly.

Eiran hurriedly treated the wounds Runia and Ar had sustained in their battle with Dweno.

Then two people entered the reception room.

It was Dweno and Depeser.

At Depeser’s appearance, everyone except Leo showed tense expressions.

They remembered the murderous and menacing aura from when he had taken Eiran away earlier.

Seeing his friends’ reactions, Leo muttered to himself.

‘I can tell without looking. He must have caused quite a commotion over something related to Berkia.’

Depeser was a dragon Leo knew well, having been Risinass’s right-hand man.

Eiran looked frightened.

Depeser, adjusting his glasses, swept his gaze across the interior of the reception room.

His emotionless golden eyes looked at each person’s face one by one.

“I apologize.”

Depeser apologized and approached Eiran, kneeling on one knee and bowing his head.

“Noble child of the forest. I put you in a difficult situation due to a small misunderstanding. How should I make amends for this…”

“Oh, no. I’m glad the misunderstanding was cleared up.”

Eiran was flustered by Depeser’s polite apology.

Runia, Ar, Cal, and Driana also looked surprised at his completely changed attitude from before.

‘It’s nice to see him again.’

Depeser’s greatest achievement in overseeing Gardstron’s internal affairs was creating an orphanage for orphaned children.

He always said that young sprouts were the hope of the future and truly cherished the children of Gardstron.

That’s why he would have been genuinely angry at the possibility that Berkia might have been harmed.

As the atmosphere somewhat relaxed due to Depeser’s polite attitude.

Dweno spoke.

“The suspicions against you have been cleared. So I’m asking. Where are you all from?”

At those words, the party except Leo flinched.

“You’re all wearing clothes woven with mana threads, and the designs are similar too.”

Dweno narrowed his eyes.

“Plus extraordinary skills that don’t match your ages.”

Examining each member of the group carefully, Dweno stroked his beard.

“It seems like you should be famous whether you want to be or not.”

‘Oh, this is bad.’

‘How should we explain this?’

One of the iron rules of conquering the Heroes’ World was that you must not tell people inside the Heroes’ World that the current world is fake.

From the conqueror’s perspective, the Heroes’ World is a fake world, but to the characters in the Heroes’ World, this world is real.

Those who revealed to the residents of the Heroes’ World that they were conquerors had their conquest marked as failed regardless of their intentions.

And conquest failure in a Hero Dungeon meant death.

Therefore, they couldn’t say something like ‘We came from the future 5000 years later’ to the great heroes of the past.

But they couldn’t think of an answer that could overcome this question either.

Hero candidates study and learn about the situations and common knowledge of each era so they can naturally respond no matter which era’s Heroes’ World they enter.

However, most records from the Age of Calamity had been lost by the current era.

That’s why even the history classes at Hero Academy couldn’t properly teach about the Age of Calamity.

They had to make something up.

They had just cleared suspicion, but if they couldn’t give any answer here or gave a strange answer, they might end up back in jail.

But making something up was only possible if you knew something to begin with.

It was when they were at a loss and panicking.

“We’re from the Reissar Slum.”

Dweno’s gaze turned to Leo.

“You all look too refined for slum kids.”

“We had skills, so we were taken in by the Lord of Reissar and received training.”

Leo looked straight into Dweno’s eyes.

“To subjugate Erebos.”

“….”

It was a famous story that the Lord of Reishar had taken in orphans from the city and trained them to counter Erebos and Tartaros.

‘Of course, he was a traitor.’

The harsh training he put the orphans through was ultimately to preserve his own position.

Whatever the reason, it was true that the Lord of Reishar had taken in orphans and given high positions to the outstanding ones among them.

Depeser, who heard Leo’s words, spoke.

“I don’t see why the Lord of Reishar would send such outstanding talents as yourselves to Gardstron.”

Depeser adjusted his glasses as he spoke.

At those words, Leo narrowed his eyes.

‘Come to think of it, didn’t Arron and Berkia say that Risinass, Luna, and I are currently absent?’

Arron had said that the three of them had gone to support Reishar.

It wasn’t unusual to go on support missions or be dispatched to other cities.

But….

‘Risinass, Luna, and I are absent. From what I’ve heard, that bastard Lord of Reishar seems to still be alive. Depeser is alive too. And Berkia is 17 years old.’

Leo compiled the information he had gathered since entering the Heroes’ World.

‘On top of that, the Giant King has entered this world right now.’

Why had the Giant King come here?

Previously, in Luna’s Heroes’ World where fragments of Erebos existed, it was their subordinates who had entered, not the legion commanders.

‘If the cautious Giant King is moving personally….’

Leo narrowed his eyes.

‘Either this world is important enough for a legion commander to move… or it’s his personal grudge.’

Having gathered information up to that point, Leo reached one conclusion.

‘The Giant King must harbor a strong grudge against Dweno. The only event that could have caused such a grudge is when he was completely crushed by Dweno. And it happens to be this time.’

The Giant King, who was also the creator of Demon Artifacts, had suffered a thorough defeat at Dweno’s hands in some battle.

He had not only been defeated by Dweno in terms of strength, but had been completely broken as a blacksmith as well.

‘The Siege of Gardstron.’

The moment his thoughts reached that point

[Dweno’s World. Chapter: Heavy Equipment – Siege of Gardstron.]

[Mission Objective: Stop the Giant King’s invasion.]

“Huk!”

“Hup?!”

“Kek?”

The party let out groans close to screams.

“Why are they suddenly acting like that?”

When Dweno asked with a puzzled expression, Leo shook his head.

“Bad memories came to mind.”

Having accurately grasped the current point in time, Leo said.

“The Lord of Reishar… was absolutely untrustworthy. That’s why we came to Gardstron.”

“You mean… you fled to Gardstron?”

When Depeser asked with a sharp expression, Leo nodded.

“I see. It seems Kail’s prediction was correct.”

Depeser adjusted his glasses with murderous eyes.

At this time.

There was one reason why Kail had left Gardstron.

‘To execute that traitorous Lord of Reishar.’

Risinass and Luna had gone to support Reishar, but originally Kail was supposed to remain in Gardstron.

However, he had departed with them to execute the Lord of Reishar as a shadow.

‘In the end, it was the Giant King’s bait to weaken Gardstron’s defenses.’

Leo clenched his fist tightly.

Depeser’s face was colored with sadness.

“How much hardship you must have endured under such a wicked person… You’re still so young… Khup!”

Covering his mouth and struggling to swallow his tears, Depeser said.

“Master Dweno! These children will surely become great hope in the future! They must have been abused and spent harsh days under the wicked Lord of Reishar!”

“…They look like they’ve been raised too well to me?”

“How cruel! How can you say such cold words to children who have suffered!”

Depeser, who had made up the story on his own, took the party’s side against Leo’s words.

Depeser was weak to young children.

“Didn’t you see how these children trembled with fear when the Lord of Reishar was mentioned!”

Depeser, who had beautifully misunderstood their trembling from fear after seeing the mission objective, came to their defense.

As soon as Cal saw this, he put on a pained expression.

“It was difficult… We had to compete harshly every single day.”

At Cal’s words, Runia and Ardo quickly put on strained expressions.

“Ah! If we couldn’t step on other children, we couldn’t survive.”

“Painful! So painful!”

‘What is that terrible acting!’

Cal screamed internally.

Though it was obviously exaggerated acting, it worked well on Depeser who was already smitten.

“I’m sorry for doubting you! I didn’t know you had such a sad past!”

Dweno watched this scene and let out a deep sigh.

“Fine. Even if they’re suspicious, they don’t seem to be dangerous or harmful to the city, so we don’t need to put them in jail. Since they’re children with tremendous skills, they’ll be of great help in saving the world.”

“Yes!”

“Provide them with lodging.”

“Understood!”

Depeser nodded at Dweno’s words.

“The empty place right now is… right.”

Dweno took out his pipe from his chest and asked.

“We can lend them Kail’s house.”

“What? Kail’s house? It’s certainly empty, but Kail wouldn’t like it if he found out, would he?”

“I’ll handle that myself. It’s not like that friend has big secrets in his house like Risinass or Luna, right? Besides, that friend is an all-class, they said.”

Dweno’s gaze turned to Leo.

Depeser looked at Leo with surprised eyes.

“I’d like him to be the first to meet Kail when he returns.”

“Ah, understood.”

Depeser bowed politely.

Suddenly going to the great hero’s house.

Moreover, going to the house of the Hero of the Beginning, about whom almost nothing was known in this era, the party looked surprised.

Just going directly to where a great hero had lived was enough to make their hearts flutter.

Leo was also immersed in a strange feeling.

‘My… house.’

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