Legendary Hero is an Academy Honors Student - Chapter 294

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294

Late at night.

Leo returned home and shook his head at the sight of his party members, all of whom were in a complete mess.

“I can guess what happened… but I’ll still ask. What exactly happened?”

Leo asked Cal, who was relatively fine.

Of course, Cal was also different from usual.

He was clutching a book and studying like a model student.

“Ar apparently spent the entire day listening to theory lessons from Master Arron.”

Cal pointed to Ar, who was lying face down beside him, clutching her head and muttering as if she had a headache.

“So… breathing should be done at this timing… and the sound is… Kyaaaaa!”

Cal turned his gaze away from Ar, who was scratching her head frantically with her eyes spinning, and pointed to Eiran and Berkia.

“Over there…”

“Hey, let’s spar.”

“Again? I’m too tired to move anymore. And you always beat me, Berkia.”

“Shut up. Come out. And spar with me.”

Berkia was demanding a sparring match from Eiran with an expressionless face.

Berkia tried to drag Eiran outside forcibly.

Leo grabbed Berkia and separated her from Eiran.

Eiran quickly hid behind Leo.

“Why are you trying to fight someone who doesn’t want to?”

“I’m going to prove that I’m much stronger.”

“But you are much stronger, Berkia! You knocked me down several times today!”

“I’m not convinced!”

Berkia shouted.

Leo nodded at those words.

“I see. It’s because your abilities as a magic swordsman are pathetic compared to Eiran’s.”

Berkia flinched and looked at Leo.

As a knight.

As a mage.

In terms of individual capabilities, Berkia was superior to Eiran.

Berkia was the one Luna and Arron had poured everything into raising.

Although she hadn’t learned Star Magic and couldn’t fully master Arron’s aura skills due to being a different race, her capabilities had to be superior to Eiran’s.

‘She’s the direct disciple of Luna and Arron, who could be called the pinnacle of magic and martial arts.’

Most importantly, Berkia was born with the blessing of fairies.

Eiran only possessed fragments of fairy power.

Since Berkia could use fairy magic itself, the difference in capabilities had to be significant.

However, in terms of abilities as a magic swordsman who fused the powers of both classes, Eiran was overwhelmingly superior.

Eiran’s techniques were things that the current Berkia would complete in the distant future.

In a sense, it wouldn’t be an exaggeration to say that Eiran was the future Berkia.

“It seems you’ve been neglecting your magic swordsman training.”

“No! I worked hard!”

‘She lies at every turn.’

Leo narrowed his eyes as he watched Berkia get flustered.

“By the way! You! You’re sixteen! I heard everything!”

Berkia approached Leo and placed her hands on her hips.

“What kind of way is that to talk to an older sister! From now on, speak politely and respectfully to me like the other kids do… Aaaahhhhh?!”

Leo gave Berkia temple punches with both fists.

Berkia, now tearful, clung to Eiran for comfort.

“You really show no mercy even to historical figures, do you?”

When Cal whispered in a small voice, Leo chuckled.

Then he pointed to Driana, who was sitting with her knees together, looking dazed.

“Why is she like that?”

“Master Dweno told her to give up on art and just make weapons.”

“…”

“It was really scary.”

When he approached Driana, she was muttering strange nonsense like ‘I am trash. I apologize to Art.’

‘She must have shown him some weird thing calling it an art piece.’

Leo sighed as if he could tell without even seeing it.

“Where’s Runia?”

“She’s resting in her room. Actually, she had the hardest time.”

“Why?”

“She swallowed Master Dweno’s Essence of Flame.”

Leo’s eyes widened.

“She swallowed the Essence of Flame?”

“Yeah.”

Essence of Flame.

Leo also possessed Dweno’s Essence of Flame.

Of course, it was different from Runia’s.

What Leo had was Dweno’s flame itself.

What Runia had was a portion of that flame.

‘Sharing one’s flame also means weakening one’s own flame.’

It would be different if a definite successor had been decided.

Considering the current era, sharing the Essence of Flame would be a tremendous blow to Dweno as well.

“What are you looking at?”

“Me? The alchemy manual Master Dweno gave me.”

‘He never even showed it to Luna?’

‘Aren’t you the elf with rotten personality who would look at my alchemy manual and make strange potions?’

‘Petty!’

‘I’ve never made love potions or anything like that, so win love with your own power.’

‘I wasn’t trying to look at that kind of thing!’

Luna shouted with a completely red face.

‘What was that about a love potion?’

‘It’s nothing.’

As soon as Kail appeared, Luna quickly left.

‘What kind of trouble is she planning to cause now?’

‘How would I know? Luna is the most foolish elf I’ve ever seen.’

‘Right.’

‘And you’re the biggest idiot among humans I’ve ever seen.’

Recalling Dweno’s merciless words, Leo asked.

“Are there things like love potions in there too?”

“There were.”

Leo, who had been chuckling, fell into thought.

‘Dweno, what exactly are you thinking?’

He had unhesitatingly shared his Essence of Flame with someone he met for the first time and handed over an alchemy manual he had never shown even to his companions.

‘But why?’

He felt bewildered.

Clang-! Clang-!

Late at night.

Dweno’s forge was burning.

Dweno’s furnace was burning.

Arron looked at Dweno with a curious expression.

“That’s strange.”

“What do you mean?”

“You usually paint or sculpt at night.”

Clang-! Clang-!

“But you’re forging weapons, so it’s surprising.”

“I am an artist, but I also do blacksmithing as a side job.”

“No… isn’t blacksmithing your main job?”

“Arron. Do you know why I call that fool Kail and that idiot Luna a fool and an idiot?”

“Why?”

“Because they dare to treat me as a blacksmith.”

Dweno asked in a gentle voice.

“Do you want to join their ranks?”

“No.”

Dweno began hammering again.

Clang-! Clang-!

Dweno stopped hammering and plunged the red-hot blade into water.

Hissssss-!

The sound of boiling water echoed along with fierce steam.

“Hmm, it’s like new.”

Dweno nodded as he looked at Erquint’s blade and said.

“Arron.”

“Yeah.”

“Are you still afraid of the future?”

“I’m afraid.”

Arron’s eyes darkened.

“You’re afraid too.”

“I am afraid.”

Dweno smiled faintly.

“But don’t lose courage.”

Dweno said as he put metal ore into the furnace.

“Your courage is our hope.”

* * *

Thud-! Thud-!

The earth shook.

The people on the ground bowed in terror to the giant who was larger than mountains and filled with dread.

“Great Giant King. Why have you personally come to such a humble place?”

Gias looked at the humans bowing before him with eyes as if looking at insects.

These were traitors who had betrayed the world and sided with Tartaros.

Even now, Gias did not like them.

‘The Overlord King treats them as useful chess pieces. But those who betray once will betray again.’

Of course, even if they betrayed again, it wouldn’t harm Tartaros.

But even so, Gias despised this type of person.

“You know that I will soon attack Gardstron.”

“Yes!”

“I need troops. I’ll have to use you lot a little.”

“Us? Giant King, you have a mighty legion, how could the likes of us help the Giant King!”

The man spoke in a terrified voice.

Certainly, if the Giant King’s legion was there, these people would be of no help in attacking Gardstron.

But the reason they said this was simple.

‘They don’t want to die. How shallow.’

For them, attacking Gardstron was tantamount to suicide.

Gardstron, the world’s last fortress.

Attacking the iron-blooded fortress that had never fallen once was like death.

These were people who had betrayed the world for their lives.

They certainly wouldn’t want to go anywhere near Gardstron.

“Of course, the likes of you would be of no help.”

Rumble-

The Giant King raised his hand.

Then an extradimensional space opened and weapons poured out from it.

“But if you have weapons that I, the Giant King, personally forged! Even you lot would be of some help.”

Clatter-!

Demon artifacts poured down in front of the traitors.

“Take them.”

The Giant King’s eyes flashed.

“And attack Gardstron.”

As soon as the Giant King spoke, the traitors began frantically grabbing the weapons.

Ecstasy appeared on their faces.

At this time, Gias’s weapons were called the strongest weapons on earth.

The Giant King twisted his face as he watched the traitors cheering.

Those weapons were not the Giant King’s creations.

They were merely copies made following the weapons of the Divine Blacksmith, Dweno.

‘Wait, Dweno. With weapons identical to the ones you made… I’ll bring you down!’

Murderous intent flashed in Gias’s eyes.

* * *

“How about taking a good rest for today?”

On the 9th day since coming to the Heroes’ World.

Leo went to find Dweno and spoke calmly.

At those words, Dweno, who had been puffing on his pipe, said.

“You haven’t shown your face even once, and now you suddenly come asking to rest well? Hmm, you must be worried about your friends.”

“I’m not just talking about my friends.”

“…?”

“I’m saying let’s have the entire city rest well.”

At those words, Dweno, who had been staring at Leo, said.

“I’ll ask directly. What exactly are you people?”

“I can’t answer that.”

“You’re not even surprised.”

Dweno puffed on his pipe.

“It’s as if you know what I’ve figured out.”

Dweno closed his eyes.

Then after exhaling tobacco smoke, he said.

“What’s coming?”

“The Giant King, Gias.”

“I see.”

Dweno’s eyes darkened.

Creak- Dweno got up.

“I’ll tell Depeser. I’ll let the city’s defenders know to rest well for today.”

“…Thank you.”

“Let me ask one more thing.”

Dweno smiled faintly.

“Is the future filled with beauty?”

“…Not as much as you might think. But it’s beautiful enough.”

“What a rewarding answer.”

Leo turned his back on Dweno, who was smiling brightly, and gritted his teeth.

‘He probably suspected from the beginning that we might have come from the future.’

Dweno was wise and perceptive.

He must have noticed after seeing the party’s gradually unconventional behavior.

That’s why he revealed that he came from the future.

But he couldn’t bring himself to tell Dweno that he was Kail.

‘How could I tell him?’

To a comrade who dreams of the future and moves forward.

That you will be defeated by Erebos and die.

That you will never see the salvation of the world.

How could he say such words?

Leo thought it was enough to simply convey that their efforts had not been in vain.

* * *

That evening.

The party members were resting at Kail’s house.

What was different from usual was that Dweno and Arron had come to visit.

Cal and Driana were listening to Dweno talk about alchemy and blacksmithing techniques.

Berkia had caught Eiran and was listening to her about how to handle fairy power.

“I-I see.”

Watching Eiran take notes while expressing admiration, Berkia wore a triumphant expression.

“That’s all well and good, Eiran.”

“Yes.”

“Why do you keep treating me like a grandmother?”

“I-I’ve never done that.”

“Your eyes are treating me like a grandmother.”

Berkia frowned.

Ar wanted to hear about Arron’s exploits.

“So Arron swept them all away!”

“No, Kail did that…”

“Arron gave Kail courage!”

“No… Kail gave me courage.”

Of course, with her Arron-supremacist ideology, she was excessively praising Arron.

Watching this scene, Leo muttered.

‘What a strange sight.’

The present and past, which could never meet, were enjoying conversation together.

Of course, to those in the present, those from the past would be nothing more than fleeting phantoms.

But for Leo, both sides were reality.

‘If we can use this experience as a stepping stone to move toward the future, nothing could be better.’

Thinking this, Leo looked to the side.

“Why are you so dejected?”

Runia was uncharacteristically drooping her ears and shoulders.

At Leo’s question, Runia said.

“Cal, Driana, Eiran… even Ar. They’ve all clearly moved forward these past few days.”

Runia gritted her teeth.

“But I’m the only one who gained nothing.”

“Dweno’s Essence of Flame.”

“…Katariou told me to give up. That I have no talent.”

“It’s better not to listen too deeply to that rude bird’s words. If you do, you’ll become endlessly discouraged.”

Despite Leo’s words, Runia drooped her shoulders.

“I… I think I was being arrogant. Just because I was doing well as Seirun’s representative… I got carried away by the fact that I could learn Luna’s magic from you, and I wasn’t thinking clearly.”

Runia wore a gloomy expression.

“Do I really deserve to inherit Luna’s magic?”

“That’s why I’m saying not to take that bird’s words to heart…”

Leo was sighing and comforting Runia when he hardened his face, seeing Dweno and Arron’s atmosphere suddenly change.

‘Could it be?’

[Conquest Objective: Stop the Giant King’s invasion.

Keep the [Divine Blacksmith] and [Hero] alive.]

Seeing the suddenly updated conquest objective, the party members also jumped up from their seats.

“Why, what’s wrong?”

Berkia wore a bewildered expression.

Leo’s face contorted.

“It’s here.”

GROOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

A spine-chilling roar that penetrated the entire city echoed throughout.

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